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Finally: First trailer for “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” debuts
"This is flipping fun." Via the Hollywood Reporter. Like I said in the O’Reilly/Behar thread, there are certain things that will forever be part of Hot Air’s DNA: Humpbot and “dude” items and atheism...
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Unbelievable: Behar rips O’Reilly’s 9/11 “hate speech” — while sitting next...
Moron. So it turns out my post this afternoon about Behar’s limitless tolerance of Rosie “Fire can’t melt steel” O’Donnell was actually just the set-up to a joke. Now comes the punchline: Not only does...
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Quotes of the day
Youth. “In a seeming twist on the post-1994 midterm calculation made by President Bill Clinton — when Republicans pummeled Democrats in the congressional election — Obama said he thinks Republicans...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Psyche! After 20 months of telling America that prosperity is right around the corner thanks to his $800 billion Porkulus package filled to the brim with “shovel-ready projects,” Barack Obama has made...
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Video: MTV town-hall questioner hits Obama on hypocrisy over CA pot legalization
Salem brethren! Nathan Martin spoke up at the MTV town-hall forum to ask President Obama why he has intervened to stop Arizona from enforcing immigration law but has yet to intervene to stop California...
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Pentagon halts DADT enforcement while filing appeal
Civilian authority. The Pentagon has taken two courses of action in the past 24 hours in reaction to the federal injunction against the “don’t-ask, don’t-tell” policy ordered by Judge Virginia...
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NRA plans $6.75 million in campaign ads
First wave. The NRA has taken some criticism this month over its endorsements of individual Democrats in various Congressional races. Politico, though reports today through its Morning Score e-mail...
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Ralston: Angle won the debate; Update: TNR wonders what Reid was thinking
The end of dynasties. The problem with a demonization strategy based on voter unfamiliarity with a candidate is that the candidate usually gets a chance to either confirm or destroy the impression...
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ObamaCare bending the cost curve upward 47% in CT
Finding out what's in it. The state of Connecticut just approved a request by its largest private insurer for premium hikes of up to 47%. Wasn’t ObamaCare supposed to put an end to these kinds of...
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Will NOW fire its California president?
Calls Whitman a "political whore." National NOW President Terry O’Neill tried offering a Monty Python-esque closure to the controversy over the use of the word “whore” in Jerry Brown’s strategy...
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Driehaus wants gov’t intervention against billboards in OH-01
"Shut up," he explained. What does a Democrat do after the DCCC pulls its ad buys, essentially giving up on a re-election bid in a tough midterm cycle? If the district is Ohio’s 1st CD and the...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: The Week in Review with Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson
3 pm ET! Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we’ll take a look at the past week with Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson of the Hugh Hewitt Show. Duane will call in from BlogWorld Expo, where he and...
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Hinchey: Deficit? What deficit?
Hubris. Incumbent Democrat Maurice Hinchey met Republican challenger George Phillips in a NY-22 debate yesterday, and while Hinchey didn’t quite reach Baron Hill levels of arrogance and condescension,...
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HHS launches $3 million ad campaign “advising” seniors on ObamaCare
Hmmmm. What a coincidence! The Department of Health and Human Services have an ad campaign that, oddly enough, falls right in the middle of the midterm elections that “advises” seniors on the wonders...
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Pawlenty endorses Emmer, who trails by 4 in Survey USA poll
Plus lots of other MN news. About time, too. Word around the campfire up here in Minnesota was that activists wondered when Tim Pawlenty would start campaigning in earnest for Tom Emmer, the Republican...
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Reid accuses Angle of lying about “War is lost” statement
Integrity. He’s not shy about it, either, as Aurelius discovers on Reid’s Twitter and Facebook accounts, as well as Reid’s “fact check” website. Too bad Harry Reid hasn’t got a clue about YouTube....
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Rasmussen: Coons 51, O’Donnell 40
Movement? Hope and change? It’s easily her best poll of the month. And yet… The contest remains Solid Democrat in the Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 Senate Balance of Power rankings. Coons posted a...
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Bad news from Biden: Obama’s brain now bigger than his skull
Aw. I’m so sorry to hear it. Best wishes to the president in coping with this very serious medical condition. Maybe this explains why he was so confused about shovel-ready jobs? The latest from that...
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Mitch Daniels: Hey, how about a VAT?
The end. First the infamous proposed “truce” on social issues, now this. No wonder he’s David Brooks’s candidate of choice. Alternate headline: “Mitch Daniels continues quixotic bid to disqualify...
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Video: Metaphor of the day!
Free fallin'. Via Dvice, do I really need to explain this one? Not so long ago, my friends, the target seemed small and very far away. Reaching it felt impossible at that distance, especially with...
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