The Dissing of Laura Bush

Mar 17, 2009 - The Dissing of Laura Bush By WILLIAM MCGURN (WSJ) By choosing Fort Bragg for her first official trip outside the capital last Thursday, Michelle Obama signaled that she will use her position as First Lady to promote one of America's most deserving causes: our military families. Plainly the families loved it. Just look at the smiles on those children as she read them "The Cat in the Hat." - 25 Comments

Laura Bush: Palin lacks foreign policy experience

Sep 24, 2008 - Ummmmm, isn't forgein policy experience kind of a HUGE thing for the Vice President of the United States to have? Seriously, I just keep shaking my head. *darn, where's the smiley for pulling out your hair?* http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080924/ap_on_el_pr/palin_laura_bush - 2 Comments

U.S. Fears Iraq Won't Keep Up Rebuilt Projects

Nov 21, 2009 - BAGHDAD — In its largest reconstruction effort since the Marshall Plan, the United States government has spent $53 billion for relief and reconstruction in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, building tens of thousands of hospitals, water treatment plants, electricity substations, schools and bridges. But there are growing concerns among American officials that Iraq will not be able to adequately maintain the facilities once the Americans have left, potentially wasting hundreds of millions of dollars and jeopardizing Iraq’s ability to provide basic services to its people. The projects run the gamut — from a cutting-edge, $270 million water treatment plant in Nasiriya that works at a fraction of its intended capacity because it is too sophisticated for Iraqi workers to operate, to a farmers’ market that farmers cannot decide how to share, to a large American hospital closed immediately after it was handed over to Iraq because the government was unable to supply it with equipment, a medical staff or electricity. - 11 Comments

Tom Brokow's World Implodes

Sep 15, 2009 - http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/15/media-malpractice-tom-brokaws/   Media Malpractice: Tom Brokow's World Implodes By Jeffrey Lord on 9.15.09 @ 6:08AM Tom Brokaw. With the passing of Walter Cronkite, Mr. Brokaw is considered perhaps the new "dean" of journalism. As such the former NBC News anchor is periodically summoned forth to assess the current world, an occasion that presented itself recently on the venerable NBC Sunday newser Meet the Press. - 15 Comments

Freed reporters say they were dragged into NKorea

Sep 02, 2009 - BURBANK, CA - AUGUST 05: Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee arrive at Hangar 25 on August 5, 2009 in Burbank, California after being released by North... SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Two American television reporters imprisoned in North Korea for months say communist soldiers "violently dragged" them back when they returned to Chinese soil after briefly crossing into the reclusive country. In an article posted Tuesday on Current TV's Web site, Laura Ling and Euna Lee said they hesitantly followed their guide when he beckoned them across a frozen river into the North and were "firmly back" on the Chinese side when North Korean border guards grabbed them on March 17. - 32 Comments

Bush daughter Jenna Hager becomes 'Today' reporter

Aug 31, 2009 - NEW YORK (AP) - NBC's "Today" show has hired someone with White House experience as a new correspondent - former first daughter Jenna Hager.   The daughter of former President George W. Bush will contribute stories about once a month on issues like education to television's top-rated morning news show, said Jim Bell, its executive producer. - 34 Comments

Feds Cracking Down on Yard Sales

Aug 20, 2009 - WASHINGTON — If you're planning a garage sale or organizing a church bazaar, you'd best beware: You could be breaking a new federal law. As part of a campaign called Resale Roundup, the federal government is cracking down on the secondhand sales of dangerous and defective products. The initiative, which targets toys and other products for children, enforces a new provision that makes it a crime to resell anything that's been recalled by its manufacturer. - 20 Comments

NYT: White House unbuttons dress code

Jan 29, 2009 - By Sheryl Gay Stolberg The New York Times updated 4:19 a.m. CT, Thurs., Jan. 29, 2009 WASHINGTON - The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. - 6 Comments

al Qaeda :“Americans will be suppressed by their leaders”

Oct 31, 2008 - al Qaeda’s expectations: “Americans will be suppressed by their leaders” By Walid Phares AL QAEDA’S MILITARY LEADER “May Bush’s Party be humiliated http://video.google.com/videoplaydocid=2104640428749904397&hl=en Abu Yahya Al-Libi Washington DC, October 30, 2008 In a Jihadi speech delivered in an undisclosed location and aired on internet, al Qaeda’s highest military commander Abu Yahya al Libi called on Allah to take revenge on America by “humiliating Bush’s Party” and by “having Americans suppressing Americans and by having leaders oppressing them.” This powerful statement, made public during a sensitive period of US election deserves high attention in terms of al Qaeda’s strategic aims regarding the outcome of American vote next week. Thanks to Laura Mansfield’s monitoring of the Jihadi web sites, a video tape of al Libi was made available to viewers in Arabic. The Mansfield bulletin said (with permission): “Al Qaeda has finally made an official statement of policy regarding the 2008 US elections, and it is a ringing “anti-endorsement” for the Republican Party. - 21 Comments