It is, indeed, true that the media treat President Barack Obama totally different than they treated the previous President, George W. Bush. Perhaps it can attributed to the fact that mainstream media in the US are by default left-wing, or that the aura of a “messiah” hasn’t still left Obama. But the media seem to be bowing to Obama at every occasion it gets, despite of what he does.
Fellow blogger Yid with Lid received a …

I stumbled upon a great reader’s comment on the Washington Post to an article written by Israel’s ex-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The article itself was quite rubbish, pretty much all the same Olmert has said before, justifying his actions etc. But the comment by someone named “nlkatz” caught my eye because it’s the same thing I’ve been telling over and over:
Why did the Palestinians reject Olmert’s offer of the end of 2008?
Probably for the very …

A rather considerable amount of people – one in four Britons – think that the Moon landing 40 years ago was a hoax.
But unfortunately there are even bigger idiots among those 1009 surveyed by the E&T magazine. For example, eleven people of those think that Buzz Lightyear was the first person on the Moon, the Telegraph reports. And eight of those think that the late jazz musician Louis Armstrong made the first moon walk.
Not quite …

The United Kingdom is slightly cheaper than an average European Union country, according to European statistics agency Eurostat.
Eurostat compares the price levels in all 27 European Union countries and the United Kingdom scored at 99% – meaning it’s one per cent cheaper than the overall average of the 27 nations.
The most expensive country in the EU is Denmark with 141% of the average, followed by Ireland (127%) and Finland (125). Finland used to be the …

A man given six months to live after being diagnosed with terminal cancer is suing the NHS — after his “tumour” turned out to be a harmless abscess, The Sun reports.
Devastated Phil Collins, 61, quit his job, planned his own funeral and blew £18,000 from a pension pay-out when doctors told him he had inoperable gallbladder and liver cancer.
But when the six month deadline passed he went back to hospital — where further checks revealed …

Riot police raided a small 30th birthday barbecue because they thought the man, who invited his friends on Facebook, was staging a rave, the Daily Mail reports.
Devon and Cornwall police sent in a team of officers by helicopter after Andrew Poole advertised his 30th birthday party on the internet.
The coach driver from Sowton, near Exeter, Devon, said the 15 family and friends who had come to the event were watched by a police helicopter for …

Prime Minister Gordon Brown spent more than £4.6 million of taxpayers’ money on foreign travel over the last year – twice as much as Tony Blair in his final year in power, the Daily Mail reports.
Brown did not once use a scheduled flight for international visits, instead chartering a series of private jets at vast cost to the public purse.
He found himself under fire last night after it emerged that he made repeated trips to …

At least nine people, including some foreigners, were killed and at least 50 were injured in two large explosions at luxury hotels in Jakarta, the Times reports.
The near simultaneous explosions occurred at about 8am in the Ritz-Carlton and in the nearby JW Marriott, the hotel where 12 people were killed and 150 injured in a suicide bombing almost six years ago.
The first blast killed seven people and the second killed two.
Theo Sambuaga, head of a …

The veteran head of Iran’s nuclear programme, Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, resigned in the chaotic aftermath of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election, the Times reports.
Officials gave no reason for Aghazadeh’s sudden departure, but he has been close to Mir Hossein Mousavi, the man millions of Iranians consider to be the real winner of the 12th June elections.
The outgoing nuclear chief is also allied to Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a powerful former President and cleric, who backed …

Swine flu has now claimed the lives of 29 people in Britain after the confirmed death toll more than doubled in the space of one week, the NHS is to prepare for as many as 65,000 swine flu deaths over winter.
In the past week an estimated 55,000 people have come down with the virus, with 652 being treated in hospital, many wards full of children, and 53 patients in a critical condition, the Telegraph reports.
On …