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New York Times: 'It's Even Cool to Wave the Stars and Stripes' Because
Byron York from NRO's The Corner Blog noticed an interesting little tidbit in The New York Times on January 18. In the Times' recounting of all the interesting events going on in the Capitol surrounding the inauguration of The One, the Times seemed very excited that it was suddenly "cool" to be patriotic.
WASHINGTON is suddenly hip again, infused with the heady double-barreled combination of a…
Michelle Obama, First Recessionista
The new First Lady's fashion choices may be affordable in the eyes of the media but they still remain out of the budget of many average people.
'Fox & Friends' Discusses Power of Prayer With Plane Survivor
On Sunday, the good folks at "Fox & Friends" interviewed a survivor of the Miracle Plane that safely landed in the Hudson River Friday. Apparently, like many of the other passengers, Fred Berretta, a private pilot, said some prayers before the plane hit the water (video embedded below the fold):
WaPo: Inaugural Pilgrims 'Loaded with Luggage But Lightened by Hope
"The president-elect popped into a party at Bobby Van's restaurant, as well as The Washington Post's newsroom, where hard-bitten journalists fumbled for their cellphone cameras and reached for his hand."So noted Post staffer Paul Schwartzman in his January 18 Metro section front-pager "Mr. Obama's (Giddy) Neighborhood." Yet for a supposedly hard-bitten bunch, the Posties sure are giddy over Obama…
Media Matters Bashes NYT for Exposing Sundance's Green Hypocrisy
The good folks at Media Matters for America are displeased with the New York Times having the nerve to point out the hypocrisy inherent in environmentalists destroying the environment.For those that don't actually care about such things, the Sundance Film Festival began last Thursday, and as the video embedded right demonstrates, the organizers are supposedly going to great lengths to make this…
Top 100: Actors, Bands and Singers Converge to Celebrate Obama
With HBO now showing “We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial” (to be re-run from 7-9 PM EST/PST tonight and again at 11:30 PM EST/PST), featuring a “who's who” of artists, I thought I'd provide my list of one hundred celebrities planning to celebrate Obama's inauguration over the next few days in DC.I've collated the list of people and groups -- those scheduled to…
Muslim With Ties to Hamas to Address Inaugural Prayer Service
A Muslim religious leader with alleged ties to the terrorist group Hamas is scheduled to address President Barack Obama's inaugural prayer service on Wednesday.Given the recent hostilities in Israel surrounding Hamas, irrespective of a just-announced ceasefire, one has to wonder how much attention this matter will get from Obama-loving media which are also largely pro-Palestinian.Although…
Obama-Loving HBO, Will Ferrell Team Up to Bash Bush on Broadway
HBO not only bought the rights to broadcast Obama-hallowing Inauguration events. Patrick Healy of The New York Times reported on Wednesday it’s also bankrolling Will Ferrell’s one-man Broadway stage show mocking George W. Bush called "You’re Welcome, America" over the next few months. (They’ll also air it on HBO in March.) Ferrell talked to the Times about Bush’s election in 2000: "It was just…
NFL Championship Sunday Open Thread
It's NFL Championship Sunday, and the teams that will compete in the Super Bowl two weeks from now will be decided.Are you ready for some football?Joe Concha is, and he's got us covered below the fold:
Did NewsBusters Help AP Notice Inauguration Spending Hypocrisy
On Saturday, the Associated Press published an article that not only questioned the rationale behind President Barack Obama spending huge sums of money on his inauguration while the economy is in the middle of the worst recession in decades, but also noted how critical some were four years ago of how much President Bush was spending on his second inauguration.Interestingly, NewsBusters Senior…
Open Thread: Doesn't Matter Our State's Broke If Obama's President
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Lisa Gladden (D), a Maryland state senator, made the following asinine statement last week (video embedded right):It doesn’t matter if the state of Maryland is broke as long as Barack Obama is President of the United States – this is great! Isn't that special? A freelance writer from Maryland had this to say:
Hysterical Hansen Hype: Obama 'Has Four Years to Save Earth
This is a hopefully good news, bad news post.First, the bad news: James Hansen, head of NASA's the Goddard Institute of Space Studies is still bloviating about the catastrophes that await us because of what yours truly and others refer to as globaloney (the belief that the earth is dangerously warming, that human activity is the cause of the warming, and that radical steps that would cause huge…