Filed under: Holly Madison , Photo Galleries , Hot Bodies , Hot Vegas Nothing says America like a buxom blonde in a bikini by a pool for no reason at all — to wit, we present to you Holly Madison at Wet Republic in Las Vegas. From sea to shining sea. Read more
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Fireworks, barbecue, parades on the Fourth of July … but hold the flags. Sounds ridiculous, right? Although Howard Zinn died earlier this year, that was his suggestion back in 2006. And what does The Progressive magazine do this July 4th? They trot Zinn’s anti-American sentiments out for their left-of-center audience by republishing his piece, “Put away the flags.” “On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blesse[d],” Zinn wrote. “Is not nationalism — that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder — one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred?” And that disgusting sentiment comes in addition to Progressive magazine editor Matthew Rothchild’s immature July 3 anti-patriotism piece saying that “between God, country, and apple pie, I’ll take the apple pie” suggesting patriotism is “toxic.” Although it’s not out of the norm to see left-wing vile coming from such a publication, it is a little surprising to see anti-American tripe – including Zinn’s tired and nearly four-year old screed about America’s role in history. “How many times have we heard President Bush tell the troops that if they die, if they return without arms or legs, or blinded, it is for ‘liberty,’ for ‘democracy’?” Zinn wrote. “One of the effects of nationalist thinking is a loss of a sense of proportion. The killing of 2,300 people at Pearl Harbor becomes the justification for killing 240,000 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 3,000 people on Sept. 11 becomes the justification for killing tens of thousands of people in Afghanistan and Iraq. And nationalism is given a special virulence when it is said to be blessed by Providence. Today we have a president, invading two countries in four years, who announced on the campaign trail in 2004 that God speaks through him.” Perhaps it is wishful thinking for the brilliant minds at The Progressive magazine to set aside one day to commemorate the birth of the world’s greatest nation and not someone who loathed the United States.
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The Progressive Magazine Commemorates Anti-America Historian Howard Zinn for the Fourth of July: ‘Put Away the Flags’
Newsweek on Saturday did an astonishingly poor job of exploring why Republican women are suddenly being attacked for their beauty. “There seems to be an insistent, increasingly excitable focus on the supposed hotness of Republican women in the public eye, like Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Michelle Malkin, and Nikki Haley-not to mention veterans like Ann Coulter,” the article now being prominently featured at the magazine’s website began. Hypocritically, Julia Baird’s piece never once explained or wondered why the same thing isn’t being done to Democrat women. Instead, the numerous headlines exclusively trivialized physically attractive GOP females such as the following from the website’s front page (h/t Twitter’s @buszero): Once entering the website to the actual article, readers were presented with another set of tasteless headlines (photo courtesy AP): Doesn’t the headline “Too Hot to Handle” defeat the purpose of exposing sexism? Or wasn’t that Baird’s point? It’s odd to see how some men insist that when women start to grasp power, we should think of them primarily as playthings and provocateurs. Is this the best way to explain their success? They aren’t challenging the status quo. They’re being wild! They’re not trying to lift the ban on offshore drilling. They’re being naughty! When four women beat a field of men on the same night recently, competing for primary and gubernatorial nominations, it was widely referred to as “ladies’ night.” Aren’t ladies’ nights those promotions where women are allowed free entry into bars to provide fodder for the men? Women in politics are used to being trivialized, and have tended to dress and behave soberly in response. The wisdom has long been that discussions about their sexuality are not just distracting and degrading, but also destructive. Indeed? Baird then offered some statistics to support this view: One in six members of Congress is female; out of a total of 535 seats, Republican women hold only 21, or 4 percent. It’s hardly an onslaught. The number of women holding state-wide executive office has dropped since 2002, from 88 to 72 of the 315 positions. There are only six women governors. So no matter how striking the incremental gains, we’ve got a long way to go before approaching anything resembling equality. Which is why we need to remember that these women are not competing to see who has the most smokin’ bod. They want to run the country, or their part of it. They want votes, not free drinks-and we need properly scrutinized candidates, not circus performers. That’s correct. But why did Baird’s article about this subject DEMEAN women with a headline like “Too Hot to Handle?” And why did her first paragraph include the phrase “increasingly excitable focus on the supposed hotness of Republican women?” That’s NOT the way a female writer encourages people to “remember that these women are not competing to see who has the most smokin’ bod.” Also in the first paragraph was the following disgusting reference: Playboy even ran an outrageous piece titled “Ten Conservative Women I’d Like to Hate F–k,” which read like a sick attempt to make rape cool. “We may despise everything these women represent,” wrote the author, “but goddammit they’re hot. Let the healing begin.” This was a truly disgraceful piece published at Playboy’s website last year, so much so that readers didn’t need to be reminded of its existence. Making matters worse, Baird completely ignored the double standard whereby Democrat women in politics are not so victimized. This undermined any attempt on her part to discredit those doing it to Republican women. Whether intentional or not, this was another disgusting representation of GOP females that the National Organization for Women would come down strongly against if it was written about Democrats. It really does require a tremendous rationalization talent to be a liberal woman in America today, doesn’t it?
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Newsweek: ‘Why We Sexualize GOP Women’ – ‘Too Hot to Handle’
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A survey of 238 “presidential scholars” released Thursday ranked Barack Obama as one of the nations’s best presidents ever. According to the Siena College Research Institute, Obama ranks 15th three spots AHEAD of Ronald Reagan. Imagine that: a man that has been in the White House for less than eighteen months and hasn’t accomplished anything is considered better than the president that reinvigorated America after the dreadful Jimmy Carter years while also ending the Cold War. Speaking of Carter, these geniuses actually ranked him higher than George W. Bush. The New York Daily News reported Thursday: George W. Bush was no FDR, but Barack Obama could be. That’s the verdict of 238 of the nation’s leading presidential scholars, who – for a fifth time – rated Franklin Delano Roosevelt the best president ever in the latest Siena College Research Institute poll. In office for barely two years, Obama entered the survey in the 15th position – two spots behind Bill Clinton and three spots ahead of Ronald Reagan. Yep. Clinton ranked higher than Reagan as well. Actually, the details of the full rankings are even funnier. For instance, although presiding over arguably the worst economic period in American history, FDR is ranked first in handling of the economy. First! But to REALLY give you an idea of how biased and absurd these so-called presidential scholars are, they rated Obama ahead of Reagan in handling of the economy. I kid you not. Obama was ranked 17th in this category, while Reagan, who started the nation’s longest peacetime expansion in history, was ranked 21st. Maybe even better, Obama was ranked 10th in ability to compromise. Wouldn’t you love to ask this geniuses to name some things Obama has compromised on since Inauguration Day? For the record, Carter was ranked 32nd while George W. Bush came in close to the bottom at 39. It really makes you wonder what color the sky is in the world these folks live.
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Obama Rated One of Best Presidents Ever – Better Than Reagan
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Oliver Stone shocked many when his movie “World Trade Center” was released in 2006. It was a masterpiece, a meditation on two firemen trapped in a darkened tomb of broken concrete, twisted metal and shattered glass. They had rushed headlong into the collapsing skyscrapers, only to be buried alive. So many of their colleagues died, but in the end these heroes were located by searchers and rescued. Stone maintained it wasn’t a political movie, and for the most part, it wasn’t. It was a personal story. But this movie was also a gift to our country, a reminder not to forget this dark day’s victims and its heroes. It was only political in that it was patriotic. It reminded us all across our country of how our fellow Americans in Washington, New York and Pennsylvania were mercilessly murdered. It came closest to politics (or patriotism) when the firemen were found by a man who vowed to join the War on Terror. Sadly, that was but a brief hiccup in Stone’s career, a befuddling, out-of-character career move. In most of his movies, Oliver Stone is clearly not a fan of America, both her leaders and her policies. Think “Born on the Fourth of July,” “Platoon,” “JFK,” “Nixon” and “W.” Now he is promoting a new documentary called “South of the Border,” which debuted June 25. Its philosophy is illustrated by the poster: The American eagle’s talon is pierced by a large thorn coming out of a blood-red South America. It’s no overstatement to say Stone deeply adores the trend of Yanqui-bashing leftists coming to power, from Hugo Chavez in Venezuela to Evo Morales in Bolivia to Lula da Silva in Brazil. In a recent interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Stone vouched for Chavez, endorsing him as “absolutely” a “good person.” When asked about Chavez’s censorship of opposition press, he claimed there was none. “There’s no pattern of censorship in this country. I’ve been there,” proclaimed this geopolitical expert. “So, you can see it. You can go down to South America, spend three days, and you’ll see the most vibrant opposition in the world.” Stone somehow missed the Venezuelan penal code from 2005, which states: “Anyone who offends with his words or in writing or in any other way disrespects the President of the Republic or whomever is fulfilling his duties will be punished with prison of 6 to 30 months if the offense is serious and half of that if it is light.” Oh, and that sanction applies to those who “disrespect” the president or his flunkies in private, too. At the unveiling of “South of the Border” at the Venice Film Festival last September, Time’s Richard Corliss reported that Stone and Chavez appeared in matching dark jackets, white shirts and red ties. When the festival announcer introduced Stone and not Chavez, Stone grabbed the strongman’s hand and raised it overhead like they were presidential running mates. The crowd screamed in support, Stone holding hands with a man who famously suggested our last president was Satan. It’s not merely that Stone is infatuated with Chavez. He doesn’t seem to consider, in his flowery “most vibrant opposition in the world” exclamation, that his last make-believe movie on clueless George W. Bush (and his bullying father George H.W. Bush) could not have been made in Venezuela if the subject were that country’s president. Stone would be in prison. This kind of performance reminds me of how Stone scorned the evil dominance of America right after 9/11. On Oct. 6, 2001, he participated in a panel discussion where he proclaimed that six companies have control of the world. (These all-powerful conglomerates were actually entertainment companies: AOL Time Warner; Disney; Fox’s parent, News Corporation; Sony; Viacom; and Vivendi Universal.) Stone said the six represented “the new world order … And I think the revolt of Sept. 11 was about ‘F—- you. F—- your order.’” He also wondered, “Does anybody make a connection between the 2000 (presidential) election and the events of Sept. 11?” The United States has provided great latitude to filmmakers mocking our presidents — even imagining the assassination of our last president — and somehow still, America, with all its freedoms offered to Hollywood, is mocked as an evil empire. It is absolutely surreal that Stone would ever make a movie like “World Trade Center,” which made heart-warming heroes out of Americans. Stone isn’t just a critic of America, but of Americans, yet there’s a certain paradox here. On the one hand, we want to dominate, exploit and enslave the world. On the other, we’re powerless, rudderless puppets to those who roll over us and dominate. Stone somehow remains blind to the sweet land of liberty that allows him to stab that eagle in the foot with all of his might.
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Conservative Fox News television host, author, and radio host Glenn Beck has started a university. Sort of. According to an announcement on Beck's Web site, “Beck University is a unique academic experience bringing together experts in the fields of religion, American history and economics.” In July, August and September, interested parties can participate in “captivating lectures and interactive online discussions” in which “experts will explore the concepts of Faith, Hope and Charity and show you how they influence America's past, her present and most importantly her future.” At left is the actual insignia of Beck University. (Note the buffalo, feather and Latin words.) To be clear, calling it a university is more than a stretch: It is actually simply an opportunity to watch online classes taught by three men, among them the controversial David Barton. Barton is described on Beck's site as “the founder and president of WallBuilders, a national pro-family organization that presents America's forgotten history and heroes, with an emphasis on our moral, religious, and constitutional heritage.” He is an evangelical minister and GOP political activist who has pushed hard against the separation of church and state and been embraced by conservative Republican politicians. He has been criticized repeatedly for bad scholarship. According to People for the American Way, then-Republican Sen. Arlen Specter wrote in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy in 1995 that Barton's arguments “range from the technical to the absurd” and “proceed from flawed and highly selective readings of both text and history.” The other two teachers have more traditional backgrounds: Louisiana State University professor James R. Stoner, Jr. and former Columbia Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology and Education David L. Buckner. Available classes are “Faith,” “Hope” and “Charity” 101, 102 and 103. So how do you enroll at Beck University? By joining his “Insider Extreme” website at a cost of $9.95 per month or $74.95 for the year. A promotional page for the “Insider Extreme” subscription lays out what it offers beyond the normal “Insider” membership and features a variety of pictures of Beck mugging for the camera. added by: TimALoftis
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No matter how good Project Runway ‘s new 90-minute format is , the fashion design series can’t reclaim the characters who made the show revolutionary in its first and second seasons — including Austin Scarlett and Santino Rice. However, Lifetime is claiming those two vets for a new series , On the Road with Austin & Santino , and that’s good enough news to recolor my vision of reality TV this summer (for the better!). The two designers will visit small towns throughout America and provide stylish assistance to the country’s downtrodden women. It debuts July 29 after Project Runway ‘s eighth season premiere. I’m obligated to excite you with clips of Austin and Santino’s best PR moments after the jump.
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Project Runway’s Austin Scarlett and Santino Rice to Make a New Show Work
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The June jobs report was released July 2 showing a tiny decline in the unemployment rate to 9.5 percent, but a depressing 125,000 overall non-farm payroll jobs lost . CNN’s “American Morning” reacted with an appropriately downbeat report, but the onscreen chyron led with the better news — showing the lower unemployment rate rather than the job losses. Christine Romans also pointed out that it was the “best unemployment rate since July 2009,” though later in the segment she admitted the rate is still “horrible.” NBC’s Ann Curry offered a very brief report on the jobs data on “Today,” also highlighting the lowest unemployment rate “since last July.” The report also contradicted Vice President Joe Biden’s predictions of 100,000 to 200,000 jobs gained each month for the rest of 2010. This month, Biden is off by about 275,000 jobs On June 2, Obama declared the U.S. economy was “moving in the right direction.” The same day, Vice President Biden predicted 100,000 to 200,000 jobs would be created each month through 2010. That prediction,if it came true, would fall 5.2 million jobs short of Obama’s promise that the stimulus package would create more than 4 million jobs by the end of 2010. As of July 2, adding June job losses puts Obama more than 5.3 million jobs away from his promise. “American Morning,” “Today” and the immediate reaction on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” to the June numbers all ignored the failure of Obama’s economic stimulus packages. The federal government has thrown billions (the $787 billion stimulus package, not to mention Cash for Clunkers, the Big Three bailout and other measures) at the economy in an attempt to reverse the course of the recession and generate jobs, yet the unemployment rate still stands at 9.5 percent. But the news media have yet to retract their support for government spending. “American Morning” host Kiran Chetry mentioned other bad economic news and then repeated liberal New York Times columnist Paul Krugman who warned on June 28 that without additional stimulus the U.S. would go into a ” third depression .” “Some like Paul Krugman who say, if we pull back on stimulus and spending right now — austerity measures aren’t necessarily working in Europe — we’re going to be in more trouble,” Chetry said. Over on MSNBC Savannah Guthrie was also concerned that the recovery might not be able to “hold on” without further stimulus: “I think the real issue is, as some of these stimulus programs expire, for example the Cash for Clunkers or the housing tax credit that people were getting, as soon as those stimulus measures are taken away it seems that everything collapses,” Guthrie said. “So I think the question for economists and the question that the White House struggles with is: Where is the organic growth? And with Congress in no mood to do anything in the way of stimulus, any further stimulus, what do you do? Can this recovery hold on?” The reports continued the media’s unwillingness to remind viewers of President Obama’s promises about the stimulus package. When Obama was selling his massive spending proposal, the administration claimed the package would keep unemployment from rising about 8 percent. The news media have consistently ignored the failure of the stimulus to fulfill that pledge. On June 4 the news media spun the May unemployment report by emphasizing the Census jobs that “led to the biggest jump in jobs in ten years.” Like this article? Then sign up for BMI’s weekly e-mail newsletter, The Balance Sheet .
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To mark the one year anniversary of Sarah Palin stepping down from her duties as governor of Alaska, NBC’s Norah O’Donnell, on Friday’s Today show, recounted for viewers what the former vice presidential candidate is doing, namely “cashing in.” Accompanied by a “cha-ching” sound effect O’Donnell ran down Palin’s various TV and book deals. And while O’Donnell also noted Palin has been very effective stumping for GOP candidates in the primaries she was careful to note that the “polarizing” Palin had “limits to her appeal,” as she cited an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll saying 52 percent view her political endorsements negatively. Along with the poll and TV and book deals, O’Donnell also included “her teenage daughter’s tumultuous relationship with Levi Johnston,” and “her rage” at author Joe McGinnis “who’s moved directly next door to her Wasilla home ” as negatives. How exactly Palin’s “rage” at a writer/stalker moving next door to her family home could be seen as a limit to her appeal wasn’t fully explained. The following is the full segment as it was aired on the July 2 Today show: MATT LAUER: It was a year ago tomorrow that Sarah Palin made the surprise announcement that she was resigning as the governor of Alaska. And a lot has changed in the past 12 months. NBC’s Norah O’Donnell has details on that. Norah, good morning. [On screen headline: “‘Going Rogue’ Sarah Palin, One Year After Resigning As Governor”] NORAH O’DONNELL: A lot has changed. You know she may be the most controversial and polarizing figure in politics today, but she’s also helped elect some new stars in the Republican Party, while at the same time becoming a multi-millionaire. One year ago Sarah Palin shocked everyone, announcing she would resign as governor of Alaska with 18 months still left on her term. SARAH PALIN: It would be apathetic to just kind of hunker down and go with the flow. We’re fishermen. We know that only dead fish go with the flow. PAT BUCHANAN: If Sarah Palin was thinking about being President of the United States, she’s taking a real step backward. O’DONNELL: But if anything, Palin has surged forward. More visible- JAY LENO: Thanks for coming! How are you doing? O’DONNELL: And possibly more influential than ever. PALIN: How is that hopey-changey stuff working out for ya? O’DONNELL: Especially in recent Republican primaries, backing Tea Party candidates across the country and women like South Carolina’s Nikki Haley. PALIN: Nikki had the backbone to vote against taking the Obama stimulus money. O’DONNELL: Her power is fueled but her political action committee with a deep war chest and a vast army of Facebook and Twitter followers. ANNE KORNBLUT, THE WASHINGTON POST: She does still have a very loud megaphone when she tweets, when she’s on Facebook. She still has the power to affect a policy debate when she wants to. O’DONNELL: But there may be limits to her appeal. A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows that 52 percent see her political endorsements negatively. And for Sarah Palin, the family dramas that captivated America during the campaign have continued. There’s her teenage daughter’s tumultuous relationship with Levi Johnston. PALIN: I hear he goes by the name Ricky Hollywood now. O’DONNELL: Her rage at an author who’s moved directly next door to her Wasilla home, where he’s writing a book about her. JOE MCGINNISS: She has pushed a button and unleashed the hounds of hell and now we’re out there slavering and barking and growling. O’DONNELL OVER “CHA-CHING” SOUND EFFECT: The national fascination with the Palins has not abated and Sarah Palin is cashing in, going from $125,000 a year to an estimated $12 million. There’s her blockbuster bestseller Going Rogue, on that deal, $7 million. Her own TV show on TLC, on that deal, $2 million. And an exclusive contract with Fox News channel, $1 million. And as for her speeches, she makes as much as $100,000 a pop and even those aren’t without controversy. PALIN: Got my water? Do I have my straws? I want my straws. And I want them bent, please. Thank you. At least that’s what I read in some of the lame stream media outlets, is that I was demanding straws. O’DONNELL: Well her next project is a new book called America By Heart. It’s due in November and she is also expected to be out there again on another book tour, Matt. And the crowds come out for her. LAUER: Oh and we continue to talk about her. There’s no question about it. Norah, thanks very much. O’DONNELL: You’re welcome. LAUER: Good to see you.
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Today Show Marks One Year Anniversary of Palin’s Decision to ‘Cash In’
Politics was once an honored profession of high calling by men of strong principles and courage whose interest in being elected to these positions of public trust was to serve the country and make sure their generation left a better world to the next one. They were, for the most part, men of faith, men of integrity, commitment, practicality and common sense who viewed high political office as a term of service, not a lifetime vocation. They fought and won wars against far superior odds, battled economic downturns, abolished slavery and left us a rich endowment of federal papers documenting their vision of what the United States of America is and was meant to remain. It is a heartbreaking fact that nowadays politics has become not a calling but a game. Gaining public office is achieved by the most photogenic, the silver-tongued, the most attractive who look good on television and can raise the most money. We tend to pay more attention to the messenger than to the message, the one who can lie with the straightest face. Many times policy is achieved by backroom deals and downright sellouts. The leadership promising perks to make it look like Congressmen and Senators are bringing home the bacon to the folks back home to enhance their next election chances. They never stop to think about just whose bacon they’re sending and “by the people, for the people, of the people” has turned into, buy the people, fool the people and rob the people. And before any of you cherry pickers accuse me of taking sides, let me assure you that I’m talking about Democrats and Republicans. After all it was the Republicans who started this national debt spiral, the Democrats have just taken it to new and insane highs. Our founders did not design this system for career politicians, but rather citizen politicians who would serve a couple of terms and let someone fresh off the street serve, someone who is acquainted with what’s happening now, not twenty years ago when this bunch of hacks took office. Our political bodies were intended to be made up of common folk, doctors, druggists, farmers, carpenters, and some but not all lawyers. The corruption that plagues our political system is not just confined to the federal branch but rots our local and state governments as well. The one-sided attitude of the media I think dissuades a lot of honorable people from going into politics. If you’re not a member of the party the media supports they come after you with both barrels blazing, examining your whole life with a microscope trying to unearth some juicy little tidbit that will turn the public against you and undermine your campaign, and who wants to put their family through that. We need look no farther than the last presidential election to find proof of what I’m talking about. Look at the raging war that was waged against Sarah Palin. A media that actually turns a totally blind eye to childbirth out of wedlock acted as if Bristol Palin had committed a crime of immense and proportions. While Barack Obama, the all-time media darling, who sat under the preaching of a revolutionary racist for twenty years claimed he had never heard any of the inflammatory, anti-American rhetoric that regularly spewed from Jeremiah Wright’s mouth. He kept company with a sixties era terrorist who to this day wants to destroy the American way of life, and was never held accountable. Those who have sworn to serve you pass bills that they haven’t even read and the last thing they want is for we the people to find out what’s actually in them. There’s a dirty little club in Washington and the state capitols around this country, a club whose membership fees are to toe the line and be willing to sell out your own nation for a place at the big hog trough. And ladies and gentlemen, with the exception of a handful of good men and women who actually keep the faith in this pack of wolves, that’s what they are, pigs with and insatiable appetite for power.
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The Trouble with Career Politicians
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