Open Thread: A Picture of Words is worth…

How on earth did Democracy Now end up grouped in search results with these folks? Hmmm (tapping my chin with index finger), I do wonder…

Everything I Need to Know About Khalid’s Ground Zero Trial, I Read in “Going Rogue”

When I wrote my first article, “Everything I Need to Know About ACORN, I Learned From Sophie Scholl,” my brilliant husband raised an eyebrow. When I followed with, “Everything I Need to Know About Sarah Palin, I Learned From Sir Ernest Shackleton,” he raised both and said, “Is this a new way to analyze news, [...]

Lunch Break

One of my favorite Dutch singers, Ilse de Lange, performing her hit song “I’m Not So Tough” live for Dutch television.
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Media Matters figures we’re asking for it or something

Being a leftist means you get to give a widely disputed one-degree rise in temperature the ominous handle “global warming,” then cook up a giant scam around it.
And in the leftist land inhabited by Media Matters, you won’t believe what passes for “obsession.”
Today they ask: “Why are so many media conservatives so obsessed with rape?”
Conservative [...]

NPR Helps Set Stage for Health Care Rationing

 
This week, as we near the controversial health care debate to take place tomorrow in Congress, National Public Radio aired stories on two controversial studies that put forth new guidelines reducing screening recommendations for two forms of cancer frequently diagnosed in women.
They were just the two latest reports, in a series of stories aired over the past [...]

Why Does Citigroup Fund Groups That Hate Freedom?

Should Citigroup, a recipient of U.S. government aid, be giving tax dollars to any political group, especially one as notorious as ACORN?
And as evidence continues to pile up showing ACORN’s criminal proclivities, why is Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit actually considering restoring funding for ACORN?
Pandit said his company is awaiting an ACORN-sponsored inquiry into the group’s corruption [...]

“What Boobs are in Charge of the Health of my Boobs?”

More women are going to die from the rationing of breast exams that will come from new government recommendations on mammograms.

Al-Qaeda’s New Weapon

Following Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s shooting rampage in Fort Hood, Texas, last week, pundits advanced all sorts of theories as to how a member of the U.S. armed forces could have possibly been so influenced by al-Qaeda’s image of Islam that he took up arms against fellow soldiers. It soon became known that Hasan received [...]

From the Pen of David Horowitz: November 20, 2009

As a result of my experience, I developed, in age, an aversion to romantic myths. Instead I was seized with a hunger for information — for the facts that would reveal to me the truth about the years I was a member of a heroic vanguard. The fall of the Communist empire and the opening [...]

Chris Matthews’s All-White Panel Notes Melanin Deficiency in Palin Audience

Chris Matthews has been covering “Palinpallooza” all week, alternating between gushing over her personal popularity and condescending jabs at her intellect.  Mostly, however, he’s been saying not to underestimate her, and exclaiming “I’ve never seen anything like this.”
So, Wednesday, on the opening day of Palin’s huge book signing tour, it was time for Chris to [...]

NewsFlash: Oprah Ending Show in 2011

After 23 years on television, Harpo spokesman Don Halcombe announced today that The Oprah Winfrey Show will air its final episode on Sept. 9, 2011. 
Oprah, a television icon of unparalleled status, plans to make the announcement on tomorrow’s show to her 42 million weekly viewers in the United States, and millions more in the 145 other countries in which [...]

NPR’s Childish KSM Trial Justification: “Terrorism is a Crime”

The Monday edition of NPR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook was entitled “A 9/11 Trial in New York.”  First interviewed was Evan Perez, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, who incidentally wrote an excellent piece for the WSJ about this very topic.  Ashbrook’s first question was, simply, “Why is this trial coming to New [...]

Palin: Conservative Pundits Are Doing the Job Republican Politicians Should Be Doing

Last night, former Alaska Governor, future bestselling author, and perennial thorn in liberals’ sides Sarah Palin sat down with Sean Hannity to discuss everything from the life stories she shares in her new book to the issues of the day, all the while demonstrating why the Left just can’t get her out of their heads.

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The Most Moronic Media Statements of the Week: Fake Jobs, Al Gore’s Bogus Science, and “Gay Icon” Levi Johnston

So many morons, so little space.

Generation South Park, Part 4: The Rise of Stealth Conservatism

Click here for the previous discussion of this episode of South Park and click here for the index to the “Generation South Park” series.
Besides entertaining us with a hyperbolic mess of a Beck/Palin/Obama-turned-Avatar parody, the latest episode of South Park remains incredibly clever. The show’s set up was a trap to get their center-Left fans [...]

Leg Thrills and Spine Chills with Chris Matthews: Part 1

Barack Obama may have sent thrills up the leg of Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC Hardball, but Sarah Palin has got him almost giddy and blushing like a schoolboy.
It has become Matthews’ habit of late, to open and close his show with segments devoted to the former governor of Alaska. With her memoir Going Rogue: [...]

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Media Matters slams WaPo, American Cancer Society. (Just kidding.)

Media Matters’ selective outrage is on full display today. They declare, “Beck, Limbaugh, and Hannity link nonbinding mammogram guidelines to ‘death panels’”:
Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity have linked a task force’s recommendation that fewer women younger than 50 receive regular mammograms to the widely debunked smear that Democratic health reform bills include “death [...]

Obamacare – The Wrong Side Of History

Nicholas D. Kristof writes today in The New York Times a column lashing out at the critics of Obamacare.  He compares us to the opponents of Social Security and Medicare whom, he said, used the same “bogymen” arguments about socialist programs, killing jobs etc.  He said that those members of Congress who “flinch” and let [...]

Random Observations from Barack Obama’s America

Lou Dobbs has come closer to death in the last year than Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

MSNBC “Progressive, Not Partisan”?

The Obama administration’s designated anti-Fox hit woman Anita Dunn joined Valerie Jarrett in branding Fox News as partisan while reserving any such judgment about MSNBC. Tim Graham, Director of Media Analysis at Media Research Center, noted that on her way out of the administration (sorta) Anita Dunn called MSNBC “progressive but not partisan.”
To cite [...]

Joe Biden’s “Big Tent” Theory

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Apparently nothing is getting done in Congress because Democrats pitch a bigger tent than Republicans.
“The good news about a big tent is a lot of people can get under it,” explains Vice President Joe Biden. ”The bad news is, the bigger the family, the harder [it is] to get agreement.”
That was  the Veep’s excuse for the lack of progress [...]

Lynne Stewart Fires Off a Parting Shot Before Going To Prison

Before surrendering to authorities on Wednesday afternoon to begin serving a measly 28 month sentence for providing material support to Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman (the mastermind of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993), Maoist sympathizer, terrorist enabler and traitor Lynne Stewart took time out for an interview with Marxist Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! [...]

MSNBC Blames Recession on a Racist, Wall Street Conspiracy; NAACP President Becomes the Voice of Reason

The vast, racist conspiracy against Barack Obama is no longer limited to evil 9/12 protesters, Fox News, and those who utter the obviously racist code word “socialist.” According to an MSNBC talk show host, it has spread to Wall Street, which is deliberately prolonging the recession to keep the black man down.
On Tuesday night’s episode [...]

From the Pen of David Horowitz: November 19, 2009

[Richard ]Rorty views the Vietnam War as the decisive event converting the American left to the Marxist revolutionary paradigm. He describes the war as “an atrocity of which Americans should be deeply ashamed.” Along with the “endless humiliation inflicted on African-Americans,” the War persuaded the New Left, which had previously recognized the “errors” of Marxism, [...]