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Over the weekend and today, there was no less than three different articles in the media either intimating that opponents of President Obama were racist or analyzing those that say so. The only thing I could think was the chutzpah on these folks is obscene. First, here's a bit from a Politico article.

Osama bin Laden is back with another message for the world: CAIRO — Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden described President Barack Obama as “powerless” to stop the war in Afghanistan and threatened to step up guerrilla warfare there in a new audiotape released to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States. In the 11-minute tape, addressed to the American people, bin Laden said Obama is only following the warlike policies of his predecessor George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney and he urged Americans to “liberate” themselves from the influence of “neo-conservatives and the...

Britain's first workplace parking levy, which will see companies charged for enabling their staff to commute by car, has been formally endorsed by Nottingham City Council. The scheme is expected to set a precedent for other cities across the country, especially following the collapse of the Government's "pay as you drive" road pricing scheme and the attempt to introduce a congestion charge in Greater Manchester. Although employers, offering 11 or more parking spaces, will be expected to pay the levy, which will start at £250 a year, they will be free to pass the cost onto their employees. Milton Keynes,...

In the last year, agents have recovered about $8 million in fake notes across the U.S. and $18 million, as well as fake passports, in raids in Peru, authorities say.

If Oprah Winfrey can’t do it no one can — her endorsements turn to immediate success, her words of wisdom captivate millions, and her support helped elect America’s first African-American President, Barack Obama. But now it seems Oprah’s throwing in the political towel.

Bruce Springsteen once wrote: “From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come).” I doubt he expected that story of love gone wrong would become ideal political commentary for the group known as ACORN. The small scandal showing an embarrassing video of Baltimore ACORN staffers looking like they were giving tax advice on how to set up a brothel, is now national news. -- This story has everything you could ever want – corruption, sleazy actions at tax-funded organizations, firings, government ties, sex, hookers. It is a network news director’s dream. Imagine the ratings! Only almost no one is covering it....

THE HAGUE, 15/09/09 - The criminal court case in which MP Geert Wilders will be on trial for incitement to hatred against Muslims begins on 20 January. The MP is considering calling "radical Imams and other idiots" as witnesses in the proceedings. The politician has to appear in the Amsterdam district court on 20 January for incitement to hatred and discrimination against Muslims and insulting Muslims as a group. In this pro-forma session, the Public Prosecutor and Wilders can bring up their investigatory wishes. Wilders wants to make it the 'trial of the century'. "I want Islam to stand trial...

Maybe there's a reason why the media have either denigrated or completely ignored the Sept. 12 march in Washington, D.C. - they were highly critical of their job performance as well. Aside from protesters taking on CNN reporter Lisa Desjardins, as NewsBusters Matt Sheffield pointed out, there were also other pockets of backlash against media evident at the march, which were captured on video (pardon my shoddy camera work). "You're supposed to use freedom of the press to protect us," one participant yelled at Steinhauser, expressing his frustration with CNN's decision to down play the ACORN scandal covered by Fox...

Czechs feel betrayed, Poles irked, Romanians slighted. Ask them who's to blame, and the answer may come as a surprise: Obama. George W. Bush fawned over Eastern Europe, and its leaders rushed to join his post-9/11 "coalition of the willing." Now many—officials and ordinary citizens alike—are grumbling over what they perceive as the Obama administration's neglect. It's a startling shift in a region long accustomed to cozy ties with the United States.

I think I think too much ...

Albert Einstein is credited with saying that that Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. That does not apply to climate change. With Climate change, insanity is not recognizing the earth is doing things over and over, and coming up for a new reason for the latest episode. Facts proving humans are not causing global warming are not enough to stop the political juggernaut, heck its not enough to slow them down and think about the science behind the climate change, the truth may be that they don't really care, because when you...

KABUL — Russia's ambassador to Afghanistan has some advice for top NATO commanders fighting the Taliban based on the Soviet Union's bitter experience battling Islamist insurgents here in the 1980s: Don't bring more troops. "The more troops you bring the more troubles you will have here," Zamir Kabulov, a blunt-spoken veteran diplomat, told The Associated Press in an interview. In 2002, he noted, there were roughly 5,000 U.S. soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and the Taliban controlled just a small corner of the country's southeast. "Now we have Taliban fighting in the peaceful Kunduz and Baghlan (provinces) with your (NATO's) 100,000...

I don't think so. Folks, this according to the National Catholic Register:The Catholic Archbishop of Moscow has given a remarkably upbeat assessment of relations with the Orthodox Church, saying unity between Catholics and Orthodox could be achieved “within a few months.” In an interview today in Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper, Archbishop Paolo Pezzi said the miracle of reunification “is possible, indeed it has never been so close.” The archbishop added that Catholic-Orthodox reunification, the end of the historic schism that has divided them for a millennium, and spiritual communion between the two churches “could happen soon, within a few...

The news media's credibility is sagging along with its revenue. Nearly two-thirds of Americans think the news stories they read, hear and watch are frequently inaccurate, according to a poll released Sunday by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. That marks the highest level of skepticism recorded since 1985, when this study of public perceptions of the media was first done. The survey found that 63 percent of the respondents thought the information they get from the media was often off base. In Pew Research's previous survey, in 2007, 53 percent of the people expressed that...

It's a new school year, but an old fight is brewing in American classrooms. Teachers and administrators around the country are scratching their heads once again over the Pledge of Allegiance. The courts have consistently ruled that students have the right not to recite the pledge in public schools. But now some First Amendment advocates are taking it one step further, arguing that the law compels educators to inform kids at the beginning of school that the decision is entirely up to them. They're advocating a "Miranda warning" for the Pledge... See the rest of article posted at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,550063,00.html.

K. Weapons and explosives The possession or use of explosives, incendiary materials, or weapons (weapons include, but are not limited to, guns, firearms, shotguns, rifles, air rifles, paintball and pellet guns, BB guns, Tasers, and knives) by any Yale student, which is absolutely prohibited on campus, in areas surrounding the campus, or in off-campus housing. Students participating in club sports or in any other recreational or sporting activities involving the use of firearms must adhere to this prohibition and to the protocols established by the University with respect to the possession, use, storage, and transportation of any firearms (see Club...

During World War II, many Allied pilots failed to complete their missions over the Italian town of San Giovanni Rotondo. It seemed a Franciscan friar flying through the sky was staying their hands, preventing them from dropping their bombs. One aviator after the other testified to this otherworldly phenomenon, corroborating one another’s incredible tale of supernatural intervention in the midst of battle. The friar, of course, was Padre Pio of Pietrelcina — now St. Pio, whose feast the Church celebrates on Sept. 23. And the story, of course, is private revelation; Catholics are free to believe or disbelieve its veracity...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday criticized US dominance and asserted countries had a right to weigh in even on the domestic policy of a state whose actions affected the world. "We see more and more often how problems on the territory of one state acquire a global character," Medvedev said in an address to a conference in the central Russian city of Yaroslavl. "This happens immediately and incompetence and reluctance to solve one's own problems inflict a damage not only to your country but to a huge number of other countries." The Russian president lashed out at the "ill-thought...

CNN/ORC poll shows president's approval rating at 58% overall, above 50% on health care, economy, foreign policy and taxes. Up at least four points across the board from the end of August.

WASHINGTON -- This is your money at work. At work in the red-light district. And your government is the pimp who handles your "investment." Over the last six years, more than $10 million of your hard-earned money has been taken by the federal government and handed to ACORN, which we now know is ready and eager to use your money to finance whorehouses. What could possibly be more fitting? These tapes from inside ACORN offices in Washington, Baltimore and now Brooklyn make your skin crawl.