Archives for September 2007
Rant Day, With Some “In The News” Leavening
Yeah, sure, my on-air persona doesn’t sound like it has anywhere near the energy to go Howard Beale on anyone or anything - though he certainly has the right look for it.
But as my online opponents have frequently noted over the years, a rant is not defined by the tenor of its delivery, but the […]
Dr. Blogstein, and True Americans Battle the Illegal Alien Invasion
On a lighter note, Saturday, 29th (that would be today) is the day that Dr. Blogstein visits Political Pistachio Radio. His comedy mixed with my political prowess will be interesting to listen to indeed. Tune in at 7pm Eastern Time/4pm Pacific for the fun at Political Pistachio Radio on Blog Talk Radio.
Do you know who […]
An Argument He Can’t Possibly Win
Common sense seems to dictate that little gain could come from any historical mitigation of the stain of slavery on this nation. For a nation whose existence started with the words We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable […]
The Fear Of Fred, Continued
And from the “Pardon Me For Breathing” Department:
Fred Thompson uses his Tennessee beginnings as if they were a Hollywood setting, but today Fred Thompson will use the Volunteer State as his personal ATM and an excuse to withdraw from the Florida Values Voters debate.
“Tennessee is too important and too pivotal in the 2008 presidential election […]
Monday Hard Starboard Recap
The nutroots have a new hero. I also understand the object of their Bushophobic affection has ”requested” to bring Tehran’s annual “gay pride” parade to New York so he can have some time to himself. And, you know, still get that wreath-laying loose end tied off.
Ya learn something every day. For example, even Jimmy Carter’s lone claim […]
Funding Evil, and libel tourism tonight at 9PM Eastern
In tonight’s podcast my guests, along with Siggy,
are Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of Funding Evil, Updated: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It.
The book the Saudis don’t want you to read
and Cinnamon Stillwell, who has been reporting on libel tourism
At question is the publication of books and other writings
that seek to shed light on […]
Harry Potter And The Challenge Documents
A guest editorial in Roll Call proposes a new mechanism in diplomacy that evokes the idealism of Woodrow Wilson, along with a healthy dose of his naiveté. John Connolly, the Executive Director of the Institute for Public Dialogue, wants nations to establish a series of white papers in order to conduct public diplomacy, especially […]
The Long Posts
There’s more than a bit of sad irony in Dick Cheney defending the half-full glass of his boss’ economic policy and an equivalent GOP presidential candidate take them, and the entire rest of the Republican Party, to task for it.
That post was a warm-up exercise. I managed to get caught up on congressional antics, the White House […]
SO YOU WANNA BE IN RADIO…
Blog. Blog talk. Blog talk radio…
What is this year old phenomenon that is catching fire!!!?
Tonight — how one man’s idea created a social network of citizen broadcasters who have produced tens of thousands of programs since it launched in August of 2006.
“This idea was hatched after creating a blog for my father […]
Delaware State University Shooting
How much do you know about the recent shooting that happened on a Delaware college campus that left two wounded? Was this shooting related to the other shooting of incoming Delaware State students that were shot execution style at an elementary school in New Jersey by illegal immigrants? Was there any connection between this shooting […]
TONIGHT AT 9 - “A CONVERSATION WITH ANDREA AND …
Ahmadinejad’s pal Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez won’t be at the U.N. General Assembly today, a year after he called President Bush “the devil” during the gathering of world leaders. Is that sulphur I’m smelling?
Chavez is just way too busy at home in Venezuela, so he’s sent his Foreign Minister in his place.
Big Hughie is […]
Bush UN Speech: Live Blog
The live blog will start at 9:45 am ET.
8:57 - So far, no George Bush, but the GA has been running behind. Good news, however — Hugo Chavez has announced that he won’t attend.
8:58 - Bush speech has begun, talking about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Too bad so few of the […]
Monday Night at 9 ET - “A CONVERSATION WITH ANDREA and …”
We’re watching today’s outrageous activities at Columbia University with disbelief.
Tonight on “A Conversation with Andrea and…” we’ll be talking about it with tonight’s guest Co-host Thunder Run military blogger David Marron and our guest, military historian and author Richard S. Lowry. Also slated for discussion — the latest from Iraq and the Pentagon, […]
Will S-CHIP Do More Damage Than Good?
The Heritage Foundation takes a look at that the controversial expansion of the S-CHIP program, and concludes that it will result in less coverage for poor children. Expanding the insurance pool to cover children of working-class and middle-class families will disrupt cost containment from private insurance, and will crowd out better coverage:
Congress is engaged […]
Guest Blogger Recap
While I was incomputercado, Jenber ably took up the slack.
On Sunday she noted that the Left just doesn’t do anti-war rallies like they used to - though it’s not for any flagging of their twisted, grotesque zeal.
That same evening Hollywood had another awards show - the Emmys - so naturally they lauded and feted their […]
MILITARY BLOGGERS MAKE HISTORY
THE ANDREA SHEA KING SHOW PRESENTS…
“I looked at my schedule today, and I found it interesting that I would be sitting down with bloggers.” — President George W. Bush.
For the first time in history, a sitting President sat down with a group of military bloggers (probably ANY group of bloggers). There was no other media […]
Current Events Buffet
What do you do when you’re off for several days, then come back and are swamped, and fall behind the blogging curve? You catch up with a serious of mammoth omnibus posts.
How does that translate to your next weekly Blog Talk Radio installment? Well, if you had all afternoon to yammer, it’d be no sweat. With […]
Nilofar, Lars, Mahmoud, and immigration, all in the podcast
Dymphna, Siggy, Baron Bodissey and I discussed four different topics last Wednesday night:
I opened by mentioning Nilofar Bakhtiar, whose France2 interview aired right before the podcast started. Ms Bakhtiar went skydiving in France last April and has a fatwa on her head because she hugged her male skydiving instructor. Following the scandal, she offered to […]
Losing Momentum On Retreat
The Senate rejected a bill from Carl Levin and Jack Reed that would have mandated a withdrawal from Iraq in nine months. In a sign that the Democrats have lost the momentum on its retreat policy, the bill garnered five less votes than a similar proposal earlier this summer:
The Senate rejected legislation Friday that […]
WHEN EVIL COMES CALLING
Joining me on last night’s BlogTalkRadio program, GDG contributor Kenneth Timmerman said he is organizing charter buses to take protesters to NYC.
Whether or not Iranian president Ahmadinejad still plans to visit ‘ground zero’, despite the NYPD’s refusal to allow it for “security reasons”, Timmerman and his group will adjust plans accordingly, heading to Ground […]
TONIGHT AT 9 - “A CONVERSATION WITH ANDREA AND …
TONIGHT ON “A CONVERSATION WITH ANDREA AND…”
KEN TIMMERMAN, expert on Iran’s nuclear program
LORIE BYRD, founder of MediaMythbusters.com and contributor to Wizbangblog.com
BOB OWENS, contributor to MediaMythbusters.com and author of Confederate Yankee blogsite
Ken Timmerman’s organization, Foundation for Democracy in Iran, is organizing with David Bossie of Citizens United, to counter-protest the anticipated visit of Islamic terrorist Iranian […]
Pardon Our Dust
Yes, as Mac notes, the site is momentarily down. We’ve added a lot more functionality, and we’re bound to hit a couple of bumps in the road. Hopefully, the site will be up in time for my show! They’re working on it now.
Blog Talk Radio Dead?
Sigh…..
Site is down with a message to check back three days ago.
Capt?
The Third of Three regarding GOEIII on Political Pistachio
Join us tonight on Political Pistachio Radio as we air our third installment dedicated to the Gathering of Eagles event last Saturday in Washington D.C.
Eagle Justin from Right on the Right will join us to tell us his tale of the trip on the way to Washington D.C., how it went while he was there, […]
Political Vindication Radio… Tonight 6 P.M. Pacific Time
Join Frank and Shane tonight live at 6 P.M. Pacific time on Political Vindication Radio!
We’ll be talking about the Hillary’s healthcare monster and her refusal to stand up to MoveOn.org, John Murtha’s refusal to apologize to America and John Edwards wanting to bring back school busing!
All that and more tonight on Political […]
Omnibus Hard Starboard Recap
Boy, but it takes a long time to get to and from Saturn. More amazing still is that, with a lot of help from Jenber, we managed to keep the commentary lights on.
Wednesday it came out that - so far as anybody apparently knows - the huge mounds of cash Norm Hsu managed to funnel […]
BUT IT’S FOR YOUR OWN GOOD!
A Golden, Colorado couple was prohibited from smoking cigarettes… in their own home.
A Pennsylvania man with an exemplary driving record had his license recalled, not because he had been driving drunk, but because he might.
In Portland, Oregon, swings and merry-go-rounds were yanked out of all area elementary school playgrounds.
Welcome to the Nanny State — the […]
Venezuelan Salami
Michael Stickings provides an interesting comparison between the Soviet efforts to co-opt Europe and the tactics of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez. Using a model described in a British television series, Stickings calls Chavez’ slow push towards tyranny “salami tactics”. By going one slice at a time rather than in a rush, Chavez hopes to […]
Bringing it back
Guess who’s back…guess who’s back…
Eh, enough with the bad rap music. I haven’t been around these here parts because I’ve been plumb busy with stuff, life and the show. I’m going to endeavor to make my visits here more frequent both in comments, posts and listening to the rest of the impressive hosts that I […]
TONIGHT AT 9 - “A CONVERSATION WITH ANDREA AND CHUCK MUTH with POLITICAL PISTACHIO
Presidential debates are supposed to test a candidate’s depth of knowledge and understanding of the issues facing us, and give us some clue of how a candidate handles himself under pressure. Does the candidate grasp the complexities? How closely does their record adhere to the principles laid out in the US Constitution? (Today […]
RE: New Blog Talk Radio Site
Looks great but a bunch of bugs. Links broken and the entire site won’t display in anything but IE. Also the navigation isn’t as simple as it was - (reader complaints).
Growing pains I guess.
Over the weekend, an Alan Greenspan quote got plenty of mileage in the blogosphere. Greenspan wrote in his new book that “The Iraq war is largely about oil,” but Greenspan says that quote has been taken out of context:
Greenspan clarified his remarks in an interview with the Washington Post, telling the newspaper that although […]
Great New Look
I am sure that Ed will be discussing this later, but I just had to let you know that BlogTalkRadio has a great new look!
It is sure to make all the Heading Right hosts look even better.
Gathering of Eagles Takes their positions in Washington D.C.
ANSWER, which in my opinion has the wrong answer, will be marching on Washington D.C. today in a massive anti-war/anti-military/anti-patriotism/anti-America march. They will be waving their black and yellow banners (rather than the red, white and blue of the Star Spangled Banner), and flags of other countries (more often than not the flags of nations […]
“Best Of” Saturday
I….
….and the missus are off to Saturn in the morning to mine ectoranium.
Okay, not really, but Mrs. HS gets sore at me when I’m too publicly forthcoming with information she deems personal.
At any rate, I’ll be running the HSRN excursion that our audience most wanted to hear again. I know that because of a super-secret device that, […]
ATTENTION ALL EAGLES - LZ DC CLEAR!
From A Gathering of Eagles…
(Michelle Malkin has more)
This is the one many of you have been waiting on. On 15 September we will rally on The Mall at 0900 hrs on 7th Street between Madison and Jefferson. We have many notable speakers joining us that day, so don’t be late. After our program […]
Fox Poll: Bush Rebounding, Rudy Ascendant
Fox has just published its latest poll, conducted during the testimony of General David Petraeus, and it provides some encouragement to the Republicans. George Bush’s approval ratings have bounced back from their nadir during the immigration debate, but still remain rather dreadful. He still beats Congressional job approval ratings from voters of both […]
Tuesday Hard Starboard Recap
Jenber and I share our 9/11 reminiscences. She urges us never to forget; I’m convinced that particular train has already left the station.
In the Lefty Land Of Make-Believe, “persecution” is defined as their character assassination victims objecting to the genuine article.
And General Petraeus marched over to the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol to offer […]
Discounts For Character Assassination
The advertisement accusing General David Petraeus of betraying America got bought on the cheap, the New York Post reports. In a gleeful broadside to their rival newspaper, the Post checked on ad rates and discovered that MoveOn received a 60% reduction from the regular price for a full-page black and white ad:
The New York […]
General Petraeus Discusses Moveon.Org’s Recent “General Betray Us” Ad
General David Petraeus, Commander, Multi-National Force-Iraq
Press Conference at the National Press Club
September 12, 2007
QUESTION: “There’s the sense that the emotions of the politics around Iraq are heightening, and some of it was very personally to you, General Petraeus. I wonder if you can comment on the MoveOn.org ad. …”
PETRAEUS: “…Needless to say, to state the […]
Blue On Blue, Heartache On Heartache
Congressional politicians usually make a point of supporting colleagues within their own caucus when it comes time for re-election campaigns, for several reasons. One reason is just pure karma — no one wants to see their own re-election endangered by an intramural attack. More importantly, majorities tend to be fragile, and a loss […]
A Moment of Gratitude
The day will come for all of us.
Every morning I lift myself out of bed, grumbling as I fill my travel mug with coffee and swing into my truck, the thoughts of the day to come and the challenges that will make it feel longer than it ought to filling my head. As […]
Over-Gothamization & How To Point With The Finger
Brother Meringoff has some heartfelt advice for Rudy Giuliani:
[T]here are several problems with constantly bragging in the first person about his tenure as mayor.
First, when a candidate keeps hitting the same note over and over, people quicky tire of hearing it. Moreover, it makes the candidate an easy target for ridicule.
Second, by talking so much […]
Political Vindication Radio… Tonight 6 P.M. Pacific Time
Tonight Frank and Shane present a special round table edition of
Political Vindication Radio; “Remembering 9/11.”
Joining us live will be Rachel Alexander of Intellectual Conservative and Michael Linn Jones of the Michael Linn Jones blog. We’ll talk about the attack on September 11, 2001 and honor those that lost their lives that day, and also discuss […]
Monday Hard Starboard Recap
Wall-to-wall commentary on the nutter meltdown over General Petraeus’ congressional “Surge” testimony: moveon.org, Joe Biden, and the dyspeptic duo of Bob Wexler and Loretta Sanchez.
Oh, and why the President should veto the Donk Entrenchment Act of 2007.
NSA’s New Law And The German Terror Cell
Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell told the Senate that the NSA caught the terror cell poised to strike at Ramstein Air Base in Germany because of the NSA’s expanded powers. The New York Times reports that the detection predates the new FISA legislation, and therefore McConnell was mistaken, but the Times forgets the […]
I remember Joseph Angelini, Jr.
Joseph Angelini Jr., age 38 of Lindenhurst, NY, died heroically on September 11, 2001 in the World Trade Center terrorist attack. He was a New York firefighter with Ladder Co. 4
Joseph Angelini Jr.
A Firefighter Passionate About Family, Gardening
October 22, 2001Joseph Angelini Jr. may have lived for the New York City Fire Department, but he didn’t […]
Gathering of Eagles on Political Pistachio!
First, if you missed the last show with Andrea Shea King as my guest, you missed a dandy of a program. Listen to it now! Not only was Andrea Shea King, host on Sunday nights on WDBO AM 580 on the Space Coast in Florida and fellow BTR host during the week, on her best […]
Weekend Hard Starboard Recap
We lightened up a bit over the weekend, but still waded a bit in the fray with Chucky Schumer getting his nose rubbed in his yummily noisome anti-military rhetorical feces of last Wednesday and digging himself deeper in his clumsy attempt at self-extrication, and the kickoff of the persection of David Petraeus.
Opening Statement Of General David Petraeus
Report to Congress on the Situation in Iraq
General David H. Petraeus
Commander, Multi-National Force-Iraq
10-11 September 2007
Mr. Chairmen, Ranking Members, Members of the Committees, thank you for the opportunity to provide my assessment of the security situation in Iraq and to discuss the recommendations I recently provided to my chain of command for the way forward.
At the […]
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