Last night Sean Hannity went on a tirade complaining that President Obama took three months to decide on his troop increase and even said that this is the first increase the President has committed to Afghanistan. Hannity somehow seems to forget the 17,000 additional troops that were ordered to Afghanistan only three weeks into the […]
It sure looks that way: Newspaper publishers will now be able to set a limit on the number of free news articles people can read through Google, the company has announced. The concession follows claims from some media companies that the search engine is profiting from online news pages. Under the First Click Free programme, […]
Tonight in his post speech analysis, Chris Matthews declared Obama “went to maybe the enemy camp tonight” at West Point. The reactions to this senseless comment have been very strong. The left and right have been tweeting up a storm about it and Matthews better retract that statement or face certain outrage from not only […]
Now that the speech is done and we know the plan we can now take a look at the new site launched by the Department of Defense, Afghanistan/Pakistan Policy.
“The 30,000 additional troops that I am announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010 – the fastest pace possible – so that they can target the insurgency and secure key population centers. They will increase our ability to train competent Afghan Security Forces, and to partner with them so that more Afghans […]
A story being pushed by Drudge is about tonight’s address by President Obama and how it conflicts with ABC showing A Charlie Brown Christmas. I’m sure this will be taken by people like O’Reilly as a massive first strike in the War on Christmas. Luckily the tragedy has been adverted as ABC has rescheduled the […]
It looks like some Texas charities are trying to ascertain a child’s status as a legal resident or not before allowing them to receive gifts in their toy drives: They don’t claim to know who’s been naughty or nice, but some Houston charities are asking whether children are in the country legally before giving them […]
As the hour of President Obama’s speech approaches we are starting to get leaked details. In those details we find out that he will be sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan over the next 6 months. He is also calling for an end to the war within three years. Hopefully that is an obtainable timeline, […]
Joe Conason has a very enlightening piece up about Mike Huckabee and his addiction to letting criminals walk free. In the article Conason points out something very interesting, yet missed in this debate: Huckabee has proudly declared on many occasions that he disdains the separation of church and state, insisting that his strict Baptist piety […]
The Black Friday results show what was to be expected – a rather blue Christmas for retailers: As the closely-watched Black Friday weekend winds down, a National Retail Federation survey conducted over the weekend confirms the expected: more people spent less. According to NRF’s Black Friday shopping survey, conducted by BIGresearch, 195 million shoppers visited […]