Colmes To Leave Hannity & Colmes At Year’s End

November 24, 2008 |   |  Television

Radio Equalizer’s Brian Maloney is reporting that Alan Colmes will soon leave FOX News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes, the show he has co-hosted with Sean Hannity sine the channel’s inception in October, 1996.

Though the decision was said to have been made by Colmes himself, it is not yet known what future role he will play at the network. There have been no industry rumblings regarding the liberal host heading for another network and his radio show remains syndicated by FOX News Radio.

Also unknown at this time is who will replace take Alan’s place at the Hannity & Colmes Show, if anyone.

Colmes’ departure is set for year-end, according to a News Corp press release.

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Eagles’ McNabb Will Start Thursday

November 24, 2008 |   |  Sports

Eagles coach Andy Reid’s dizzying changes of heart continued Monday afternoon, as he announced to the gathered press that Quarterback Donovan McNabb will start Thursday night’s game versus the Arizona Cardinals and continue as the team’s starting Quarterback for the remainder of the season.

Reid says the decision wasn’t based on the play of Kolb or McNabb yesterday.

Andy stressed that the Eagles face a short week and that they must put Baltimore behind them and focus on Arizona.

When asked whether McNabb is the starter for the remainder of the season, Reid says “As I sit here now he’s my starting Quarterback.”

Citigroup Bailout Day: Congratulations On ‘Innovative Lending Practices’

November 24, 2008 |   |  1 Comment  |  Financial

Rolling into Thanksgiving week, we learn that the US Government is pouring $20 billion in cash into the failing Citigroup and guaranteeing another $306 billion of the company’s so-called “toxic” mortgage assets.

Only four years ago, though, Citigroup and Barack Obama’s bank intimidation and voter fraud group ACORN were proudly trumpeting the creation of those “toxic” mortgages as a bold step forward in “responsible and innovative lending practices.”

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Economy Not Thwarting Pennsylvania Gamblers

November 24, 2008 |   |  Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania’s slot machine revenue is up marginally year over year at a time when Atlantic City has seen a 10% decline and Las Vegas is reporting “their worst revenue numbers in years.”

Comparing October 2008 revenue to October 2007 revenue from the Pennsylvania casinos that were open then shows a 3% gain.  When you add in the new casinos that have opened in the past year, revenue is up 30%.

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Punishing The ‘Rich’ May Have To Wait

November 24, 2008 |   |  1 Comment  |  Politics

If you thought the impending nomination of Hillary “Obliterate Iran” Clinton as Barack Obama’s Secretary of State was sending the sniveling leftists into fits, wait until they get wind that confiscating money from the “rich” to “spread the wealth around” may have to take a back seat for the foreseeable future.

The reason for the delay? Raising taxes on anyone is bad for the economy, and doing so in an economic downturn is stupid and would cause a disaster. Just like all of us were saying during the entire election.

Aides to President-elect Barack Obama suggested on Sunday that he wouldn’t immediately implement a pledged rollback of tax cuts for the top tier of American income earners, because of the worsening economic outlook.

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During an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Obama economic adviser William Daley suggested that the incoming administration would reconsider whether to quickly increase taxes for Americans earning more than $250,000 per year.

Daly, who was commerce secretary under former President Bill Clinton and is the brother of Chicago Mayor Richard Daly, said it looks “more likely than not” that Obama would not seek legislation to repeal President George W. Bush’s cut in the tax rate for the wealthiest Americans before it is scheduled to expire after the 2010 tax year. Bush cut the top rate to 35% from 39.6% in 2001.

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David Axelrod, an Obama political strategist who was recently named as one of the president-elect’s senior White House advisers, also suggested during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday” that Obama was considering delaying the tax increase, but he did not elaborate.

No Hybrid For New Green Environment Loving President

November 24, 2008 |   |  Politics

Barack Obama wants everyone to drive around in tinker toy hybrid vehicles (with properly inflated tires, of course), but when it came to picking out the new Obamobile, the moonbat Messiah picked himself up a trio of vehicles tricked out from GMC 2500 trucks that roll at less than 10 miles per gallon.

A spy photographer who tracks down future car models for magazines snatched pictures of the heavily disguised first-car-in-waiting when it was being road-tested last summer.

The armour-plated car, which has a raised roof, windows up to 5in thick, extra-strength tyres and a body made of steel, aluminium, titanium and ceramics, is thought to be based on a GMC 2500 truck that gets less than 10 miles to the gallon. Three cars are believed to be in production so that two can serve as decoys.

While security is paramount – the car is built to survive roadside bombs as well as gunfire – there are hybrid four-wheel drives on the market, such as Ford’s Mercury Mariner, which some critics believe could have been adapted for the president.

Northampton To Residents: You Do With Less, We’re Raising Taxes

November 22, 2008 |   |  Pennsylvania

Northampton Township residents will have to pay the price for the free-spending ways of their town’s ruling class.  After borrowing a ton of money to upgrade a library and install a bunch of new parks, the town’s budget situation is so dire that they claim their only choices were raising taxes or laying off workers.

They’re politicians, did you really think they were going to cut back? Of course they’re raising taxes! You expect them to do more with less? That’s just for you common folk.

Rename town hall “The Northampton Herbert Hoover Institute Of Governance.” He raised taxes in a time of economic downturn, too.  We know how well that worked out.

What’s next for the recession? Building a $13-million Community Center and then raising taxes?  Nope, that’s Lower Southampton.

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Discussing Kennedy Assassination On 45th Anniversary: Racist

November 22, 2008 |   |  National

Because we elected the first African-American President two and a half weeks ago, running a special focused on the assassination of the first Catholic President is wrong, and that it happens to coincide with the 45th anniversary of the historic event doesn’t matter much.  Plus, it’s a real downer when we’re all jazzed up on hope ‘n change.

That’s the reaction of some viewers who watched PBS’ repeat airing of Oswald’s Ghost, and PBS ombudsman Michael Gelter seems to buy it.

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