Hi. Is it payday today? Get your taxes withheld from your check, didya? Congratulations. Wanna see what you’re subsidizing? The Life, that’s what. Here’s a look… The folks in the video would like to wish you a Happy Labor Day. They aren’t big into labor, but they know you are. And they (kinda) appreciate that, [...]
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Politics is reminiscent of the Roman Games. The games are held to appease the people. People are led to opulent settings and led to believe they’re a part of the production. The people get the peanuts and the chance to gaze upon the face of Caesar as he feasts on gourmet meals and the finest [...]
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Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf of the Ground Zero mosque development (NOTE: Rauf himself referred to the mosque as the “Ground Zero mosque” right from the start, so there is no need to post inane comments on that issue.) has been very secretive about his funding sources for the project, once known as the “Cordoba Initiative.” [...]
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This is one of the better summings-up of the Ground Zero Mosque thing we’ve seen…
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This might come off as a bit of inside baseball, or at least something of limited general interest. And if it does, I apologize and you’re excused from having to go below the fold. But today the Daily Caller ran a story which accuses conservative bloggers of participating in a form of payola – in [...]
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Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see. Ben Franklin Astigmatism is a defect in the eye. It’s caused by a defective cornea focusing light incorrectly on the retina. Our vision could be 20/20 but the brain’s visual centers get a blurred image. I get the impression people suffer from [...]
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As if you didn’t already know. Remember the dude in Huntsville going off about the attempted rapist in the housing projects over there?
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The Ground Zero Mosque thing is long past its expected life span as a major controversy – you would have thought it would be resolved by now given the obvious difficulty its proponents are going to have in getting it built – but it’s not going away. And despite the efforts of the Obama administration’s [...]
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Former Louisiana insurance commissioner and current radio host and blogger Jim Brown has run an opinion piece on his web site criticizing opponents of the Ground Zero mosque. I felt compelled to weigh in on this issue here on The Hayride in response to Mr. Brown’s column which is titled Pandering and Hypocrisy Over a [...]
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Other readings in this series… After The Hangover, by R. Emmett Tyrrell The Obama Diaries, by Laura Ingraham Nullification, by Tom Woods One thing about Glenn Beck, whether it’s his TV show, his radio show, his books or whatever else he does – he’s not boring. That’s a talent to be admired, particularly in someone who [...]
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