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June 19, 2014
Relax, Obama is in chargeThe world is on fire. Russia invading and conquering a democratic neighbor. Libya descending into chaos. More chemical weapons slaughter of innocents in Syria. Iraq disintegrating into civil war. Al Qaeda carving out a country for itself. Iran ascend...
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May 26, 2014
Faites attention, Monsieur BoehnerMr. Boehner: If you push through immigration reform, aka amnesty, you will lose a sizable chunk of the Republican base and never win an election again. Punt. Stacy Meichtry, Wall Street Journal: Exit polls showed the National Front, led by...
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May 26, 2014
Hmmm...The BBC has for several years been running a police drama entitled “Inspector George Gently.” Season 5, episode 2 is titled “Gently with Class,” and receives a stellar 8.2 rating (out of 10) in votes from the readers of the In...
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December 7, 2013
U.S. to offer missile defense to Gulf sheikdomsFirst we set the killers lose in the neighborhood and then we offer to sell window grates. Julian E. Barnes writes in the Wall Street Journal: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Saturday will announce an initiative designed to improve cooperation a...
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December 1, 2013
MSM and the ObamaCare websiteThis producer's own eyes tell him that the damn thing still isn't working --but, because he works for CNN he reports that the site is "working a lot more smoothly." Thomas Lifson adds: at least he didn't end on an upbeat note. Hat tip...
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October 21, 2013
Species deniers at workSo much for "scientific consensus." For the longest time scientists all believed that a number of different homo species existed. Now, anthropologists (real scientists) see new evidence and rethink their theories. On the other hand, climate cha...
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October 21, 2013
What are the odds?Odds that this will appear on all four broadcast network news show this evening? 1000-1 Odds that this will appear on any broadcast network new show every? 100-1 Odds that this couple will appear on the cover of any magazine? 365-1 Odds t...
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October 21, 2013
Fixing ObamaCare: Not the A TeamConstruction on a third water tunnel bringing water from reservoirs in upstate New York to Manhattan and then to the other four New York City boroughs has been going on for 43 years and it's not yet done. One segment (ending under Central Park in the...
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October 14, 2013
Doctors in Quebec being warned about a medical testVictoria Taylor of the New York Daily News tells us that doctors in Quebec are being warned not to conduct virginity tests. College des Medecins has told its physicians they are no longer allowed to issue 'virginity certificates' after learning ab...
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September 27, 2013
A Chamberlain for our timeFor more years than I can remember I've read about the run-up to the Second World War and found it astounding how gullible Chamberlain and his cabinet (with the exception of Churchill) were. But, at least you could mount a (weak) defense that there...
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July 5, 2013
An Awesome PrecedentApparently, US presidents can declare that some taxes are optional for a period of time. Thank-you President Obama. Your declaration that a President doesn't have to enforce a particular tax is surely the most important thing you've ever done. A...
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May 6, 2013
As ye sow...Starting salaries for engineering majors, via the WSJ: Engineering graduates will still earn far higher salaries, on average, than the typical new college graduate, according to the latest salary survey from the National Association of C...
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May 4, 2013
Really?Looks like NYC ran out of heroes to name parks after. Mike Vilensky of the WSJ blogs: Palmetto Playground, a triangular park adjacent to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway in Brooklyn Heights, was renamed Friday for Adam Yauch, the late Beastie Boys m...
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April 23, 2013
Something missing?Assembling In front of a store selling running shoes today at about 6:00 PM were well more than a hundred runners preparing to run in memory of the people killed in Boston on Monday and support of those injured. Apparently, this scene was duplicate...
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April 17, 2013
All the marks of a Mossad operationReports out of Boston claim that the bombs were transported in pressure cookers. Long ago, my wife's step-father and his brother owned the appliance repair store in New York. Many of the major manufacturers designated their store as the p...
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February 19, 2013
Battered wife syndrome in Israel?OK, the election is over. A majority of American Jews, exhibiting battered wife syndrome, gave Obama their votes. In appreciation for the support of so many Jews, Obama nominated the most ant-Israel cabinet ever. The New York Post now reports: Israel...
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January 10, 2013
Andrew Cuomo's stealth campaignthe other night we were watching a Brit crime series online. The commercials are aimed at a US audience. One of the commercials starts out with straight-on talking heads mostly-known actors and actresses. They each held up a photograph of a crushed h...
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January 7, 2013
When seconds count...We learn today from CNN: At the police station, dispatchers began to take calls from inside the school. Authorities say the first emergency call about the shooting came in at "approximately" 9:30 a.m. "Sandy Hook school. Caller is indicating she thi...
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January 2, 2013
Don't know much about historyWhat's most extraordinary about this story is that three reporters plus an editor participated in putting this together and no one knew about the building two blocks away on West 11 Street that blew up in 1970. The privileged daughter of a prominent...
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August 13, 2011
'Barack Obama: Keeping America Safe'Where do I go to put my bet down that Obama launches a full-scale attack on Iran's nuclear facilities sometime between 5/1/12 and 11/1/12? It'll be his only play....
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August 5, 2011
Another coal mine canary croaksIf a Democratic candidate for Congress in an overwhelmingly Democratic district refuses to back Obama for reelection our President might want to update his resume. Carl Campanile reports in the New York Post: The Democratic candidate seeking to fil...
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July 6, 2011
Hey, it's fine with me, but the hypocrisy is absolutely breathtakingPresident Obama Has a Secret Prison on a Navy Ship. Via Washington Post: The U.S. military secretly captured a terrorism suspect in the Gulf of Aden in April and detained him for more than two months aboard a U.S. Navy ship before flying him to New ...
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April 12, 2011
Two short Obama 2012 commercials against Republican nominee Donald TrumpApproximately one in eight Republicans currently think making Donald Trump the party's nominee is a good idea. I'm not going to venture an opinion on whether he'd make a good president (though he'd certainly be a great improvement over the incu...
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March 24, 2011
9/11 Is So YesterdayDutifully taking its orders from Mayor Mike Bloomberg, the New York City Council voted to rename the Queensboro Bridge the Edward Koch Bridge after a hero cop who lost his life in the World Trade Center on 9/11. No. That's not right. Ed Koch was a fi...
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March 15, 2011
A liberal comes to terms with Obama's failureRichard Cohen is a left-leaning columnist for the Washington Post and other newspapers. Mr. Cohen's daughter and 258 other daughters and son and parents and children were murdered by Moammar Gadhafi, who ordered the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103....
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February 28, 2011
Two Solutions to the Wisconsin StalemateThe Republican majority of the Wisconsin State Senate has at hand the tools to end its stalemate now.The Wisconsin Constitution requires that to vote on a law dealing with taxing or spending or borrowing, a "quorum" is needed, and the minim...
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January 12, 2011
What inspires violence?We've heard forever from Hollywood that movies and television shows that glorify violence don't inspire real-life violence. We keep hearing from video game makers that violent games don't inspire violence.But, now we're expected to believe that metap...
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September 21, 2010
Things Christine O'Donnell didn't doThe press is obsessed that Delaware Republican Senate nominee, Christine O'Donnell said that as a high-school student she hung out with kids who styled themselves witches.For this we're now to conclude that she's unfit to serve in the Congress of the...
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September 19, 2010
The law of unintended consequences strikes againHow can anyone think that any politician is intelligent enough to run something as complex as health care when history abounds with stories like this? Heather Haddon in the New York Post:In a bizarre attempt to outwit Mother Nature, city officials in...
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August 16, 2010
Kelo at Ground ZeroHere is an outside-the-box approach to the Ground Zero Mosque. As readers of American Thinker well know, a business group known as SoHo Properties wants to build a mosque and Islamic center two blocks north of Ground Zero, where a pair of empty ...
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June 30, 2010
Obama finally accepts international assistance for Gulf spillAP tells us "US accepts international assistance for Gulf spillMore than two months to get to "Yes." But, we shouldn't get too excited. The Administration is just beginning to "work out the particulars." Who k...
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May 25, 2010
The Inner Tom FriedmanNew York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is one of the regular pundits who appear Sunday morning on Meet The Press. Host David Gregory asked a fairly practical politics question and Friedman responds with a discursive look into the inner Thomas Fried...
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May 5, 2010
Florida Senate race a dilemma for ObamaDeciding to campaign for Meeks or for Crist, Obama will have a tough choice to make.If Obama abandons the Black candidate (Meeks) to push the White (well, actually extraordinarily tan) Crist, he's going to anger some of the same voters he will need f...
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May 1, 2010
Yet another socialism success storyAs President Obama spreads the money around and thinks that at some point you've made enough money, Venezuela demonstrates what socialism can do for a country. Even the Washington Post notices, as Juan Forero writes:Oil-rich Venezuela gripped by econ...
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April 23, 2010
They're laughing at Obama overseasIf -- according to very, very liberal NYT columnist Nicholas Kristoff --they're laughing at Obama in Sudan, they're certainly laughing at our President in Tehran. Kristoff writes:Until he reached the White House, Barack Obama repeatedly ins...
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December 31, 2009
Schooling the president on what is a 'terrorist act'"A full investigation has been launched into this attempted act of terrorism."--Barak ObamaNo, Mr. President, it was not an "attempted act." It was in fact a real, bone fide, actual, real-life, genuine, authentic, honest-to-goodne...
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October 5, 2009
A local tradition?Did you know that Charlie Rangel was the, ahem, cough-cough, ahem, "reform" candidate to replace the very corrupt Adam Clayton Powell?The people of Harlem haven't had an honest Congressman in more than 60 years....
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September 25, 2009
Tracking your every moveBig Brother is coming. Intel's new chip has the ability to track what a viewer is watching. Which commercials he is watching. Which commercials he's turning off or reducing the sound. Another device can track you when you go to a movie, or shopping, ...
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September 21, 2009
'Killing Granny'A virulent moral blindness has seized hold of a substantial slice of America's educated elite. Convinced they know better, they argue for a shallow, illogical, and horrifying vision of people as disposable.I was wrong last week when I declared that N...
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September 12, 2009
Liberal media insanity hits new highMark today as the date that the mainstream media put a gun in its mouth and pulled the trigger.The cover of Newsweek:IS YOUR BABY RACIST?Illustrated with a close up photo of a (white) baby. To ask the question is to answer it. Welcome to the post-rac...
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August 24, 2009
Will You Still Need Me, When I'm Sixty-four?There is a great intelligence at work in Washington, but we've failed to recognize it. I know that I have. And for that I apologize.We know that Social Security is unsustainable because fewer and fewer workers are paying into the system to ...
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August 24, 2009
Harvey Weinstein: Turning Jews Into NazisThe new Tarantino movie, Inglorious Basterds hit number one this weekend. Lots of people will see the film, think it is based on a true story, and say "Gee. The Jews were just as barbaric as the Nazis."What a horror. Sure to get lots of com...
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August 21, 2009
Adam Smith on Pan Am 103The families of the Pan Am 103 Lockerbie victims suffered great pain again yesterday when they learned the news Abdulbaset Ali Al-Megrah being set free after serving eight years in prison. Eleven days for each human being he slaughtered. Two hun...
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August 16, 2009
Is Obama Pulling Our Leg (Off)?The time has come for someone to put their foot down. And that foot is me. --Dean Vernon WormerA few months back (in American Thinker) I unveiled my proposal for a SUP Tax on stupid useless people. Actors. Actresses. Athletes. Singer...
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August 5, 2009
When bureaucrats control your lifeI'm a lawyer and I have a new business client, a bakery. One of the first things that must be done is to get that business an Employer Tax Identification number ("EIN"). This can be done over the phone. So, I call up the appropriate IRS num...
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July 17, 2009
Obama Care in 60 seconds or lessI saw the most effective commercial I've ever seen. The commercial, very quickly, puts forward the best argument against government-controlled health care.If this commercial gets a wider audience it could be the nail in the coffin....
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July 10, 2009
Thanks, kidsI'd like to thank everyone's children for paying for this. It used to be that adults paid for children's toys. Obama and the Democrats have turned that on its head. The next time a Democrat tells you that his party is the champion of children be sure...
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July 4, 2009
Back to school?Another prudential reason for Sarah Palin to resign (assuming she's considering a race for President) is to read every economics, history and policy book she can get her hands on. Republican candidates get grilled about the most obscure facts."M...
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July 2, 2009
Helpful suggestions for a failing newspaperI think that the Washington Post is on to something. Newspapers, having forgotten how to deliver the news, need to find other revenue streams. The Washington Post was merely exploring different ways of going about it. The New York Times, in even wors...
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June 22, 2009
Curious incident on the streets of TehranGregory (Scotland Yard detective): "Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"Holmes: "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."Gregory: "The dog did nothing in the night-time....
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June 21, 2009
Obama and FDR"...to remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all..." —Elie WieselThe fascists in Tehran are rounding up people in hospitals, in their homes, at work.When I ask supporters of Obama's policy of tepid declarati...
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June 19, 2009
Our Truest, Coolest, Sexiest PatriotsThings are not going as planned for the Obama administration. The millions of new jobs President Obama guaranteed have not materialized. Furthermore, the gazillion dollars of "stimulus money" Congress gave the President as a gift to spend h...
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June 16, 2009
More Mischief By Bored SenatorsThis afternoon the story broke that four Senators (Democrats Kerry (Mass.), Dorgan (ND), and Klobuchar (Minn.), and Republican Wicker (Miss.) asked the FCC to look into the deal Apple made with ATT two years ago. "The senators said they would ho...
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June 15, 2009
Leon Panetta in the gutterCIA head Leon Panetta, a former politician, has not strayed from his roots, despite his obligation to be above politics. The Associated Press reports that Panetta has told the New Yorker that Dick Cheney's criticism of Obama administration policies a...
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June 14, 2009
The price of Obama's health care 'savings'Okay. Everyone who thinks that Obama's take-over of the health care system in America is a good thing, pay attention. Here are some imporant facts from the Wall Street Journal article on Obama's plan:The new proposals would decrease payments to ...
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June 13, 2009
Occam's Razor and Rev. Wright (updated)"Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate," or "plurality should not be posited without necessity."This principle is known as Occam's Razor, named for the 14th-century English philosopher (William of Occam) who developed it. Ba...
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June 9, 2009
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain". . . the Great And Powerful Obama has spoken."Even George W. Bush, supposedly not as smart as Obama, didn't find it necessary to have one teleprompter at his press conferences—let alone the two that the Wizard of Obama nee...
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June 6, 2009
Judge Sotomayor's racial hierarchyOn a number of occasions (we learn about more every day), Judge Sotomayor has declared that Latina women are wiser judges than white men. That implied that there is a hierarchy of intelligence and judgment.But there is m...
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May 30, 2009
The dream of limitless energy supplliesIs this the beginning of the end of the power of the oil despots? What is Putin without oil? What is Chavez without oil? What is Iran without oil? What is Saudi Arabia without oil?From TG Daily:Livermore, CA - A fusion ignition facility which uses th...
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May 13, 2009
ObamalogicIt sort of makes sense in a Zen koan kind of way. The media will buy it.Obamalogic: Point 1: US banks are weak and struggling. Point 2: One key asset of any business is its smartest employees. Prescription: In order to help struggli...
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April 7, 2009
Farewell to Zion. Forever.The nightmare scenario for Israel is troubling me more and more. The end of the Jewish state is all too thinkable.Passover approaches for Jews everywhere. A celebration of waiting, and patience, and liberation. There is a prayer that ends with "...
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April 4, 2009
Solipsistic morality from the New York TimesSome newspapers are more equal than other newspapers. That's the only conclusion to be reached from the moral posturing indulged in by senior exexcutives from the New York Times Company.The company is playing hardball with its employees, many of them...
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April 3, 2009
It was nice while it lastedIt was nice while it lasted.Thomas Jefferson, wrote "Millions for defense. Not one cent for tribute." He was speaking about Arabs holding Americans hostage for money and submission. His successor, one Barak Obama, now bows before an Arab po...
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March 18, 2009
The O Men?The special squad of 10 million Obama loyalists needs a name. I, for one, will not join any organization without a cool-sounding name. I have my own suggestion: the O Men. The Obama O Men. (Think of the comic book potential! Close your eyes. Can you ...
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March 16, 2009
Formerly Useful IdiotsLenin famously said of liberals in the West that they were "useful idiots."A number of really smart (go ahead, ask them) people endorsed Obama only to find out that they were hoodwinked. He's not the guy they fell in love with. It's the mor...
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March 15, 2009
Larry Summers' bad betA couple of days ago, Larry Summers spoke some soothing words about the economy. Learning about his ability to predict the economic future makes me wish he were pessimistic.Nathan Vardi reports for Forbes:A few years ago, as Harvard was preparin...
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March 7, 2009
Please accept my apologies for the boorish behavior of Mr. Obama, my President.To the people of Great Britain:Please accept my apologies for the boorish behavior of Mr. Obama, my President. His astonishingly downmarket gift to your Prime Minister is truly embarrassing. Mr. Obama should have treated Mr. Brown with...
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March 6, 2009
Geithner Deflation"We've got to have a fall guy." -- Sam Spade, The Maltese FalconBarack Obama is not known for his loyalty. In fact, he's known for having none at all.He's thrown his close friend and mentor Jeremiah Wright under the bus. He's ev...
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March 4, 2009
The Emperor has no clues"On the other hand, what you're now seeing is profit and earning ratios are starting to get to the point where buying stocks is a potentially good deal if you've got a long-term perspective on it." It's price/earnings ratios. The ...
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March 1, 2009
Coach Calhoun, crusader for economic freedomMatters are getting nuttier and nuttier. Sports writers (sports writers!), those economic wizards, are now pronouncing what is and is not a fair salary for a college coach. All in response to this now-famous retort to a reporter's question by UC...
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February 12, 2009
Celebrating Obama on Lincoln's BirthdayCNN is focusing today on Abraham Lincoln. Well, sort of. The focus is "Lincoln to Obama," and the graphic is not a picture of Abe but of Barack. So, on Lincoln's birthday we celebrate Obama. On Arbor Day we'll celebrate Obama. On Memorial D...
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January 26, 2009
Is suicide patriotic?I am so excited that Nancy Pelosoi (and economist George Stephanopoulos) understands the threat that people are to our way of life.I look forward to Pelosi's opposition to increased immigration (legal and illegal), tax benefits for families...
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January 5, 2009
Obama's next commerce secretary appointment?Obama can retread a Chicago bud into the Commerce spot: William Daley. Of course, this does nothing to obscure Obama's ties to the Daley Machine. On the other hand, flashback to 1999:Statement by Commerce Secretary William M. Daley on Indi...
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November 22, 2008
Spot the missing key factTime Magazine hails a stem cell breakthrough in Spain. Isn't it odd that Time doesn't flat-out declare that these were adult stem cells? I'm such a cynic that I can't help but think if this breakthrough had used embryonic stem cells, that f...
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October 28, 2008
The Bradley Effect and kids (updated)There's been quite a bit of discussion of the so-called Bradley Effect, a political phenomenon where voters tells pollsters that they plan on voting for a Black candidate. Then, in the privacy of the voting booth, they same person pulls the lev...
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September 17, 2008
Dreaming of the First DebateI dream that at the opening of the first Presidential debate, John McCain turns and says directly to his opponent:Senator Obama, this really isn't a debate. It's a joint press conference. A reporter asks you a question, you answer and then I get to r...
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September 1, 2008
Why didn't Obama use his powers?Why did not The One stand on the shore and command the hurricane to turn about?". . . this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal;"---Obama claiming victory on the final night of primariesIf he...
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June 14, 2008
NYT flacking for CastroMemories of the recently departed ABC sportscaster Jim McKay provided the New York Times an opportunity to celebrate the "human side" of Fidel Castro. McKay's producer/director for a 1991 interview with Fidel Castro writes an account ...
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May 25, 2008
The racism cry never stopsWillie Randolph is the manager who guided a baseball team, just last fall, that had the greatest collapse in the history of the sport. Something New York Times columnist William Rhoden somehow failed to mention in his column today when ment...
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May 16, 2008
The California Supremes and gay marriageHere's the key to the California same-sex marriage decision: "Although all parties in this proceeding agree that the right to marry constitutes a fundamental right protected by the state Constitution, there is considerable disagreement as to the...
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April 21, 2008
Hill-Rod? (updated)Hillary, appearing by tape tonight on a wrestling program (along with Obama and McCain), says: "In honor of the WWE, you can call me Hill- Rod."Huh? A-Rod plays baseball. He's not a wrestler.What's stunning, is that no one on Clinton's team...
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February 28, 2008
The NY Philharmonic plays HellThe audience for the orchestra in North Korea was without any doubt made up of the safest of the safe, the most loyal of the loyal, the most monstrous of the monsters that uphold the pure evil of the Kim regime. The killers, the jailers, the informer...
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February 2, 2008
FlashbackA handsome, achievement-free politician decides to run for the office of chief executive. He's never run anything in his life.His campaign is brilliantly summed up in the slogan: "He's fresh while everyone else is tired."In 1965, John V. Li...
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January 30, 2008
McCain and Supreme CourtOne of the most (superficially) persuasive arguments I keep reading for supporting McCain is that several seats on the Supreme Court will, almost surely, become vacant during the next President's term in office. McCain, it is said, will appoint conse...
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January 27, 2008
McCain-Powell? (updated)My guess is if McCain wins the nomination it's going to be a McCain-Powell ticket, if Hillary is the nominee. From a conservative's perspective it would be painful. But, from a raw-politics perspective it would be brilliant. It would, firs...
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October 5, 2007
Larry Craig, American heroSenator Larry Craig:"Over the course of my three terms in the Senate and five terms in the House, I have accumulated seniority and important committee assignments that are valuable to Idaho, not the least of which are my seats on the Appropriati...
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August 16, 2007
The 30-second Giuliani v. Clinton commercial that practically writes itselfNarrator: In 1999 Suha Arafat, Yasser Arafat's wife, said, "Our [Palestinian] people have been submitted to the daily and intensive use of poisonous gas by the Israeli forces, which has led to an increase in cancer cases among women and children...
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July 11, 2007
Be afraid. Be very afraidOkay. So John McCain is going to have to (formally) drop out of the race soon. Imagine, if you will, the mischief McCain can do now that he doesn't have to even think about appealing to Republican primary voters. McCain has adopted the posi...
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June 28, 2007
Immigration bill blockedDing dong, the bill is dead. I confess that right now I feel kind of overwhelmed by happy emotion.I've participated in democracy in the best, most hopeful way. In the past I've made phone calls for candidates. I've contributed money and gone to...
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June 26, 2007
'Equal protection' amendment to the immigration billIt occurred to me that there might be a very short and very simple amendment that would ensure the support of a majority of the citizens of the United States for the immigration bill. John McCain ought to be demanding space be found in the bill'...