June 2012
Walmart Caves to Van Jones, Drops ALEC Support →
The coordinated leftist attempt to destroy the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) over ALEC’s support for voter ID and “stand your ground” laws reached a new low today when Walmart, the biggest retailer in America, suspended its membership in the group. Liberal groups like Media Matters for America and its close associate, the Van Jones-run Color of Change, working in coordination with...
MSNBC Host: Sex Selective Abortion Constitutional →
Read more at Townhall.
“How to Tell When ObamaCare Takes a Beating in the Kaiser Poll: the Headline Is...”
– Consider these charts from the latest Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll, released today.
Even when pollsters tell the public that ObamaCare is “reform,” the public still doesn’t like it.
How to Tell When ObamaCare Takes a Beating in the Kaiser Poll: the Headline Is about Something Else | Cato...
“Warren admits listing herself as Native American at Harvard, Penn”
– Looks like the stonewalling strategy has failed for Elizabeth Warren, and now more questions about her honesty and integrity will arise. The Boston Globe reports today that Warren has reversed her earlier position of ignorance on her listing as a Native American, admitting that she listed herself...
CBO: Obama stimulus may have cost as much as $4.1... →
The Congressional Budget Office in a new report:
When [the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act] was being considered, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that it would increase budget deficits by $787 billion between fiscal years 2009 and 2019. CBO now estimates that the total impact over the 2009–2019 period will amount to about...
Video: Famous Chicago political organizer …... →
by Ed Morrissey
This sums up perfectly the first month of the general election campaign. The team with the community-organizing experience thought they could secretly arrange a rally in their opponent’s home state to attack his record as governor, led by the chief organizing genius of the campaign. David Axelrod got a large, unpleasant lesson in Chapter One of This Ain’t 2008 Any More:
Loud...
House rejects bill penalizing doctors for... →
The House on Thursday rejected a Republican bill that would impose fines and prison terms on doctors who perform abortions for the sole purpose of controlling the gender of the child, a practice known as sex-selective abortion.
The Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA), H.R. 3541, was defeated in a 246-168 vote. While that’s a clear majority of the House, Republicans called up the bill...
Why Is Trump Bigger News Than, Say, Jon Corzine? -... →
My views on Donald Trump are clear.
But I’m rather mystified how “The Donald” being “The Donald” somehow represents a major issue or crisis for the Romney campaign.
The AP: “Trump overshadows Romney with ‘birther’ talk”
Reuters: “Trump birther remarks overshadow Romney appearance”
The New York Times: “Romney, on His Big Day, Finds Himself Upstaged”
That’s a lot of overshadowing,...
America Lost 129,000 Millionaires in 2011 - U.S.... →
America’s millionaire population declined last year for the first time since the financial crisis, according to a new report.
The population of U.S. millionaire households (households with investible assets of $1 million or more) fell to 5,134,000 from 5,263,000 in 2011, according to The Boston Consulting Group’s Global Wealth study.
Total private wealth in North America fell by 0.9 percent, to...
May 2012
Charges: Grandma Shoplifter Learned From TV Show... →
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Taking tips from the show “Cops,” an Anoka woman allegedly stole groceries and other items from a Kmart so that she could bake with her grandson, according to a complaint filed in Anoka County.
Police said Carla Jean Jellison, 50, of Anoka, has been charged with one count of theft and one count of possession of shoplifting gear, as she was caught with her purse being lined...
Obama Gaffe Ignites Firestorm in Poland | The Blog... →
Widespread anger erupted in Poland
over President Obama’s use of the term “Polish Death Camps” to describe the Nazi concentration camps in the country, raising the possibility that Polish anger over both the remark and Obama’s failure to apologize to Poland’s leaders will percolate to Polish voters in the United States.
Polish American voters, some of whom may already be unhappy with Obama over...
Blamer in Chief? | The Weekly Standard →
At the unveiling of former President George W. Bush’s official portrait at the White House this afternoon, President Barack Obama joined his predecessor and their wives in delivering brief (and at times nice, cordial, and funny) remarks. But there was a seemingly out of place moment during the ceremony when Obama seemed to veer into reiterating his frequent trope that he inherited a bad...
WatchGeorge W. Bush Makes The White House Laugh
The former president dropped many jokes during portrait ceremony. George W. Bush jokingly referenced our nation’s first president, George Washington, saying, “It [the collection] now starts and ends with a ‘George W.’” He also expressed his thanks to the White House staff for making it a home for his family during his presidency.
(via George W. Bush...
WatchBloomberg On Soda Ban: “We’re Simply Forcing You To Understand”
“We’ve got to do something. Everybody is wringing their hands saying we’ve got to do something. Well, here is a concrete thing. You can still buy large bottles in stores. But in a restaurant, 16 ounces is the maximum that they would be able to serve in one cup. If you want to order two cups of the...
Morgan Student Admits To Eating Missing Joppatowne... →
JOPPATOWNE, Md. (WJZ/BALTIMORE SUN/AP) — A Morgan State University student who lived in the same home as a missing Joppatowne man now feared dead was charged with first-degree murder after parts of a human body were found inside the house and in a nearby dumpster. Now the suspect has admitted to eating portions of the man’s body parts, including his heart and brain.
Alexander Kinyua, 21, is...
Here He Goes Again: New York City Mayor Michael... →
If Mayor Michael Bloomberg has his way you may not be able to get a Slurpee this size ever again in New York City. (Photo: CBS 2)
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Every single menu in New York City could soon be getting a major overhaul if Mayor Michael Bloomberg has his way.
The man behind calorie counts is set to announce a new public health initiative to battle obesity, taking aim at super-sized...
Doug Ross @ Journal: Civility: Progressive kook... →
The word disgusting doesn’t begin to describe the actions of these progressive loons — especially seeing as how we’re just hours after Memorial Day.
The scene: a town-hall event for Rep. Allen West. At the behest of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz or her ilk, progressives make a make a habit of targeting West because they hate the Constitution and they despise America*. They know...
Three New State Polls Show Peril for Obama | The... →
New polling by NBC and Marist puts President Obama and Mitt Romney in a statistical dead heat in three battleground states that Obama won in 2008 – Nevada, Iowa and Colorado.
The results have to be cause for grave concern at Obama reelection headquarters in Chicago.
Winning these three states are essential for Obama if he loses on other battlegrounds that will be difficult for him, particularly...
Obama Schedule || May 31, 2012 – George W. Bush... →
9:30 am || Receives the Presidential Daily Briefing 12:10 pm || Lunch with Mrs. Obama, George W. Bush and Laura Bush; Red Room 1:25 pm || Attends official unveiling of portraits of George W. Bush and Laura Bush; East Room 5:00 pm || Meets with Treasury Secretary Geithner
Chinese Commuters Floating on Invisible Bicycles →
Floating is a series of manipulated photographs by Chinese photographer Zhao Huasen showing people in China riding around on invisible bicycles.
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WatchWoman survives skydiving mishap
It is the latest viral video and it’s enough to make you cringe- an eighty year old’s attempt at skydiving that went terribly wrong. The video shows her dangling from a harness and it’s uncertain how things will end. It started as a lifelong dream. Laverne Everett wanted to go skydiving. She decided to do it for her 80th birthday. But what...
Stance On Gay Marriage May Cost Rev. His Church «... →
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) – The reverend of a St. Paul church says he needs to raise $200,000 to pay off a church loan after most of his followers left because of his support for gay marriage.
The Rev. Oliver White runs Grace Community United Church of Christ in St. Paul. The 69-year-old said he needs to raise the money by June 30.
“We lost our income when we lost a number of people from our...
Internet punishes Romney for believing in... →
A photo of the White House taken with an iPhone and the application “With Mitt” from the campaign of Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP/GettyImages / May 30, 2012)
The Internet just became Mitt Romney’s worst enemy.
The Republican presidential nominee released a new iPhone app Tuesday called “With Mitt,” which lets you take...
Project Aims to Create Tiny Robot Shoulder Pal... →
How many of us have been walking around and thought, “boy, it sure would be nice if I could share this moment with my friend represented as a tiny robotic buddy on my shoulder?” Oh, no one? Well, then you probably won’t have much in common with researchers at Yamagata University. They’re working to build a miniature humanoid that could one day let a robotic version of your pal sit on your...
ThreePeat: Tea Party Seizes Another Victory from... →
David Dewhurst is an institution in Texas. The powerful Lieutenant Governor has been a political powerbroker in the state for decades. With the backing of the entire Republican establishment, including Gov. Rick Perry, Dewhurst raised a colossal $13 million for the primary campaign. He had the support of a SuperPac, The Texas Conservatives Fund. Last week, he was on the cusp of winning the 50%...
“A No Confidence Vote For Obamanomics”
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Economy: Consumer confidence took a “surprise” tumble in May, as home prices hit 10-year lows. Tell us again why economists keep calling bad economic news about Obama’s so-called recovery “unexpected”?
Analysts had predicted the Conference Board’s Consumer...
Presidents Working at Home | The Blog on Obama:... →
Sent to me by one of my many readers with a great sense of humor.
Barack Obama, Naked Political Animal | The Blog on... →
I want to point you to an article in New York magazine by John Heilemann, the man who literally wrote the book on the 2008 campaign, Game Change.
Heillemann makes sure to tout the access he has, mentioning sit down interviews with Obama political adviser David Axelrod, campaign chief Jim Messina, and White House political boss David Plouffe.
These three, to whom Heilemann is obviously close,...
MoveOn.org: We May Have to Pull the Plug on... →
The news just keeps getting worse for Elizabeth Warren.
The Washington Examiner reports today that even the left wing group Moveon.org is admitting they may have to pull the plug on the Elizabeth Warren campaign.
Though the article quotes Moveon.org officials as placing their possible abandonment of Warren in the context of an overall decline in contributions, the guarded phrasing sounds on...
Auto Jobs: Sign of the Times - US Business News... →
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Hyundai Motors America Montgomery Manufacturing Plant
It should not come as a surprise with unemployment over 8% that good paying jobs in manufacturing are harder than ever to land.
At the Hyundai plant in Montgomery, Alabama more than 20,000 people have applied for one of the 877 job openings.
The surge of people applying may seem unusual, but it’s not.
Take a...
'Obama ... Stressed He Probably Knows About... →
“[A]ll his friends in Chicago were Jewish.”
President Obama met yesterday with “about 20 Conservative Jewish community leaders, thanking them for the work they do to improve communities around the country and discussed their shared commitment to rebuilding the U.S. economy,” Haaretz reports.
In the meeting, Obama reportedly boasted about his knowledge of Judaism,...
“50 People You Wish You Knew In Real Life”
– Life would be SO MUCH better with these people around all the time.
50 People You Wish You Knew In Real Life
Poles Demand Obama Apology For "Polish Death... →
The president referred to “Polish death camps” while awarding a posthumous Medal of Freedom to Polish professor Jan Karski, a hero of the anti-Nazi resistance. UPDATE: “The President misspoke,” says Vietor.
The remark, which barely drew notice in America, is all over the Polish news today. On the country’s largest television station:
And on the website of Poland’s leading daily,...
Doug Ross @ Journal: Most Awesomest Grill Ever →
May the pork be with you, Luke.
Hope n' Change Cartoons →
To help scare up money for his reelection efforts, Barack Obama continues to offer $3 raffle tickets to win a chance to eat with him, eat with him and George Clooney, eat with him and Michelle, share cocktails with him and Sarah Jessica Parker, take an Oval Office “spots and stains” tour with him and Bill Clinton, and other appallingly liberal dream dates. But there is ONE lotto...
Video: Jay Carney tries, fails to explain the... →
Via Jim Treacher, 51 agonizing seconds of Carney trying to explain on the fly why Solyndra going bust is a normal win-some-lose-some result when you’re investing in new ventures whereas Bain’s investments going bust is proof that Mitt Romney’s a vampire who enjoys seeing people laid off. There are of course easy distinctions that can be made here, but unfortunately for JC they don’t favor his...
Zuckerberg Drops Off Billionaires Index as... →
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook (FB) Inc.’s co- founder and chief executive officer, is no longer one of the world’s 40 richest people.
The 28-year-old’s fortune fell to $14.7 billion yesterday from $16.2 billion on May 25, as shares of the world’s largest social-networking company dropped 9.6 percent to $28.84. That extended the stock’s losses to 24 percent from the worst- performing large initial...
WatchDonald Trump takes shot at CNN ratings
Donald Trump took a shot at CNN’s low ratings during a fiery exchange with Wolf Blitzer this afternoon, in which the two men called one another “ridiculous.”
During a phone interview from Las Vegas, Trump defended his ongoing claims that Obama may not have been born in the United States, a charge that Mitt Romney has sought to distance...
Anger over Christine Lagarde's tax-free salary -... →
It was called her “Let them eat cake” moment. Now Greece will be saying: “Make her pay tax”.
The IMF chief Christine Lagarde was accused of hypocrisy yesterday after it emerged that she pays no income tax – just days after blaming the Greeks for causing their financial peril by dodging their own bills.
The managing director of the International Monetary Fund is paid a...
Andre 3000 channels Jimi Hendrix for upcoming... →
OutKast’s Andre 3000 will ditch his rapper roots to play the psychedelic rocker
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Andre Benjamin aka Andre 3000 portrays Jimi Hendrix filming ‘All Is by My Side’ on May 28, 2012 in Dublin, Ireland.
Jimi Hendrix is back from the dead … kind of.
Donning an afro and a style straight from the ’60s, OutKast’s Andre 3000 was snapped Monday on set of...
Chagas Disease, an incurable infection, called the... →
Is this the disease that killed Charles Darwin?
Oxford Scientific/Getty Images
Chagas disease is a parasitic infection transmitted by blood-sucking insects, largely in impovershed areas.
Experts have dubbed it the “new AIDS of the Americas.”
A parasitic infection called Chagas Disease has similarities to the early spread of HIV, according to research published recently in the journal PLoS...
Doug Ross @ Journal: I blame Bush: Facebook loses... →
In emulating President Obama, I feel it imperative that we identify a scapegoat for this disaster. And who better than George W. Bush? Or, at the very least, Millard Fillmore? Or anyone but the Democrat National Committee’s Wall Street backers, in fact.
Pain, pain, and more pain for Facebook’s stock. Facebook sunk into the $20s for the first time today, declining about 9 percent as options...
Doug Ross @ Journal: Sah-weet: Computer Hardware... →
Rejected backup headline: “Say, I’ve got an idea: let’s buy more crap from China!” If this doesn’t make you leery of every single piece of hardware made in the PRC, I don’t know what will:
Backdoor Found in Chinese-Made Military Silicon Chips
We all knew this was possible, but researchers have found the exploit in the wild:
“Claims were made by the...
Steven Tyler’s $1.1 million, 1,244 HP convertible... →
Steven Tyler’s $1.1 million, 1,244 HP convertible
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler just took delivery of the world’s fastest convertible. The Hennessey Venom GT Spyder will accelerate to 200mph in 15.9 seconds, eight seconds faster than a Bugatti Veyron. Tyler was the first person to ask if he could have his without a top. “Steven came to us last year and asked if we could build his...
Obama Schedule || Wednesday, May 30, 2012 | The... →
10:30 am || Attends an annual hurricane preparedness briefing; Situation Room 11:40 am || Signs the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank; South Court Auditorium 5:00 pm || Hosts a Jewish American Heritage Month reception
All times Eastern
***Could this guy be any less involved in America? Other than golf. I want to think that maybe he does all kinds of stuff in secret, but day after...
NASA to future moon explorers: Don’t ruin our... →
Space agency issues guidelines to help other lunar missions to protect historic remains
Daily News Photo Illustration
NASA has released a series of guidelines in an effort to protect future lunar missions from ruining the historic Apollo moon landing sites on the moon’s surface.
The next person to set foot on the moon needs to watch their step.
NASA has reached an agreement with the Google X...
Dewey files for Chapter 11 in record law firm... →
A man talks on his phone behind the sign, outside of the building housing the law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP in New York, May 8, 2012.
Credit: Reuters/Lucas Jackson
(Reuters) - The crippled law firm Dewey & Leboeuf LLP filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday night and will seek approval to liquidate its business after failing to find a merger partner, marking the biggest...
Google Thinks You’re Stupid—and Works to Keep You... →
Google doesn’t trust anyone—people, officials, even governments—to understand anything. As a result, it is the most secretive Internet entity—and disingenuous about that secrecy, says Andrew Blum, author of ‘Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet.’
If every technological extension is also an amputation—as Marshall McLuhan said—then I wonder what part of me Google will cut off next.
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Blog: Gallup: Vets overwhelmingly support Romney... →
On this Memorial Day, a Gallup poll showing why Mitt Romney is leading the president among men.
U.S. veterans, about 13% of the adult population and consisting mostly of older men, support Mitt Romney over Barack Obama for president by 58% to 34%, while nonveterans give Obama a four-percentage-point edge.
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These data, from an analysis of Gallup Daily tracking interviews conducted...
WatchCauseway Cannibal Identified; Fears Grow Over Drug Possibly Involved
(Source: CBS4) Rudy Eugene, from 2006 mug shot.
UPDATED May 29th, 2012 5:27 p.m.
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The crime shocked South Florida and has drawn the attention of the world. A naked man is shot by Miami Police while eating another naked man’s face on the MacArthur Causeway.
As the story quickly went viral across the...
