January 5, 2009 – 4:26 pm
Not the most original of headlines, granted, but, gotta love the Change President-elect Barack Obama has selected Leon E. Panetta, the former congressman and White House chief of staff, to take over the Central Intelligence Agency, an organization that Mr. Obama criticized during the campaign for using interrogation methods he decried as torture, Democratic officials […]
January 5, 2009 – 7:52 am
Know what’s great? Being told you can’t use the parking spot you paid for Metro plans to ban public automobile parking at four Metrorail stations on Inauguration Day to accommodate employees and charter buses. Reserved parking permits will not be in effect Jan 20. “If you think you are going to pull into your usual […]
January 2, 2009 – 9:14 am
Let’s see: Climahysterics and Bush haters around the USA and the world have whined about Bush pulling the US out of the Kyoto Protocol, which we were never in to start with, of course, and now we have one of the Climahysterics favorite loons saying this Current approaches to deal with climate change are ineffectual, […]
December 31, 2008 – 9:23 am
After years of a constant Credentialed Media drumbeat of how bad the war deaths have been, particularly in Iraq, while mostly avoiding mention of the decreases caused by The Surge, now, with 21 days left with Dubya as President, they want to tell us how great things have gone because of The Surge. Perhaps some […]
December 31, 2008 – 7:53 am
Where’s Barry? If they had to live next door to a celebrity, American adults would most like to be neighbors with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and chat show host Oprah Winfrey. But trouble-prone pop star Britney Spears would be the worst celebrity neighbour, according to a survey published on Tuesday of the most and least […]
December 30, 2008 – 3:31 pm
After years of the Credentialed Clueless Media discussing the vacationers at Guantanamo Bay with a plaintive cry, hey, Barry’s a comin’, maybe we should reconsider President-elect Barack Obama vowed on the campaign trail to shut down the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay. But he never said what he would do with the prisoners there. […]
December 30, 2008 – 7:55 am
Poor Barry. Just trying to take a long, long vacation, play a few rounds, and those darned lobbyists keep bugging him. Can you imagine the way the press would have treated Bush in 2000, or, heck, McCain had he not blown the election, if he was taking a long vacation as there was a financial meltdown […]
December 29, 2008 – 3:16 pm
And he doesn’t like it The media glare, the constant security appendage and the sheer production that has become a morning jog or a hankering for an ice cream cone – it’s been closing in on Barack Obama for some time. Now the president-elect appears increasingly conscious of the confines of his new position, bristling […]
December 28, 2008 – 3:24 pm
Climahysterics will get hysterical and will call Christopher Booker at The Telegraph all sorts of bad names. He goes back through his columns and comes to the conclusion that 2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved The first, on May 21, headed “Climate change threat to Alpine ski resorts” , reported that the […]
December 28, 2008 – 9:31 am
Haaretz has a story up regarding the Israeli plans to beat the snot out of Hamas, which is driving sites such as Firedoglaketo their typical unhingedness (not to mention the claims of a mosque and jihadi TV station being hit. Poor babies). Let’s look. Disinformation, secrecy and lies: How the Gaza offensive came about Long-term […]
