(AP) New Barclays chairman: I’ll review entire businessLONDON The new chairman of Barclays Bank says he’ll undertake a top-to-bottom review of the embattled business, telling a British newspaper that he isn’t wedded to any of his predecessor’s policies. Asked if
Comedian Russell Brand thinks he’s cracked the code. Brand, the bawdy Brit behind movie flops like “Rock of Ages” and “Arthur,” says he knows why former Gov. Sarah Palin continues to attract throngs of supporters. It isn’t Palin’s ability to
Britons on Saturday began four days of festivities for Queen Elizabeth II’s diamond jubilee, turning out in droves for events around the country in a surge of enthusiasm for the monarchy. Gun salutes across Britain were due to launch celebrations
The Telegraph reports on one party even liberal celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow who still support former President Bill Clinton probably wished they had missed: Attendees complained the underground venue “stank,” with perspiration “dripping off the walls” and the rooms too crowded
BEIJINGChina accused the Dalai Lama of being deceitful Monday after he reportedly alleged that Chinese agents trained Tibetan women to assassinate him by planting poison in their hair for him to touch during blessings. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said the
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Jack White has earned his own stripes after early reviews of his solo debut album “Blunderbuss” praised the singer for his throwback feel and raw expression. The singer, best known for being one half of the
After the horrific butchery of a rabbi, his two young children, and an eight-year-old girl in Toulouse, France on Monday, AP reported that the manhunt was focusing on three paratroopers expelled from their regiment who had neo-Nazi sympathies. Left-wingers quickly
Here is just one example of why many in this country look askance at President Obama. It is a minor issue, I guess, and in the scheme of things maybe not so important, but I do think it also speaks
The Telegraph reports today that US soldiers attending an event with Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta were prohibited from carrying weapons. They were instead asked to turn in their rifles and pistols. “Somebody got itchy, that’s all I’ve got to
– Is Media Matters Obama’s Watergate? – Meghan McCain debates the Virginia law … without having read it or even an “emoticon” of familiarity with it. My favorite quote from McCain, ever: “Vaginal probing is something I’ve had friends texting me about ‘what
Regardless what you think of Pat Buchanan’s controversial and questionable views, it’s troublesome when the First Amendment is abridged by small, partisan groups who’ve made it their mission to streamline diversity of thought to less voices, not more. Buchanan announced last
From the The Telegraph (UK): The Bank of England and central banks in the United States, eurozone, Japan, Switzerland and Canada have launched co-ordinated global action to ease a growing credit crisis among eurozone banks. “The purpose of these actions
It’s a testament to the hold movies have on the public that the 15-year decline in the quality of filmmaking has only started to undermine the bottom line in recent years. We so desperately want the promise of a movie
I saw the Prince of Darkness, with his Staff, Standing bare-headed by the Cenotaph: Unostentatious and respectful, there He stood, and offered up the following prayer… — From “At the Cenotaph” by Siegfried Sassoon As reported last week, the radical
In the Islamic world natures fills a power vacuum with – you guessed it – Islam! The Telegraph (UK), 10/23/2011 Libya’s liberation: interim ruler unveils more radical than expected plans for Islamic law Libya‘s interim leader outlined more radical plans
President John F. Kennedy is purported to have said that “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort
The Telegraph‘s Chief Political Commentator Peter Oborne says we are all missing the larger story in the bailouts of Greece, Spain, and Portugal. Germany may have to cough up money now, but they will be the big winners in all
Just last week at the Cannes Film Festival, actor Peter Fonda called President Obama a “fucking traitor” and now, according to the Telegraph, we discover he’s encouraging his own grandchildren to take up arms against the president due to some
The key to winning the future in America, according to President Obama, Vice-President Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, is High Speed Rail. According to the President, China is “cleaning our clock” when it comes to infrastructure. Why is
The circumstances in Egypt should in no way, shape, or form be considered a phenomenon. That Islamism is most likely in Egypt’s future is par for the course. There simply is no other foundation, school of thought, or ideology in
From The Telegraph: MPs of all political colours paid tribute to David Cameron’s role in securing the United Nations resolution on Libya. They talked glowingly of Mr Cameron’s “breathtaking courage,” and his “superb leadership.” Even those who admitted they had
Richard Spencer in The Telegraph (UK) has a very troubling piece describing who we are now supporting in Libya. Many of the opposition leaders are Islamic radicals. Abdelkarim al-Hasadi, who is running the defense of the rebel town Dernah, was
The UK’s Telegraph reports that President Barack Obama will use the State of the Union address to raise the alarm about America’s global decline. As the Telegraph summarizes: “A briefing paper released by the White House in advance of the
Part I traced the sustainable development movement to longstanding U.N. environmental and population initiatives with unmistakably Marxist goals. They talk about saving the environment, but most of the fine print refers to “equity,” “social justice,” “fair distribution” and other Marxist
Few noticed a disturbing and remarkable comment made by Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton yesterday. While taping a satellite television show for Arab women at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, Ms. Clinton compared the alleged psychotic killer in the tragic
On the day of the biggest breach of national security in American history, when war, in effect, was declared on the United States, the President of the United States held a press conference to announce a pay freeze on federal
Days after Britain’s security minister pressed White House officials for action, clips of al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki have started to be removed from YouTube, the Telegraph reports. Dozens of Awlaki recordings are posted on the popular video site and calls
From The Telegraph (UK): “We suspect it’s al-Shabaab because they’ve been promising this for long,” he said on Monday. There has been no claim of responsibility for the bombings. But an al-Shabaab commander in Mogadishu praised the attacks. He admitted
Via The Telegraph: [emphasis added] Against Hollywood typecasting, [Hopper] was also an enthusiastic supporter of the Republican Party. “I’ve been a Republican since Reagan,” he once said in an interview. “I voted for Bush and his father. I don’t tell
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, and I’m probably in on the scam with you – or I am a fool. James Cameron’s next project may well be a film
Over at ICECAP.us Meteorologist Joe D’Aleo has posted an item on a “Russian Bombshell” highly relevant to the ClimateGate scandal. The Russian media first posted the story and now some Brits are loving it. The long and the short of
Well, the admissions just keep on coming. In the UK, lead canary for all things “climate change” — for example, polls show a majority of their public now see the agenda as just a new excuse for the state to
From the Telegraph in UK, journalists across the pond continue to follow the ACORN scandal here: If there’s one story that’s had it all in the past week it’s the series of undercover reporting stings that have uncovered the true
The centenary of John Wayne’s birth passed in 2007 with hardly any attention from the U.S. media, which shows both how out of touch the critical community is and how much more astute audiences are than the great majority of