The Exquisite Contrarian

Like most of America that was still awake I took the time to watch Jay Leno’s almost-gone 10 o’clock show, like I’ve often done  as a precursor to nodding off since its inception oh those many months ago. After the monologue and before we got our daily dose of sometimes amusing headlines, Leno took a [...]

We’re still asking questions about what went on at Gitmo, and that’s never the wrong thing to do.  However, make no mistake, its inhabitants were brought there as suspected mass murderers. Now we’re hearing there was another site that’s been kept under wraps.  More on the previously undisclosed location and the suicides of 2006 in [...]

Ann Coulter is a disrespectful, hateful human being – plain and simple – and any network that would allow commentators to spew such trash about any former President, particularly at a time like this, should be questioned.  Here’s yet another sample of her tripe.

a detailed review of the episode by The New York Times, including more than two dozen interviews with White House and American intelligence officials and with counterterrorism officials in Europe and Yemen, shows that there were far more warning signs than the administration has acknowledged. The full story can be found here.

Fineman writes: Politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum—which is why God created Roger Ailes. The president of Fox News is, by default, the closest thing there is to a kingmaker in Anti-Obama America. And that, in turn, makes him the de facto leader of the GOP. True.  And he’s been the GP chairman for years. [...]

Al-Qaeda has successfully restructured its global network and now has the capability to carry out a wide range of terror attacks against Western targets, according to a detailed U.S. intelligence assessment that has been conducted in the wake of the failed Christmas Day Detroit bomb plot. Here’s the full story.

With all this talk about Obama’s approval ratings, let’s put them in perspective: Presidential Approval Ratings from 1945-2008. It’s easy to forget that every top rated president in modern history had low approval ratings at this point in time.  It’s also easy to overlook disapproval ratings, which to me are a better indicator of how the [...]

She says using drones is “cowardly” and “immoral.” I say sending people to blow up Americans on places is cowardly and immoral. via Cindy Sheehan leads protest at CIA, Cheney’s house | The Daily Caller – Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment.

‘Mercury, a private corporation that lists Beck as chief executive officer and his wife, Tania Beck, alternately as vice president or secretary, since 2007 has fallen behind on its New York City business income taxes and has been cited for filing errors related to its obligations under Texas franchise tax and New York state workers’ [...]

Cringely contends it’s unfathomable that multiple government agencies can’t do in an hour what credit card companies do in seconds: separate the good from the bad. I, Cringely » Blog Archive » Predict Me, I’m from the Government – Cringely on technology.