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It’s Day 2 of the Culture of Corruption tour. I’ll be tied up most of the day with radio and TV interviews. I’m scheduled to appear on Glenn Beck’s radio and TV show today, so tune in for those if you can.
The book is currently #2 overall at Amazon.com behind The Time Traveler’s Wife, a [...]

HORE.

They lied.
They lied.
They lied.
Let’s repeat that one more time:
They lied:
Despite their denials, influential Democratic Sens. Kent Conrad and Chris Dodd were told from the start they were getting VIP mortgage discounts from one of the nation’s largest lenders, the official who handled their loans has told Congress in secret testimony.
Both senators have said that at [...]

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Like Marie Antoinette, Woman of the People Nancy Pelosi doesn’t really care what the hoi polloi think of her.
Let them eat…her Gulfstream exhaust.
Via Politico:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is one of the most despised political figures in the country.
And, frankly, she doesn’t give a damn.
“No, I don’t care,” Pelosi told POLITICO last Thursday, laughing [...]

The other Michelle
Stacy McCain blogs about Chapter 2 of Culture of Corruption, which spotlights First Crony Michelle Obama.
Word from the American Spectator is that Republicans on the Hill are taking a renewed interest in the role Mrs. O and her Chicago crony friends (Valerie Jarrett, David Axelrod, Susan Sher) played in the University of Chicago [...]

Just wanted to share a quick back story about the cover of Culture of Corruption:

If the distinctive artwork seems familiar, it’s because the graphic artist behind the shattered O logo is our friend, Tennyson Hayes. Tennyson and I collaborated on the image, which sums up the book — and the last six months of the [...]

Irresistible.

Of course, it’s all Bush’s fault:
The U.S. economy is not only shedding jobs at a record rate; it is shedding more jobs than it is supposed to. It’s bad enough that the unemployment rate has doubled in only a year and a half and one out of six construction workers is out of work. What [...]

Glamour shots vs. Grove Parc slums.

Culture of Corruption Watch: SEIU and ACORN.

It’s jump-the-shark time for Gates-gate:
Congress would demand that President Obama apologize to the officer the president said had “acted stupidly” in the arrest of a prominent Harvard professor under a resolution set to be introduced by one Michigan lawmaker.
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.) will introduce a House resolution on Monday demanding Obama retract and apologize for [...]

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Meet Urban Czar Adolfo Carrión, Jr. He’s one of my Culture of Corruption Dirty Dozen collectibles. In conjunction with the book launch tomorrow, my friend Tennyson Hayes (whose terrific graphic art has been featured here since last spring) and I cooked up 12 trading cards featuring some of Team Obama’s most [...]

Thug thizzle.

Robert Rosas, U.S. Border Patrol, R.I.P.

Erin Andrews is an ESPN reporter. Some sick person planted hidden cameras in her hotel room and splashed video of her while she was dressing all over the Internet.
Andrews happens to be young, beautiful, and a stylish dresser — prompting USA Today columnist Christine Brennan to write on Twitter that Andrews is essentially to blame [...]

Hurry, hurry, hurry.

Diana West tells you the way it really was.

I told you how impressed I was on July 4 with the energy, organization, and commitment of the Dallas Tea Party movement.
They are fired up and showing how grass-roots activists are making a powerful and sustained impact in their neighborhoods.
Check this out from the Dallas Observer: How a Local Rally For Obama’s Health Care Proposal [...]

Chicken run.

Getting unhinged over military officials calling her ma’am.
Getting unhinged over minority conservatives challenging the cult of global warming.
Getting unhinged over people calling her unhinged.
That’s Babs Boxer for you. And she says her moonbat constituents love her theatrics so much, it’s filling her campaign coffers. Via Politico:
Boxer says that she doesn’t regret the recent episodes [...]

My syndicated column today presses again on the freaky-deaky science czar John Holdren and the implications for Obamacare. Related read: Stacy McCain sheds light on Big Money and the Culture of Death. And Matt Barber wonders: Will there be a co-pay for forced abortion under Obamacare?
Ghoulish science + Obamacare = health hazard
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright [...]

Make room for jihadi! Tim Sumner reports at 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America that the Obama administration is shuffling prisoners and clearing out beds for Gitmo detainees.
The news comes as the Senate prepares to vote on Sen. Inhofe’s amendment to keep Gitmo detainees off American soil.
Read the whole report and pass it [...]

Repeat after me: ACORN is a criminal enterprise.

Sez Harry Reid now in his announcement that there will be no health care takeover bill until after the August recess:
“It’s better to have a product based on quality and thoughtfulness rather than try to jam something through.”
Gee, if only they had that attitude before they jammed through all the bailouts, the porkulus, [...]

Thug thizzle.

Who’s surprised that President Obama trashed police officers as “stupid” on national TV and implied they were racist despite “not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that?”
This is Barack Obama, friend of cop-targeting domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, whose door sports a picture of convicted cop killer Mumia [...]

Transparency. Not because they really believe in it. But because they were threatened with an embarrassing lawsuit and the fear-mongerer-in-chief didn’t want to have to deal with questions about it last night.
Distraction, you know. Via Josh Gerstein:
Minutes before a press conference where President Barack Obama could have been asked about the issue, the White House [...]

Tonsil terror.

Here’s your open thread for the Obama emergency revival session on TV tonight.
Conflicting diagnoses:
From Allahpundit, Durbin says no action before August recess.
From Andrew Malcolm, Hoyer says he believes Obamacare will pass next week.
Make a call. Make a difference.
Tom Elia has a phone contact list: Use it!

“Cracker.”