Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By Daniel Allott on 4.18.12 @ 10:50AM The AP reports that the Rev. Robert Jeffress has endorsed Mitt Romney for president. Jeffress, you may remember, caused a commotion last October when he called Mormonism “a cult” and declared that Romney is not a Christian. Jeffress theological views haven’t [...]
Chris Rock, Bette Midler and more to be presenters
March 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
U.S Actor Chris Rock attends at the Premiere of “2 Days in New York” at the MK2 Paris movie cinema in Paris, France, Monday, March 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon) NEW YORK (AP) — The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will likely be a little more irreverent this year: Chris Rock is [...]
EU Wants More From Greece
February 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Via Financial Times: High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7cb53ba0-573a-11e1-869b-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1mOGKTXkC Eurozone officials have called off an emergency meeting of finance ministers to approve [...]
More on Huntsman vs. Paul
December 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By W. James Antle, III on 12.30.11 @ 2:55PM Daniel Larison writes ”Huntsman lost almost all ‘primary voters who are tired of a hyperinterventionist foreign policy’ once he took an ultra-hawkish position on Iran.” Certainly Ron Paul, with his actual opposition to the war in Iraq and any subsequent [...]
We Know More About Jesus’s Birth Than Obama’s
December 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A few years back, the Harvard-educated Paul Mirecki, then head of the Religious Studies Department at Kansas University, proposed a new class. His goal, as he told his cohorts in an atheist and agnostic chat room, was to give “fundies” — i.e., orthodox Christians — “a nice slap in their big fat face by teaching [...]
Study: More False Alarms with Annual Mammograms
October 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Obama’s Math: More Fuzz Than a Peach
September 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
He’s looking more like a bobblehead every time he speaks. From left to right, nose in the air, all the while talking down to those of us he views as stupid. Well, we may be stupid, but we certainly can add, subtract, multiply, and divide better than the POTUS can. In Obama’s fist-pounding, finger-pointing, bellyaching [...]
Obama Wants Fairness More than Jobs
September 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Surely Obama has noticed that his stimulus policies have not created jobs. The assumption by his economic advisors that spending a trillion dollars automatically creates 2.5 million jobs has not worked out for him — or us. Unemployment and poverty are at record levels and the federal government is insolvent. Thanks to Obama’s belief in [...]
President Britney Spears to Congress: “Baby, One More Time”
September 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
AmSpecBlog By Jeffrey Lord on 9.8.11 @ 8:48PM Oops. He did it again. As things turned desperate for the liberal 1988 Democratic presidential nominee, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, he compared himself to that patron saint of underdogs everywhere, Harry Truman. At the time, the most popular movie in the land was Who Framed Roger Rabbit, [...]
What Liberals Fear More Than Obama Losing
August 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The left are now wringing their hands fearing their agenda is overripe, blaming everyone else for their own spoiled pickling. While Obama’s sinking prospects for re-election are disquieting, the real source of liberals’ despair is their sudden, unexpected realization that the progressive agenda is dead in its tracks and will likely be in full retreat [...]