"It had gone largely unnoticed that former Los Angeles Times columnist and Georgetown law professor Rosa Brooks had been tapped by the Obama administration for a senior spot in the Pentagon.
Brooks, whose last two columns at the Times were "Bail Out Journalism" and "Bush's Big Lies" is a pretty hard-line liberal who frequents the sets of Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann.
Her legal work, which focuses on international human rights law, includes stints with Amnesty International and the George Soros-funded Open Society Institute .
Her last diatribe against George W. Bush includes both scare quotes around "war on terror" and a Bush-Nazi comparison:
"How did such dangerously bad legal memos ever get taken seriously in the first place?...."Washington Examiner
Friday, April 17, 2009
Newspaper Bailout fan joins Obama Team
Newspaper bailout fan joins Obama Team
Anti-Abortion groups applaud Sarah Palin
Anti-abortion groups applaud Sarah Palin
"When she learned of Trig's diagnosis while on an out-of-state trip, Palin said she thought, "Wow, it is easy. It could be easy to think maybe of trying to change the circumstances. And no one would know. No one would ever know."
Ultimately, Palin said she decided she was going to have to "walk the walk" and remain faithful to her long-standing opposition to abortion. But she said that the experience had helped give her an "understanding for ... why someone might believe it would be possible to change those circumstances. Just make it all go away."
"I had just enough faith to know that trying..."read more Washington Post
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Georgetown Says It Covered Over Name of Jesus to Comply With White House Request
Georgetown University says it covered over the monogram “IHS”--symbolizing the name of Jesus Christ—because it was inscribed on a pediment on the stage where President Obama spoke at the university on Tuesday and the White House had asked Georgetown to cover up all signs and symbols there.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the “IHS” monogram that had previously adorned the stage at Georgetown’s Gaston Hall was still covered up--when the pediment where it had appeared was photographed by CNSNews.com
As of Wednesday afternoon, the “IHS” monogram that had previously adorned the stage at Georgetown’s Gaston Hall was still covered up--when the pediment where it had appeared was photographed by CNSNews.com
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Tea Party in Kentucky
Tea Party in Kentucky April 15, 2009
from the Louisville Courier Journal
from the Louisville Courier Journal
Tea party protests coming to Kentucky
""They've become the hottest things among conservative and libertarian activists around the country who are upset about the government bailouts and ballooning federal budget deficit. And there's one coming to Louisville on Wednesday.
So-called "tea parties" -- some of them large-scale, grass-roots protests -- have been springing up across the country ever since a national television personality suggested them as a way for people to show their anger.
Wendy Caswell, a 24-year-old restaurant worker who is organizing the tea party downtown at Jefferson Square, said it could attract 1,500 people. "That's a rough estimate," she said. "It could be 5,000, it could be less (than 1,500). But I don't think it's going to be less."
The events take their name from the Boston Tea Party of 1773, when American colonists opposed to the Tea Act and its British-imposed tax on tea staged an uprising and threw hundreds of chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
The idea was originally popularized by financial reporter Rick Santelli during a rant on CNBC. Since then, there have been tea parties from California to New York.
Many of them will be held throughout the country on April 15 -- the deadline for filing income tax returns.
Kentucky parties are scheduled that day in Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, Frankfort and Paducah.
Caswell said that the Republican and Libertarian parties in Jefferson County are helping organize Wednesday's event and that she has been overwhelmed by the response so far after publicizing it on a couple of tea party-related Web sites.
"I've talked to more than 1,000 people myself," she said. "When I got started, it wasn't going to be this huge. I thought, if I could get 50 people to walk around and make a big scene, it would be great."
Caswell, a registered Democrat who said she's a social liberal and fiscal conservative, said she decided to organize the tea party in response to a fairly recent interest in politics..... Read Entire Article in the Louisville Courier Journal
KY GOP Lincoln Dinner
Event: State Party Lincoln Dinner
Date: Saturday, May 09, 2009
Time: 6:00 p.m. ET -
The State GOP will host its annual Lincoln Dinner on Saturday, May 9th at The Galt House in Louisville. The reception will begin at 6:00 p.m. ET with dinner following at 7:00 p.m. ET. Confirmed special guests include US Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, US Senator Jim Bunning, Congressman Hal Rogers, Congressman Brett Guthrie and State Senate President David L. Williams. Secretary of State Trey Grayson is the event emcee. Stay tuned for announcements about other special guests. Ticket prices include:$250 per person for the reception and dinner;$100 per person for dinner only; $2000 for a table of 8 (reception and dinner); $800 for a table of 8 (dinner only). If you plan to attend, please RSVP to Andi Johnson at (502) 875-5130 or andi@rpk.org.
Location: The Galt House, Louisville
Contact: Andi Johnson | 502-875-5130 |
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