{"id":912,"date":"2012-05-23T08:52:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T13:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/?p=912"},"modified":"2012-05-23T08:52:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T13:52:08","slug":"quick-hits-may-23-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/?p=912","title":{"rendered":"Quick Hits: May 23, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas-based pizza chain, <a href=\"http:\/\/dfw.cbslocal.com\/2012\/05\/22\/dallas-pizza-chain-giving-free-pizza-for-ordering-in-spanish\/\">Pizza Patron<\/a> is offering free pizza to anyone who can order in Spanish. Their reasoning is : &#8221;\u00a0to honor the \u201cpositive force of change immigrants have made in communities throughout America.\u201d <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Never mind the fact that pizza is an Italian dish and invented by the Italians.. Why isn&#8217;t ordering in Italian a requirement?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/uncommitted-gives-obama-run-kentucky_645774.html\">Uncommitted<\/a>&#8221; giving Obama a run in Kentucky. \u00a0First a convicted felon in Texas gets 40% of the vote in the West Virginia Democratic Primary, now an uncommitted vote against Obama in Kentucky gets 40%. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">If Obama is in this much trouble during a Democratic Primary, one can&#8217;t help but think the numbers during the general election could be even more devastating for him. One can only hope..<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Joe Biden was in New Hampshire on 22 May. He blamed the <a href=\"http:\/\/campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/biden-tea-party-stopped-us-growing-economy\/557066\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Tea Party<\/span><\/a>\u00a0for the lack of growth in the economy. \u00a0He spoke to a group of 500 supporters at Keene State College. It wasn&#8217;t open to the public. <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">You think maybe he might have had more detractors than supporters if it was an open event? Hmmmmm&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">A total of 43 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2012\/may\/21\/catholic-leaders-take-aim-at-obama-contraception-p\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Catholic groups<\/span><\/a> have banded together and sued the Obama administration demanding the healthcare law&#8217;s mandate on \u00a0contraception be struck down. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Not a word from the MSM of course..<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2012\/05\/23\/russia-test-fires-new-missile\/\">Russia successfully test-fired<\/a> a new ICBM from a mobile launcher in \u00a0northern Russia in Plesetsk to a site on the far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula. This was done in response to the planned US missile defense system around Europe. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #333399\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">And the US has deep cuts planned to its national defense, intel capabilities and military. Strange how the rise in Russian military spending, our decrease in our military \u00a0and Obama&#8217;s comment to Medvedev on his increased &#8216;flexibility&#8217; after he wins the next election sort of fall together..<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas-based pizza chain, Pizza Patron is offering free pizza to anyone who can order in Spanish. Their reasoning is : &#8221;\u00a0to honor the \u201cpositive force of change immigrants have made in communities throughout America.\u201d Never mind the fact that pizza is an Italian dish and invented by the Italians.. Why isn&#8217;t ordering in Italian a<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/?p=912\">Continue Reading&rsaquo;&rsaquo;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[12,86,7,85,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}