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LIVE AT FIVE – 06.24.11

TOP NEWS Captured Cellphone Offers Clues To Bin Laden’s Pakistani Ties Call records show links to longtime catspaw of ISI JCS Chairman Admits Withdrawals Faster, More Than Recommended By Pentagon Admiral Mullen questioned by House Armed Services Committee Quake Shakes Aleutian Islands 7.2 magnitude quake does no damage to remote, mostly uninhabited islands off Alaska […]

Teen Bride’s Mom: ‘Courtney Is Used to This Type of Reaction Towards Her’

There was a strong reaction to yesterday’s post about Courtney Stodden, the 16-year-old aspiring singer who married her 51-year-old manager, actor Doug Hutchison, and so I’m sure readers will find lots to say about this bit of information: Courtney’s new husband is four years older than her father. That’s just one item in Sasha Bogursky’s […]

Biden Debt-Ceiling Talks Collapse as Republicans Cantor, Kyl Walk Out

Several weeks of Potemkin “bipartisanship” go down the drain as Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats refused to agree to any debt-ceiling deal that didn’t include tax increases. Jon Kyl has not yet issued a statement, but Eric Cantor explains his exit: [A]s it stands the Democrats continue to insist that any deal must […]

‘Community Organizing’: Not a Joke

My buddy Matthew Vadum has a new book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s Red Shirts Are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers, and it includes a very interesting passage (p. 27) where Newt Gingrich said Republicans were wrong to treat Obama’s “community organizing” career as a joke: The GOP’s mockery “trivialized Obama and Obama is […]

You Stay Classy: Liberals Now Peddling Gay Smear on Texas Gov. Rick Perry

My reaction on Twitter last night was brief and blunt. It is astounding that they’d do this and I’d rather ignore it altogether, but now the desperate and ridiculous gay smear against Rick Perry has been promoted at both Politico and New York magazine. Isn’t it interesting how so many high-minded journalists who sneered at the Anthony Weiner […]

Geert Wilders Not Guilty of Hate Speech

A big victory for free speech in Europe. The courageous Dutchman’s most enthusiastic American admirer Pamela Geller is celebrating. I trust commenters will alert us when Charles Johnson tries to rationalize this latest defeat for his “Eurofascist” smear campaign. UPDATE: Could he possibly be more predictable? Let’s pause first to ask whether anyone did more […]

Obama’s Afghanistan Speech

Frankly, I’m bored with Obama by now, so why blog about his speech, except that he interrupted primetime TV to make it? From the transcript: In the days that followed [the 9/11 attacks], our nation was united as we struck at al-Qaida and routed the Taliban in Afghanistan. Then, our focus shifted. A second war […]

Thank’ee, Bernanke

by Smitty It looks like ‘action’ now means ‘value’: The Fed would be “prepared to take additional action, obviously, if conditions warranted,” including the purchase of more Treasury securities, Bernanke said yesterday after U.S. central bankers met in Washington. <shatner_voice> Farce… the Financial Frontier. These are the voyages of the Federal Reserve. Its five-score-year mission: […]

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