Pastor Rick Warren To Give Invocation at Inauguration: Kudos To Barack Obama

Gateway Pundit -
Ann Althouse asks:
Who needs omens when Obama was always clear that he opposed same-sex marriage? He said so every time he was asked.
Glenn Reynolds adds:
Yep, but Obamania was such that even those who pride themselves on seeing what is in front of their faces ignored it.
What a pity…
The Left [...]

Washington Post On Favreau And Obama

If you’re drinking anything, please swallow it before you read this:
Three months ago, [Obama chief speechwriter Jon] Favreau lived in a group house with six friends in Chicago, where he rarely shaved, never cooked and sometimes stayed up to play video games until early morning. Now, he has transformed into what one friend called a [...]

Government Taking Information To The People: New York Times “Ticked Off”

Witness the Helen Cooper of the New York Times’s scorn for Sean McCormack of the Bush Administration and his efforts to engage directly with the American people:
President-elect Barack Obama says that he wants to make his administration more responsive to the American people. To that end, his aides are introducing a host of YouTube and other efforts [...]

Citibank Rate-jacks Consumers After Receiving Federal Bailout

Cutting up my Citibank card with a bloody vengeance today.
CNN -
It arrived in Rich Stevens’ mailbox a few weeks ago: the notice that Citibank had “rate-jacked” the Visa cards belonging to him and his wife.  [Jane Q. received the same love letter from Citigroup.]
“In my case, from 9.5 percent to 16.99,” the 54-year-old nurse from [...]

Who’s Who On The Bill Clinton Donors List

Michelle Malkin - 

After years of pressing the Clintons to disclose their foundation funders, the time has come. As part of Hillary’s Secretary of State deal with Barack Obama, Bill Clinton has finally coughed up his donor list. The contributors’ list was published today on the Clinton Foundation site here.
We already knew the Saudis were funding Billy Boy’s presidential [...]

White House and Treasury Department Ignore Congress; Proceed WIth Automaker’s Bailout

In a defiant move, the White House and the Treasury Departmen are brokering a deal with the American automakers.  
New York Times -
The White House and the Treasury are deep into negotiations with General Motors and Chrysler over reorganization plans that could result in freeing up more than $14 billion in emergency loans to keep the companies afloat through the first [...]

83% Of Arne Duncan’s Eighth Graders Can’t Read At Grade Level

By way of a follow up to that search for evidence of measurable successes in the career of Arne Duncan, Barack Obama’s designated Education Secretary, here’s this choice tidbit from CNS News via Gateway Pundit-
In 2007, only 17 percent of eighth graders tested at or above grade level in reading in Chicago Public Schools – the school system administered by [...]

Now Playing: “Rahmbo – Missing In Action”

From Gateway Pundit -

Nine Days of Silence…
Since the Blagojevich scandal broke and it was reported that the feds have 21 taped conversations of Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s Chief of Staff has suffered from a mysterious case of lockjaw.
Hmm.
The latest news won’t help Rahm any…
The Chicago Sun-Times reported that Emanuel spoke directly to Governor Blagojevich about the senate seat:

President-elect Barack Obama’s [...]

New York Times: The Year’s Worst Quotes From The Grey Lady

From Newsbusters.org -
Below are the favorite quotes from Times Watch’s five Times-dissecting judges. You can read all of the worst quotes of Campaign 2008 at Times Watch.
“On Thursday evening in a glittering Berlin, cheered by as many as 200,000 people, Mr. Obama delivered a tone poem to American and European ideals and shared history. In contrast, just [...]

CNN Reporter Zain Verjee “Loathed Around The World”

And, by Zain’s own calculus, I can prove it.  After watching this video clip, I threw my shoe at my computer.  Case closed.

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