Could NewsCorp Be Interested In the Old Grey Lady?

From NewsBusters’ Mark Finkelstein -
The Vanity Fair media maven [Michael Wolff], appearing on CNBC this afternoon, not only said that Rupert Murdoch wants the Gray Lady, but predicted he would get her.
I think that everybody is looking at [the NYT] and waiting for it to kind of go over a brink, to run out of cash, which [...]

The Clowns Take on Ronald McDonald

News from Chicago Business -
Two of America’s largest unions have denounced McDonald’s Corp. this week following Crain’s story that the company is mobilizing franchisees against a law designed to make it easier for workers to unionize.
The Service Employee International Union encouraged its 1.8 million members to send letters to McDonald’s in support of the proposed Employee [...]

14 al-Qaeda Suspects Arrested in Belgium for Planning Suicide Attack

SKY News via Ed Morrissey and Powerline -
Police in Belgium have arrested 14 suspected al Qaeda members, including one who is believed to have been about to commit a suicide attack.
The arrests were made during 16 raids in Brussels, as European Union leaders gathered for a summit there, and one in Liege.
…One of the suspects had “received [...]

Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Digs In

From Allahpundit -
Reid and Pelosi were counting on him to bring Republicans around, of course, which means the bill’s probably dead. The plan now is to let the Senate vote on alternative Democratic and Republican compromise plans later today, followed by a “test vote”tomorrow morning on the House proposal. Should be a fun day on Wall Street [...]

Staffer Says Chambliss (R-GA) Will Vote Against Bridge Loan to Automakers

Got this challenge from Michelle today:
Reader Ron wants to know: “Will Saxby stab us conservatives in the back now that he’s been re-elected? He should be leading the charge against this bailout of the UAW that tried to defeat him. He’s been AWOL on it.”
Call him and ask him. And let me know what his [...]

Methinks He Doth Protest Too Much

Excellent essay by Victor Davis Hanson about Obama’s inability to speak the truth regarding his political associations:
I was puzzled by Obama’s almost immediate denials that he had been in any way in contact with Governor [Blagojevich]’s office. Why? Because for the last month it was simply understood, both by his own admission and by David [...]

Obama’s Pet Union Trading “Favors” With Blagojevich to Get Obama’s Pick Into the Senate

NY Times -
The Service Employees International Union … found itself badly embarrassed this week when it was linked by name to Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich’s maneuvering to secure some financial gain from picking the next Senator from Illinois.
The federal criminal complaint filed against Mr. Blagojevich said his chief of staff, John Harris, had suggested to [...]

Jesse To Rod: I Hardly Knew Ye

Newsbusters.org -
…Jesse Jackson, Jr. “misspoke” when he claimed yesterday that the meeting he had with Monday Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was the first time the two had met in four years. It turns out that there is a video of a sobbing Jesse Jackson, Jr. embracing Blagojevich just last August at a breakfast of the Illinois delegation [...]

AP: Obama Will Restore US Image After “Deep Hit” of Bush Administration

From Gateway Pundit:
President George W. Bush has liberated 50 million Muslims from two of the most brutal regimes in history.
He filled the marshes in Iraq with water and brought democracy to the Middle East.
President Bush replaced these regimes with democratic governments.  
[Warning VERY GRAPHIC VIDEO AT THIS LINK. I only include this link because the [...]

Blagojevich Scandal Returns Attention to Rezko Testimony: Ties to Obama

Via HotAir:
Convicted political fixer Tony Rezko has been singing to investigators, and his connections reach all the way to the White House:
A footnote to the 76-page criminal complaint and affidavit charging Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) with soliciting bribes confirms what has long been rumored — that a former longtime friend and fundraiser for President-elect Barack [...]