Author: Sister Toldjah

Read this: TEHRAN, Iran — Students disrupted a speech by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday at a major university in Tehran, setting fire to photographs of him and throwing firecrackers. The protesters chanted “death to the dictator” and demanded the resignation of Alireza Rahai, a conservative and the chancellor of the institution, Amirkabir University, the […]

The Politico reports today that things aren’t looking good for Norm Coleman in his bid to defeat liberal laughingstock Al Franken to retain his seat in the Senate: Seven months after Minnesota’s Senate election, the state’s highest court hasn’t reached a decision but election law experts agree: Norm Coleman doesn’t have a prayer. These experts […]

When last we left you, Greg Sargent was getting it all wrong on the differences between primary campaigning and general election campaigning – in essence, he pretended there were no differences. I corrected him here. I’m back to do it again, this time over the firestorm created over the word “empathy” which was not only […]

Hey ya’ll. Hope everyone has had a nice Memorial Day weekend so far. I’ve been honoring the sacrifices our soldiers have made by exercising my right to free speech in debating at a political forum over whether or not women being banned from being able to go out in public topless is “unconstitutional” because it […]

The Reagan White House’s political director Jeffrey Lord pens a piece in today’s Philly Inquirer that talks about how past predictions of the demise of the GOP have proven to be way off (via ST reader GWR): A former GOP presidential nominee claims conservatives “want to drive all the moderates and liberals out,” which would […]

Via The Raleigh N&O: John Edwards marched toward the White House in 2006 seeking an arsenal of millions collected a little at a time. He also gathered more ammunition, about $11 million, collected in larger chunks by nonprofit groups conceived and operated to further his aspirations. He also courted a girlfriend. Federal investigators are trying […]

There’s been a lot of talk lately, mainly amongst left wing hypocrites and Beltway conservative uptight types about how the right has supposedly engaged in “rampant, uncontrolled hate speech” since Barack Obama has been elected. Will they start examining their own backyard now that one of their most prominent spokespeople, Frank Rich, has taken the […]

Sigh … PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago — President Obama endured a 50-minute diatribe from socialist Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega that lashed out at a century of what he called terroristic U.S. aggression in Central America and included a rambling denunciation of the U.S.-imposed isolation of Cuba’s Communist government. Obama sat mostly unmoved during the speech […]

I don’t care much for SNL, but they pegged Chris Matthews’ hero-worshipping of Barack Obama accurately with a skit they did last night in which they had Matthews imagining the President in a loincloth. Brent Baker has the details here. For recent quotes of Matthews’ salvating over Obama, click here. Cross-posted from the Sister Toldjah […]

The race between Jim Tedisco (R) and Scott Murphy (D) for the NY-20 seat (formerly held by Kirsten Gillibrand, who was appointed to replace Hillary Clinton in the Senate), has become – over the last couple of weeks – a “dead heat“: NEW YORK, March 27 — The only competitive House race in the nation […]

Another teleprompter gaffe, brought to you by our Teleprompter President. Petty? Not when one considers the incredible amount of flak Bush took from liberal elites (and for that matter, not so elite liberals) over his tendency to stumble over his words, which they in turn used to suggest was one of the reasons why so […]

The NY Post’s Kyle Smith has a hilarious piece caricaturing the media’s favorite “conservatives” … essentially “conservatives” who don’t like authentic conservatives. A snippet: Dear Mainstream Media: I’m a conservative who believes that other conservatives are fat, drug-stuffed, money-grubbing warthogs like Rush Limbaugh, or scary inbred backwoods retards like Sarah Palin. So can I please […]

Good news: Former first lady Barbara Bush was transfered out of ICU yesterday and into a private room, two days after having heart surgery to replace her aortic valve. The video below is from a news segment NBC’s Today Show did on Mr. and Mrs. Bush’s special relationship. It includes old and new footage, the […]

Via the BBC: Detainees being held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan cannot use US courts to challenge their detention, the US says. The justice department ruled that some 600 so-called enemy combatants at Bagram have no constitutional rights. Most have been arrested in Afghanistan on suspicion of waging a terrorist war against the US. […]

The NY Post reports that at the same time President Obama was pushing to get the stimulus passed by the end of the week last week – which meant that not one member of Congress had the time to fully read the bill they were voting on – he was planning a three day Valentine’s […]

Saturday Night Live is ripping Democrats over the stimulus plan: Now, once you get done laughing at that, Jack Dunphy at Patterico’s has a flashback video of Milton Friedman in 1979 laying the law down to Phil Donahue on the merits of capitalism and free markets. That one will get your motor runnin’. We need […]

Fox News reports that President Obama is talking about how many American troops will be home from Iraq by the next Super Bowl: A “substantial” number of the 140,000 troops in Iraq will be able to return home by next year’s Super Bowl, President Obama said in an interview on Sunday before Super Bowl XLIII […]

Maybe the AP’s been reading Newsbusters, the blog that was the first to notice the hypocrisy between how the AP treated Bush’s 2005 inauguration and Obama’s. AP writer Matt Apuzzo makes up for lost time in a piece published today with the headline “Obama hosting pricey party in a dicey economy” (via Wizbang): WASHINGTON – […]

Isn’t this sweet? The story of Barack Obama’s journey to the presidency. This 144-page, hard-cover, full-color book collects the best writing and photographs from McClatchy’s Washington Bureau and its 30 newspapers. It presents one of the most compelling portraits ever of this unprecedented election. Reserve your copy today! The book’s title comes from Obama’s speech […]

A federal investigation into a company that did business with the state of New Mexico has spurred Obama’s pick for Commerce Sec. Bill Richardson to withdraw his nomination. And from the IHT, word on a possible quid pro quo scandal involving Obama’s nominee for Sec. of State Hillary Clinton: WASHINGTON: A developer in New York […]

I was in the middle of a leisurely look at this morning’s sales papers, and as it is every week, a Parade magazine was included with the sales papers and coupons. This week’s magazine featured a “best and worst of 2008” year in review of sorts, and I was disappointed but not surprised to see […]

Michael W at QandO dissects the NYT’s hit piece here. They’ve done a “blame Bush for the subprime meltdown” piece like this once before, but this one takes it to knew heights (or should I say lows?). No matter what anyone’s feelings are right now for Bush after the auto bailout he announced Friday, there’s […]

The Reuters reports on the last visit the President has made to Iraq before his second term ends (via Memeorandum): BAGHDAD (Reuters) – President George W. Bush made an unannounced farewell visit to Baghdad on Sunday, just weeks before he leaves office and bequeaths the unpopular Iraq war to President-elect Barack Obama. Bush flew secretly […]

Scared Monkeys has an awesome tribute to the anniversary of Pearl Harbor. It’s a day that, like 9-11, we should never forget – even though unfortunately all too many have. Randy Barnett, in Oahu, HI this week, has more thoughts. God bless our veterans, and for those who passed on that day and for those […]

Apparently he wasn’t kidding when he said he thought it was his “job” to help the Obama adminstration succeed: HARRISBURG, Pa. – A Pennsylvania Democratic party leader says MSNBC pundit Chris Matthews may be considering a run for U.S. Senate in 2010. The Patriot-News of Harrisburg reports Matthews met with state party leaders this past […]

I wrote briefly on Friday about the decision of an elementary school’s students to rename their school “Barack Obama Elementary.” Little did I know that the renaming of this school was only the tip of the iceberg: (CBS/AP) A school on Long Island has been renamed Barack Obama Elementary School in honor of his historic […]

In trying to place the blame for California’s Prop 8, which bans gay marriage in California, on Mormons, the NYT completely ignores contrary evidence that it was the huge number of Obama voters in CA who really tipped the scale in passing the controversial measure. In particular, black voters in CA voted 70%-30% in favor […]

Oh brother. Get used to fluff like this coming from columnists (and mainstream media news journalists) for the next four years. That column, by the way, appeared under a huge image of Obama yesterday on the front page of the second of two multi-page special sections published my local paper The Charlotte Observer – a […]

He’s used messianic-esque language throughout the campaign to spur his supporters on to “believe” yet here in the final hours of the campaign he and his higher-ups are breaking it to his followers gently that the “change” he wants to implement will take time: Barack Obama’s senior advisers have drawn up plans to lower expectations […]

If you’re like me, you wake up every morning, get ready for your day, and among other things you have on your mind, you think about the prospect of an Obama presidency. You think about what the next four years could be like in terms of policy, in terms of the direction he – along […]