$crew You: Senior SEC Employees Spent “Hours a Day” Surfing Internet Porn

ABC News’ Jonathan Karl reports: On a day when President Obama argued for more government regulation over the financial industry, a new government report reveals that some high-level regulators have spent more time looking at porn than policing Wall Street. The Securities and Exchange Commission is supposed to be the sheriff of the financial industry, […]

 



What Was In Jeremy’s Egg?

Love this Easter story – and post it every year. Hope you enjoy it, too. What Was In Jeremy’s Egg? by Ida Mae Kempel Jeremy was born with a twisted body, a slow mind and a chronic, terminal illness that had been slowly killing him all his young life. Still, his parents had tried to […]

 


They Have Voted in Iraq

Fox News reports: Polls closed across Iraq on Sunday as the war-weary population awaits results from the national election that will decide the future of the country’s still-fragile democracy. The election tested the mettle of the country’s shaky security as insurgents killed 31 people across Iraq, unleashing a barrage of mortars intent on disrupting the […]

 



Cheney to O’Biden: Before You Take Credit for Iraq, Thank Bush

Responding to Puff, the Magic Biden’s preposterous remarks from earlier this week in which VP Biden suggested that Iraq could be one of Obama’s “greatest achievements,” former Veep Dick Cheney didn’t pull any punches: Former Vice President Dick Cheney, in an exclusive appearance on ABC News’ “This Week,” offered a sharp critique of the Obama […]

 

Robert Gibbs: KSM Will Be “Tried, Convicted, and Likely Executed,” Will “Meet His Maker”

Via MSDNC: WASHINGTON – Accused Sept. 11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is likely to be executed after being tried and convicted, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Sunday. Gibbs spoke on CNN’s “State of the Union.” The Obama administration has begun looking for places other than the heart of New York City to prosecute Mohammed […]

 


Oliver Stone Plans to Rehab Hitler’s, Stalin’s Reputations – at the Expense of America’s

Ugly liberal moral relativism strikes again: TCA — Director Oliver Stone’s upcoming Showtime documentary miniseries “Secret History of America” promises to put mass murderers such as Stalin and Hitler “in context.” “Stalin, Hitler, Mao, McCarthy — these people have been vilified pretty thoroughly by history,” Stone told reporters at the Television Critics Association’s semi-annual press […]

 



Yes, Liberals – It IS Wrong for the POTUS to Bow at 90 Degrees to Other Heads of State

It never fails that any criticism of President Obama from conservatives is met with the usual “they’re overblowing it/they’re being stupid” cry from some on the left, and this weekend is no different. In response to the legitimate outcry over the President bowing at a clear 90 degree angle to Japanese Emperor Akihito, liberals at […]

 

Why Isn’t President Obama Traveling to Germany for Berlin Wall Fall Anniversary?

Fox News reports that the WH is taking heat over our celebrity President’s decision not to attend the 20th anniversary celebration in Germany for the fall of the Berlin Wall: The president does not plan to travel to Germany to attend the 20th anniversary celebration Monday of the fall of the Berlin Wall, drawing heated […]

 


The Ridiculous Lengths Some Polanksi Supporters Will Go Through To Defend “Their Guy”

Just when you thought you’d seen it all. Check out Patterico’s blog (here and here) for mountains of evidence that the associate producer of a sympathetic Polanksi “documentary” from last year has been posting anonymous comments in several threads Patterico wrote about the topic, comments she wrote in attempts at both defending Polanksi and personally […]

 

RIP, Bill Safire

The NYT reports on the death of Bill Safire, a conservative and former columnists for the so-called “Newspaper of Record”: William Safire, a speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon and a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for The New York Times who also wrote novels, books on politics and a Malaprop’s treasury of articles on language, […]

 

WH Throws David Paterson Under The Bus

Obama has conveyed to Gov. Paterson, through various admin officials, that he doesn’t want Paterson to run for re-election: President Obama has grave concerns that New York Gov. David Paterson cannot win a reelection contest in 2010, and the White House has taken the unusual step of conveying those concerns to the governor himself, several […]

 



The Ultimate Meghan McCain Takedown

If you’re like me, you haven’t paid much attention to Meghan McCain – not during and not post-election, outside of knowing that since the election she seems to have deemed herself as the “unofficial spokeswoman” for the GOP. And why shouldn’t she feel that way? The mainstream media, always on the hunt for self-loathing Republicans, […]

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The War Between the CBO and Obama Admin Over ObamaCare Continues

Via Jake Tapper: In yet more disappointing news for Democrats pushing for health care reform, Douglas W. Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office, offered a skeptical view Friday of the cost savings that could result from preventive care — an area that President Obama and congressional Democrats repeatedly had emphasized as a way health […]

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They Never Stopped Looking

The remains of Navy Capt. Michael “Scott” Speicher, missing since being shot down in action during the first Gulf War, have been found: WASHINGTON – The remains of the first American lost in the Gulf War have been found in Iraq, the military said Sunday, a sorrowful resolution of a nearly two-decade old question about […]

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The Wackiness of Michigan Democrat Politicos

Two stories to draw your attention to on this hazy Sunday evening: First, the Detroit News editorial board Friday slammed State Senate Democrat Mark Brewer for his suggestion about having proposals on the ballot next year that would likely kill what little bit of economy Michigan’s got left: Mark Brewer seems determined to prove that […]

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Quote of the Day

Via Hugh S. at Wizbang: Let’s assume just for fun that AG Holder actually is operating independently. Who will be the actual targets of this investigation? George Bush? Not likely given the protections of executive priveledge. Dick Cheney? Not likely for the same reasons. President Bush’s advisors? Not likely either, for reasons that are protected […]

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Profile of Jenny Sanford

The New York Times has a suprisingly good profile on SC First Lady Jenny Sanford, the “woman scorned” in the Gov. Mark Sanford affair scandal. The piece talks about how she was and is arguably the woman “behind the man” – the one who perhaps had more influence on his decision-making both inside the office […]

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