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Katie Couric: It’s great to be traveling America among “the great unwashed” (That means most of you)
It’s not as bad as it sounds. She didn’t mean it in a “these ignorant peasants sure do smell when they haven’t bathed” way. She meant it in a “I love to chat with these ignorant peasants no matter what they smell like” way. She’s a people person, guys. Accept it. Rick Kaplan, her Executive Producer, says that “when she’s on the road—in Iraq with David Petraeus—she has a great way with people. People like her and she likes them. ...

John Kerry: Elect a new people
Ken Blackwell is the Senior Fellow for Family Empowerment at the Family Research Council. He serves on the board of directors of the Club for Growth, the National Rifle Association, and the National Taxpayers Union. Mr. Blackwell is a contributing editor for the conservative News and opinion site Townhall.com, and his columns frequently appear in the Washington Times, New York Post, Wall Street Journal and National Review Online. He was a columnist for the former New York Sun. He is a Visiting p...

John Kerry Says: Elect a New People
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry is frustrated. He recently spoke to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and complained that we are in "a period of know-nothingism in the country, where truth and science and facts don't weigh in. It's all short-order, lowest common denominator, cheap-seat politics." He'd really like to elect a New people. Now, that last bit -- cheap-seat politics -- is the kicker. How truly awful it must be for the Senate's Richest man -- wealthier than the Senate's Rockefeller ...

John Kerry: Elect a New People
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry is frustrated. He recently spoke to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and complained that we are in "a period of know-nothingism in the country, where truth and science and facts don't weigh in. It's all short-order, lowest common denominator, cheap-seat politics." He'd really like to elect a New people. Now, that last bit -- cheap-seat politics -- is the kicker. How truly awful it must be for the Senate's Richest man -- wealthier than the Senate's Rockefelle...

Journalism students at UCLA mock Dan Rather
One has to feel sorry for Dan Rather—since 2004, he has gone from being a first-class Journalist to a first-class joke. His efforts to try and sway the 2004 Presidential Election towards John Kerry are legendary now. But in a project called “What’s Wrong With Journalism?” several Students at UCLA in Westwood (West Los Angeles) dressed as Dan Rather and mocked him. Mr. Rather wasn’t the only one that was mocked; Connie Chung and Katie Couric had their share of knocks...

John Kerry claims America is in a period of know-nothingism
  I don’t know about you, but I am getting damned sick and tired of listening to the Democrats in Washinton-from the president on down-and the media insult us because we do not agree with the Obama regime’s agenda. The president himself has said that we are basically scared stupid and told his supporters that we are not thinking straight; Katie Couric derided the middle of the country as the “unwashed masses”; Bill Maher stated something to the effec...

John Kerry and the People in the Cheap Seats
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry is frustrated. He recently spoke to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and complained that we are in "a period of know-nothingism in the country, where truth and science and facts don't weigh in. It's all short-order, lowest common denominator, cheap-seat politics." He'd really like to elect a New people. Now, that last bit -- cheap-seat politics -- is the kicker. How truly awful it must be for the Senate's Richest man -- wealthier than the Senate's R...

A Cold Civil War in the U.S. Has it Already Started?
It was a rainy night in Phoenix, Arizona, in a Hotel Room with free wifi that somehow cost $5.95. That free wifi randomly brought me to the weird online Hoax of "John Titor." On November 02, 2000, this person started claiming on a public forum that he was a Time traveler from the year 2036. The whole thing was a delightful Hoax, but a disturbing one; the future he painted of a United States in Civil War, and then nuclear apocalypse, was fascinating. So much so that Coast-To-Coast radio and numer...

Election night ramps up on TV and #x2014; and on the Web and #x2014; for big broadcasters
NEW YORK — After losing viewers to Cable News networks on recent Election nights, television's biggest broadcasters are fighting back hard for the Midterm contest. ABC, CBS and PBS will each stream part of their Election-night coverage on the Web on Tuesday, and NBC plans six hours of results lasting into early Wednesday morning. The networks will involve some of the biggest and most popular websites — Google, Facebook, YouTube and Yahoo! — in delivering their versions of ...

Broadcasters busy with online tie-ins for election
NEW YORK (AP) - After losing viewers to Cable News networks on recent Election nights, television's biggest broadcasters are fighting back hard for the Midterm contest. ABC, CBS and PBS will each stream part of their Election-night coverage on the Web on Tuesday, and NBC plans six hours of results lasting into early Wednesday morning. The networks will involve some of the biggest and most popular websites—Google, Facebook, YouTube and Yahoo!—in delivering their versions of the News. ...

Broadcasters busy with online tie-ins for election
Sick of campaign ad avalanche? TV stations aren’t NEW YORK (AP) — After losing viewers to Cable News networks on recent Election nights, television’s biggest broadcasters are fighting back hard for the Midterm contest. ABC, CBS and PBS will each stream part of their Election-night coverage on the Web on Tuesday, and NBC plans six hours of results lasting into early Wednesday morning. The networks will involve some of the biggest and most popular websites — Google, Faceboo...

Election night ramps up on TV and #x2014; and on the Web and #x2014; for big broadcasters
NEW YORK — After losing viewers to Cable News networks on recent Election nights, television's biggest broadcasters are fighting back hard for the Midterm contest. ABC, CBS and PBS will each stream part of their Election-night coverage on the Web on Tuesday, and NBC and ABC plan six hours of results lasting into early Wednesday morning. The networks will involve some of the biggest and most popular websites — Google, Facebook, YouTube and Yahoo! — in delivering their versi...

Beck: Left is more hate-filled than the right
Stumble This! In Glenn Beck's world, most of the venom and violence in politics comes from Liberals. "You look at some of the stuff that is happening with the election and the way [Progressives] are -- it's so dirty," Beck told Fox News Don Imus. "They accuse me of inciting violence," Beck noted. "You've got to be kidding me." The Fox News host may have been referring to a California shooter who saw Beck as his "School Teacher." The shooter had plans to attack the Tides Foundation which is a ...

Mini Afternoon Round-Up 10-30
Civil Rights Commission: Administration Lied About Who Dropped Voter Intimidation Case There’s good reason the masses are revolting It’s the Spending, Stupid ObamaCare Vote Haunts Congressional Candidates Half of Democrats Think Obama Should Face Primary Obama Heckled at Connecticut Rally Who’s Really Dividing the Country? Fiorina Campaign Manager: Carly's Going To Win By At Least Three Points Finally: Meg Whitman Drills Jerry Brown With His Own Words Concerns grow about...

After word breaks that Andrew Breitbart will appear on an ABC News panel, exec forced to apologize to moonbats who despise free
As signs of a possible conservative Tsunami appear on the horizon, Liberals Progressives are panicking, screeching in rage at even the hint of diverse opinions sullying their previously pristine echo chambers. Which leads to preemptive apologies on the part of folks like ABC News for the high crime of including Andrew Breitbart on an election panel. Andrew Morse, Executive Producer at ABC News Digital, issued the following statement after the leftist outcry. Since conservative commentat...

AZUNOBLOG-RESIST COMMUNISM
            This Communist indoctrination of blaming us for such problems still persists in the minds of a growing and vocal group of Anti-Americans and anti-capitalists Marxists. It persists because these brainless people continue to embrace failed Communist doctrines.             I challenge anyone to read all the scientific articles espousing man-made Global Warming and find a shred o...

Mark Morford: I Am Outraged! Are You Not Outraged?
You surely are, yes? Outraged, that is? Seething and churning and burning up inside, deeply upset about that thing that just happened and which you did not want to occur in that particular way, even though it totally did? Damn right. Here's the good news: You are not alone. Nearly all good Americans are outraged about something. This is what makes us good Americans. This is how we know we're alive, what defines us versus them. Ill-conceived outrage is our heritage, our birthright, our grand le...

Two Republicans vie for right to challenge Woolsey
The owner of a Cotati Manufacturing company and a retired sociology Professor are vying for the Republican nomination to challenge Democrat Rep. Lynn Woolsey, who is unopposed in the June 8 Primary. No one would mistake Jim Judd and Michael Halliwell for bookends. Halliwell earned his doctorate in political sociology from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1974 and spent 36 years teaching at California State University at Long Beach. Judd managed to co-found J&M; Manufacturing, which ...

Ca admits Prop 23 will result in 'higher economic activity', lower energy prices
The impartial analysis of Proposition 23 in the official California Voter Guide by the State Legislative Analyst reveals several interesting facts. Keep in mind that this summary is not taking a 'pro or con' position on Prop 23. Those are in the Arguments and Rebuttals section of the guide. The analysis  explains that "on balance, economic activity in the state would likely be modestly higher if this proposition were enacted than otherwise....To the extent that the suspension...

A Boot to the Head
There she was, thrown to the pavement by a Republican in a checkered shirt. Another Republican thrusts his foot in between her legs and presses down with all his weight to pin her to the curb. Then a Republican leader comes over and viciously stomps on her head with his foot. You hear her glasses crunch under the pressure. Holding her head down with his foot, he applies more force so she can't move. Her skull and brain are now suffering a Concussion. The young woman's name is Lauren Valle, bu...

Let's Be Reasonable
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. Adding to Michael Warren's findings from the "Million Moderate March" is Robert McCartney's column from this past weekend's Washington Post. Even McCartney, who admits he agrees with the concerns of many of the attendees, knows the event was not simply a call for sanity, reason, and moderation: When I asked in interviews what message they hoped the demonstration would send, participants typically said initially that they wanted less...

The Federal Government's Building Boom ... In Afghanistan
He adds not benignly, but menacingly, " The U.S. Military does not count the exact number of FOBs it has built in Afghanistan, but Forward operating Bases and other facilities of similar or smaller size make up the bulk of U.S. outposts there. " According to Gary Younger, a U.S. public affairs officer with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the "ISAF does not centrally track its base construction and up-grading work, nor the money spent on such projects." Turse offers example...

An Iranian War Would Ruin Obama
There isn’t much to add to the chorus of laughter that has greeted David Broder’s silly column advocating war with Iran as a means of economic stimulus. It should be enough to mention that no less than Daniel Pipes proposed an Iranian war as Obama’s political salvation, which should have thoroughly discredited the idea by now. What I do find worrisome is that Broder is nothing if not the embodiment of Washington conventional wisdom, so when he casually claims that “Iran i...

Press Release
NEW YORK, November 01, 2010 -- Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: ABK) (Ambac) announced today that its Board of Directors decided not to make the regularly scheduled interest payment due today, November 1, 2010, on the Company’s 7.50% Debentures due May 1, 2023 (“2023 Notes”). If the interest is not paid within 30 days of today, an event of default will occur under the indenture for the 2023 Notes. The occurrence of an event of default would permit the holders of the 2023 Note...

Form 8-K
AMBAC FINANCIAL GROUP, INC. Other Events. On October 29, 2010, the Board of Directors of Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (the “Company”) decided not to make a regularly scheduled interest payment on the Company’s 7.50% Debentures due May 1, 2023 (the “2023 Notes”). The interest payment was scheduled to be made on November 1, 2010. If the interest is not paid within 30 days of the scheduled interest payment date, an event of default will occur under the inden...