Will the 'Real' Robert Gibbs Please Stand Up?
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says the Washington press corps deserves a "strong A" for their efforts over the first 100 days of the Obama Administration -- no surprise there. But what is surprising is Gibbs' performance as the Obama Administration's lead spokesman, leaving behind the relative candor and occasional cordiality of the campaign trail in favor of increased spin, secrecy and scripted answers. ...
Arlen Specter & The Employee Free Choice Act
Ex-Democrat, ex-Republican Sen. Arlen Specter's switch back to the Democratic Party today predictably stoked a scathing response from stunned Republican Party leaders. But their anger likely has less to do with the semantics of Specter's partisan designation and more due to the very real, quite legitimate fear of losing key upcoming policy battles. ...
'Waterboarding Memo' Author Speaks to College Republicans
Former Bush Administration official John Yoo, author of several Justice Department memos determining waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation techniques" to be legal, addressed the California College Republicans as the keynote speaker at their statewide convention in San Francisco this weekend. Author's note: In addition to political commentary, I'm a member of the USC College Republicans. Views posted here are my own. Two dozen protesters gathered outside the Hyatt Fisherman's Wharf hotel where the convention was being held, holding signs calling Yoo a war criminal as they chanted, ...
Miss California & The Gay Rights Thought Police
OMG! Miss California is a social conservative!Last night, the Miss USA pageant was held -- unbeknownst to me, since all I know about pageants is what I've seen in Little Miss Sunshine. Near the end of the pageant, celebrity judge Perez Hilton was tasked with asking one question of then-frontrunner Miss California Carrie Prejean. He decided to lob a question about one of the most politically controversial issues of our time; Prejean's response may have cost her the title: ...
Conservative Filmmaker Tries To Get Arrested, Succeeds
John Ziegler is an idiot.The conservative filmmaker/activist managed to get himself arrested Wednesday after trying to rile up opposition to a journalism award given to Katie Couric for her Sarah Palin interview. Now he's pushing a 20-minute video of his antics and subsequent arrest, claiming anti-conservative bias.As a senior at the USC Annenberg School for Communication, I know almost everyone featured in the video, including the university officials, event organizers and campus police who Ziegler claims "literally abused" him. Not too surprisingly, Ziegler is wildly exaggerating what really ...
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