There are lots of things going on at present, but rather than pick one and launch into a long diatribe on it, we’ll scattershoot a little…
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Obama’s the cotton-pickin’ President of the United States? Say huh? Can you get away with that one? If you’re a Democrat I suppose you can. And Dirty Rick Sanchez certainly qualifies there. Cotton-pickin’, indeed. What a bean-munching dunce. Via Ace Of Spades.
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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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Six weeks ago the ink was flowing about what a serious challenge retired State Supreme Court Justice Chet Traylor would be to incumbent U. S. Senator David Vitter. This morning the political pundits awoke from their wet dream to the reality that Vitter won the GOP primary with 88% of the vote. Some of the [...]
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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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It couldn’t hurt the ratings, and they’ve already got all the characters. From the New York Post: MSNBC talk show screamer Ed Schultz had a meltdown in the network’s 30 Rock newsroom, shouting at staff, “I’m going to torch this [bleep]ing place.” The hot-tempered anchor of “The Ed Show” lost it during a phone call [...]
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In trying to figure out what to write about today, I keep coming back to that great Inigo Montoya line from The Princess Bride…
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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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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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I guess when the Washington Post hired Greg Sargent to run its Plum Line blog it figured it was serving the consumers of D.C. conventional wisdom and thus keeping the paper relevant. What the powers that be at WaPo might not have recognized was that in doing so they were also providing clarity as to the [...]
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