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In a rare show of good taste, America TV viewers turned off the ABC News/White House infomercial on Obamacare.
They should have listened to me and included John Stossel in their programming!
Via The Live Feed:
President Obama’s town hall meeting on health care delivered a sickly rating Wednesday evening.
The one-hour ABC News special “Primetime: Questions for [...]

I don’t find anything funny about the Sanford affair. It’s the mom in me thinking about four handsome boys on Father’s Day weekend abandoned by their stupid, selfish father, who was busy tanning with his mistress in Argentina. Heart-breaking. Yes. Nauseating. Yes. Maddening. Yes. Funny? No.
Cruel derision crude humor are to be expected of the [...]

I mentioned the other day that far Left ground troops from “Progressive Future,” funded by left-wing billionaire Peter Lewis, were petitioning travelers at Denver International Airport with anti-Fox and anti-Rush Limbaugh literature in support of Obamacare.
Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi asks some good questions:
…I was just wondering, if young people who wanted to collect signatures [...]

He’s super cereal.

Grill, baby, grill.

The White House shut out immigration enforcement voices from its illegal immigration summit. Sigh. The thing is, this is exactly the kind of railroading that would have occurred if John McCain had won the White House. From GOP Rep. Steve King’s office:
Congressman Steve King, the ranking member on the House Immigration Subcommittee, today reacted to [...]

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Photoshop: Reader Rachael in Ky
Here’s your open thread for the ABC News/White House Obamacare Show, which broadcasts at 10pm Eastern.
No John Stossel, it appears, but the ABC News press relations office just sent out word that a few skeptical doctors did put President Obama on the spot.
Celebrate diversity!
EXCLUSIVE: President Obama Defends Right [...]

Unlike other self-esteem-lacking wives of cheaters, Jenny Sanford shows real courage, class, and dignity in her statement to the press — and in her decision NOT to stand by her adulterous husband at his public confession.
Godspeed, Mrs. Sanford. Via McClatchy:
I would like to start by saying I love my husband and I believe I have [...]

It’s the only fitting word for a man who abandons his wife and four sons on Father’s Day weekend to indulge his “overdrive” on an Argentinian fling.
Mark Sanford: Bastard.
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If you missed Sanford’s rambling, surreal disaster of a press conference, consider yourself lucky.
He had a hell of a lot more passion and pathos for his mistress [...]

“[Y]our comments do not help the legal or policy case for the decision.”

Is the world still watching?
Jim Hoft is. Here’s his latest round-up of developments today — with details and links on a reported new massacre at Baharestan Square in Tehran.
More from Ed Morrissey.
Twitter: #iranelection.
Liveblogging/Twitter aggregation at The Lede.

(See update on Sanford fiasco here…)
So, South Carolina GOP Gov. Mark Sanford disappeared and the story of where the hell he has been keeps changing.
Yes, it’s weird. Disturbingly weird that he would vanish on Father’s Day weekend and leave his wife and four sons in the dark. It’s weird and creepy and something’s not right.
But [...]

There is some confusion over the story about ACORN “changing its name” that needs to be cleared up and given context. Getting it right is important.
I provided a link to the piece by Kevin Mooney at the Examiner on Monday in my post focusing on Project Vote/ACORN’s lawsuit against whistleblower Anita Moncrief.
The link was [...]

My syndicated column today investigates the deep pockets behind the “grass-roots” campaign for Obamacare. Chicago crony/White House senior adviser David Axelrod is, of course, the master of astroturfing. So it certainly comes as no surprise that left-wing puppetmasters are behind the government health care takeover lobby. But an informed citizenry needs to know the nitty [...]

The Right’s best legal minds have been exposing radical leftist Stuart Koh, President Obama’s State Department legal adviser nominee, for months.
On Wednesday morning, the Senate votes.
From the folks at No Koh:
Harold Koh has been nominated to be the State Department Legal Adviser, a position that would make him the voice of the United States around [...]

All aboard!

Conn Carroll does the math:
Most problematic is their complete omission of economic damage from restricting energy use. Footnote three on page four reads, “The resource cost does not indicate the potential decrease in gross domestic product (GDP) that could result from the cap. The reduction in GDP would also include indirect general equilibrium effects, such [...]

I noted on Twitter and in my live-blog of Obama’s press conference that the president called on/coached HuffPo’s Nico Pitney in an obvious, pre-planned question on Iranians communicating through social media and the Internet.
The question itself was unobjectionable and Obama’s response was so bland and rambling I don’t remember it.
But what was noteworthy was [...]

At around 12:30pm Eastern, Barack Obama will put down his ice cream cone and boldly condemn repression in Iran.
Why now?
Andrew Malcolm explains the timing:
You don’t need to be a basketball-loving president of the United States to know that if you’re trying to block opponents’ shots in your end, you sure aren’t increasing your own totals. [...]

Two items to raise the blood pressure of law-abiding, hard-working Americans:
1) From the L.A. Times: “San Francisco D.A.’s program trained illegal immigrants for jobs they couldn’t legally hold.”
As she runs for state attorney general, prosecutor Kamala Harris faces questions over a program that trained illegal immigrant drug felons for jobs, kept them out of jail [...]

The left-wingers don’t like anyone who calls Michelle Obama what she is — the First Crony. Media Matters is up in arms over my chat with America’s Morning News anchors Melanie Morgan and John McCaslin last week about the First Lady’s meddling in the AmeriCrooks scandal. Here’s what I said:

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And as expected: No tough [...]

I’m at Denver International Airport waiting to pick up family.
In Terminal East, I was accosted by two young people from an outfit called “Progressive Future.” They are standing with clipboards and propaganda pimping Obamacare.
Don’t have time right now to look them up, but I asked one of the young Obama-bots who funded his group.
He didn’t [...]

Bad medicine.

This is what intimidation looks like.

I am glad New York Times reporter David Rohde is safe.
But I have questions.
Is the safety of journalists more important than the safety of our military? The safety of our homeland?
From September 11, 2001 to the present, the terror-tipping blabbermouths of the New York Times have repeatedly undermined national security by disclosing sensitive/classified information about [...]

Life magazine reports in a special online feature gallery of Iran protest photos:
A NOTE TO OUR READERS: We are saddened to report that the Iranian photojournalist, whose pictures appear in this gallery, is missing. He has not been in contact with us; this morning we received the following email from one of his relatives. We [...]

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there.
A reader sends a music video about the amazing father-son duo, Team Hoyt (background here):

#neda

The world is watching.

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti
Well, well, well.
Michelle, Michelle, Michelle.
Guess where the First Lady will be on Monday?
Why, she’ll be delivering the keynote address at the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service in San Francisco.
And who is co-sponsoring the conference?
Why, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS)!
Yes, that’s the same CNCS that is [...]