The Daily Show host Jon Stewart knocks mainstream media for not investigating ACORN
To the surprise of some conservative commentators, Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s news spoof program, The Daily Show, ran a segment on the ACORN video scandal on Tuesday night.
In the clip, Stewart praises James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles for exposing ACORN on hidden camera. But Stewart is also critical of the mainstream media that failed to pick up on the story before the unlikely duo did.
“I’m a fake journalist and I’m embarrassed these guys scooped me!” Stewart exclaimed. Continue Reading »
NJ Hall of Fame must induct Milton Friedman
Not to take too much thunder from my excellent article in The Record this morning that you can read HERE, but something must be said on why Milton Friedman should be inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame on the next ballot.
Anyone can vote on NJHallofFame.org under the “General” category for the father of modern economics. Friedman’s theories obliterated the tired old models of the Left that always failed and ushered in a new understanding of the economic system. Continue Reading »
Egg, meet face
Unless you live in a shell away from popular culture (which I almost do), you’ve probably heard that Kanye West made a complete fool of himself last night at the Video Music Awards. When Taylor Swift was receiving her award, Kanye walked up after being spotted “swigging” alcohol earlier and gave a shout out to Beyonce, who had lost out to Swift.
The whole incident reminds me of a parody that South Park did of Kanye back in the spring, which apparently will be shown again tonight. Continue Reading »
ACORN prostitution sting caught on video is wave of new conservative activism
With the recent scandal involving ACORN employees giving out tips to those turning tricks and trying to hide it from the taxman, much has been made of the tactics by those behind the project. James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles blew open the story by posing as pimp and prostitute and asking for help securing a loan. They actually received help in New York, Washington D.C., and Baltimore. Whether or not the mainstream media covers this is another matter, but it is a massive story.
The videos are shocking and appalling, and ACORN is finally getting its just desserts as the US Senate voted last night to cut their funding from upcoming Housing and Urban Development Projects. The US Census cut their ties with ACORN last week.
Had ACORN been watching the activist scene from the Right and not just encouraging it from the Left, they might have seen O’Keefe coming. Continue Reading »
Kanye West latest rant against Taylor Swift at VMAs is one in a long line of race-based outbursts
Kanye West has been known for some outrageous statements and tantrums over the years, and last night’s bizarre display was no different. West stormed the stage of the MTV Video Music Awards when country singer Taylor Swift was announced as the winner of the Best Female Video category. West pulled the microphone from the winner and left Swift to clutch her iconic “Moonman” award as she looked on in shock.
Obama backpedals on ways for school children to “help the president”
The Obama administration has pulled off quite a disappearing trick that’s so good, some of his supporters don’t even think the rabbit was there in the first place! (Which I guess would make it terrible, like this trick).
Would this happen for Bush?
One man is the son of a former President who went on to become the President himself. He had a checkered early life with numerous arrests and alcohol problems. However, he was sober and more responsible by age 40 when he began to enter politics.
Another man is the son of a wealthy businessman and politician whose brother was President and other brother was a Senator and Attorney General and well on the way to becoming President before his assassination. He won his older brother’s former Senate seat a couple years after his brother was elected President and held onto it for nearly fifty years until his death. He continued to live a checkered life for decades, including killing a woman by driving off a bridge and not reporting the “accident” to authorities until after her body was found. Continue Reading »
Obama to school children: Ask what you can do for your president
With the passing of Ted Kennedy last week, it is easy to recall the memories of “Camelot” and the lore of the Kennedy family. Much of that has to do with the rhetoric flourishes of Ted’s brother, John F. Kennedy.
The words, “Ask not what your country can do for you; Ask what you can do for your country,” although ingrained in the hearts and minds of most Americans, seem to have been misunderstood by Barack Obama to say, “Ask what you can do for your president.” Continue Reading »
Enhancing Ted Kennedy’s Campus Progress Memorial
I somehow wound up on the Campus Progress e-mail list a few years ago so I get their weekly e-mails, as well as any other special editions. I got one this week about how to give a tribute to Ted Kennedy. I have a suggestion…
- Right click on the photo above and save it on you desktop.
- Go to http://www.campusprogress.org/page/content/KennedyMemorial/
- For first and last name, enter Mary Jo Kopechne or just put another name (in case they start to block entry or erase entries with her name)
- Make the e-mail whatever you want– your own if you want to see if they send a nasty response (haven’t gotten one yet), or just put a fake one in.
- For city, state and ZIP, I would suggest: Chappaquiddick Island, MA 02539
- For College/University you can put Caldwell College for Women, Boiler Room Girls University, Ted Kennedy Driving school, Ted Kennedy Scuba School, etc.
- Finally, upload the photo
- Listen to liberals complain. For the record, I’m not just doing this because he’s a Democrat: I would do something similar if someone wanted to make a memorial for O.J. Simpson, Charlie Manson or Phil Spector. I’m just not a big fan of celebrity killers.
Whole Foods CEO enrages left-wing foodies with health care editorial
On Tuesday, an unlikely editorial was published in the Wall Street Journal. The article’s actual content is not so unusual for the Journal, but the author is. Whole Foods co-founder and CEO, John Mackey, penne
d an article in which, among other things, he outlines eight deficit-friendly steps toward improving health care.
Titling the piece “The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare,” Mackey begins by quoting the one and only Margaret Thatcher (swoon):
“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”
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