http://brain-terminal.com/ The full feed of Brain-Terminal.com posts and Twitter links - Edited by Evan Coyne Maloney Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:40:09 -0400 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Daily Caller exposes how journalists coordinated with the Obama campaign during the 2008 election http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/29/political-operatives-on-journolist-worked-to-shape-news-coverage/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:13:15 -0400 Wait, what? Great Britain has an "equalities minister"? http://www.stylelist.com/2010/07/27/british-minister-christina-hendricks-airbrushing/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:10:59 -0400 Despite Obama's "surprise, disappointment and anger," his administration supported release of Lockerbie terrorist http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/white-house-backed-release-of-lockerbie-bomber-abdel-baset-al-megrahi/story-e6frg6so-1225896741041 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:52:15 -0400 Obama Administration admits it played racial favorites when deciding which GM dealerships to shut down for the bailout http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/07/race_played_role_in_obama_car.html Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:22:09 -0400 Journalists on e-mail list discuss asking government to shut down Fox News, express desire to watch Rush Limbaugh die http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/21/liberal-journalists-suggest-government-shut-down-fox-news/ Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:16:57 -0400 Exposed: Journalists schemed to tar Obama opponents as "racist" to deflect criticism http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/20/documents-show-media-plotting-to-kill-stories-about-rev-jeremiah-wright/ Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:48:39 -0400 Because blacks are among al Qaeda's victims, President Obama says the terrorist group is racist http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/07/president-obama-white-house-al-qaeda-is-racist.html Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:34:11 -0400 WSJ: Private employees toil 13½ months to earn what federal workers do in 12 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303828304575180421298413374.html?mod=rss_opinion_main Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:48:25 -0400 Hilarious reading: Democratic Underground proposes new rules to deal with leftists who've fallen out of love with Obama http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8603151 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:36:12 -0400 Dad and brother of 22-old Muslim actress from Harry Potter films threaten to kill her over new boyfriend http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/142452/Muslim-Harry-Potter-actress-death-threats-from-dad-and-bro/ Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:40:57 -0400 Professors believe Obama is among the 15 best presidents, better than Reagan; George W. in 5 worst, 10 below Carter http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39283.html Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:41:47 -0400 Iranian woman to be stoned to death for the crime of adultery http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/01/iran.stoning/index.html Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:22:41 -0400 By a large margin, Germans want to ditch the Euro currency http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/most-germans-want-to-ditch-the-euro-20100629-ziwp.html Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:03:30 -0400 L.A. Times: California welfare cards can be used in many casino ATMs http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-welfare-casinos-20100624,0,6190326.story Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:17:16 -0400 No Representation Without Taxation http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2010/06/23/no-representatipn-without-taxation/ Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:46:49 -0400 Are police in Dearborn, Michigan now enforcing Sharia law? http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/06/026594.php Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:45:41 -0400 AP: Obama Chief of Staff "apparently attempted to trade favors with embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich" http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/blagojevich/2416058,rahm-emanuel-blagojevich-grant-062110.article Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:22:16 -0400 UK: Public sector employees work 9 years less than private sector counterparts, get 30% more pay http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1287497/Public-sector-staff-spend-9-fewer-years-work-earn-30-private-employees.html Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:34:53 -0400 Under ObamaCare, if you like your health plan, you can keep it (but only if you're a union member) http://blogs.investors.com/capitalhill/index.php/home/35-politicsinvesting/1834-obamacare-unions-get-better-grandfathers Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:34:32 -0400 Not too long ago, taking to the streets to protest your government was considered a patriotic act. It's true! But it seems that publicly airing your grievances stopped being patriotic right around noon on January 20th, 2009. Once President Obama was sworn in, protesting became incitement to violence. If you've opened up a newspaper or watched a cable news program in the past week or so, you've probably seen members of the media painting Tea Party activists as dangerous bigots. That's because disagreeing with President Obama on issues like government spending and high taxes makes you a racist, you see. What's interesting about the media's latest freak-out is that there were radicals a-plenty under President Bush. They protested in the streets. They talked openly about revolution and killing. But oddly, the violent imagery used by people claiming to be advocates for peace never registered with the media. They were too busy fawning over Cindy Sheehan. Why the difference in coverage? Did the media cheerlead protests against President Bush to hurt him politically? Are they trying to marginalize the increasingly powerful Tea Party movement because they favor President Obama's agenda? One thing's for sure: If there is such a thing as dangerous rhetoric, then the media is at least one president too late in reporting the story. Don't believe me? Well, then let's take a trip down memory lane... http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2010/03/31/a-trip-down-memory-lane Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:38:15 -0400 When Barack Obama decided to launch his political career in the living room of unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, he tacitly endorsed using violence as a political tactic. And when two staunch allies of the Democratic Party—the SEIU and ACORN—drove busloads of protesters to the private homes of AIG executives, just days later, President Obama [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2010/03/25/once-they-encouraged-the-pitchforks-now-democrats-are-frightened-of-them Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:48:37 -0400 As relayed by Stephen Bainbridge: One day shortly after the Second World War ended, Winston Churchill and Labour Party Prime Minister Clement Attlee encountered one another at the urinal trough in the House of Common’s men’s washroom. Attlee arrived first. When Churchill arrived, he stood as far away from him as possible. Attlee said, “Feeling [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2010/01/31/winston-churchill-quote-of-the-day Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:22:11 -0500 The Photo of the Day, via Don Surber: Photo credit: Robert Philabaum http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2010/01/28/bargain-bin-hope-and-change Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:35:17 -0500 The New York Times is on the receiving end of a very good point: To the Editor: In “The Court’s Blow to Democracy” (editorial, Jan. 22), you strenuously disagree with the proposition that “corporations are just like people and entitled to the same First Amendment rights.” Every day, The New York Times Company exercises its First Amendment right [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2010/01/25/letter-of-the-day Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:40:44 -0500 Two weeks ago, I wrote, “Democrats losing Ted Kennedy’s seat would be a massive political earthquake.” Well, yesterday, the once-unthinkable happened, and the deep blue state of Massachusetts elected its first Republican senator since 1972. Today, politicians and pundits on both sides of the aisle will be spinning, assigning blame, and taking credit. Here’s my not-at-all-scientific breakdown [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2010/01/20/assessing-the-massachusetts-senate-race Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:35:50 -0500 Another tale from the annals of government competence: Someone is getting called for jury duty...but it’s no human. A family is trying to figure out how their pet cat was summonsed for jury duty. [...] [The cat’s] owners, Guy and Anna Esposito, think they may know the source of the mix up: [the cat] really is a member of [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2010/01/11/a-furry-jury-of-your-peers Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:18:59 -0500 CBS News reports: Less than a month after major Nidal Hasan allegedly killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, the Pentagon’s top intelligence officer sent the White House a report detailing an earlier failure to connect the dots. It reads like a dress rehearsal for the Detroit bomber case, reports CBS News chief national security correspondent [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2010/01/08/why-wars-shouldnt-be-fought-in-court Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:22:50 -0500 My documentary film Indoctrinate U—which analyzes the attacks on free speech and free thought on politically correct college campuses—will be shown on the Documentary Channel two more times in the coming weeks. The first airing will be Thursday, December 10th at 2:50PM (Eastern). The second showing is on Friday, December 18th at 5:00PM (Eastern). The Documentary Channel is [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/12/05/indoctrinate-u-on-tv-two-more-times Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:15:35 -0500 Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto noticed something interesting about the priorities of the Associated Press: An Associated Press dispatch, written by Erica Werner and Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, compares the House and Senate ObamaCare bills. We’d like to compare this dispatch to the AP’s dispatch earlier this week “fact checking” Sarah Palin’s new book. Here goes: Number of [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/11/20/press-priorities Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:16:49 -0500 As a bit of a typography geek, I laughed at myself for having noticed many of the things mentioned in this New York Times article. (The sloppy spacing of the word “lean” on that subway sign has always annoyed me.) I posted a link to the Times piece on my Facebook page, and it ignited a [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/11/17/font-memories Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:56:03 -0500 Yesterday, two states held elections for governor. Last year, both states voted to elect President Obama. Now, a year after The Ascension of The One, in both states, Republican gubernatorial candidates won handily. In Virginia, Republican candidate Bob McDonnell beat Democrat Creigh Deeds by more than 17%.* This in a recently-trending-Democrat state that Obama carried by [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/11/04/2009-elections-had-nothing-to-do-with-obama Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00:40 -0500 From an e-mail that’s been circulating recently, the Joke of the Day: Al Gore, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama go to heaven. God addresses Gore first. “Al, what do you believe in?” Gore replies: “Well, I believe that I won that election, but that it was your will that I did not serve. And I’ve come to understand [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/11/02/gore-clinton-and-obama-in-heaven Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:33:58 -0500 According to the NAACP, white politicians should not be permitted to represent majority-black voting populations: Leaders of the Maryland NAACP, worried that a Baltimore mayor’s criminal conviction could result in the appointment of a white or Republican leader who may not fully represent the majority black and Democratic city, are asking state lawmakers to strip the [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/10/16/a-perfect-example-of-politically-correct-bigotry Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:03:46 -0400 Months before Barack Obama formally accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, the name “Obama” was already being stamped on or sewn into objects of every type, and these objects could be purchased just about anywhere you happened to be standing. Keychains, buttons, hats, t-shirts were all readily available. I saw Obama skateboards and heard rumors of Obama bongs. Eventually, companies usually seen selling things like pewter gnomes and porcelain kittens got into the game, hawking commemorative coins and Obama dinner plates on late-night cable shows. http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/10/13/the-rise-and-fall-of-obamamarketing Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:22:22 -0400 Daniel Okrent, the former public editor of the New York Times, recently made some interesting comments on his old employer and the media in general. Some highlights: [T]here is a shortage of conservatives working in the news media — or, I should say, an imbalance between liberals and conservatives. The last survey I saw was on [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/09/30/former-new-york-times-editor-discusses-media-bias Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:51:00 -0400 Americans are aware that many reporters actively promote their own political agendas: Results from a national Sacred Heart University survey released today reveal that many news consumers believe the media played a significant role in electing President Barack Obama and that the media continue to promote his presidency. [...] “A large majority, 89.3 percent, suggested the national [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/09/28/americans-wise-to-the-news-medias-game Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:50:43 -0400 Jon Stewart is pretty funny going after the media in this clip: Best quote: [W]here were the real reporters on this story? You know what investigative media, see me on camera three: Where the hell were you? [...] You’re telling me that two kids from the cast of “High School Musical III” can break this story with a [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/09/19/jon-stewart-kicks-medias-ass-on-acorn-scandal Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:14:31 -0400 Remembering September 11th, 2001 in video: ...and text. http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/09/11/remember Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:43:33 -0400 The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has placed Bucknell University on their Red Alert list, which names the schools that are the “worst offenders against liberty”: Institutions on the Red Alert list are unrepentant offenders against basic rights that are guaranteed either by the U.S. Constitution or the schools themselves, and they have policies and/or [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/09/10/ray-bucknell-my-alma-mater-in-worst-offenders-against-liberty-list Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:19:08 -0400 You may have heard about the uproar over President Obama’s desire to address the nation’s schoolchildren. Although the White House has not yet released the text of the speech, many people wondered whether the speech would be pushing Obama’s policy goals. The idea that the speech would be political in nature is not something that people [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/09/04/inartful-wording-or-lame-excuse Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:56:53 -0400 In honor of the care and compassion shown by Senator Ted Kennedy throughout his life, liberals and their enablers in the media have been proposing changing the name of President Obama’s healthcare reform plan. So, instead of referring to it informally as “ObamaCare,” it may become known as “KennedyCare.” In order to help President Obama use [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/08/31/kennedycare-t-shirts Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:24:03 -0400 The Documentary Channel will be showing Indoctrinate U several more times over the coming weeks. Here’s the schedule (all times shown are Eastern U.S.): Tuesday, September 1st at 5:00 PM Tuesday, September 15th at 2:30 PM Monday, September 28th at 11:30 PM Wednesday, September 30th at 3:30 AM Friday, October 2nd at 8:00 PM and again at 11:00 PM The Documentary [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/08/27/indoctrinate-u-coming-back-to-tv Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:10:15 -0400 Only a government could be this stupid while simultaneously being this reckless with other people’s money: A paedophile with a 30-year history of abusing children is being prescribed Viagra on the [National Health Service] — and there is nothing the authorities can do to stop him. Roger Martin, 71, merely has to visit his GP to [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/08/23/government-healthcare-viagra-for-pedophiles Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:32:12 -0400 Not too long ago, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets with signs comparing our president to Adolf Hitler, painting him as "the world's biggest terrorist," even calling outright for his killing. Here in New York City, posters of a cartoon George W. Bush replete with simulated bullet holes began springing up around town. It was a time when Democratic politicians complained loudly whenever they felt their patriotism was being impugned. In those days, bumper stickers reminded us that "Dissent is the Highest Form of Patriotism" and Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the House of Representatives, declared that disruptive protests were "very American and very important." Now that protests are directed against a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress, Nancy Pelosi thinks such disruptions are "un-American." During the Bush era, the media looked the other way at the extremist element in the protest movement; the large number of protest signs bearing swastikas and mathematical formulae like "Bush=Hitler" just didn't interest them. But it did interest me, and because the media didn't want to report it, I did some reporting of my own. The videos I posted online inadvertently launched me on a second career as a documentary filmmaker. I recently dug through my old footage and found many examples of the same kind of inflammatory speech that the media and the Democratic Party--forgive the redundancy--now decry. What follows are just a few examples. http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/08/20/hitler-comparisons Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:46:12 -0400