US Airways plane en route to Charlotte, NC crashes into Hudson River; all survived
Hats off to the pilot, crew, rescue team, and passengers for their quick thinking and fast action! Thank God everyone’s ok.
Did Obama bungle it again with another cabinet pick?
There are a lot of questions surrounding Timothy Geithner, PEBO’s pick for Treasury secretary. Here’s the latest:
The AP on “extravagent inaugurations” then versus now
Newsbusters’ Rich Noyes reports on how the Associated Press treated Bush’s “extravagent” inauguration in 2005 with Obama’s inauguration – which is said to be the most expensive in history:
On the defining issue of our time, how will history view President Bush?
Over the last year or so we’ve been treated to stories from the MSM about “historians” who suggest that President Bush will be remembered as one of the “worst” in history, if not the worst. While his domestic policies aren’t making anyone happy these days (and in fact, he will leave office next week with an approval rating in the low 30s), when it comes to foreign policy, specifically the global war on terror – the defining issue of our time – it is the one issue where more often than not, he got it right.
Humorous story about Grace and Calvin Coolidge
Shortly after Christmas, I made my usual calendar run to pick up any I didn’t get for Christmas (I’m a calendar junkie – I have one several in rooms around the house and the 8-5) and picked up a neat page-a-day one I had not previously seen in all my years of calendar shopping. It was called “[The] Secret Lives of US Presidents and First Ladies” and on each day, they have a little factoid not widely known about former presidents and their respective wives.
Obama meets with liberal columnists – PLUS: Andrew Sullivan hypocrisy watch update
Well, it was to be expected, seeing as to the dinner he had last night with select conservative columnists, and his near-obsession with trying to please everyone – which I fear will get the US of A hurt in the long term.