Taking Aim at the President: The Remarkable Story of the Woman Who Shot at Gerald Ford
Liberalguy (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Jack Kelly "President Obama took his massive ego and sparse historical knowledge to Asia last week. The results were so ugly even the New York Times took notice. "Obama's Pacific Trip Encounters Rough Waters," was its headline over a news analysis Thursday." "Has a president ever been less successful on a trip overseas than President Obama has on his eight day excursion...
Zada News (Free subscription) | yesterday
I wince a bit when Michelle Obama chides her husband as a mere mortal ‘ comic routine that rests on the presumption that we see him as a god… But it may not be smart politics to mock him in a way that turns him from the glam JFK into the mundane Gerald Ford, toasting [...]
FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
By Nat Hentoff Newspaper Enterprise Courtesy Of The Newton Daily News In “Capture or Kill? Lawyers eye options for terrorists” (National Public Radio, Oct. 11), exceptionally alert investigative reporter Ari Shapiro said: “Many national security experts interviewed for this story agree that it has become so hard for the U.S. to detain people that in many instances, the U.S. government...
Acton Institute PowerBlog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
President Ronald Reagan was far from the common Republican. If anything he was the exception to the rule in a party dominated by moderates and pragmatists. It’s one of the overarching themes of Craig Shirley’s new and epic account Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America. The book follows Shirley’s masterpiece Reagan’s Revolution, a study...
Third Base Politics (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Upon hearing that Obama's approval rating had dropped below 50 in nearly every major poll, I've read many Democrats deflect the plummeting rating by highlighting that Reagan went below even faster than Obama. Rich Galen does his part to make sure those same Democrats have something else to think about: The Gallup folks announced that Obama's approval rating has dropped below 50 percent for the first...
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The NYT is running an article that speaks as if the GOP has a future in this country: The trick [of regaining power], some Republicans said, is to guide populists’ energies toward an optimistic agenda built on those themes. “If we don’t take this anger and frustration, as legitimate as I believe it is, and channel it into a good, a positive, then we won’t be successful,”...
The American Street (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
. Lagniappe: Arlen Spector and Gerald Ford can Fuck Off . Comix, comics, comixx, comic strips, editorial cartoons, cartoons, comic books, underground comix, satire, parody, Republicans, political cartoons Zencomix
Pushing Rope (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Lagniappe: Arlen Spector and Gerald Ford can Fuck Off . Comix, comics, comixx, comic strips, editorial cartoons, cartoons, comic books, underground comix, satire, parody, Republicans, political cartoons Zencomix
The Aristocrats (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Lagniappe: Arlen Spector and Gerald Ford can Fuck Off . Comix, comics, comixx, comic strips, editorial cartoons, cartoons, comic books, underground comix, satire, parody, Republicans, political cartoons Zencomix
The old Highlander Blog (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
The Democratic Party or should we say the Lawyers Party.. Why do we get this picture in our head when someone mentions lawyers....? Barack Obama is a lawyer. Michelle Obama is a lawyer. Hillary Clinton is a lawyer. Bill Clinton is a lawyer. John Edwards is a lawyer. Elizabeth Edwards is a lawyer. Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate he has been studying...
Terrierman's Daily Dose (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
From Network , 1976. Gerald Ford was President. Add in a dolop of racism, a hefty bag of ignorance, four conspiracy theories, and a tax scam. Place in large corporate payola cauldron, and percolate through Fox News. Season with blast email and garnish with a Bible quote, Ayn Rand, or your own theories about economics, law, and the United Nations. Goes well with Stupid on a Stick. Serve with a hot American...
Transform Drug Policy Foundation (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
I had a great opportunity today to discuss global drug policy on the BBC World Service (broadcast internationally) with Dr Robert Dupont , the first director of the US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the second US Drug Tsar from 1973 to 1977 under former presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. It was a refreshing change to have a decent amount of time to talk through some of the issues...
ProudToBeCanadian Blog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Gallup reports today: Obama Job Approval Down to 49% November 20, 2009 Gallup Daily tracking from Nov. 17-19 shows President Barack Obama’s job approval slipping to 49% for the first time in his presidency. Among post-World War II presidents, only Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton, and Ronald Reagan dropped below the symbolic majority approval level faster than Obama did. Also see chart I posted earlier...
My view by Silvio Canto, Jr. (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Pres BO's trip to China was a disappointment, specially if you believe that the US should say something about human rights. Also, didn't candidate BO say this in 2008 : "Way back in March 2008, widespread protests erupted across the Tibetan plateau and were brutally crushed by a massive Chinese security response. On March 28, then-Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama, who had previously...
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Gallup: Obama’s Approval Rating Drops Below 50% For First Time The latest Gallup Daily tracking results show 49% of Americans approving of the job Barack Obama is doing as president, putting him below the majority approval level for the first time in his presidency (hat tip: Politico). Of the post-World War II presidents, Obama now is the fourth fastest to drop below the majority approval level,...
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