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Update: TSA Goons Lay Off Travel Blogger Demands
One day after setting off a stampede of criticism, covered earlier today on the Hayride, over its heavy-handed efforts to bull-rush a pair of travel bloggers into finking a whistleblower which had leaked its Dec. 25 security directive, the Transportation... (Continue reading)
What’s It Going To Take To Get Obama To Fight The Enemy?
With the end of a year in which America made virtually no progress on any geopolitical front comes a host of revelations signifying that 2010 might be no better. Specifically… 1. The administration has apparently released Qais Qazali, the head... (Continue reading)
Latest Michael Steele Outrage — He Should Resign
Written on 31 Dec, 2009 at 17:40 By: Ryan Booth in General
As one of 238 members of the Louisiana Republican State Central Committee, I have a particular interest in the operation of the Republican Party — and a very small influence on that operation. Since his election as RNC Chairman, Michael... (Continue reading)
Bumbling Feds Fight Al-Qaeda Threat With Interrogations Of Travel Bloggers
Written on 31 Dec, 2009 at 9:58 By: MacAoidh in Uncategorized
The United States government might not have been able to connect the dots and identify Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as a security threat to international air travel in time to keep him from bringing a bomb on a Christmas Day Northwest... (Continue reading)
Cliff May Said It A Lot Better Than I Did…
Written on 30 Dec, 2009 at 18:24 By: MacAoidh in Uncategorized
…in my post yesterday on air travel security. A lot better. An excerpt: Start with this: Right now, airport security personnel spend most of their time and energy searching for weapons – not just bombs and guns but Swiss Army... (Continue reading)
New Year’s Open Thread…
The Washington Times is running a piece now asking readers to write out the headlines they’d like to see in 2010 – which is a terrific topic for an open thread here at the Hayride. Just to get things started,... (Continue reading)
Public Opinion Verdict Coming In On Obama’s Handling Of “Knickerbomber”…
…and it’s not a particularly favorable one. Today’s New York Daily News, which as a center-left paper is a reasonable representation of the non-propagandist Old Media, skewers the president for his rather anesthetic and torpid response to the attempted Christmas... (Continue reading)
Quote Of The Day
Written on 30 Dec, 2009 at 13:08 By: MacAoidh in Uncategorized
“Perhaps Western countries should stop treating Ahmadinejad’s government as the legitimate government of Iran.” - expatriate Iranian Ayatollah Mohsen Kadivar... (Continue reading)
Obama Treating Bomber as Criminal Instead of Terrorist
Written on 30 Dec, 2009 at 12:09 By: Ryan Booth in General
So we decided to let Abdulmutallab lawyer up, and not talk to us, huh? Cool. So what if he initially said that there were 25 others just like him training in Yemen to blow us up? So what if there... (Continue reading)
Holden’s Sister Arrested – Again
Another chapter in a very strange story is unfolding, as Baton Rouge mayor Kip Holden is, for the second time in less than two months, dealing with the legal problems of his wacky sister. According to the Baton Rouge Advocate’s... (Continue reading)
Baucus: Stone Cold Sober, And Screw You For Asking!
Of course, the denial: “When his friend of 30 years Ted Kennedy, with whom he had fought so hard to provide health care to children, was being used as a cheap foil to oppose health care reform, Senator Baucus gave... (Continue reading)
For Your Viewing Pleasure…
…may we present the latest from Iowahawk… I guess things got a little better at the Amsterdam airport. JihadAir had a concierge service waiting for me at the gate, some Pakistani guy holding up a little “Abdulmutallab” sign. All apologetic,... (Continue reading)
EPA Came Through The Backdoor
by Don Briggs The most reprehensible, unscrupulous, and costly development to the American people is unfolding in our Nation’s Capital. As President Obama would say, “Let me be clear.” The Obama administration has been knocking at the front door. While... (Continue reading)
Jindal Touts Louisiana Economic Advances; IEM Loss Still Stings
Today, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal put out an op-ed piece touting Louisiana’s economic gains in an otherwise-rough year: Reversing a decades-long trend of losing company headquarters, we have recently achieved a string of corporate headquarters wins. Albemarle Corp. moved its... (Continue reading)
The Nuclear Option
Written on 29 Dec, 2009 at 13:58 By: Michael Youngblood in Energy
“The trouble with most folks isn’t so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain’t so.” Josh Billings, 19th century humorist As America seeks to define alternatives to conventional fossil fuels for the generation of electricity, we often... (Continue reading)
Nudie Pictures The New Weapon Against Muslim Terrorists
If it wasn’t enough to force airline passengers to remove shoes, jackets, sweaters, belts and other clothing during hour-long delays for security purposes, and if it wasn’t enough to harrass grandmothers and mothers with children in an effort not to... (Continue reading)
Quote Of The Day
Written on 29 Dec, 2009 at 7:05 By: MacAoidh in Uncategorized
“I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my... (Continue reading)
If Putting His Mistress Up For A US Attorney Gig Isn’t Reason Enough…
…for Max Baucus’ resignation in disgrace to be in order, this video probably ought to cinch it:... (Continue reading)
Jindal, Moret Fire Off Letters To EPA On CO2 Regulation
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Economic Development Secretary Stephen Moret have fired off missives to federal EPA director Lisa Jackson protesting that agency’s recent endangerment finding which will potentially allow for massive new regulations on any private entity involved in... (Continue reading)
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Quote of the day
Quote Of The Day, May 16, 2012
“We will probably hear leaks about an undisclosed Romney ailment — only to wonder why Obama, alone of major candidates in recent decades, has never released his medical records. We should expect to hear that Romney got a B or C in some college course — only to remind us that Obama, alone of major candidates, does not want anyone looking at his college transcripts. Do we really wish to hear how an admitted prep-school serial use of beer, marijuana, and occasional coke, and a history of skipped classes, translated into admission into Occidental and then Columbia? We will hear another 19th-century Romney family polygamy story only to be reminded of a 20th-century Obama counterpart. We will be lectured about a fiery Mormon bishop only to hear it trumped by another racist rant from Jeremiah Wright.”