Watchwoman on the Wall

WRITTEN BY RAVEN CLABOUGH MONDAY, 15 AUGUST 2011 Many suspect leftist billionaire George Soros (left) of having profited from Standard & Poor’s recent downgrade of the U.S. credit rating. According to ETF Daily News, an “invisible trader” bet nearly $1 billion that the rating would be downgraded. Kenneth Schortgen of the Examiner notes: While the…

When California’s elected officials come back from their month-long recess they face a mountain of proposed legislation (almost 900 bills are lined up and waiting), including a new law (SB432) that would require hotels to eliminate flat sheets. Not having fitted sheets on hotel beds would now be a crime in California. This is not…

  PAUL KRUGMAN’S EXPLANATION OF KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS Let‘s start out by saying that Paul Krugman probably doesn’t really think the government should lie to the country about alien invaders attacking the world just to boost the economy and create jobs. Still, that’s the analogy he used while appearing with Fareed Zakaria on CNN and trying…

By David Jackson, USA TODAY President Obama came face-to-face with the Tea Party last night in Iowa, clashing with a member during and after a town hall last night. Ryan Rhodes, a group leader in the Hawkeye State, stood up and shouted a question during a town hall, asking the president how he can call…

Want tax on financial transactions… Joe Weisenthal French President Nicolas Sarkozy has expressed plans to introduce a “Tobin tax” in Europe: This means taxes on financial transactions, which is something the banks will hate. Obviously we need details, but this is not minor news if it’s carried forth. On the surface, we’d expect banks to…

Further snowfalls expected tonight 6:34 PM Tuesday Aug 16, 2011 Many areas of New Zealand – including the hills surrounding Wanganui – have been smothered in snow over the past few days.  The bitterly cold blast that has hit New Zealand this week should ease off over the coming days, but heavy snow is still…

As reported in “The New American” magazine on line . . . WRITTEN BY R. CORT KIRKWOOD THURSDAY, 11 AUGUST 2011 Jackie Onassis, the widow of President John F. Kennedy, believed Vice President Lyndon Johnson and a “cabal of Texas tycoons” plotted and carried out the assassination of her philandering husband, London’s Daily Mail reports.…

Sisters Mary Catherine, Maria Theresa, Katherine Marie, Rose Frances, and Mary Kathleen left the Convent on a trip to St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City and were sightseeing on a Tuesday in July. It was hot and humid in town and their traditional garb was making them so uncomfortable, they decided to stop in…

Watchwoman:  You go Michele!  Love to hear this woman in action!  Bachmann sidelined the communists news network (CNN’s) on Sundays show as they attempted to paint her as an extremist, unlike Sarah Palin who didn’t have the acumen to sidestep, turn and swirl into a positive light, felling probers’ questions faster than Paul Bunyon cutting down a…

“The first thing they do is to get the public to divest from thinking of what the offender does criminally, to thinking of the offender’s emotional state, to think of him as thinking of his emotional state, [and] to empathize and sympathize,” Reisman said. “You don’t change the nation in one fell swoop; you have…

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