Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients Visit the Briefing Room

The sixteen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, this country’s highest civilian honor, were awarded their medals today in the East Room of the White House. I was lucky enough to cover it today, even though I ended up, as per usual, behind everybody. Good pictures were hard for someone without a professional setup [...]

Eff You, PETA. Eff You in the Effing Face.

I’m paraphrasing one of my tweeps (Tricia Llanes), and trying to adhere to my “no profanity above the fold” policy, in reference to this little item on PETA’s newest ad campaign by Andrea Grimes: (read the whole thing when you’re done here) More and more, PETA is looking like the snarky, self-righteous vegan film student [...]

Gibbs Lets the Media Have it Over Healthcare, Town Hall Coverage

White house Press Secretary Robert Gibbs unloaded on the media today, criticizing their “he said/she said” coverage of the healthcare debate, and its focus on the more sensational aspects of recent town hall meetings: During the rest of the briefing, Gibbs revisited the theme, several times, of the media being disappointed that the President didn’t [...]

Billie’s Quickies…Texas mandates high school Bible study elective

This fall Texas will mandate that public high schools in the state offer Bible study classes.  A couple of thoughts:  First, the way some teachers are describing how they intend to approach the class seems thoughtful – would that it were a world religion study class, though.. that’s something I could really get behind. Second, [...]

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