Daily Archives: August 13th, 2010 «

 

President Obama endorses Ground Zero mosque – on “freedom of religion” grounds

Posted by: ST on August 13, 2010 at 10:49 pm » 27 Comments

Awesome. He doesn’t mind wee weeing on National Prayer Day, but a mosque deliberately being built near the sacred site of thousands were killed in blatant acts of naked terrorism by Islamofascists is an ‘core to the values of America.’ Now, excuse me while I throw up a little in my mouth. Phineas butts in: [...]

 

It’s official: “Transparency” you can believe in has left the building

Posted by: ST on August 13, 2010 at 7:25 pm » 4 Comments

Tim Carney files this disturbing report: Obama transferred “ethics czar” Norm Eisen to the Czech Republic to serve as U.S. ambassador. Some of Eisen’s duties will be handed to Domestic Policy Council member Steven Croley, but most of them, it appears, will shift over to the already-full docket of White House Counsel Bob Bauer. Bauer [...]

 

WaPo

Posted by: ST on August 13, 2010 at 6:33 pm » Comments Off

FDA approves ‘ella’ for use as emergency contraception

 

CNN

Posted by: ST on August 13, 2010 at 6:28 pm » Comments Off

U.S. Civil Rights Commission hearing erupts into shouting

 

AP

Posted by: ST on August 13, 2010 at 6:24 pm » 1 Comment

Longshot US Senate candidate from SC [Alvin Greene] indicted

 

A young person’s guide to the Constitution

Posted by: Phineas on August 13, 2010 at 1:00 pm » 4 Comments

Today’s Klavan on the Culture provides a youth-oriented lesson on just what the Founders were trying to protect America from way back then … and right now: Oh, and some laughs, too. (Crossposted at Public Secrets)

 

LAT

Posted by: ST on August 13, 2010 at 10:34 am » Comments Off

Defense chief Gates orders review of Marines’ role

 

Nanny state Happy Meal police prepare to strike again

Posted by: ST on August 13, 2010 at 10:27 am » 17 Comments

This time in – where else? – San Francisco (via William Teach): A serious move is afoot to force fast-food giants to make kids meals more nutritionally viable if they want to sell them with kid-luring toys. In San Francisco, newly proposed legislation would ban toys from most kids meals sold at McDonald’s, Burger King [...]

 

NYT

Posted by: ST on August 13, 2010 at 10:05 am » Comments Off

Rare Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s

 

The Hill

Posted by: ST on August 13, 2010 at 10:02 am » Comments Off

‘Professional left’ not ready to back an Obama primary challenger in ’12