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The liberal H.R. Huff-n-Stuffington Post website has an interesting story up calling Afghanistan President Obama's War now. They say 575 soldiers have died in Afghanistan since Obama took office, a number they claim is equal to the number who died in Afghanistan when George W. Bush was President. From Robert Naiman's article at the Huffington Post.... "575. That's how many U.S. soldiers have lost their lives in the Afghanistan war since Barack Obama became President at noon on January 20, 2009,... when the next U.S. soldier is reported dead, the majority of U.S. deaths in Afghanistan will have occurred under...

It's not often you see an obituary as snarky and bitter as the one written by British columnist Johann Hari announcing what he called the "slow, whining death of British Christianity" in the UK edition of GQ and online at The Huffington Post. Citing an unlinked ICM study, which is not available on the organization's website, Hari called on reader to "put your hands together and give thanks, for I come bearing Good News. My country,Britain, is now on the most irreligious country on earth." Hari called Christianity, "superstition," "weak," "cruel," and based on "intimidation." He predicted that, "As their...

Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post said the Mama Grizzlies video on You Tube is the most important political ad in the 2010 mid-term elections. I agree. In fact, Sarah Palin is the most important person in this election — eclipsing the president, who is forced to sit on the sidelines and hope the voters don’t beat his party too badly. This is her test. Her surrogates are on the ballot everywhere and their victories — or losses — will reflect on her viability as a presidential candidate.

A confession: I’m not one of Sarah Palin’s biggest fans. Often, which she speaks, I find myself leaning forward toward the TV, as though my body language will somehow provide her with encouragement as she struggles to find the words that always seem to elude her. This is not to say I wasn’t repulsed by the mainstream media’s hatchet job on her during the run-up to the 2008 president campaign—especially considering their stubborn refusal to vet the even less experienced candidate running for the more important office of president on the opposing ticket. In spite of my misgivings, Palin has...

With the turn of a phrase, Minnesota Republican Rep. Michelle Bachmann seemed to sum up last weekend’s RightOnline conference, an annual gathering of conservative activists. “The sleeping giant is awake,” she declared . . . For the first time ever, conservative blogs hold the top two slots in Technorati.com’s politics blog ranking, pushing The Huffington Post, the long-reigning champion, to the fifth slot. Conservative blogs also make up half of the top ten political blogs on the Web, while the distinctly liberal blogs only claim two spaces . . .

"I have this very specific niche," said Breitbart. "... I'm a news addict, I like the news. I would have loved to have been in the mainstream media 15 years ago, and helped correct the situation, you know, from within. But as circumstances occurred, I'm outside of the system correcting it from outside of the system. ... I have friends within the system ... I have people that like me and I have people that hate me and I can live with it." (Video at link)

Mayhill Fowler has an extended interview with Mark Skoda, co-founder of the National Tea Party Federation, posted at the Huffington Post today.Fowler notes that Skoda orchestrated the expulsion of Mark Williams and the Tea Party Express from the National Tea Party Federation, starting with a Facebook posting last Friday:After reading the entirety of the [Williams] blog, I have come to the conclusion that a call for rebuke and removal is necessary. This is not the first time that Mark Williams has taken this approach. And while I can appreciate sarcasm, this "letter" is beyond the pale and reignites an issue...

"RUDYARD KIPLING 1865-1936 " Glenn had some fun during his second hour mocking the abject stupidity and craven ignorance of people like Rosie O'Donnell and Helen Thomas. (Listen to audio 3:44) In his second hour Glenn had more fun with a handful of the 512 comments left at a Huffington Post review of the newly released trailer (above) promoting Glenn's book "The Overton Window" due out five days from now. (Listen to audio 2:39) Glenn knows that anything with his name attached to it will attract derisive comments. And it certainly did, with most of the brainiac commenters on the...

Huffington on ABC’s This Week: ‘Absolutely a Thousand Percent Bush-Cheney's Fault’ By Brent Baker Created 06/06/2010 - 14:13 “Sooner or later, we’ll blame this on George W. Bush,” George Will presciently predicted on Sunday’s Week during the roundtable’s look as how President Barack Obama is handling the gulf oil leak. Seconds later, the Huffington Post’s Arianna Huffington didn’t let Will down, declaring “the truth is, that right now we have precisely the regulatory system that the Bush-Cheney administration wanted. Full of loopholes, full of cronies and lobbyists filling the very agencies they're supposed to be overseeing the industry.” Then this...

The idea of a government "Department of Information" is not new. After all, the Nazis had one. So did the Soviets. All good little dictatorships need one in order to get the "facts" out to the people. HuffPo blogger - brain dead psychologist Jim Taylor - originally came up with the idea as a serious measure to get the "facts" out to the people. And like any enthusiastic authoritarian, he wants the government to determine what the "facts" are: Here is my proposal to return fact-based reality to our national dialogue (note: please don't miss my ironic tone):The federal government...

Just how bad have things gotten at the low rated CNN? So bad that the CNN co-founder, Reese Schonfeld has written in his Huffington Post blog that it is at risk of becoming a bad joke: I think CNN is at risk of becoming a bad joke. Late night comics and cartoonists are already using them as a gag line. Newspapers are asking "experts" how to save them. It's time for a major change, before moving from "joke" to "tired joke". Writing this is getting tired, too. It's making me feel cruel, and, even if April is the cruelest month,...

The Huffington Post has fallen for a fake Tea Party sign. This screenshot shows the Huffington Post describing the (FAKE) image as "shocking":--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- According to the Politico "a self-described infiltrator at the afternoon rally, who dressed as a monk and carried a sign reading “God Hates Taxes,” said many tea partiers lauded him for his sign."

No one has ever accused Alec Baldwin of being a rocket scientist, but apparently the actor fancies himself a nuclear physicist. At least that’s the logical conclusion to draw based on his post over at HuffPo entitled “The Human Cost of Nuclear Power.” The actor assumes his new role with gusto, metaphorically donning a lab coat to explain what he believes are the inherent dangers of nuclear power, but his bizarre conclusions and the outdated, discredited research he cites suggests that a straightjacket would be his better fashion choice Let’s start with a question that illustrates just how far the...

On Monday evening, April 5, my home phone rang. The caller ID said "Freedom, Inc.," the name of the black political club that ushered my congressman, Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), to power. Wondering whether the call might have something to do with the articles I have been writing about the media smear of the Tea Party protest on March 20, I answered the phone. Once the female caller fixed that I was indeed who I was, she launched into a barely audible spiel for some cause that I could not quite make out. Innocent? Maybe, but the call came in...

Late afternoon comedy via the ‘Busters from this a.m.’s “Morning Joe.” Rudy was on to talk about his Rubio endorsement, Arianna was on to talk about god knows what, but once she found herself in the presence of a prominent Republican, she found her purpose and went to work. The interesting thing about this is trying to figure out whether she really wanted to attack because Giuliani’s endorsement bothers her that much or whether years of being a nutroots icon simply left her feeling obliged. The HuffPo faithful would, let’s face it, be crestfallen if she declined an opportunity to...

WASHINGTON -- So far, J.D. Hayworth's campaign to beat Sen. John McCain for the Republican nomination for McCain's seat in Arizona is looking like little more than a nuisance. A new Research 2000 poll sponsored by Daily Kos, out Friday, showed McCain beating Hayworth easily, 52-37. Meanwhile, McCain ended the first quarter of 2010 with $4.5 million in the bank, after raising more than $2.2 million this year so far. Hayworth announced that he raised more than $1 million, but didn't say exactly how much. (And one of his top advisors, Arizona public relations mogul Jason Rose, recently quit because...

Two of the most popular liberal news sites are calling for violence against Republicans for obstructing the radical agenda of President Barack Obama.

<p>Two of the most popular liberal news sites are calling for violence against Republicans for obstructing the radical agenda of Barack Obama.</p> <p>CNN and Huffington Post have each published op-eds this week by regular contributors with headlines that explicitly call for Barack Obama to use violent gangland tactics against his political opponents.</p>

Yesterday's joint appearance with Arianna Huffington on CNN's "Reliable Sources," hosted by the estimable Howard Kurtz, gave me a chance to tell Arianna in person what most people think about her crusade against the Fox News Channel: It is silly. Her focus on a word here and a phrase there is silly. The warning that Glenn Beck or others are "inciting" the public and that this is dangerous is silly. The program also gave me the opportunity to say on television what I often say on radio: If I had it in my power, I'd give Keith Olbermann a 24/7...

I have detected a decrease in the Dark Side. There is a slowing of the Force, a lessening of the Move On dot KOS. Have the Left abandoned their Liberal Basement Sanctuaries and thrown themselves into the Global Warming snow Drifts ? What is happening here ? New Jersey happened, then Virginia happened, then Ted K. surrendered his still warm seat ? Now Obama's Illinois Seat is definitely changing Colors. Have I been transported to the Deficit Twilight Zone of never ending Spending ? Or am I just not visiting the correct Huffing and puffing sites ? Someone Help me,...