Rush Limbaugh: Fred is the True Conservative…AUDIO
November 30, 2007 | Filed Under Elections, News, Publius Contributor, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
Courtesy Michelle Malkin’s HotAir.com
Erin Burnett Calls Bush AND Angela Merkel a ‘Monkey’ on Morning Joe
November 30, 2007 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, Media Bias, News, Publius Contributor, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment
-By Warner Todd Huston
**With Video**
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, back on Monday, Erin Burnett let loose with her real feelings and laid it on the line right on the air, calling President Bush a “monkey” during a business news piece about the Nicolas Sarkozy visit to China.
During the news piece, Burnett said that she couldn’t see how anyone “could not have a man-crush on that man,” in an apparent allusion to French President Sarkozy. The video on the screen at the time was a shot of president Bush and Nicolas Sarkozy walking side by side, with Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel just behind them. After her “man-crush” comment, Burnett made quick to say that she didn’t mean “the monkey” and that she meant “the other one.”
This caused Joe Scarborough and his co-hosts to wonder what the heck she was talking about? “The monkey? Who’s the monkey. What’s she talking about,” Scarborough asked.
After the crew kept asking her who the “monkey” was, Burnett then compounded her gaff by acting as if she thought they were talking about chancellor Merkel. “Why would you be talking about Angela Merkel like that? I don’t understand,” she bumbled in a failed attempt at humor.
Joe was nearly indignant at that one saying, “Now she’s attacking Merkel, she’s our ally in a time of war.”
Naturally, they all treated it as a big joke, but it really was a reveling episode, telling us all how Erin Burnett feels about allies and our own president.
Check out this video:
Jeeze, not much bias there, eh?
Transcript Follows:
Santa Cruz Sheriff Says Illegals Aren’t ‘Criminals’?
November 30, 2007 | Filed Under Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Immigration/Immigrants, Media Bias, Publius Contributor, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Taxes, The Law, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
The AP has used the somewhat heartwarming tale of an illegal alien who found an American boy and his mother suffering from a car accident in the Arizona desert and stayed with them until help arrived as an excuse to plead that illegals aren’t “criminals” and should somehow be given a break. The AP tried to pin this wild leap in logic on Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada, but they offer no quote marks around the sentence, so it is hard to say if the Sheriff really said that or the AP was extrapolating and putting words in the Sheriff’s mouth. Still, that this one illegal did something morally right even while he was breaking our laws, does not erase all the illegalities and law breaking that every other illegal immigrant has done over the last 30 years. Nor does it erase the fact that this particular illegal was breaking the law even as he was nice enough to help the little boy and his mother.
Here is the tale:
PHOENIX (AP) — A 9-year-old boy looking for help after his mother crashed their van in the southern Arizona desert was rescued by a man entering the U.S. illegally, who stayed with him until help arrived the next day, an official said.
The 45-year-old woman, who eventually died while awaiting help, had been driving on a U.S. Forest Service road in a remote area just north of the Mexican border when she lost control of her van on a curve on Thanksgiving, Sheriff Tony Estrada said.
The van vaulted into a canyon and landed 300 feet from the road, he said. The woman, from Rimrock, north of Phoenix, survived the impact but was pinned inside, Estrada said.
Her son, unhurt but disoriented, crawled out to get help and was found about two hours later by Jesus Manuel Cordova, 26, of Magdalena de Kino in the northern Mexican state of Sonora. Unable to pull the mother out, he comforted the boy while they waited for help.
As night came on, Mr. Cordova built a fire to keep them warm and stayed with the boy until a couple of hunters spotted them and called for help. Cordova was taken into custody by Border Patrol agents and slated for return to his country.
OK, it was nice that Mr. Cordova had that pang of conscience enough to stay by this helpless child. It is possible he saved the boy’s life, and if he didn’t really save his life he certainly comforted the poor, scared kid through the trauma which may or may not have made the whole mess less of a trauma on him. For that Mr. Cordova deserves warm congratulations for his efforts and the knowledge that he did the right thing by the child.
But he doesn’t deserve a free pass into our country.
Here is how the AP ends their story (My Bold):
Unions Trying to Force Higher Property Taxes in Florida
November 30, 2007 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Media Bias, News, Publius Contributor, Society/Culture, Taxes, Uncategorized, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
Why are so many people fooled by unions? It is because unions care about the little guy they are told. It is because unions are supposed to be against the “rich,” or so gullible people are led to believe. Well, here is another case that proves the lie to that claim.
Realtors and business groups in Florida are squaring off against big labor unions in an attempt to pass a property tax cut amendment in the Sunshine state. The labor unions oppose this legislation because they claim it would “cost” local governments and schools “$12.4 billion in lost revenue over the next 5 years.” Why are they worried about that so-called loss? Because it might cause cities and schools to cut some deadwood jobs and that means union jobs cut.
In other words, to save union jobs in our bloated local governments and to save the jobs in failing schools, unions are trying to INCREASE taxes on EVERYONE.
Once again, unions prove how much they are out to help “the little guy.” This time by trying to tax him out of his home.
Nice going unions.
Senators Kohl/Hatch write FTC on Google-Doubleclick merger — conclude Google has market power
November 30, 2007 | Filed Under Budget, Google, Media Bias, News, Publius Contributor, Scott Cleland, Society/Culture, Technology, Uncategorized | No Comments
-By Scott Cleland
The top Senators overseeing antitrust matters, Senate Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman Herb Kohl (D-WI) and Ranking Republican Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT), wrote a strong letter to the FTC urging serious scrutiny of the Google-DoubleClick merger (see pasted copy of the letter at the bottom of this article).
Having testified before their Senate Subcommittee in opposition to the merger September 27th, I was gratified to learn of the subcommittee’s serious bipartisan concern about the merger and also their very strong grasp of the potential anti-competitive issues arising from the merger.
There are three big takeaways from the letter.
First, the Subcommittee defines the relevant market as Internet advertising: “…combining these two companies’ leading positions in these two forms of Internet advertising could cause significant harm to competition in the Internet advertising marketplace.”
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Total Truth
November 30, 2007 | Filed Under Publius Contributor, Religion, Society/Culture, Thomas Brewton, Uncategorized | No Comments
-By Thomas E. Brewton
A very tough standard for our relationships with God.
In the Old Testament, God was exacting when affronted by disobedience to his commands and, especially, by efforts to hide that disobedience from Him.
Pastor Steve Treash used the Book of Joshua, chapters 6 and 7, as h