Archive for March, 2009
Nearly a year later, Obamas still looking for a church home
WASHINGTON — Nearly a year after a painful break from his Chicago church, President Barack Obama and his family are considering joining several churches of various denominations in the nation’s capital but have yet to settle on one, and aides said that they’re unlikely to decide before Easter.
The delay reflects how the economic crisis has […]
Rush Limbaugh’s Ratings Doubled, Thanks To 0bama Team’s Attacks
Millions of new listeners are now receiving the conservative message directly, without the MSM filter. Many will like what they hear. Many will become right-wing activists. 2010 = 1994.
By one measure, Rush Limbaugh is a clear winner this week: His ratings have nearly doubled since his feud with the White House burst into the media […]
Barack Obama faces ‘revolution’ if he imposes tough carbon targets, warns IPCC
Barack Obama faces a “revolution” if he imposes emission cuts on the US similar to those set in Europe, the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has conceded.
But Rajendra Pachauri, head of the United Nation’s body tasked with leading the fight against climate change, also questioned the value of a new global […]
Death of the media: Many Americans Wouldn’t Care if Local Papers Folded (Pew Research Poll)
As many newspapers struggle to stay economically viable, fewer than half of Americans (43%) say that losing their local newspaper would hurt civic life in their community “a lot.” Even fewer (33%) say they would personally miss reading the local newspaper a lot if it were no longer available.
Not unexpectedly, those who get local news […]
Commander in Chiefs: Bush Versus Obama - A picture is worth a thousand words
Different Presidents, A Different Corps- Semper Fi! US Marine applause a bit different for Obama than Bush
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Florida woman’s car, painted with praise for Obama, faces reposession
Florida. woman’s car, painted with praise for Obama, faces reposession
Jennifer Stone-Anderson says her 2004 Saturn Ion became a work of art this fall when she covered it with elaborate paintings supporting Barack Obama.
But Chrysler, which financed her car purchase, maintains that it’s just a car. And that Stone-Anderson has been missing payments. And that her […]
Beginning of the end of NY Times: NY Times puts its corporate jet for sale
It looks like Arthur Sulzberger Jr. may have to fly commercial: The Times Co. is selling its corporate jet.
Editor & Publisher pulled out this nugget from the Times annual meeting proxy.
Besides chauffeuring around the Times top executive, the jet came in handy after the Iowa caucus last year, as Times staffers avoided congestion at […]
America Family Under Attack: Homeschoolers Ordered into Public Classrooms ( It begins… )
A North Carolina judge has ordered three children to attend public schools this fall because the homeschooling their mother has provided over the last four years needs to be “challenged.”
The children, however, have tested above their grade levels – by as much as two years.
The decision is raising eyebrows among homeschooling families, and one friend […]
U.S. unemployment to near 10 percent as slump worsens
U.S. unemployment will approach 10 percent as the country endures its worst recession since World War Two, leaving more than 13 million Americans jobless, according to a Reuters poll of economists.The economy will level out in the third quarter, the results showed, but the poll painted a bleaker picture than a survey conducted just a […]
Democrats getting nervous - Nervous Democrats are urging the White House to hurry up on fixing the economy
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Obama’s choice for top security posts withdraws candidature
[Via IHT.com] Charles Freeman Jr., President Barack Obama’s choice for a major intelligence post, has withdrawn his name and blamed pro-Israel lobbying groups for his decision, saying they had distorted his record and campaigned against him.Freeman had come under sharp criticism for his past statements about Israel as well as his association with the Saudi and […]
Liberal Media Death Watch - FoxNews Beats all the Liberal Cable News Combined
CABLE NEWS RACE
TUES., MARCH 10, 2009
FOXNEWS O’REILLY 3,212,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,376,000
FOXNEWS BECK 2,331,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,274,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 2,044,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 1,965,000
CNN COOPER 1,214,000
CNN KING 1,185,000
MSNBC MADDOW 1,041,000
CNNHN GRACE 986,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 928,000
Source:DrudgeReport
Budget deficit reaches $765B in 5 months
[Breitbart via AP] Lower tax revenue and massive government spending on the bank bailout pushed the federal deficit to $765 billion in the first five months of the budget year, well on its way to hitting the Obama administration’s projection of a record annual imbalance of $1.75 trillion.
The Treasury Department also said Wednesday that the […]
Global Warming Scam: Gallup Poll: ‘Record-High 41% of Americans ‘now say global warming is exaggerated!’ - ‘Highest level of public skepticism about mainstream reporting’ in more than a decade – March 11, 2009
Although a majority of Americans believe the seriousness of global warming is either correctly portrayed in the news or underestimated, a record-high 41% now say it is exaggerated. This represents the highest level of public skepticism about mainstream reporting on global warming seen in more than a decade of Gallup polling on the subject.
As recently […]
Is Obama a Muslim? You Decide.
Why was his first interview given to Al-Arabiya, a Saudi owned Arab news network?
In the following interview, Obama stated, “I have Muslims in my own family. I have lived in Muslim countries. …..And America’s a country of Muslims, Jews, Christians, and nonbelievers. …….And my job is to communicate to the American people that the Muslim […]
On Obama Birth Certificate - Scalia: You need 4 votes for Obama eligibility case
[Via WorldNetDaily] A lawyer lobbying the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. Supreme Court for a review of Barack Obama’s qualifications to be president says a key conservative justice has hinted that another conservative justice has been voting against hearing the dispute.
According to Orly Taitz, a California attorney working through her Defend Our Freedoms Foundation […]
State attacks Church in Connecticut
This is a shocker:
A proposed bill that would take power from Catholic priests and bishops and turn it over to parishioners has sparked outrage among church leaders, criticism from opposition lawmakers and questions about its legality.”You cannot tell a church how it can govern itself,” said Marc D. Stern, general counsel for the American Jewish […]
53% Say It’s Likely the U.S. Will Enter a Depression Similar to 1930’s
[Via RasmussenReports] Most Americans (53%) now think the United States is at least somewhat likely to enter a 1930’s-like depression within the next few years.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 39% think this outcome is unlikely.
Nineteen percent (19%) say a Depression is Very Likely while 7% say it is not at […]
Conservative bloggers want Palin for 2012
Conservative bloggers want Palin for 2012 @ 11:51 am by Jeremy P. Jacobs
The conservative blogoshere has weighed in and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska.) is the favorite to be the GOP’s 2012 presidential nominee.
That’s according to John Hawkins of RightWingNews.com’s (informal) poll of (only) 55 right wing bloggers. Here are the results:
If you had to […]