The Hill: Obama tries to channel … Bill Clinton?!

President Obama must be getting really desperate. Today he some time out from all the White House parties and went to Fairfax, VA to attempt to emotionally connect with a middle-class family in their own backyard. According to The Hill, the President was “seeking his inner Bill Clinton” so he could “feel voters’ pain.” Isn’t [...]

Afternoon Comic Relief: British Teen Banned from U.S. for Life for Sending Rude E-Mail to Obama

Is this for real? A British teenager who sent an email to the White House calling President Obama an obscenity was banned from America for life, The Sun reported Monday. The FBI asked local cops to tell college student Luke Angel, 17, his drunken insult was “unacceptable.” Angel said he fired off a single email [...]

Monday News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!!! As usual, there isn’t a whole lot of cheerful news to report. Before he begins his long week of partying, President Obama will have to meet with his “war council” to discuss the deteriorating (disastrous?) situation on the ground in Afghanistan. Jake Tapper: Despite the best efforts of media-charmer and Afghanistan Commander [...]

Sunday News Roundup

Good Afternoon Conflucians!! It certainly has been an interesting week with the media focusing on one crazy nutcase who wanted to burn a book. Funny how they don’t focus on similar crazy nuts who want to burn other records or books. Let’s just say we’re all a bit hyper sensitive lately. OK, no, it’s just [...]

And y’all were trippin’ on Arizona?

From the NY Fishwrapper: The Lake Shore Limited runs between Chicago and New York City without crossing the Canadian border. But when it stops at Amtrak stations in western New York State, armed Border Patrol agents routinely board the train, question passengers about their citizenship and take away noncitizens who cannot produce satisfactory immigration papers. [...]

Nine Years Later

Tori Amos, “I Can’t See New York” : Good morning, everyone. Today is September 11, 2010. I want to start my Saturday post off with the words of Madame Secretary Clinton herself: Nine years later, the memories of September 11, 2001 remain searingly vivid. Loved ones and friends whose lives were cut short. Brave first [...]

You are who you went to school with

Dumbest non-Bowers post of the decade: Rush Limbaugh, Pastor Terry Jones Were High School Classmates Terry Jones, the Florida pastor threatening to burn a Koran tomorrow on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, was a high school classmate of Rush Limbaugh…. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann was one of the first to call attention to the Limbaugh/Jones [...]

PG&E Pipeline is Source of Massive San Bruno Fireball

From the Guardian UK: The natural gas industry is coming under intense scrutiny today, after a massive fireball ripped through a ruptured pipeline in a suburban town near San Francisco, killing at least four people, injuring dozens more, and burning more than 50 homes to the ground. The cause of the fire, traced to a [...]

Friday Late Morning News and Views

Good Morning, Conflucians!!!! That nutty preacher in Florida, Terry Jones, is still dominating the news this morning, while our government wages war around the globe and the Obama administration fights tooth and nail to cover up the war crimes committed by the Bush administration. And of course the media is completely ignoring the BP gusher [...]

Open Thread: 2012

John Smart thinks the world would be just and sane if Hillary were President. Sanity is something Obama appears to lack, and it shows. He refuses to say he will veto an extension of the Bush tax cuts. President Obama on Thursday refused to commit himself to vetoing legislation that would temporarily extend the Bush [...]