Tag archive for ‘Barack Obama’
The Week in Gossip: Bush Sells?
A free hand job with the purchase of a handbag? More or less. In a new ad campaign, Madonna’s 50-year-old crotch has Louis Vuitton’s brand written all over it. Aren’t you just ”itching” to add a new couture bag to your collection already? I think that’s the subliminal message here. Either that, or it’s one of those “If you had [...]
Right Wing Response: Rudolph Sues, Ahmadinejad Gives Christmas Message, and More…
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer sued Santa and won. Check out the parody column at the Globe and Mail. It’s a cautionary tale about discrimination, or rather a roast on political correctness…
Feliz ‘dinejad! says National Review Online’s Mark Steyn. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave the “alternative Christmas message” on BBC 4 this year. Here’s the story [...]
The Green Report: Save the Penguins!
Protection for some penguins but not “Happy Feet.” According to a recent AP story, the Bush Administration is proposing to add six penguin species to the endangered species list and one species, the African penguin, to the threatened species list. Yet, the stars of “Happy Feet” and “March of Penguins”, which are northern rockhopper and [...]
Daily News Roundup: No Surprise it’s Barack Obama
And Time magazine’s Man of the Year is…(drum roll, please): President-elect, Barack Obama. As if there was any surprise that Obama would be selected. The general consensus in the media world (bloggers and mainstream) is that his choice is one big DUH. Time magazine wrote, “Obama overcame a lack of experience, a funny name, two [...]
The Green Report: Obama’s Greenies
Just what we need, a new energy and environmental team. According to Wednesday’s New York Times, Obama’s transition officials said he has selected several key members of this team. For the Secretary of Energy position, Obama has chosen Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Stephen Chu, who also serves as the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. [...]
Right Wing Response: Dems Go Crooked
Democrats value politics more than the success of the U.S. auto industry, argue the editors at National Review. The deal is more about preserving union jobs and subsidizing hybrid vehicles, and stipulations such as the one that prevents automakers from seeking injunctions against states like California, which has stricter emissions standards than the national average, [...]
Amuse Bouche: The Daily Show’s Take on President Gallant and President Goofus
On Monday’s The Daily Show, Jon Stewart asks the question: “Can’t we just have the guy on the left already?” in the “Clusterf#@k to the Poor House—Goofus and Gallant” skit. The guy who he is referring to is President Gallant (a.k.a. Obama) instead of who is currently in charge, President Goofus (a.k.a. Bush). With the [...]
Daily News Roundup: Cars, Cows & Corruption
Automaker Bailout? Although Congressional Democrats and the White House reached an agreement on the $15 billion government bailout for the automakers industry, the bill faces challenges from House Republicans. The GOP has created their own plan that would help the car companies without the American taxpayers financing it. “Republicans will not allow taxpayers to subsidize [...]
Right Wing Response: No Dem Majority For You
Barack Obama may have flip-flopped on Hillary’s foreign policy experience, but that’s small potatoes. Allahpundit, in a post at Hot Air, writes that lying is to be expected from the President-elect, but the more important issue is that he has made ambassador to the U.N. a Cabinet-level position, signaling to Hillary Clinton that she can [...]
Daily News Report: America Loves Obama
Unlike President Bush whose approval ratings are dismal, President-elect Barack Obama has received high approval ratings for his transition to the White House. A recent USA Today/Gallop poll shows that 78% approve of his transition work. And Obama is picking up favor among Democrats, Republicans and Independents for his Secretary of State choice, Hillary Clinton [...]
Daily News Roundup: Oops, We Did It Again
Nobody said it would be smooth sailing … The New York Times reports that Eric Holder, Barack Obama’s pick to be attorney general, was much more involved in Marc Rich’s pardon than has previously been acknowledged. The most meaty paragraph:
Mr. Holder had more than a half-dozen contacts with Mr. Rich’s lawyers over 15 months, including [...]
Barack and Hillary: Forget Team of Rivals, These Two Will be BFFs
When President-Elect Barack Obama introduced his nomination for secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, at his press conference on Monday, he had plenty of kind words for his former Democratic primary rival.
I believe that there’s no more effective advocate than Hillary Clinton for that well-rounded view of how we advance American interests. She has served on [...]
The Green Report: Post Turkey Day News
Free veggies anyone? More than 40,000 people showed up to pick free vegetables left over from the harvest at a Colorado farm about 37 miles north of Denver. The farm owners expected about 5,000 to 10,000 people to pick a few carrots and potatoes last Saturday. Instead, more than 11,000 cars showed up and the [...]
Right Wing Response: Most Expensive Date Ever
The current financial crisis has already cost more than World War II, writes financial blogger Barry Ritholtz, and that’s after adjusting for inflation. It’s hard to conceptualize $4.6165 trillion (Bloomberg reports it as $7.76 trillion), so try this: government bailouts, including the recent addition of Citigroup, amount to more than the cost of the Marshall [...]
Daily News Roundup: Turkeys, turkeys, and more turkeys
Turkeys don’t sedate you with tryptophan, but they may give you a superbug. Apparently, when turkey farmers dope their birds to keep them from getting sick, they may also be creating super-resilient bacteria, much the way people do when they don’t complete a full round of antibiotics. Somehow it doesn’t seem this news will stop [...]
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