Burkha Barbies on sale at the Riyadh Toys-al-Us

Toy-maker Mattel  

Surely there is something in between Burkhas and girls dressing like hookers.

http://www.theculture.net/barbie/

"Simon Tyszko’s Suicide Bomber Barbie conflates Western commodification with Palestinian desperation. Religious and capitalist dogmas struggle within Barbie’s idealised form, in an artwork of potent incongruity. It is a work whose political stridency is tempered by a well placed humour."  

Put that on your flower beds. Liberal artists can be so full of BS.

This post began as a fun, satirical entry, but when doing an internet search on the topic, one is led to this more serious point of view:

Why Palestinian children die  "Om Mohammed helps her twelve-year-old son Abu Ali with a toy suicide bomber belt he fashioned on his own. 

" "I hope to be a Martyr...I hope when I get 14 or 15 to explode myself." His mother is proud of her son: "God gave him to me to protect and defend our homeland." "

Much here.  
Then if you enjoy children, there is this adorable schoolroom video from Palestinian Media Watch:

Now that Suicide Bomber Barbie isn't so funny, is it?  Someone once said, "Lord, help me make my enemies look ridiculous", but it can get hard to do.  Though I did enjoy these balloons at a parade in Germany:

Santorum to appear on ABC's This Week

Beltway Confidential   "Santorum might not have been the network's first choice. The Drudge Report announced yesterday that "Newt cancel[led] ABC's THIS WEEK for Sunday," according to a "network source." ABC aired an interview Thursday with Gingrich's ex-wife, who made a series of allegations about Gingrich's affair and divorce. Gingrich called the ABC's handling of the interview, and decision to release it two days before the South Carolina primary, "despicable" during the Thursday debate."


As of Saturday afternoon, ABC has nothing to say about Newt cancelling out.

That Gingrich Ethics Probe in 1997

Washington Post  Here are are some of the key Post stories on the House ethics investigation of Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). This list begins with this one:

Use of Tax-Exempt Groups Integral to Political Strategy   January 7, 1997 Over the years Gingrich and his top advisers have tried repeatedly to use tax-deductible donations to help promote their political goals, a review of his record shows. 

 The heart of the ethics committee case against House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) involves his use of charitable organizations to subsidize his partisan political activities -- a practice he suggests he could have avoided had he consulted a lawyer and not been so "naive" about the intricacies of the tax code. 

But over the years Gingrich and his top advisers have tried repeatedly to use tax-deductible donations to help promote their political goals, a review of his record shows. Indeed, the availability of groups that could take tax-deductible donations was integral to his ultimately successful plan to wrest control of the House from the Democrats. More...

I suspect Nancy Pelosi (D-CooCoosNest) never planned to release this information; that it was enough for her to put this out there for others to pursue and who but Republicans would do it?
Now the story will become a big deal in the press, so Newt needs to get this out there. Better now than this October if Gingrich is our candidate. TD

http://www.usnews.com/cartoons/newt-gingrich-cartoons

Numerous other links at this site, but these should give you the gist of it all.
Ethics Committee Drops Last of 84 Charges Against Gingrich
Gingrich Pays Off Ethics Penalty of $300,000
House Reprimands, Penalizes Speaker
This is the final post at this page: 

IRS Clears Foundation That Aided Gingrich Course  "In its ruling, the IRS said the content of Gingrich's course "was educational and never favored or opposed a candidate for public office."" "It said the foundation "did not intervene on behalf of candidates of the Republican Party merely by promoting" themes in the course." "

NPR weighs in.  You didn't think they would? Then you didn't expect MSNBC to either, did you?

The Hill quotes Pelosi: “One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,” Pelosi said in an interview with Talking Points Memo. 
“I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff," she said. 

The Hill also quoted John Sununu who said:

"What do you think you're going to find in his [Romney's] taxes? The important thing is to find things that could be an October surprise problem," Sununu said. "Newt Gingrich has a serious problem with the package that the Ethics committee had when they fined him $300,000."

"Ring(sic) out the laundry. That's more important than anything else. Nancy Pelosi was on that group. If Nancy Pelosi knows, President Obama knows. We ought to be able to know now," he added. 

We do want honorable people running this nation, but if there is only these choices I will take unethical over traitorous. 
                                                                                                                         Obama and Pelosi caricatures by donkeyhotey

It’s the economy, stupid/ Obama’s quest for a second term doomed by his own policies

Washington Times editorial  "Mr. Obama is hoping the killing of Osama bin Laden will silence his critics, but Mr. Bush had no luck resting on the laurels of his successful war against Saddam Hussein. The same Democrats who accused President George W. Bush of unfairly exploiting the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks for political gain will draw the bin Laden takedown like a gun to promote Mr. Obama. As former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton said, Mr. Obama’s taking personal credit for the bin Laden mission would be like Richard Nixon hyping his intimate role in the 1969 Moon landing “because it happened to occur during his presidency.” These were long-prepared-for events that would have been possible regardless of who was in office.

"The bin Laden killing is a slim reed on which to base an argument for another four years. Mr. Obamacan hardly promise he will do it again."

Perhaps not, but being a pessimist, I tend to see the glass as only half full. Richard Nixon was not the darling of check-stand magazines and the TV talk shows, nor was he by any stretch of the imagination thought of as a celebrity as Obama is. 
We have seen how little Bill Clinton's negatives affected his image in the media and with his Democrat  supporters. TD