Month: August 2009

New York Times book critic Dwight Garner wrote recently that Karl Marx is back in vogue.NewsBusters reported:New York Times book critic Dwight Garner on Wednesday enthused over a new biography of Friedrich Engels, cooing that Marxism is “back in vogue” and adding that the founding communist comes across as a “jovial man of outsize appetites” in Tristram Hunt’s new biography “Marx’s General.”Garner opened the review by insisting that decrying capitalism is now hip again: “Thanks to globalism’s discontents and the financial crisis that has spread across the planet, Karl Marx and his analysis of capitalism’s dark, wormy side are back in vogue.” Related: Obama merchandise a big seller at the MSNBC store.One popular item is the “Yes We Did!” T-shirt.

Green Peace leader Gerd Leipold recently admitted that his organization’s claim that the Arctic Ice will disappear by 2030 was “a mistake.” However, he defended the organization’s practice of “emotionalizing” issues: Sadly, Al Gore still claims that the North Pole will disappear in another 3 years.Global temperatures continue to drop since reaching a peak in 1998.McClatchy reported:Official government measurements show that the world’s temperature has cooled a bit since reaching its most recent peak in 1998.That’s given global warming skeptics new ammunition to attack the prevailing theory of climate change.

The National Automobile Dealers Association is urging the federal government to shut down the Cash for Clunkers program immediately.

The leak streak continues…(Are We Lumberjacks)The New York Times continued to leak politically motivated classified security information this week.

800 meter champion asked to undergo a gender verification test.

Barney Frank held a town hall meeting tonight with his constituents.He insulted them and yelled, “What’s wrong with you people?”It went off about as well as expected– Frank continuously talked down to his constituents and insulted them:Via HannityFrank to his constituents:”Do you really think that’s thoughtful conversation?

A woman screamed “Heil Hitler” at a Jewish man today at a town hall event in Las Vegas.Legal Insurrection discovered that the woman who screamed “Heil Hitler” was wearing an Israeli Defense Forces T-shirt.Breitbart has video.(The woman is acting really weird though.)Considering Obama captured 77% of the Jewish vote and anti-Semitism runs rampant on the Far Left and nutroots blogs, it’s likely the woman belongs to some democratic group and is not a conservative.Sorry libs.

Drudge is reporting–NYT: DEMS PLAN TO GO IT ALONE ON HEATHCARE…

The Far Left Attack Machine is targeting Glenn Beck.Last week they started a campaign threatening Beck’s sponsors.Defend Glenn has the latest.Yesterday, they reported that Beck’s sponsors were pulling their ads

The Real Cuba reported: Cuban dictator Raúl Castro thought that he was in Cuba, where he can talk for as long as he wants and people have no choice except to listen to him.During a concert on Monday night in Ecuador as part of the celebration of the swearing in of Rafael Correa, Raúl Castro began talking and talking and talking for almost 10 minutes.He got booed.Here’s the video:Notice that Obama’s pal Former Honduran President Mel Zelaya is standing with Hugo Chavez on stage in the background.

“Always love your country — but never trust your government!”Robert Novak as quoted by The Chicago Sun-Times.Conservative columnist and former CNN “Crossfire” co-host Robert Novak died after a yearlong battle with cancer.

Here is my latest column at American Issues Project:Cutting Costs To Include Cutting Addicts & the Elderly?”Canada’s top doctor: The health care system is ‘imploding’.” That was the headline on the Drudge Report this past Sunday.

On August 6, 2009, black man selling conservative flags and pins was attacked by the SEIU members at the Russ Carnahan town hall meeting.

Disgusting…A fashion model launched her first collection complete with Osama Bin Laden shirts.The Local reported, via :Swedish model Ida Pyk launched her first collection this week featuring shirts with pictures of Nicolas Sarkozy, Osama bin Laden or Swedish politician Maud Olofsson on them.

The Toyota Corolla is the top selling car in the Cash for Clunkers program.Cash for Clunkers is a big boon for Japanese carmakers.The Financial Times reported, via LGF:The US’s cash-for-clunkers scheme, designed to bolster Detroit’s embattled carmakers, is turning out to be an even bigger boon for their Japanese rivals.According to data published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Monday, Americans are using the scrappage incentives to buy more vehicles from Toyota than any of the three Detroit carmakers.Toyota has an 18.9 per cent share of vehicles bought so far, putting it ahead of General Motors with 17.6 per cent and Ford with 15.4 per cent.

Taxpayer funded NPR wonders if the anger over socialized health care is Jim Crow 2.0?Sweetness and Light notes that NPR interviews Kai Wright, a staffer for racist Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., for its hit piece on conservative town hall protesters.Your tax dollars at work.For some reason they skipped over the Kenneth Gladney story in the segment.More…

With the nation facing an enormous power grab by the government, the Democrat-media complex jumps into gear.

You just can’t make this stuff up–Rep.

ABC’s John Stossel reported on the Canadian health care system in July.Stossel uncovered several disadvantages to the nationalized system including long lines and waiting lists for treatment.This week Canada’s top doctor announced that the Canadian system is “imploding.”Doctors are meeting in Saskatoon to discuss changes that must be made.The Canadian Press reported, via the Drudge Report:The incoming president of the Canadian Medical Association says this country’s health-care system is sick and doctors need to develop a plan to cure it.Dr.

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Amazing– Jamaica’s Usain Bolt broke the 100 meter world today- 9.58 seconds:And it looked like he held up at the end.

Several public pools in Great Britain are now forcing female swimmers to wear Muslim burkinis.The Telegraph reported:British swimming pools are imposing Muslim dress codes in a move described as divisive by Labour MPs.Under the rules, swimmers – including non-Muslims – are barred from entering the pool in normal swimming attire.