Today’s music video is ‘Midnight In Moscow’ from Kenny Ball And His Jazzmen. This song was written in 1955 by Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy and Mikhail Matusovsky, and originally titled ‘Leningrad Nights’. (translated from the Russian) The Soviet Ministry of Culture asked that the title be changed to ‘Moscow Nights’, or the more correct literal translation being… [Read more…]
Satire by Shawn Goodwin Memorial Day. A time for Americans to reflect upon our freedom and honor those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for defending it. It is the most solemn of holidays, and many celebrate the day with prayer vigils and remembrances. Of course, there are also the thousands upon thousands of Americans who… [Read more…]
By Nick Loris Intergenerational theft. A complicated phrase that can simply be described as borrow money now, force our children and grandchildren to pay later. We’ve heard it with Social Security, Medicare and, most recently, with the massive stimulus spending bill. We can now add cap and trade to the list. The Heritage Foundation’s Center for… [Read more…]
By Andrew Bolt TonyfromOz prefaces ….. This man is part of a Firefighting Department with more than 350 members. He was among a group who sat for the promotion examination, a legally constituted written examination about aspects of firefighting. He then also underwent examination in numerous other areas as well, leadership, building construction, and other… [Read more…]
By Nancy Morgan The elected representatives of ‘we the people’ were hard at work last week on our behalf. The new Obama administration churned out proposals and legislation on a variety of fronts including the environment, the economy, and the (former) war on terror. In response to the Federal Reserve’s report of an increasingly gloomy… [Read more…]
Michelle Malkin. Left-wing groups in Washington, D.C., are panicked. The New York Times and other Team Obama whitewashers are downplaying the connection between the Obama presidential campaign, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and Obama’s old employer Project Vote (ACORN’s nonprofit canvassing arm). Alas, the truth keeps seeping out. At a closed-door… [Read more…]
William J Federer’s American Minute Southern women scattered spring flowers on the graves of both the Northern and Southern soldiers who died during the Civil War. This was the origin of Memorial Day, which in 1868 was set on MAY 30. In 1968, it was moved to the last Monday in May. From the Spanish-American… [Read more…]
Nick Loris. TonyfromOz prefaces ….. Just yesterday, in this post, I canvassed the replacement of just one large coal fired power plant, and compared it, using an equivalent amount of money with plants using renewable sources. In that I used this same Nellis PV plant for the sake of comparison. Read that post to see… [Read more…]
Well this week has been quite a thunderous time in North Korea. Kim Jong-Il has been firing missiles left and right, hoping he’ll get the attention of the United States. Back in the 90′s, the Clinton Administration had a similar situation brewing. How did they handle it? They gave North Korea billions of dollars in… [Read more…]
New Black Panther members who intimidated white voters in Philadelphia are let off on civil rights violations, with the exception that one is ordered not to have a weapon at a polling place until November 2012.
The Patriot Post – Friday Digest – Vol. 09 No. 21 THE FOUNDATION “The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow), working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and… [Read more…]
May 29, 2009 by TonyfromOz
PART TWO OF TWO PARTS THE HERESY OF A NEW COAL FIRED POWER PLANT As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, coal fired power provides just on half of all the power consumed in the U.S. Those plants are cheaper than others to construct, there is a ready source of coal for them, in fact more… [Read more…]
William J Federer’s American Minute Awarded the Navy’s medal of heroism during World War II and the Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles in Courage, he was the youngest elected President, serving just over 1,000 days before being shot. This was John F. Kennedy, born MAY 29, 1917. Kennedy stated in his Inaugural, January 20,… [Read more…]
Hello reader(s). Here’s all the news fit to print: County Threatens Couple Over Home Bible Studies. It seems San Diego County officials are threatening a couple with escalating fines if the couple continues to hold Bible studies for approximately 15 couples in their home. It goes without saying this couple wouldn’t have these problems if… [Read more…]
By jcpm - Guest Contributor The pursuit of Truth in todays mish mash world of people out for political gain. Interesting. Here is one for you. Abington Township Pa. Commissioner Lori Schreiber, along with Josh Shapiro, and Joe (taj Ma)Hoeffel have decided it to be a great idea to take a property in Roslyn Pa.,… [Read more…]
Alexander’s Essay – 28 May 2009 Marine Aviator’s Memorial Day Wave Off “The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations.” –George Washington Every week, the greatest challenge I face as editor of The Patriot Post is determining which subject among all the current news… [Read more…]
William J Federer’s American Minute He left Yale for four years to fight in the Revolutionary War. After graduation, he became a lawyer and taught school in New York. Dissatisfied with the children’s spelling books, he wrote the famous Blue-Backed Speller, which sold over one hundred million copies. After twenty-six years of work, he published… [Read more…]
By Dr. Walid Phares A successful counterterrorism operation led by the FBI and the New York City Police Department ended with the arrest of four New York City men in connection with plots to bomb Jewish synagogues and gun down military planes in upstate areas. According to Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly the suspects, identified as… [Read more…]
Andrew Bolt. TonyfromOz prefaces ….. I couldn’t resist inserting this second post from Andrew for today. Ouch! Even Joe Biden is laughing at Obama. Or maybe it’s yet more proof that it’s Biden who’s the joke. Andrew Bolt is a journalist and columnist writing for The Herald Sun in Melbourne Victoria Australia. Read more excellent… [Read more…]
May 28, 2009 by TonyfromOz
PART ONE OF TWO PARTS In this current hysterical climate of anthropogenic global warming, that has now had its title changed to Climate Change, where the emissions of Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse gas are being blamed for every ill known to mankind, I’m going to shine a light directly on what is perceived as the culprit,… [Read more…]
Michelle Malkin Since when did securing a Supreme Court seat become a high hurdles contest? The White House and Democrats have turned Second Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination into a personal Olympic event. Pay no attention to her jurisprudence. She grew up in a Bronx public housing project. She was diagnosed with childhood diabetes at… [Read more…]
By Rory Cooper In the Foundry’s latest edition of ‘What’s Next?,’ we give you Obama Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s radical environmental proposal which the Telegraph describes as: “all the world’s roofs should be painted white as part of efforts to slow global warming.” Chu says he is in favor of “white roofs everywhere.” This is the same thinking… [Read more…]
From The Endive The News Leader of the Known Universe. In another historic move, President Obama has announced that Mr. Potato Head is his nominee for the nation’s highest court. Judge Head would be the first Potato-American to serve on the court and only the third Justice in history with removable facial features. “Mr. Potato… [Read more…]
Andrew Bolt. TonyfromOz prefaces ….. I’m not all that sure if the word ‘bonk’ is in as widespread use in the U.S. as it is here in Australia, and in the U.K. It’s a slang word that is more acceptable than some others for ….. well, you know what for. I guess this story indicates… [Read more…]
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May 31, 2009 by TonyfromOz
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