The president and first lady flew to New York yesterday, all because he had promised her he would take her to a Broadway show after the campaign was over.
As a senator, Obama supported a failed attempt by Democrats to stall President George W. Bush's nomination of Samuel Alito to the high court.
Let's not forget the usual political game the Agent of Change? played as Senator when it came to to confirm John Roberts for Chief Justice.
Democrat Barack Obama was inclined to vote for John G. Roberts Jr. for Supreme Court chief justice back in 2005, but decided against it when told it could hurt him in the Democratic presidential contest, said the senator's chief of staff.
Mr. Obama praised his aide for guiding him back to a politically expedient position.
It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.
The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.
About the only error in the piece is that the call Barney Frank a Senator.
Des Moines was able to find $84,000 to waste on a glitzy mailing to every home.
They paid $90,000 to a consultant in an effort to mooch more money out of the federal government.
The city hired a transportation consultant who recommended a downtown streetcar route that would cost about $100 million to build, I couldn't find a fee disclosure for the consultant.
Des Moines is also pursuing an All-America City Award (which it won in 1949, 1976 and 1981) at an unknown cost that requires a delegation go to Tampa next month.
Fidel Castro criticized former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney for defending American interrogation methods against terror suspects saying in comments published Wednesday that torture should never be used to extract information.
Like this from a documentary on Castro that aired on PBS...
ARMANDO VALLADARES, POLITICAL PRISONER (SPANISH):I have the sad memory that three of my cellmates were murdered in prison. The first was Roberto López Chávez. He was sixteen years old when he was first imprisoned. Another of my cell mates was Pedro Luis Boitel, a student leader Castro hated with all his heart. Boitel went on a hunger strike and Fidel Castro ordered that his cell door not be opend until he died of thirst. He died of thirst fifty-three days later, like these, hundreds and hundreds of assassinations and torture.
Here's how he treated a comrade in the revolution, Comandante Huber Matos, who fell out of favor...
"Prison was a long agony from which I emerged alive because of God's will. I had to go on hunger strikes, mount other types of protests. Terrible. On and off, I spent a total of sixteen years in solitary confinement, constantly being told that I was never going to get out alive, that I had been sentenced to die in prison. They were very cruel, to the fullest extent of the word... I was tortured on several occasions, [I] was subjected to all kinds of horrors, all kinds, including the puncturing of my genitals. Once during a hunger strike a prison guard tried to crush my stomach with his boot... Terrible things."
Guevara's first assignment was to oversee executions at an infamous prison, La Cabaña. Between 1959 and 1963, approximately 500 men were killed under his watch. Many individuals imprisoned at La Cabaña, including human rights activist Armando Valladares, allege that Guevara took a personal interest in the interrogation, torture, and execution of political prisoners.
Republicans will be demonized for daring to question a Hispanic woman, but some of the early case against her is coming from those who are less than Conservative...
From the didn't you used to be somebody file, The Iowa Republican has an invitation to an upcoming soiree with Nancy Pelosi at the home (pictured) of ROZANNEConlin.
China has some of the worst pollution problems in the world (Linfen in Shanxi province is pictured). Nearly two-thirds of China's 343 major cities currently fail to meet the nation's air quality standards.
Three cheers to the F.B.I. for keeping an eye on that Socialist/Peace-a-fist/Professional Student David Goodner and any organization he's ASSociated with.
Goober, err Goodner was not happy to hear his group was infiltrated...
"There is no justification for spying on nonviolent pacifist groups."
Goober, err Goodner then shows what a waste his education has been when he says...
"Our road blockade at the RNC and our peaceful preparations beforehand are protected under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. We have the right to speak out against the policies of our government..."
BUZZ--WRONG!
The First Amendment doesn't protect your road blockade.
Goober's, err Goodner's all about his free speech rights, but goes out of his way to shut down others speech.
Next time Goober, err Goodner leaves, don't let him back in the country.
A man who can give $1 Million to Texas Southern University and pledge a total of $11 Million is someone who should be celebrated, but shouldn't try to plead poverty.
President Harry S. Truman led the effort to establish a single holiday for citizens to come together and thank our military members for their patriotic service in support of our country.
Arizona's oldest continuously published daily newspaper, the Tucson Citizen, will publish its final print edition Saturday but will continue operating online.
Kate Marymont, Gannett Co. vice president for news, told the newspaper's staff Friday that the paper will continue with a Web site edition providing commentary and opinion but no news coverage.
I was going to paraphrase Pogo, "I've seen the future and it is us".
For the record the Bush administration took office on January 20, 2001 and that means Gore was first critical a little over 1 year after he left office.
Once again Dummycrats can't do the math!
This internet Al Gore invented is a wondrous thing.
The Big Lug Nut took a special train (is that anything like the short bus?) from West Des Moines' Valley Junction to Downtown Des Moines in celebration of National Train Day.
Amtrak's, best fare for a roundtrip Osceola (a minimum of 30 miles from Des Moines) to Chicago, leaving June 1 and returning June 8, is $106 per person for a six to seven hour trip.
Orbitz, for the same dates, had a best airfare of $239 per person (Des Moines to O'Hare) a trip they say takes one hour fifteen minutes.
Of course, Amtrak receives federal funds of $1.3 billion per year.
Nancy Richardson (director of the Iowa Department of Transportation) tell us...
