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January 16, 2015
The people who shut down traffic in Boston for hours yesterdayVery strange bedfellows.
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December 17, 2014
Compromising with a Pack of JackalsContra the Wall Street Journal, CRomnibus is not even close to a "bipartisan success."
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November 6, 2014
A case study in Obama grammarYou'd think the president with the "highest IQ" – and his staff – would know the difference between "lay" and "lie."
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November 2, 2014
Criminalizing Weather-related FatalitiesQuestioning the science of “anthropogenic climate disruption”, as it is now called, could be a criminal act since it influences politicians to vote against climate legislation.
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October 14, 2014
A 'Difficult Issue' on the Gay Rights AgendaIt seems that not much has changed since the 1980s, when the gay liberation movement fought the closure of bathhouses that were spreading AIDS.
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August 26, 2014
The Word 'Bacon' Banned in Vermont Street SignCome here as refugees, then start banning stuff.
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July 12, 2014
Obama the Bear is Loose"With Secret Service, I always tease them that I'm like a caged bear and every once in a while, I've got to break loose."
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June 14, 2014
Obama to Maliki: 'Set aside sectarian differences'Because what this situation really needs is scolding.
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June 7, 2014
'Republicans have moved much further right'Sure, if you continually define the "center" farther left...
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May 28, 2014
Obama Shuts Down 500,000 AcresOut comes the executive order pen, allegedly to boost the economy.
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May 25, 2014
Like a Boss?The Democrats are running a cutesy campaign asking people to vote on which bumper sticker they like best. I’m still scratching my head over sticker #1.
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May 18, 2014
Obama Endorses the Orwellian 'B1 Emissions Path'Obama’s endorsement of the B1 scenario’s miscellany of anti-capitalism, communitarian ideologies and totalitarian schemes clearly reinforces the contention that green is the new red.
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May 4, 2014
Bacon Is Good for YouThose who love rib-eye steaks and double-cream Brie will feel better about their guilty pleasures after reading this.
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April 19, 2014
Only the Right Kind of Hydroelectricity Need ApplyRent-seekers in the Massachusetts renewable energy industry are “raising alarms” about abundant, clean hydroelectricity from Quebec.
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April 7, 2014
Global Warmism's New Campaign: 'Loss and Damage'Climate activists are in a bit of a bind.
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March 12, 2014
Obamacare's Architect Talks about the Law's MakingEzekiel Emanuel – brother of Rahm, with whom he shares a charm deficiency – has shared his behind-the-scenes stories in a recent Wall Street Journal essay.
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March 1, 2014
Boston Globe: 'Mass. may give up on still-failing health site'Obamacare rollout claims another victim.
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January 31, 2014
Shell Cancels Chukchi Sea DrillingObama giveth, and the 9th Circuit Court taketh away.
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January 22, 2014
Warmists Pivot to Climate AdaptationClimate alarmists are outraged by the idea of postponing action, which they portray as burdening our children and grandchildren with our unsolved problems.
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January 20, 2014
Time's Hillary Cover too much even for the Boston GlobeNew horizons in sycophancy.
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January 6, 2014
The Corruption of 'Climate Literacy''Climate Education' has seized hold of the entire educational establishment.
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December 5, 2013
The Audacity of IgnoranceIt's not humble for Barack Obama to say that he didn't know anything about his signature legislation's website.
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November 23, 2013
Forcing Mom into Medicaid was Part of the PlanExpanding the Medicaid rolls is an essential part of the ObamaCare design -- and one that its sponsors boast about.
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November 18, 2013
The Affordable Care Act is not 'Incomprehensible'There are NO excuses for voting for ObamaCare.
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November 7, 2013
Where is the RNC's VoteBuilder Software?The Dems are flying the Starship Enterprise while the GOP is using birchbark canoes.
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November 2, 2013
More Lipstick on the ObamaCare PigObamaCare offers coverage for less than $50/month! ...kind of.
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October 24, 2013
'If the N.S.A. is Big Brother, We're Big Mother'The ObamaCare website ain't half of it.
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September 6, 2013
Lame GOP Fundraising EffortsRaising funds is so vulgar and distasteful, don't you think?
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August 28, 2013
Obama's Mortgage PoliceOne might ask if Obama learned nothing from the last financial crisis, and the answer is no.
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May 30, 2013
The Betrayal of Hillary ClintonWhen Obama is politically threatened, even Hillary has to go.
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May 14, 2013
Politicizing Junior High LiteratureCommon Core's reading selection is less about education than it is indicting America for its sins.
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May 8, 2013
What if They Held Impeachment Hearings and the MSM Didn't Show Up?Hearings riveting, for those few who saw them
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April 21, 2013
'Nothing tough about this boxer's character'The Boston Globe takes down Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
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April 19, 2013
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's 'hoodI'm currently under lockdown in Cambridge about a mile from the Watertown neighborhood where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is reported to be holed up
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April 11, 2013
Battle of the BudgetsObama's budget joins two earlier budgets presented last month which also have little chance of becoming law: the House budget authored by Paul Ryan, and a Senate proposal authored by Patty Murray
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April 10, 2013
Not Yet Time to Declare Victory over Climate Anti-CapitalistsSome climate change skeptics have begun to express optimism recently, but our battle to persuade the public is far from over.
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April 9, 2013
Boston Globe puts death of Annette Funicello above the fold, Thatcher belowProg media can't help themselves.
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March 25, 2013
The Dream of a World Without Oil3,800,000 wind turbines? This one sounds more like a nightmare.
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March 24, 2013
Ryan Budget: Better than the Senate's, but That's About ItRyan's budget is hardly a small-government plan of action. And it was decried in hysterical tones by the left and the media anyway.
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March 9, 2013
Don't Touch Obama's StashHow can our president grow government so much and at the same time be lauded by liberal journalists as a spending-cutter? The answer is simple.
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March 4, 2013
Obama's Mythical Spending CutsOn the one hand the president uses scare tactics to make the point that cutting any government spending will cause pain. On the other hand, he praises himself for his enormous ongoing deficit-cutting efforts.
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February 13, 2013
A short note on Speaker Boehner's expressionBoehner looked like a man pushed too far.
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February 1, 2013
Obama's Rebirth as an American ExceptionalistObama has always had enormous vanity. The quality is not uncommon among presidents, but Obama pushes the envelope. The events of the last four years have done nothing to diminish his messiah complex.
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January 30, 2013
Is Winning the Argument Enough?This is what we're facing: brilliant and creepy data analysis, a Chicago-machine GOTV ground game, a president unabashed in his demagoguery and a corrupt, biased media.
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January 16, 2013
Memo to Beijing: Carbon Dioxide Doesn't Cause SmogLast weekend's air pollution in Beijing was 5 to 7 times the worst reading in the United States.
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December 15, 2012
Rep. Capuano (D-MA) vs. the PublicCapuano the great compromiser dismisses the Ryan Budget and the "proposal recently offered by Speaker Boehner" out of hand, accusing them of "essentially abolishing Medicare as we know it."
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November 24, 2012
Obama's Santa Claus PresidencyWe're facing a mass of educated Democrats who demand little from government beyond what they think they paid for, but who voted to expand government against their economic self-interest.
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November 6, 2012
NYT on Benghazi: It's Bush's FaultApparently Obama's hideous bungling of this operation -- which left four Americans needlessly dead -- can be attributed to the lack of utter clairvoyance from his predecessor.
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October 25, 2012
Electoral College UpdateRomney has momentum, Obama's Benghazi fiasco, and the daily revelations of Obama's nasty nature on his side.
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September 26, 2012
'Questionable Solar Math' RevisitedAfter I posted a blog piece on what I called "questionable math" on the payback period for installing solar photovoltaic panels, I received an email
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September 19, 2012
The Progressive War on ParkingThe bons pensants of the bureaucratic, environmental, and cultural elites are nibbling away at the supply of parking spaces, and they're only just getting started.
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September 17, 2012
Questionable Solar Math at the Wall Street JournalSolar advocates have overstated the promise of solar power for decades. It is disappointing when a reputable paper like the Wall Street Journal participates in this deception.
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September 14, 2012
Senseless Violence?Further evidence that President Obama doesn't understand the threat of radical Islam.
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September 13, 2012
Romney 'reckless remarks' feeding frenzy at Boston GlobeI had to cancel my subscription to the Boston Globe today, for health reasons. (I know, I should have done it years ago, but the kids like the comics.)
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August 6, 2012
Obama Campaign Video Touts Dubious Green Energy 'Success' StoryThe Obama-Biden campaign's model manufacturing company does not manufacture wind turbines. It has a moratorium on its one commercial project, and has been struggling for over eight years to get a couple lousy windmills built.
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July 20, 2012
They're Coming for Our Food, One Food Policy Council at a TimeThe federal government, through ObamaCare and Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign, has been busy extending its tentacles into municipal and state governments, with the goal of imposing restrictions across the country on unhealthy eating.
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July 13, 2012
A Sociology of the Jet SkiThe photograph of Mitt and Ann Romney on a jet ski in Lake Winnipesaukee is being touted as making him look like an out of touch rich guy, akin to John Kerry windsurfing in lycra off Nantucket. Only by people who don't know jet skis.
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June 28, 2012
Markey AttacksEd Markey would like to present himself as a genteel senior statesmen, whose 36-year career in Congress has been devoted to helping the people of Massachusetts. This video shows otherwise
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June 26, 2012
Doing the Math on Solar Water HeatersAn $8,000 investment with savings of $55 on a $100 annual gas bill would take 145 years to recoup.
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June 6, 2012
The Big Lie: Republicans are RacistsIt goes without saying that Obama supporters do not condone the nastier genocidal bits of National Socialism, but the Big Lie, described by Hitler and perfected by Joseph Goebbels, is a familiar leftist tactic.
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May 30, 2012
NPR v. Fox News: Who Is the Smartest of Them All?Liberals are pretty sure they know the answer.
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May 29, 2012
Boston Globe Admits that Food Deserts 'aren't as common as the rhetoric suggests'Michelle Obama's pet project loses the Boston Globe
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May 25, 2012
Newton (MA) saves money by going green. Sort of. Not really.In the Alice in Wonderland world of green preening, Newton, Massachusetts levies a hidden tax through the electric bill to purchase cow farts and to fund a middle school Hip to Habitat program and calls it green energy.
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May 23, 2012
Boston Globe Publishes Biased Photos Next to Complaint About BiasYou have to admire this kind of brass. Or is it humor? Take a peek and decide.
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May 6, 2012
'Death with Dignity' on the Massachusetts BallotA group called Death with Dignity is collecting signatures for a ballot proposal that would make Massachusetts the fourth U.S. state to legalize assisted suicide.
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May 2, 2012
Obama, the Warrior?Confusing acting like a warrior and protecting our national security.
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April 25, 2012
Clean Cities Cash FlowSteven Chu's billion-dollar-a-month boondoggle -- two Solyndras a month! -- comes to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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April 9, 2012
Unelected EPA Bureaucrats Approve E15 EthanolBelieve it or not, Obama administration energy policy got even worse last week.
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April 3, 2012
Fracknation Documentary Film Raises Production Money Through KickstarterA worthy project: a documentary that extols the benefits of fracking, called "Fracknation." The producers are currently raising money through Kickstarter
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April 1, 2012
ObamaCare in My MailboxJust as the headlines about the GOP War on Women's Right to Taxpayer-funded Condoms have started to die down, I received a notice from my health insurance company.
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March 2, 2012
Diversity Studies on Steroids at Tufts UniversityTufts University's new dean has eschewed the institution's impressive recent history to stress the supremacy of studying "race and identities."
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March 1, 2012
$10 Billion a Year Expected from Ohio's Utica Shale FormationIn only 2 years, as production ramps up. On private, not federal land.
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February 29, 2012
Creative Destruction at the Academy AwardsAs the movie business struggles with digital distribution technology, the Academy Awards honor a film that is a technological throwback about an artist who resists technological change.
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February 24, 2012
On the Cusp of a Natural Gas Bonanza, Massachusetts Bets on Wind PowerGov. Deval Patrick's policy of forcing utilities to purchase expensive offshore wind power will lead to economic prosperity, according to the Boston Globe.
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January 19, 2012
Conservative Happy Warrior Challenges Warmist Ed Markey for House SeatVeteran Massachusetts congressman faces challenger willing to make global warming a campaign issue.
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January 11, 2012
People for the American Way Identifies Photo of Westboro Baptist Church Demonstrators as Tea Party MembersA dishonest way to raise money.
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December 19, 2011
Harvard's Deep Green PocketsWhen elitism, environmentalism, and careerism hook up with the largest academic endowment in the world, the results are unintentionally hilarious.
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December 9, 2011
Moral Equivalence in the New Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyTinker Tailor Soldier Spy (opening nationally December 9) is in many ways a brilliant new adaptation of the John Le Carré novel, with Gary Oldman in the role of George Smiley. And yet, it wouldn't be John Le Carré without what the left calls "moral complexity."
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December 7, 2011
Obama, Tax-Cutting Friend of Working AmericansObama, the biggest spender in the history of the planet, the guy who never met a Keynesian stimulus he didn't like, is peddling himself as the responsible supply-side adult in the room.
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November 30, 2011
Barney Frank Classless to the EndA grown man who sounds like a spoiled ten year old, whining that the other kids got a bigger slice of cake
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November 28, 2011
Rick Perry's 'Lazy' Ad Called 'Borderline Criminal'Democrats getting hysterical over Perry's quoting the president directly.
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November 17, 2011
Transgender Civil Rights Come to MassachusettsAnyone in danger of being fired can instantly "identify" with another sex and become part of a protected minority group.
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November 14, 2011
Politicizing the Farmers' MarketThe politicization of the farmers' market is typical of the big government mentality that assumes that things work better when an outsider with superior understanding takes charge -- for a small fee, of course.
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November 4, 2011
Carrie Fisher: 'I was fresh bait' for Ted KennedyThe story that Ted Kennedy was a lecher is not news. Compare this however to the handwringing over Herman Cain.
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October 28, 2011
Obama Finds A Teacher who Supports More Money For Schoolsthe White House blog quotes a school teacher who laments that her school can't re-hire the person who repairs their clocks
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October 18, 2011
The Revolutionary Communist Party's Little Yellow BookThe Socialist Constitution is a disturbing read, breathtaking in the brutality of the totalitarian measures proposed, a trip down the rabbit hole of the twisted American Communist mind.
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October 10, 2011
A History Lesson for Lawrence O'DonnellOn Thursday night, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell accused Herman Cain of "sitting on the sidelines" during the civil rights movement.
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October 8, 2011
Obama's English Teacher FictionAnother one of Obama's sob stories runs face-first into the wall of truth.
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October 5, 2011
Dems Say No Thanks to Walmart Offer to Eliminate Food DesertMichelle Obama's crusade to eliminate "food deserts" runs into unions' allergy to Walmart.
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October 3, 2011
The Tweet Revolution, Coming to a Square Near You?Groups emulating Occupy Wall Street are springing up around the country; the Occupy Together website lists "occupations" underway in 113 American cities (Fargo/Morehead, ND; Joplin, MO, etc.),
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September 18, 2011
Peggy Noonan's Faint Praise for ObamaOne-time Obama cheerleader Peggy Noonan has seen the light, almost
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September 10, 2011
The School Budgeting ConBefore crying too many tears over budget cuts, look at where the money goes.
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September 3, 2011
Obama's Online Suggestion BoxAt first glance, it seems like pretty innocuous stuff -- perhaps a little gimmicky and lame-o. There is however something unsettling about Obama's initiative.
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August 21, 2011
'Useless expenditure' of a bankrupt countryObama is transfixed on "infrastructure investment."
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August 2, 2011
Obama's Idiotic InfographicMost frightening is the thought that Obama might actually believe that his infographic is an accurate portrayal of our financial situation
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July 2, 2011
Harvey Milk, the New Gay MLK?The California State Senate just passed a bill called the Fair Education Act, which bears the same Orwellian relationship to fairness as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea does to democracy.
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June 14, 2011
Publicly Funded Leftism on Community TelevisionCommunity television began, like many bad ideas, in the 1960s, when self-styled "media activist" George Stoney and others began lobbying the FCC to mandate "public access"
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June 3, 2011
Dorothy Rabinowitz Dismisses Doomsday Talk about Big GovernmentWho's the one guilty of "high-minded talk, rooted in fantasy?"
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May 24, 2011
The Myth of the Palestinian 'Refugee Camps'Calling Palestinians "refugees" and continuing to treat them like helpless victims does them no favors.
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May 2, 2011
Playing the Race Card Against MatriculationistsNow it's racist to want to see Obama's grades. The left has gone nuts over curiosity about OBama's documentation.
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April 29, 2011
Scott Brown Urges Racial GerrymanderingConservatives have been disappointed by many of Scott Brown's votes, and this won't help.
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April 25, 2011
Democrats' taste for (rhetorical) bloodTucson? Fuggedaboudit. The Democrats revel in hyperbole involving blood when targeting Republicans.
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April 24, 2011
Rauf's Taqiyya Defense of IslamImam Feisal Abdul Rauf, of Ground Zero Mosque fame, is at it again.
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April 23, 2011
Socialists Rally for Climate Justice in PortlandAin't no power like the power of dumb people.
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April 21, 2011
Boston Globe: Haley Barbour 'Assails' Poor PeopleAs we approach the 2012 elections, the mainstream media is sharpening its hatchets to defend their candidate Barack.
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April 11, 2011
Boston Globe Columnist 'Surprised' that Americans are Good PeopleLeftist mindset, revealed.
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April 8, 2011
Global Warming Alarmism's Long March through State and Local InstitutionsTrue believers don't give up simply because theirs is a minority opinion. Warmists are operating at state and local levels to enact legislation and regulation.
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April 1, 2011
Professor Obama's College Completion FixationA jobs program for an Obama constituency.
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March 21, 2011
The Ignorance of the Anti-Nuclear Power PressA fascinating and unintentionally revealing critique from the Boston Globe.
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March 19, 2011
Harry Reid's 'dogged' defense of NPRReid thinks the story of the courageous sled dog came from an NPR broadcast.
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March 3, 2011
Gunman Screams 'Allahu Akbar', Obama Sees Motive Unclear"A tragic event"? "A stark reminder" of "sacrifices" to "keep us safe" from "dangers"? No, Mr. President
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March 1, 2011
Gov. Perry's 'gaffe' that wasn'tWhat are the chances that the Texas governor really thinks Juarez is in Texas?
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February 28, 2011
Bury Keynesianism, not Cash in Coal MinesJohn Maynard Keynes once suggested that the government could create jobs by burying bottles full of money in coal mines, covering them with trash, and encouraging people to dig them up.
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February 26, 2011
Michelle's Healthy, Hunger-Free MenusA guide to the First Lady's school luch fatwa
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February 24, 2011
Obama administration won't defend DOMA in the courtsIt must be nice to make up your own rules as you go along.
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February 17, 2011
The ObamaCare Real Estate BoomThe "first trillion dollar federal agency" is looking for 1.5 million square feet of new office space is Montgomery County, Maryland
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February 14, 2011
Obama Trying to Weaken America?Michael Medved argues today in the Wall Street Journal that Obama Isn't Trying to 'Weaken America,' disagreeing specifically with Rush, Sarah, and AT. (nice company)
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February 13, 2011
White Oscar Night: It's Obama's FaultThe average person who sees the photo line-up of the current Oscars nominees does not immediately think, oh, my God, how terrible, they're all white!
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February 6, 2011
NY Times goes off on Bloomberg for outdoor smoking banFor the statist there is never too much regulation, never too many laws, never too little government.
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February 3, 2011
'ROTC Discriminates Against Transgender People'Last December, after the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, Harvard announced it will reopen its doors to ROTC, a move widely praised at Harvard. Oops!
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February 1, 2011
In Contradistinction to Heartless Republicans, Obama Cares about Sick PeopleThe New York Times Business section responded to the Florida court decision on ObamaCare not by addressing the issues but by tugging at the heartstrings
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January 29, 2011
Bipartisanship, The Obama WayThe guy in charge of the country is clueless about how easy it is to ridicule him. It doesn't inspire confidence.
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January 24, 2011
Cooking the Gun Homicide Numbers at the NYTAll the propaganda that's fit for the gullible.
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January 20, 2011
Race, Propaganda, and SchoolkidsA fascinating window into the fun-house mirror world of race theorists, racial "scholars," and a good part of the anthropology profession.
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January 9, 2011
William Cohen adds Rush Limbaugh to the List of Those Responsible for the Giffords ShootingI was wondering when someone would accuse talk radio -- the strategy used by President Clinton after the Oklahoma City bombing -- and I wasn't disappointed
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January 1, 2011
Arms Treaty NonsenseThe New York Times editorial "The Next Treaties" contains two statements of mind-numbing stupidity
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December 30, 2010
Preventing development of domestic oil resourcesBypassing Congress, governing by fiat
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December 15, 2010
Edible Fracking ChemicalsEnvironmentalists attempting to block the country's access to what appears to be an enormous supply of American natural gas have a new challenge
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December 10, 2010
Small Complicated Climate Building CodesTreating citizens like dependent children who have to be told how many lights they need in their kitchens.
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December 4, 2010
DSCC Offers "Rush Limbaugh is Bad" MagnetsThe Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is offering a set of cute poetry magnets as thanks for your donation.
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December 4, 2010
Republican Derangement SyndromeNow that the GOP has regained a seat at the table of government, attacks on Republicans seem to be returning to Bush-era derangement.
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November 27, 2010
Christmas Tree Bomber was Young Male Muslim. Could There Be a Pattern?Depressingly predictable that a section of the commentariat refuses to see any pattern here.
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November 23, 2010
Entrepreneurship, Obama-StyleValerie Jarrett recently posted a blog entry at Whitehouse.gov titled "Celebrating National Entrepreneurs' Day." What's going on here?
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November 7, 2010
Noonan Celebrates GOP Victory by Calling Sarah Palin an Ignorant NincompoopIt's a shame
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October 25, 2010
Anti-Green Iconoclasm -- in the Boston Globe!Something's up when the Boston Globe publishes articles two days in a row that mock the dogmas of the Green religion.
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October 16, 2010
Nanny Bloomberg's Outdoor Smoking BanAn outdoor smoking ban is motivated less by public health concerns than by a sanctimonious intolerance of other people's bad habits.
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October 4, 2010
Obama's Costly Green Jobs ProjectThose green jobs president Obama touted in his weekly radio address turn out to be costly. Unless you're one of the politically favored investors, that is.
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September 25, 2010
Tom Friedman's Totalitarian TemptationThe Times scribe suffers from a bad case of authoritarianism envy.
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September 22, 2010
Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs: Proceed with CautionAverage citizens cannot be trusted with economic decisions that require balancing immediate costs and long-term benefits, according to environmentalists.
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September 20, 2010
Public health busybodies on the move againBoston "may curb sales of sugary beverages."
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September 7, 2010
Five Best Books to Make Glenn Beck's Head ExplodeFive "first-person accounts of the Progressive era" books.
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September 6, 2010
Obama's Belabored Labor Day SpeechA tired collection of divisive class warfare attacks.
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August 23, 2010
Christian Zionists and other Dangerous FundamentalistsOver-the-top, and then some, at the Boston Globe.
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August 11, 2010
Cambridge City Council to MIT: Halt LayoffsA local story in Cambridge, Massachusetts illustrates the sense of entitlement that government officials have adopted under the Obama administration.
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August 1, 2010
Kerry email appeal; He 'feels your pain'Perhaps he should have turned over that $500,000 in taxes he agreed to pay to Massachusetts to the DSCC
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July 29, 2010
Thousands of New Bureaucrats to 'Protect' Consumer FinancesAnother massive expansion of government.
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July 27, 2010
'Avant-Garde Sustainability Curriculum' to Replace Three R's at Nation's Oldest High SchoolOnce upon a time, Boston Latin School graduated leaders rigorously trained at one of the nation's toughest educational institutions.
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July 21, 2010
CBO: Unemployment benefits might, or might not, stimulate economyFaint praise is too generous a description.
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July 19, 2010
The Feds' $95-million Breastfeeding BoondoggleMove over, nanny state -- here comes the wet nurse state.
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July 14, 2010
Not Much of a Teachable MomentThe past year has seen a lot of teaching, but not much learning.
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July 12, 2010
'Whatever makes them cry, makes us happy'It's not often that good and evil are portrayed with such clarity.
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June 25, 2010
Town Jeopardizes Health of Sexually Active PreschoolersProvincetown, Massachusetts "to rethink condom policy"
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June 21, 2010
Not letting the BP crisis go to wasteMore money for public transit unions and teachers?
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June 15, 2010
Austerity, French-styleRaising the retirement age from 60 to 61 is a political hot potato in France.
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June 9, 2010
Blue-State Bonanza for Americorps FundingA force of 250,000 isn't insignificant; our Marine Corps numbers 203,000.
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May 27, 2010
Experts say: George Washington's honesty a sign of stupidityThe Boston Globe's curious revisionist take on the Father of our country.
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May 21, 2010
Transit Equity?The Obama administration has announced new criteria for awarding Department of Transportation grants.
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May 18, 2010
Activists: Government to blame for unsafe gay sexYou can't blame the victim if that person refuses to see himself as a victim.
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May 15, 2010
Newspaper reports Pakistani-Americans Terrorized by 'Recriminations'When a radical Muslim attempts mass murder, it's a sure bet that the press will recycle a "fear-of-anti-Muslim-backlash" story from its archives.
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May 11, 2010
Conservative columnist goes squishy on AZ lawJeff Jacoby's curious stance on the Arizona immigration law.
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May 10, 2010
Physician Assisted Suicide as a Civil RightSection 1553 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (a.k.a., ObamaCare)
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May 8, 2010
Feds to solve problem of children not fishing and hunting enoughChildren aren't hunting enough? It must have hurt to pander to those bitter clingers.
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May 6, 2010
'Feckless' Obama betrays environmentalist wackosBut does anyone really believe that Obama is going to make good on his State of the Union support for nuclear power and offshore drilling?
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May 6, 2010
Boston Joins Arizona BoycottThe Boston City Council unanimously passed a resolution "calling on the city to cut business ties with Arizona."
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May 4, 2010
The Jackboot on the Throat of BPThe Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is trying to cash in on the BP disaster. And lying.
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April 29, 2010
Fiddling While Madrid BurnsA triumph of living for the moment over the brutal demands of survival.
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April 28, 2010
Comparing the Tea Party to al-QaedaIn addition to having more empathy for violent terrorists than for the Tea Party, the left also fears the Tea Party more than it does terrorists.
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April 28, 2010
64 government housing programs can't be wrongThat's a lot of SEIU assistant administrators and diversity coordinators.
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April 17, 2010
Year ZeroThe Khmer Rouge declared revolutionary Year Zero thirty-five years ago today, intent on establishing history's purest form of Communism. The lessons of their experiment have been deliberately obscured.
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April 15, 2010
Acting stupidly in CambridgeIt cost Cambridge, MA taxpayers $161,000 to investigate the Henry Louis Gates affair.
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April 14, 2010
'You're Racist, Sexist, Anti-Gay! Tea Party Bigots Go Away!'Sarah Palin and Tea Partiers met leftist demonstators in Boston today. With exclusive pictures.
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April 12, 2010
Federal Anti-Obesity Initiative to Eliminate Food DesertsHow to waste taxpayers' money and get in the face of Big Labor's biggest target.
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April 9, 2010
Nancy and Harry want you to choose the best candy barA sample of the level of detail in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare):
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April 9, 2010
Sarah Palin, Boston Common, April 14Here's a fun party trick. Surround yourself with liberals-not hard to find in Boston-and invite them to hear Sarah Palin at the Boston Tea Party rally on April 14th, the day before Tax Day.
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April 6, 2010
Does Anybody Really Understand ObamaCare?"How well do you feel you understand how the new health care reform law will affect you and your family?"
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April 6, 2010
Tend to Your Seeds, Mr. PresidentThe spectacle of a sarcastic President is not a pretty sight. Unsubstantiated sarcasm is downright repugnant.
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April 6, 2010
Six scary words: 'And not a moment too soon'The stagecoach is out of control on a mountain road and some of the passengers are yelling at the driver to whip the horses.
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April 4, 2010
Bonnie and Clyde's propaganda coupWhat greater propaganda coup than appearing on the front page of the New York Times?
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March 31, 2010
'What Makes Chechen Women So Dangerous?'It's hard to parody the New York Times when they see your parody and raise it with self-parody of their own.
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March 30, 2010
Caucasian female alert level raised to amberThe fact that mainstream media coverage of the Muslim terrorist attacks in Moscow was predictable makes it no less craven
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March 29, 2010
Constitutional separation of powers 'a real drag'The President who truly believes that his usurping power is good for the country is more frightening than a corrupt one.
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March 26, 2010
The Weatherization BoondoggleLeave it to the left to turn something as sensible as insulating your house into a big-government organized-labor boondoggle.
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March 25, 2010
Rep. Capuano: Further needed health care reformsSo $940 billion (and counting) is just a starting point?
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March 20, 2010
Community Organizing 2.0: 'Climate Community Activism'A casebook study of a new movement of "climate community activism" that pushes sustainability issues in municipal governments.
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March 10, 2010
Is the NFL 'Socialistic'?With the threat of an NFL player walkout in the news, the Boston Globe editorial board grabbed the opportunity to bring up the fatuous argument that football is a socialist enterprise.
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March 6, 2010
Disgusted that Partisan Politics Is Going OnDemocrat fundraising letters reveal the ugliness beneath demands for bipartisanship.
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February 28, 2010
If You Get Too Cold, I'll Tax the HeatWhen James Hansen came to town to hawk his book, I was prepared to come face to face with a fanatic.
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February 10, 2010
Green Police Aren't Just in Super Bowl AdsIf you've been watching the daily scandals destroy the credibility of the U.N. IPCC, then you might not realize that Cambridge, Massachusetts is in a state of climate emergency.