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NewsBusted – 11-242 – Video
Topics in today’s show: – President Obama cut short his vacation with the approach of Hurricane Irene to the East Coast, but there’s another interpretation. – Last week, the Virgina earthquake temporarily closed Government buildings in Washington DC. – The Washington Monument sustained cracks in that Earthquake, so now it joins some other American symbols […]
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard Considers An Inquiry That Could Muzzle Her Critics
By Andrew Bolt The threat and the demand: THE Gillard government has a fortnight to decide whether to hold an inquiry into the regulation and ownership of the media after the Greens leader Bob Brown gave notice last week he would seek to establish one. Senator Brown’s motion on Thursday went unnoticed amid the furore […]
Destroying America’s Moral Fiber
By Alan Caruba There’s something very wrong when the forthcoming memorial ceremonies of 9/11 at Ground Zero in New York City will not include prayer. Almost by definition, a memorial service includes prayer for the souls of the dead and for renewal in the face of adversity. No doubt a combination of political correctness and […]
NY Times Reporter Justin Gillis Again Uses Natural Disaster to Promote ‘Climate Change’
By Clay Waters Never let a natural disaster go to waste. In August 2010, New York Times environmental reporter Justin Gillis reacted to that summer’s heat waves and flooding with “In Weather Chaos, a Case for Global Warming” on the front page of the Times. So it was no surprise he took advantage of Hurricane […]
The Uproar Over Voter-ID Laws
By Mike Brownfield The left is in an uproar over new voter-ID laws passed by states including Texas, Alabama, Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Rhode Island. Their complaint? That requiring someone to authenticate his or her identity at the polling place amounts to racial discrimination. The Heritage Foundation’s Hans Von Spakovsky writes in this week’s National Review […]
Sea Levels Dropped in 2010
By Robert W. Felix 25 Aug 11 – “Sea Levels Dropped in 2010.” That’s what the headline should have read. Instead, NASA tried to hide this startling information under the nondescript headline “NASA Satellites Detect Pothole On Road to Higher Seas.” The story begins as yet another global warming horror story, explaining how “ocean waters […]
A Weather Newsgasm
By Alan Caruba What major weather events and especially earthquakes tell us is that we live on planet Earth on its terms, not ours. Put another way, we don’t “control” the weather or climate and, despite decades of global warming lies, compared to the sun and oceans, we don’t even influence it. The best definition […]
The Truth about Libyan “Rebels”
By Diana West Here are three things Americans need to know about the Libyan “rebels” the U.S. government isn’t telling us. One: The inspiration of the Libyan war is as much anti-Western as it is anti-Gadhafi. The “Day of Rage” that kick-started the Libyan war on Feb. 17 marked the fifth anniversary of violent protests […]
Hurricane Warnings
A Dry Bones Cartoon I love it when I can link two current news items together in one cartoon. Especially when they would seem to be totally unconnected. Which is why I was delighted when, while watching all the sober, intelligent, American East Coast hurricane warnings, this cartoon occurred to me. Read More by Yaakov […]
Prime Minister Gillard’s CO2 Tax Will Make Us Happier
By Andrew Bolt Do people still believe this stuff? If we don’t start tackling climate change, Australians will be increasingly depressed, anxious or stressed…. and more prone to substance abuse, a new report says. The report, A Climate of Suffering: The Real Cost of Living with Inaction on Climate Change, draws on the work of […]
Sunday Music – Anyone Who Had A Heart
August 28, 2011 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is ‘Anyone Who Had A Heart’ from Dionne Warwick. This video was posted to You Tube by dibotis This beautiful song was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for Dionne Warwick, and is probably the best known version of the song, but it is a source of minor contention between the […]
MSNBC Features 9/11 Truther to Blame Hurricane on Global Warming
By Scott Whitlock On Friday’s Dylan Ratigan Show, MSNBC contributor Touré, who is also a 9/11 truther, wondered if Hurricane Irene is an example of global warming. He speculated, “When you talk about an unusual weather event happening in New York and this sort of thing, is this really evidence of global warming to see […]
Independents Cling Even Harder To Prime Minister Julia Gillard
By Andrew Bolt In Australia, the current Government led by the ALP (Australian Labor Party) is governing only in a minority capacity with the support of one member of The Australian Greens Party and three Independent Members of Parliament. Both sides, in effect, are beholden to each other, and the Independents have the most to […]
GE Stabs the US in the Back
By Alan Caruba In 1876 Thomas Alva Edison opened a laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey for the purposes of exploring how to produce and distribute electricity. History records that he invented the incandescent electric light bulb there. By 1890, he had established the Edison General Electric Company, now know simply as GE. In 2011, […]
Celebrating Steve Jobs’ Failures?
By Mike Brownfield Listen to your music on an iPod? Read news on an iPad? Cherish your beautifully minimalist iMac? Then you’ve benefited from the genius of Apple Inc.’s Steve Jobs. With the news this week of his decision to step down as CEO of the company, many have lauded his incredible successes in changing […]
NewsBusted – 11-238 – Video
Topics in today’s show: – Good news and bad news for America. The good news is that President Obama is still on holidays. The bad news. He’s coming back – There’s no word yet from President Obama on his upcoming plan to create jobs. – Experts say that inflation is on the rise, and gee, […]
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- American Minute for May 26thOscar winning actor Marion Michael Morrison, better known as John Wayne, was born MAY 26, 1907. Of Presbyterian Scots-Irish descent, his grandfather, Marion Mitchell Morrison, fought in the Civil War. John Wayne played football for U.S.C. and worked behind-the-scenes at Fox Studios, before being discovered by director John Ford, who cast him in epic western […]
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