It’s Not About Newt
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The statement being sent to the GOP elite isn’t about Newt, and it goes beyond even Romney. It is about a deep dissatisfaction that has been building for years within the Republican rank and file.
george @ January 28, 2012
‘Thank You, Warren.’ ‘No, Thank You, Mr. President!’
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One hand washes the other.
george @ January 28, 2012
Obama’s Love of Neo-Soviet Russia Shines Through in SOTU Address
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President Obama is once again placing Russian interests before American ones in the hopes of scoring cheap election-year PR.
george @ January 28, 2012
Is Newt Gingrich Canoodling with the Truth?
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In order to snag a candidate who can explain the conservative platform, many Republicans seem willing to overlook Newt Gingrich’s tawdry adulterous past as well as his loose grasp on the truth, which seems to loosen more by the day.
george @ January 28, 2012
Buffett’s Bunk
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Buffett’s assertions about tax fairness are a gross and deliberate misrepresentation of the facts and simply cannot go unchallenged.
george @ January 28, 2012
Contesting Leftists in Democrat Primaries
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Conservatives must not simply surrender the Democratic Party to the left.
george @ January 28, 2012
An Army of Magic Alexes
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When it comes to spending, there is one place in particular where the Democrats and the Beatles can find common ground.
george @ January 28, 2012
And Just How Do You Define ‘Fair’?
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“Fair” is one of those warm, fuzzy words that allows the listener to define it to his own personal taste — and the definition changes from one specific case to another.
george @ January 28, 2012
‘Hope and Change’ in a ‘Precautionary Principle’ Administration
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If there is one lesson I learned from the debates over how to stop the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico during the BP oil spill, it is how strongly committed the Obama administration is to the “Precautionary Principle.”
george @ January 28, 2012
The Time for Social Security Reform Is Now
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It might not seem sympathetic, but Republicans should have good reason to oppose this extension of the recently agreed-upon 2% payroll tax holiday.
george @ January 28, 2012
Georgia Ballot Challenge: Obama Walks On By
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Two reports from yesterday’s hearing in Georgia over Obama’s eligibility for the presidential ballot.
george @ January 28, 2012
Why America Hates Its Politicians So Much
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Today, American Idol appears to be the litmus test for electing a president. Is someone cool, hip, and exciting? Is he/she good-looking? On that basis Obama is eminently qualified.
george @ January 28, 2012
Heads Up, America: Time to Take Back Our Kids
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Something that has bugged me for years is the way ’60s-generation movie and TV producers think it is “far out” (cool) for kids to speak disrespectfully to their parents.
george @ January 28, 2012
Saving Private Fido
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If I ever needed reminding that the words “compassion” and “government” should never appear in the same sentence, this was it. I could not let Fido drown.
george @ January 28, 2012
Israel and the US Perspectives on Iran at Odds
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Where and how the United States and Israel differ in their analysis of the problem posed by Iran’s nuclear activity.
george @ January 28, 2012
Romney’s Business Credentials Offer Parallel to Kerry
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Florida’s Delegate Selection Process Still Undecided
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Santorum: Obama Wants to Use Colleges as Propaganda Tool
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Florida Tea Party Leaders Form Coalition for Gingrich
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Republican Debates Attract Ratings, Critics
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Florida Rep. Rivera: Gingrich Only Candidate With Track Record
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NC Gov, Governor Perdue Won’t Seek Second Term, AP Says
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Liberal Groups Spend Big on Anti-Romney Ads in Fla.
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Romney’s Riches Less Than Past Presidential Candidates
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This Week In Quotes: Jan 20-26
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(If the rich are evil) why are you sitting in their library? Why are you sitting in their hall? Why did I just listen to a whole show on orangutans with no commercials that they paid for? — Adam Carolla
The buzz in Washington now is that the Republican Establishment fears Gingrich will cause them to lose the House and not get the Senate. Put another way, the current Republican leadership fears that the man who helped the GOP take back the House for the first time in 40 years and …
george @ January 28, 2012
Mr. and Mrs. Cranky Pants
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So, it turns out that the cool cat billed as “No Drama Obama” by his sycophants is actually quite the drama queen. While the White House publicly pretends to ignore conservative detractors of his administration, Chief Touchy-Touchy seems to be personally consumed by our critiques. Yes, mine included.
On Wednesday, the president had himself a mini-”Toddlers and Tiaras”-style meltdown with Arizona GOP Gov. Jan Brewer after landing in Phoenix for a post-State of the Union dog-and-pony show. As Brewer told pool reporters on the scene, Obama took umbrage at Brewer’s recent …
george @ January 28, 2012
Obama’s vision for a Spartan America
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President Obama’s State of the Union address was disgusting.
The president began with a moving tribute to the armed forces and their accomplishments. But as he has done many times now, he celebrated martial virtues not to rally support for the military, but to cover himself in glory — he killed Osama bin Laden! — and to convince the American people that they should fall in line and march in lockstep.
He said of the military: “At a time when too many of our institutions have let us down, they exceed all …
george @ January 28, 2012
Obama’s Misstatements on the Union
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Only a president long shielded from criticism and accountability could make the kind of State of the Union speech President Obama did Tuesday night. It’s hard to know where to begin, given his repetition of tired ideas from his previous SOTUs, his taking credit for successful policies he resisted and omitting failed ones he promoted, his numerous misrepresentations on issues big and small, and his glaring refusal to address the main issues that threaten the nation.
Let me touch on just a few highlights in this brief space.
Excessive spending is the …
george @ January 28, 2012
February Is Romney’s Month
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If Mitt Romney wins in Florida, he will likely sweep the month of February and have a clear path to the nomination. Romney’s people have doubtless been using their influence at the state level to line up friendly states for February caucuses and primaries. Now he is in a position to sweep the table if he wins in Florida.
On Saturday, Feb. 4, after the Florida primary, comes Nevada, a heavily Mormon state that Romney carried four years ago. On the same day, Maine will begin a weeklong process of caucuses. …
george @ January 28, 2012
Analysis Of The Republican Jacksonville, Florida Debate
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So, we have our last debate for awhile. This one was moderated by Wolf Blitzer and as per usual, the debate started out with lots of fighting and then moved on from there into a relatively mediocre group of questions.
3) Newt Gingrich: If I absolutely had to split Mitt and Newt apart here, I’d put Newt in the three slot and Mitt in the four slot, but neither of them was good tonight. Newt, for reasons I don’t completely understand, chose to have a long, drawn out battle with Mitt …
george @ January 28, 2012
Q&A Friday #111
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Today is Q&A Friday #111 at Right Wing News.
So, if there’s a subject you’ve been wanting me to tackle or an issue you want to hear my opinion on, just ask your question in the comments section. Your question can be on just about anything: politics, ideology, history, blogging, RWN, movies, music, literature, or TV. It can also be from any ideological perspective, conservative, liberal, libertarian — you name it. Then later today, I’ll select some of the more interesting questions and answer them.
PS: Disqus had a tech issue that …
george @ January 28, 2012
Mrs. Gingrich’s Revenge
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All the male commentators and pundits got it wrong! Marianne Gingrich’s sorrowful remembrances of her marriage to Newt Gingrich have indeed arisen to bite the former speaker’s candidacy.
Both the Rasmussen and the Monmouth University Polls show Mitt Romney pulling ahead of Gingrich in Florida. After the former speaker opened the primary with a 9-point lead, he now trails Romney in both surveys by almost 10 points. Monmouth has Romney ahead by 39-32, and Rasmussen has him up by 8 at 39-31.
There are, of course, many reasons for this turnaround: Romney’s …
george @ January 28, 2012
John Derbyshire on ranking Romney’s wealth, Newt’s plan to colonize the Moon, Pat Buchanan sacked by MSNBC, and much more.
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Listen to John Derbyshire on ranking Romney’s wealth, Newt’s plan to colonize the Moon, Pat Buchanan sacked by MSNBC, and much more.
george @ January 28, 2012
The Double Standard on ‘Hoes’
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Remember when Don Imus saw his cushy CBS Radio and MSNBC career go up in smoke in 2007 when he tried very early one morning to make one of his fake misanthropic jokes about the Rutgers women’s basketball team being “nappy-headed hoes”? Black activists demanded his firing. Advertisers fled. The corporate suits, appalled and fearful of the terrible publicity, canned him.
But if you’re a black rapper, terms like this advance your career. The female rapper Nicki Minaj has a very hot new video called “Stupid Hoe.” She uses that same …
george @ January 28, 2012
Democrat hypocrisy: 36 Obama aides owe $833,970 in back taxes to the IRS
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From Investors Business Daily.
Excerpt:
How embarrassing this must be for President Obama, whose major speech theme so far this campaign season has been that every single American, no matter how rich, should pay their “fair share” of taxes.
Because how unfair — indeed, un-American — it is for an office worker like, say, Warren Buffet’s secretary to dutifully pay her taxes, while some well-to-do people with better educations and higher incomes end up paying a much smaller tax rate.
Or, worse, skipping their taxes altogether.
A new report just out from the Internal Revenue Service reveals that 36 of …
george @ January 28, 2012
Why obama is Toast
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This just in from the Associated Press:
The Commerce Department said Thursday new-home sales fell last month to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 307,000. The pace is less than half the 700,000 that economists say must be sold in a healthy economy.
About 302,000 homes were sold last year. That’s less than the 323,000 sold in 2010, making 2011 the worst year on records dating back to 1963.
http://news.yahoo.com/home-purchases-fall-2011-worst-ever-sales-152515874.html
This doesn’t bode well for the current White House occupant, who’s staking his re-election on a two pronged strategy of attacking Republicans and spinning …
george @ January 28, 2012
The Hollywood Connection Between Democrats and SOPA
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Congress is supposed to represent the interests of everyone. But what happens when powerful special interests contribute heavily to lawmakers’ election campaigns? Last week Americans on the political right and left lined up to oppose SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and its Senate counterpart PIPA, the Protect IP Act. Internet giants like Google, Wikipedia, Mozilla and Tumblr went black for 24 hours last Wednesday, declaring it “American Censorship Day.” Google’s anti-SOPA petition received 4.5 million signatures. Prominent internet engineers sent a letter to Congress expressing their concerns. Fortunately the …
george @ January 28, 2012
Gingrich Sorta Calls For Amnesty For Some Illegals
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This apparently caused a bit of a kerfuffle
(Washington Times) Fighting to curry favor with Florida’s large pool of Hispanic voters, Newt Gingrich on Wednesday called for a guest-worker program for most illegal immigrants, but his campaign could not say whether those people would be on a path to citizenship – the key question in the immigration debate.
Under close questioning by Univision’s political host, Jorge Ramos, Mr. Gingrich said he would grant quick citizenship rights to illegal immigrants who join the military or to those who have been in the U.S. …
george @ January 28, 2012
Testy President Gets Testy With Gov. Jan Brewer
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Obama is not particularly happy when people write bad things about him, because he is the anointed one. He’s the only one that can say bad things about people and/or throw them under the bus. Everyone else is just supposed to sit there and take it when Obama bad mouths them (see SOTU 2010 when he abused the Supreme Court for one)
(The Politico) It was a tense moment on the tarmac.
President Obama, alighting from the stairs of Air Force One in Phoenix this afternoon, was greeted by Arizona Governor Jan …
george @ January 28, 2012
The Establishment Was Right About….(Pic)
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Interviewing Mark Levin About His New Book, “Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America.”
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Mark Levin’s Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America “will debut at #1 for all four categories on the New York Times nonfiction.” Just to give you an idea of how popular this book is, there are lines 1500 people deep waiting in the snow to get signed copies of the book.
I’ve already read the book, liked it, and yesterday, I had an opportunity to talk to Mark Levin about it. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation.
All right, first question, Mark: one of the criticisms of the conservative …
george @ January 28, 2012
Is Anybody Serious?
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The Republican candidates’ circular firing squad now seems to be using machine guns. Whoever the eventual “last man standing” turns out to be, he may not be standing very tall or very steadily on his feet — and he may be a pushover for Barack Obama in the general election, thanks to fellow Republicans.
Whether you are a Democrat, a Republican or an independent, this is a very serious and historically crucial time for the United States of America. What Mitt Romney did or did not do when he was with …
george @ January 28, 2012
Fidelity and the presidency
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The news media seem obsessed with the serial affairs of a younger Newt Gingrich back in the last century. The anger of his second of three wives mysteriously became national news on ABC’s “Nightline” on the eve of the South Carolina primary. Millions watched Mrs. Gingrich II complain that Newt and the present Mrs. Gingrich III had done to her (while ill) just about the same thing that she and Newt had earlier done to Mrs. Gingrich I (while ill).
Do these marital dramas involving our leaders matter that much? At …
george @ January 28, 2012
Newt Declares War on Media
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The Republican re-embrace of former Speaker Newt Gingrich says a lot about whom he sees as his opponent — and it isn’t just President Barack Obama. It’s the media.
If not for major media’s embrace, Obama would still be sitting in the Senate, perhaps mulling another run for the presidency. A UCLA economist-political scientist recently tried to measure how the liberal media bias influences the way people vote. He concluded that this bias gives the Democrat candidate 8 to 10 percentage points.
Republicans understand this. So does Gingrich — on a very …
george @ January 28, 2012
A presidential rerun
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Summertime is usually when TV networks air repeats of shows we’ve already seen. In his State of the Union Address Tuesday night, the president got a five-month jump on the summer season by re-running a class-envy video he has broadcast more times than local stations have shown episodes of “The Andy Griffith Show.”
Instead of a credible assessment of the state of the union, which is not good, the president delivered a slightly toned down campaign speech. We heard more of the same about how “the rich” aren’t paying their “fair …
george @ January 28, 2012
Obama’s Game Plan: Do Nothing
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Toward the end of his State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama observed that Washington politicians should learn from the example of the U.S. military: “When you’re marching into battle, you look out for the person next to you, or the mission fails.”
Obama recalled the successful Navy SEAL mission that, under his watch, took out Osama bin Laden and observed, “The mission only succeeded because every member of that unit trusted each other — because you can’t charge up those stairs, into darkness and danger, unless you know that there’s …
george @ January 28, 2012
Unlike Obama, GOP Candidates Talk Seriously About Governing
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You know politicians are serious when they move from campaigning to governing. Something like that may be happening on the Republican campaign trail — but, unfortunately, not at the Obama White House.
Campaigning clearly carried the day for Newt Gingrich in South Carolina, where he beat Mitt Romney by a 40 percent to 28 percent margin. It’s generally agreed that Gingrich clinched the race when he reacted angrily to questions by Fox News’s Juan Williams and CNN’s John King.
Both times Gingrich got standing ovations. But not for how he’d govern. His …
george @ January 28, 2012
Re-Elect Obama: Vote Newt!
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To talk with Gingrich supporters is to enter a world where words have no meaning. They denounce Mitt Romney as a candidate being pushed on them by “the Establishment” — with “the Establishment” defined as anyone who supports Romney or doesn’t support Newt.
Gingrich may have spent his entire life in Washington and be so much of an insider that, as Jon Stewart says, “when Washington gets its prostate checked, it tickles [Newt],” but he is deemed the rebellious outsider challenging “the Establishment” — because, again, “the Establishment” is anyone …
george @ January 28, 2012
State of the Union or Wishful Thinking?
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The 2012 State of the Union address has come and gone with little change in the White House’s view of the world. This is unfortunate. America needs viable solutions, not more wishful thinking.
Most disturbing is the continued, steadfast insistence that doubling America’s corporate tax rate will somehow create middle class jobs. After repeated failures by the current Administration to productively invest taxpayer’s money in green energy companies like Solyndra, what track record exists to support the assumption that government can invest the people’s money more wisely than those who earned …
george @ January 28, 2012
Chicago Sun-Times Shows White Flag: No More Political Endorsements
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The Chicago Sun Times has received your message loud and clear, dear readers. As much as admitting that they are biased and they know it, the long-time Windy City staple has decided that hence forth it will no longer endorse candidates for political office.
In a Sunday editorial, the 71-year-old paper announced its new policy amusingly touting the Old Media’s party line that it engages in “unbiased news coverage” and that newspapers today wish to “appeal to the widest possible readership.”
“They want to inform you, not spin you,” the editorial avers. …
george @ January 28, 2012
434 People Killed in Iraq Since U.S. Pulled Out
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Since the United States military withdrew from Iraq in the middle of last month, 434 Iraqis have been killed in attacks across the country, according to security officials, one of the highest tolls for that amount of time in the past few years. The latest attack occurred Friday when a suicide bomber detonated a car filled with explosives near a funeral procession in a Shiite neighborhood. The procession was for a man who had been fatally shot, along with his wife and son, a day earlier by insurgents. According to security officials, 31 people, including 8 police officers, were killed…
george @ January 28, 2012
Parents in School District Push Back on Planned Parenthood
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CLIFTON PARK – The year 2012 starts with a renewed firestorm over an old controversy — sex education — at Shenendehowa schools. The district pulled Planned Parenthood experts from its health curriculum after 20 years. But the group of parents that wanted Planned Parenthood out is now asking the district to go a step further by implementing Sexual Risk Avoidance Education. This type of program, advocates say, would include state-mandated information on AIDS, sexually transmitted infections and contraception, while encouraging abstinence.
george @ January 28, 2012
SF Sheriff Mirkarimi caught in gun control net he helped cast(CA)
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“Although San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi was a strong advocate of gun control while on the Board of Supervisors, he surrendered 3 handguns when police recently booked him on misdemeanor domestic violence charges,” KCBS reports. Mirkarimi apparently owned them while sponsoring legislation last summer to bolster San Francisco gun control laws against a lawsuit by the National Rifle Association. “Mirkarimi was elected sheriff in November after serving seven years as one of the city's more liberal supervisors,” Fox News tells us. Indeed, “As a longtime member of the progressive bloc on the Board of Supervisors, Mirkarimi was a vocal advocate…
george @ January 28, 2012
Sudden unification could cause 3.65 mln N. Koreans to enter S. Korea: report
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2012/01/24 14:32 KST Sudden unification could cause 3.65 mln N. Koreans to enter S. Korea: report SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Yonhap) — Sudden unification between South and North Korea could cause a flood of refugees across the land border that could rock the local labor market, a business organization said Tuesday. A report by the Korea Employers Federation (KEF) predicted that if the North Korean regime collapsed suddenly, up to 3.65 million people from the communist country may cross over into capitalist South Korea. "Even under a conservative estimate, up to 1.61 million North Koreans may move to South Korea, mainly…
george @ January 28, 2012
Video: Romney vs. Newt on immigration, Santorum vs. Romney on RomneyCare
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Endgame?
Two highlights of the evening, both via BuzzFeed. Remind me again, what’s the evidence from this interminable debate series that Newt would totally PWN Obama in the debates this fall? He’s had two memorable moments, one attacking Juan Williams and the other attacking John King, neither of whom is actually running for president. All day [...]
george @ January 28, 2012
S. Korean ex-spy's asylum confirmed in U.S.(price of taking on a traitor)
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S. Korean ex-spy's asylum confirmed in U.S. WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (Yonhap) — A U.S. court has upheld a 2008 ruling to grant political asylum to a former South Korean intelligence agent who claims to face threats from both South and North Korea, sources here said Tuesday. Kim Ki-sam, who left South Korea's state spy agency in 2000, applied for asylum in the U.S. in 2003, saying he would face persecution and prosecution if he was forced to return to South Korea because he had revealed information about secret operations to help then-President Kim Dae-jung win the Nobel Peace Prize. One…
george @ January 28, 2012
N. Korea: Golf genius Kim is gone, but NK tournament remains
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01-25-2012 09:56 Golf genius Kim is gone, but NK tournament remains Even the fairytale rise to implausible golfing kingship depicted in the Hollywood blockbuster "Happy Gilmore" doesn't come close to the storybook achievements of Kim Jong-il, the late North Korean leader who died last month. North Korean legend has it that, on his maiden round, the country's No. 1 man blew away even the earthly brilliance of golf greats Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as he carded, wait for it, 11 holes-in-one. Now, the scene of "Dear Leader" Kim's astonishing feat has been opened up to an entirely different field…
george @ January 28, 2012
Documents say DOJ knew of Fast and Furious connection day after Terry murder(gunwalker)
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Email from aide appears to demonstrate Holder perjury “Emails Show How 'Fast and Furious' Ambush News Unfolded At Justice Dept.,” NPR reports tonight. For the first time, the Justice Department has made public a series of sensitive messages that passed to the highest levels of the agency within hours of an ambush that killed a U.S. border patrol agent…The email messages show the former top federal prosecutor in Arizona, Dennis Burke, notifying an aide to Holder via email on Dec. 15, 2010 that agent Brian Terry had been wounded and died. "Tragic," responds the aide, Monty Wilkinson. "I've alerted the…
george @ January 28, 2012
Friday Doc Drop: Emails Say Holder Was Alerted Over Death Of Brian Terry
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Any time an administration wants to release bad news, they do it on a Friday night. How bad are these DOJ emails? I’m sure Darrell Issa will have some pointed questions for Eric Holder on Monday
(NPR) For the first time, the Justice Department has made public a series of sensitive messages that passed to the highest levels of the agency within hours of an ambush that killed a U.S. border patrol agent along the Southwest border in December 2010, igniting a national scandal over a gun trafficking investigation …
george @ January 28, 2012
