Controversy
GM Downsizing Jet Fleet By 2
General Motors said today that it is putting two of its five corporate jets out of service because the planes are not being used enough. The top three executives at GM, however, will continue to use the private luxurious jets for all of their business and personal travel, despite a flurry of criticism over the [...]
The Bush Snub That Never Was
CNN’s Rick Sanchez Reports on Bush being ignored at G20 Summit.
I’ve learned a few things from this story. When dozens of people are emailing me a stupid video narrated by a stupid man who doesn’t know his head from his ass — I can’t just ignore it because it’s stupid. I planned on knocking this [...]
More Franken Coleman Ballots
What do you think? Who were these people trying to vote for?
Iran Has Enough Fuel For A Nuke
Iran has now produced roughly enough uranium to make a single nuclear bomb, according to atomic experts analyzing the latest report from the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
To date, Iran had enriched about 1,400 pounds of low-enriched uranium suitable for nuclear fuel, according to two confidential reports from the [...]
Revealed: The African Pirate Trade
Who: Ex-fisherman, Islamic radicals and African technology whiz kids. The most famous group of modern day pirates is based out of the port of Eyl, southeast of the area known as Puntland in Somalia. They range in age from 14 to their mid-thirties almost without exception. They are much more media savvy than pirates of [...]
CEOs Begging From Private Jets
When the chief executives of Ford and General Motors flew in to Washington yesterday to ask Congress for a $25 billion lifeline, they didn’t fly coach.
General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner arrived on his comany’s cushy Gulfstream IV, ABC News reported. Ford CEO Alan Mulally flew in on a private company jet as well.
It costs about [...]
“Neutral, Leaning Towards Favorable”
Be Prepared To Hear This Quote About A Million Times:
At a critical moment on the last full day of Clinton’s term, however, Holder said he was “neutral, leaning towards favorable” on the Rich case. Clinton cited the opinion among eight factors that persuaded him to grant a pardon, although he publicly regretted that Holder was [...]
Ayers Rehabilitation Tour Begins
Ayers defended his bomb-throwing past and repeated a statement that has infuriated his critics: “I don’t think we did enough.”
The college professor also argued to “Good Morning America’s” Chris Cuomo today that the bombing campaign by the Weather Underground, the group he helped found, was not terrorism.
Joining John Edwards and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright [...]
McCain Shirt Spurs Death Threats
As the media keeps gushing on about how America has finally adopted tolerance as the great virtue, and that we’re all united now, let’s consider the Brave Catherine Vogt Experiment.
Catherine Vogt, 14, is an Illinois 8th grader, the daughter of a liberal mom and a conservative dad. She wanted to conduct an experiment in political [...]
Rahm Already Pissing People Off
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) views this characterization of an Arab as an unacceptable smear. One can readily imagine the justifiable outcry if someone made a similar remark about African-Americans, Jews, or Hispanics, concerning cleaning the floors of the White House. Do the normal standards of decency and civility not apply when talking about Arabs? [...]
