From The Hill: Democratic leaders and major party donors plan to hold a lavish 80th birthday gala for Charles Rangel at The Plaza Hotel in Manhattan next month, despite 13 ethics charges pending against the veteran lawmaker. Lobbyists and other
Today, in 1912, Milton Friedman was born. Few have done as much to advance the cause of liberty. Happy Birthday, Milton!
American Thinker offers some interesting background on Shirley Sherrod. The Thinker quotes from veteran Democrat Pol Willie Brown on her firing by the Obama Administration: “This past Sunday, in his weekly column for the San Francisco Chronicle, ‘Willie’s World,’ veteran
Today, in 1866, the Democratic government in New Orleans ordered a raid on a racially integrated meeting of the Republican Party. 40 people were killed and 150 were injured. Remember.
***UPDATE: “Hardball” Defense of Breitbart Memory-Holed **** Today, on MSNBC’s Hardball, Chris Matthews acknowledged (and appears to be the first member of the mainstream media to acknowledge) that the video Andrew Breitbart posted in his July 19th Big Government article
From CBS News: New York Congressman Charles Rangel has reportedly cut a deal to admit to ethical wrongdoing and avoid a potentially humiliating public trial. Harlem friends of Rangel tell CBS 2 they have been told that the details could
From the Associated Press: Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will sue a conservative blogger who posted an edited video of her making racially tinged remarks last week. Sherrod made the announcement in San Diego at the
From the Orlando Sentinel: If U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson were a rock star, his latest PR blitz — a DVD sent to tens of thousands of Central Florida residents — would be called Grayson’s Greatest Hits. The 90-minute disc features
Today, President Barack Obama takes time out of his schedule to appear on “The View.” It will be like softball played with sugar-coated bon-bons. In another dimension, this might be funny.
From the Associated Press: A federal judge dealt a serious rebuke to Arizona’s immigration law on Wednesday when she put most of the crackdown on hold just hours before it was to take effect. The ruling by U.S. District Judge
How bad is the fallout over the NAACP’s and Obama Administration’s handling of the Shirley Sherrod affair? This bad. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Lost in Race www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political
From the always interesting Michael Barone, in the Washington Examiner: In 1994, I wrote an article in U.S. News & World Report arguing that there was a serious chance that Republicans could capture the 40 seats that they needed then,
Today, in 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, in reaction to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. It would not end well.
Today, in 1940, Bugs Bunny made his debut. Some things are actually bigger than politics and policy. This is one of them. Happy Birthday Bugs!
Over at The Daily Beast, editor Tina Brown weighs in on the Sherrod kerfuffle: Let’s NOT have a conversation about race. The calls for Obama to now make the Shirley Sherrod debacle a teachable moment fills me with panic that
Analysis from Ann Althouse today. Read the whole thing: Don’t we constantly extract quotes and clips from larger contexts? I do blog posts by that method all the time. I find the juiciest line and quote it often deliberately out
From CBS News: With a $13 trillion debt, why is the Department of Justice spending money on parties and rollercoaster rides rather than investigating crime, drug cartels, prosecuting terrorists? Untold millions of your tax dollars are paying for recreation in
Today, in 1945, the Labour Party in Britain won election in a massive landslide, turning out of office Winston Churchill. Just months prior, Germany had been totally defeated in WWII. It is impossible to overstate Churchill’s role in this, but
It looks increasingly like Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will take the fall for the Obama Administration’s firing of Shirley Sherrod. Our take: he fired her too quickly… and offered to rehire her too quickly.
CNN Newsroom: The Woman behind the controversy: Who is Shirley Sherrod? Don Lemon takes an intimate look into the life of the woman.
Listen to the whole thing: “I’ve watched the full tape. It gets worse; it doesn’t get better! It’s not that Andrew Breitbart took out something that what was going to somehow get her off the hook. She hangs herself later
The Hill reports today: Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) is suggesting a climate change bill could have better prospects in a lame-duck session. Kerry made the comments to Bloomberg as the Senate abandoned plans to move on climate change legislation before
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From The Plum Line at The Washington Post: Now this is going to drive the right bananas. Check out this nugget in an interview that Shirley Sherrod did with Joe Strupp, in which she comes right out and claims Fox
