C.J. BURCH ON THE WAPO access-selling scandal: “When a journalist says something now don’t you have to wonder who paid him to say it and why? And until you figure that out isn’t what the journalist says suspect, whether you happen to love him or hate him or even [...]
Posted here and at the Borg Conspiracy by guest blogger Locutisprime.
Washington Post Cancels Plans to Hold Costly Dinner for Lobbyists
Well of course they had to cancel it. As soon as some less than savvy dweeb let it leak out that the editor of the [...]
Something that you aren’t seeing in the news is a whacked side-effect of California’s financial and environmental incompetence - the Central Valley Dust Bowl… A great article was written on this at Beetle Blogger: Dead and Dying–California’s Central Valley Dust Bowl.
The entire length [...]
Calling hypocrisy what it is. "Endorsing Palestinian apartheid: Why does world accept notion of Palestinian state free of Jews?," by Jonathan Dahoah-Halevi for Ynet News, July 2 (thanks to Manny):
[...] The Palestinians have won international recognition for their demand to establish a Palestinian state from which all Jews will [...]... being asked by Doug Ross:
Well... do you?
UPDATE: Remember how Obama promised green jobs?
Early last month, LM Glasfiber in Little Rock announced it would cut more than 20% of it's workforce because it doesn't have enough orders. In this day and age,' [...]
JOHN NOLTE REVIEWS The Hurt Locker. “Katherine Bigelow’s direction of ‘The Hurt Locker’ is masterful and might very well place her back where she belongs, at the top of anyone’s list looking for a top-shelf action director. But that’s not enough to save the film from episodic plotting, jarring [...]
This is the typical jihadist displacement of responsibility and paranoid Jew-hatred, but I had to laugh at the references to "President Hussein." I thought only wicked "Islamophobes" called him that. Has Abd Al-Jalil Al-Karouri been reading Atlas Shrugs?
"Friday Sermon on Sudan TV: Preacher Abd Al-Jalil" [...]
DESPERATELY SEEKING SILVER LININGS:
Have you noticed a change in the economic news over the past year or so? It’s a deliberately ambiguous question: The actual news has gotten worse, but the coverage of it has changed in tone. Today, reporters are eagerly looking for the light at the end [...]
More and more Gibbs, as can certainly be seen here, is [...]
BUT THANKS FOR THE VOTES AND MONEY, SUCKERS! Obama deputy campaign manager abandons DOMA & DADT as priorities. Is this the hope and change you were waiting for?
But Chris Geidner offers reassurance to the faithful. Who’ll turn out to be right? We’ll see, but in my experience the [...]
Here’s a picture Rob sent from the podium of the Bismarck Tea Party. Looks like a nice crowd.
I’m sure glad the blizzard didn’t ruin the party.
JUSTIN BINIK-THOMAS sends this picture from the Madeira, Ohio Tea Party, currently in progress. He says there are “hundreds” present.
[...]"I sincerely hope that when the president goes in for his annual check-up, the doctors at Bethesda will do a brain scan. Surely something must be terribly wrong with a man who seems to be far more concerned with a Jew building a house in Israel than with Muslims building" [...]
Today, the Labor Department released figures showing unemployment hitting new highs, continuing to exceed even the level the Obama Administration forecast it would have attained without the “stimulus”–and considerably higher (considerably, considerably) than Democrats promised if Congress passed the legislation which may well have ended Arlen Specter’s [...]
I first heard that there had been another IED strike on a Viking early Wednesday evening, long before there was any media coverage. This was from Thomas Harding of The Daily Telegraph, who told me two soldiers had been killed, and more injured.
Articulating the obvious for the benefit of the willfully blind. "Obamas deadly hand revealed," by the incomparable Melanie Phillips for the Jewish Chronicle, June 26 (thanks to Dan):
[...] For the past six months, while Obama has been holding out the hand of friendship to Iran, he has been showing [...]
Somehow I rumor got started that the July 4 Chicago Tea Party has been cancelled. It has not.Some Thursday afternoon fun: who made the following statements? Paranoid Jew-hatred is a staple of Islamic jihadist discourse, of course, but these statements about how the Jews control the U.S. and the world come from some sources that are not often identified with the jihad: two "moderate" Muslims and...well, I'll' [...]
Here’s a pic from my parents house, with my uncles dogs, my sisters dog, and Ginny and Guesly all paying a great deal of attention to my sister:
The paps are my aunt’s show dogs, the border collie is my uncle’s puppy, and the bigger dog is [...]
EATING IN FRANCE, DYING INSIDE. My experiences have been better, but I’ve never actually lived there.
[...]TAKING LIBERTIES: WE ARE BEING WATCHED: Britan has quietly become the most spied-upon nation in Europe. How? Why? And does it matter? Charles Nevin goes to Manchester, London, Berlin and Bucharest to compare, contrast and discuss ... (Charles Nevin, Summer 2009, INTELLIGENT LIFE Magazine)
The Regulation of Investigatory Powers [...]
A massive military offensive is under way in Afghanistan against the Taliban.
NAWA, Afghanistan (AP) — U.S. Marines suffered their first casualties of a massive new military campaign Thursday as they engaged in sporadic gunbattles along 55 miles of Taliban-controlled heartland in southern Afghanistan.
One Marine was killed and several others [...]
A 'coup' in Honduras? Nonsense.: Don't believe the myth. The arrest of President Zelaya represents the triumph of the rule of law. (Octavio Sánchez, July 2, 2009 , CS Monitor)
These are the facts: On June 26, President Zelaya issued a decree ordering all government employees to take part' [...]
HYBRID ANYTHING? Retrofit kit that turns ordinary cars into plug-in hybrids. Sounds too good to be true, but I hope it pans out.
[...]For the fourth time since I moved to LA, I trekked up to Hollywood Boulevard to honor a legend who had recently passed by laying flowers on his star on the Walk of Fame. The large wreath is something the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce places over the star of each [...]
Islam transcends nationality. Traditional Islam teaches that Muslims should respect only their allegiance to the umma, not to the nation-state in which they live. "Arab group exec quits after online tirade," by Brett Clarkson and Joe Warmington for the Toronto Sun, July 2 (thanks to M.):
The Canadian Arab Federation [...]The Mets defeated the Pirates by the score of 9-to-8 this afternoon.
For a full recap and box score, click here.
The Least You Should Know:
Tim Redding was ineffective this afternoon allowing five runs on six hits in just 2 1/3 innings. He threw a ton of breaking pitches [...]
Lending more evidence to DougJ’s theory, I just heard Roger Simon on Hardball state that “Sara Palin held her own in the debate.”
If, by holding your own, you mean refusing to answer any questions you didn’t like, talking about [...]
In this somewhat confused article, Sentletse Diakanyo claims that "the Taliban had imposed strict rules on the people of Afghanistan based on their incorrect interpretation of the religious prescriptions contained in the Quran as well as the Hadith (set of teachings by the Prophet which are not contained in the" [...]
This morning I was a guest of Kim Jones and Adam Gerstenhaber on WFAN, during which we talked about blogging, the Mets, and the up-coming trade deadline.
To listen to the interview, click play below, or scroll down a transcript:
Lastly, to listen live to WFAN, online, all day and all night, [...]
Tom Levenson, friend of the blog and MIT Professor of Science Writing, has a new book that fits neatly in a growing but still unnamed literary niche, one that transplants already perfectly famous historical figures into a hyperbolic action-thriller setting. One of my favorites in the genre pits Mark [...]
WHY ISN’T AMERICA HIRING? “America isn’t hiring precisely because of government policy. Small business owners, who are usually the first into and the first out of the job pool, are standing by the fence and watching. They are paralyzed by regulatory uncertainty. If they hire someone who ends up [...]
JIM GERAGHTY: “This Fourth of July, a lot of grassroots activists will be holding their second round of tea parties - 612 at last count. If you attend one this weekend, go, enjoy yourself, get fired up, take reassurance and confidence that you’re not alone. But, if I may [...]
Dhimmitude at Amnesty. The evidence is abundant. Amnesty International ignored it. Here is some of it:
[Video of Palestinian jihadists using children as human shields]
This week on Mets Weekly, Julie Alexandria sits down with David Wright, who talks openly about hitting at Citi Field, where he has intentionally shortened his swing to hit the ball to the gaps.
Later, Julie gets a tour of the Citi Field control room, where [...]
Wow. As PatriotPartner said to me — “Want to see a lead balloon? Go to Rasmussen today“. (h/t - HotAir)
Ed Morrissey sums it all up nicely over at HotAir.
Rasmussen’s new poll, taken before the release of June’s unemployment numbers, shows significant slippage for Barack Obama on the [...]
Even though the nation's unemployment is at the highest level in 25 years, the stimulus signs keep popping up.Mehsud, like many who are unshakably convinced of their own correctness, no doubt does not realize his own cruelty and heartlessness. "EXCLUSIVE: Taliban buying children for suicide bombers," by Sara A. Carter for the Washington Times, July 2 (thanks to LGF2):
Pakistan's top Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, is buying [...]ONLY 25 BUCKS for a hand-cranked emergency radio/flashlight/cellphone charger.
UPDATE: Not anymore — “dynamic pricing” strikes!
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ASK DR. HELEN: The Insta-Wife on depression, the Internet, and the benefits of a “caveman” approach to life. She talks with Dr. Stephen Ilardi, author of The Depression Cure: The 6-step Program to Beat Depression Without Drugs.
[...]Oh brother. The Washington Post was apparently planning to sell access to top Obama officials and other VIPs, at a price of $25,000 to $250,000 a pop, in a “salon program” at the private home of CEO Katharine Weymouth.
The Washington Post has long prided itself on its access to [...]
REPUBLICANS blame Obama for job losses. Well, it’s not what he promised when the stimulus was up for a vote, is it?
[...]
In a land where neuters, unicorn riders, and moonwalking molesters are deified and canonized, we can forget that there are real men still walking the American earth. Here's one. Do you think she was glad to see him? "A construction worker, suspended from" [...]
Hmmmm. Who could these "unidentified people" be? Methodists on an anti-Presbyterian crusade? Militant vegetarians? Renegade Buddhists? It's a mystery!
"Pakistani Presbyterian Pastor attacked at gunpoint," by Dan Wooding and Sheraz Khurram Khan for ASSIST News Service, July 1 (thanks to Jeffrey Imm):
KARACHI, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- The Rev. Eric Sarwar, [...]Clara Peller, bless her heart, made this a catch phrase of the ‘80s.
Lady Cincinnatus points to a GOP effort without nearly the same kick! Although it is time someone asked Obama, Where’s the beef, when it comes to creating or sustaining jobs?
Cross Posted at[...]
Recorded by Thomas Harding of The Daily Telegraph, Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe (pictured on patrol), CO of the 1st Bttn Welsh Guards, has been killed in Afghanistan by an IED.WAPO RESPONDS to access-selling story. Flier was not “properly vetted.”
UPDATE: White House denies involvement.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Kurtz weighs in. “Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth today canceled plans for a series of policy dinners at her home after learning that marketing fliers offered lobbyists access to Obama administration officials, [...]
OBAMA, STIMULUS, AND UNEMPLOYMENT: What was promised, vs. what has happened. Just keep this disparity in mind when you read their health-care projections . . . .
[...]HOPING FOR CHANGE: Honduran Democracy Protesters Bash Obama and CNN. “Thousands of Hondurans protested in support of democracy, the military and the Micheletti government this week in Honduras. The US media has been ignoring these protests.”
[...]BORED OF THE SAME OLD HORMONES FOR INCREASING MUSCLE MASS? You’re in luck! “Mechano Growth Factor (MGF) could become the next rage for athletic dopers.” On the other hand, the actual research shows that it’s promising for treating age-related muscle loss, which is very important.
Dead end: Mankind’s biggest mistake: a review of The Rise and Fall of Communism. By Archie Brown (The Economist, 7/02/09)
Archie Brown’s new history of communism identifies three big questions, perhaps even the biggest, of the past century. [...]
Communism’s first big advantage was that it played [...]
A Pitch on Health Care To Virginia And Beyond (Michael D. Shear and Jose Antonio Vargas, 7/02/09, Washington Post)
In the stage-managed event, questions for Obama came from a live audience selected by the White House and the college, and from Internet questions chosen by the administration's new-media team. [...]
So now it turns out that Markopolos was not alone; there was an another attempted whistleblower, this time within the SEC itself. But apparently she was ignored, as well.
[...]Post Publisher Cancels Plans for Off-the-Record 'Salons' (Howard Kurtz, 7/02/09, Washington Post)
Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth today canceled plans for a series of policy dinners at her home after learning that marketing fliers offered lobbyists access to Obama administration officials, members of Congress and Post journalists in exchange [...]
"Since early 2007 the Egyptian government has been appeasing Muslim fundamentalists by settling matters of sectarian conflict out of court in line with Islamic Sharia law." Which, of course, works to the detriment of Egyptian Christians. "The government brokers 'reconciliation' sessions where the Christians are forced to drop all the" [...]
