October 2010
WatchMedal of Honor recipient’s family turned away at White House
SPOKANE, Wash. — Family of Medal of Honor recipient Vernon Baker was denied access to the White House’s West Wing on Saturday, a day after the World War II hero was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Baker’s widow, Heidy, and grandson, Vernon Pawlik, 10, were denied entry because the boy was wearing...
Obama charges up young voters at concert/rally -... →
WASHINGTON – Grasping for the electric energy that propelled him to the White House, President Barack Obama whipped up young supporters at a rally Thursday night, where the boisterous crowd tried to shout down any talk of an “enthusiasm gap” among Democrats.
“I’m back here today just in case you’ve forgotten what it feels like to change the country,”...
Pete Rouse, who will replace Emanuel as chief of... →
Few people outside Washington, and not many inside, have heard the name Pete Rouse. The man President Obama will name as his interim White House chief of staff on Friday is a quiet political player who avoids the spotlight. He does not suit up for the Sunday talk shows; there are no stories about him reducing staff members to tears for their slip-ups.
He is in many ways the opposite of...
Bloomberg: Obama ‘not particularly interested in... →
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday gave a mixed but decidedly negative review of President Obama’s economic policies, saying that the reason for joblessness is uncertainty in the private sector caused by government and that the president is uninterested in business.
Bloomberg, speaking at the Atlantic Washington Ideas Forum, also said he favored extending the Bush tax cuts for...
Middle-aged suicides on rise in U.S., study finds... →
(Reuters) - Suicide rates for middle-aged people are edging up — particularly for white men without college degrees — and a combination of poor health and a poor economy may be driving it, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Middle-aged people usually have a relatively low risk for suicide as they seek to support their families, but baby boomers are bucking this trend,...
GPS and the Police State We Inhabit: Living in... →
By John W. Whitehead
Voicing his discontent with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling in United States v. Pineda-Moreno, which declared the warrantless use of a GPS tracking device to be constitutional, Chief Judge Alex Kozinski warned, “We are taking a giant leap into the unknown, and the consequences for ourselves and our children may be dire and irreversible. Some day, soon, we may...
“The Ultimate First-Aid Manual Treating injuries miles from the ER is an...”
– Backpacker Magazine - The Ultimate First-Aid Manual
Water Use in Southwest Heads for a Day of... →
The Southern Nevada Water Authority is tunneling under Lake Mead to install an intake valve that could continue operating until water levels dropped below 1,000 feet.
By FELICITY BARRINGER
LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, Nev. — A once-unthinkable day is looming on the Colorado River.
Barring a sudden end to the Southwest’s 11-year drought, the distribution of the river’s dwindling...
U.S. Mint says has run out on Buffalo gold coins -... →
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Mint has run out of a type of highly pure gold coin it had been selling amid record high prices of gold.
The mint said it will not stock more of the 1-ounce, 24-karat American Buffalo bullion coins.
“The United States Mint has depleted its inventory of 2010 American Buffalo One Ounce Gold Bullion Coins,” the Mint said in a statement, seen by Reuters...
Cheat Sheet for Undecided Voters | Doug Ross @... →
Please print out a few copies and hand ‘em to any undecided voters you know.
Harry Reid or Sharron Angle: Who's the Extremist?... →
Harry Reid likes to paint his opponent in this year’s Senate race — conservative Republican Sharron Angle — as some sort of extremist because she believes in the Constitution. But Sharron Angle didn’t nationalize the health care system against the will of the people. She didn’t put America on a trajectory of economic ruin with unprecedented “Stimulus”...
The New World Order | Newgeography.com →
Tribal ties—race, ethnicity, and religion—are becoming more important than borders.
For centuries we have used maps to delineate borders that have been defined by politics. But it may be time to chuck many of our notions about how humanity organizes itself. Across the world a resurgence of tribal ties is creating more complex global alliances. Where once diplomacy defined borders, now...
My Way News - AP sources: Emanuel leaving White... →
By DON BABWIN
CHICAGO (AP) - Rahm Emanuel will resign as White House chief of staff on Friday and will begin his campaign for Chicago mayor by meeting with voters in the city on Monday, two people familiar with Emanuel’s plans said.
The two people, who spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity because they did not want to pre-empt Emanuel’s announcement, said he will return...
Ecuador declares emergency as police protest,... →
Quito, Ecuador (CNN) — Ecuador’s government teetered on the verge of collapse Thursday, as national police took to the streets of Quito, the capital, and physically attacked the president over what police say was the cancellation of bonuses and promotions.
The government declared a one-week state of emergency Thursday afternoon and put the military in charge of security. The...
Obama 52%, Clinton 37% for 2012 Democratic... →
Clinton’s support highest among conservative, less well-educated Democrats
PRINCETON, NJ — If Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were to challenge President Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2012, she would currently have the support of 37% of Democrats nationally, while 52% would support Obama.
NBC’s “Meet the Press” host David Gregory...
McAllen Man Shot and Likely Killed on Falcon Lake... →
ZAPATA Texas - Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez, Jr. tells CHANNEL 5 NEWS armed pirates shot at a McAllen couple on Falcon Lake this afternoon. The husband and wife were jetskiing near Old Guerrero.
One their way back to shore, pirates in a boat pulled up next to them and started shooting at them. The husband was hit, possibly in the head. The woman tried to save him and ended up being at shot as...
US Is 'Practically Owned' by China: Analyst - CNBC →
The US supremacy as the top world economy will end sooner than many people believe, so gold is a better investment than the dollar despite it hitting a new record, Tom Winnifrith, CEO at financial services firm Rivington Street Holdings, told CNBC.com Monday.
The US trade deficit and debt continue to grow and the authorities are reluctant to address the problem, preferring to print money,...
Chinese teen allegedly beaten to death at camp →
A Chinese teenager was allegedly beaten to death at a boot camp for troubled youths that his mother had lured him to attend by promising he was going to study IT, state media said Thursday.
Chen Shi, 16, died two days after enrolling in Beiteng School in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan province, having been beaten up when he refused to run during training, the Beijing Times...
How Stuxnet is Scaring the Tech World Half to... →
A complex computer virus and its imminent threat.
The computer worm Stuxnet broke out of the tech underworld and into the mass media this week. It’s an amazing story: Stuxnet has infected roughly 45,000 computers. Sixty percent of these machines happen to be in Iran. Which is odd. What is odder still is that Stuxnet is designed specifically to attack a computer system using software from...
September 2010
My Way News - Child nutrition bill stalls in House →
By MARY CLARE JALONICK
WASHINGTON (AP) - First lady Michelle Obama’s campaign for healthier school lunches has stalled in Congress after anti-hunger groups and more than 100 Democrats protested the use of food stamp dollars to pay for it.
(Here’s a better shot of Michelle Obama in the new White House kitchen garden today. She’s breaking ground for the new vegetable...
Compare and Contrast: Karl Marx' 10 Point Program... →
According to Karl Marx, the following ten elements were requisite conditions for “a transition from capitalism to communism.” 1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. Washington Examiner: The great Obama land grab: “White House officials have been meeting quietly with environmental groups to map out government plans for acquiring...
Hot Air » A thrill-killing in Afghanistan? →
by Allahpundit
I want you to see the clip because this will be a very big story very soon, but I don’t know what to say about it that isn’t completely obvious. No one’s been convicted of anything yet, a lesson worth bearing in mind after the early rush to judgment about the guilt of Marines charged in the Haditha incident. No one’s claiming that this is anything but an extreme outlier in...
Rank and file Democratic congressman’s brother... →
What, me worry??
Democratic Rep. Russ Carnahan of Missouri is a rank-and-file Democrat. According to OpenCongress.org, he has voted with the Democratic Party 99 percent of the time since he assumed office in 2005, and was among those who consistently espoused the merits of the 2009 stimulus package.
He has, in other words, been a good reliable Democrat for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and...
My Way News - NKorea prints photo of heir apparent... →
By KELLY OLSEN
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea published a photo in state media Thursday of leader Kim Jong Il’s youngest son and heir apparent Kim Jong Un in the first official image of him released.
A photo of a group of senior Workers’ Party officials was published in Thursday’s edition of the authoritarian regime’s main Rodong Sinmun newspaper.
An article...
“FOXNEWS O’REILLY 3,154,000
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– CABLE NEWS RACE TUES., SEPT. 28, 2010
New Zeal: Terror Suspects were Active in Obama's... →
On September 24, about 20 FBI agents spent most of the day searching the Logan Square residence of Chicago activists Stephanie Weiner and her husband, Joseph Iosbaker, reports the Chicago Tribune.
Working for Willie Delgado In 1998 the duo worked as leaders of the Chicago New Party, alongside Frankie Torres, Deborah McCoy, Jose Kader, Bob Palmer, Rafael Rodriguez (Board of Directors,...
President Obama Says: "We achieve salvation... →
At an event in Albuquerque New Mexico today, a woman in the crowd asked President Obama why he is a Christian. In response, President Obama said the following: (this is a rush transcript )
President Obama: “I’m a Christian by choice. My family didn’t … frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew, but she didn’t...
“Obamania: Is the President Putting His Words in Others’ Mouths?”
– Obamania: Is the President Putting His Words in Others’ Mouths? | The Blaze
WatchBeck Backlash: One Nation Rally Union Coalitions Busing in Astro Turf Members to Show Up Beck & Tea Party
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As Muslim claim lingers, Obama talks up his faith... →
The Obamas on their way to church on Sunday for the first time in five months. They attended St. John’s Episcopal, across Lafayette Park from the White House. | Charles Dharapak / AP
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is getting more public about his Christianity.
First he raised his Christian faith at a White House news conference this month. Then he went to church for the...
Obama: GOP hasn't been honest with Americans -... →
DES MOINES, Iowa – Arguing doggedly against returning Republicans to power, President Barack Obama told Iowa voters Wednesday that the GOP has been dishonest about what needs to be done to revive the economy and restore middle-class dreams.
“We can’t pretend that there are shortcuts,” the president said, addressing about 70 voters in a grassy backyard.
“When you...
Barack Chavez Obama doesn't want you watching... →
Last May, Mark Levin — the President of Landmark Legal Foundation — stated that President Barack Obama was the “closest thing to a dictator” this country had ever seen. The list of horribles included his naked attempts to silence critics, his encouragement of voter intimidation, his support of rampant vote fraud, the implicit campaign to encourage illegal immigration, and...
Hot Air » Rolling Stone’s tongue-bath interview... →
by Ed Morrissey
I know, I know, it’s Rolling Stone – but even that has at least a modicum of journalistic credibility, such as their evisceration of Barack Obama’s response to the Gulf spill that was both informative and challenging. Of course, that story got written by a reporter. This interview got conducted by the boss, Jann Wenner, who obviously feels a need to intervene in Obama’s...
'Credible But Not Specific' Threat of New... →
Officials in Europe, US on High Alert for Commando-Style Raids After Capture of Suspected German Terrorist
US and European officials said Tuesday they have detected a plot to carry out a major, coordinated series of commando-style terror attacks in Britain, France, Germany and possibly the United States.
A senior US official said that while there is a “credible” threat, no ...
Obama fires up supporters at University of... →
President Barack Obama served as the closing act Tuesday for a rock-n-roll, fire-up-the-troops extravaganza on the UW-Madison campus — a giant rally meant to recapture the excitement of the campaign trail and bridge the so-called “enthusiasm gap” among younger, Democratic voters.
Obama took the stage at Library Mall to a raucous crowd, following a performance by musician Ben...
Hot Air » We are paying attention →
by Doctor Zero
The Left was unable to paint the Tea Party as anarchists, violent lunatics, or racists. The feeble attempt to suggest they should really be focusing their ire at George W. Bush or the Republican Party fizzled into embarrassed silence. Like a clumsy kid going deep into the dinnerware department to catch a Nerf football pass in a department store, John Kerry lumbered to the...
Bank of America Employee Forced to Wear Bomb and... →
FBI Hunting for Three Suspects, Says Explosive Device Tested Positive for ‘Bomb Making Materials’
Authorities are hunting for three men who strapped a bomb onto a Bank of America employee and forced him to withdraw a large amount of cash from the branch where he worked as a teller.
The employee was led away from the bank by authorities after the explosives that had been strapped to...
Hot Air » Great news: UN to appoint envoy to... →
by Allahpundit
A fun microcosm of the UN in action: Not only are they willfully embarrassing themselves, but should the day ever come when an envoy is needed, their plan will go straight out the window as nations jockey furiously for position in the E.T. receiving line.
Let’s face it. If they landed tomorrow and said “Take me to your leader,” they’d be taken to Obama. And then he’d take...
U.S. is working to ease wiretaps on the internet |... →
WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone.
Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications — including...
GAO: U.S. ports still vulnerable to nuclear 9/11 |... →
The nation’s ports and border crossings remain vulnerable to a nuclear 9/11 despite a $4 billion investment since 2005 by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on a number of programs aimed at preventing nuclear smuggling around the world, the General Accountability Office (GAO) found in a recent report.
The report said DHS has failed to develop a comprehensive strategy to defend...
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Via the Right Scoop. Essential background here.
Hot Air » Quotes of the day
Losing Hope: Confessions of an Obama Supporter |... →
Greg Smith used to campaign for Barack Obama full-time. Now he needs convincing that things will get better. (Photo: NY Post)
Greg Smith, 46 from New York, has supported Barack Obama since the now-president announced his bid for the White House in 2007. But three years later the diehard Obamaniac has a sober admission: he’s losing hope.
In 2007, the New York Post featured Smith’s story —...
Kathleen Parker - Can a president lead with... →
Question of the day: Why do presidents give the White House keys to Bob Woodward?
I ask this with all due deference, respect, hat in hand, cape over puddle and other sundry gestures owed by ink-stained wretches like me to the Most Famous Journalist on the Planet.
Through several administrations, Woodward has become president ex officio — or at least reporter in chief, a human tape...
Only 20% Blame Home Foreclosures on Unfair Lending... →
Over half of Americans know someone who has lost their home because they could not pay their mortgage, but just 20% believe that when banks foreclose on a home, it’s generally due to unfair lending practices.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 59% of adults say instead that the foreclosures are due to people buying a home they couldn’t afford. Twenty-one...
Stuxnet In Pictures: The Cyber-Weapon Said to... →
*** Read this even if you don’t want to, you know you are… :) And thanks to Doug Ross for this.
A programmable logic controller (PLC) is a specialized, self-contained computer system used in manufacturing and processing plants around the world. Most PLCs utilize a diagrammatic programming language called “ladder logic”, not dissimilar to traditional flow charts, to...
Bed Bug Found at Bloomingdale's in Manhattan →
MYFOX NEW YORK STAFF REPORT
MYFOXNY.COM - New York’s bed bug problem has struck one of the most famous department stores in the city: Bloomingdale’s. The retailer released a statement Friday saying that one single bed bug was found inside its flagship store on East 59th Street in Manhattan.
“We identified it and removed it promptly. We conducted a thorough search of the...
Guantanamo Bay rations detainees¿ ice cream... →
Detainees’ diets at Guantanamo Bay have been a controversial issue for some time and now the U.S. prison is said to be rationing ice cream.
The frozen dessert is allegedly being tightly measured, with only one ice cream allowed for each of its 147 detainees.
Journalist for The Miami Herald, Carol Rosenberg, photographed a refrigerator at Guantanamo, with two signs reading ‘DETAINEE FOOD...
Chapman throws fastest pitch ever recorded - MLB -... →
SAN DIEGO – Aroldis Chapman(notes) was summoned from the bullpen one batter too late to make a difference in the game. No matter. The 22-year-old Cincinnati Reds left-hander made do by making history Friday night, throwing the fastest pitch recorded in a major league game, a 105-mph fastball.
Ardolis Chapman’s 25 pitches on Friday night (each registering 100 mph or faster, including his...
US: Inverted Philippine flag was `honest mistake'... →
MANILA, Philippines – The U.S. government said Sunday it made an “honest mistake” when it displayed an inverted Philippine flag — which wrongfully signified that the Southeast Asian nation was in a state of war — in a meeting hosted by President Barack Obama.
The Philippine flag was displayed upside down behind President Benigno Aquino III when leaders of the Association of ...
