The indispensable Fars News reports that Iranian Revolutionary Guard members have offered to help Barack Obama with the Gulf oil slick. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast underlined Tehran’s technical capability to help the US control the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and said Tehran is ready to […]

In the comments on the previous post, that excellent chap ‘banned‘ observed:I share the view that Obama looked at this as a gift following the likely defeat of his  cap & trade nonsense; he has deliberately allowed the crisis to worsen to boost his Green Economy agenda. Thus far he […]

After 59 days, two vacations, a half dozen parties, concerts, a fundraiser he went to instead of the memorial service for the 11 dead rig workers, and several rounds of golf, Obama has finally ordered the military in to help deal with the oil spill. It had even taken him 55 […]

Jon Stewart is usually pretty good as far as American comedians go, and his take on the oil spill, BP and Obama is worth a few minutes to watch. BP’s “it depends on your definition of ‘plume’” gives him a straight path into Lewinsky territory, but enjoy all of “The […]

If George W Bush had referred to “57 States” in the USA he would have been hauled over the coals, but TheOne is immune from such criticism. For similar errors, one is a moron and the other one is tired from saving the world so frequently. However TheEye (described marvellously […]

For more than a century, nearly every American President has used a splendid desk that, in another life, sailed the seas. H.M.S. Resolute was commanded by Admiral Sir Edward Belcher during his search for the Northwest Passage. Sent to find missing Arctic explorers, it was abandoned by its crew in 1852. […]

Gordoom will be furious, and Nokia sales will be up this afternoon. He would kill all the firstborn for similar comments from the US ambassador here, and Heaven only knows what he’d give for a photo-op like this. The subject of our Prime Mentalist’s rage today will be one Philip […]

Obama’s use of a teleprompter for even the simplest and shortest of speeches has been attracting ridicule for some time now, but for the inside track the Teleprompter Of The United States (TOTUS) itself now was its own blog boasting “reflections from the hard drive of the machine that enables […]