Obama’s Muslim adviser says Sharia "misunderstood"

Yes, all that hand-chopping and stoning really isn’t all that bad, if you look at it from the right perspective. Dalia Mogahed, you may recall, along with John Esposito cooked the data from a global survey of Muslim attitudes in order to increase the number of Muslim “moderates” — classifying people as “moderate” who hate America, want to impose Sharia, and support suicide bombing

Ron Radosh » Is Bill Ayers Now Playing Conservatives? Why He Should Not be Taken Seriously

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Ron Radosh October 7th, 2009 11:48 am Is Bill Ayers Now Playing Conservatives? Why He Should Not be Taken Seriously In October 2008, Jack Cashill penned a much discussed blog, in which he suggested the possibility that Bill Ayers actually was the ghost writer for Barack Obama’s powerful memoir, Dreams From My Father. Later, he wrote yet another blog, reporting about many who sent him more material that they thought would corroborate his original suspicions about authorship of Obama’s first memoir.

Michelle Obama brings change in artistic taste to the White House – Times Online – VIDEO

October 8, 2009
Michelle Obama brings change in artistic taste to the White House
Giles Whittell in Washington
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“Maybe yes … Wait a minute … On second thought … Maybe no.” It’s art, not policy, but the indecision written across the blood-red canvas by Ed Ruscha that now hangs in the White House could not reflect more [...]

BREAKING NEWS: CBO says health care bill costs $829B over decade – AP

Oct 7, 6:04 PM EDT
CBO says health care bill costs $829B over decade
By DAVID ESPO
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health care legislation drafted by a key Senate committee would expand coverage to 94 percent of all eligible Americans at a 10-year cost of $829 billion, congressional budget experts said Wednesday, a preliminary estimate likely to power the [...]

Pants on Fire: Chris Matthews’s New Problem with “Anti-Americanism”

“I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire.”
–Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 1927
For the past 6 years, Chris Matthews has hosted a show in which guests gleefully reported the purported success of both indigenous insurgents and foreign al Qaeda fighters in Iraq.  On his network, MSNBC, that became the [...]

Reagan and Obama by Jean Kaufman – Weekly Standard

Reagan and Obama
Is America a city on a hill or a country in decline?
by Jean Kaufman
10/07/2009 12:00:00 AM
Ronald Reagan believed in America.
One way he expressed this faith was through the image of “a shining city on a hill,” a phrase Reagan uttered in one form or another in many of his speeches, including his [...]

Ayers admits writing “Dreams From My Father” – American Thinker

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October 07, 2009 Ayers admits writing “Dreams From My Father” By James Simpson Last Friday we posted an article on these pages asserting Bill Ayers’ authorship of President Barack Obama’s ‘Dreams From My Father,’ based on claims made by Obama biographer Christopher Andersen. It is possible that we have now gotten direct confirmation of this from Bill Ayers himself

Feingold hits Obama’s use of ‘czars’ – Washington Times

Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Feingold hits Obama’s use of ‘czars’
By Kara Rowland
A top Senate Democrat said just because other presidents have created “czars” to carry out administration policy does not mean President Obama is right to follow their lead – and warned that Congress may have to step in and keep White House appointees in check.
Senators [...]

No, you can’t see the health care bill | Washington Examiner

No, you can’t see the health care bill
Examiner Editorial
October 7, 2009
When then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama promised not to sign major legislation until it had been posted on the Internet for public reading at least five days, trusting voters took him at his word. Now they know better. Not only is the actual language of [...]

Obama mum on adding more troops in Afghanistan – AP

Oct 7, 12:05 AM EDT
Obama mum on adding more troops in Afghanistan
By BEN FELLER – AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday ruled out shrinking the Afghanistan war to a counterterrorism campaign. Yet he did not signal whether he is prepared to send any more troops to the war zone – either the 40,000 [...]

Another Failed Presidency: American Thinker

August 31, 2009
Another Failed Presidency
By Geoffrey P. Hunt
Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson.
In the modern era, we’ve seen several failed presidencies–led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ. Failed presidents have one strong common trait– they are repudiated, in the vernacular, spat out. Of course, LBJ wisely took [...]

Mmm, mmm , MMM! Famed BBC Humor is MIA along with Media Matters’.

On Monday’s Morning Joe, “conservative” (for MSNBC) host Joe Scarborough moderated a panel discussion that would be the main talking point for the day on the liberal network— conservative celebration at Obama’s humiliation in Copenhagen.
Looking as glum as if his dog just died, and to top it all off, he couldn’t get his cup of [...]

Lose Afghanistan, Lose Pakistan, Lose Iran, Lose It All – American Thinker

October 06, 2009
Lose Afghanistan, Lose Pakistan, Lose Iran, Lose It All
By James Lewis
The gangster regimes of the world are on the march, and they’ve got our number. They know how to squeeze more civilized nations. Our weakness is cowardice, and that goes double or triple in the face of nuclear weapons. That’s why all the [...]

Beck’s “Musings” Were a Joke, but Media Matters Didn’t Get It

The Media Matters irony detector must’ve been in the shop on September 16, when they roused themselves to mock Glenn Beck… for making a joke.
Here’s what they wrote:
Beck: [politically outspoken UK band] Muse is “brilliant,” buy their new album;
Muse: Please retract your endorsement

Then Media Matters helpfully posts five minutes of audio from Beck’s radio show. [...]

Obama Snubs the Dalai Lama – WSJ.com

REVIEW & OUTLOOK OCTOBER 6, 2009
No Time for the Dalai Lama
Obama is willing to anger China on tire tariffs but not on Tibet.
In nearly nine months in office, President Obama has found time to meet with Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega and Vladimir Putin. But this week he won’t see the Dalai Lama, a peaceful religious [...]

What China Demands, Obama Provides

Last April, after the Dalai Lama–the spiritual leader of Tibet–announced his intention to travel to the United States in October, the Communist Chinese gave President Barack Obama a stern warning against meeting with him. China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu made it quite clear that the Chinese, who invaded Tibet and have ruled it with [...]

Introducing Leftist Agitator Deepak Bhargava

On his TV show, Glenn Beck looked at the role that former ACORN official Deepak Bhargava is playing in influencing the Obama administration.
Bhargava is executive director of the radical left-wing community organizing group, the Center for Community Change (CCC). Founded in 1968, the group is dedicated to defending welfare entitlements and leftist anti-poverty programs.
CCC bases [...]

Introducing Leftist Agitator Deepak Bhargava

On his TV show, Glenn Beck looked at the role that former ACORN official Deepak Bhargava is playing in influencing the Obama administration.
Bhargava is executive director of the radical left-wing community organizing group, the Center for Community Change (CCC). Founded in 1968, the group is dedicated to defending welfare entitlements and leftist anti-poverty programs.
CCC bases its training programs on techniques [...]

White House angry at General Stanley McChrystal speech on Afghanistan – Telegraph

White House angry at General Stanley McChrystal speech on Afghanistan
The relationship between President Barack Obama and the commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan has been put under severe strain by Gen Stanley McChrystal’s comments on strategy for the war.
By Alex Spillius in Washington
Published: 7:00AM BST 05 Oct 2009
According to sources close to the administration, Gen [...]

Exposing Obama – by Emily Esfahani Smith – Weekly Standard

Exposing Obama
Naked Emperor News reveals the truth about the president one YouTube video at a time.
by Emily Esfahani Smith
10/06/2009 12:00:00 AM
Pamela Key does not work for the Republican National Committee. She has no formal training in journalism. An illustrator of children’s books, she never finished college. And yet, her oppositional research, her investigative journalism, [...]

Larry King’s Dictator Trilogy – Part I: The Malignant Narcissism of Hugo Chavez

HUGO CHAVEZ

By Karen Northon

In Hollywood, it all comes down to how well you can deliver a line, which is perhaps why so many in the land of make-believe adore the dictatorial drama queen Hugo Chavez. The whole world truly is a stage. The man is a compelling orator to those whose ideological cataracts prevent them [...]

GOOD NEWS FOR TERRORISTS: DEMOCRATIC REVISIONS TO THE PATRIOT ACT at DickMorris.com

GOOD NEWS FOR TERRORISTS: DEMOCRATIC REVISIONS TO THE PATRIOT ACT
By Dick Morris And Eileen McGann 10.5.2009
If only terrorists would be so accommodating as not to change cell phones, the new curbs on the Patriot Act being pushed by Democrats in Congress would not be so dangerous. But, unfortunately, even a book entitled Terrorism for Dummies [...]

Obama Holds Doctors’ Summit in Effort to Promote Health Care Overhaul – FOXNews

Obama Holds Doctors’ Summit in Effort to Promote Health Care Overhaul
President Obama is meeting with physicians from across the country Monday — at least one from every state — to discuss the urgency of passing sweeping health care reform legislation. 
Oct. 5: President Obama stands with doctors in the Rose Garden of the White House during [...]

There Are No Limits on How Much Lobbyists Can Deliver Through “Bundling” – ABC News

Most Lobbyist Money Going to Dems
There Are No Limits on How Much Lobbyists Can Deliver Through “Bundling”
By Fredreka Schouten
WASHINGTON
Fundraising by Washington lobbyists so far this year has chiefly benefited the Democratic Party, according to a USA TODAY analysis of campaign finance reports available for the first time under a new ethics law.

Fundraising by Washington lobbyists [...]

You Can’t Say That – by Anne Bayefsky – Weekly Standard

You Can’t Say That
At the UN, the Obama administration backs limits on free speech.
by Anne Bayefsky
10/05/2009 12:00:00 AM
The Obama administration has marked its first foray into the UN human rights establishment by backing calls for limits on freedom of expression. The newly-minted American policy was rolled out at the latest session of the UN [...]