Inside the Situation Room
There was a time that the Situation Room was known not as Wolf Blitzer’s evening newscast, but a nerve-center of information for the President of the United States. Created by the Kennedy Administration in 1961, the "Sit Room" serves as a conference facility, a processing center for secure communications, a hub of intelligence gathering, and [...]
Democrat Wars
“I figured it up the other day,” Bob Dole memorably snarled
during the 1976 vice presidential debate. “If we added up the
killed and wounded in Democrat wars in this century, it would be
about 1.6 million Americans — enough to fill the city of
Detroit.” It wasn’t Dole’s [...]
Crist or Kerry?
Remember the 2004 GOP convention? When delegates from the floor roared “flip-flop” at every mention of John Kerry’s name? It’s hard to imagine a politician in recent days who had such a well-deserved reputation for waffling. Recall his position on the war supplemental in Octobe 2003: “I actually did vote for the [...]
"Global warming" at Yankee Stadium
My conservative cousin from New York filed this report from Yankee Stadium, where sports and left-liberalism intersected for the second time in a single week:
Last night I was at Yankee Stadium watching the Yanks exciting extra-inning playoff win. Along with 50,000 other shivering fans we had to endure a scoreboard message from Robert Redford sponsored [...]
CNN Fact-Checks…SNL Skit Critical of Obama
CNN is now fact-checking comedy skits critical of The One.
Sycophancy you can believe in, right this way.
In other news, upon further investigation, CNN has discovered that those two guys weren’t “wild and crazy,” but merely socially awkward and Eastern European. For more goofs on CNN, which would make for a superb SNL follow-up spoof of [...]
Quid Pro Quo
We noted here that the drug companies intend to spend $150 million–more than the McCain campaign’s entire television advertising budget–on ads supporting Obamacare. Today on CNN, Wolf Blitzer asked Linda Douglass whether the ad campaign was part of the deal that the drug companies struck with the Obama administration:
BLITZER: Did the White House make [...]
