From one of NewsReal’s most astute commenters, on today’s David Horowitz quote of the day:
2009 October 31
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Much more interesting here, at least to me, is the utopian mindset on which this post touches. The reason I find the mind set so interesting is that utopian thoughts run in direct contrast to a world [...]
Marc Lamont Hill’s List of Overrated Black People will be a recurring feature at NewsReal as more figures emerge to be added. In David Horowitz’s kick-off to the series he explained the intent and why it’s not necessary to have corresponding lists of overrated white people, overrated conservatives, overrated leftists, overrated Jews, overrated right-handed people [...]
Obama tempers economic news with caution on jobs
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE (AP) – 8 hours ago
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Saturday tempered excitement about a growing economy with a sober outlook that more people will lose their jobs. He called that a heartbreaking reality and cautioned that even a burst of upbeat news “does not [...]
I’m going to give the final word on the subject of Natural Law to my friend and colleague Calvin Freiburger who really gives the best, most accessible summary of the concept as it relates to the Founding. With the next installment of Leaping Back to the Founding we’ll discuss Skousen’s second point about the Founders’ [...]
Since I started at NewsReal in July — first as a blogger before eventually becoming the editor — my beat has been HBO’s leftist gabfest “Real Time with Bill Maher.” The 2009 season of the show concluded on October 16. So NewsReal will not be featuring any more commentaries on “Real Time” until the next [...]
Ron Radosh has a particularly great blog post up today:
While the Obama administration continues its war against its media critics, well-known liberal journalists — instead of defending freedom of the press — are joining the attack on a news network they despise as much as does the administration. Gone is any seeming concern for the [...]
Since today’s Halloween I thought I’d feature some images of especially entertaining Halloween costumes:
If anyone sees any especially amusing costumes tonight please take a picture and email it to me so I can post them for tomorrow’s Lunch Break.
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Lunch Break is NewsReal’s daily apolitical post. (We all need a break from this political stuff every [...]
Ayatollah Mohammad Imami-Kashani says that the Islamic Republic of Iran is founded upon Islam. So this bloody and repressive regime is an example of what Islamic law brings to a country? Surely then the Ayatollah Mohammad Imami-Kashani must be a misunderstander of Islam! For if Iran really were built upon…
Ayatollah Mohammad Imami-Kashani says that the Islamic Republic of Iran is founded upon Islam. So this bloody and repressive regime is an example of what Islamic law brings to a country? Surely then the Ayatollah Mohammad Imami-Kashani must be a misunderstander of Islam! For if Iran really were built upon…
Actually they were calling for “justice,” by which they mean that the shooting of Luqman Abdullah was an act of injustice. They’re trying to shift attention away from the jihadist violence allegedly being plotted at the Masjid al-Haqq, and onto the supposed excess of the FBI reaction. “Muslims call for…
I am definitely not a writer, at least according to Mrs. Stiftuk, who taught my eighth grade English class. I am, however, a veteran of almost 19 years in the collection business, and when you “dun” someone you are making a legal demand for the moola.
On October 28th in his Talking Points Memo, Bill O’Reilly [...]
SCOZZAFAVA SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN
UPDATE: Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, has issued a statement regarding Ms. Scozzafava’s announcement.
“Dede Scozzafava’s has worked extremely hard to achieve the goal of becoming the next Congressman from New York’s 23rd District. It takes courage and strength to step back and make the best choice for her [...]
Republican in NY House race suspends campaign
(AP)
ALBANY, N.Y. — Republican Dierdre Scozzafava (sko-zuh-FAH’-vuh) has suspended her campaign for the New York House and is encouraging supporters to embrace Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman.
Campaign spokesman Matt Burns says she thinks dropping out of the 23rd Congressional District race is in the best interests of the party.
The [...]
“Why is the virus targeting children?” John Harwood, New York Times reporter and host of MSNBC’s New York Times Friday afternoon show asked as a teaser to David Schuster’s upcoming 2 hours.
This is almost as stupid as the nightly local news ritual of blaming—or thanking—the meteorologist for the weather.
First, let’s dispense with the part that [...]
Do you think this sympathetic article would have been written this way about a Christian church whose pastor was killed in a gun battle with the FBI? “Slain mosque leader mourned,” by Charlie LeDuff for The Detroit News, October 31 (thanks to James): Detroit — The brotherhood of the Masjid…
On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” today, NBC’s Chuck Todd, “Meet the Press” host David Gregory, and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) discussed the question of whether the Obama administration is making good on its campaign promises.
Unsurprisingly, Sen. Sheldon answered in the affirmative, while Gregory and Todd were slightly more critical. “Has ‘yes we can,’ become ‘maybe’?” Gregory [...]
This AFP story departs from ordinary mainstream media practice by actually identifying the Thai jihadists as “Islamic,” and adds a final paragraph that is, well, killer: more than 3900 people (but apparently fewer than 4000), it says, have been killed “in shootings, bomb blasts, beheadings and crucifixions” since the jihad…
Amy Goodman, the Marxist host of Democracy Now!, reported that “a former so-called enemy combatant,” who has been jailed in the U.S. for over six years without charge, has now been sentenced to over eight years in prison.
This opening description sets a tone, which leaves the viewer with the impression that the remainder of the [...]
Political utopians like my father had a master plan. They were going to transform the world from the chaos we knew into a comfortable and friendly place. In the happy future they dreamed about, there would be an end to grief from life out of control, life grinding you down and smashing your gut when [...]
AYN RAND
October 31, 2009
Charity and Sacrifice in a Free Society
By Andrew Foy and Brenton Stransky
If men have grasped some faint glimmer of respect for individual rights in their private dealings with one another, that glimmer vanishes when they turn to public issues – and what leaps into the political arena is a caveman who can’t [...]
10/30/09 06:21 PM ET
Rep. Issa switches from Scozzafava
By Aaron Blake -
Dede Scozzafava is now losing her supporters to Doug Hoffman.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is switching his support in the New York special election from the GOP nominee to Conservative Party candidate Hoffman.
A spokesperson said Issa is overnighting Hoffman a $5,000 check from Issa’s political action [...]
11/09/2009, Volume 015, Issue 08
The Pelosi Plan
… and the Swine Flu Democrats.
by William Kristol
In 1993, a newly elected Democratic president and a Democratic Congress pushed through a tax increase on a party-line vote. The next year Democrats lost control of Congress, with House Speaker Tom Foley defeated in his reelection bid and the Senate seat [...]
Friday, October 30, 2009
A demand for ‘respect’
By Deborah Weiss
The secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) recently delivered a little-reported speech at the United States Institute of Peace. In it he demanded that the United States give the Muslim world “respect.” But precisely what does he mean by that?
The OIC comprises 57 states with [...]
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“Power comes from the barrel of a gun.” — Mao Zedong
Tennis legend Andre Agassi admits to having used Crystal Meth; Paris Hilton considers herself a role model for young girls; and presidential adviser and communications director Anita Dunn tells high-school students that the communist mass [...]
