What the Van Jones pick tells us about Obama
Nail, meet sledgehammer (via ST reader Cump).
VIDEO: Kanye West interrupts Obama speech
Ok – well, not really, but it’s a cute parody of yet another rude and uncalled for moment in the career of Bush-hating rapper Kanye West:
RIP, Patrick Swayze
Just read the news via Andrew Malcolm at Twitter, just found the story via AP:
Why Democrats think it’s ok to punish ACORN now
Michelle Malkin liveblogged the Senate vote earlier this evening on the issue of funding ACORN in the current transportation and appropriations bill. Tonight, they voted 83-7 to not include funding for ACORN in those bills, which was a welcome sight to see, considering their routine funding and praising of them during the Bush administration in spite of the repeated instances of corruption and wrongdoing that were widespread across the country.
How Obama’s election has NOT helped “race relations”
Many of us predicted it would happen way before he was elected President: Barack Obama has not helped race relations. Before he was elected, scrutiny of him by opponents was treated as “racist” in nature. And not just from conservative opponents. Hillary and Billy Clinton were on the receiving end of the “racist” accusations at the start of the primaries in January 2008, and those accusations were fostered by none other than Obama himself and higher-ups in his campaign staff. The accusations continued throughout the primary and general election campaign seasons, especially once it the sunlight shone a little brighter on Obama’s 20 year relationship with his racist “spiritual mentor” the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
NY Post slams NY Times for failure to report on Van Jones scandal
Columnist Kyle Smith lays the smackdown on what should have been a huge story in MSM circles – and what would have been a huge story in MSM circles – had the occupant in the WH been named “George W. Bush”: