Camille Paglia on Palin, Couric.

As I have repeatedly said in this column, I have never had the slightest problem in understanding Sarah Palin’s meaning at any time. On the contrary, I have positively enjoyed her fresh, natural, rapid delivery with its syncopated stops and slides — a fabulous example of which was the way (in her recent interview with [...]

Demi Lovato – Assclown.

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. (AP) – Disney star Demi Lovato is hoping for some changes under Barack Obama’s administration.
“Well, our economic system is in a crisis right now,” Lovato, 16, said Friday in an interview. “I definitely hope that that will change. Also … I hope that the war resolves. Whether we win or lose or [...]

Level with me, Sporto.

BEDFORD HEIGHTS, Ohio (Reuters) – Just days before his inauguration, President-elect Barack Obama on Friday warned Americans to expect even rougher economic times and said his plan to revive the struggling economy would take time to work.
“Recovery is not going to happen overnight,” he told workers at a factory in Ohio that makes parts for [...]

Busted.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – A prominent fashion designer has sparked outrage in Chile by dressing up models like the Virgin Mary — in some cases with ample, near-naked breasts.
The Roman Catholic Church condemned Ricardo Oyarzun’s plans for a show featuring the models, and a conservative group tried unsuccessfully to block it in court.
Oyarzun said he had [...]

Do you really want to hurt me?

Boy George goes to jail.
Boy George was jailed for 15 months yesterday for falsely imprisoning a male escort.
The former Culture Club singer  -  real name George O’Dowd  -  shackled Audun Carlsen to a wall of his flat and lashed him with a chain while shouting insults at him.
The 29-year-old Norwegian managed to free himself and [...]

January 10?

Ok, this is more than a little creepy.
On January 10, the war between Israel and Hamas became a global conflict. No longer confined to the Gaza Strip, the fighting spread to cities around the world: what were billed as “anti-war” demonstrations from Los Angeles to Copenhagen and beyond were in fact overtly pro-Hamas demonstrations, and [...]

Context.

Regarding the plight of Gaza, remember this: Between 1948, when Israel was created, and 1967, when Israel captured Gaza in a defensive war, the Gaza Strip was administered by Egypt. During those 19 years, the Egyptians never offered citizenship to the Palestinians living in Gaza, nor did they permit them free transit from the Strip [...]

Obama aping the chimp?

Charles Krauthammer : Bush’s Imminent Rehab – Townhall.com.

WASHINGTON — Except for Richard Nixon, no president since Harry Truman leaves office more unloved than George W. Bush. Truman’s rehabilitation took decades. Bush’s will come sooner. Indeed, it has already begun. The chief revisionist? Barack Obama.
Vindication is being expressed not in words but in deeds — the [...]

Good. Now finish them off.

Two captured terrorists interviewed by Maariv/NRG say that Hamas was not expecting Israel’s response to the escalation in missile attacks on Israeli targets that preceded Operation Cast Lead. One of them, a 52-year-old victim of a premature detonation who had already done time in an Israeli jail, said, “Hamas took a gamble. We thought, at [...]

More on the FISA wiretaps decision.

But the Constitution bans only “unreasonable” search and seizure, not all searches and seizures, and the Fourth Amendment allows for exceptions such as those under a President’s Article II war powers. The courts have been explicit on this point. In 1980, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held in Truong that “the Executive need not [...]

Bad deal.

The worst mistake of the New Deal was keeping wages and prices artificially high, thus suppressing employment and consumer demand. UCLA economists Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian calculate that FDR’s pro-labor policies kept both wages and unemployment 25 percent above what they would have been otherwise. (The old saw was that the Depression [...]

Mobs threatening Israel-supporters in Germany.

Outrage over Demonstration in Germany: Police Remove Israeli Flag during Islamist Protest March – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International.
As the first protesters recognized the flag, P. and his girlfriend were standing on the street nearby. He said he followed the march because he wanted to document any incidents of anti-Semitism or hate campaigns. He [...]

And another one gone, and another one gone…

Star Tribune files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
I know, I know, it isn’t gone yet. Just on the gravy train in that direction. With biscuit wheels.

Stimulating.

Here it is.
Check out that opening line: “The economy is in a crisis not seen since the Great Depression.” If it’s true, we’ll just have to take their words for it. We’ve heard a lot of this kind of talk recently, as Obama and his fleet of nincompoops pound us into stunned submission in advance [...]