It's amazing that pro-choice, pro-civil union Giuliani only trails Fred by two on social issues in deep-red SC. It's a testament to two things, I suspect: the depth of ignorance about Rudy's views on domestic policy and the fact that Mitt hasn't yet turned his advertising artillery on Rudy in the state, preferring instead thus far to tout his own record. … Thompson said he usually attends church when visiting his mother in Tennessee and isn't a member of any church in the Washington area... … Thompson, in his first campaign stop in South Carolina, told a crowd of about 500 Republicans yesterday that he gained his values from "sitting around the kitchen table'' with his parents and "the good Church of Christ.''…
Elsewhere, Pelosi blames Republicans for the failure of this spectacularly craptastic bill. … FYI, what you can't hear him saying at the very beginning of the clip because the dopey anchor is talking over him is, "Legal immigration is one of the top concerns of the American people, and Congress' failure to act on it is a disappointment. … I trust you feel as bad as I do…
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2008/10/20/heart-ache-moveon-plays-the-moose-card-on-palin/
" The exit question card: Why indeed would we trust this young novice politician with national security when we could elect smilin' first-term senator Barack Obama instead? … Look at it this way -- he's more credible than the cast of "Gossip Girl. … I didn't think the "socialism card" was, but CNN says otherwise…
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2007/07/05/open-thread-the-oreilly-malkin-factor/
Update (AP): In case any curiosity-seeker should wander by wanting to know more about the bogus photo the porn peddler mentioned, here's the post where it was debunked. … 0's birdie flight at the end to memorialize what kind of guy he really is: Having lost the debate and having had his cheap trick on the fake photo backfire on him badly, the only thing he left in his arsenal was a childish gesture. Classy. … Update (Bryan): The challenge with editing these Factor highlight reels is often a) condensing the segments enough so that they'll keep us within fair use but still make sense, and b) capturing something unique about the episode…
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2007/04/09/was-fred-pro-choice-in-1994/
Thus dies the last hope of pro-lifers in the GOP field. Heart-ache…
There'll be one more installment tomorrow as Patterico milks this sucker for all it's worth. … Update: Sort of concludes. … Korans in the toilet, women's faces shattered, and feces/semen cocktails hurled on a regular basis: it's "heart-ache" a-gogo as Patterico's interview with Stashiu concludes…
Follow the link for the killer logic deployed at the end of the piece. … What black chapter in the annals of heart-ache does this dastardly tactic come from? … Waging war on the enemy from the ruins of its own holy places?…
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2008/12/24/heart-ache-nyt-revenue-down-20-in-november/
More people now get their news from the 'Net than from print, but the galaxy of competitors online means ad revenue's necessarily going to be thinner, especially in a recession. Gulp. … The blogosphere, much of which piggybacks on traditional journalism's content, has magnified the reach of newspapers, and although papers now face far more scrutiny, this is a kind of backhanded compliment to their continued relevance. … I linked Riehl's post the other day about the Times possibly going bust this year if property values sink far enough that they can't leverage their holdings sufficiently to cover their current debt, but it's worth a re-link under the circumstances…
(Not unlike the GED, n'est-ce pas?) But keep reading for a descent into stupidity, beginning with an indignant reminder that speaking Spanish wasn't an element of the crime -- neither was being unemployed -- and ending with a brainteaser about why the judge, in an English-speaking society, doesn't sentence English-speakers to learn Spanish. … No one objects to the GED/job requirements, which are aimed at keeping them busy and forcing them to learn skills that will integrate them into society and help them succeed; the sticky point is the English demand, which is aimed at ... keeping them busy and forcing them to learn a skill that will integrate them into society and help them succeed. … The men, who faced prison for criminal conspiracy to commit robbery, can remain on parole if they learn to read and write English, earn their GEDs and get full-time jobs, Luzerne County Judge Peter Paul Olszewski Jr. said…
The lesson, in other words: If everything breaks the Dems' way -- deep blue district, conservative candidate, no voting record to tie him to, and lopsided turnout in their favor -- they still lose upwards of 20 percent of their own base. … Here, from one of my conversations with strategists who tried to elect Tim Burns in PA-12, is perhaps the best spin on how the party's loss in a Cook Political Report-rated R+1 district is not a sign that Republicans will underperform in November. … My back-of-the-envelope calculation of the party turnout in last night's election indicates that a whopping 62% of the voters were Democratic, just 34% Republican, and a measly 4% were Independent or had a third party affiliation…
Multitasking is coming (in six months), and in the meantime, I'll have a fantastically expensive new pet toy with which to amuse my cat for, oh, 45 seconds. … letter-writing), and splurge on the sweet, sweet 32GB jumbo iPod Touch of my dreams. … Toss the ancient PC, use the work computer for any occasional personal business I might have to conduct (e.g…
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2010/04/08/glenn-beck-is-paul-ryan-the-next-john-mccain/
As for Ryan, I'm a fan of anyone who's thinking seriously about how to solve the entitlement crisis, but he did support both TARP and (initially) the tax on those AIG bonuses. … Yes, the word "progress" is full of good vibrations, but so was the word "liberal" once upon a time and the left ruined that sufficiently that they had to go looking for another word to describe themselves. … Via the Right Scoop, he's asking the question earnestly -- he flatly says he doesn't know enough about Ryan yet to pronounce judgment -- but he's not thrilled with the attempted rehabilitation of Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson in PR's recent, much acclaimed speech…
No surprise, then, that the item that's currently getting the most votes for the proposed tea party "Contract from America" is the one demanding that each new bill cite the section of the Constitution that empowers Congress to act. … If you know that Article I establishes the federal legislature -- and you should -- then you can guess what Section 1 says. … Not as embarrassing as Phil Hare's irritated don't-bother-me-with-that-Constitution-stuff defense of ObamaCare, but still depressing…
La.) tells National Review Online that he "hopes to reconsider" his vote on the health-care bill this weekend, should House Speaker Nancy Pelosi guarantee, "with certainty," that she can fix its abortion language in a separate, later legislative measure. … If there is a deal, and the deal consists of nothing more than Dingy Harry's solemn oath that he'll get around to a bill at some point eventually, then the Stupakers must think their pro-life constituents are awfully, awfully stupid. … At least six anti-abortion rights Democrats are open to supporting the healthcare bill if they can get a guarantee from the Senate that it will move separate legislation containing the House abortion language, one of those Democratic holdouts said Friday…
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2010/03/18/krauthammer-i-think-its-going-to-pass/
Oberstar, after reportedly having words with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, appears to have backed off the assurance he gave last weekend, when he said he was "prepared" to vote for health care … Granted, the latest polls are as dismal as ever -- 38/48 in Pew and 35/55 in Fox News -- but our exalted leaders long ago dismissed the concerns of the ignorant teabaggin' public, so that's no roadblock. … The CBO score is out; the media's got the pompoms ready to wave for "history"; Obama's canceled his trip so that he can make the "please save my presidency" bambi eyes at Democratic fencesitters in the Oval Office…
Now, as my reader notes -- given this dynamic, where most of the point of this is to take the issue off the table of active, live issues and quickly as painlessly as possible -- don't Senate Democrats have an incentive to intentionally fail on reconciliation as soon as humanly possible? … If Pelosi goes first by passing Reid's bill, which is detested by both Blue Dogs (because of the cost and the lack of abortion language) and progressives (because of the "Cadillac" tax provisions and lack of a public option), the only assurance they have that that won't be the final bill is Obama's and Reid's promise to proceed to reconciliation afterwards. … All of the talk about "reconciliation" seems to have distracted people — like a red herring — from a simple but crucial fact: If the House goes first, as now appears to be the plan, and passes the Senate health-care overhaul, the president would then have a bill in hand that had passed both houses of Congress, and — whether reconciliation subsequently succeeded or failed in the Senate — we would have Obamacare…
Gregg Easterbrook sees the sinister hand of D.C. bureaucracy at work here, but I'm going to steal lorien1973's comment from Ace since he's one of our regulars too: "Typical DC. It's retarded. … The Giants called timeout the first time they lined up this way, and then, with the element of surprise completely gone ... the 'Skins called the same formation. … JWF provides the soul-crushing detail that this was the second time they attempted to run the play…
Well, actually, no: the other likely VP candidate, assuming he doesn't win the nomination himself, is Mitt. … I want people to be attracted to me because they find me interesting, not because I'm wearing something...well, I doubt I own anything provocative. … A: If a person dresses provocatively, they're calling attention -- maybe not the most desirable kind -- to private parts of their body…
There were also rumors O'Donnell was so angry after her argument with Hasselbeck that she trashed her dressing room, although ABC denied the tantrum. … The Post's Adam Buckman reports ABC confirmed in a statement only that "photographs at 'The View's' offices were defaced. … Yesterday, Rosie's chief writer, Janette Barber, was allegedly escorted from the building after she was caught drawing moustaches on photographs of Hasselbeck that hang in the "View" studios…
The president's numbers will move with his reaction to world events, but with both parties present in Congress and forced to compromise, it's hard to please anyone. … The veto came on May 1st, after the last poll on approval ratings was taken but and before this one was, so you're surely seeing some of the fallout here of the Dems' refusal to fund the troops. … The right is disgusted with Congress for trying to surrender but it may be the left is equally disgusted with them for not trying to surrender fast enough…
The rumor, despite being denied several times, has gained so much steam in the Arab world that it made it to the front page of one of the most important Arabi language newspapers. … The Interior Minister's spokesman General Mansour al Turki responded to news of the message and made it clear to a-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper that the Ministry "did not issue any such announcement. … An SMS message being sent around the country this week said, "The Saudi Interior Ministry warns its citizens of a truck loaded with AIDS infected melons that Israel brought into the country via a 'ground corridor.'"…
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2007/04/09/video-cadbury-creme-egg-shrinkage-revealed/
FYI, what Novak says here about the Cadbury website is true, but it looks like it's less a case of deceit than laziness in updating their FAQ. … Didn't she notice she can fit five of them in her mouth now instead of four? … A corporate malefactor, a cover-up, and at the center of it all an insanely delicious, high-calorie chocolate treat -- isn't there another show that should have been all over this weeks ago?…
In a voice loud enough to be overheard on the other side of the room, he outlined his view that the other candidates would divide up the "right-wing," voters, as he called them, leaving him to consolidate the moderates and the economic and military conservatives who aren't fixated on social issues. … After the house party, the mayor met with his hosts and a few influential Republicans in the bar at the hotel where he was staying and where a few reporters had also decamped. … Suffice it to say, it's too late for him to flip-flop convincingly, and so, with his two rivals looking squishy in their own commitment to social issues, he figures he might as well position himself as a man of his word who'll stand on principle…
Meanwhile, as Pelosi announces the members of the House's new global warming committee, Hollywood prepares to take its environmentalism to its logical conclusion: movies in which the earth itself is cast as hero and does battle with the evil humans who despoil it. … Sheik Mohammed Omran told followers at his Melbourne mosque that out-of-control secular scientific values had caused environmental disaster. … A MUSLIM cleric has blamed the drought, climate change and pollution on the lack of faith Australians have in Allah…
The Iraqis have been accused of lying before to soften the blow when a big terror pinch goes bust, so don't take it on faith that they caught anyone from AQ either. … "We captured a figure who was a senior al-Qaeda member and we suspected that he was Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, but after initial investigations it was proven it was not Abu Omar al-Baghdadi," he said. … A man described as a "senior leader" of an al-Qaeda-linked insurgent group has been arrested in Iraq, according to an Iraqi military spokesman…
Professor Gilbert Burnham, Dr Les Roberts and Dr Shannon Doocy at the Centre for International Emergency, Disaster and Refugee Studies, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Maryland, decided to work through Iraqi doctors, who speak the language and know the territory... … Using the "three-to-one rule" – the idea that for every death, there are three injuries – there should should be close to two million Iraqis seeking hospital treatment, which does not tally with hospital reports... … Professor Spagat says the Lancet paper contains misrepresentations of mortality figures suggested by other organisations, an inaccurate graph, the use of the word "casualties" to mean deaths rather than deaths plus injuries, and the perplexing finding that child deaths have fallen…