5 Tips for Malia and Sasha Obama in Their New School
The First Kids-Elect will be starting school this week, and Politico reports that the girls will face some unique challenges:They'll have more new friends than they can count, and not all for the right reasons.Bodyguards will be around, for sure, but hard to spot. And their teachers will have a brand-new worry in the digital age - cell phone cameras. That's the life awaiting Malia and Sasha Obama when they step off the plane from Chicago on Sunday to start next week at Sidwell Friends School, which has been teaching presidents' kids dating back to Teddy Roosevelt.The Sidwell Friends School is ...
On 'Unusable Signal' Tonite: The RedState Controversy and More
On tonight's Unusable Signal, we will reveal all of the untold details from the feud that RedState Director and Editor Erick Erickson picked with me while I was just minding my own business. We may even take some phone calls at 347-677-1645.For those unfamiliar with the flap, I wrote a piece of commentary about conservative reaction to the Chip Saltsman controversy. Saltsman is defending his gift of a CD that contains songs like "Barack the Magic Negro" and "The Star Spanglish Banner."Included in that commentary was a passage about Erickson's defense of the song. I provided respectful, ...
Inaugural Balls Likely to be Blue, Not Red
I guess if you have to choose one or the other, this is the way to go.Politico reports that Republicans are planning a variety of ways to kick off Barack Obama's presidency away from Washington, DC:Out of power on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue and mostly out of favor on K Street, many emasculated elephants in the GOP herd will begin the Age of Obama with what amounts to an extended holiday vacation. Instead of fighting the quadrennial cold and what are expected to be record-setting crowds, they're heading out to greener pastures, with better temperatures, less hassle and more agreeable ...
Fox News Wishes Everyone a Magical Negro New Year
Man, you gotta love "satire," don't ya? During Fox News' New Years broadcast, the network scrolled text messages from Fox viewers, and one of them was a clever, pitch-perfect satire of the LA Times. From HuffPo: Viewers were allowed to text in messages that scrolled across the bottom in lieu of the news. One message read: HAPPY NEW YEAR AND LET'S HOPE THE MAGIC NEGRO DOES A GOOD JOB. LOVE JEN AND JOHN C. This is the same network who brought you that "satire" of Michelle Obama as Barack's "Baby Mama," and on the heels of a variety of conservatives defending the use of the term "Magical Negro." ...
2009 New Years Resolutions For Everyone But Barack Obama
I was randomly perusing RedState today, when I saw a list of Barack Obama's New Years Resolutions by someone calling himself Absentee.The list was really funny (I especially liked the doodles in the margins), so I immediately wanted to steal the premise. I hit a major roadblock, however, when I tried to think of a single Republican who matters anymore.Instead, I have obtained snippets of many different political figures' New Years resolutions. Let me know if you think I've missed any.New Years ResolutionsRod Blagojevich - Get copy of "Writing 'For Dummies' Books...For Dummies" and write ...
Inaugural Balls to Include One Held By Obama
As I reported last week, there will be 10 balls held in honor of Barack Obama's inauguration. The Presidential Inaugural Committee announced today that one of them will be hosted by Obama himself: (via email)WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing the tradition started in 2005 by President George W. Bush, the Presidential Inaugural Committee announced today that President-elect Barack Obama will host the Commander-in-Chief's inaugural ball to honor the country's active duty and reserve military. Additional invited guests will include wounded warriors (Purple Heart recipients), families of fallen heroes, ...
Conservative Website RedState Goes Militant?
Wow, it looks like I resigned just in the nick of time.RedState.com, the leading conservative website, has just rolled out something called "Strike Force," complete with an emblem modeled after a special forces insignia.To be more effective in 2009, we all need to do a better job organizing. If you are interested in being a part of the Army of Redstate Activists in your state, please fill out the form below. We'll post this on a regular basis. Let's organize. Let's get ourselves organized state by state. Sign up if you are interested.This post sponsored by the word "organize."The first 50 ...
Sarah Palin Says Levi is No Drop-Out
According to the Anchorage Daily News, Sarah Palin has been scrambling to set the record straight about Levi Johnston's educational pursuits. After contacting the ADN, the Associated Press, and People Magazine, she issued a statement:Palin was in touch with a celebrity magazine, a national news service and the Anchorage Daily News to question reports that her future son-in-law, Levi Johnston, is a dropout...."Bristol begins her final semester of high school next week where she'll get her last credit needed to graduate," the statement said. "Levi is continuing his online high school work in ...
Pepsi Catches Obama's Heat
I am an avid drinker of Pepsi One, the most delicious diet beverage available on planet Earth. A cold Pepsi One is as good as, if not better than, a "normal" Pepsi. It has 1 calorie, which must be where they put the delicious.As such, I'm pretty clued in to Pepsi's packaging changes, and I recently noticed a change in the logo. Something about it seemed familiar, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it until I saw this commercial last night.Now, I'm left to wonder if Team Obama originally modeled their logo after Pepsi's. After all, Pepsi has successfully marketed itself as the choice of my ...
Cracking Down on Honey Crime
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has just completed a 5 month investigation into honey-related crime. Yes, that's what I said, a 5 month investigation into honey-related crime. (h/t Daily Beast) In the U.S., where bee colonies are dying off and demand for imported honey is soaring, traders of the thick amber liquid are resorting to elaborate schemes to dodge tariffs and health safeguards in order to dump cheap honey on the market, a five-month Seattle P-I investigation has found.I don't want to minimize the seriousness of this problem. Aside from more pleasant picnics (how do they always get in ...
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