The parents-to-be
If nothing else, you have to admire Heath Campbell’s perseverance. In 2009, he and his then-wife Deborah lost custody of their four children, all of whom had been given names of notable Nazis. His son, the first to be born, was called Adolf Hitler Campbell.
Now, three wives and a fiancée later, Campbell is at it again.
In case you missed the latest political analysis from unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers (aka, some guy in Obama’s old Chicago neighborhood), the one-time pal and fundraiser for the president has issued some brutal critiques of his performance as leader of the free world.
Sitting down for an episode of RealClearPolitics’ ‘Morning Commute,’ Ayers told host Charlie Stone that, on policy, Obama receives a ‘failing grade’ along with the ‘F-minuses’ he’s given previous presidents like George W. Bush and Richard Nixon….
How would you define chutzpah? Here are three anecdotes, any of which could appear in a dictionary definition as an illustrative example:
A postal worker who ran marathons found her race times improved after she began drawing federal disability checks for an alleged back injury.
It’s bad enough that the event, which teaches hatred, is sponsored by a religious order that calls itself “Friends.” But must the organizers attempt to whitewash it by giving it a sterile name like “Boycott Divestment Summer Camp”? The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the political arm of the Quaker movement, will be holding its invidious anti-Israel summer institute the last week in July in New York State (h/t reader Steven).
Charlie was a lot nicer when he moderated a debate that helped Obama win a second term.
Being president of the United States isn’t easy. Being Barack Obama being president is evidently tougher still. Despite then-candidate Obama’s chest pounding in 2008 when he spoke arrogantly of bringing a gun to a knife fight, he wasn’t facing a real enemy back then. His opponent was a 72-year-old war veteran who wasn’t really jonesing for a brawl, which was probably lucky for Obama, who would found himself on his back sucking air if McCain had thrown a punch.
Fool them once…. If President Obama thought last week was the worst of his presidency, he is in for a rude awakening, judging from a CNN/ORC International survey released this morning. In its own reporting on the poll, CNN notes:
A growing number of Americans believe that senior White House officials ordered the Internal Revenue Service to target conservative political groups.
Better to remain silent and be thought the fool…
Maybe it was wishful thinking on his part when CBS Evening News host Scott Pelley informed Deadline Hollywood in an interview on Saturday that Fox News boasts a viewership of only 200,000 to 300,000. Pelley was attempting to make the case that, despite undeniable changes in the way people get their news in recent years, cable news still just doesn’t matter that much.
An Oklahoman sentenced to death for brutally killing three people in cold blood is about to be a free man. The reason for the reversal is not that new evidence has been uncovered that exonerates the man. In fact, he has confessed to the crimes of his own free will. Rather, the murders took place on Indian land, and the state lacks the authority to prosecute him.
NewsOK reports that 50-year-old David Magnan’s murder convictions were voided by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Pursuant to the ruling, he was ordered removed from death row, where he has been held since 2004.
Does Barack Obama ever think about his words and actions and how they might be received coming not from the president but from some ordinary workaday stiff? Does he even care? At various times during the past four years, he has lectured wealthy Americans (read: rich fat cats) on the need for shared sacrifice in these financially challenging times, then turned around and taken his family on lavish vacations, partly on the taxpayers’ dime.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. So we were told repeatedly by the upstanding, nonviolent citizens who took to the streets in protest during the administration of George W. Bush. Such an individual is shown at the left, carrying a likeness of the former president, augmented by a Hitler mustache and swinging from a noose.