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Global Warming allies left scratching their heads as Dear Leader arrives at summit in a 8mpg Panzer... Most Americans are no longer surprised by Obama's do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do liberal duplicity on issues such as smoking, green lifestyles, or personal modesty/frugality. And anyone who did actual DD on Obama's environmental platform back in '08 can tell you his last ride before arriving in DC to heal the earth was a 300hp Chrysler 300 Hemi. But the starry-eyed European Left is still coming out of the hopenchange ether, so many of them were appalled that even as the EU's left-leaning leaders -Obama's best carbon-trading...

It’s been more than three months since we first told you about Capt. John Kerry’s high-seas tax dodge on his new $7 million yacht, Isabel, and the town of Nantucket still doesn’t have a check from the senior senator! You may recall that Kerry lowered the flag and surrendered in July, agreeing to pony up more than $400,000 to cover state taxes on the toney tub. Mr. Teresa Heinz broke out the checkbook four days after the Track set off a furious tempest with our report that he had purchased the 76-foot floating palace and ported her in Rhode Island,...

Robert Reich, who was Bill Clinton's Secretary of Labor, attempts to scare corporate America away from the tea party in today's Wall Street Journal. In his piece titled "Why Business Should Fear the Tea Party" he does his level best to convince businesses that the ideas of the tea party are too extreme and will hurt business. Reich even argues that the IRS is actually a good an necessary part of our government (although he can't put into words why). What sticks out like a sore thumb is Reich's analysis of the tea party. Reich assigns and maligns tea party...

From the Daily Mail...my "editorial" comments are in (bold).. Green-minded campaigner Al Gore has been left red-faced after being accused of leaving his car running for almost an hour while he gave a lecture on sustainable development (because this environazi power-pimp has to take steps to make sure the "problem" never actually goes away.).  It is alleged that Gore made the gaffe while he spoke at the School of Business, Economics and Law in Gothenburg, Sweden on Wednesday. (Are they sure it wasn't clown school?) His mistake was compounded further by the fact that he had asked his distinguished...

Busted! The (formerly) anonymous bean-spiller, who sold a sleazy story to Gawker about hooking up with Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell on a Halloween night three years ago, has been identified. Dustin Dominiak, 28, was outed by his former roommate Brad Kurisko to The Smoking Gun soon after realizing the photos used in the story showed Dominiak wearing his borrowed Boy Scout uniform.

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Pork Parade has another member, and he’s a chip off the ol’ block. Congressman Duncan D. Hunter (R-CA-52) has picked up where his father, former Congressman Duncan L. Hunter, left off. The freshman member is doing his best to bring home the bacon for some of his biggest campaign donors, one of which is a company founded by his uncle. At the same time, Congressman Hunter touts his commitment to cutting government spending on his own website. It seems the best way to maintain government funding is to donate to Mr. Hunter’s campaign. “The rotten apple doesn’t fall...

Remember Linda Chavez? She had to withdraw from consideration for a cabinet post because one of her employees was an illegal alien. So how about Nancy Pelosi, who would be third in line for succession if she becomes Majority Leader? Investors Business Daily brings us the following information about her family—owned vineyard. As Peter Schweizer notes in his best—selling expose of liberal hypocrisy, "Do As I Say (Not As I Do)," part of the fortune of this defender of the working man is a Napa Valley vineyard worth $25 million that she owns with her husband. The vineyard produces expensive...

Don't read Newsweek magazine while drinking a beverage. A spit take is the obvious first reaction to a column by Julia Baird headlined "The Shame of Family Films." On the Internet, this article is coded as "Why Family Films Are So Sexist." Baird's denunciation of Hollywood's fraction of decent entertainment began: "They have all been smash hits: 'Finding Nemo,' 'Madagascar,' 'Ice Age,' 'Toy Story.' Fish, penguins, rats, stuffed animals, talking toys. All good innocent family fun, right? Sure, except there are few female characters in those films. There are certainly few doing anything meaningful or heroic -- and no, Bo...

Rev. Al Sharpton and the NAACP once again lobbed charges of racism at the Tea Party, this time from the New Jersey NAACP state convention in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. The focus of the convention was, according to organizers, the "all-out assault on civil rights as the mid-term elections approach." What could be leading this assault? The Tea Party, of course.Sharpton was the keynote speaker. On Saturday, he told the crowd, "the basis of the Tea Party is antithetical to civil rights." He also said, "We are in trouble in terms of civil rights in this country." It was the...

President Barack Obama, who invoked his own Christian faith recently in seeking to quell anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States, attended church in Washington on Sunday for the first time in about five months. Obama and his family strolled a block from the White House to St. John's Episcopal Church, a place of worship for many of his predecessors, for an hour-long service. It was one of just a handful of times Obama has gone to church in Washington since taking office in January 2009, and follows opinion polls showing that as many as one in five Americans falsely believe...

Accusations of abuse clash with family-man image built by owner of Brown hand clinicThe day before Michael Brown turned himself in Aug. 24 on a charge accusing him of beating his fourth wife, the Brown Hand Center's marketing department sprang into action. The department pulled from the airwaves some of the advertising that has helped make Brown such a wealthy and familiar figure in Houston, the former surgeon who, surrounded by his wife and kids, promises his carpal tunnel clinics "will care for you just as I care for my own family." "That's not a message Brown wants out there...

Sacrifice is something that many Americans are becoming all too familiar with during this economic downturn. It was a key theme in President Obama's inaugural address to the nation, and he's referenced it numerous times when lecturing the country on how to get back on its feet. But while most of the country is pinching pennies and downsizing  summer sojourns - or forgoing them altogether - the Obamas don't seem to be heeding their own advice. While many of us are struggling, the First Lady is spending the next few days in a five-star hotel on the chic Costa del...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have made a surprise visit to a popular hamburger spot just outside the nation's capital.....

The war in Afghanistan is bigger than one general and is bigger than one President. It was not easy for President Obama to realize the general he personally picked did not leave up to the standards for leadership. It was not easy for him to appoint the hero from the evil Bush years that gave us the success in Iraq: General Petraeus. But Obama, The Commander-in-chief, made the right decision. Now the US President has to find the courage to recall the other member of the dysfunctional team: the US ambassador to Afghanistan Eikenberry, who is equally responsible for the...

Unconscionable. Offensive. Hurtful. Bigoted. Terrible. Hateful. These are the words being used to describe Helen Thomas' recent comment about Israel and Palestine. Editorialists across the country have condemned her statement that Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine" and "go back" to Europe. If, however, it is unacceptable to say that Israeli Jews don't belong in Palestine, it is also unacceptable to say that the Palestinians don't belong on their own land. Mainstream politicians, civic leaders, university presidents and others in this country routinely express their support for Israel as a Jewish state, despite the fact that such a...

U.S. President Barack Obama joins in the applause after signing the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington in this June 22, 2009 file photo. Obama telephoned Philippine President-elect Benigno Aquino to congratulate and offer advice on how to quit smoking.»

In case anyone is questioning it, celebrities are terribly concerned about the Gulf of Mexico. Actor Sean Penn has said he "cares about New Orleans." Actor Brad Pitt has spent days in the region assisting with relief efforts. And Jamie Foxx has raised more than half a million dollars to help those living in the area put their lives back together. Oh, wait: That was in 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina - when George W. Bush was President. Back then we saw A-listers come out in droves to shout about the man in charge, draw attention to the...

Tuesday -- and it has already stirred controversy with shocking scenes including nun rape, bondage, dirty dancing and sex scenes. Rival pop star Katy Perry is among those angered by the clip, accusing Gaga of using cheap tactics and blasphemy to get attention. "Using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke," the singer said on her Twitter account.

Bill Clinton calls La. senator 'sinner' in fundraising letter 12:45 PM, June 8, 2010 ι By DAVID SEIFMAN Former President Clinton has sent out a fundraising letter on behalf of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee under his own name warning that Republicans are trying to "derail' President Obama's agenda. Not much unexpected there. But along with the letter, Clinton has included a flyer from the DSCC that's bound to raise eyebrows. "DSCC funds go towards efforts to unseat far-right Republican senators like admitted sinner David Vitter..." the flyer says, referring to the Louisiana senator who admitted patronizing a prostitution service...