Miss America Pageant Unseemliness
Bush-era interrogation may have worked, Obama official says
The Bush-era interrogation techniques that many view as torture may have yielded important information about terrorists, President Obama’s national intelligence director said in an internal memo. “High-value [...]
Senior Democrat denies wrongdoing in spy probe | Reuters
A senior Democratic lawmaker asked the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday to release secretly taped telephone calls to show that she did not intervene in an Israeli espionage investigation. “If there are tapes out [...]
Lab finds new method to turn biomass into gasoline
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. scientists have combined a discovery from a French garbage dump with breakthroughs in synthetic biology to come up with a novel method for turning plant waste into gasoline, without the need o[...]
Bailouts, Business, and Common Sense
The continuing talk of economic recovery points directly to the heart of our economic woes. Pundit after pundit, expert after expert cites the need to restore consumer confidence in order to get people buying again. The [...]
DNC takes control of Obama’s ‘Web.org’
To build a wall between Obama’s White House and the political organization he built, the mailing list and his Web site, BarackObama.com, are now maintained by the DNC. Beginning with this weekend’s meetings, the DNC [...]
Kindness on the Field
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Stop the Ins-Hannity!
On a recent Sean Hannity show, Sean bemoaned the supposed fact that the mainstream media is Liberal-Biased. He did this by comparing headlines of George W. Bush’s first days in office with the headlines of Obama[...]
The Fed: Dead Wrong on Economic Bailout
The Fed did an abrupt about face on the economic stimulus package by shifting away from saving the housing market to using the $700 billion dollar bailout to get credit card companies and banks to loan more money to the [...]
America’s House of Plastic Cards
Now that the taxpayer bailout of Wall Street has been thrust upon us, it’s time to begin asking, “Will the bailout even work?” And yes, it is a bailout. While some con artists and other unscrupulous peo[...]
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Miss America Pageant Unseemliness
It definitely appears that there’s a lot more to the story in the recent crowning of Miss Carolina, Kristen Dalton over what many saw as the front-runner Miss California, Carrie Prejean. The controversy centers around a… well… controversial question posed by Perez Hilton, a well known gay rights activist. Perez asked: “Vermont recently became the fourth state [...]
Bush-era interrogation may have worked, Obama official says
The Bush-era interrogation techniques that many view as torture may have yielded important information about terrorists, President Obama’s national intelligence director said in an internal memo. “High-value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qaeda organization that was attacking this country,” Director of National Intelligence [...]
