Wednesday, August 26, 2009

SEIU's Andy Stern Named in Top Ten Most Powerful People in Healthcare

SEIU Straight from the union's magazine itself.

UNIONS VS. CEO OF WHOLE FOODS

Boortz "The liberals have had their thongs in a wad for weeks over this column by Whole Foods CEO John Mackey. For those of you who missed it, Mackey wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal on August 11th that explained his free market plan for healthcare reform. Ever since then, liberals have been in a war against Mackey for daring to go against Barack Obama or stand against the political leanings of so many of his customers!" See, leftists shop at Whole Foods.

Labor Leader Named Head of New York Fed

Washington Post "Completing the move away from having people from the financial world lead the New York Fed board of directors, Lee C. Bollinger, the president of Columbia University, was named deputy chairman on Monday. "

Chappaquiddick: No Profile in Kennedy Courage

ABC News "How could he be one of most trusted members of Senate -- and they trusted his word as good as gold -- be an out of control frat boy most of his life?" he asked. "Life is complicated and people aren't as simple as we'd like them to be."

Obama vs. Obama

By Victor Davis Hanson "Actions often have unforeseen consequences. Throughout the campaign and the first few months of the new administration, Barack Obama adopted a number of personas and positions that only now may be coming back to haunt him. Or in the words of the right Reverend Wright the proverbial “chickens are coming home to roost.”"

Obama Administration Releases Names of Secret Terror Suspects

Gateway Pundit "Why would the Pentagon want to keep their names secret anyway? "The Pentagon has previously said that providing information about these detainees could jeopardize counter-terrorism efforts."It would seem then, that Obama no longer cares about such efforts."

Cuban Generation Y Blogger Mocks Che T-shirt Wearers

Newsbusters "I am part of the counterculture, and the counterculture is growing, but it is very diverse. Maybe one thing we all have in common is that we don't wear Che T-shirts, like foreign kids who consider themselves counterculture do,'' she says. ``In Cuba, Che represents the government. In Cuba, only tourists and members of the Young Communist League wear Che shirts.''

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Huckabee: Evangelicals More Supportive of Israel than U.S. Jews

Christian Post Some evangelicals disagree, however.

CIA interrogation program highlights lack of moral courage

BLACKFIVE "Now we have reached a point where we have told our enemies that we are not willing to actively interrogate them if they are captured. We have abdicated our responsibility to prevent evil and when future acts of terror kill innocents we are guilty for that failure."

Lisa Benson cartoon

Townhall

Cheney was right; Obama's wrong

American Thinker "The activities of the CIA in carrying out the policies of the Bush Administration were directly responsible for defeating all efforts by al Qaeda to launch further mass casualty attacks against the United States. The people involved deserve our gratitude. They do not deserve to be the targets of political investigations or prosecutions. " Dick Cheney

Liberal Fascism is not a book anymore

American Thinker "The fog is clearing, and the Progressive path is becoming clearer. At his Liberal Fascism blog, author Jonah Goldberg starkly recapitulates the progress of the State under Obama:.."