Updated vote counts from New York’s 23rd Congressional district show that Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman has closed the gap with Democrat Bill Owens, who has already been sworn into the office and broken a campaign promise by voting in favor of government run health care.
Weird Science: Women Told To Cover 60% To Find Man
I don’t know what else you’d expect from a country that has so embraced the Global Warming myth, but it’s an outrage anyway.
NJ Democrats Eying Musical Chair Scheme
Although New Jersey voters chose Republican Christopher Christie to lead their state and threw Democrat Jon Corzine out on his ear, Democrats in the state are eying a scheme to deny Christie the chance to appoint a successor to Democrat Senator Frank Lautenberg just in case Lautenberg decided to end his term early.
Polls: Public Opposes ObamaCare, Civil Terror Trials
A couple of polls released this morning show that the American public continues to turn against a government takeover of the health care system and is strongly opposed to civilian trials for Guantanamo Bay terror suspects.
Rationale For Rationing: Breast Cancer Screenings
Everyone knows that women in their forties are supposed to get regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer. Early detection leads to greater survival. It’s a no brainer.
Well, it was. That is, until the government started eying the takeover of the health care industry. Now 50 is the new 40 as it relates to breast cancer screening.
“Teabagger” A New Oxford Word Of The Year Finalist
“Teabagger,” a sexual slur used to describe an act involving a man-part that comes in pairs and the mouth that was later appropriated by liberals as a description of Tea Party attendees, was a finalist as 2009 Word of the Year of the New Oxford American Dictionary.
47 World Leaders Meet Japan Emperor – One Bows
The UConn Republicans have compiled pictures of 47 world leaders meeting the Emperor of Japan. Interestingly, only one of them bows.
The others shake hands, which I’m sure the White House will say shows an offensive lack of respect on their part. The One knows what he’s doing, of course. All those other leaders are just yokels.
As it turns out, Obama’s 45-degree bow is so embarrassing that at least one Japanese news outlet has declined to run it out of shame.
Kyodo News is running his appropriate and reciprocated nod and shake with the Empress, certainly to show the president as dignified, and not in the form of a first year English teacher trying to impress with Karate Kid-level knowledge of Japanese customs.
The bow as he performed did not just display weakness in Red State terms, but evoked weakness in Japanese terms….The last thing the Japanese want or need is a weak looking American president and, again, in all ways, he unintentionally played that part.
Obama Lashes Out A Reporter On Afghanistan
Barack Obama lashed out at a reporter for state-run Associated Press who asked the President what additional information he needed in order to finally make a decision about the nation’s direction in Afghanistan.
Reporter Jennifer Loven didn’t get the memo from New York Times reporter Jeff Zeleny: You are only supposed to ask Obama about the things that “enchant” him.
Loven dared to ask a real question.
Jennifer Loven of The Associated Press had asked: “Can you explain to people watching and criticizing your deliberations what piece of information you’re still lacking to make that call.”
“With respect to Afghanistan, Jennifer,” the president scolded, “I don’t think this is a matter of some datum of information that I’m waiting on. … Critics of the process … tend not to be folks who … are directly involved in what’s happening in Afghanistan. Those who are, recognize the gravity of the situation and recognize the importance of us getting this right.”
Me-owww.
It’s not just the AP. Others are starting to notice that Afghanistan is going to hell while the ponderer in chief dithers.
In a tough column in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times headlined “Obama must rethink rethinking Afghanistan,” Doyle McManus said the deliberations were “starting to look like dangerous indecision.”
And although last week’s meeting of the so-called “war council” was billed as the last, it seems like Obama might need just…one…more…
Obama will likely have one more war council when he returns to Washington later this week, even though Wednesday’s session had been billed as the last one. The president is said to have most of the information he needs, but is working through some details.
David Axelrod does not appreciate you questioning his frontman.
White House senior adviser David Axelrod…told POLITICO that the impatience on the momentous decision is a symptom of today’s “A.D.D. political culture.”
Uh, Present. Uh, I mean Yes. We. Can! Just give us a month or ten.
Medicare Audit: PelosiCare Will Hike Health Costs
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) study of the Pelosi health care bill rushed by Democrats through the House of Representatives near midnight on a Saturday will raise health care costs by $289 billion over 10 years.
9/11 Mastermind, Others To Be Tried In NY Civilian Court
It’s official. After years of successfully battling back terrorism by treating it as an act of war, the United States is returning to treating it as a civilian crime.
