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What’s the significance of this, aside from it being your daily reminder that Wallace was right? Go watch the clip of Anita Dunn whining on CNN or just skip ahead here to 2:25. Kurtz specifically asked her whether The One would sit for an interview with one of Fox’s news shows this year. Her weaselly response was to say that he would — eventually — while neglecting to mention one tiny fact revealed below by Rosen: She’d already given Fox a hard no for the remaining three months of this year and pretty obviously didn’t want to acknowledge it on...

The strategy of a full court media press is obvious. You dominate the media cycle for at least a day and likely more than that. So, President Obama will take to the airways and appear on every network including Univision. That means that Sunday will be all Obama all the time on all news networks, radio, and newspapers. It will be a day when his appearances will be analyzed and hyperanalyzed. In fact, the analysis has already started just with release of snippets of the interviews.

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- A 57-year-old man was treated for a serious hand wound Tuesday after Charleston Police say he tried to drill through a live round to make a keychain ornament. It happened at about 1 p.m. at the man's home on the city's west side. Sgt. Eric Hodges with the Charleston Police Department says the man was drilling through a .30-06 deer rifle round when he saw a spark and the ammunition exploded, causing serious injuries to his left hand. Hodges says the powder charge inside the round had not been removed -- and the round was still...

I’m tempted to call this unbelievable but that simply wouldn’t be true. In fact, the very first words of the Times’s piece are “It’s not all that surprising.” Not only do research universities purportedly devoted to free inquiry now censor primary sources in the interest of “safety,” but I’ve experienced it myself: Imagine, if you will, the absurdity of a panel discussion about images which the audience isn’t allowed to view. It’s come to that. This is the scholarship equivalent of Yale donning a burqa to suppress the temptations its immodesty might otherwise inspire in Muslim men. Good work, academia....

If they're not going to hold town hall meetings, hold town halls without your rep. Do it in front of their district offices, local park, library. The 1 Video camera revolution Set up a podium for the rep with their name on it Solicit questions from attendees, people on the street, friends, family. After each question cut to the podium with five seconds of silence. Post video on youtube, alert media outlets, post links to the “town hall” on TV station message boards, local newspaper message boards, send to Teaparty facebook, send to Glenn Beck, Mark Levine, Rush Limbaugh, Hannity,...

Members of Congress are increasingly turning to virtual townhall meetings--conducted by telephone--in an effort to reach more constituents while avoiding the potential that informational meetings might be disrupted by angry and persistent questioners or protesters. One advantage to these telephone townhalls is that the Member of Congress controls the audience and the questioning. As lawmakers head home for the August recess to meet with constituents, the contentious health care issue awaits them, and some are opting to conduct their townhall meetings over a telephone line rather than in an actual hall where their constituents can see them, speak directly to...

Karl Rove blasts members of Congress for criticizing, ducking health care protests.

Members of Congress are increasingly turning to virtual townhall meetings--conducted by telephone--in an effort to reach more constituents while avoiding the potential that informational meetings might be disrupted by angry and persistent questioners or protesters. One advantage to these telephone townhalls is that the Member of Congress controls the audience and the questioning. As lawmakers head home for the August recess to meet with constituents, the contentious health care issue awaits them, and many are opting to conduct their townhall meetings over a telephone line rather than in an actual hall where their constituents can see them, speak directly to...

On Air Force One today, Gibbs told reporters that he wanted to "correct a little bit of what I said yesterday. I denoted that Mr. Ahmadinejad was the elected leader of Iran. I would say it's not for me to pass judgment on. He's been inaugurated, that's a fact. Whether any election was fair, obviously the Iranian people still have questions about that and we'll let them decide that. But I would simply say he's been inaugurated and we know that is simply a fact.: Asked if the White House recognizes Ahmadinehad as the leader, elected fairly or not, Gibbs...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan, June 26, 2009 – Insurgents operating in eastern Afghanistan increasingly are focusing their attacks away from coalition forces and on local residents, military officials here said. Two members of Afghanistan National Security Forces wait for a towing crew June 10, 2009, after an improvised explosive device destroyed a civilian vehicle near Yahya Kheyl in Paktika province, Afghanistan. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Andrya Hill  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The rate of civilians killed by improvised explosive devices in eastern Afghanistan has risen 117 percent in the last year, while coalition forces deaths from...

KABUL – The top U.S. general in Afghanistan will soon formally order U.S. and NATO forces to break away from fights with militants hiding in Afghan houses so the battles do not kill civilians, a U.S. official said Monday.

Tempers Flare Over Potentially Making Bellingham A Sanctuary City For AWOL Soldiers BELLINGHAM - A heated community meeting was held tonight at the Bellingham Municipal Building over whether the City should become a sanctuary for AWOL soldiers. Bellingham City Council Chambers was jam-packed and at times raucous Monday night, as supporters and opponents of a plan that would allow AWOL soldiers to seek refuge in Bellingham gathered for a public forum. Students from Western Washington University and local military veterans who started G.I. Sanctuary City Movement asked the city for the meeting. Gulf War Veteran Matt Bambara says war objectors...

Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are rushing to contain racially tinged rhetoric in the debate over President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, fearing that attacks emanating from some conservatives opposed to appellate court Judge Sonia Sotomayor could damage GOP prospects among women and the rapidly growing Hispanic population. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said today he was "uneasy" over allegations by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and talk-show host Rush Limbaugh that Sotomayor is racist. Sessions, who lost a 1986 bid for a federal judgeship amid concerns over his own racial sensitivity, said Republicans...

CHARIKAR, Afghanistan -- Nearly 50 teenagers were admitted to hospital after a suspected mass poisoning at an Afghan girls' school, a doctor said on Monday, in the second such incident in a month. The headmaster rushed his students out of their classrooms in the northern town of Charikar after they smelt an unusual odour and started feeling nauseous and dizzy, a 17-year-old victim told Reuters from her hospital bed. "I am pretty sure whoever has done this is against education for girls, but I strongly ask the parents not to be discouraged by such brutal action and send their children...

I have bad news for you. I have it on good authority that the congressional Republican leadership, if that is not an oxymoron, plans to give Barack Obama a pass on all of his major appointments. They'll give them a bye. They'll close their eyes, cover their ears and speak no evil against some of the most dangerous nominees for high posts in an administration in American history. I'm talking about kooks and crazies like Cass Sunstein, the so-called "regulatory czar," who once proposed what can only be characterized as a "Fairness Doctrine" for the Internet including a notion for...

I never thought that I would mention Perez Hilton in one of my columns, much less publically thank him for being an obnoxious, culturally-toxic chunky gay man, but thank you Perez—or whatever the heck your name is. Why do I thank him? Well, I thank him because his inappropriate, gay agenda-laden beauty queen litmus test regarding homosexuals getting hitched-up afforded Miss California the opportunity to stand up for the biblical definition of marriage in a puerile, politically correct, crap-addled culture, that’s why. I tip my hat to Miss Carrie Prejean. She didn’t fold like a cheap lawn chair to the...

President Obama has chided his attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., for describing America as a “nation of cowards” when discussing race, wading into a tumult that flared over Mr. Holder’s indictment of the way this country talks about ethnicity. “I think it’s fair to say that if I had been advising my attorney general, we would have used different language,” Mr. Obama said in a mild rebuke from America’s first black president to its first black attorney general. In an interview with The New York Times on Friday, the president said that despite Mr. Holder’s choice of words, he...

A mini brouhaha erupted when Attorney General Eric Holder declared that Americans are “a nation of cowards” when it comes to racial matters. Many were outraged that he dared level this insult. There was righteous indignation that the first African American Attorney General in US history – appointed by the first African American president to govern our “melting pot” – appeared, metaphorically, to be spitting in the faces of those “courageous” Americans who voted for the candidate precisely because of the color of his skin, in order to prove that skin color does not matter. The people who went out...

In the March 9, 2009 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, March 2), "Radical Islam is A Fact of Life. How To Live With it" Fareed Zakaria makes the case for why the West needs to adopt a more sophisticated strategy toward Radical Islam. Plus: Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman discuss the country's future in their first foreign media interview since winning in the recent election. Lastly: A review of the latest comic book inspired movie, "Watchmen."

"In things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards. . . ." -- Eric Holder, Attorney General This statement to a group of hundreds of Justice Department employees during Black History month is indicative of the condescension the new administration is practicing on all levels. Whether talking down the economy or talking down America’s racial progress, the most diverse political administration in U.S. history seems determined to accentuate the negative. The only question is how far in this will it go? The debate on progress on race is more...

Greetings readers, I have held my peace long enough to allow Attorney General Eric Holder an opportunity to rectify his faux pas from last week. I am now compelled to offer my insights into Attorney General Holder’s epidemic of diarrhea of the mouth when he called our Country a “Nation of Cowards”. Whenever I think of fools speaking unwisely I am drawn to the writings of one who is considered the wisest man the world has ever known, not you Bill Clinton. Rather, I speak of King Solomon and his words from the Book of Proverbs. Solomon certainly has some...

I am not bold at all. Yesterday I woke up with the intention of stopping by the bank after work and making my monthly mortgage payment. Then I had an inspirational idea - how about if I joined ACORN then demanded their help in repulsing the evil bankers? Maybe I couldn't achieve the highest noble goal of ACORN members, (getting or keeping a home at the expense of working Americans), but I just may be able to shakedown coax the evil bankers into lessening my mortgage rate, (never mind that I signed on the dotted line and agreed to pay...

[...] Holder wants honesty, OK, let’s be honest. One, it’s damn difficult to talk about race when constantly being called a racist. In the last year and a half, the race card has been used so often that it no longer shocks people, it just pisses them off. [...] Two, the person (or persons) using this tactic, trying to bludgeon their object of hatred or derision, should consider that the very act of using the race card makes them racist. The constant use of the race card has become tiresome, tedious, and predictable. IMHO, using the race card is a...

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. asserted that the U.S. is a "nation of cowards" when addressing the realities of the ethnic melting pot. Do you agree? Yes No Undecided Other

Open letter to Eric Holder, Attorney General Via email: AskDOJ@usdoj.gov Mr. Holder: Coward? You say that I am a coward? SCREW YOU. Years ago, while one day opening my business, I was robbed at gunpoint by four BLACK men of thousands of dollars, and I was shot in the chest. They were the cowards. It was easier to destroy the lives of hard working people than find a job and work hard for themselves. The four men were caught, but never accused, never arraigned, never tried, never forced to repay what they stole from me, never required to help with...

More than 50 U.S. lawmakers sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to enforce a ban on importing assault weapons. The 53 lawmakers, all Democrats, say many such guns are later smuggled south to arm Mexico's ruthless drug cartels. The ban was implemented under the administrations of President George H.W. Bush and President Bill Clinton, and the U.S. government can enforce it under provisions of the 1968 Gun Control Act. But the lawmakers say in their letter that the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has quietly abandoned the ban in recent years. The ATF declined...

Don't attack us please, UK ads to say on Pak TV Posted: Feb 10, 2009 at 1542 hrs IST Don't attack us please, UK ads to say on Pak...Interim Budget focuses on farms, global slow...New start: 500 Mumbai slum-dwellers get flat...Interim Budget focuses on farms, crisisCIA helped India, Pak share 26/11 intelligen...India to benefit from political risks in eme... Poland puts beheading blame on PakAl-Qaeda becoming a growing challenge fo...'Osama Bin Laden' rejected for dream isl... London The British government will air ads on Pakistani television urging terrorists to not attack Britain. Prominent British Muslims will star in the British...

Just in, Wilders landed at 15:15 at Heathrow and was arrested.

THE HAGUE, 12/02/09 - Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders announced yesterday he will travel to the UK today, ignoring the British government's decision to declare him a threat to public order. And challenging the authorities to arrest him. On Tuesday, the UK ambassador presented Wilders with a letter which stated that he had been refused entry to the UK. The MP was to have shown his anti-Islam film Fitna in the parliamentary building at the invitation of a member of the House of Lords. Wilders had already said on Tuesday he was considering going ahead with his trip...

Our cowardly congress is about to vote to spend over 800 Billion dollars without $1.00 going towards defense!!!What planet am I on? I wonder how it feels to be in BF Afganistan hearing about this "plan".

Symbolic gesture gives assurances that US does not want to topple regime. Officials of Barack Obama's have drafted a letter to Iran from the president aimed at unfreezing US-Iranian relations and opening the way to face-to-face talks

Writers for the Daily Show, Colbert and Letterman concur: Obama presidency will lead to the end of comedy

Al Arabiya reporter Hannan al-Masri is live on the air in Gaza when she is told that Hamas has just fired rockets from inside the Al Arabiya studio building, news which apparently strikes her as quite humorous.

Israeli media reports that Hamas took over the first floor of the building that the BBC offices in Gaza last night and fired rockets from there, trapping the journalists above. Despite the fact that their reporters have now escaped the building, the BBC has so far not said anything about this. When I was interviewed on the BBC last week, I commented on the pervasive intimidation of the MSM in Gaza, which is one of the reasons that there were none there when the hostilities broke out. I pointed out that the last journalist resident in Gaza, Alan Johnston, now...

Violence in Gaza prompted local activists Tuesday to don white masks and march on the Madison offices of U.S. legislators to deliver letters demanding an end to U.S. support of Israel. "We're very concerned about U.S. policies all over the world," organizer Joy First told a staffer at the office of U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin -- where another local activist, Allen Ruff, condemned Baldwin's failure to speak out against U.S. military aggression as "contemptible and out of character." Ruff left behind a pair of shoes, a symbol of contempt in the Arab world and reminiscent of the incident last month...

Samar Hamdan ran weeping through the street, trying to touch the body of her dead 11-year-old brother during a funeral procession in this northern Gaza town. Just a day before, the 15-year-old girl's two sisters were also buried, victims of the same strike from an Israeli missile. As Israel steps up its attacks on the Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip, one of the most densely populated spots on Earth, children are paying the price. "In this crowded strip, everything is beside everything else," said Karen Abu Zayd, a top U.N. official in Gaza. Israel says it is only targeting...

An Iranian reformist daily newspaper has criticized Hamas "for risking lives of civilians, amongst them children, by hiding its forces in nurseries and hospitals." This is reported in today's Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam. The Palestinian daily adds that in response the Iranian government has closed the newspaper. The following is the story in today's Al-Ayyam: Headline: "Iran closes a reformist newspaper, for publishing a report criticizing Hamas" "The Iranian news agency "Irna" reported yesterday, that the Iranian Culture Ministry has closed the reformist daily newspaper "Karjo Zaran", because it published a report that included criticism of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).'...

Birthers get another lifeline posted at 9:30 am on December 9, 2008 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly When the Supreme Court denied cert to Leo Donofrio, most of us thought the issue of Barack Obama’s status as a citizen was put to rest.  Not so fast, as Dave Weigel reluctantly notes.  Justice Antonin Scalia has referred another lawsuit to conference covering much the same ground in Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz, and the Birther movement has another brief reprieve: Why is it that Justices Ginsburg and Souter have tossed junk lawsuits about Barack Obama’s...

Enough gloom and doom: There's a prediction from a leading color source that cheerful and sunny yellow will be the influential color of 2009.

Politico: McCain staffers starting to rally to Palin’s defense Nothing yet from Steve Schmidt, but foreign policy guru Steve Biegun and spokesman Tracy Schmitt — among others — are on the case. That she remains a player and may be the party’s nominee in four years would make it smart politics for Republican staffers to praise her in print. But those who went on the record suggest that they were doing so out of genuine affection for Palin and a sense that the image of her coming out of the election – that of a self-absorbed conniver — was not...

Gov. Sarah Palin denounced anonymous criticisms leveled at her by former John McCain aides as lies, including allegations that Republican lawyers were traveling to Alaska to reclaim her high-priced wardrobe and that she didn't know Africa was a continent. "Those accounts are not true," the former Republican vice presidential candidate said in her first public comments on the matter since the election Tuesday. Palin returned Friday to her Anchorage governor's office and said she had no immediate plans to build on her newfound national name-recognition and popularity with the Republican base for a possible 2012 presidential run. Instead, Palin said,...

Palin denounces her critics as cowardsFriday, November 07, 2008 | 8:14 PM ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called her critics cowards and jerks Friday for deriding her anonymously and insisted she never asked for the expensive wardrobe purchased for her use on the presidential campaign. "I never asked for anything more than a Diet Dr. Pepper once in a while," Palin said... **SNIP** "Those are the RNC's clothes. They're not my clothes. I never forced anybody to buy anything," she said. Republican Party lawyers are still trying to determine exactly what clothing was purchased for Palin at such...

The anonymous trashing of Sarah Palin by blabbermouth McCain aides who are leaking to Fox News is disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. Allah’s got the vid clip of a report citing unnamed McCain staffers accusing Palin of lacking, in Carl Cameron’s words, “knowledgeability.” At least all the Hollywood and Manhattan Palin-haters were willing to sign their names and put their faces on their attacks. Let’s assume the rumor-mongers are telling the truth for a moment. Who does it damn more: Sarah Palin or McCain and his vetters who green-lighted her for the vice presidential nomination? Don’t need an Ivy League degree to...

The furor over rejecting politically oriented speakers at the College of St. Catherine shows no signs of slowing down. An online student petition denouncing the St. Paul school's decisions has collected more than 200 signatures as of midafternoon, an on-campus demonstration drew a couple of dozen participants today and school administrators met with students this afternoon. The developments follow last week's news that the all-female Catholic school turned away visits by conservative commentator Bay Buchanan, a leading supporter of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, and former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The former First Lady is a campaign trail regular...

They caved. Those brave Republicans and blue dog Democrats who squashed the bailout earlier this week caved and the bailout bill passed. A politician just can't pass up an opportunity to "Do Something!," especially when this much pork is involved. John McCain and the Republicans blew their chance to stand up for Main Street and maybe engineer a conservative comeback this election. They could have made the case for a return to responsible government, but they chose instead to keep their snouts in the trough. They're no better than Democrats, which means they lose this November. And the bailout will...

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Congress says it likely will adjourn this month having done nothing on the most important issue in America right now: the financial meltdown from the subprime lending crisis.Can Congress just walk away from a problem it helped create? Maybe, maybe not. There's now some talk of a grand deal between the Treasury, the Fed and Congress for a "permanent" solution: creating a government agency to buy up all the bad subprime debt, just like the Resolution Trust Corp. did with bad real estate in the 1980s and 1990s. Already, the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve are spending hundreds of billions...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has surpassed its goal of admitting 12,000 Iraqi refugees this year and expects more, perhaps tens of thousands, next year, the State Department said on Friday. The United States expects to admit a minimum of 17,000 Iraqi refugees in fiscal 2009, which begins October 1, the department's senior coordinator for refugees said. Thousands more Iraqis and their family members could arrive via a special visa program for people who worked for the United States or its contractors. "I think you'll see the U.S. government admitting over the course of fiscal 2009 tens of thousands...

Some Democrats urge delay in building a U.S. missile system in Eastern Europe By Eric Lipton Published: August 20, 2008 As the Bush administration speeds ahead with plans to construct a missile defense system in Eastern Europe, some Democrats in Congress want to put on the brakes, saying it has not been adequately tested.