New York Times: Giving New Meaning to “In The Tank”

Via Gateway Pundit:

The last 5 years of Bush-bashing has not paid off for the NY Times.
The STRAPPED New York Times hocked their building today to stay afloat.
This news didn’t make the front page:
The New York Times Company plans to borrow up to $225 million against its mid-Manhattan headquarters building, to ease a potential cash flow squeeze as the company grapples [...]

Boston Globe: Profile of a Bostonite – Robbie the Crack Addict

The Boston Globe (via Michelle Malkin) must have been having one heckuva slow news day.  Nevermind the economy, terrorism, genocide, industry bailouts, pending administration changes, climate change…  What we need to know about is Robbie, the colorful, crack-addicted panhandler.
Panhandlers come and go, moving on to the next street corner or the next fix, but Robbie [...]

President Bush Plants One on Babs

In an eye blistering moment for conservatives and liberals alike, President Bush and Barbra Streisand exchanged kisses last night at the Kennedy Awards ceremony.  I don’t know… something in the way he laughed when he got to Morgan Freeman makes me think he did it on a dare.  

Could it be [...]

Liberals Beginning to Realize They’ve Been Had

Analysis of recent developments by Ed Morrissey:
Maybe everyone got fooled in this election.  The Right believed as the Left did that the nation elected a man who would pull American policy in as sharply a liberal direction as anything since the Carter administration.  After seeing most of Barack Obama’s selections for his Cabinet, however, the Left doesn’t [...]

We’re Not Leaving Until We Get Our Bailout: UPDATED

New York Times -
Workers laid off Friday from Republic Windows and Doors, who for years assembled vinyl windows and sliding doors here, said they would not leave, even after company officials announced that the factory was closing.
Some of the plant’s 250 workers stayed all night, all weekend, in what they were calling an occupation of [...]

Calling All Super-Rich Conservatives

Here’s a golden opportunity to put your mouth where your money is!  

From Michelle Malkin:
Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
Newspaper companies are in crisis. Layoffs. Possible closures. Some are calling for a newspaper bailout.
Investors have noticed. The market capitalization of the McClatchy Corporation — owner of 30 daily newspapers, including the Miami Herald — is less than $200 million. The market cap of [...]

Oxford University Press: Out with the Old, In with the New

Oxford University Press has removed many words from its Junior Dictionary. They have also added a number of modern words.
The publisher claims the changes have been made to reflect the fact that Britain is a modern, multicultural, multifaith society.
But academics and head teachers said that the changes to the 10,000 word Junior Dictionary could mean [...]

ABC: Better Life (and Better Grades) Through Chemistry?

ABCnews -
Healthy people should have the right to boost their brains with pills, like those prescribed for hyperactive kids or memory-impaired older folks, several scientists contend in a provocative commentary.
College students are already illegally taking prescription stimulants like Ritalin to help them study, and demand for such drugs is likely to grow elsewhere, they say.
“We [...]

The Attorney General Double Standard

Remember Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez?  Back in 2006, he dismissed 8 U.S. Attorneys at the direction of the Bush administration and was subsequently destroyed by the Democrats in Congress and the press.  
On May 24, 2007, Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) of the Senate Judiciary Committee announced the Democrats’ proposed no-confidence resolution to vote on whether “Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [...]

Pakistan Raids Camp of Mumbai Attack Group

Via GatewayPundit:
Pakistani forces raided one of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) camps yesterday and arrested a leading figure and suspected planner of the Mumbai attacks.
Reuters reported:
One of the suspected planners of last month’s attack by gunmen on Mumbai was arrested by Pakistani security forces in a raid on a militant camp, an official with a charity linked to the militant group said [...]