On his show last Friday, Glenn Beck did something quite unusual for a guy who makes his living scaring people into thinking that America is on the road to communism — he promoted an idea straight out of the Paris Commune of 1871, an idea considered by the Commune to be a necessary stepping stone [...]
Have you noticed that there seems to be a very high correlation between angry citizens in Arizona who favor a major seal-the-border surge to cut off entry for illegal immigrants, and the Tea Partiers who continue to grab the headlines by shouting at the government to get smaller and stay out of our lives? But there’s also a major contradiction, to wit: Which small government does the Tea Party have in mind to hire and train the thousands of additional border guards and deploy all the new technology it will take to “seal” the border? Who’s gonna pay for all that?
President Obama has failed his mandate. It’s not a happy thing to have to say. Many won’t agree, desperately fending off the obvious. The campaign sloganeering, well, it turned out to be just that. All the worse that so many had hoped otherwise. Obama has been embarrassingly supine in dealing with the know-nothings. The end game of which is what, exactly?
ACORN, an umbrella organization of community groups that serves poor people in major cities across the country through housing, legal advocacy, family services, and higher wages, has lost all federal funding, after decades of working for low-income, disadvantaged Americans.
The website Mediaite obtained an e-mail written by from Fox News Vice President of News and Washington managing editor Bill Sammon and sent to Fox News D.C. bureau staffers. The e-mail was sent after a Fox News producer was caught pumping up the crowd during the 9/12 tea party broadcast. From: Sammon, Bill Sent: Monday, [...]
Editor’s note: This video was removed from the Internet Tuesday by the person who created it without explanation. We have not found another version available for embed. However the video can be viewed at this link.
Some additional interview footage that did not make it into the original 9.12 D.C. Tea Party film, which can be seen here. This film was produced and edited by New Left Media’s Chase Whiteside (interviewer) and Erick Stoll (camera operator).
Rick Sanchez took Fox News to task Friday for claiming in a newspaper ad that the network, along with other news outlets, failed to cover the tea party protests in Washington, D.C. last weekend. Here’s the transcript: RICK SANCHEZ: There is something that I got to tell you now. If you watch this show every [...]
Here is the question that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was asked during her weekly press briefing Thursday and her full answer. Q: Madam Speaker, in terms of the political tone, the tone of the debate, [House Majority Leader Steny] Hoyer said earlier this week he thought it was the most vitriolic since ’93-’94. [...]
