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[Ungawa! The Tea Party natives are restless, sparking alarm among the civilized panjandrums of the coastal media Raj. Who are these mysterious Fly-Over savages? What do they want? Conjectures abound, but only a few brave souls have dared strap on the pith helmet and safari into the belly of the beast. In order to sort out the answers I dug up this 2005 bit from the Iowahawk archives, prompted by a gripping gorillas-in-the-Midwest-mist travel adventure by Washington Post explorer David Von Drehle.] DAY ONE: BASE CAMP, IOWA CITY Mission: bring back Von Drehle.Continued

The nomination of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board was just defeated on a cloture vote 52-33. Sen. Ben Nelson (D., Neb.), Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D., Ark.), and Sen. Scott Brown (R., Mass.) all voted against cloture.

FRiends, I almost posted this last night...but since that giant walking wanker Robert Gibbs pulled his little stunt today, I thought we ought to take it a step further. Here is my hand today: I may change it tonight or tomorrow or some time in the future, but I would suggest we all put some messages on our hands...at least for a little while. Some conversation might be generated, and you might find more people agree with you than you think! :)POST your pics to this thread, and let's have fun!

It's only been a year since a helicopter flew him out of the capital right after the inauguration of President Barack Obama. But some Americans will be pleased to know that George W. Bush is out there, watching over them after all. From a billboard, high above Interstate Highway 35 near Wyoming, Minn., to be exact. And he wants to know if you miss him. Someone has placed a giant photo of the former president on a billboard with the question, "Miss Me Yet?" Until now, the billboard was thought to be a hoax, a clever doctoring of an image...

Internet chatter had led to speculation that it might be an urban myth -- nothing more than clever digital trickery spreading via the Web. But our friend Bob Collins at Minnesota Public Radio assures us he's seen it with his own eyes: There is a billboard along I-35 near Wyoming, Minn., with a huge photo of former president George W. Bush and this question: "Miss Me Yet?"

Okay. The video I'm about to show you is like a parking garage of creepiness: wrong on every damn level. It's President Obama at a Washington fundraiser last week. He's soaring high on health care rhetoric, when he brings up a dead campaign worker. Well, actually he brings up himself. Pay attention, not just to him, but how the audience responds. If you're a cow, it'll turn all four of your stomachs. (roll tape) It takes a lot to give me the willies. But you know what? That gave me the willies. And also scurvy, rickets and the bird flu....

If you don't know why this is funny, I'm not going to bother explaining it to you. If you don't recognize any of the characters (one character in particular, but you know what I mean) in the lineup of what this Polish newspaper (not Norwegian, as was previously reported) thought were Olympic mascots, then you very likely don't know why this picture is funny, and that's OK. Not every joke can be obvious. Might I suggest Jay Leno's comedy if you're feeling curiously left out of the joke here? He has this hilarious bit called "Headlines", and you're totally going...

Loud laughter followed Palin’s references to “lame-stream media” and jeers accompanied every reference to global warming. Enthusiastic boos followed a reference to Nancy Pelosi. She endeared herself to the logging conference crowd by holding her hand up to show what was written on the palm of her hand: “Loggers rock!” - an apparent dig at “lame-stream media” who recently ridiculed her for writing memory prompts on her hand. And toward the end of her talk she complimented logging industry folks when she referred to an administration that talks about green jobs. “You guys were doing green jobs before green jobs...

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The Democrats' reversal "is like a big body blow," said Mr. Jennings. "You either stammer and fall down, or you stammer and regain your balance. What Americans respect are those people who can take a punch and come back."

Howard Stern Confirms ‘American Idol’ Talks Shock jock tells listeners he’d ‘judge a karaoke contest’ for $100 million Howard Stern, the self-proclaimed King of All Media, told listeners he would judge "Idol" for $100 million. By Dylan Stableford Feb. 8, 2010 Howard Stern told his satellite radio listeners on Monday that he is considering leaving Sirius — and radio altogether — to become a judge on “American Idol.” Stern confirmed a report that Fox is interested in hiring the Sirius shock jock to replace Simon Cowell on the reality show. “There’s not a better job on the planet than judging...

MSNBC’s David Shuster became a fan of Fox News’ late-night comedy/news hybrid Red Eye just in time for its three-year anniversary. And it’s coming at a time when the 3amET show is seeing big ratings in the A25-54 demographic – even topping CNN prime time last week. Just like when we highlighted the show’s ratings in September 2009 (which the FNC advertising department enjoyed as well, taking out full-page ads in the New York Post and others), the ratings for last week show Red Eye beating CNN again. This time, the show had better ratings in the A25-54 demographic than...

Organisers of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver were today stubbornly refusing to consider a last-minute venue change after an unseasonably warm weather front put the competition under threat. With just four days until the Games' opening ceremonies, the Canadian city still has not seen any snow. Ironically, parts of neighbouring America have been buried under a two-foot blanket of snow after the worst blizzard in 90 years.

David Horowitz asserted the essentially intellectual nature of Conservatism: “Conservatives are best organized around an issue. (They) are generally already committed to religions in which the savior is not government, but a divinity. Barack Obama and the socialist juggernaut he heads have persuaded conservatives that they are prepared to destroy everything Americans hold dear. So there’s no real problem in organizing conservatives now, just focus on an issue…” This primacy of ideas, as opposed to personality worship or political expediency, demands that conservatives quickly confront the significance and implications of Governor Palin’s endorsement of Dr. Rand Paul, son of Ron...

RIGHT ON— On Sunday the left went bonkers after they discovered that the TelePrompter-less former Governor Sarah Palin wrote notes on the palm of her left hand for her speech to the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville. The far left absolutely freaked over this non-issue rather than focus on her brilliant speech knocking the Obama Administration’s horrid record on economics and national defense. Today Sarah fired back… She wrote “Hi Mom!” on her palm during her campaign stop with Governor Rick Perry of Texas. Hah! Here’s one of the actual photos from Daylife. It’s not a fake:

While the blizzard battered the U.S. East Coast, across the pond British newspapers continued to uncover more problems with the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 report. Walter Russell Mead sums it up: When the glacier story broke, IPCC apologists returned over and over again to a saving grace. The bogus glacier report appeared in the body of the IPCC document, but not in the much more carefully vetted Synthesis Report,

   

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Obama's Super Bowl prediction was based on his opinion that the Colts have "perhaps the best quarterback in history."

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Not really, but Keith Olbermann’s latest conspiracy theory rivals having Republicans under his bed. During last night’s Countdown, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann attacked those “crazy” conservatives for what he perceives as a right-wing conspiracy to convince Americans his show’s ratings are plummeting and his popularity is fading. Of course, the origin of his latest fanaticsm is none other than the uber-liberal L.A. Times. This particular piece appears to have Olbermann bent out of shape: Where they are, as Jeff Bercovici points out over at Daily Finance, is way behind the big boys over at Fox News, Bill O’Reilly and gang....

"...The four patrol cars that were following it crashed against each other and all five cars were destroyed..."

Not just any generic Democrat either. Debra Medina, businesswoman and “tea party acitivist,” 41; Bill White, mayor of Houston, 38. She’s not an “official” tea-party candidate, of course, since there’s no such thing — for the moment. A previous Rasmussen survey of likely Republican voters found Perry leading Hutchison 44-29 with Medina trailing at 16. Now comes word, via a new Rasmussen Reports Poll, that Medina is gaining some traction and today all three of the Republicans lead the likely Democratic challenger, Houston Mayor Bill White. Hutchison still performs the best, beating White by 13 points, 49-36. Perry is second-best...

A Bill Maher quote from his appearance on Jay Leno sparked a thought we Freepers can have fun with. Here's the quote regarding the current impotence of Dems: “They couldn’t sell healthcare. This is something that the American people wanted. This is something that would save lives, save money. And they couldn’t even sell that. “They couldn’t sell a cubscout to a pedophile,” he added. Let's have some fun with this and post other examples of "The Dems are so impotent they couldn't . . . (fill in the blank). Canuck Conservative offered up this bon mot:Democrats are so incompetent...

This is it. The big time. The main room at Uncle Sam's Capitol Dome Casino. It took 20 years working every fleabag state bar and legislative lounge from Cambridge to Hyde Park, but now this singer is finally grabbing that little ol' brass ring they call stardom.

Daschle Gets Stuck in D.C. Snowstorm Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle was caught on video Friday pushing his stranded car in the monster snowstorm pummeling the Mid-Atlantic Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, whose nomination to President Obama's Cabinet was derailed by tax problems last year, was caught on video Friday pushing his stranded car in the monster snowstorm pummeling the Mid-Atlantic. Washington, D.C., affiliate Fox 5 was covering the likely record-setting blizzard when it spotted Daschle, whose car was stuck along the roadway in northwest Washington. One of the station's photographers helped Daschle push the car.

At the National Prayer Breakfast, Barack Obama singled out for praise Navy Corpsman Christian Bouchard. Or, as the president called him, "Corpseman Bouchard." Twice. Hey, not a big deal. Throughout his life, the commander in chief has had little contact with the military, and less interest. And, when you give as many speeches as this guy does, there's no time to rehearse or read through: You just gotta fire up the prompter and wing it. But it's revealing that nobody around him in the so-called smartest administration of all time thought to spell it out phonetically for him when the...

Patches, if your name were - no, I take that back. Patches, you are a joke, period. You are the runt of the litter of the runt of the litter. And the applejack didn’t fall far from the tree.

February 05, 2010 President Concedes Health Care Effort May Die in Congress Obama now signals the bill may die in Congress. WASHINGTON -- No, maybe he can't. President Barack Obama, who insisted he would succeed where other presidents had failed to fix the nation's health care system, now concedes the effort may die in Congress. The president's newly conflicting signals could frustrate Democratic lawmakers who are hungry for guidance from the White House as they try to salvage the effort to extend coverage to millions of uninsured Americans and hold down spiraling medical costs. Obama's comments Thursday night came hours...

WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. - Call it Freedom of Speech. A billboard recently erected in Wheat Ridge compares President Barack Obama to a terrorist and questions his U.S. citizenship. The billboard, located at 4855 Miller Road, shows two cartoonish images of Obama wearing a Muslim turban and reads "PRESIDENT or JIHAD?" It also says "BIRTH CERTIFICATE - PROVE IT!" alluding to the conspiracy theory which claims Barack Obama was born in Kenya rather than Hawaii, which would disqualify him for the office of President. The words "WAKE UP AMERICA! REMEMBER FT. HOOD!" appear on the bottom of the billboard.

I’ll be live blogging Glenn Beck’s show today at 5 PM ET again. If you’re watching the show live as well – or even if you aren’t because, say, you’re at work – be sure to visit NewsReal Blog frequently throughout the show. I’ll be sharing my thoughts on it with you and other readers (and bloggers) will do so as well. Of course we will also host a live chat. As many of you are used to by now, the chat will go live at 4:30 EST. The subject of today’s show (as announced in the daily e-mail the...

Okay, so I just got back from the store...DC is close to a full-blown panic about the storm heading our way. There's an interesting race-to-the-bottom dynamic that overtakes DC when it snows. People hie to the supermarket as if a billion Chinese zombies with frickn' lasers strapped to their heads are about to invade from outer space and nobody knows the correct translation of "Klaatu burada nikto." When I lived in Adam's Morgan (the most New York City-ish DC neighborhood) I was amazed at how people would buy not just canned goods and, say, chili-fixings, but gallons and gallons of...

A Rod report . . . Grab the matches? If it's not one thing, it's another in the life of embattled former Gov. Rod Blagojevich. • Consider: Not only did the feds burn him with a new set of indictments Thursday, but his book tanked -- and his publisher is joking about selling the book covers to Duraflame. • Whaaaa: Julie Chrystyn, the new president of Phoenix books -- which printed 75,000 copies of Blago's book: The Governor -- quipped she was threatening to sell them to Duraflame . . ."to wrap around their fake logs to start fires burning...

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Jerry Doyle, best known for playing the character of Michael Garibaldi on the Emmy Award-winning TV series Babylon 5, is a conservative radio talk show host on Denver’s 101.5 FM, The Truth. Doyle will discuss and sign his new book Have You Seen My Country Lately?: America’s Wake-Up Call ($26.00 Simon & Schuster), his hard-hitting take on the important issues affecting our country—some straight from today’s headlines, some that haven’t yet seen the light of day—that urges all Americans to take back the things that make our country great. Free numbered tickets for a place in the booksigning line will...

George Orwell defined doublethink as “the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them”. For most of us common people, this is impossible except for a woman I was on jury duty with one time. Every time the attorneys made opposing points she whispered, “That makes sense” to herself. By the end of deliberations, the jury decided to go with whichever verdict made sense to her at that moment so everyone could go home. I am sure she voted for Obama like most of his non-socialist supporters, because he sounded good at that...

If President Obama has his way, Attorney General Eric Holder will soon be joined at the Justice Department by another terrorist rights advocate, Dawn Johnsen. Obama has nominated her to lead the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. Given her opposition to enhanced interrogation of terrorist suspects, she provides yet another example that the Obama administration still views Islamic terrorists as criminal defendants entitled to full constituional protections in civil trials, not as unlawful enemy combatants. As if we needed any more evidence! The New York Times, unsurprisingly, is upset about what its editorial today called ”an unreasonable delay” in...

State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore pledged Thursday to keep his campaign "a demon-sheep-free zone." The tongue-in-cheek announcement came in response to a bizarre web video released by former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina's campaign yesterday. The video characterized former Rep. Tom Campbell, who recently joined the California Senate Republican primary, as a "FCINO" -- a fiscal conservative in name only....

While speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast, President Obama mispronounced the word "Corpsman" as "corpse-man."

Here’s another Obama sweetheart deal you won’t see on C-SPAN. This morning, the fate of Boston’s most infamous illegal immigrant, Zeituni Polly Onyango (also known as “Aunt Zeituni”) will be determined in a closed-door hearing. Why in secret? Because Auntie’s saga reveals every embarrassing truth that amnesty advocates and open-borders liberals like Mayor Tom Menino and Gov. Deval Patrick try to hide. The most important being that illegal immigrants don’t get that way without first doing something, well, illegal. President Barack Obama’s Aunt Zeituni admits she illegally overstayed her visa. Instead of obeying the law, she went to a judge...

Ed Schultz, the liberal talk show host, recently visited the WH. He called it a shrine to Obama.

Gaza gunman claims many more bombs still at sea to avenge terror chief's death. Police sappers detonated a bomb found on the Palmahim beach late Wednesday afternoon, the third barrel containing explosives found on Israel's shores this week. Police closed down the entire area and shortly after 4 p.m., sappers blew up the barrel. A large explosion was seen and heard on the beach. The incident comes two days after two barrels containing explosive devices washed ashore on beaches in Ashkelon and Ashdod Monday. Both were destroyed by police sappers. Since Monday, dozens of policemen have been searching for additional...

The key to economic progress is not a revenue equation, but a spending equation, David Walker, former U.S. comptroller general told CNBC on Tuesday. “What threatens our future is not the current deficit; what threatens the future is the glide path of spending and the huge gap of what people have been promised and the revenues that we have to deliver on those promises,” he said. “The so-called off-balance sheet obligations—that’s the ice under the water that could sink the ship of state.”

Remembering this self-deluding rant last year when Bill O’Reilly dared to mock Keith Olbermann’s ratings? OLBERMANN: I hate to intrude with the facts, but ours is the highest rated cable news program [among] viewers 35 and younger, and the highest rated cable news program for all viewers not on Fixed [i.e., Fox] News. And since Fixed News has now migrated completely over to serving propaganda to tinfoil hatters, conspiracy theorists, paranoids and racist, it’s not a news organization, making THIS [Olbermann's] show the highest-rated cable news program, period. Here’s tonight’s big number, as Chris Matthews would say– 44! That’s right,...

Profanity warning. These pro-abortion grandmas cuss a bit in their little song. But you've just got to see this. Hilarious. This is what the pro-abortion movement is down to - Raging grannies. Didn't Newsweek report that it was the pro-life movement that was getting too old? I guess they didn't see this video.Watch Video

In a previous post I discussed the confrontation between Fox News President Roger Ailes and Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington on last Sunday’s This Week on ABC. Let me repeat the relevant portion of the transcript from the video embedded in that post. HUFFINGTON: Well, Roger, it’s not a question of picking a fight. And aren’t you concerned about the language that Glenn Beck is using, which is, after all, inciting the American people? There is a lot of suffering out there, as you know, and when he talks about people being slaughtered, about who is going to be the...

Hey Sen. Paul Kirk - screw! You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here, here being the U.S. Senate. It’s been 15 days now since a Republican won the special election in Massachusetts, and Kirk is still squatting in Ted Kennedy’s office. Hey Paul Kirk - how can we miss you if you won’t go away?

Newser) – Moderate Mark Kirk has won Illinois’ Republican Senate primary, blowing away two conservative opponents backed by tea-party contingents. The congressman has 56% of the vote with more than 82% of precincts reporting—giving him a 37% lead over Patrick Hughes. Analysts predicted that a clear Kirk victory would take much of the steam out of the tea-party movement. On the Democratic side, the Chicago Tribune reports, state treasurer Alexi Giannoulias looks close to clinching the nomination, setting up a fight with Kirk for the Senate seat vacated by President Obama.