Jim Wallis, the Founder and Editor of Sojourners’ Magazine, had this to say of conservatives and the President: “Fox News has been the assassin of Obama’s religion … a religious assasination of Barack Obama by the far right.” I wonder
From Politico: Vice President Joe Biden welcomes California Rep. Darrell Issa to the White House Tuesday, the White House’s first outreach to the chairman that has vowed to investigate every corner of government. The meeting, which will be at 3
From AFP: US President Barack Obama on Monday proposed a freeze on most government pay in a move to trim the country’s massive deficit. The White House said the two year freeze would save two billion dollars in the 2011
Some films end with revelations that strengthen the story and leave audiences impressed by a well-orchestrated twist. Other endings undercut the stories that preceded them and make audiences wonder why they even bothered paying attention. “Fair Game,” the new film
From the LA Times: A veteran election attorney filed papers Friday to try to knock Chicago mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel off the ballot, charging he does not meet city residency rules. Under Illinois’ municipal code, a candidate must be a
Yes, because this sure wasn’t doing the trick: Leave it to NPR to pick up the tingles where Chris Matthews left off: It took 12 stitches to close The First Fat Lip, if you please. I’m not sure that Joe
Federal agents in a sting operation arrested a Somali-born teenager just as he tried blowing up a van he believed was loaded with explosives at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, authorities said. The bomb was an elaborate
The Reverend Jim Wallis is a Christian writer and political activist. He is best known as the founder and editor of Sojourners magazine, and of the Washington, D.C.-based Christian community of the same name. It was recently revealed that Rev.
(AFP) – US conservative standard bearer Sarah Palin has accused critics of unfairly singling her out, after a slip of the tongue rekindled questions about her credibility. After mistakenly urging radio listeners to “stand with our North Korean allies,” the
Each year the Christmas season seems to come earlier and earlier. This is no doubt the product of retailers eager to encourage Americans to spend their hard earned dollars, or more likely borrowed funds they do not have, on consumer
President Barack Obama has pardoned the National Thanksgiving Turkey. Continuing a decades-old White House tradition, Obama issued pardons Wednesday to a gobbler named ‘Apple’ and its alternate, ‘Cider.’
The Democrats just don’t get America and the clear message that voter’s sent via a GOP firebomb at DC in the mid-terms. So what’s the rationalization du jour? The Hill reports that influential liberals progressives in Congress are putting pressure
TV studios are packed with folks eager to tell us what the bad guys are thinking in the Land of the Morning Calm. It’s as though they had a pipeline to Pyongyang. They don’t. All we know for sure is
A White House official says Michelle Obama will announce details of a plan to put 6,000 salad bars in public school lunchrooms within the next three years.
This press release came into my email inbox from the Venezuelan Embassy (“Prensa de la Embajada de la Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela” Sure doesn’t sound like two guys who have problems with each other. . Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic
Former President Jimmy Carter didn’t start out bashing the media, as he often does today. In fact, prior to the election of Barack Obama, and after the media’s early-sixties love affair with all things Kennedy, it was Jimmy Carter’s turn
Once again, North Korea is in the news with a fresh provocation to its South Korean neighbor and the region. This time Pyongyang has fired salvos of artillery rounds onto South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island, killing two South Korean soldiers and
AP is reporting: WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House on Tuesday condemned North Korea’s artillery attack against the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong, the latest in a series of provocations that have reawakened concerns about the threat posed by the
I don’t know about you, but one of my favorite things on earth is when foreigners, ensconced in liberal bubbles, possessing zero understanding of segment of America’s population, extrapolate theories to fill the voids of knowledge. Perhaps I’m kicking off
Part 19 of a serialization of Shariah – The Threat to America, the report of Team B II of the Center for Security Policy. This section introduces the main Muslim Brotherhood components in the United States and Canada, discussing the
As the anniversary of his Waterloo — ClimateGate — unfolds this week, Al Gore is back and in classic form. In yesterday’s HuffPo, he fulminates on his hobbyhorse, right from the title: The Media Has Failed in Covering the Climate
Following in the footsteps of his political predecessors, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is selling the Jewish birthright to the land of Israel for less than a bowl of lentil stew. His willingness to betray the Israeli government’s mandate to
President Obama went from an Election Day “shellacking” to an Asian drubbing, and American power and prestige are worse off for his ineffectual, even embarrassing, efforts. First of all, there was the failure to close on a free trade agreement
The President of the United States was swept into office two years ago promising to bring change to Washington, starting with a more transparent and ethical government. In fact, Obama declared, “transparency and the rule of law would be the
One of my favorite arguments from the left revolves around women in business and the notion that if socio-progged women don’t get their way then all women are doomed. When Democratic women weren’t doing well in primaries leftist pundits from
