August 17, 2012 – 8:33 am
Sure, they wouldn’t (Washington Post) Barack Obama’s re-election campaign kept up pressure against Republican rival Mitt Romney on two fronts Friday, launching a new ad defending the president’s record on Medicare while challenging Romney to release at least five years of tax returns. Obama campaign manager Jim Messina made the tax-disclosure offer to Romney campaign […]
August 17, 2012 – 8:04 am
You read that right: Soledad O’Brien. She must have been confused. Maybe it’s that whole “stopped clock” thing. Or, perhaps CNN is looking to attract more people as their ratings hit rock bottom, so she decided to question Black Caucus leader Emanuel Cleaver hard (Mediaite) But the supposedly “biased†Soledad O’Brien wasn’t taking the President’s […]
August 16, 2012 – 3:02 pm
Surprise! (WRAL) In a surprising turnaround, the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere in the U.S. has fallen dramatically to its lowest level in 20 years, and government officials say the biggest reason is that cheap and plentiful natural gas has led many power plant operators to switch from dirtier-burning coal. Many […]
August 16, 2012 – 1:00 pm
…is a flooded drought world, you might just be a Warmist The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post about the best sign for Romney/Ryan.
August 16, 2012 – 12:54 pm
Um, oops? The United States will suffer a series of severe droughts in the next two decades, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Moreover, global warming will play an increasingly important role in their abundance and severity, claims Aiguo Dai, the study’s author. In the United States, the main […]
August 16, 2012 – 10:29 am
Obviously, this guy has to be a raaaaacist or something (Daily Caller) A Virginia business owner refused a Vice President Joe Biden campaign visit at his three month old bakery on Wednesday because of President Barack Obama’s recent “you didn’t build that†comments. Chris McMurray, the founder and owner of “Crumb and Get it†in […]
August 16, 2012 – 8:17 am
Exactly how bad is the current “recovery” when even the Associated Press feels the need to write an article telling us that it is really, really bad? The AP hasn’t been known for writing that many negative articles while Obama is in office. This one is horrific (Washington Times) The recession that ended three years […]
August 16, 2012 – 7:44 am
Is anyone surprised? The data (we are shown) is garbage, the computer models fail, the people involved fail to disclose their (taxpayer funded) methods and raw data, their prognostications are political and tend to not come to fruition, and the leaders and disciples rarely practice what they preach (Fox News) Inadequate oversight, lax bookkeeping, sloppy […]
August 15, 2012 – 8:06 pm
President Barack Obama talks on the phone with members of the U.S. Olympic women’s gymnastics team during a phone call from Air Force One. The President called the women to congratulate them on their gold medal in the team competition. Apparently, I’m not supposed to do anything mean to official White House photos which are […]
August 15, 2012 – 2:41 pm
Look, I don’t begrudge Obama having a beer. That’s no big deal. But….. (Des Moines Register) There are “two sides to this story,†said Mike Cunningham II, the third generation owner of the 65-year-old Bud Tent. On one hand, Cunningham, 39, appreciated the historical significance of Obama’s visit: His great-grandfather, Lloyd Cunningham, was secretary of […]
