Category Archives: Current Affairs

Will Iran Be Obama’s Test?

In the comments, Dave points out that the crisis that Joe Biden was referring to will probably be Iran and an attack on Israel, and the “unpopular response” will be Barry ignoring the situation and doing nothing, except, perhaps, some strong words and a complaint to the the United Nations, which has been oh so […]

What’s Up With ACORN? Ex-Workers And John Boehner

Senor Boehner House Republican leader John Boehner on Wednesday urged President Bush to block all federal funds to a grass-roots community group that has been accused of voter registration fraud. “It is evident that ACORN is incapable of using federal funds in a manner that is consistent with the law,” Boehner, R-Ohio, wrote Bush, saying […]

How’s ACORN Doing In Pa.?

It’s business as usual Delaware County (Pa.) authorities yesterday arrested a former employee of the activist group ACORN on felony theft and forgery charges for allegedly submitting dozens of phony voter-registration applications. Jemar Barksdale, 34, of Chester, while employed by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, submitted 18 fraudulent forms using the names of […]

Oh, Good, Another “Southerners Are Racists” Story

And from the same trash paper that published a screed by Charlie Brooker calling for the assassination of W if he won in 2004. Beer drinkers for Obama: Many southerners are leaving behind the region’s racist history and embracing the idea of a black president I was headed into my local grocer in Durham, North […]

Gee, Maybe We Should Use The Words Jihad And Islamist

Uh huh, 7 years later, and some sanity might be prevailing A U.S. military “Red Team” charged with challenging conventional thinking says that words like “jihad” and “Islamist” are needed in discussing 21st-century terrorism and that federal agencies that avoid the words soft-pedaled the link between religious extremism and violent acts. “We must reject the […]

Surrender Monkey Friday: There Is No Lefty Voter Fraud

The Surrender Monkey has a thrilling up his leg today. He loves that a blogger who has whined about election fraud and similar issues for years is now doing his damndest to label all the ACORN issues as no big deal and defend all the registration issues by ACORN. And he is doing it in […]

National Journal: McCain Affair Story Journalistic Malpractice

You remember the New York Times “just wondering if McCain had an affair” story from February, right? It got picked up by all the other news sources immediately after. Let’s refresh In one of the most sensational stories of the presidential campaign, The New York Timespublished a 3,000-word, front-page article in February suggesting that a […]

If Jennifer Brunner Had Done Her Job In The First Place….

What kind of cheese should we send to the New York Times? Court Ruling May Impede Thousands of Ohio Voters More than 200,000 registered Ohio voters may be blocked from casting regular ballots on Election Day because of a federal appeals court decision on Tuesday requiring the disclosure of lists of voters whose names did […]

Court Reversal In Ohio ACORN Case, Barry Calls Distraction

Of course, we have all heard the Obamazombies talking points: bad voter registrations are not voter fraud, because they haven’t voted yet. It’s not disenfranchisement, because no one is being stopped from voting. So, they see nothing wrong with all the fraud going on through ACORN. Perhaps we should just call it election fraud, to […]

ACORN Under Investigation In Ohio

But, but, but, they are such a good organization, and the fraud is so little!!!!! Election officials in Ohio’s most populous county have called on the prosecuting attorney to investigate alleged voter registration fraud by the community organizing group ACORN. The bipartisan Cuyahoga County Board of Elections voted unanimously Monday to ask prosecutor Bill Mason […]

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