Obama Declares Swine Flu a National Emergency

From the AP:

WASHINGTON -AP–  President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients.

The declaration, signed

Well, yeah, that’s what it looks like. Fox News  Senior White House reporter Major Garrett is reporting this monring in part:

White House Communications Director Anita Dunn’s husband is emerging as the top candidate to replace Greg Craig as White

“[A]bortion has done what the Klan only dreamed of.”

Dr. Aveda King, via CNS News.

The New York Stimes has confirmed that the White House held an off the record press gaggle for selected media lap dogs:

Speaking privately at the White House on Monday with a group of mostly liberal columnists and commentators, including

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• THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE PRESS: Let’s get down to this one, right off. Both David and myself have commented on

Fox News reports:

DETROIT â€”  Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83.

Sales died at Thursday

Doctor Charles Krauthammer, this morning:

Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live pollster. Now he’s put a horse’s head in Roger Ailes’s bed.

Not very subtle. And not very smart. Ailes doesn’t scare easily.

The White House

The Obama White House has gotten down right ugly.   The Obamatards  tried to freeze Fox News our of the White House news coverage pool coverage.   The White House turds offered executive pay czar Kenneth Feinberg to all pool networks except

By way of a link from Lori Bird via Facebook, I note a posting on  theBirdflupandemic.com:

The package insert for the Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine manufactured by Novartis has been leaked on the Internet. According to that

It seems that Bobby Gibbs has become very hard to ignore.    Former Vice President Dick Cheney, father of Liz, leveled from very specific charges at the Obama administration.    Included was the charge the the Obama much proclaimed new plan announced

I have followed but not commented on the NY-23 race.    As New Gingrich did, it was possible to make a case for the republican candidate Dede Scozzafava, and it is also possible, as Michelle, did to make the case for

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• SITYS #7216:Fox News, yesterday:
  

  Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday that the Bush administration had developed a new strategy on the

The first rather obvious question that pops into my head upon reading this particular missive from Eric Kleefeld, is about there being any doubtwhatever that Alan Grayson is Florida’s answer to Cynthia McKinney. Look, I’m sorry, but in my

Ya know, this is getting just a wee bit annoying.

I said this yesterday morning:

So, tell us, oh, vaunted master of the news cycle, what the bleep Rachel Maddow and Keith Olberman were doing in the room? And tell

Gee who’d have thunk.   ACORN lies and saps like Media Splatters and the Washington Post fall for it, roll the video:

Gaius, Blue Crab Universe:

Gee, ACORN Lied? Whodathunkit….

Breitbart strikes again. When the first series of sting videos