NBC News: Kagan Will Be Obama’s SCOTUS Nominee To Replace Stevens

Hot off the presses: WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has nominated U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan to serve as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, NBC News’ Pete Williams reported late Sunday night. Kagan, 50, served as the Dean of Harvard Law School from 2003 to 2009. Obama nominated her to serve in […]

 

Delicious: Crist’s Name to Appear on the Bottom of FL Ballot

That’s what happens when you run as an “NPA” (No Party Affiliation). Via CNN (h/t: @mattklewis): According to the Florida Secretary of State’s office, the order that candidates are listed on the state’s ballot is predetermined by law. The winner of the Republican primary will receive top billing, followed by the winner of the Democratic […]

 

$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, […]

 

Should Black People Feel “Uncomfortable” on Majority White NBDNC/MSDNC, Too?

This has absolutely got to be the video of the week: Here’s the recap, via Brent Baker at the MRC: “There aren’t a lot of African-American men at these events,” NBC News reporter Kelly O’Donnell, a white woman, told Darryl Postell, a black man at a Tea Party rally held Thursday in Washington, DC, pressing […]

 

VIDEO: Palin Rips Obama a New One on Foreign Policy at SRLC

Rock on, gal (via Texans For Sarah Palin): Michelle Malkin has more on Sarah Palin’s speech at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, as well as a reminder of President Obama’s nuclear ignorance (something he accused Palin of yesterday). Update: The Right Scoop has the full video of Palin’s speech. Cross-posted from the Sister Toldjah blog.

 


Full Text/Video of President Obama’s Charlotte, NC Speech Today

Read it here. The video: Here’s the complete, extended, verbatim money quote, which I paraphrased in my last post: If this health care bill never existed, if I didn’t do anything about it, we’d actually be a trillion dollars worse off over the long term. But even with the saving we’re getting from health care, […]

 

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 […]

 

The Most Transparent Administration Evah Strikes Again

Submit a FOIA request to the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to release certain agency documents related to the issue of global warming, and what do you get? I simply can’t add anything to this. Unbelievable. (Via ST reader Sev) Cross-posted from the Sister Toldjah blog.

 

A retrospective on the war on Iraq

If you read nothing else today, please read David Bellavia’s poignant piece on Iraq: Our Mission is Finally Accomplished… Anyone Care? It’s mostly directed at the doubters and naysayers, those who didn’t believe the US could and would win there, but it’s also an important read for those of us stateside who never gave up […]

 

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 […]

 

Meltdown at the IPCC: Key claim about Himalayan glaciers to be retracted?

It hasn’t been a great last few months for global warming alarmists. First came ClimgateGate, and now this (via Tim Blair): A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it. Two […]

 

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 […]

 

Obama Acknowledges Success of Iraq Surge – Finally

Something he wouldn’t do last year in a blatant attempt at placating his party’s anti-war base: President Obama did acknowledge the success of the surge in Iraq and used some of its lessons to develop a plan in Afghanistan, the head of Central Command said Sunday. Gen. David Petraeus, who is in charge of military […]

 

Goracle Challenged Once Again on “Inconvenient Truth” Claims

Via Fox News: […] Al Gore’s award-winning global warming film “An Inconvenient Truth,” socked two years ago by a British court ruling that found several errors, is facing additional scrutiny with the release of a new documentary that seeks to rebut many of Gore’s claims. Buoyed by the ruling, two Irish journalists — Phelim McAleer […]

 

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 […]

 

California Prepares To Rip Off Its Taxpayers Some More

And read how the LA Times spins it as “not a tax increase”: Reporting from Los Angeles and Sacramento – Starting Sunday, cash-strapped California will dig deeper into the pocketbooks of wage earners — holding back 10% more than it already does in state income taxes just as the biggest shopping season of the year […]

 

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 […]

 


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 […]

 

Obama’s Approval Ratings Continue to Sink in NC

For my fellow North Carolinians disgusted with the news last fall that North Carolina went to a Democrat nominee for President for the first time since Jimmy Carter – thus now making this once solidly red state now a “battleground state,” here is a welcome bit of news: The latest survey by Public Policy Polling […]

 


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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