Print John Hayward Read Full Bio IRS and the Beckett protocol In response to IRS IG Report Could Not Determine Who Was Involved in Creating Criteria: 15 May 2013 Among the Obama dead-enders Ace's sad little NPR clown mourning the unfair demise of the Maximum Leader's "bipartisan" dreams is but one example of Obama dead-enders going mad with despair. Aging hippie Katrina vanden Heuvel is using music to cope. "In these times of pseudo-scandals," she sighed on Twitter, "tonight is for Marvin Gaye & Al Green & Aretha - reminding me of the humanity that keeps us aloft." 14 May 2013 Bipartisanship means submission In response to NPR: Scandals May Cost Obama His Dream of Bipartisanship: 14 May 2013 The importance of resignation We're not far removed from an era when people like Attorney General Eric Holder and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would have immediately resigned over the Fast and Furious and Benghazi scandals, respectively. 14 May 2013 One other Obama scandal to watch On top of everything else, the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced on Monday that it will probe Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' efforts to shake insurance companies down for cash, to help "educate" the public about the ObamaCare disaster it hates. 13 May 2013 It's tough to hear anything else over the sound of the Administration imploding I thought the Kermit Gosnell verdict would dominate the news when it came down. Sure, the mainstream media doesn't want to talk about Gosnell - you can hear the sound of flop-sweat splattering on the walls at NARAL and Planned Parenthood headquarters across the land - but it would be just too huge to ignore, especially after the press was hammered for its light coverage of the trial. 13 May 2013 Winning the news, 24 hours at a time There's no way to top the staggering you-gotta-be-kidding-me factor of President Empty Chair claiming he learned about the IRS scandal by watching the same news reports as the rest of us, on Friday night. Every functioning B.S. detector in America overloaded and blew up at that one. His most loyal servants in the media will swallow it with some difficulty, having already sacrificed their journalistic instincts and self-respect to get him re-elected, but even they will be forced to spend the news few months fuming in silence while everyone else cracks wise about it. 13 May 2013 Mother's Day: Fathers needed You can't have Mother's Day without fathers, and children. Too many fathers don't stick around to pay due respect to the mothers of their children. The Hallmark-card image of Dad and the kids bringing breakfast - sometimes cooked with lovable ineptitude - to Mom in bed is increasingly remote from the life experience of large sectors of the population today. 12 May 2013 Our media watchdogs take a cat nap In response to Obama Is Every Bit as Bad as We Warned You: 12 May 2013 Looks like the White House has issued marching orders to the Media Matters set In response to ABC's Libya Smoking Gun Has Media Matters' Boehlert Speaking Gibberish: 10 May 2013 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next
IRS and the Beckett protocol In response to IRS IG Report Could Not Determine Who Was Involved in Creating Criteria: 15 May 2013
Among the Obama dead-enders Ace's sad little NPR clown mourning the unfair demise of the Maximum Leader's "bipartisan" dreams is but one example of Obama dead-enders going mad with despair. Aging hippie Katrina vanden Heuvel is using music to cope. "In these times of pseudo-scandals," she sighed on Twitter, "tonight is for Marvin Gaye & Al Green & Aretha - reminding me of the humanity that keeps us aloft." 14 May 2013
Bipartisanship means submission In response to NPR: Scandals May Cost Obama His Dream of Bipartisanship: 14 May 2013
The importance of resignation We're not far removed from an era when people like Attorney General Eric Holder and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would have immediately resigned over the Fast and Furious and Benghazi scandals, respectively. 14 May 2013
One other Obama scandal to watch On top of everything else, the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced on Monday that it will probe Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' efforts to shake insurance companies down for cash, to help "educate" the public about the ObamaCare disaster it hates. 13 May 2013
It's tough to hear anything else over the sound of the Administration imploding I thought the Kermit Gosnell verdict would dominate the news when it came down. Sure, the mainstream media doesn't want to talk about Gosnell - you can hear the sound of flop-sweat splattering on the walls at NARAL and Planned Parenthood headquarters across the land - but it would be just too huge to ignore, especially after the press was hammered for its light coverage of the trial. 13 May 2013
Winning the news, 24 hours at a time There's no way to top the staggering you-gotta-be-kidding-me factor of President Empty Chair claiming he learned about the IRS scandal by watching the same news reports as the rest of us, on Friday night. Every functioning B.S. detector in America overloaded and blew up at that one. His most loyal servants in the media will swallow it with some difficulty, having already sacrificed their journalistic instincts and self-respect to get him re-elected, but even they will be forced to spend the news few months fuming in silence while everyone else cracks wise about it. 13 May 2013
Mother's Day: Fathers needed You can't have Mother's Day without fathers, and children. Too many fathers don't stick around to pay due respect to the mothers of their children. The Hallmark-card image of Dad and the kids bringing breakfast - sometimes cooked with lovable ineptitude - to Mom in bed is increasingly remote from the life experience of large sectors of the population today. 12 May 2013
Our media watchdogs take a cat nap In response to Obama Is Every Bit as Bad as We Warned You: 12 May 2013
Looks like the White House has issued marching orders to the Media Matters set In response to ABC's Libya Smoking Gun Has Media Matters' Boehlert Speaking Gibberish: 10 May 2013
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