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Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire: Matt Lewis Won’t Work for Arianna Huffington; Soon He’ll Be Working for Tucker Carlson

Posted on | February 9, 2011 | 7 Comments

He just gave his two weeks’ notice at AOL’s Politics Daily, saying “AOL has vastly underestimated the public perception . . . that Huffington is a far-left liberal,” and adding:

I am incredibly blessed to be joining a terrific organization in The Daily Caller. I look forward to learning from its founder and editor in chief, Tucker Carlson . . .

Lesson One among the things Lewis will be learning from Tucker Carlson: How to tie a bow tie.

Say what you will about Tucker, he doesn’t talk like Zsa Zsa Gabor.

Category: Blogging

LIVE AT FIVE – 2.9.11

Posted on | February 9, 2011 | 1 Comment

TOP NEWS
Governor Perry: No Budget Armageddon In Texas

Texas Governor Rick Perry

Continues to express disinterest in running for President

Patriot Act Extension Fails In House
Bipartisan coalition of libertarian Republicans and Democrats joins to defeat measure

Biden Calls On Suleiman To Lift Egypt’s Emergency Laws
Laws have been in effect since 1980



POLITICS
Republicans v. Republicans On Budget Cuts

Speaker of the House John Boehner

Tea Party and others not satisfied with proposed $32 billion in cuts, demand full $100 billion from last year’s Promise To America

Abortion Debate Heats Up As GOP Seeks To Ban Federal Funding

Biden Announces $53 Billion Plan To Upgrade Intercity Rail



Planned Parenthood Video Fuels Abortion Debate

Americans For Tax Reform Calls Foul On President’s Claim Not To Have Raised Taxes



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Catholic Church Blesses IPhone App
No Flaws In Toyota Electronics, Feds Now Say
Fire Erupts At Houston Petroleum Site
Stocks Climb To 2 1/2 Year Highs, Led By McDonald’s
Five Reasons The Verizon IPhone 5 Beats Any Android Smartphone
Mayor Bing Gives Thumbs Down To RoboCop Statue For Detroit



SPORTS
Packers Celebrate Super Bowl Win With 56,000 Fans At Lambeau Field

Cheeseheads Welcome Their Packers

Freezing temperatures, sub-zero wind chills and snow on the field no barrier for the faithful

Kentucky Ends Two-Game Skid With Win Over Tennessee

No Trades Looming For Sharks As Deadline Approaches

Boilermakers Outlast Hoosiers From The Free-Throw Line

Heat Gets Revenge Against Pacers

No Brodeur? No Problem! Devils Continue Surge



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
First Look: Meryl Streep As The Iron Lady

Streep as Thatcher: She's got the look down, anyway

From “The Iron Lady”‘s second week of filming.

Lohan Up For Role In “Superman” Reboot?

Jude Law & Sienna Miller Break Up

Why Olivia Wilde And Her Italian Prince Called It Quits

Mark Zuckerberg Fears His Facebook Stalker

Prince Kicks Kim Kardashian Off Stage

Halle Berry Turns Daughter’s Race Into, Well, A Race Thing

Aerosmith Sales Up 250% Since Steven Tyler Started On “Idol”



FOREIGNERS
Suleiman Warns Hasty Reforms Will Lead To Chaos In Egypt
Koreas Agree To Hold Talks On Family Reunions As Tensions Recede
Chechnya Islamist Claims Responsibility For Moscow Airport Bombing
New African Ally For Israel In South Sudan?
Retired General’s Suicide Follows Philippine Graft Probe
Japan, Russia Angry Over Kuriles



BLOGS & STUFF
The Corner: Tea Party Punches Back At Lugar
Althouse: Today’s Liberals Sound Like Yesterday’s Right-Wingers
Legal Insurrection: Well, It’s True He “Didn’t Raise Taxes Once”
Lila Rose: NY Planned Parenthood – Giving Pimp Discounts On The Taxpayer’s Dime
Yid With Lid: Health Care Showdown – Administration To Ignore Judge, House To Begin De-funding Obamacare
Cubachi: Politico Gets Disingenuous With Santorum’s Comments On Palin & CPAC


— compiled by Wombat-socho

Category: Live at Five

‘This Is When You Know . . .

Posted on | February 8, 2011 | 8 Comments

. . . we’re going to hell!”

Via Maggie’s Farm.

Category: humor, Video

Reply to a Troll

Posted on | February 8, 2011 | 34 Comments

Someone who failed to understand the policy sent me an e-mail, to which I replied:

Listen, a–hole: You don’t pay for this bandwidth, OK? It’s not HuffPo or DKos or LGF or wherever it is you customarily practice your trolling. We are under no obligation to publish *any* comments, and when someone habitually and repeatedly posts abusive, hostile or disruptive comments, my response is always the same: Get your own f–ing blog.

My general policy toward the comments has always been one of benign neglect. This isn’t one of those members-only forums where you have to sign up for permission to comment.

We’ve had something upwards of 50,000 comments and/or pingbacks in the past year, and it is a very rare thing to have to delete comments or ban IP addresses. But if you want to cheer for the destruction of TheOtherMcCain.com, you’re going to have to do it somewhere else.

Category: How This Here Internet Thingy Works

Ruh-Roh, Again: Chinese Now Worried About Inflation, Raise Interest Rates

Posted on | February 8, 2011 | 7 Comments

First, the end of QE2, and now Beijing tightens up credit:

China staged its third interest rate increase since October on Tuesday, the latest sign of the authorities’ intensifying efforts to temper the blistering pace of economic growth and prevent already worrisome inflation levels from escalating further.
The central bank in Beijing raised its benchmark one-year deposit rate by a quarter of a percentage point, to 3 percent, and its one-year lending rate by a similar amount, to 6.06 percent. . . .
In fact, many economists forecast still more increases and other growth-dampening measures during 2011 as the battle to combat price rises intensifies.
“There are plenty of reasons to expect inflation to pick up further in the next few months,” Brian Jackson, an analyst at the Royal Bank of Canada in Hong Kong, wrote in a note following the rate rise announcement Tuesday.

So while the Fed has been lending at an effective zero rate since late 2008 — and has actually been buying Treasury bonds to make even more credit available — the Chinese central bank is raising interest rates to slow down an overheated economy. Given the fact that the Chinese are holding a lot of U.S. debt, what will be the impact on the American economy? Stay tuned.

Category: China, Economics

Death by Political Correctness

Posted on | February 8, 2011 | 11 Comments

“The lights are going out all over Europe. Anyone who thinks or speaks individually is at risk. Freedom loving citizens who criticize Islam, or even merely suggest that there is a relationship between islam and crime or honour killing, must suffer and are threatened or criminalized. Those who speak the truth are in danger. … Everywhere the Orwellian thought police are at work, on the lookout for thought-crimes everywhere, casting the populace back within the confines where it is allowed to think.”
— Geert Wilders, at his trial in Amsterdam

Category: Islam, Netherlands

Michael Moore Announces New Film: Those Greedy Jews Ripped Me Off!

Posted on | February 8, 2011 | 13 Comments

The award-winning documentary director has filed a lawsuit claiming that producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein cheated him out of $2.7 million of his share of proceeds for Fahrenheit 9/11 using “Hollywood accounting tricks.”

Meanwhile, Moore is reportedly hard at work on plans for future projects, including Never Trust Those Crooked Bagel-Eating Yid Bastards and a comedy called Does This Lawsuit Make My Butt Look Big?

Category: Celebrities

Shocked! Shocked!

Posted on | February 8, 2011 | 20 Comments

A psychology professor discovers only three conservatives in an audience of a thousand of his academic peers, a fact that surprises no one who knows anything about academia, and particularly not Professor William Jacobson.

Category: Legal Insurrection
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