Twoddling Toddlers

Thanks to a pack (or is it a quorum?) of Belgian "researchers," children can now join the twitterati before they're even literate. Indeed, they don't even need to be able to form cogent thoughts. All they need to do is mash the buttons of their new Twoddler, and the wireless-equipped hunk of plastic will send a pre-determined Tweet to all their devoted followers.

For example, if little Jakey spends a few minutes slapping the picture of his mother, the thing will send: "@mommy_jakeySource: NDN RSS Feed

Tea Party activists to ‘storm Senate offices’ and ‘stay there until they force us to leave.’

Tea Party Patriots — the right-wing organizers controlled by FreedomWorks — sent an urgent call to action today, asking supporters to come to Washington December 15th to “storm Senate offices” in order to “play out the role of patients waiting for treatment in government controlled medical facilities.” The e-mail says organizers plan to “stay there until they force us to leave,” and incites supporters to “flex our muscle” and “hold the line in our fight against theSource: Think Progress RSS Feed

Bill Ayers, De Facto Education Czar

Someone’s missing from Chairman Zero’s long list of czars: Education Czar Bill Ayers, the Maoist terrorist who bombed the Capitol Building and the Pentagon, was let off on a technicality (as KSM could be), then discovered that he could do more damage to America by joining the education establishment and grooming a certain left-wing community activist for political office.

In addition to launching Comrade Obama’s political career from the apartment he shares with fellow terrorist Source: Stop the ACLU RSS Feed

Yes We Kandahar: No Sale

First of all, thanks to the Rachel Maddow Show for the catchy title. I think it pretty much sums up the irony of President Obama's surge speech at West Point Tuesday night.  Some on the liberal left are trying to rationalize Obama's escalation as a smaller piece of  a more "progressive narrative" of U.S. foreign policy.

Sorry. I see it in less high-falutin' terms.: once in place, this latest deployment will mean that Obama will have tripled the number of U.S. troops inSource: Marc Cooper RSS Feed

‘Official Chicago Tea Party’ distances itself from heckling by ‘splinter’ tea party group.

At a town hall event in Illinois earlier this month, tea party activists heckled a woman who recounted how her daughter-in-law and her unborn grandchild died because they didn’t have health insurance. These activists were encouraged to attend the event by the Chicago Tea Party Patriots, which sent around a flier railing against “socialized medicine.” After media outlets reported the heckling, the “Official Chicago Tea Party” was forced to distance itself and firmly denounce theSource: Think Progress RSS Feed

Abusing the U.S. Constitution for fun and profit

Commentary by James H. Shott

Many Americans are outraged at the element in the House health care bill that requires people to buy health insurance, even if they don’t need it, and even if they don’t want it. The authors of this legislation included this mandate so that there would be enough money from young and healthy people in the system to keep the thing from sinking faster than the Titanic.
It says a lot about this ghastly plan that its creators have to forceSource: Faultline USA RSS Feed