Justice Anthony Kennedy: “La Constitution, c’est Moi!”

In a 2005 interview, Kennedy said of the court, “You know, in any given year, we may make more important decisions than the legislative branch does — precluding foreign affairs, perhaps.” (He was wise to include the “perhaps,” in light of the recent Guantanamo Bay decision.) He went on to note how judges need “an understanding that you have an opportunity to shape the destiny of the country.”

So much for the country’s destiny being shaped by a free people acting through their representative institutions, within certain constraints it enshrines in the Constitution.

— Rich Lowry

Filed under: U.S. Supreme Court , Justice Anthony Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court

What Would We Do Without Studies?

Mom’s Unhealthy Diet May Have Long-Term Impact on Baby

Eating an unhealthy diet during pregnancy may raise your child’s lifetime risk of obesity and elevated cholesterol and blood sugar levels, British researchers report.

Filed under: Everything Else

More Tolerance from The Religion of Peace

American And Other Christians Facing “Torture” In Yemen Prison

Seven arrested Christian missionaries, including an unknown number of Americans, apparently remained detained in Yemen Sunday, June 29, and there was international concern they may face torture for spreading Christianity, several sources said.

Filed under: The Religion of Peace Files , Christianity, The Religion of Peace, torture, Yemen

Robert Mugabe: Fiscal Genius, Election Thief

Reuters: Bloggers bemoan Zimbabwe’s “stolen” election By Marius Bosch

Filed under: Everything Else , bloggers, election, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe

Great Moments in Education

British student gets credit for expletive on exam

A British high school student received credit for writing nothing but a two-word obscenity on an exam paper because the phrase expressed meaning and was spelled correctly.

The Times newspaper on Monday quoted examiner Peter Buckroyd as saying he gave the student — who wrote an expletive starting with f, followed by the word “off” — two points out of a possible 27 for the English paper.

“It would be wicked to give it zero because it does show some very basic skills we are looking for, like conveying some meaning and some spelling,” Buckroyd was quoted as saying.

“It’s better than someone that doesn’t write anything at all.”

Fortunately, this Buckroyd has very high standards for his students.

Filed under: Everything Else

Pedophiles Rejoice!

WND: Sex OK at 9, says Saudi cleric — ‘Muhammad is model we follow. He took ‘Aisha to be his wife when she was 6′

Age, or lack thereof, is no hindrance to marriage under Islam, according to Ahmad Al-Mu’bi, an officiant for marriages from Saudi Arabia who says sex at 9 is fine.

According to a video of the Saudi official recorded and translated by MEMRI, the Middle East Media Research Institute, Al-Mu’bi has confirmed that marriage contracts are appropriate for girls as young as age 1.

And he said the model for marriage continues to be Muhammad, who married one of his wives when she was but 6.

The video comes from a broadcast on LBC Television on June 19, according to the MEMRI report.

Al-Mu’bi said, “Marriage is actually two things: First we are talking about the marriage contract itself. This is one thing, while consummating the marriage – having sex with the wife for the first time – is another thing.

“There is no minimal age for entering marriage. You can have a marriage contract even with a 1-year-old girl, not to mention a girl of 9, 7, or 8. This is merely a contract [indicating] consent. The guardian in such a case must be the father, because the father’s opinion is obligatory. Thus, the girl becomes a wife,” he said.

Islam loves to loathe the West for its sexual practices and promiscuity. Last that I checked, the West has a habit of frowning on pedophilia in part by criminalizing it. Islam, on the other hand, appears to approve of it. If it was good for Mohammed, it’s good for Muslims in 2008.

As for the marriage contract “indicating consent,” how does a 1 year old or a 9 year old have the mental capacity to consent to marriage?

Filed under: The Religion of Peace Files , consent, marriage, Muhammad, The Religion of Peace

U.S. Supreme Court Rules on Death Penalty, Sort of

The Onion:
Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Is ‘Totally Badass’

Filed under: Everything Else

Socialized Health Care Has Failed Canada

Atleast that is what its founder now admits.

Canadian Health Care We So Envy Lies In Ruins, Its Architect Admits By DAVID GRATZER

As this presidential campaign continues, the candidates’ comments about health care will continue to include stories of their own experiences and anecdotes of people across the country: the uninsured woman in Ohio, the diabetic in Detroit, the overworked doctor in Orlando, to name a few.

But no one will mention Claude Castonguay — perhaps not surprising because this statesman isn’t an American and hasn’t held office in over three decades.

Castonguay’s evolving view of Canadian health care, however, should weigh heavily on how the candidates think about the issue in this country.

Back in the 1960s, Castonguay chaired a Canadian government committee studying health reform and recommended that his home province of Quebec — then the largest and most affluent in the country — adopt government-administered health care, covering all citizens through tax levies.

The government followed his advice, leading to his modern-day moniker: “the father of Quebec medicare.” Even this title seems modest; Castonguay’s work triggered a domino effect across the country, until eventually his ideas were implemented from coast to coast.

Four decades later, as the chairman of a government committee reviewing Quebec health care this year, Castonguay concluded that the system is in “crisis.”

“We thought we could resolve the system’s problems by rationing services or injecting massive amounts of new money into it,” says Castonguay. But now he prescribes a radical overhaul: “We are proposing to give a greater role to the private sector so that people can exercise freedom of choice.”

[...] Castonguay, the man who championed public health insurance in Canada, now urges for the legalization of private health insurance.

In America, these ideas may not sound shocking. But in Canada, where the private sector has been shunned for decades, these are extraordinary views, especially coming from Castonguay.

The Democrat Party wishes to thrust this failure of a system onto Americans.

Filed under: Everything Else , Canada, Claude Castonguay, Socialized Health Care

Canadian Human Rights Commission Drops Complaint Against Steyn, Maclean’s

“The national Canadian Human Rights Commission has dropped the complaint against Mark Steyn and Maclean’s magazine.

“The complaint that was heard in the B.C. Human Rights Commission is still pending, however, so they’re not out of the woods yet. There’s also the very real problem that these commissions might sidestep penalizing Steyn and Maclean’s out of self-preservation. They know that in going after high profile targets they’ve bitten off more than they can chew — any action against them would likely stir political action to do away with the commisions altogether. If they drop the complaint against Steyn, the political pressure will simply go away and they’re free to continue zealously violating the rights of lesser known individuals and organizations.” — Mark Hemingway

Filed under: Crazy liberals , Canadian Human Rights Commission, Crazy liberals, Maclean's, Mark Steyn

David Ehrenstein Calls on Conservative Justice to be Murdered

Dean Lawrence Velvel of some amateur law school wants President Bush executed. David Ehrenstein (whoever the fuck he is) wants the premier scholar/Justice of the Supreme Court to be shot.

Speaking of Scalia, Ehrenstein might also wish to murder Scalia over this too.

I don’t know how much more of this tolerance and compassion I can take.

Confederate Yankee: Liberal Blogger Calls on Scalia to be Murdered

Filed under: Crazy liberals , Crazy liberals, D.C. v. Heller, David Ehrenstein, guns, Justice Antonin Scalia

The Exaggerations, Lies, Distortions, and Flip-Flops Of Barack Obama

The Exaggerations, Lies, Distortions, and Flip-Flops Of Barack Obama compiled by NiceDeb

Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah , Barack Obama / The Messiah, Distortions, Exaggerations, Flip-Flops, lies

I Guess I Won’t Be Getting My Check

UPI: Woman gets prison for ‘Nigerian’ scam

Filed under: Everything Else , internet fraud, Nigerian scam, scams

John McCain (remember him?) Responds to D.C. v. Heller

McCain: Our Individual Right to Bear Arms

Today’s decision is a landmark victory for Second Amendment freedom in the United States. For this first time in the history of our Republic, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms was and is an individual right as intended by our Founding Fathers. I applaud this decision as well as the overturning of the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns and limitations on the ability to use firearms for self-defense.

Unlike Senator Obama, who refused to join me in signing a bipartisan amicus brief, I was pleased to express my support and call for the ruling issued today. Today’s ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller makes clear that other municipalities like Chicago that have banned handguns have infringed on the constitutional rights of Americans. Unlike the elitist view that believes Americans cling to guns out of bitterness, today’s ruling recognizes that gun ownership is a fundamental right – sacred, just as the right to free speech and assembly.

This ruling does not mark the end of our struggle against those who seek to limit the rights of law-abiding citizens. We must always remain vigilant in defense of our freedoms. But today, the Supreme Court ended forever the specious argument that the Second Amendment did not confer an individual right to keep and bear arms.

AP: McCain backs gun decision, Obama straddles issue By LIZ SIDOTI

As for Senator Obamessiah?

“Obama Believes The D.C. Handgun Law Is Constitutional.” “[T]he campaign of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said that he ‘…believes that we can recognize and respect the rights of law-abiding gun owners and the right of local communities to enact common sense laws to combat violence and save lives. Obama believes the D.C. handgun law is constitutional.’” (James Oliphant and Michael J. Higgins, “Court To Hear Gun Case,” Chicago Tribune, 11/20/07)

More on Obama’s anti-gun views.

Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah, John McCain/Sarah Palin, The Right to Self-Defense , Barack Obama / The Messiah, D.C. v. Heller, gun ban, gun control, John McCain, the Fake Conservative, The Right to Self-Defense, U.S. Supreme Court

Moonbat Changes Name (Online) to “Hussein”

The ignorance of some liberals on the true nature of Islam (among other things) continues to amaze me.

Meet Ashley Holmes of Indianapolis, IN. Ms. Ashley is apparently bothered (ashamed?) of her “vanilla, white-girl American name.” Wow, what a major problem. What can Ashley do to erase the shame of her “vanilla, white-girl American name”?

Adopt the name “Hussein,” just like her cult-leader, Senator Barack Obama.

Well, not completely atleast. Ms. Ashley shall use the name “Hussein” online only. Even moonbattery has its limits I guess.

Fox News reports:

Barack Obama’s middle name Hussein has been used in some corners as a rallying cry to cast false aspersions against him, but in a growing movement, some of his supporters are adopting his middle name as a show of solidarity with the candidate. […]

“My name is such a vanilla, white-girl American name,” Ashley Holmes of Indianapolis told the [New York Times]. She said she changed her name online “to show how little meaning ‘Hussein’ really has.”

Ashley’s reasoning seems to sum up liberalism: all things American and white are suspect, uncool, not worth defending.

As for Ashley’s mind-numbing assertion that Hussein has “little meaning”: the name Hussein is common among savages who wish to murder us (i.e., Muslims). That isn’t conjecture or speculation. It is fact, although I suspect facts have little impact on the synapses in the Ashley brain.

If names have such little meaning, Ms. Ashley, may I suggest adopting “Ashley Hitler Holmes” ?

Update: Palladian at Ann Althouse writes:

Vanilla flavor is derived from the fruit of a tropical orchid, Vanilla planifolia. It only grows in places where the population is very brown and “diverse”. The fruit of the plant as well as the seeds it contains are not white, but dark brown. Vanilla extracts contain dozens of different, complex substances.

It seems like Ashley Hussein Holmes needs to take some botany, chemistry and cooking courses instead of wasting her time on nonsense.

Some logic would not hurt either.

Filed under: Crazy liberals , Ashley Holmes, Crazy liberals, hussein, Indianapolis, moon bats, moonbattery

The Party of the People and John Edwards

“Today I saw a John Edwards bumper sticker — the first one I can really recall — on a beautiful Audi convertible parked in a luxury development in a wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C. Just an idle question: Do you think it’s more likely that this John Edwards supporter is part of Edwards’s much touted constituency of mill workers and “regular, hard-working Americans” or of Edwards’s real constituency of trial lawyers and lobbyists?” — David Boaz

Filed under: Crazy liberals , Audi, bumper sticker, Crazy liberals, John Edwards

Radical Muslims Discourging Parents in Nigeria from Polio Vaccine

The ignorance of some Muslims is harming children in Nigeria.

AFP: Polio on the rise in north Nigerian state

Officials in northern Nigeria’s most populous state have said they are worried by a sharp rise in the number of cases of the paralysing disease poliomyelitis.

“In the last six months we have recorded 90 polio cases which is a radical shift from the same period in 2007 when we had zero cases,” Kano health commissioner Aisha Isyaku Kiru told a gathering of health officials and donor agencies late Friday.

She linked the increase to a decline in polio immunisation as parents have become increasingly reluctant to take their children for routine immunisation.

“Events in the past few months in the journey towards polio eradication have been disheartening,” Kano state governor Ibrahim Shekarau told the same gathering.

Kano has been the epicentre of the transmission of the crippling polio virus to other parts of the world since 2003 when the authorities suspended polio immunization for 13 months.

The suspension followed claims by radical Muslim clerics and some medical doctors that the vaccine was laced with substances that could render girls infertile as part of a US-led western plot to depopulate Africa.

Hat tip to Weasel Zippers.

Filed under: The Religion of Peace Files , Aisha Isyaku Kiru, immunization, Islam, Muslims, Nigeria, polio, Religion of Peace

Seeking Wine from a Rock

Asking the U.N. to solve a problem isn’t much different than sending the Keystone Cops.

AP: US to call for UN action against Zimbabwe By MATTHEW LEE

Filed under: Everything Else , President Robert Mugabe, United Nations, Zimbabwe

D.C. v. Heller Decision Already Having Impact

Chicago Tribune: NRA sues Chicago, 3 suburbs to repeal their firearms bans By Azam Ahmed

AP: NRA sues to overturn S.F. gun ban in city housing By PAUL ELIAS

Filed under: The Right to Self-Defense , Chicago, D.C. v. Heller, Evanston, gun ban, Morton Grove, NRA, Oak Park, right to self defense, San Francisco, Second Amendment

Troop Surge in Iraq: NY Times Admits Bush, Cheney “got this one right”

NY Times: The Bush Paradox By DAVID BROOKS

Filed under: The War on Terror , George W. Bush, Iraq, The War on Terror, troop surge

Yet Another Example of the Failure that is Socialized Health Care System

Globe and Mail (CA): Children’s Hospital may send patients to U.S. by ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY

B.C. Children’s Hospital may have to send some of its young patients out of province or to the United States for immediate care if it keeps having to reschedule surgery, the hospital’s surgeon-in-chief says.

“If we have to send the child to Edmonton or Calgary or Toronto or Montreal or wherever, that’s fine,” Dr. Geoffrey Blair said. “But … critical-care nurses are in short supply there, as well, so that could mean that we’d have to send a child to Seattle, to Portland, Ore., to a host of places in the States. … We’re not going to compromise the child’s care just to keep the child here.”

Children’s Hospital has had to postpone 53 operations since April – 14 last week and three on Monday. In 2007-08, there were 49 cancellations, and five the previous year.

The hospital performed almost 8,200 operations in total last year, and does an average of 35 a day.

It’s not a lack of resources, Dr. Blair said, but primarily a lack of nurses. The hospital has 112 critical-care nurses. Dr. Blair would like 25 more – 10 more than the 15 who’ve been recruited and will start at the hospital in the next few months.

The Democrat Party wants to impose this type of system on Americans. You have been warned.

Hat tip to The Anchoress.

Filed under: Everything Else , Canada, socialized heatlh care

Narrow Ruling Upholds Second Amendment

“The Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.” — Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at 86-87 (Pierce & Hale, eds., Boston, 1850)

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“I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials.”
— George Mason, in Debates in Virginia Convention on Ratification of the Constitution, Elliot, Vol. 3, June 16, 1788

In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly affirmed the rights of self-defense under the Second Amendment. The fact that 4 Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court would gut the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms, is frightening indeed. Thankfully, 5 of the Justices recognized the Second Amendment and its history for what it does: recognizing the right to self-defense.

Justice Scalia wrote for the majority:

“The inherent right of self-defense has been central to the Second Amendment right. The handgun ban amounts to a prohibition of an entire class of ‘arms’ that is overwhelmingly chosen by American society for that lawful purpose. The prohibition extends, moreover, to the home, where the need for defense of self, family, and property is most acute.

[...]

“We are aware of the problem of handgun violence in this country, and we take seriously the concerns raised by the many amici who believe that prohibition of handgun ownership is a solution. The Constitution leaves the District of Columbia a variety of tools for combating that problem, including some measures regulating handguns [...]. But the enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table. These include the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home. Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.” District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 56, 64 (2008 )

Filed under: The Right to Self-Defense , D.C. v. Heller, District of Columbia, gun ban, right to self defense, Second Amendment

The Supreme Court Ignores the Constitution — AGAIN

Once again, Justices Kennedy, Ginsburg, Stevens, Breyer, and Souter, make things up as they see fit, ignore the U.S. Constitution, and with incredible arrogance, pretend that they’re legislators.

The Louisiana legislature decided that when a child is raped, the rapist deserves the penalty of death. In the most malleable and unprincipled reasoning the Court could use, five Justices decided that such a savage should not be put to death. It would have been nice if the Court examined this case by first analyzing the Eighth Amendment, but what fun would THAT be? Instead, Kennedy resorts to sentiment that would make Hallmark proud: “evolving standards of decency.” Apparently permitted a savage rapist to live is “evolving” and decent.”

The U.S. Supreme Court is utterly out of control.

“The Court today holds that the Eighth Amendment categorically prohibits the imposition of the death penalty for the crime of raping a child. This is so, according to the Court, no matter how young the child, no matter how many times the child is raped, no matter how many children the perpetrator rapes, no matter how sadistic the crime, no matter how much physical or psychological trauma is inflicted, and no matter how heinous the perpetrator’s prior criminal record may be. [...] [M]ost of the Court’s discussion is not pertinent to the Eighth Amendment question at hand. And once all of the Court’s irrelevant arguments are put aside, it is apparent that the Court has provided no coherent explanation for today’s decision.” Kennedy v. Louisiana, 554 U.S. 1, 15 (2008 ) (Alito, J. dissenting).

Filed under: U.S. Supreme Court , cruel and unusual punishment, Eighth Amendment, Kennedy v. Louisiana, rape, U.S. Supreme Court

20 Deadliest Plants on the Planet

20 Deadliest Plants on the Planet by nobert soloria bermosa

Filed under: Everything Else , 20 Deadliest Plants on the Planet

The Latest Liberal Lunatic: Lawrence Velvel

Much like children pretending that the world is as they’d like it be, liberals enjoy engaging in fantasy. One recent example is a town (whose name I don’t care to know) in Vermont which had a “trial” (Stalin would be proud) to prosecute President Bush (for something or other).

Perhaps this was the inspiration for Lawrence Velvel (AquaVelVel?), the dean of a no-name and unranked law school in Marxachusetts. His so-called law school will administer a “conference” against George W. Bush.

Naturally, the mainstream media is completely ignoring this story. Imagine if ANY conservative suggested that Bill Clinton or Al Gore be tried for war crimes and then hanged?

Radical moonbat Dean Lawrence Velvel

Law School Plans to Prosecute Bush

The Massachusetts School of Law at Andover will convene a conference in September to lay plans to prosecute President Bush and other high administration officials for war crimes. “This is not intended to be a mere discussion of violations of law that have occurred,” says MSL’s dean Lawrence Velvel in a statement announcing the conference. “It is, rather, intended to be a planning conference at which plans will be laid and necessary organizational structures set up, to pursue the guilty as long as necessary and, if need be, to the ends of the Earth.”

The ends of the earth, in this case, may be Crawford, Texas, where President Bush is likely to be found after his term is up at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The Wild West locale could be the perfect place for such a trial, given the punishment Velvel proposes for anyone who is convicted. “We must insist on appropriate punishments,” Velvel said, “including, if guilt is found, the hangings visited upon top German and Japanese war-criminals in the 1940s.” Sending administration officials to the gallows, he added, “would be a powerful lesson to future American leaders.”

Hangings could be a tough sell, even for a law school dean. Velvel acknowledges as much, noting that past practice has been to allow former presidents and cabinet members to retire to lives of relative peace and prosperity. Not this time, he hopes. In addition to President Bush, others Velvel wants to put on trial include Vice President Richard Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo. He leaves the final list of war-crimes defendants to be determined at the Sept. 13 and 14 conference, but suggests it could also include federal judges and members of Congress. Other items on the conference agenda: what crimes were committed, where might they be prosecuted, and who will coordinate all this.

Apart from the national and international political implications of all this, there could be local hurdles to overcome. Three citizens of Andover — the town where MSL is situated — were among those hanged for witchcraft as part of the 17th century Salem witch trials. These days, however, the town is a chichi Boston bedroom community known as home to equally chichi Phillips Academy. No doubt, any proposal to erect a gallows on the MSL campus might not make it past the local planning board.

Would Dean Velvel prosecute Bill Clinton over this?

Would Dean Velvel prosecute those who voted in favor (81 Democrats in the House and 29 Democrats in the Senate) of the Invasion of Iraq?

More here.

Filed under: Crazy liberals , Crazy liberals, George W. Bush, Lawrence Velvel, Massachusetts School of Law at Andover

Newspaper Cartoonist Wishes Death on Limbaugh

This is how Stalinists liberal goons treat those who disagree with them:

Filed under: Crazy liberals , cartoonist, Crazy liberals, God, Kansas City Star, Rush Limbaugh, Tim Russert

Obama Blogger, Miss Bunny “Hussein,” Spews Communist, Anti-Christian Venom

Senator Obama’s campaign website has a section for bloggers. One such blogger has Christianed named herself “Miss Bunny Hussein.”  (How to take seriously a person who names herself “Miss Bunny”?) On her Obama blog, she cites the words of some mental midget named Bob Avakian, who just happens to be the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP).

I am sure the Obama campaign is thrilled.

On another post, Miss Bunny spits some venom against Christianity:

I take issue with him being a christian, because christianity breeds hatred and racism and all other manner of ill-will toward other human beings, but I’m not gonna fault him for it. As far as belief goes, we can all do better than christianity. I believe in God, I just don’t have any trust or faith in anyone who calls themselves a christian-they are some of the most hateful and vicious, cruel and spiteful ravenous greediest wolves on the planet, and with rare exception. Had it not been for “christians,” there would have been no slavery in America and none of this kind of racism for any of us to deal with in the first place.

Put aside for the moment Miss Bunny’s mediocre writing and punctuation skills.

Now for some facts:

• “hatred” and “racism” are as old as humanity itself;
• “hatred” and “racism” hardly originated with Christians;
• every other religion has hateful and racist members (i.e., Islam);
• The contributions of Christians to humanity have been monumental. Christians and Catholics have supported the development of major Western institutions like the hospital, the university, modern sciences like geology, astronomy, free-market economics, law, and the sacredness of all humanity;
• the Christian nation of America was the first and only nation to fight a civil war in part to erase slavery from its land (in 4 years, 600,000 men died);
• slavery has existed on every corner of the planet and it pre-dates Jesus or the beginnings of Christianity;
• slavery exists today almost exclusively in non-Christian nations.

Miss Bunny is an ignoramus. I don’t use that word lightly.

Nor is she self-aware. How can this person expect to maintain any credibility: she condemns people for generalizing while she generalizes; she condemns people for being “racist” while she smears members of an entire religion!

Nor is Miss Bunny very mature . On the thought that Obama could chose Al Gore for Vice-President (which would be a stupid selection), she posts this nugget of wisdom:

LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!

ROTFLLMAO!!!!!!

The Republicans will all have heart attacks and drop dead on the spot!

Bwahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!

I don’t know about you, but there’s nothing more persuasive than “LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!”

The fact that Miss Bunny or anyone of her I.Q. can or will vote is terrifying.

Filed under: Everything Else , anti-Christianity, Barack Obama / The Messiah, Communism, Missy Bunny Hussein

Monet Painting Sells for A Lot of Mo_ney

Claude Monet’s painting “Le Bassin aux Nympheas,” seen here, sold for 40.9 million pounds (51.7 million euros, 80.5 million dollars) at an auction in London on Tuesday, smashing the previous record auction price for the artist’s work.
(AFP/HO/File)

Filed under: Art , Claude Monet, Le Bassin aux Nympheas

10 Concerns about Barack Obama

NRO: 10 Concerns about Barack Obama By William J. Bennett & Seth Leibsohn

Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah, The War on Terror , Barack Obama / The Messiah, Iran, Israel, The War on Terror

Environmental Agenda > Truth

The Not-So-Lost Tribe by Mike Krumboltz

Even in an age when cynical sleuths can hyper-analyze stories for truth and accuracy, the occasional hoax still slips through the cracks. Such was the case with a so-called “lost Amazon tribe.”

A few months ago, mainstream news outlets reported that a photographer had found a lost tribe of warriors near the Brazilian-Peruvian border. Photos of the tribe backed up his claim.

As it turns out, the story is only half true. The men in the photo are members of a tribe, but it certainly ain’t “lost.” In fact, as the photographer, José Carlos Meirelles, recently explained, authorities have known about this particular tribe since 1910. The photographer and the agency that released the pictures wanted to make it seem like they were members of a lost tribe in order to call attention to the dangers the logging industry may have on the group.

The photographer recently came clean, and news outlets, perhaps embarrassed at having been taken for a ride, have been slow to pick up the story. Now, the word is starting to spread and articles in the Buzz are picking up steam. Expect a lot more brutal truth in the coming days.

Do you still trust this media?

Filed under: Environmentalism, What Liberal Media? , Environmentalism, Jose Carlos Meirelles, logging industry, lost tribe, What Liberal Media?

The Price of Liberal Bia$

Papers Facing Worst Year for Ad Revenue By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA

Over all, ad revenue fell almost 8 percent last year. This year, it is running about 12 percent below that dismal performance, and company reports issued last week suggested a 14 percent to 15 percent decline in May.

What a pity!

Filed under: Everything Else , advertising, newspapers, What Liberal Media?