Final Week Open Thread – Video Edition

We wanted to do something radically different from everybody else, so we thought we’d discuss the most memorable events of 2010. What were your favorite videos, television shows and other visual events of the year?

Never doubt the Clown

Salon reports what I predicted a year and one-half ago: Doubting Sarah A chorus of criticism and doubt about Sarah Palin is emerging from an unlikely and telling source: Republicans Sarah Palin is widely considered to be a leading candidate for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. And while an October story in Politico made a [...]

Gallup – The Most Admired People of 2010

I know you all have been waiting with bated breath for the annual Gallup poll results and here they are: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton Are 2010′s Most Admired President Barack Obama is Americans’ Most Admired Man of 2010, substantially ahead of the former presidents, iconic religious leaders, and others who fill out the top 10 [...]

Monday: Promises, Promises or Why Does Robert Samuelson Hate America?

There is snow in my driveway.  I thought this stuff was supposed to turn to rain.  Already, the rhythmic scraping snow shovel on asphalt is coming from my neighbors’ driveways.  I have to get out there and shovel before I’m the only one with snow in my driveway and the cul de sac shuns me [...]

Feminazis Framed Him

WikiLeaks founder baffled by sex assault claims [...] Mr Assange regards himself as a victim of radicalism. “Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism,” he said. “I fell into a hornets’ nest of revolutionary feminism.” See, that’s what happens when you let them bee-yotches learn to read. Next thing you know they want to vote [...]

Trying Times

Banks and WikiLeaks The whistle-blowing Web site WikiLeaks has not been convicted of a crime. The Justice Department has not even pressed charges over its disclosure of confidential State Department communications. Nonetheless, the financial industry is trying to shut it down. [...] The Federal Reserve, the banking regulator, allows this. Like other companies, banks can [...]

My New Best Friend

I was redirected to the YouTube channel, Mompetition, from Lenore Skenazy’s excellent blog Freerangekids.  The creator of Mompetition, a cancer researcher and helicopter mom skeptic, and I seem to have a lot in common.  Check it out: Now, I have made no secret of my dislike of SAHMs.  Some of our former frontpagers, who incidentally [...]

Oh goodie! More Potemkin townhalls and television appearances

I don’t make this stuff up. Honestly, I don’t: Jarrett: Obama to spend more time outside of Washington in 2011 President Obama will spend more time outside of Washington, D.C., next year engaging with he public, according to a top White House adviser and close friend of the president. One year before Obama faces reelection, [...]

Sunday News

Good Morning Conflucians!! Hope you survived the holidays. So far. If you’re visiting family, drink up. If you’re dealing with just your household, you’ll need another batch. The picture above is of the red room at the White House this year. What, your holiday preparations don’t look that neat. Join the club. Later in the [...]

Christmas Aftermath Open Thread

My big surprise this Christmas was my middle child and his girlfriend came down from Olympia Washington. So I saw both my sons and grandsons, spoke to my daughter in Indiana and got new pictures of my granddaughter. Not my best Christmas ever, but it’s better than average. Maybe even top ten. So how was [...]