Update: Gabor Steingart writes in Der Spiegel: Obama’s Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World Stage.
Thanks to Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters we have this delightful video clip.
Sheppard comments:
Chris Matthews appears to have lost that loving feeling for Barack Obama.
On “The Chris Matthews Show” Sunday, the once smitten [...] Read Full Story
John Batchelor writes on his blog:
Proxy Feud
Reuters summary of the Senate vote, 60 affirmatives to move the health care reform bill to debate after Thanksgiving, makes the activities on the floor of the Senate appear as stately, measured, sagacious as [...] Read Full Story
Glenn Beck took to the road and held a rally Saturday, November 21, 2009, at The Villages retirement community in Florida — to “an eager crowd of about 25,000″ — where he revealed The Plan he has been talking about this past week.
Many thanks to the fine folks who attended and made some video clips [...] Read Full Story
Aaron Klein, Jerusalem bureau chief for World Net Daily, reports:
While America’s top commander in Iraq says weapons and fighters – possibly linked to al-Qaida – are coming in from Syria, the Obama administration has continued its diplomatic overtures to the Syrian leadership.
U.S. General Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, told Reuters that investigations [...] Read Full Story
Aaron Klein, Jerusalem bureau chief for World Net Daily, writes:
The United Nations investigator whose controversial report recently accused Israel of war crimes once sentenced a 13-year-old boy to prison for protesting South African apartheid.
The case was one of several of Richard Goldstone’s (right) questionable and highly criticized rulings during some of apartheid South Africa’s most [...] Read Full Story
WND Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein will debate a commentator from Iran today live on Russia’s all-news network.
The debate will begin at 9 AM Eastern on Russia Today (On Air), a globally broadcast English-language news channel from Russia and the first all-digital Russian television network.
Just yesterday, Iranian media reported the country began large-scale air defense [...] Read Full Story
Blogger Lazy Jack of Thanks for the Laughs posted a must-read comment at Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment blog:
Abraham Lincoln called it a lullaby during his campaign against Douglas. What he meant was the political promises contrived to make people feel comfortable enough that they would sleep through the important debates (then it was slavery) and allow [...] Read Full Story
John Batchelor writes on his blog:
King Andrew Jackson the First
Always creatively fluent Tom Friedman, NYT, now invents a new rational explanation — aka rationalization — for the sluggish performance of POTUS these last 11 months. It is Washington’s fault, it’s Washington’s dysfunction, what Friedman refers to with the [...] Read Full Story
Pundita writes on her blog:
On or about August 30, 2009, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates received a detailed assessment of the military situation in Afghanistan that included a request for additional U.S. troops. The report was from General Stanley A. McChrystal, Commander, NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan. But as [...] Read Full Story
