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Thursday, January 15
What media bias? 'Cheering' at Washington Post for Obama arrival
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 15 Jan 2009 06:00 PM EST
After three and a half hours at his transition office, PEOTUS obama took another 6 minute ride through washington, arriving at 157 pm at the nondescript soviet-style building at 15th and L street that houses the washington post.
Around 100 people--Post reporters perhaps?--awaited PEOTUS's arrival, cheering and bobbing their coffee cups.
Pool is holding in a van outside, while Mr obama does his washington post interview, and will exercise enormous restraint by ending report before saying what really thinks about this turn of events.
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"Jail used to be cool. Why pink?"
by
Riley Jones
on Thu 15 Jan 2009 02:44 PM EST
More from the Hopey McChange express: Obama taps former Illinois Congressman notorious for packing legislation with earmarks for donors to direct highway spending projects
by
Riley Jones
on Thu 15 Jan 2009 02:08 PM EST
The former Republican congressman chosen by President-elect Barack Obama to direct billions in federal highway spending has been an unapologetic advocate of earmarks, a practice Obama now opposes, and has used his influence to win funding for projects pushed by some of his largest campaign contributors.
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Be seeing you: remembering Patrick McGoohan
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 15 Jan 2009 01:00 PM EST
He was definitely not a number, but nor was he really a free man. To older readers, Patrick McGoohan, who has died aged 80 in Los Angeles after a short illness, was king of the British TV airwaves, initially as secret agent Danger Man – one of the first British TV productions to break America (largely thanks to the popularity of James Bond). He also had a few big-screen roles, in movies like Escape From Alactraz, Braveheart and David Cronenberg's Scanners.
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Obama's First Act as President
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 15 Jan 2009 12:24 PM EST
Barack Obama emphatically promised more than a year ago, "The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act." Will he keep his word?
The Freedom of Choice Act is a sweeping bill that would abolish all pro-life regulations across the nation, from parental notification laws to bans on federal funding of abortions. The Office of the General Counsel for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops identified 13 categories of pro-life laws that would be stampeded and nullified by FOCA. As far-reaching as the decision of Roe v. Wade is into the states' jurisdictions and our lives, even it, for example, showed certain respect for state laws and limits on infringing regulations in the medical field. FOCA shows no such restraints; it nails shut the coffin on pro-life choices and safeguards.
And why has Obama pledged his allegiance to pass FOCA? Not only because he has the most passionately liberal pro-choice record of nearly any politician but also because, as he told a meeting of Planned Parenthood during his campaign, "it is time to turn the page" to a new day, when pro-life views and laws and debate on abortion are passé. And if he and the Democratic majority have their way, America will have that new day, one in which hundreds of thousands more abortions will be performed annually. (I still think it is utterly hypocritical that a president and a political party who pride themselves on providing and protecting minorities don't include the unborn among those minorities.)
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Leadership and Panics: TARP II and other reasons people are scared
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 15 Jan 2009 05:08 AM EST
Stocks took another header yesterday, nearly 3% on the Dow this time, continuing their decline in the New Year since Congress has returned and as the federal government once again revs up its bailout machinery. Maybe this isn't a coincidence.
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Shut up and sit down, GOP. Democrats stamping out democracy on Capitol Hill
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 15 Jan 2009 04:24 AM EST
We know Democratic lawmakers have taken their bully-boy tactics too far when even The Washington Post worries about the lack of civility in the 111th Congress. As the Post notes, during the 110th Congress "Democrats brought more measures to the House floor under closed rules - permitting no amendments - than any of the six previous Republican-controlled congresses." Barring amendments to proposed legislation, of course, means take it or leave it, which renders floor debate all but meaningless...On the House side, in addition to severely limiting the GOP's right to propose amendments from the floor, Pelosi has even gone after the hallowed minority prerogative of offering a motion to recommit a bill before a final vote on passage. Recommiting a bill sends it back to committee, which usually kills it. During their dozens years as a majority, House Republicans only rarely limited Democrats' ability to offer recommit motions. Unless Pelosi relents, House Republicans and dissident Democrats will be all but shut out of the legislative process in 2009
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HotAir.com: Hope and Change: Move to repeal presidential term limits started
Maybe I’m just being too cynical, but somehow I doubt that Rep. José Serrano introduced HJ Res 5 in order to allow George W Bush to run for a third term in office. One week ago, the New York Democrat introduced a measure to repeal the 22nd Amendment, which provides the only term limit on federal office — the Presidency. The amendment, added in 1951, restricts anyone from seeking a third term in office, and Serrano wants that repealed.
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The Minnesota Recount Was Unconstitutional
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 15 Jan 2009 04:18 AM EST
You would think people would learn. The recount in the contest between Norm Coleman and Al Franken for a seat in the U.S. Senate isn't just embarrassing. It is unconstitutional. This is Florida 2000 all over again, but with colder weather. Like that fiasco, Minnesota's muck of a process violates the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Indeed, the controlling Supreme Court decision is none other than Bush v. Gore.
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IHT: Somewhat humbled Hugo quietly courting western oil companies again
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 15 Jan 2009 04:13 AM EST
FTA: President Hugo Chávez, buffeted by falling oil prices that threaten to damage his efforts to establish a Socialist-inspired state, is quietly courting Western oil companies once again.
Until recently, Chávez had pushed foreign oil companies here into a corner by nationalizing their oil fields, raiding their offices with tax authorities and imposing a series of royalties increases.
But faced with the plunge in prices and a decline in domestic production, senior officials here have begun soliciting bids from some of the largest Western oil companies in recent weeks — including Chevron, Royal Dutch/Shell and Total of France — promising them access to some of the world's largest petroleum reserves, according to energy executives and industry consultants here.
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Name That Party: He's a Mayor Accused of Soliciting Sex From Child... But is he a Democrat?
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 15 Jan 2009 04:02 AM EST
According to the Associated Press, Becker is "tentatively charged with attempted second-degree sexual assault of a child, child enticement, possession of child pornography, exposing a child to harmful materials, using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime and misconduct in public office."
The AP spends several paragraphs detailing the world of (Racine, Wisconsin) Mayor Becker. It describes his election, his marriage and kids. It describes his accused crime and where and how he was snapped up by the police. But there is one little thing the AP can't seem to find any information on... his party.
That's right, once again the Old Media gives us a criminal sexual pervert politician (alleged) and somehow forgets to mention the accused is a Democrat.
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Murder Spree by People Who Refuse to Ask For Directions
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 15 Jan 2009 12:10 AM EST
Consider the harmless fantasy game, Dungeons and Dragons -- which happens to be played almost exclusively by young males. When murders were committed in the '80s by (1) young men, who were (2) Dungeons and Dragons enthusiasts, some people concluded that factor (2), rather than factor (1), led to murderous tendencies.
Similarly, for its series about how America's bravest and finest young men are really a gang of psychopathic cutthroats, the Times triumphantly produced 121 homicides committed by veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in order to pin the blame for the murders on the U.S. military.
Perhaps the Times' next major expose could be on how a huge percentage of murderers are people who won't ask for directions or share the TV remote.
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