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• 'Trusted' Brian Williams Admits to Lying

  Regular viewers of NBC Nightly News may have wondered why the network has been running regular ads promoting Brian Williams as 'trusted'. Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2015 DEBATE, POLITICS

• Hey,Bam: Maybe It's Those Pesky Presbyterians Again

  BH, our man in Sydney, Australia, is a fan of Tim Blair, columnist of Sydney's The Telegraph, who wrote today: "Following the burning alive of a captured... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2015 DEBATE, POLITICS

• Barack Obama's Diary: Pants on Fire

  Dear Diary: Awkwaard... I had Jordan's King Abdulla visiting just as news was coming through that one of his airforce pilots had been burned alive. Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2015 DEBATE, POLITICS

• Hey Bam, When Are You Going to Grow a Pair?

  America wants to know, when is President Obama going to get angry? When is he going to slam his fist on the desk, demand vengeance, put aside his incessant... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2015 DEBATE, POLITICS

• Your Tax Dollars at Work...

  Two Republican members of Congress are calling out the Department of State for allegedly trying to influence the upcoming election in Israel using American tax... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2015 DEBATE, POLITICS

• Barack Obama's Diary: Moose is Pissed off with Me Again

  Dear Diary: Moose is still pissed off with me. Her rage at being snubbed in Saudi Arabia had not even begun to ebb when she took umbrage at my pre-superbowl... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2015 DEBATE, POLITICS

• The Ant and the Grasshopper, 2015

  From our  all-seeing Alaska contributor, TG, come these modernized parables: OLD  VERSION The  ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2015 DEBATE, POLITICS

• Yes, We've Got No Vaginas

  Read it, and weep: At Massachusetts' Mt Holyoke College, a theater group has decided to end the annual performances of the play The Vagina Monologues - work tha... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2015 DEBATE, POLITICS

• Jeb Jumps Ahead as He Jostles for Nomination

  Mitt Romney’s decision to forgo a third try at the White House has settled the question of whether the 2016 GOP presidential field has a front-runner — bestowin... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2015 DEBATE, POLITICS

• Dim Crims: Three's a Crowd

  If you're traveling in an SUV with two men you've allegedly kidnapped in the backseat, don't count them toward your HOV-lane total. Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2015 DEBATE, POLITICS

• Socialist Medicine in Action

  A British man has finally had an operation to deal with a bleed on his brain more than two months after a fall. Allan Guthrie, 78, fell at his home in... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2015 DEBATE, POLITICS

• ABCs from CBS

  When it snows it blows, or at least the East Coast media does Marc Lester of The Anchorage Daily News writes: "If the snows ever return to Southcentral Alaska,... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2015 DEBATE, POLITICS

• The Bells of Brisbane

  Fwd: FW: The Bells of Brisbane People Tim Gillette Today at 11:57 AM To BCC me Fred was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young 'pullets,'... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2015 DEBATE, POLITICS

• Barack Obama's Diary: Barefaced Chic

  Dear Diary: It was with a huge sense of relief that I re-boarded Air Force One in Riyadh to fly back to the States. Mooch was seething with rage, having been... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2015 DEBATE, POLITICS

• Cold Enough for You?

  TG, our hardy Alaska contributor, reports that, For the first time all winter, the National Weather Service said Fairbanks residents can expect typical January... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2015 DEBATE, POLITICS

• President Stompy-foot Fuming Over Planned Bibi Speech

  We thought we’ve seen everything,” Israel Daily Ha'aretz quoted a senior US official as saying. “But Bibi managed to surprise even us. Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2015 DEBATE, POLITICS

• Progress Notes for Paitient 540463, OBAMA, Barack, H.

  Valerie Jarrett had asked me to stay up late, expecting Patient to be high on adrenaline after his SOTU address to Congress. That was indeed the case. Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2015 DEBATE, POLITICS

• Ouch! Boehner and Bibi Spank Bam

  You could almost hear the smack across the bow of the Obama administration Wednesday as Speaker John Boehner invited Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2015 DEBATE, POLITICS

• Progress Notes for Patient 540463: OBAMA, Barack, H.

  1/17/2015  Valerie Jarrett has requested that I stay overnight for a week or so in my little suite near the family apartment. Patient has been very unstable... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2015 DEBATE, POLITICS

• Barack Obama's Diary: Eggs Over-awkward

  I had a working breakfast with David Cameron this morning. I had my usual two eggs over-easy with wholewheat toast, preceded by Honeynut Cheerios. He ordered a... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2015 DEBATE, POLITICS