Not only a supporter of Barack Obama but a blogger at the Huffington Post. And, yes, a professor at Columbia University. Probably one of the smug leftists who mock conservatives for supposedly being socially backward. A popular Columbia professor was charged Thursday with incest – accused of a sick sex relationship with a female relative, [...]
10. December 2010
Richard Holbrooke, America’s special representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, has been hospitalized after falling ill at the State Department. No word as to how sick he is or what the sickness. Update: Alright, Jake Tapper says he has been hospitalized for a blood clot “after experiencing a medical event” in Secretary Clinton’s office.
10. December 2010
Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), facing a tough reelection campaign in 2012, has announced his support for the deal worked out between the White House and Senate Republicans to extend Bush-era tax cuts. He says the legislation will “will make a real difference”.
10. December 2010
The United States Treasury has announced that the federal government ran a $150.4 billion deficit during the month of November. It’s the largest deficit for any November on record.
10. December 2010
It’s interesting. She actually denied having served in the military, but personnel files show she was indeed a member of the Marine Corps for 30 months. She was apparently one of the first members of the Women’s Reserve, driving and typing for the war effort. Arthur, born Bernice Frankel, went from private to corporal to [...]
10. December 2010
I didn’t know it before, but apparently the current defense authorization bill — the same one containing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal — provides for taxpayer-funded abortions on American military bases. Why haven’t we heard more about this from, oh, anyone? Today, the Susan B. Anthony List condemned U.S. Senate leadership’s attempts to advance the [...]
9. December 2010
I don’t think so, but there are a couple of troubling developments to note. 1) Foreign policy guru Blake Hounshell links this article by Victor Cha, a professor at Georgetown and senior adviser at Center for Strategic and International Studies. To quote the first sentence, “There is a real possibility of war on the Korean [...]
9. December 2010
The International Committee of the Red Cross is allowing members of Hamas — members connected with the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit — to use its east Jerusalem office as a headquarters. The three members have been ordered to leave the city by Israeli authorities but have thus far refused, setting up operations in [...]
9. December 2010
He’s now five points under water. Forty-three percent approve, forty-eight percent disapprove. Incidentally, more than seventeen percent of the American workforce is now underemployed. Twelve percent say economic conditions are good or excellent while 45% say conditions are poor. Fifty-nine percent say the nation’s economic outlook is getting worse while just thirty-five percent say the [...]
9. December 2010
They ask the alarmists, attending the climate change summit, to do two things: 1) Call for the crashing of the American economy if the country refuses to comply with the demands of the international community. 2) Ban dihydrogen monoxide. It’s pointed out that the latter is used in nuclear plants, the creation of styrofoam and [...]
10. December 2010
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