Aug

24

HIG Therapy: Obama Approves New Interrogation Unit

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Oh, this should be interesting: President Obama has approved the creation of an elite team of interrogators to question key terrorism suspects, part of a broader effort to revamp U.S. policy on detention and interrogation, senior administration officials said Sunday. The unit is called the “High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group,” or HIG (even our interrogation units [...]

Aug

24

Team Obama Only Half-Staffed, But It Already Feels Like America’s Taken the Full Staff

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You have to hand it to them… spending over $2 trillion in only seven months and seeking to spend another few trillion on Obamacare with less than half a staff is quite the feat. I don’t even want to see how much they can spend fully staffed: As President Obama tries to turn around a [...]

Aug

24

Obama May Visit Kennedy to Breathe New Life Into Obamacare

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The Secret Service has visited the Kennedy compound, which means that one last shot at resuscitating Obamacare is probably in the works: Kennedy family sources tell ABC News that the Secret Service was at the family compound on Cape Cod earlier today and returned in the early evening, possibly preparing for a presidential visit with [...]

Aug

23

Dickweed Summit: Geraldo Runs Into Henry Gates On Martha’s Vineyard

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It looks like the ground-breaking “beer summit” that Obama had in order to get Professor Gates and Officer Crowley to find common ground was a rousing success. Before the summit, Gates thought Crowley was a racist, profiling cop. But after the summit, Gates thinks that Crowley is a racist, profiling cop. Not only that, but [...]

Aug

22

Oh For Crist Sake!

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When Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is on the ballot for U.S. Senate next year, Floridians shouldn’t let the fact that he may have single-handedly (with a little help from on high) saved the state from the ravages of hurricanes cloud their judgment when they’re deciding who to vote for: Could it be divine intervention that’s [...]

Aug

21

Article About Bill and Hillary’s Vacation Helps Facilitate Diet

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Thanks to the New York Daily News, I might be skipping dinner tonight. The more you read, the worse it gets: Hurricane Bill grew into a powerful Category 4 storm on Wednesday and threatened to skirt Bermuda – and possibly ruin Bill and Hillary Clinton’s romantic vacation plans. The only thing that could ruin their [...]

Aug

21

First Rule of Stone Fight Festival: Don’t Talk About Stone Fight Festival

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I love the late summer… the temperatures get milder, the days get just a little shorter, the leaves start to change ever so slightly, and people in India whip rocks at each other until dozens of people are injured: NEW DELHI, India (CNN) – At least 60 villagers were injured as they hurled rocks at [...]

Aug

21

Olbermann Accidentally Replaced By ‘Jackass’ in TV Listings, Most Didn’t Notice Difference

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Some days the jokes write themselves. From the L.A. Times “corrections” page: “We apologize for the error… the show actually airs at 8 and 11.” An L.A. Times listings writer is about to be the “Worst person in the woooorrlllld!” (h/t Andrew Malcolm)

Aug

21

Return of the ‘Vast Right Wing Conspiracy’

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It’s no wonder the Democrats are wandering aimless — they’ve made themselves dizzy from all their desperate spin: President Obama took to the conservative airwaves Thursday to charge that Republican leaders are engaged in a vast right-wing conspiracy to kill health care reform in order to repeat the 1994 mid-term takeover of Congress, which followed [...]

Aug

20

Color Me Suspicious: Tom Ridge Raises Threat Level of His New Book

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I’m sure that Tom Ridge’s publisher realizes that their client generates as much excitement and interest as a 90-year-old nun at a singles bar, and as such Ridge was probably encouraged to throw in juicy tidbits such as this: Among the headlines promoted by publisher Thomas Dunne Books: Ridge was never invited to sit in [...]

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