Next month, the company, Jailbreak Toys , will launch the action figure of the First Lady — Michelle Obama, The peculiarity is that her arms will be revealed. The 6″ tall action figure will be sold for $12.99 and will be the counterpart of to Barack Obama’s action figure and their daughters’, Sasha and Malia. SPONSOR

“Where I come from, these observations would barely count as basketball-court trash talk, let alone words of war. The blame for upgrading low-level bickering to all-out combat has got to go to the press, which loves nothing better than to talk about itself. (That includes me, of course.) To get a genuine picture of what a war on the press looks like, you can’t fan the pages of Nexis for grouchy things George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, or even Richard Nixon said about reporters, newspapers, and networks.

Canada Free Press MailoutCanada Free Press | CFP RSS Feed | World RSS Feed | Medical RSS Feed | Automotive RSS Feed | Business FeedCFP Photo Gallery | CFP Speakers Bureau | CFP Shop Cover Stories NewsCarbon Sequestration: How Environmentalists Boost Oil Company Profits By Dr. Tim BallEnvironmentalism as practiced by extremists is a blind faith. Their demands for action to deal with non-existent problems create bizarre situations. They ignore science, logic and facts to identify problems so there are often unintended consequences.

Part 2 John McCain = Freaky Cat Al Roker = Ollie Williams Mary Kate Olsen = Troll Doll Richard Nixon = The Brain Derek Hough = Malibu Ken Hillary Clinton = The Raptor From Jurassic Park Stalin = Borat Yassar Arafat = Ringo Starr Nikolai Ezhov = Barack Obama Dalai Lama = Happy Lama James Carville = Funky Cat Clay Aiken = Chucky

All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s). What Obama’s Doing With Fox News « Whatever – I think some people are under the impression that the White House wants Fox News to disappear. Nothing, I suspect, could be further from the truth. The White House is in fact delighted that Fox News and its merry cast of commentators exists. Nor is the White House vexed that its every pronouncement concerning Fox News solidifies Fox’s core audience; that’s actually the plan.

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Bloomberg – Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama today will announce $3.4 billion in government grants for equipment to improve the efficiency of the nations … Continued here: (Bloomberg)”> (Bloomberg)”>Obama to Announce $3.4 Billion in Electric Smart-Grid Grants (Bloomberg)

October 27th, 2009Earlier this month, Olympia Snowe, the pretend Republican from Maine caved to Democrat pressure on the healthcare bill while it was in committee because she got assurances from her fellow Democrats that there would be no single-payer (government-paid) option in that bill. She was heralded by the Democrats as a wonderful person – the only thing she really wanted anyway.Now, Harry Reid has decided that he won’t honor that pledge to Snowe, not that he ever intended to honor Max Baucus’ promise;But Reid and the leadership faced this basic math: There is only one Snowe and there are 60 members of the Democratic caucus.

RAMALLAH, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) — An aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday denied reports that Abbas has threatened to quit if the Palestinians reach no peace deal with Israel. “These claims have no basis of reality,” said Tayeb Abdel Rahim, Secretary General of the Palestinian Presidency. Israeli media reported that Abbas has threatened to resign during a recent phone conversation with U.S. President Barack Obama because Washington has failed to press Israel to abide by the peace process .

Elvin Lim is Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University and author of The Anti-intellectual Presidency , which draws on interviews with more than 40 presidential speechwriters to investigate this relentless qualitative decline, over the course of 200 years, in our presidents’ ability to communicate with the public. He also blogs at www.elvinlim.com . In the article below he looks at Sarah Palin. See his previous OUPblogs here .