Sep

21

Bummer: Bill Clinton Turned Down Offer From ‘Dancing with the Stars’

Filed Under Entertainment, Politics | 13 Comments

The deal-breaker came when producers told Bill the dancing wouldn’t involve a pole, glitter and Andrea Rincon. Market Watch: Former president Bill Clinton turned down an offer to compete in the hit TV show “Dancing With the Stars,” because he didn’t have the time, AFP reports. “This is interesting — actually they contacted me once [...]

Sep

21

Is This ‘Obama at the UN’ Photo Real?

Filed Under Politics, World News | 33 Comments

Most major online news outlets are running this picture of Obama with other leaders at the UN (this is a cropped version): Here’s a full-size version at MSNBC. Getty Images published the picture with their watermark along with this caption: NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 20: U.S. President Barack Obama waves while standing with aother leaders [...]

Sep

21

Big Surprise: Solyndra Execs to Plead the Fifth at Congressional Hearing

Filed Under Business, Corruption, Politics | 4 Comments

Geez, give them one of the biggest platforms they’ve ever had to promote the importance of continuing to support “green jobs” and clean energy even in the face of a few completely innocent pitfalls, and they clam up: Solyndra LLC’s chief executive and chief financial officer will invoke their Fifth Amendment rights and decline to [...]

Sep

20

Obama Email: It’s Officially Over

Filed Under Politics | 8 Comments

I’ve never agreed with an email from the Obama campaign more: I’m not even going to click on it and ruin the bipartisan concurrence, but we can speculate a bit. What’s “officially over”? — The US economy as we knew it? The “green jobs” sham? The global warming boondoggle? Obama’s chances at winning re-election? Biden’s [...]

Sep

20

Head of Al Jazeera Resigns

Filed Under Media, World News | 5 Comments

Prediction: MSNBC or Current TV is about to get an addition to their management team: DUBAI, Sept 20 (Reuters) – The head of Arab TV channel Al Jazeera said on Tuesday he was leaving the network, but gave no reason for his departure at a time when the station’s coverage has played an important role [...]

Sep

20

CEO Explains Why ‘Government Job Creation’ is a Myth and How Regulations are Killing the Economy

Filed Under Business, Politics | 8 Comments

Yesterday morning, Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, testified before the House Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending hearing. Schiff offered a comprehensive old-school dismantling of the notion of “government job creation.” A full transcript and video is here, but this part where Schiff described how his company has actually been [...]

Sep

19

Obama: It’s Not Class Warfare, It’s Math

Filed Under Economy, Politics | 17 Comments

Concerning his call to raise taxes on the wealthy $1.5 trillion to partly pay for his latest destined-for-failure job scheme, President Obama actually just said, “This is not class warfare — it’s math!” See here and here and here and here and here and here for just a few examples of why I don’t exactly [...]

Sep

19

‘Day of Rage’ Accomplishes… I’m Not Sure What

Filed Under Moonbats, Politics | 10 Comments

The “Day of Rage” on Wall Street and in other cities across America came and went Saturday. By all accounts it was an epic fail, but I don’t know what “success” would have been because I’m not quite sure what the point of the whole thing was, other than to show “rage” with corporate America [...]

Sep

18

Obama Campaign Gets a New Leash on Life

Filed Under Politics | 26 Comments

If I got these anywhere near my dog he’d run into traffic: Prediction: By the middle of next year you’ll see these attached to Obama’s remaining 2008 supporters to keep them from running away from his 2012 campaign.

Sep

17

NPR Writer Clings to 2008: Compares Obama to Jesus

Filed Under Media, Politics, Religion | 14 Comments

President Obama has his problems these days, but one of them isn’t still being able to find true believers at NPR: The realities of governing as opposed to the unrealities of presidential campaigns may have made President Obama a much more human figure compared with the almost messiah-like status he had in the eyes of [...]

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