NBC on Monday night squeezed in a few seconds for the arrest of “a Philadelphia man for threatening the life of the number two Republican in the House of Representatives, Eric Cantor of Virginia.” (more…)
Archive for March, 2010
No Time for a Real Threat as ABC and CBS Skip Arrest of Man Targeting GOP’s Cantor
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010Economics for Dummies : Nancy Pelosi’s Cockamamie Ideas
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010Y ou probably missed it. But a new school of economics was unveiled last week shortly after health care reform passed the House of Representatives. Speaker Nancy Pelosi stepped to the podium in the House chamber and said the legislation will “unleash tremendous entrepreneurial power” and create millions of jobs. “Our economy needs something new, a jolt,” she said. And she and her Democratic colleagues had just delivered it. (more…)
Damn the Evidence, Full Speed Ahead?
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010The strangest thing about Obama’s gargantuan, trillion-dollar-plus new health-care entitlement is the timing. (more…)
ABC’s David Wright Warns: Sarah Palin’s ‘Tactics’ ‘May Backfire,’ Skips Attack on Republican’s Office
Monday, March 29th, 2010Good Morning America’s David Wright on Friday ominously warned that Sarah Palin’s “tactics,” which include encouraging conservatives to politically “reload” and putting cross-hairs over Democrats she wishes to see defeated, “may backfire.” Wright vaguely explained that this was “after several congressmen received death threats this week.” (more…)
Friend of the Enemy
Monday, March 29th, 2010Obama slights our allies and kowtows to our foes.
Barack Obama’s decision to postpone his trip to Indonesia and Australia — to a democracy with the world’s largest Muslim population and to the only nation that has fought alongside us in all the wars of the last century — is of a piece with his foreign policy generally: attack America’s friends and kowtow to our enemies. (more…)
To ‘Indefatigable’ Pelosi, Sawyer Wonders What Her Dad and Mom ‘Would Have Said About this Moment?’
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010ABC anchor Diane Sawyer shared the glow of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s victory of health, showing her, in an “ABC News exclusive” interview, a Washington Post with the headline of “Democrats Claim Health Votes” as she wondered: “What do you think your dad and your mom would have said about this moment?” Sawyer followed up: “Did your dad have a phrase, a sentence that meant the most to you when he’d say it to you, or your mom?” Pelosi’s answer, “make sure you have the votes,” cracked up Sawyer, who chuckled: “Not so sentimental.” (more…)
Tattered Liberty
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010Sometimes you do live to see it. In my book America Alone, I point out that, to a five-year-old boy waving his flag as Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee procession marched down the Mall in 1897, it would have been inconceivable that by the time of his 80th birthday the greatest empire the world had ever known would have shriveled to an economically moribund strike-bound socialist slough of despond, one in which (stop me if this sounds familiar) the government ran the hospitals, the automobile industry, and much of the housing stock, and, partly as a consequence thereof, had permanent high unemployment and confiscatory tax rates that drove its best talents to seek refuge abroad. (more…)
CBS: ‘Mean from the Start’ Health Debate ‘Turned Even Nastier Yesterday’ with ‘Racial Epithets’ and ‘Sexual Slurs’
Monday, March 22nd, 2010The morning after CBS News White House reporter Mark Knoller, in a tweet, slurred anti-ObamaCare protesters with the vulgar “tea bagger” sexual terminology, Bob Schieffer began Sunday’s Face the Nation with how the health care reform debate “that’s been rancorous and mean from the start turned even nastier yesterday” with protesters “shouting ‘kill the bill!’ and ‘made in the USSR”’ as they supposedly “hurled racial epithets, even at civil rights icon John Lewis of Georgia, and sexual slurs at Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank. Other legislators said the protesters spit on them and one lawmaker said it was like a page out of a time machine.” (more…)
We Will Show Them in November What Liberty Means
Monday, March 22nd, 2010Abraham Lincoln said that among free men, there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet. I have that in mind this morning as I think of its corollary: When our elected leaders so flout the will of the people and play games in order to do so, nothing can prove as powerful as the use of the ballot — and in eight months we will show our elected leaders just that. (more…)
MSNBC’s David Shuster Hits ‘Far Right’ Protesters Who Are ‘Going Nuts’ on Capitol Hill
Thursday, March 18th, 2010MSNBC host David Shuster on Tuesday demonstrated his condescension for conservative tea party activists, deriding protesters who had arrived in Washington as “far right” and “going nuts.” Talking to reporter Richard Wolffe, he chided, “I mean, what does the White House make of the opposition on the far right?” (more…)
