RNC Latino Site Features Stock Photo of Asian Children
RNCLatinos.com features as its main image a stock photo from Shutterstock, which tags the photo with keywords that clearly suggest the kids are Asian, including: “asia,” “asian,” “interracial,” “japanese,” and “thailand.”
President Chelsea Clinton?
Clinton associates have long whispered that the politically-trained daughter would be perfect for politics, but now an Obama expert who advises Fortune 500 firms on communications has bluntly predicted a continuation of the Clinton dynasty.
“It doesn’t matter if she keeps her new television job, or if she quits—Chelsea can do it,” says Gil Peretz, author of Obama’s Secrets, a book on how to communicate like the president. “She started to gain substantive political experience when she campaigned for her mother in 2008.
Obama Turkey ‘Pardon’ Not Good Enough For PETA:
t’s just not good enough for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals that the White House symbolically pardons two massive turkeys on the eve of each Thanksgiving.
Now PETA wants to retire the word pardon.
At issue: Pardons are used to free crooks. And, they say, the birds are innocent victims.
George Washington Plied Voters with Booze
Washington biographer Dennis Pogue, vice president of preservation at Washington’s home of Mount Vernon, reveals that the father of the nation lost his first campaign in 1755 to the House of Burgesses largely because he didn’t put on an alcohol-laden circus at the polls. That year, Washington got 40 votes. The winner, who plied voters with beer, whiskey, rum punch, and wine, got 271 votes.
A quick learner, Washington won three years later with the help of alcohol. “What do you know, he was successful and got 331 votes,” says Pogue, author of the new book Founding Spirits: George Washington and the Beginnings of the American Whiskey Industry. He spoke about his research Monday night at an event sponsored by the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States and the National Press Club.
Documents Show Feds Believed in the Yeti: Newly unearthed State Department documents confirm for the first time Uncle Sam’s belief that the Abominable Snowman roamed the mountains of Nepal in the 1950s, a finding that has shocked federal officials including the archivist who discovered the papers.
Long written off as a myth—it was never caught or photographed—the documents provided by the National Archives show that officials in the State Department, Foreign Service, and U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal, not only believed in “Yeti,” but endorsed rules for American expeditions to follow when hunting the toothy monster down.
Mengele Nazi Diaries Could Fetch $1 Million
The historic cache of more than 30 post-war diaries of Hitler’s death camp doctor Josef Mengele could fetch up to $1 million at auction Thursday in part because new and shocking translations of the “Angel of Death” reveal his continued hatred of Jews as well as disdain for former U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, his own homeland after World War II, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, and even the children in his new South American home.
The Gun That Killed Osama bin Laden Revealed: SEALS reportedly used an HK416 in bin Laden assault
Two military gear blogs, citing multiple insider sources, credit the highly reliable HK416 rifle, an M-16 type weapon, with the “double tap” of 5.56 mm bullets to bin Laden’s head.
Army Scraps $600,000 Toad Art Project
Each of the four art proposals for the bus terminal included two wall murals and a sculpture. The Army budgeted $200,000 each for the murals and sculpture, for a total of $600,000. The one drawing most attention was the fairy and toad from artist Cheryl Foster. Her proposal describes the sculpture this way:
“A 10-foot fairy, using an American Toad as ‘transportation,’ scurries to the entrance of the station. The interior of the toad is illuminated and the sounds of nature emanate from his throat.” She said that nature inspired her.
GOP Boss Wants Trump to Shut up on Birther Claims
Priebus, who’s starting to score some fundraising and organizational victories inside GOP HQ, having taken over for controversial former Chairman Michael Steele, says the debate over President Obama’s birthplace and whether he can be president is a huge distraction away from the party’s effort to fight Democratic spending and tax plans.
