The U.S. Supreme Court will consider Friday whether to take up a lawsuit challenging President-elect Barack Obama’s U.S. citizenship, a continuation of a New Jersey case embraced by some opponents of Obama’s election. (chicagotribune.com)
The words “intellect” and “intellectual” deserve to be rescued from the myth-makers of the Left, which has decided in its amazing arrogance that it really owns those words. But that is just another sign of its narrow-minded cultism. The Left shuts out competing voices, like any other cult, and then becomes outraged when independent thinkers don’t agree with its “smelly little orthodoxies” —- as George Orwell famously called them. (Orwell started as a Leftist and then figured out the scam.) (American Thinker)
Three weeks after the Republican ticket suffered a sweeping defeat at the polls, Sarah Palin continues to dominate search engine queries, cable news and online video sites. The only American politician who generates comparable interest is President-elect Barack Obama. No one else is close. (Politico.com)
The government’s huge bailout of Citigroup could fail to restore investor confidence, says a noted finance professor. (Reuters.com)
President-elect Barack Obama promised to jolt the faltering U.S. economy with a costly stimulus package next year. (Reuters.com)
In matters of foreign policy, it has been proved time and again, the Clintons are devoted to no interest other than their own. A president absolutely has to know of his chief foreign-policy executive that he or she has no other agenda than the one he has set. (Slate Magazine)
Alan Colmes is leaving his position as co-host of “Hannity & Colmes” at the end of 2008.
According to the FNC release, he will stay on as a liberal commentator for FNC and as host of The Alan Colmes Show on FOX News Radio. He will also begin developing a weekend program for FNC. (mediabistro.com)
