Archive for January, 2009

Obama, Fox News, CNN, HuffPo Twitters All Hacked

From CNN: The Twitter accounts of President-elect Barack Obama, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez, Britney Spears, Fox News and 29 others were hacked Monday according to the microblog site, leading to false and inappropriate messages being posted on their accounts. Among those inappropriate messages were, apparently, addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fthecollegepolitico.com%2Fobama-fox-news-cnn-huffpo-twitters-all-hacked%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Obama%2C+Fox+News%2C+CNN%2C+HuffPo+Twitters+All+Hacked’; addthis_pub = ‘dtowns67′;

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Link-O-Rama Plus Bonus Video

Well, I’m going to visit my lady in Jersey today so I probably won’t have time to post any stories today. Instead I’ll leave you with the best of the Conservosphere… and a hilarious video (below the fold): Bill Ayres has a column at HuffPo – NewsBusters Leftist nutcase: Informer who prevented deaths a traitor [...]

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

English Hippies: Wifi Causing ‘Brain Fog’ and ‘Loss of Creativity’

You just can’t make this stuff up: Turn off that Wi-Fi network — it’s disturbing our chakras. That’s what many residents of Glastonbury, a lovely medieval town turned New Age hub in southwestern England, are demanding the local government do. Ever since the town’s free municipal wireless broadband network went online in May, people have [...]

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Illinois House May Vote on Blago Impeachment Next Week

According to the Associated Press: The Illinois House could vote as early as next week on whether to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich. The Illinois House has bumped up its schedule and will meet several days next week. They had been set to reconvene on Jan. 12. This comes as a little bit of a shock [...]

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

New Chrysler Ad Campaign: Thanks for the Free Money America!

That’s the new ad campaign from our friendly failures at Chrysler. A great big thanks for the quick cash! Well I have a little message for Bob Nardelli and Chrysler. Most of America never wanted to bail you out. We are not happy that you got bailed out. And we certainly do not want you [...]

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Songs of the Month

Announcing a new feature to The College Politico: Songs of the Month Every month I will bring my favorite music of the moment. I will put my picks in a post and in the widget in the right hand column cleverly labeled “Songs of the Month”. And, of course, you can and are encouraged to [...]

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Victory: Iraq Takes Control of ‘Green Zone’

From CNN: The U.S. military formally handed authority over Baghdad’s “Green Zone” to Iraqis on Thursday as new pacts governing the mission of international troops replaced a U.N. mandate. Iraqi troops took over checkpoints around the heavily protected district, formally known as the International Zone, which houses Iraqi government offices and the U.S. Embassy. While [...]

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Happy New Year!

Just wanted to say happy new year to my faithful readers. Thanks to your help The College Politico has been more successful than I could have imagined. It has garnered over 27,000 page views and has been linked at sites like Newsbusters.org, Hotair.com, Freerepublic.com, Stoptheaclu.com, and Conservativegrapevine.com. It’s been a good year! God Bless you [...]

Thursday, January 1st, 2009