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In the very last days of his presidency, George W. Bush was so desperate to locate Osama bin Laden that he reportedly invited son Omar bin Laden to the White House. This, of course, according to Omar bin Laden himself; a spokesperson for the White House refused to confirm or deny the previous administration's activities. Bin Laden tells a Spanish newspaper that White House staff visited him in Qatar in January 2009 to make the invitation. "They invited me to accompany them to the White House, offered to defend, help, and protect me, on the condition that I helped them...

Speaking to public sector workers in Madison, Wisconsin last week liberal film maker Michael Moore made this statement: “America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash.” Michael Moore is an interesting study in contradiction. He’s made a career of trashing his country, and made a fortune doing so under the same capitalistic economic system he so bitterly criticizes and tries so hard to discredit. Question: Does a successful capitalist have any credibility at all trashing capitalism? Normally, no, but that doesn’t stop Mr. Moore, who is upset that the country’s wealth...

That whole up-is-down, black-is-white thing that the Left’s got going does leave a sane person wondering if they’re all off their meds. How else to explain professional blowhard Michael Moore’s appearance on Colbert this week, where he offered up several big heapin’ helpings of crazy. Bet you didn't realize Professor Moore was a scholar and expert on all things Founding Father-related? Or that he and Thomas Jefferson had so much in common? Check it out: Quite a compendium of misleading statements, outright lies, and utter nonsense, no? The coup de grace has got to be that mangling of the legacy...

Michael Moore tweets that President Obama should return his Nobel Peace Prize after he approved military strikes on Libya.

After his last cinematic attack on Americana went by virtually unnoticed (Capitalism: A Love Story should have been called Capitalism: A Hypocrite's Story), uber-leftist Michael Moore pretty well faded from public view. A kind of Moore-fatigue set in, even with his most ardent fans. His run of edit-biased, pseudo-documentary propaganda films came in rapid succession, and by the time Capitalism was made - and his muse George W. Bush was out and Moore's guy Barry Obama was president - he all but disappeared. But, like an annoying wasp at a picnic, Moore has reappeared with an outburst slamming Obama over...

I recently watched a video of actress Susan Sarandon being interviewed at the protest in Wisconsin. Susan bravely cheered for solidarity, decried plutocracy in America and she spoke out about those horrible, greedy people known as ‘The Wealthy.’ Of course, I naturally thought she was talking about HERSELF. After all, Susan Sarandon has been a famous movie star for many decades, and I was pretty sure she had accumulated quite a bit of money. But no, apparently “The Wealthy” Sarandon spoke of was Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker (or as she called him, “idiot Walker”). “It takes a lot of courage...

The U.S. Department of Education is investigating a faculty member's complaint that a series of pro-Palestinian events at the University of California, Santa Cruz have crossed the line into anti-Semitism and created a hostile environment for Jewish students.

During a photo shoot for a Tel Aviv radio station (a photo shoot for radio?), model Orit Fox got a little too friendly with a snake she was posing with. Apparently after licking the snake (groan), it lashed out and latched on to her left breast. While it took several seconds to dislodge the reptile, Fox wasn't seriously harmed. The snake, however, reportedly died from silicone poisoning. You can't make this stuff up.

Our hatred of the Jews is based upon our faith Egyptian cleric Salam Abd al-Qawi, Al Nas TV (Egypt), January 8, 2009 But that barely scratches the surface. For mendacity and a deep depravity, you would be hard pressed to find antisemites who surpass the Muslim leaders and "scholars" in this video.

Disingenuous filmmaker Michael Moore is using the Wisconsin public labor dispute as a tool to get his bulbous head back in front of the TV cameras. He held up handcuffs during Rachel Maddow’s nightly left-wing rant on MSNBC. He wants to use them to arrest very wealthy people – presumably including himself. The last time we checked, he lived in a very big mansion in northern Michigan and has an estimated personal value of about $50 million. Has anybody noticed Moore redistributing his own wealth to the poor, working masses? He’s also called for a student walk-out in Wisconsin High...

The ratio of government handouts to wages and salaries in the United States is now at an all-time high. According to TrimTabs Investment Research, government handouts have reached a level that is equivalent to 35 percent of all wages and salaries in the United States. Considering the fact that this figure was only 21 percent back in the year 2000 and only 10 percent back in 1960 that is very frightening. The sad truth is that today the American people are more dependent on direct government payments than they ever have been before. What this does is that it...

Not to worry, Moore promises one of those tranquil conflicts devoid of violence. What is it about self-proclaimed peace lovers that they are so often bellicose? Latest example -- the agitprop filmmaker's appearance on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow show last night, coming shortly after the GOP-led Wisconsin state senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to curtail collective bargaining for most public employees. After Maddow introduced Moore and praised his "barnburning speech" in Madison over the weekend, Moore said this: I just want to say, anybody who lives within driving distance of Madison, Wisc., right now should make...

Everybody's favorite fake-umentary maker, Michael Moore, showed up on the set of "The Rachel Maddow Show" Wednesday night to pout viciously about Republicans finally growing a pair. The Republicans in Wisconsin have taken a page from the Democrat playbook and used the rules to get around the fugitive senators holding the legislature hostage. So sorry to break up the water park party boys and girls, but some elected officials still think their job is to see to the business of the state (even if it means foregoing a ride on the Ragin' Rapids.) The Wisconsin Republicans went around the quorum...

"This is war," Michael Moore declared last night on MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show." The porcine propagandist referred to the Wisconsin Senate's 18-1 vote earlier in the evening in favor of legislation, supported by Gov. Scott Walker, that would strip politicians of the power to reward government employee unions for their political support by committing taxpayer money to their members' extravagant pensions and other fringe benefits. The near-unanimity of the vote belied the controversy over the legislation. The Wisconsin Senate has 33 members: 19 Republicans and 14 Democrats. Only Republicans participated in yesterday's vote. The Democrats--beneficiaries of the scheme through which...

With the spotlight on Wisconsin’s union thugs rampaging across the state, one wonders why it took propaganda filmmaker Michael Moore so long to put himself in front of the news cameras to take some of their publicity for himself. But this weekend, Moore finally glommed onto the cameras making himself out to be a great supporter of the union’s efforts in the Badger State. Once again, though, Moore proves to be a hypocrite. It was Moore, after all, that excluded using union workers in one of his recent films. Some supporter of unions! Filmmaker Moore attend a recent Wisconsin pro-union...

Michael Moore is enraged after the Wisconsin State Senate voted to strip public unions of the ability to collectively bargain. Speaking on MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show," Moore said "they think they can get away with this." Moore also calls for a "student walk-out" across the nation on Friday in response to the Wisconsin vote. "This has to continue day after day and these governors have to step down," Moore declared. "The rich have committed these crimes and the people will demand your ass is in jail," Michael Moore said with a pair of handcuffs on the set of Maddow's show....

It was only a matter of time. I'm surprised it took this long. Michael Moore has finally added his shrill voice to the cacophony of thugs in Wisconsin. "Right now the Earth is shaking and the ground is shifting under the feet of those who are in charge," said Moore... "America is not broke ... Wisconsin is not broke," Moore said. "The only thing that's broke is the moral compass of the rulers(...)" Repeatedly saying "America is not broke," Moore said "the country is awash in wealth and cash ... It has been transferred in the greatest heist in history...

"America is not broke," filmmaker Michael Moore told a group protesting against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's attempts to curb public employee union collective bargaining in Madison over the weekend. "Neither is Wisconsin." Forget Wisconsin's projected two-year $3.6 billion budget shortfall. Forget this year's $1.65 trillion in federal deficit spending. Any claim that Wisconsin - or Washington - is broke, Moore claimed, is "a Big Lie." "We reject anyone who tells us America is broke and broken," he explained. When President George W. Bush was in the White House, Democrats railed against deficit spending. Now they don't even seem to notice...

NPR was jolted Tuesday by the release of a videotape that showed one of the organization’s fund-raising executives repeatedly criticizing Republicans and Tea Party supporters. The executive, Ronald Schiller, was recorded secretly by the Republican filmmaker and mischief-maker James O’Keefe. On the videotape, Mr. Schiller tells people posing as Muslim philanthropists that the Republican party has been “hijacked” by the Tea Party and that Tea Party supporters are “seriously racist, racist people.” Mr. Schiller indicates that he is sharing his personal point of view, not NPR’s.

The documentary filmmaker was in Wisconsin yesterday, slamming Republicans for cutting union benefits. Michael Moore has a message for Wisconsinites: Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe -- so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had -- America is not broke. The claim came at the beginning of a speech delivered by the documentary filmmaker and liberal firebrand at the Wisconsin State Captiol yesterday. Over the course of 30 minutes, Moore railed against Republicans, who he accused of misleading the American public when they claim that...