[Guest post by DRJ]
Hot Air links this Live Action undercover video of Planned Parenthood’s advice to mothers considering abortion:
Here is Live Action.org’s description of the video taken at an Appleton WI Planned Parenthood clinic:
“In the undercover video, when the two women ask a Planned Parenthood counselor if the [...]
[Posted by Karl]
Sen. Maj. Ldr. Harry Reid said Tuesday night that he and a group of 10 Democratic senators had reached “a broad agreement” to resolve the dispute over the so-called “public option.” The snap judgment of the netroots was angry, and some House progressives also seemed miffed. However, [...]
I have read on the Internet today that I called Robert Stacy McCain a racist. I did not. I said that he said something that is in my opinion racist. That is not the same thing.
Some of the people saying these things did not read what I wrote. Some read [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
GatewayPundit has published several posts on Kevin Jennings, Obama’s Safe Schools Czar and former executive director of GLSEN. (For example, here, here, here and here.) The latest post claims GLSEN passed out guides to gay bars to teens at several GLSEN events:
“Earlier [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
Are you ready for some Congressionally-mandated and supervised college football playoffs?
“A House subcommittee approved legislation Wednesday aimed at forcing college football to switch to a playoff system to determine a national champion, over the objections of some lawmakers who said Congress had more pressing matters on [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
Via Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, Willis Eschenbach at WattsUpWithThat considers why the East Anglia CRU deleted its raw data:
People keep saying “Yes, the Climategate scientists behaved badly. But that doesn’t mean the data is bad. That doesn’t mean the earth is not warming.”
So he [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
South Carolina lawmakers voted against impeaching Governor Mark Sanford for his Argentinian “travels and trysts” but recommended a formal rebuke:
“South Carolina lawmakers voted down a measure to impeach Gov. Mark Sanford on Wednesday, but recommended a formal rebuke that said his travels and trysts with an [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
During a hearing on the recent White House security breach, the government disclosed that sensitive screening information has been posted on the internet since March:
“According to the [Wandering Aramean] blog, TSA posted a redacted version of the document but did not delete the sensitive information from [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
Following reports that American authorities are worried about homegrown terrorists, the AP reports 5 young American men have been arrested in Pakistan for investigation of links to terror groups:
“Frantic relatives and worried FBI agents have been searching for the five college-age men for more than [...]
He’s ready to thin the herd:
If you have a racial axe to grind, if you are kind of pissed off about minorities, stop posting on the subject. You are embarrassing yourselves, you are embarrassing me, you are embarrassing everyone else here.
If you think that I am secretly winking at [...]
Obama whines about the news media’s allegedly unfair treatment of him:
I mentioned that I was in Asia on this trip thinking about the economy, when I sat down for a round of interviews. Not one of them asked me about Asia. Not one of them asked me about the economy. [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
We may not know the truth about global warming but at least we know where 56 of the world’s major newspapers stand:
“Despite mounting evidence that key climate researchers were less than honest, and other indications that the science is not settled, tomorrow 56 newspapers will run [...]
Whom I always liked, to be honest with you, as a funny and seemingly sensible guy. And I’m not saying that one racist/prejudiced quote brands you as a racist for all time. But at the same time, he wrote something that would make most of us cringe.
Earlier today I [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
The original Obama Administration-CBO projected deficit chart:
From Doug Ross, the updated deficit chart shows the deficit is 25% higher than the original forecasts:
The Cloward/Piven strategy is working. This is total economic meltdown.
– DRJ
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The Tiger Woods segment on last night’s Saturday Night Live is getting the most attention but I think this segment is funnier:
Now it’s time for SNL to do a skit on Desiree Rogers.
– DRJ
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Tostito’s Fiesta Bowl: BCS #4 TCU vs #6 Boise State. TCU is #3 in the AP & USA Today polls. These two teams played last year in the Poinsettia Bowl. IMO, this is the BCS’s pathetic attempt to protect its teams from being beaten by a [...]
In my last post, I quoted an article and asked whether this is racism:
On the one hand, Ebonie Johnson Cooper doesn’t care that Tiger Woods’ wife and alleged mistresses are white because Woods is “quote-unquote not really black.”
“But at the same time we still see him as a [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
The Wall Street Journal reports the Obama Administration’s EPA will declare CO2 a public danger as early as Monday:
“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will early next week, possibly as soon as Monday, officially declare carbon dioxide a public danger, a trigger that could mean regulation for [...]
SEK and other liberals often accuse conservatives of claiming there’s no racism in America. What nonsense. Why, here’s some racism right here:
On the one hand, Ebonie Johnson Cooper doesn’t care that Tiger Woods’ wife and alleged mistresses are white because Woods is “quote-unquote not really black.”
“But at the same [...]
A group of European scientists said Wednesday that they have successfully connected a robotic hand to an amputee, enabling him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it with his thoughts.
Holy mackerel.
During the month he had the electrodes connected, Petruzziello learned to wiggle the robotic fingers independently, [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
Tonight President and Mrs. Obama are hosting the Prime Minister of India and his wife at their first White House state dinner. Reports say 338 celebrities and leaders from India and the United States will dine and be entertained in a lavish pavilion tent with [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
A blogger wonders whether unemployment will be President Obama’s Katrina, the event that exposed “critical weaknesses in the priorities and competence of the Bush administration.” But it’s not just any blogger, it’s a Huffington Post blogger. In fact, it’s Arianna Huffington herself:
“Which makes one wonder: what [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
The U.S. government never sleeps but apparently neither does BigGovernment:
“ACORN’s San Diego office isn’t the only place its been careless with sensitive documents. Late last year, ACORN abandoned an office in Oklahoma. In its haste to vacate the office–and skip out on the landlord’s claim of [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
In a press conference with India’s Prime Minister Singh today, President Obama said he will soon announce his Afghanistan policy — the current one, not the March 2009 “comprehensive” policy — and that he intends to “finish the job.”
[Guest post by DRJ]
Is Carly Fiorina playing the gender card when she says she has a better chance to beat California Senator Barbara Boxer than her GOP primary opponent Chuck DeVore because she’s a woman?
“Asked why she is a better candidate than her Republican primary opponent Assemblyman Chuck [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
As noted in this post, Patterico appeared on last night’s KFI broadcast guest-hosted by Andrew Breitbart. This was the same broadcast in which Breitbart introduced Derrick Roach, a California private investigator who reportedly discovered thousands of pages of ACORN documents trashed by the San Diego [...]
[Posted by Karl]
Before Saturday’s Senate vote to proceed to debate on HarryCare, the Senate GOP pointed to a Congressional Research Service study showing that 97% of bills subject to a cloture vote to begin debate ultimately pass. In reality, over time, cloture motions have been increasing and spreading [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
No, this isn’t a post about Captain Chesley Sullenberger, although the title would fit. Instead, this post involves whether President Obama is finally ready to make a decision on Afghanistan after his 9th war council (*) strategy meeting:
“President Obama may make up his mind [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
It appears the Obama Administration has been less than candid about the firing of AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin. Byron York at the Washington Examiner has the details:
“Other than board chairman Alan Solomont, the Democratic mega-donor and Obama supporter who originally told the White House of [...]
[Guest post by Jack Dunphy]
The Los Angeles Times reports on a woman who was murdered by her estranged boyfriend as two LAPD officers sat in their car outside her apartment. Once alerted to the attack, the officers went to the apartment but a metal security door prevented them from [...]
Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, and five other suspects will be sent to military commissions, an Obama administration official said Friday.
The official said Attorney [...]
[Posted by Karl]
With Sen. Maj. Ldr. Harry Reid planning to bring ObamaCare to the floor next week, where do things stand? It depends who you ask. James Pethokoukis writes:
Just talked to a very insightful Capitol Hill Watcher who doesn’t think Harry Reid has the votes in the Senate to [...]
This Friday the 13th won’t be just another day in a Swiss jail for Roman Polanski. By then the director will have sat behind bars, awaiting extradition to Los Angeles, for 48 full days — a significant figure for legal numerologists.
Not only is it a longer period of [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
According to the Denver Post, the balloon boy’s parents will enter guilty pleas tomorrow morning:
“Heene will plead guilty to attempting to influence a public servant, and Larimer County prosecutors have “stipulated to a sentence of probation,” attorney David Lane said in a media release.
Heene and his [...]
Big news, folks. Breitbart confronted some ACORN protestors and came back with a post that closes with this tease:
As we headed back to our cars, Gary H. was shaking. I asked if he was OK. He said he had to play me the audio of one of the protesters [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
President George W. Bush was the butt of endless criticism after Hurricane Katrina because he did not take charge of the disaster and travel to Louisiana, opting instead for a flyover on his return to Washington. So I’m sure Democrats will appreciate the irony of Virginia [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
Salt water, a pelican, a cell phone, and a $2M Bugatti Veyron:
“The Veyron’s powerful engine gurgled like an outboard motor for about 15 minutes before it died.”
– DRJ
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An Army CID spokesman announced today that murder charges have been filed against Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan:
“Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in connection with last week’s shootings at Fort Hood, Chris Grey, a spokesman with the Army’s Criminal [...]
[Guest post by Jack Dunphy]
If a bus had hit a patch of ice and skidded off a highway, resulting in the death of 13 people and injuries to dozens more, that would have been a “tragedy” as the term was once commonly understood.
But when a member of the enemy, even [...]
The Washington Post has a story titled ‘Scozzafava’ turns into epithet with the offensive deck headline: “It’s a Grand Old Purging as moderate’s ouster spotlights Republican dysfunction.”
Actually, the Republican dysfunction was supporting this turncoat — someone who, the article makes it sound, endorsed the Democrat because she was emotionally [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
President Barack Obama made a surprise video appearance at the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall:
“In the message beamed into celebrations at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, once on the border between East and West Berlin, Obama told cheering crowds: “Even in the face of [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
The Beltway snipers terrorized the Washington DC-Virginia area in September and October 2002. John Allen Williams aka John Allen Muhammad was convicted of capital murder in November 2003 and sentenced to death in March 2004. His teenage accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, was also convicted of [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan reportedly told senior Army physicians at Fort Hood Walter Reed that Muslim troops should be released as conscientious objectors:
“As a senior-year psychiatric resident at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Maj. Nidal M. Hasan was supposed to make a presentation on a medical [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
Multiple sources report Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan will be tried in a military court. In addition, from the same Houston Chronicle link, Hasan has reportedly refused official interviews and requested an attorney. His family has hired John P. Galligan, a Texas lawyer with experience in [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
New Mexico soccer player Elizabeth Lambert in a November 5, 2009, game with Brigham Young:
Lambert has been suspended indefinitely, but she’s sorry:
“I am deeply and wholeheartedly regretful for my actions,” Lambert said in a statement. “I let my emotions get the best of me in [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
Ed Morrissey at Hot Air links to an ABC News report that “the FBI knew that Major Nidal Hasan had attempted to contact al-Qaeda and its associates months before Hasan went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, killing 13 people.” But it’s not clear whether [...]
A Valour IT update from Cassandra at Villainous Company:
Tomorrow is the Marine Corps Birthday. One of the traditions we keep to in the Corps is the Commandant’s Birthday message – it is played at every Marine Corps Ball and at any place where Marines gather all over the world. [...]
[Posted by Karl]
Folks from Allahpundit to Robert Reich are noticing the same thing:
Obama’s focus on health care when the economy is still so fragile and unemployment moving toward double digits could make it appear that the administration has its priorities confused. While affordable health care is important to [...]
Patterico, DRJ, Karl, Jack Dunphy
