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repeal Obamacare, and he hasn’t done any of those things,” Carlson said, per The Washington Post. “He knows very little about the legislative process, hasn’t learned anything, hasn’t surrounded himself with people that can get it done, hasn’t done all the things you need to do, so it’s mostly his fault

Some of us, forum posters, conservative columnists, and commentators, were not thrilled with having Donald J. Trump as the GOP nominee. We thought his statements were reckless and stupid. And we didn't trust him or believe him when he talked conservative principles. After all, he'd changed parties several times over the years. When the election came around, some people supposedly on our side actually voted for Hillary. I couldn't do that, of course. I couldn't vote for any Democrat. I thought of voting for Gary Johnson. He said he believed in a strong military. But then he said that he wanted to cut the...

Mitt Romney was right. Barack Obama was wrong. And now, after journo-tool/moderator Candy Crowley jumped to Obama’s aid in front of millions of viewers, CNN is admitting that her fact-check was not kinda, sorta, no completely “cut and dry” factual. READ: CNN walks back false “act of terror” fact check. How’s that crow tasting, lapdogs?

Ever Eat Crow? I am now. I went to the Sarah Steelman Site. She is Pro Life Anti-all the bad stuff Take a look! If she has to go thire party, I think she should. You see, there was a Governor who mabe two parties so he could win in Connecticut in 1992. He was the guy who said "adding an income tax to our state at this time is like pouring gasoline on the fires of inflation." He then shut down the state parks for the rest of the year including JULY 4th. Sarah Steelman, Your Next U.S. Senator...

Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner may have done "cartwheels down the hallway" when Apple called him to complain about the Redmond, Wash.-based company's "Laptop Hunters" campaign. But he must have cartwheeled past Microsoft's legal department because, as Advertising Age reports, the company has quietly altered its ad campaign in an apparent response to Apple's complaints. . . . Does it seem disingenuous to boast about Apple's apparently-quite-legitimate complaints one week and then quietly accede to that same request the next? Maybe. But from Microsoft's vantage point, maybe it's better to eat a little crow than stare down an FTC...

Pete Wehner has a great piece about Obama, Democrats, and the Surge. He has gone through the records of nearly every prominent Democrat, pulled their public comments on the issue, and makes them eat 'em. First Chef Wehner serves Obama a big plate of bitch-slap. Sayeth the Messiah: I don't think the president's strategy is going to work. We went through two weeks of hearings on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; experts from across the spectrum--military and civilian, conservative and liberal--expressed great skepticism about it. My suggestion to the president has been that the only way we're going to change...

In the coming months, our national attention will be shifting from political pork to political crow. Democrats have put themselves in a position where they will be eating a lot of it, as it now appears there is a chance of victory in Iraq. All those on the left who have been advocating surrender will have pie on their face or crow on their plates. Major cracks are starting to appear in the ranks of Democrats. A few of the more politically astute are starting to stray off the reservation, eschewing the lockstep Democrat talking points and positioning themselves for...

The Queens district attorneys office said Monday a miscommunication was to blame for inaccurate information it released in a press release last Thursday that was quoted in a TimesLedger story on the newspapers Web site Friday. The DAs office issued the press release about the July 19 arrest of three Far Rockaway youths, who were allegedly found in possession of a bag of cocaine and a powerful handgun, the Belgian-made Fabrique Nationale (FN) 5.7. In the release, the DA said that 425 of the 616 officers killed in the line of duty between 1994 and 2003 had been killed with...

WASHINGTON — In a Wednesday story, The Associated Press reported that federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his Homeland Security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees in New Orleans, citing confidential video footage of an Aug. 28 briefing.

A restaurant in Østre Bolærne, an archipelago on the outer fringe of the Oslo Fjord, has decided on menu innovation to attract new diners. Manager Rolf Bjarne Sund is not sure if the new additions of crow and seagull to the menu will be a definite hit with visitors, but hopes they will give the rare items a try, newspaper Tønsberg Blad reports. "It has something to do with the feeling that this (crow) is not a clean bird," Sund admitted. "But it is incredibly good. It tastes like chicken with a hint of game. And it is safe to...

Crow eaten here: This is a horror. In a column (Opinion, June 29) I asserted that more Iraqis (civilians) had now been killed in this war than had been killed by Saddam Hussein over his 24-year rule. Wrong. Really, really wrong. The only problem is figuring out by how large a factor I was wrong. I had been keeping an eye on civilian deaths in Iraq for a couple of months, waiting for the most conservative estimates to creep over 20,000, which I had fixed in my mind as the number of Iraqi civilians Saddam had killed. ------------------------------------------------------- There have...

I cannot post from Alternet but Drudge has picked this up so you can get it there. Molly Ivins eats crow over her claims that more civilian deaths have occured since US liberated Iraq than under Saddam''s benevolent care.She was abit off on her math ....New Math? the crow eating begins towards the bottom of the column. Its funny

Unsuprisingly, two columns that appeared recently in the Toronto Star and in Germany's Der Spiegel were ignored by the mainstream media. The Toronto Star column was written by Richard Gwyn, an opponent of American policy in Iraq and the other was written by Claus Christian Malzahn. Gywn rightly pointed out that 'the war against terrorism will now begin to turn into a war for democracy.' He concluded, 'It is now time to set down into type the most difficult sentence in the English language. President George W. Bush was right.''He understood that to defeat an idea, (terrorism) it was necessary...

NPR's Nina Totenberg eats her shoe. Asked on Inside Washington over the weekend if President Bush deserves credit for the democratic movements rising in the Middle East, Totenberg, a critic of Bush's Iraq policy, replied that "if I had a hat I would have to eat it." Then, as she briefly brought a shoe to her month, she noted that "I've got my shoe here" and conceded that "I really did not think that this election in Iraq would make that much difference and I was wrong." She quickly added, however, that "it really does help that Arafat died and...

It looks as if George W. Bush might have defeated his most implacable enemy. No, not the Taliban. Not Saddam's murderous Baathist regime. I'm referring to . . . his Democrat critics. Witness the remarkable episode of "The Long & the Short of It" that just concluded on Fox & Friends Weekend. Former RNC communications guy Cliff May sat in for Jim Pinkerton, and as an aside was very good, IMO. Talk turned to the situation in Syria and Lebanon. May stated that W was handling the Syrian situation well, and that the Prez is doing the right thing to...

The New York Times approached a plate of crow Tuesday, took a few nibbles, then pushed the plate away. In its editorial on the "Cedar Revolution" in Lebanon, the Times said: "This has so far been a year of heartening surprises — each one remarkable in itself, and taken together truly astonishing. The Bush administration is entitled to claim a healthy share of the credit for many of these advances. It boldly proclaimed the cause of Middle East democracy when few in the West thought it had any realistic chance. And for all the negative consequences that flowed from the...

BY MARK BROWN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Maybe you're like me and have opposed the Iraq war since before the shooting started -- not to the point of joining any peace protests, but at least letting people know where you stood. You didn't change your mind when our troops swept quickly into Baghdad or when you saw the rabble that celebrated the toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue, figuring that little had been accomplished and that the tough job still lay ahead. Despite your misgivings, you didn't demand the troops be brought home immediately afterward, believing the United States must at least...

Maybe you're like me and have opposed the Iraq war since before the shooting started -- not to the point of joining any peace protests, but at least letting people know where you stood. You didn't change your mind when our troops swept quickly into Baghdad or when you saw the rabble that celebrated the toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue, figuring that little had been accomplished and that the tough job still lay ahead. Despite your misgivings, you didn't demand the troops be brought home immediately afterward, believing the United States must at least try to finish what it...

Jon Stewart, late in the Daily Show last night to Newsweek pundit Fareed Zakaria: "I’ve watched this thing unfold from the start and here’s the great fear that I have: What if Bush, the president, ours, has been right about this all along? I feel like my world view will not sustain itself and I may, and again I don’t know if I can physically do this, implode. (Hat tip: David Frum).

Maybe you're like me and have opposed the Iraq war since before the shooting started -- not to the point of joining any peace protests, but at least letting people know where you stood. You didn't change your mind when our troops swept quickly into Baghdad or when you saw the rabble that celebrated the toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue, figuring that little had been accomplished and that the tough job still lay ahead. Despite your misgivings, you didn't demand the troops be brought home immediately afterward, believing the United States must at least try to finish what it...