Stefanie Spielman has gone to a better place:
Stefanie Spielman, the wife of NFL and Ohio State star Chris Spielman who led a public fight against breast cancer, died Thursday after a lengthy battle with the disease. She was 42.
Stefanie Spielman died at the family’s home in Upper Arlington, surrounded [...]
Uncle Sam Cash Crunch update (through the third Thursday in November, 2009 and 2008):
Consider as well the estimated combined total collections for October and November, which I’m generously and probably overoptimistically pegging at $280 billion this year vs. $310 billion last year. I’m estimating that [...]
Government-managed economic projects rarely deliver.
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Note: This item went up at Pajamas Media and was teased here at BizzyBlog on Friday.
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Recent weeks have not been good to those who bitterly cling to the notion that governments can manage economic initiatives. Three of them — one in real estate, a [...]
To say that there’s good reason not to be impressed with quite a few U.S. Senators is to state the obvious.
But I hope Dana Milbank either hasn’t read or really doesn’t remember A Streetcar Named Desire. Because in his coverage of the Senate vote last night to [...]
Pope Benedict met artists from around the world in the Sistine Chapel on Saturday and urged them to inject spirituality into their work, saying contemporary beauty was often “illusory and deceitful.”
The Pope told the gathering of hundreds of painters, sculptors, architects, poets and directors, held beneath the [...]
Not that he set out to do it, but Mr. Wright has brilliantly explained (HT A Traditional Life Lived):
Why my call that the economy’s condition since the summer of 2008 is almost solely the fault of Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and Harry Reid is [...]
At this point, there should be little doubt that there is a concerted attempt underway to use the war in Afghanistan as a justification for punitively taxing high earners.
Last weekend (noted at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), the New York Times discovered that wars cost money. [...]
A merchant sea captain who was captured and held by Somali pirates in April reunited Thursday with the U.S. Navy crew and captain who were part of his daring rescue, thanking them for saving him.
“You are the true patriots,” Capt. Richard Phillips said on [...]
You’ve got to hand it to the propagandists at the AFP. When heavy-hitting members of the party they favor announce an idea whose main purpose is, as the New York Times suddenly “discovered” last weekend, to remind people that wars cost money and distract from supposedly [...]
Two months ago, there was the “Dog Ate My Global Warming Data” episode. As noted at NewsBusters and at BizzyBlog (original source: National Review Online), we learned that important original information forming the underpinning of global warming alarmists’ claims about the earth heating up has [...]
It seems like a long shot, but Buckeye Staters who want this country to be saved from statist health care ought to pursue it any way.
After spending 25 minutes on hold waiting to talk to someone at Sherrod Brown’s Washington Office, I was told that the Senator [...]
Mitt Romney, call your office (emphasis mine).
Remember Mitt? The guy who keeps insisting that he could make RomneyCare work nationally?
From Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal…
By JEFFREY S. FLIER
As the dean of Harvard Medical School I am frequently asked to comment [...]
It will go up here at BizzyBlog on Sunday morning (link won’t work until then) after the blackout expires.
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Supplement: The column points out what should be obvious, but isn’t to many — Where government goes, trouble follows.
Of course [...]
Nov 20, 2009 / 01:21 am
An unprecedented coalition of prominent Christian clergy, ministry leaders, and scholars has crafted a 4,700-word declaration addressing the sanctity of life, traditional marriage, and religious liberty. The declaration issues “a clarion call” to Christians to adhere to their convictions and informs civil authorities [...]
Really, who knew?
In what appears to be the opening round of a rearguard action against what leftists used to call “the good war” (only because they felt they needed to pretend they had pro-war bona fides to make their anti-Iraq War arguments look stronger to the general [...]
Given the time frame, this is well-done (HT Conservative Blog Watch):
The long version, all 2,074 pages of it, is at this PDF link originating at this post at The Hill.
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UPDATE: Nobody with a brain ever believed it anyway, but the core claim about cost savings at [...]
Yes, the government thinks we’re that fricking stupid …
Stimulus Fraud Posted 11/17/2009 07:49 PM ET
The Economy: We knew something was funny when the White House claimed that 640,000 to 1 million jobs had been created from this year’s stimulus. What we didn’t know was that it would turn [...]
The Washington Post’s Anne Kornblut (saved here in case her report is modified or disappears) captured a comment Obama made to U.S troops at Osan Air Base in South Korea while heading back to Washington after his Asian trip.
I believe that the comment (bolded) could [...]
Look in the mirror, pal — “US President Barack Obama warned that the US economy could head into a “double-dip recession” unless urgent steps were taken to rein in mounting public debt.” It’s been your guys’ POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid) Economy since the summer of 2008; we’re just living in [...]
Posted on Tuesday, 11.17.09
A University of Miami student battling a rare disease is in remission, thanks to a discovery made by the UM Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.
This summer, Steven Guarin had accepted his fate: The rare tumors ravaging his 21-year-old body would probably kill him within weeks.
The [...]
Yost, at his web site (excerpted; read the whole thing; bold after title is mine):
Lowering the Price of Perfidy
The taxpayer-funded defense of three rogue state workers who invaded Joe the Plumber’s privacy sends the wrong message to other state workers: don’t worry, we’ll take care of you if you [...]
Nov 18, 2009 / 12:50 am
On Nov. 11 the National Council of Kosovo met for the first time to organize the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of Blessed Mother Teresa’s birth.
The Italian bishops new service (SIR) reports that the meeting took place in the Culture Ministry’s palace [...]
I noted this briefly this morning at Lickety-Split Links (”Recovery.gov lists hundreds of millions spent and hundreds of jobs created in Congressional districts that don’t exist“), and it has caught the attention of several SOBers:
Maggie Thurber — “Bogus jobs numbers in the stimulus & Ohio phantom congressional [...]
Leftists including those in the White House who presumptively and obsessively attack Fox News will not be pleased with this.
At Forbes (HT Hot Air Headlines), S. Robert Lichter of George Mason University’s Center for Media and Public Affairs, asks the question, “Fox News: Fair [...]
That Associated Press’s basement-level poll-cooking and poll-reporting standards are quite low, and quite agenda-driven, might as well be an article of faith by this time.
But the wire service-commissioned poll on health care, and Erica Warner’s report on it (saved here for future reference, fair use, [...]
Good thing they spent $18 million on the web site revamp — “Recovery.gov lists hundreds of millions spent and hundreds of jobs created in Congressional districts that don’t exist.”
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Maybe we should hold the congressional elections on April 16, 2010 — TaxProf Blog has a roundup of establishment [...]
It starts today at IBDeditorials.com.
Here are his first two paragraphs:
The new and risky methods of financing home purchases that rose to dominance in the early years of the 21st century could not have replaced more traditional rules and standards for granting mortgage loans unless those who regulated banks and [...]
Matt over at WMD has all the details!
Doesn’t get much better than that for a candidate. I expect Warren & Clermont to follow suit.
What degree of “take your head out of your arse” party hack would actually vote for Mike DeWine, the man lost to a socialist with $20 [...]
What If ObamaCare Had a Rally and Nobody Showed Up?
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On Thursday, shortly after Lou Dobbs left CNN, the network finished fourth in the cable news race, both during the day and during prime-time, in the 25-54 demographic, behind its Headline News. Fox not only has a bigger overall [...]
It was a miracle: three Japanese fishermen were rescued after surviving for nearly four days with no food and water, trapped under their vessel which had overturned on the Pacific high seas due to an oncoming typhoon. On October 31st, the three were released from the [...]
In the alternative universe known as Government/General Motors Land, you can:
Talk about how your financial results are going to be better than last year’s and in the next breath caution that the numbers won’t be comparable. Inform the public that the financial information to be released on Monday [...]This article absolutely rocks, but with all due respect, it took discerning minds about 5 minutes last year to size this joker up…still, it’s time someone said it again.
The Man Who Despises America
By Mark Hyman on 11.11.09 @ 6:09AM
The very next paragraph is going to make the nut jobs [...]
In a report that is so riddled with bias and factual errors it’s hard to know even where to begin, Associated Press Writers Tom Raum and Andrew Taylor yesterday gave making President Obama look like a born-again deficit hawk their best shot.
The pair’s work is [...]
Nov 15, 2009 / 03:42 am (CNA).- On Nov. 5, Bishop Thomas Paprocki, known as the “Holy Goalie” of the Archdiocese of Chicago, skated with the Green Knights at St. Norbert College in Wisconsin and addressed the team in the locker room before their game.
Bishop Paprocki, a seasoned [...]
The heroic mom of a wounded serviceman shakes the author out of a temporary torpor.
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Note: This item went up at Pajamas Media and was teased here at BizzyBlog on Friday.
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Like many in our current economy, yours truly finds himself doing extracurricular things to bring in the daily [...]
In what is presented to readers of an Associated Press report as a done deal, the Netherlands will impose a mileage tax on drivers beginning in 2012. It goes beyond most if not all other government-imposed taxes in that it will charge more during so-called peak times [...]
Nov 13, 2009 / 11:32 am
A Texas woman in need of a kidney has received one from her parish priest. She has called the donation a “holy kidney,” while he says the gift of his kidney is an attempt to follow Christ’s life-giving example.
Carrie Gehling, who has lost [...]
It might seem odd, given its content, that I’m about to criticize yesterday’s Associated Press report on the deficit.
After all, AP business writers Martin Crutsinger and Daniel Wagner did give us the facts about Uncle Sam’s October Monthly Treasury Statement, put them into historical context, [...]
It will go up here at BizzyBlog on Sunday morning (link won’t work until then) after the blackout expires.
Sub-headline: “The heroic mom of a wounded serviceman shakes the author out of a temporary torpor.”
It’s a bit of a departure from the norm, if there is such a [...]
Otherwise known as the latest installment of, “If We Keep Going Down This Road, We Are Soooo Bleeped”:
A look at the detail shows that corporate income taxes were negative for the month.
Receipts are falling through the floor, and Congress wants to blow untold trillions on statist [...]
As noted earlier today (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), yesterday’s resignation from CNN by Lou Dobbs was his second during a storied career there. The first was at least partially driven by clear tensions between Dobbs and CNN head Rick Kaplan, a longtime friend of former [...]
Lou Dobbs has resigned from CNN, and his final show aired last night. The departure is reportedly on amicable terms.
That said, this is a good time to recall that Dobbs and his employer were at very visible loggerheads a decade ago. In fact, yesterday’s move [...]
Thought this was an excellent follow-up to the Alan Keyes post yesterday …
From Iowa’s leading talkshow host Steve Deace:
Deace’s Daily Diary: November 10th & 11th, 2009
The more we learn about what Major Nidal Hasan did at Ft. Hood in Texas last week, and why he did it, the [...]
(The following is satire — I hope)
Forget Ford Hood and investigating the so-called “terror” connections of Nidal Hasan.
Yours truly has come across something the current crowd running our government might see as even more sinister. The Obama administration, the FBI, the Justice Department, and, most importantly, the [...]
I never met Pete Shellem. I hadn’t heard of him until reading his obituary last week through a link on the blog of New York criminal defense attorney Scott Greenfield. But I wish I’d had a drink with the guy.
In an age when journalism has been inflicted [...]
Really? Well, so much for government school socialists being “for all the children…”
From The Home School Legal Defense Association:
“We’re Saving the Vaccine for Public School Students”
A southwest Virginia mother of two brought her children to the public health department for an H1N1 vaccination. They told her, “We’re saving the [...]
The Wall Street Journal editorializes on what yours truly blogged about yesterday, casting doubt on the alleged development expertise of those who wear black robes:
Pfizer and Kelo’s Ghost Town
Pfizer bugs out, long after the land grab.
The Supreme Court’s 2005 decision in Kelo v. City of New London [...]
First Right to Life, now the Catholic Church. But as Justice Brandeis said, sunlight is the best disinfectant.
For the record, I’m about as shocked by this as I am about the “unwritten rule” that priests can have girlfriends.
Pay close attention to the mention of Catholics and the SEIU…How [...]
…because he was “too-little-too-late” in not letting the crisis go to waste. Proving yet again that he is both devoid and incapapble of compassion and leadership.
As usual, Alan Keyes we ahead of everyone on the analysis…
Why Obama’s Ft. Hood reaction seems so strange
There are times when even Obama’s [...]
Ralph Peters, in “Deadly Denial“:
As President Obama belatedly appears at Fort Hood today, will he dare to speak the word “terror?”
He won’t use the word “Islamist.” If he mentions Islam at all, it’ll be to sing its praises yet again.
We’ve already learned that Islamist terrorist Maj. Nidal Malik [...]
God Bless America’s soldiers:
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It’s a development that I wouldn’t wish on anybody, but one that the City of New London, Connecticut largely brought upon itself by pursuing and winning the Kelo v. New London case at the Supreme Court in June 2005.
Some “win.” In what Ed Morrissey at [...]
As the Reason TV video (HT Instapundit) explains, the evils of communism are to a large extent not recorded in pictures. That’s why what Nikolai Getman did — from memory –is such a positive thing:
We cannot forget the objective evil that led to over 100 million deaths and [...]
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial today on the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is excellent, as would be expected, and gives credit where credit is due:
In the debate over who deserves credit for causing the Berlin Wall to collapse on the night [...]
Isn’t that Paul Krugman clever? The title of his latest op-ed (”Paranoia Strikes Deep”) quotes a line, presumably deliberately, from a 1960s protest song many consider one of the opening shots in that decade’s protest movement.
Before he got cute with his title, Krugman should have gone [...]
Presence:
In response to what is probably the worst attack on American soldiers on American soil since the end of the 19th century (Hawaii was not yet a state when Pearl Harbor was attacked), our president …. made a statement that came off as perfunctory, and stayed in Washington for [...]While this type of thing breaks my heart (b/c it goes on all the time), I am grateful for the truth.
(HT: Emailer)…
Dear friends,
Please take 5 minutes to read this…then read it again. A friend and I were just talking about the “major” Right to Life organizations being focused NOT on [...]
Of course the president and Congress are after money, but they really want control over your life.
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Note: This item originally appeared at Pajamas Media and was teased here at BizzyBlog on Saturday.
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The House’s latest iteration of ObamaCare now weighs in at 1,990 pages. That’s hundreds [...]
Nov 8, 2009 / 02:33 pm (CNA).- From its humble beginnings in the church of St. Francis Xavier in Phoenix, Rosary Sunday has grown into an annual event that draws more than 5,000 people in devotion to Mary. Last month, Catholics in the diocese marked the [...]
…for showing your true colors.
Your vote for this unprecedented takeover of private industry, shows what a weak-minded, socialist sock-puppet you really are; making next year’s OH-01 race a no-brainer (and by extension, less expensive and less emotional for any opposition).
So I was wondering, how does it feel to be man-handled [...]
Here’s the roll call.
I didn’t live-blog the vote because my instincts told me it would work out similarly to cap and trade, where Nancy Pelosi’s biggest decision was who to allow to vote “no” in the interest of protecting her party’s electoral majority.
In terms of Ohio, she must think [...]
From Victoria, Australia:
November 08, 2009 12:44pm
VICTORIAN teenager Lachlan Edwards has been praised after he swam to the rescue of two people caught in a rip at Point Impossible Surf Beach in the state’s southwest.
Lachlan, 15, had already rescued a man from about 70 metres offshore at about 7pm (AEDT) yesterday [...]
…. in one secretive statist health care bill (click here or on pic to open full-size pic in a separate window, and brace yourself):
The area in the yellow box in the top center was the chart as it existed several months and hundreds of [...]
It will go up here at BizzyBlog on Monday morning (link won’t work until then) after the blackout expires.
The central point is in the subheadline: “Of course the president and Congress are after money, but they really want control over your life.”
One of its [...]
Nov 4, 2009 / 10:01 pm
On October 31, the Church beatified Bishop Zoltán Lajos Meszlényi, a victim of the Communist persecution of the Catholic Church in Hungary. The beatification was scheduled shortly after Pope Benedict approved a decree verifying the martyrdom of the bishop, who died [...]
Here’s the official video from the White House itself:
I think NBC Chicago has it right on this one:
Obama’s Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting
…. After news broke out of the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, the nation watched in horror as the toll of dead and [...]
Did you know that activist filmmaker James O’Keefe and partner Hannah Giles made only one undercover video showing ACORN employees willing to assist them in illegal and human rights-violating activities?
Absent prior knowledge, that’s the impression you would have upon reading the Associated Press’s coverage of the latest [...]
Via Geoff at Innocent Bystanders, whose post deserves a full read:
First there’s the update to the now-infamous Obama stimulus promise vs. reality graph:
Then there’s this, with benchmarking points added by yours truly:
The POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid) Economy began roughly as spring turned into summer of [...]
See this post for the run-up to the report.
The unemployment rate rose from 9.8 to 10.2 percent in October, and nonfarm payroll employment continued to decline (-190,000), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The largest job losses over the month were in construction, manufacturing, and [...]
My, this was quiet: Payroll and employee benefits giant ADP said on Wednesday that “Nonfarm private employment decreased 203,000 from September to October 2009 on a seasonally adjusted basis.”
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My, this was quiet II: The Institute for Supply Management’s Non Manufacturing Index came in at 50.6% in October, barely [...]
Nov 6, 2009 / 12:24 am (CNA).- Members of The Traditional Anglican Church in Great Britain have announced that they will enter into communion with the Vatican under Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Constitution for Anglicans.
According to the group’s website, members met on October 29 for their October [...]
The August Congressional Budget Office budget forecast for the fiscal year that began last month says that Uncle Sam will take in $2.264 trillion from October 2009 through September 2010. That’s an increase of 7.6% over fiscal 2009’s intake of $2.105 trillion.
Though it won’t be official until Tim Geithner’s [...]
Here’s news you can virtually guarantee won’t get noticed by what remains of the establishment media.
Whole Foods (WFMI) announced its financial results for the quarter ended September 30 yesterday. The quarter closed about 50 days after outraged leftists called for a boycott of the grocery chain to [...]
…. to Ohio blogger and former Wide-Opener Jill Miller Zimon of Writes Like She Talks on her election (scroll about halfway down) to Pepper Pike City Council.
[...]Last night I noted that the Associated Press finally recognized, nine months after yours truly noticed it, that “Ford has benefited from consumer goodwill because it didn’t take government bailout money.”
The general theme of the AP’s overall coverage of October’s auto sales (”Auto sales show industry beginning to [...]
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
Fate brought them together in the jungles of Vietnam some 40 years ago.
Love, respect and admiration brought Vietnam veterans Ralph Kenney and Kenny Woodward back together.
Kenny Woodward of Pachuta recently traveled to the North Laurel home of Ralph Kenney to reflect and personally thank [...]
Well, it only took them the better part of a year to pick up on what yours truly first noted in early February (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), and what anyone with eyes has surely known for months. But the Associated Press has finally acknowledged it [...]
POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid) Economy Cash Crunch Update (sources: Last Daily Treasury Statements of Oct. ‘09, Oct. ‘08, and Oct. ‘07; Monthly Statement for Oct. ‘08):
October 2007 was the first month of the 26th consecutive quarter of economic growth in the Bush 43 Economy. October 2008 was the [...]
Oct 31, 2009 / 02:05 am (CNA).- On Thursday the governor of India’s state of Karnataka released a postage stamp honoring St. Jeanne Jugan, the founder of the Little Sisters of the Poor.
Gov. H.R. Bhardwaj announced the stamp’s release at a home for the aged run by [...]
Convincing wins in governors’ races by Christie in NJ and McDonnell in VA are far more important than the muddled mess that has become NY-23, where Hoffman is apparently behind but the outcome won’t be known for quite a while (though Fox is calling it for Owens — [...]
Laurie Kellman, call your office, check your e-mail, and tap in to your Twitter.
The Associated Press reporter didn’t get the memo that recession is supposedly over, and that at a minimum you shouldn’t be writing as if it will be with us for a while. She also [...]
Meanwhile, back in the economy ….
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The ISM Manufacturing Index for October came in at 55.7, which indicates solid expansion, and is the third straight month with a positive reading. I don’t see it lasting through the winter; if it does, it can’t reasonably be tied to anything Washington has [...]
Casino gambling should be legal in Ohio. Issue 3 isn’t how to do it.
Gambling proposals have never been handled correctly in Ohio. Doing it right would involve selecting appropriate sites, accepting bids for licenses, having tight regulations on business operations (a cash business has to controlled that way), and fair [...]
Sep 24, 2009 / 08:58 am
Rachel Campos-Duffy, mother of five children under the age of 10 and an active member of Ashland, Wisconsin’s Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Community, just wrote what she calls a “love letter” to stay-at-home-moms. The letter is actually a book, “Stay [...]
From Paul Hsieh at Pajamas Media:
ObamaCare: A National Version of RomneyCare
1) Massachusetts’ system of mandatory insurance drives up costs and violates individual rights.
2) “Coverage” is not the same as actual medical care.
3) The Massachusetts plan will end in rationing.
When is the establishment GOP going to throw the [...]
From Bryan/College Station, Texas (video is at link):
Planned Parenthood has been a part of Abby Johnson’s life for the past eight years; that is until last month, when Abby resigned. Johnson said she realized she wanted to leave, after watching an ultrasound of an abortion procedure.
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Note: This post originally went up before 9 a.m. this morning, but has been carried to the top. It will stay at or near the top for the rest of the day because of its relevance.
Thanks to Instapundit for the link, and to Michelle Malkin [...]
Nov 1, 2009 / 02:11 pm
Before moving into Casa de Vida, a residential program for young, pregnant women, 22-year-old Dominique Sawyer had two options: the street or a homeless shelter. “It was the shelter, the streets or here,” said Sawyer, who is expecting a baby girl in [...]
So how much is “beauty” worth? A thousand bucks a pop for Botox? Five-hundred bucks for seaweed extract?
Would you kill a child if it meant you could prevent those crow’s feet for just a few more years? No? Better look at your skin cream ingredients to make sure…
Beauty and [...]
Michelle Malkin has a great synopsis here.
Newt Gingrich better call his office…
First, I received this email from Newt’s spokesman last week:
Below is my appearance on Your World with Neil Cavuto yesterday on the Fox News Channel. I am available for interviews on the topic by replying to this message.
Best [...]
From the One Man Global Content Provider’s latest column:
There was Barack Obama only the other day blaming everything on the President – no, no, silly, not him, the other fellow, the Designated Fall Guy who stepped down as head of state in January to accept the new constitutional [...]
From Catholic News Agency, slightly revised:
On Thursday, October 29 Catholics celebrated the feast day of Helen Kafka, better known as Blessed Maria Restituta. Working as a nurse in the 1940s, she was ordered by the Gestapo to remove crucifixes she had placed in several hospital rooms and was sentenced [...]
