In next year’s GOP primary to take on vulnerable Democrat Sen. Bill Nelson, conservatives are rallying behind Adam Hasner as the best hope of avoiding the RINO George Lemieux, who has described himself as a “Charlie Crist Republican“:
With several contenders for the Republican nomination, it’s important to unite conservatives behind one candidate to prevent Lemieux from winning. Hasner is a former state legislator who supported Marco Rubio against Crist in the 2010 campaign, and he has the endorsement of Erick Erickson of Red State, Ohio’s Ken Blackwell and talk-radio host Mark Levin. As a sitting senator, Rubio isn’t going to endorse a candidate in the primary, but many of his grassroots supporters are on Team Hasner, including our Florida blog-buddy Sarah Rumpf.
No need to guess which view of Andrew Breitbart the New York Times endorses. Peters managed to work “jowly” and “husky” into his description of Breitbart, but the key to the presentation is how he depicts Breitbart as (a) a media whore, and (b) a controversial ideologue. “Part performance artist, part polemicist, Mr. Breitbart, 42, has used his network of Web sites and their legions of followers to bring conservative media red meat.”
Perhaps someone can do a Lexis-Nexis search and tell me if the New York Times ever described David Brock’s Media Matters, Ariana Huffington’s Huffington Post or Markos Moulitsas’s Daily Kos in similar terms.
It’s fascinating to see how these reporters feel the need to provide little cues to tell their readers what to think.
Here are a couple of video reports from EuroNews about this week’s big economic question: Can Greece deal with its debt crisis or will default trigger a global economic meltdown?
The good news, such as it is: French banks have reportedly agreed to a plan to roll over Greek debt. However, Germany’s finance minister doesn’t sound optimistic: “We are doing everything we can to prevent a perilous escalation for Europe but must at the same time be prepared for the worst,” Wolfgang Schaeuble said, invoking the specter of 2008, when “the world was able to take coordinated action against a global and unpredictable financial market crisis.”
Recall that the 2008 meltdown led to the Dow Jones Industrial Average — which had been above 12,000 in June 2008 — falling below 7,000 by March 2009. If Europe dodges the Greek bullet this week, stocks should gain, but the threat of civil unrest in Greece is sufficiently serious that there have been rumors of a military coup.
Contagion of Greece’s debt problems to the rest of Europe could be worse than the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2008, Deutsche Bank Chief Executive Josef Ackermann said on Monday. . . .
“If it is Greece alone, that’s already big. But if other countries are drawn in through contagion, it could be bigger than Lehman,” he said at a Reuters banking conference on Monday.
“The fact of the matter is, we have on the table all kinds of revenue raises that they keep calling tax increases. How do you call closing loopholes to oil companies that are making billions of dollars in profits, closing up these loopholes that would generate $40 to $50 billion in revenue, how do you call that a tax hike? That is no tax hike. You only hike taxes when you raise rates. We are not asking anybody to raise anybody’s rates. We want us to have an effective tax collection and close these loopholes, stop giving billions of dollars in breaks to millionaires and billionaires.”
— Rep. James Clyburn, South Carolina Democrat
When I heard this Sunday morning on “This Week,” I was amazed. Under no circumstance will any Democrat ever agree to any meaningful cut to any federal spending program. And so their only answer to budget issues is always: Raise taxes.
Yet they are now trying to finesse the rhetoric, so that tax increases aren’t really tax increases. No, it’s “revenue raises” and “closing loopholes” — as if Americans are too stupid to understand that, call it what you will, Democrats are still the party of tax-and-spend.
Florence Henderson, the actress who played perky mom Carol Brady in the beloved family sitcom, says she once got crabs after a one-night-stand with career politician John Lindsay, who was the mayor of New York City at the time.
Henderson, now 77, recounts in her upcoming memoir that she was cheating on her husband during the 1960s . . .
“I was lonely. I knew it wasn’t the right thing to do. So, what did I do? I did it,” she writes in “Life is Not a Stage,” set for publication in September.
Henderson went home later that night, and awoke to a grisly surprise the next day as she saw “little black things” crawling over her bed and body.
An urgent call to a doctor took care of the problem, known medically as pubic lice, and Lindsay sent her flowers and a note of apology.
“Guess I learned the hard way that crabs do not discriminate but cross over all socioeconomic strata,” Henderson writes. . . .
“Jackass” star Ryan Dunn had 11 drinks — including six shots of Jameson’s Irish Whiskey — between 10:30 p.m. and 2:30 a.m. before the June 20 high-speed crash that killed him and a buddy:
Dunn was 34, so why was he drinking like a college sophomore at a fraternity initiation? At some point that whole stumble-mumble-vomit-and-pass-out style of binge drinking ceases to be amusing.
On the list of Top Ten Signs You Might Have a Drinking Problem, “Wrapping your Porsche around a tree and dying in a fiery crash” is probably at least No. 3.
And I thought to myself: “World’s largest natural breasts? How can they be so sure of this?” Well, never mind that now. This sentence in the article caught my attention:
Ms Hawkins-Turner, who today makes a living as a glamour model under the pseudonym Norma Stitz . . .
“Norma Stitz.” Har-de-har-har-har. And so when I Googled that name, I found a 2009 article with a photo.
Are you sure you want to see it? Permit me to warn you now: Once you’ve seen this picture, you cannot un-see it.
