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Senate Warns Employees To Avoid The Drudge Report
Posted by John Romano in News and Analysis on March 9, 2010
From the Drudge Report
Just as the health care drama in the capitol reaches a grand finale, congressional officials are warning employees to avoid the DRUDGE REPORT!
The Senate’s Committee on Environment and Public Works issued an urgent email late Monday claiming the DRUDGE REPORT is ‘responsible for the many viruses popping up throughout the Senate.’
The committee ordered hill staff: ‘Try to avoid’ the DRUDGE REPORT ‘for now’. Read the rest of this entry »
Radio Host Organizes Against Health Care Bill
Posted by John Romano in News and Analysis, Politics on March 4, 2010
LOS ANGELES (YBH.ME) – Radio host Hugh Hewitt has come out against Obama’s last ditch health care overhaul attempt. Below is a list of Democrats that Mr. Hewitt believes will hold the keys for or against health care reform in its current form.
Hewitt is widely considered to be the rational voice on talk radio. He lives in Southern California with his family.
From HughHewitt.com:
As noted by Senator Jon Kyl in my interview with him on Tuesday, February 23, (transcript here), the future of Medicare and the American health system depends upon votes that will occur in the House in the next few weeks, and we know who the swing votes are who will decide whether it passes or fails. Some voted “yes” on Obamacare in 2009. Some voted “no.”
The list below is every key House vote that could be “in play.” Please call first those Democrats from your state. Call the switchboard at 202-225-3121, but also call their district offices.
The message should be simple: Vote “no” on Obamacare. Tell the staff or the voicemail that if the Member votes yes, you will contribute to their 2010 opponent and work in their district to defeat them.
There are two lists. The so-called “Blue Dogs” who are supposed to be moderate are listed first.
The second list are those Democrats targeted by the ReverseTheVote.org effort by the National Republican Congressional Committee who are not listed among the Blue Dogs. (ReverseTheVote has targeted two dozen Democrats who voted yes for Obamacare in the fall but face difficult re-elections in eight short months. Contributions to ReverseTheVote.org are divided equally among these 24 campaigns.) Read the rest of this entry »
RIP – T-BONE WOLK
Posted by Mitch Mitchell in Music, News and Analysis on March 3, 2010
FROM URDEAD2ME
EXPIRED: 02/27/10 – Tom “T-Bone” Wolk, 60, didn’t choose to be a musician. It chose him. Wolk was the guy with “the hat” playing bass guitar with Hall & Oates in all those videos on MTV in the early 80’s. Admit it. You remember.
RIP T-Bone
Like many guys Wolk’s age, he got the urge to play rock and roll watching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show in his parent’s home in Yonkers, NY. He picked up an electric guitar and never looked back.
After being asked to fill in for Will Lee on Late Night with David Letterman, he played bass on the first gold rap record, “These Are The Breaks”, by Kurtis Blow in early 1981.
This caught the ears of Hall and Oates. He auditioned. Got the gig and over two decades later never looked back. Read the rest of this entry »
Toyota Next Company To Be Vilified By Democrats
Posted by John Romano in News and Analysis, Opinion on February 21, 2010
I would have never believed the current story line being played out on Toyota if you had told me about it two years ago. Toyota makes the most cars of choice for the left, the coveted Prius Hybrid sedan.
Here is the story thus far. Liberal Democrat gets in power, “seizes” GM and Chrysler, gives the two companies (more or less) to Union goons to own and run. Next, the U.S. government and an out-of-control press cause a panic over a large auto-industry recall attempting to use the recall to destroy a foreign competitor.
Toyota in Democrats crosshairs.
What happens next is anyone’s guess. Read the rest of this entry »
Holder Admits 9 Terrorist Detainee Lawyers Now Work for DOJ
Posted by Laura Glendinning in News and Analysis on February 21, 2010
WASHINGTON D.C. (YBH.COM) – In November of 2009, on behalf of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republican Senator Chuck Grassley asked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder for “the names of political appointees in your department who represent detainees or who work for organizations advocating on their behalf…the cases or projects that these appointees work with respect to detainee prior to joining the Justice Department…and the cases or projects relating to detainees that have worked on since joining the Justice Department.”
Senator Grassley's Information Request Snubbed
On February 19, 2010, Mr. Holder responded via letter, conceding nine such new hires at the Department of Justice worked for terrorist detainees or on behalf of the rights of terrorist detainees. He did not name 7 of those, only affirming the names of two already known: Principal Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal, former lawyer to Osama bin Laden’s driver, and Jennifer Daskal, a detainee advocate at Human Rights Watch. Read the rest of this entry »