
Aw. I almost care, but after a long bloggy week, this is like watching the umpteenth new “scandalous” Lady Gaga video: More than anything else, it just leaves you feeling … weary, and embarrassed for someone who’s trying so hard to shock that it comes off as desperate shtick. And yet I keep posting his crap, [... Read more...

Chris Matthews must really be getting tired of watching the man that used to give him tingles up his leg continue to get crushed in the polls, for on Friday he recommended a serious shakeup in the Obama administration.First, he want's Defense Secretary Robert Gates to be replaced by Hillary Clinton."With her at the Pentagon, he would forge confidence in Middle East policy," said the "Hardball" host. Read more...

It begins. Wait, it gets worse. The highest ranking Democrat in Florida’s state Senate on Thursday endorsed Republican-turned-independent Gov. Charlie Crist in his bid for the U.S. Senate… Lawson, known as the “Dean of the Legislature” for his tenure as the longest serving member of Florida’s state Senate, is the only African-American state senator from North Florida; [... Read more...
TWS contributing editor Charles Krauthammer argues that Obama sees Afghanistan only as a distraction. James K. Glassman: "The Failure of the Liberal Economic Experiment?" "Why Sen. Barbara Boxer will lose to Carly Fiorina." Ground Zero mosque imam receives 'sketchy' tax break. Chris Christie plans "multiple out-of-state campaign stops," Guy Benson reports. Read more...
Can you imagine the cries of police state, racism, incipient fascism and fill-in-your-favorite-epithet if a conservative pundit—let alone a Republican president—proposed the massive insertion of US military forces into American inner cities for law enforcement purposes?But that's precisely what Ed Schultz proposed on his MSNBC show this evening.Ed is apparently unaware that the use of the military for such law-enforcement purposes would raise serious issues under the Posse Comitatus Act. Read more...

Fools. Michael Ramirez has already given one good riff on the White House’s Recovery Summer campaign, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t ripe for further skewering. This time, IBD’s Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist aims his pen at the campaign’s chief salesmen, Barack Obama and Joe Biden. If something smells, well … Weekend at Bernies is [... Read more...
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Well, yes, but... Finally, a Friday news story at which to vent my inner eeyore. The Times is right, of course, that Obama fever has cooled a bit among “Generation O.” How could it not have? As Greenroomer Patrick Ishmael explained last year, between the horrific unemployment rate among young adults and the general political education they’re getting [... Read more...

Give the woman credit -- liberals are seldom this candid about their impulse toward totalitarianism. Usually it takes a bit of prodding before you'll hear that voice of the guard in the gulag. Read more...
MICHAEL CANNON: “National Journal still describes ObamaCare as ‘reform,’ which I submit compromises objectivity. But this is progress. Kudos to them. Read more...
News Type: Newspaper Article Date Published: August 23, 2010 Author: Elyse Siegel In an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press" over the weekend, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey issued a warning that Republicans risk being targeted by the Tea Party if they don't get with the program when it Read more...
News Type: Newspaper Article Date Published: August 23, 2010 Author: Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe First of a three-part seriesFor today's monolithically liberal Democratic Party, every solution to every perceived problem involves more government: more spending of borrowed money to fund new programs -- top-down dictates Read more...

Penalizing success. With the economy sliding during Wreckovery Summer and jobs growth falling behind the number of new workers with each new jobless report, one might think that Democrats would have figured out that they need capital to get back in the game. One way to entice wealth back into economy-expanding service would be to extend the [... Read more...

ABC's Claire Shipman waxed ecstatic over Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday's Good Morning America, as she reported on Mrs. Clinton's efforts in the Middle Eastern peace process. Shipman exclaimed how the Secretary had a "distinct, quite public moment of triumph" in her meetings with leaders from both sides, and noted how Clinton has become an "international political celebrity. Read more...

The massive revolving door between the mainstream media and the Obama administration has spun once again, this time as former White House budget director Peter Orszag signs on as a New York Times op/ed columnist. Orszag is the eighteenth individual (that we know of) to transition between the White House and the mainstream press. He will surely not be the last. That amazingly high number again underscores the ideological similarities between members of the Obama administration and members of the press. Read more...

In Time Magazine Managing Editor Rick Stengel's mind, it's really "sad" that the wall between Israel and the West Bank - intended to keep murderous terrorists in the Palestinian territory - has been a success. Stengel apparently considers Isreali deaths worthwhile if they lead to more productive peace talks. Read more...

What could go wrong? Alternate headline: “Iraqis invent greatest show in history of television.” The show “Put Him in [Camp] Bucca” has drawn numerous protests but has stayed on air throughout the fasting month, broadcasting its “stings” on well-known Iraqi personalities. All of them were ensnared by being invited to the headquarters of the private television station Al Baghdadia [... Read more...
APPLE TV: Greatly Improved, Still Unfinished. “Netflix, Fox, ABC, $0.99 shows, and streaming from iOS devices: Yes, Apple TV just got desirable. But even with the upgrade, there is much room for improvement. Here is how it could get even better. Read more...






