In A Center-Left Country, Republicans Need Our Concern

by William K. Wolfrum

In America, the weekends are for many things – spending time with family, enjoying outdoor activities and sports and just relaxing. It’s also the determined time for Republicans to Concern Troll the brains out of their Democratic opposition.

For those on the outs. let me allow Wise Geek to give an example of concern trolling:

Artful concern trolling involves developing a believable persona as a supporter of a cause who has legitimate concerns. In an example of concern trolling, a group of people might be having a political discussion on a website about a candidate they

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Mark Halperin: Obama Is Underappreciated Success

The right never liked him and never will. The left worries he’s caved to the right. But the Obama presidency is a great success, says Time‘s Mark Halperin.

It is too early to assess the ultimate measure of victory: whether the President’s actions have been prudent and beneficial, domestically and internationally. But by Election Day 2010, Obama will have soundly achieved many of his chief campaign promises while running a highly competent, scandal-free government. Not bad for a guy whose opponents (in both parties) for the White House suggested that he was too green in national life to …

How Can This Possibly End Well?

by Thomas Wellborn

Bill Davis (pictured) is “Doing the job our Government refuses to do!”  Is he following the legislative process in order to bring about his desired change lawfully?  No, not quite.  Mr. Davis, the founder of an Arizona border vigilante group (“The Cochise County Militia“), wants to take a dramatic, hard-lined approach to border control. On Monday, he told his supporters in an email that his Tombstone-based militia will be forming a private military company (PMC).  According to Davis, this is “completely legal.”

DAVIS: We can be considered paramilitary, but not vigilantes, mercenaries, etc” … …

Man With Gun Arrested At Airport As Obama Leaves; Wanted To See The President

A 23-year-old Ohio man carrying a handgun was arrested near the runway as President Obama was leaving Asheville, NC.  Joseph Sean McVey pulled his car by the gate and was listening to a police scanner,  just as Air Force One was taxiing.

McVey has been charged with going armed to the terror of the public, a misdemeanor offense. He is being held at the Buncombe County Detention Center on $100,000 secured bond.

He did not get near the president.

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McVey got out of the car and started talking on a handheld radio attached to a remote earpiece and the …

President Obama Meets With Billy Graham

Billy Graham has met with every president since Dwight Eisenhower, but never before at his home. President Obama made the trip to Montreat, North Carolina, from where he was staying in Asheville, to see the ailing 91-year-old evangelist.

Franklin Graham said his father and Obama did most of the talking. They reminisced about their roots in Chicago — Graham went to Wheaton College and began some of his ministry in the region; Obama moved to Chicago after college and began his political career there. And they talked about golf.

“The conversation was very cordial, very nice,” the younger Graham said. …

George W. Bush Autobiography Out In November

The former president says he’s not writing a traditional memoir, but rather an account of key decisions in his life.

According to Crown Publishers, “Decision Points” will offer “gripping, never-before-heard detail” on such historic events as the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the 2000 presidential election along with Bush’s decision to quit drinking, his relationship with his family and other personal details.

“Since leaving the Oval Office, President Bush has given virtually no interviews or public speeches about his presidency,” Crown said in a statement. “Instead, he has spent almost every day writing ‘Decision Points,’ a strikingly personal and …

The Post-It Note Turns 30

It’s one of those items that we wish we’d invented, and how did we ever live without it? It’s been 30 years but the Post-it note is the result of a mistake.

Yellow sticky notes, officially known as Post-it Notes, got their start in 1968 when a 3M researcher (Spencer Silver) tried to improve adhesive tape. What he got was a semisticky adhesive–not exactly what you want out of tape. Even so, he knew he had something cool–he just didn’t know what to do with it. Four years later, another 3M scientist (Arthur Fry, pictured) was getting frustrated. This …

Bolivian President Says Homosexuality And Baldness Caused By Chicken

Evo Morales, the Bolivian president since 2005, says male pattern baldness and sexual preference are influenced by eating chicken.

Speaking at an environmental conference on Tuesday, Morales said chicken producers injected fowl with female hormones and insisted that “when men eat those chickens they experience deviences in being men”.

As you might imagine, the LGBT community isn’t taking to this analysis.

The president of the Argentina Homosexual Community campaigning organisation, Cesar Cigliutti, said: “It’s an absurdity to think that eating hormone-containing chicken can change the sexual orientation of a person.

“By following that reasoning, if we put male hormones …

Republicans And Financial Regulation: Making Herbert Hoover Look Good

by The Professor

In his weekly radio address, reports the New York Times:

President Obama said Wall Street had “hurt just about every sector of our economy” and again pressed the case for tighter regulation. The first test of the administration’s overhaul effort will come Monday when the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, is to call a procedural vote to try to stop a Republican filibuster.

Republican filibuster? To kill legislation to prevent Wall Street from plundering Main Street? Really?

Lately Wall Street has been America’s Field of Bad Dreams, so maybe we do need some regulation there. …

Seattle Cartoonist Pegs May 20th As “Everybody Draw Muhammed Day”

by Thomas Wellborn

A Seattle cartoonist has come up with a snarky and sure-to-be controversial response to Muslim bloggers’ warnings to Comedy Central in regards to their South Park depiction of the Prophet Muhammed wearing a bear suit. Molly Norris has created a Facebook page where she is encouraging artists from the world over to create and submit their own depictions of Muhammed on May 20.

Along with Norris, many fans of the show were disappointed by Comedy Central’s decision to censor the episode in question.  This idea comes as a response to said decision.

South Park creators Trey …

The Shame Of Arizona

by Judge Andrew Napolitano

I cannot begin to tell you how steamed I am when any government violates first principles of our Constitution. Never before in our modern history has an American government purported to give police the power to stop someone because of their appearance and then require the stopped person to prove a negative on the spot–namely, that he or she is not in the US illegally. In the American justice system, the government must prove everything about the defendant’s behavior; it is a profound violation of due process to impose upon the stopped person the obligation of …