I just watched a John Stossel Special show on Fox Business Network (FBN). Tonight he did a sort of redemption show for a previous one on the phenomena of “walking away”. I call it a redemption show because Stossel claimed the subject of the previous show felt he did a “hatchet job” the last time. The subject, Chad Ruyle a co-founder of YouWalkAway.com, agreed to go back on … [Read more...] about Stossel’s Indignation
Celebrities Who Look Like Historical Figures
A fascinating link from one of my longtime favorite sites Barcepundit. GO HERE to see how some of the celebrities of our time (and recent times) look just like historical figures. A picture is worth a thousand words (and a good thing because this post is actually in Spanish). … [Read more...] about Celebrities Who Look Like Historical Figures
Quote of the Day: Christine O’Donnell Not a Witch but a “Fad”
Our political Quote of the Day comes from Meghan McCain on why failed Republican candidate for Senate in Delaware Christine O'Donnell has now become one of the country's most prominent failed authors: News has been filtering out all week about the mess of a book tour Christine O’Donnell has been on. Her book Troublemaker: Let’s Do What It Takes to Make America Great Again … [Read more...] about Quote of the Day: Christine O’Donnell Not a Witch but a “Fad”
GOP Pledge Drive (Guest Voice)
GOP Pledge Drive Raging Moderate, by Will Durst I pledge. You pledge. We all pledge. Pledge allegiance to the flag. Pledge to stop smoking and drinking. As much. In front of the kids. NPR and PBS are ridiculous with their annoying pledge drives. Our leaders pledge and pledge and pledge to stop ignoring the past. Then they don't. And in every second living room in America … [Read more...] about GOP Pledge Drive (Guest Voice)
Perry, Palin Disaster Advisories
As Nature calms down, Americans face a weekend of man- and woman-made devastation as Rick Perry and Sarah Palin cloud up on the political landscape. The “Going Rogue” short-term governor will be pouring “a full-throated defense of the Tea Party” over Iowa today while critics start to take a closer look at the Texas cyclone’s proposal to dismantle government before his first … [Read more...] about Perry, Palin Disaster Advisories
Outhouse of Representatives
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Howard Schultz: Time to Be Concerned About Our Leadership and Partisanship (Guest Voice)
This is an unusual Guest Voice. We are reproducing in full an email from Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz that zeros in on the display we are now seeing of bipartisanship: BOTH PARTIES failing to provide the kind of purely issue-oriented leadership our country and economy require as our politics steadily descends more into gridlock and 24/7 partisan political … [Read more...] about Howard Schultz: Time to Be Concerned About Our Leadership and Partisanship (Guest Voice)
Tweeter Mocks New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg Spanish: Thinks It’s El Stinkingo
Mayor Michael Bloomberg: no one is saying don't quit your day job but you might set aside some time to take more Spanish lessons. From Newsy.com: Here's the feed -- and here are few select tweets yours truly has selected from what is up at this writing: Yo no goingo to tell ustedes mi scheduledado. No esta any of tus businessador! Que privacy! 10 hours ago … [Read more...] about Tweeter Mocks New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg Spanish: Thinks It’s El Stinkingo
The Important Whoops, or Climategategate
One of the nicest things about living in a world of grays, where one can change one's mind when presented with new facts, and when one doesn't jump to extreme and absolute conclusions based on some article of belief is the one tends to make an ass of one's self far less often. Case in point, the "peer-reviewed" science paper jumped on by the Usual Suspects just a couple of … [Read more...] about The Important Whoops, or Climategategate
It’s Almost Official: It’s About an Uppity President
Helene Cooper of the New York Times finally -- pretty much -- just says it. The gnawing, nasty disrespect Republicans in Congress are demonstrating towards Obama is probably about race. “The closest we have come to this was Tom DeLay’s hatred for Clinton when he demanded impeachment of him,” said Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, … [Read more...] about It’s Almost Official: It’s About an Uppity President
Smog Day In A Brain Dead White House
Is there any foolish and destructive idea peddled by conservative ideologues and big business CEOs that President Obama won't buy into? I've come to doubt it. The latest manifestation of his efforts to accommodate these worthies is his just announced suspension of new anti-smog rules promulgated by his own EPA. His reason for suspending them? Because, says the White House, … [Read more...] about Smog Day In A Brain Dead White House
The Palmer Report and Turkey’s Response
This is a combination of two posts I put up at The Debate Link. * * * The United Nation's long-awaited Palmer Report on the Gaza flotilla incident has now been released, and, from Israel's perspective it has to be seen as a major win. The committee firmly decides that the blockade is legal and notes that an essential element of a legal element is that it has to be … [Read more...] about The Palmer Report and Turkey’s Response
Obama Caves Again
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Job Growth Dead in the Water
More bad news on the economic front: job growth seems dead in the fetid economic water in the worst jobs report in many months: Employment growth ground to a halt in August, as sagging consumer confidence discouraged already skittish U.S. businesses from hiring, keeping pressure on the Federal Reserve to provide more monetary stimulus to aid the struggling … [Read more...] about Job Growth Dead in the Water
The Long Goodnight, Irene
Last evening, I left behind almost three million Americans in the Northeast still cut off from the 21st century by the high winds of Hurricane Irene-—without electrical power, TV or Internet access, many depending on iffy private generators that could conk out at any moment to remain unserviced by overwhelmed repair people and deprive them of fresh water and unspoiled … [Read more...] about The Long Goodnight, Irene
Gloria Steinem to Headline Obama Park Avenue Fundraiser
WASHINGTON - This is the alternate, political version of why buy the milk if the cow is free?, with the biggest feminist names in Democratic politics giving away their power for a President who not only served up women's freedoms and codified the Hyde Amendment, but also put entitlements on the table, which keep women out of poverty in old age. "... Without the women's vote … [Read more...] about Gloria Steinem to Headline Obama Park Avenue Fundraiser
STOP BEING SO CLUELESS PRESIDENT OBAMA
SCHEDULE AN OVAL OFFICE ADDRESS AND IGNORE CONGRESS President Obama should ignore Congress and make an Oval Office Speech directly to the nation at a time when there are no major television conflicts. What’s so important about a speech before a joint session of Congress when the majority of its members probably don’t want to listen to him anyway? The President and his … [Read more...] about STOP BEING SO CLUELESS PRESIDENT OBAMA
Just Amazing
Amazing. I mean REALLY. … [Read more...] about Just Amazing
Quote of the Day: “Memo to GOP: Don’t Run on What Voters Don’t Want”
Our political Quote of the Day comes in the form of a probably fruitless plea in the form of a memo from the must-read Frum Forum's Fred Bauer telling Republicans they need to focus on jobs and the economy and not think that running on entitlement reform is a wise idea. Here's the beginning: With the national debt skyrocketing, a faction on the right is hoping to turn the … [Read more...] about Quote of the Day: “Memo to GOP: Don’t Run on What Voters Don’t Want”
Labor Day 2011 and Obama’s Job-Killing Policies (Guest Voice)
Labor Day 2011 and Obama's Job-Killing Policies by Susan Stamper Brown Three years in, and the Obama administration's attempts to fix unemployment have been about as effective as trying to scratch your ear with your elbow. Despite countless tricks, schemes and maneuvers to change the labor outlook in this country, the administration either lacks the ability to work their … [Read more...] about Labor Day 2011 and Obama’s Job-Killing Policies (Guest Voice)