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**Written by Doug Powers Maybe Congress has raised the bar on morals and ethics just a tad, because the “sex scandals” are getting fewer and farther between — so much so that it looks like some are being forced to invent them where they don’t seem to exist. First, the allegations: Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The president who doesn’t crave the spotlight will soon appear on his third Super Bowl telecast: The pro football playoffs begin this weekend, but Fox Sports is already making sure there’ll be solid television ratings no matter what teams makes it to the Super Bowl on Feb. 6. That’s because conservative [...]

Indecipherable to the most brilliant liberal scholars

**Written by Doug Powers By way of Politico, here’s today’s Obama-hits-the-links update… Human Events Senior Editor Emily Miller Twittered about how many rounds of golf Obama is up to these days: This prompted John Kim, who is a coordinating producer for PGA.com, to respond this way: Kim later noted how he should get elected president [...]

Motivations

En fuego!

**Written by Doug Powers What myth will be tested? The “stimulus created millions of new jobs” myth? The “unemployment checks are great for the economy” myth? No, the president is instead insisting that the Mythbusters re-test a myth they’ve already busted: President Obama has a personal request — to once again test the myth of [...]

Face of the enemy

**Written by Doug Powers On Face the Nation this morning, Bob Scheiffer’s round-table consisted of four authors who have written historical and/or political books. One of those authors was Edmund Morris, a Kenyan-born biographer residing in the United States who is obviously a fan of the movie My Cousin Vinny, but not a big fan [...]

This Week in Emasculation

**Written by Doug Powers This morning, Bob Schieffer had Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Face the Nation to discuss invasive airport security screenings that are starting to turn off just about any air traveler who doesn’t show up to the airport wearing a leather hood and a ball gag. When I heard Schieffer ask [...]

Ruining it for everybody

**Written by Doug Powers A: The Tea Party won’t say “thank you”, and neither will the increasingly ungrateful American press: Sometimes on long trips, presidents and reporters can get a little tired of each other. Maybe that explains an exchange today between President Obama and the press in Japan, at the end of a meeting [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Temp-host fail: Chris Hayes, tapped Friday by MSNBC to fill in for the indefinitely suspended Keith Olbermann as host of the prime-time political show “Countdown,” gave money to two Democratic campaigns in recent years. Now, following that disclosure, MSNBC says Mr. Hayes won’t get the gig after all. Mr. Hayes, editor [...]

**Written by Doug Powers On many an occasion I’ve surmised that there simply must be a comedian behind some of the financial decisions the Obama administration has made, but I honestly didn’t believe that to be the case literally — until now: In the midst of debates on financial regulation and China’s currency in April, [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Christine O’Donnell’s campaign has had some problems in airing their 30 minute ad: The campaign did not purchase advance time on networks in the Philadelphia or Delaware markets, said a source close to the O’Donnell campaign, and the networks did not have time available to air the ad on such short [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Comedy Central’s coverage is underway. Oprah and Arianna paid for hundreds of buses to ship people in, because if there’s one thing that makes a rally really hit home, it’s extra astroturf. The AP has perhaps the most hilarious repetition of the organizers’ talking points: WASHINGTON – People assembled by the [...]

**Written by Doug Powers John Kerry’s list of significant epochs in world history: –Upper Cambrian –Lower Permian –Middle Jurassic –Paleocene –Gigolocene –Know Nothing (Late 2010-?) Thurston Heinz III’s swift boat has sprung a leak in the deep end again. Strange — just a couple of years ago the country was brilliant, progressive and in a [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Disregard the above photo. I’m only putting it there to remind myself to check my tire pressure later this afternoon. ABC billed their “This Week” program this morning as featuring “four powerhouse guests.” One of those four “powerhouse guests” was John McCain’s supergenius daughter (if it rains today it’s because David [...]

Comedy Central

**Written by Doug Powers When S.E. Cupp appeared on the Joy Behar Show, Behar went off on a dingbat rant against Michele Bachmann. Why? Because Michele Bachmann is anti-child. Transcript from Newsbusters: BEHAR: Don’t you think it shows their true colors – these mama grizzlies so-called? I mean she is against a federal program to [...]

Apples to unionized oranges

**Written by Doug Powers It’s no secret that Team Obama loathes Fox News, but this spin is “zero sum game” theory at its most desperate and laughable. From a Rolling Stone interview: I think Fox is part of that tradition — it is part of the tradition that has a very clear, undeniable point of [...]

What’s so good about tax cuts?

**Written by Doug Powers Hot off the press from the AP’s Department of Double Standards we find this: 09/09/2010 AP Press Release Memo to AP staff from Standards Center: Guidance – planned Sept. 11 Quran burning Colleagues, As you know, a group known as the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., has announced that [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Todd Palin can take down the fence, at least until this guy moves back in next spring: Palin’s neighbor of three months on Wasilla’s Lake Lucille, author Joe McGinniss, is packing his bags and notebooks and leaving Sunday for his home in Massachusetts to write the book he has been researching [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Every now and then, a politician goofs and reveals more than he or she intended, providing a window into the true motives or beliefs. Michigan’s John Dingell claiming that Obamacare is a peachy way to “control the people,” and President Obama saying that America is a world super power “whether we [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Today is Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” gathering at the Lincoln Memorial (this is also the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s “I have a dream” speech, which you can watch here). Beck partnered with the Special Operations Warrior Foundation to sponsor the event, which starts at 10 a.m. eastern, and [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Have you noticed how the Democrats have trotted out Michigan’s failure of an outgoing Governor, Jennifer Granholm, more and more lately on a national level? I think it’s because she’s one of the few people Democrats can find who has done a worse job than President Obama (it’s the political equivalent [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The Associated Press is now prohibiting its staff from using the words “Ground Zero mosque” in stories: The Associated Press, one of world’s most powerful news organizations, issued a memo today advising staff to avoid the phrase “Ground Zero mosque.” The Upshot reported Tuesday that the AP started using the phrase [...]