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Steelers’ Leftwich hurts left knee
→ The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment | 2 Sep 2010 | 6:56 pm MDT
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Steelers quarterback Byron Leftwich, expected to start during Ben Roethlisberger’s suspension, has injured his left knee during the first half of an exhibition game against Carolina. Leftwich completed an 18-yard pass to rookie Emmanuel Sanders before being knocked off his feet as running back Mewelde Moore attempted to block safety Marcus Hudson. The [...]
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Video: A huge Republican wave comparable to 1994 is coming, says … Evan Bayh
→ Hot Air » Top Picks | 2 Sep 2010 | 6:50 pm MDT
Waterloo.
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Seattle’s Jackson selected MVP for third time
→ The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment | 2 Sep 2010 | 6:50 pm MDT
SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Storm forward Lauren Jackson was selected the WNBA’s most valuable player for the third time in her career on Thursday night. Jackson was honored before Game 1 of Seattle’s best-of-3 Western Conference final against defending champion Phoenix. Also, the Storm’s Brian Agler was named the league’s coach of the year. Jackson, a 6-foot-5 [...]
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ClearOne’s attorney fees for CEO undecided
→ The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment | 2 Sep 2010 | 6:50 pm MDT
DENVER (AP) — An appellate court ruled that ClearOne Communications Inc.’s agreement to pay attorneys fees for its former CEO came with conditions, including that she not break the law. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver overturned a Utah judge’s preliminary injunction that required Salt Lake City-based ClearOne to pay attorneys fees for [...]
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Toddler trampled by moose in northern Colorado
→ The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment | 2 Sep 2010 | 6:48 pm MDT
GRAND LAKE, Colo. (AP) — A toddler was injured Thursday after being trampled by a moose in north-central Colorado. The extent of the child’s injuries wasn’t immediately clear, but the Grand County sheriff’s office said he was flown to Children’s Hospital in Denver. The child’s name and condition weren’t released. Colorado Division of Wildlife spokesman Randy Hampton [...]
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Indonesian volcano spews new burst of ash
→ The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment | 2 Sep 2010 | 6:47 pm MDT
TANAH KARO, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian volcano sent a new, powerful burst of hot ash and debris two miles (thousands of meters) into the air early Friday, sending villagers fleeing back to emergency shelters. The tremor could be felt five miles (8 kilometers) away, said Surono, who heads the nation’s volcano alert center. Mount Sinabung erupted [...]
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Gallup: Why likely-voter models may be undercounting Republicans
→ Hot Air » Top Picks | 2 Sep 2010 | 6:20 pm MDT
Enthused.
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The Joys Of Travel
→ The Other McCain | 2 Sep 2010 | 5:53 pm MDT
by Smitty McCain is off to Wasilla, and I’m off to see my mother-in-law, a lovely German lady, on the occasion of her birthday. I have the camcorder along, and hope to coax her to re-enact my last arrival. There was some street work underway, requiring my wife, D., to park some blocks off. Mother-in-law [...]
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Great news: Left-wing president turns into tax-cutting conservative just before midterms
→ Hot Air » Top Picks | 2 Sep 2010 | 5:40 pm MDT
Change.
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NTU: Dems planning to hike taxes on oil, energy companies
→ Hot Air » Top Picks | 2 Sep 2010 | 5:00 pm MDT
Bit by bit.
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Who is Dismantling America? Dr. Thomas Sowell Takes the Pulse
→ Big Government | 2 Sep 2010 | 4:47 pm MDT
Always a popular guest, Dr. Thomas Sowell returns to the show to discuss his latest book, Dismantling America. The book’s focus is wide ranging, as is the discussion. To take one example, Dr. Sowell questions whether most people understand what is meant by President Obama’s background as a “community organizer.” A community organizer isn’t a [...]
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Confirmed: Pretty much everyone offended by Vanity Fair hit piece on Palin
→ Hot Air » Top Picks | 2 Sep 2010 | 4:23 pm MDT
Bipartisan!
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At The Patrick Murray Campaign Office Opener Part 1
→ The Other McCain | 2 Sep 2010 | 3:45 pm MDT
by Smitty Last night I was at the Murray For Congress campaign office opener. A piper played Atholl Highlanders, which, if you follow the link, is tangentially linked to candidate Murray. Since I’ve studied that fine 6/8 quick time, I knew when to zoom in for the open grips at the end of the second stanza, [...]
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The Un-Peace Talks
→ Commentary | 2 Sep 2010 | 3:36 pm MDT
It would be bad enough if these talks were merely unproductive. But five people (I refuse to adopt the Obami’s counting system, which denies the death of the pregnant woman’s child) have died at the hands of terrorists. Should the talks break down (a strong possibility if Israel does not knuckle under to the demand for the [...]
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New Fun Sport: Tasering Old People after they fall
Hey Lee Armstrong. I hope they tase your old man next and then let’s see what you think. Filed under: Uncategorized
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Teamsters Win 2010 ‘Most Decertified Union’ Award
→ Big Government | 2 Sep 2010 | 3:03 pm MDT
With their pension plans about ready to implode (no wonder they’re clamoring for a union pension bailout), a union boss who was just dumped by his top running mate, and with hundreds of members out on strike, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters can now add one more thing to their pot of bad luck: The [...]
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NAACP, Others Start Tea Party Stalking Site
→ Sweetness & Light | 2 Sep 2010 | 2:47 pm MDT
From Fox News: NAACP, Left-Leaning Media Groups Form Tea Party Tracking Site Published September 02, 2010 | FoxNews.com A new website sponsored by the NAACP and left-leaning media operations is seeking videographers and bloggers who will search out "racism" and "extremism" among Tea Partiers. Teapartytracker.org will feature tweets, interviews with people at rallies, blog entries [...]
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Hillary for President Ad Hits Airwaves, Not a Repeat from 2007
→ All American Blogger | 2 Sep 2010 | 2:47 pm MDT
I have been wondering if President Obama would face a primary challenger in 2012. Considering the mid term elections are still two months away and there are already “Hillary for President” ads airing on television, I’m am starting to lean … Continue reading →
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SAVE THE CHILDREN!
→ Cold Fury | 2 Sep 2010 | 2:07 pm MDT
Oh good God. FTC Suspects Chuck E. Cheese of Marketing to Children The eagle-eyed regulators at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have a sneaking suspicion that a company offering disgusting pizza, animatronic human-sized mice, and a ball pit may be trying to appeal to children. Or rather, their marketing (the slogan was “Chuck E. Cheese: [...]
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More questions
→ Cold Fury | 2 Sep 2010 | 1:43 pm MDT
Harsanyi asks some good ones: Our long-term presence in Iraq, in fact, is likely to impede any ability to react militarily to genuine threats. Americans don’t have the appetite for it. So if the Islamic radical leadership of Iran — which many experts believe filled the vacuum left by toppling of Saddam Hussein — is, [...]
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Peace
→ Commentary | 2 Sep 2010 | 1:30 pm MDT
Well, that was something. Netanyahu and Abbas met today for a while, and then agreed to meet in a couple of weeks for a while. We’ll have to wait for leaks and the like to know what happened at the meeting and what the dynamics were and whether each side came with something that will [...]
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Feds Sue Sheriff Arpaio, Investigate Chuck E. Cheese — Border Secure!
→ Michelle Malkin | 2 Sep 2010 | 1:24 pm MDT
**Written by Doug Powers By now you can probably read all about this in a revised report to the UN’s Human Rights Council that the Obama administration couldn’t wait to file like a nine year old girl tattling to momma after catching her brother behind the barn reading Playboy, but if you haven’t yet heard, [...]
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Crocodile Dundee vs Australia’s Tax Police
→ Big Government | 2 Sep 2010 | 1:24 pm MDT
Here’s a Reuters story about the Australian Tax Office harassing Paul Hogan, better known to Americans as Crocodile Dundee, because of a tax dispute. The grinches at the tax office took advantage of Hogan’s return for his mother’s funeral to hold him hostage, refusing to let him leave the country until he coughs up some cash. [...]
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Sarah Palin Calls MSM Reporters ‘Impotent, Limp, and Gutless’
→ The Other McCain | 2 Sep 2010 | 1:00 pm MDT
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Just as I was packing up here, I saw that The Right Scoop had audio of an interview Sarah Palin did with Sean Hannity:By the time you read this, I’ll be on my way to Wasilla. Pray for me, and please remember the five most important words in the English language: Hit [...]
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Hillary Launches Israeli-Palestinian Talks
→ Sweetness & Light | 2 Sep 2010 | 12:54 pm MDT
From a memory challenged McClatchy: Hillary Clinton launches Israeli-Palestinian peace talks By Warren P. Strobel, McClatchy Newspapers Thu Sep 2, 2010 WASHINGTON — Israelis and Palestinians on Thursday opened their first direct peace negotiations in 20 months, a long-shot attempt to end the conflict that host Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acknowledged is burdened by [...]
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O’Reilly Gives Olbermann a Lesson in Supply and Demand (Comic)
→ All American Blogger | 2 Sep 2010 | 12:30 pm MDT
The ongoing feud between the jealous Keith Olbermann and the cable news Godfather Bill O’Reilly continues…
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‘Recovery Summer’ Sure To Go Viral
→ The Other McCain | 2 Sep 2010 | 12:16 pm MDT
by Smitty (via Insty) It just kept building, and the final graphic and background clip had me in a full-on guffaw:Would that the context wasn’t so serious.
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Obama still pushing his “Islam has always been part of America” lie
→ Cold Fury | 2 Sep 2010 | 12:11 pm MDT
Have you no shame, sir? At long last, have you no shame? Tonight, we are reminded that Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity. And Ramadan is a reminder that Islam has always been part of America. The first Muslim ambassador to the United States, from Tunisia, was hosted by President [...]
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FCC Chair Genachowski Blinks on Internet Regulation
→ Big Government | 2 Sep 2010 | 12:01 pm MDT
Yesterday Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski issued a statement on Network Neutrality and Internet reclassification that is difficult to interpret in any way other than “I’m not interested in walking the Media Marxist Net Neutrality plank.” Chairman Genachowski has called for another round of public comment on the two contentious components of Net [...]
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Obama Sues Arpaio In ‘Civil Rights’ Probe
→ Sweetness & Light | 2 Sep 2010 | 11:52 am MDT
From a joyous Associated Press: Feds sue Arizona sheriff in civil rights probe By Jacques Billeaud, Associated Press Writer September 2, 2010 PHOENIX – The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department [...]
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Hagel, Sestak, and Pro-Israel Groups
→ Commentary | 2 Sep 2010 | 11:12 am MDT
When Chuck Hagel threw his support to Democratic Senate candidate Joe Sestak and seemed to have made it into the short list for a replacement for Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, alarm bells went off with pro-Israel groups. The Washington Jewish Week reports just how serious is the opposition and aversion to Hagel: “I would regard [...]
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→ Sweetness & Light | 2 Sep 2010 | 11:03 am MDT
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Second Oil Rig Explodes In Gulf of Mexico
→ Sweetness & Light | 2 Sep 2010 | 11:03 am MDT
From the Baton Rouge CBS affiliate WAFB Channel 9: Oil rig explodes in Gulf of Mexico Sep 02, 2010 VERMILION BAY, LA (WAFB) – The Coast Guard is responding to another oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. According to the Coast Guard, 13 people were onboard when it exploded and caught fire Thursday [...]
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Hedge Fund Manager Earns Millions on Carbon, Spends it Financing Global Warming Initiative Campaign
→ Big Government | 2 Sep 2010 | 10:59 am MDT
The state that is home to Hollywood often leads the nation when it comes to creating illusion. Sometimes, the illusion becomes a law like AB32, the so-called “Global Warming Solutions Act”. Two Democratic presidents and one Republican agreed in deciding that the Kyoto Protocol was a fundamentally flawed idea and refrained from having the United [...]
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FTC Suspects Chuck E Cheese Markets to Kids; Also Suspects The Scooter Store of Marketing to Disabled, Miracle Ear to Deaf
→ All American Blogger | 2 Sep 2010 | 10:49 am MDT
You really have to hand it to those folks at the Federal Trade Commission. You have to get up pretty early in the morning to get away with something with them on watch. Someone there noticed something nefarious with the … Continue reading →
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Meet Team Joe
→ The Other McCain | 2 Sep 2010 | 10:29 am MDT
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Yesterday I dropped by the Joe Miller campaign office, where the staff was busy gearing up for the Nov. 2 general election. Two top members of Team Joe took time to talk:Continuing a theme we started yesterday, let’s take a look at the front page of this morning’s local paper:Notice that there [...]
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Leftard, heal thyself
→ Cold Fury | 2 Sep 2010 | 10:26 am MDT
Wisdom from Treacher on the latest Psychotic Left douchebag to try to kill a bunch of people: James Jay Lee, the Discovery Channel would-be bomber who was shot and killed by police yesterday, left behind an online trail of radical environmentalist and outright anti-human propaganda. He had been yelling at the Discovery Channel for years [...]
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Blair: Use Military Force on Iran If Neccessary
→ Commentary | 2 Sep 2010 | 10:25 am MDT
An experienced Middle East hand directs me to Tony Blair’s comments yesterday: “I am saying that I think it is wholly unacceptable for Iran to have a nuclear weapons capability and I think we have got to be prepared to confront them, if necessary militarily. I think there is no alternative to that if they continue to [...]
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Oil Rig explosion in Gulf of Mexico
This is a developing story. NEW ORLEANS — At least one person was injured after a rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, about 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay, the U.S. Coast Guard said. It happened around 9 a.m., and as of 10:15 a.m., the rig was still burning, Chief Petty Officer John Edwards [...]
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Shallow water rig explosion in Gulf of Mexico; meanwhile, in Greenland…
→ Michelle Malkin | 2 Sep 2010 | 10:05 am MDT
New Orleans TV station WDSU is reporting on a new mishap off the Louisiana coast involving a shallow water rig. One person is missing after a rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, about 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay, the U.S. Coast Guard said. It happened around 9 a.m., and as of 10:15 a.m., [...]
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Obama Uses Democratic Socialists of America’s Honorary Chairperson in Department of Labor Ads
→ All American Blogger | 2 Sep 2010 | 9:59 am MDT
The following video requires a disclaimer, warning rational, freedom loving Americans that it will most likely enrage them. Naked Emperor News has compiled different videos and some audio showing the Obama Administration’s use of the Democratic Socialists of America’s Honorary … Continue reading →
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Hillary hosts Middle East Peace Talk Conference
Oh Look! Someone who actually looks and acts Presidential! h/t Mom. Part 2 – Netanyahu Part 2 – Abbas Filed under: Uncategorized
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Liberalism’s Existential Crisis
→ Commentary | 2 Sep 2010 | 9:39 am MDT
As the Obama presidency and the Democratic Party continue their journey into the Slough of Despond, it’s interesting to watch Obama’ supporters try to process the unfolding events. Some blame it on a failure to communicate. E.J. Dionne, Jr., for example, ascribes the Democrats’ problems to the fact that Obama “has chosen not to engage the [...]
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The Deval Made Him Say It: Glenn Beck’s Rally is the Downside of Freedom
→ Michelle Malkin | 2 Sep 2010 | 9:19 am MDT
**Written by Doug Powers Every now and then, a politician goofs and reveals more than he or she intended, providing a window into the true motives or beliefs. Michigan’s John Dingell claiming that Obamacare is a peachy way to “control the people,” and President Obama saying that America is a world super power “whether we [...]
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Arizona Now Has 30 National Guard Troops, 15 Warning Signs, 0 Chance of Help from Washington
→ All American Blogger | 2 Sep 2010 | 8:57 am MDT
Thirty miles from the capitol of Arizona are signs of human smuggling, drug cartels and danger to the health and welfare of innocent Americans. I’m not talking about evidence. I mean actual signs: There are now 15 of these signs … Continue reading →
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Sigh: DHS posts signs to deter illegal aliens
→ Michelle Malkin | 2 Sep 2010 | 8:19 am MDT
In Invasion, published eight years ago, I pointed out that the Bush administration’s lame immigration enforcement measures included orange rubber cones and useless “No Entry” signs posted at the border. Well, file this under “The more things change.” The Washington Times reports that the Obama administration is posting new signs at the border warning travelers [...]
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The OTHER Ground Zero Islamic Memorial
→ Common Sense Junction | 2 Sep 2010 | 8:13 am MDT
Laura Bush plans to join Michelle Obama in Somerset, Pennsylvania on September 11, 2010 to celebrate the pending memorial to be built there under the supervision of the National Park Service. The memorial — or the Crescent of Betrayal — will be constructed on the crash site of Flight 93. It is designed to honor [...]
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Al Gore's Poison
→ American Thinker | 2 Sep 2010 | 8:09 am MDT
Sadly, yesterday's gunman at the Discovery Channel was not the first incident of someone going berserk after taking in Gore's work.
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Speaking truth to race-hustlers
→ Michelle Malkin | 2 Sep 2010 | 7:51 am MDT
Right on: (h/t Sissy Willis via F.A.M.) And right on again, from Jerome Hudson via Human Events: Like most Americans, I’ve had enough with this administration’s policies. I was fed up and fired up. I am even more so in the wake of the most moving gathering I’ve ever been privileged to be a part [...]
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Muslim Heritage In America
→ Common Sense Junction | 2 Sep 2010 | 7:21 am MDT
From over the transom: Barack Hussein Obama, during his Cairo speech in June, 2009, said: “I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America’s story.” AN AMERICAN CITIZEN’S RESPONSE: Dear Mr. Obama: Were those Muslims that were in America when the Pilgrims first landed? Funny, I thought they were Native American Indians. [...]
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A question
→ Cold Fury | 2 Sep 2010 | 6:29 am MDT
So, Leftards: does Al Gore now have blood on his hands, same as you always say Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, et al do each and every time you jump to the same old erroneous conclusion about some violent incident or other — and before it becomes known that the perp is yet another one of your [...]
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Deval Patrick: "I Wish It Weren't" a Free Country
→ Bizblogger | 2 Sep 2010 | 5:58 am MDT
Mass. Democrat Governor and Obama buddy Deval Patrick is a bit too candid with his views on the Beck-Palin rally which attracted approximately 500,000 Americans:"It''s a free country. I wish it weren't."
It's how radical leftists think.
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The economy is definitely in good shape for your wealthy congress
Funny how so many people have struggled continuously since the 2008 economic crash even though Barack and The Gang keep telling us things are getting better. Now there’s talk of double dip recession. Consumers are afraid and are now saving more than they have in the past several decades. People, especially seniors, who lost their [...]
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U.S. To Arizona Travelers: Area Is Unsafe
→ Common Sense Junction | 2 Sep 2010 | 3:10 am MDT
The Washingtom Times The federal government has posted signs along a major interstate highway in Arizona, more than 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, warning travelers the area is unsafe because of drug and alien smugglers, and a local sheriff says Mexican drug cartels now control some parts of the state. The signs were [...]
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Dead Flowers Ignite House Fire
→ Common Sense Junction | 2 Sep 2010 | 3:05 am MDT
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A fire that did $20,000 in damages to a northeast Arkansas home wasn’t caused by an electrical problem or burning food or arson, an insurance investigator concluded. Instead, the dead plants did it, according to a report summary provided to the homeowner, Brian Duncan. “The fire was caused by self-heating [...]
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No Other President Would Have Considered It
→ Common Sense Junction | 2 Sep 2010 | 3:00 am MDT
Carol A. Taber at American Thinker: Beyond the outrage felt by Governor Jan Brewer, whose move to protect Arizonans’ human rights was offered up as an example of an abuse of human rights by Mr. Obama’s State Department report (gotta protect those drug cartel murderers!), for many citizens, this report is a rank anti-American manifesto [...]
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I think I may be done
→ Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler | 2 Sep 2010 | 12:20 am MDT
I know that you are getting tired of seeing these progress reports. I am tired of writing them. I have other things I should be doing right now, but I have had to re-work some things that I hadn’t expected to be doing and so I’ve gotten behind. My goal was to have a new [...]
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The Left Loses Another Martyr
→ Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler | 2 Sep 2010 | 12:11 am MDT
…as EnvironMENTAList James Lee assumes room temperature after taking the Discovery Channel HQ hostage. We have to say, though, that we’re impressed that the leftist rabble finally found a spokesman who made even the clinically insane ELFs look positively reasonable by comparison. If you doubt us, take a look at his “manifesto” which goes on [...]
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Obama's Evolving Image
→ American Thinker | 2 Sep 2010 | 12:04 am MDT
An image, as any PR pro can tell you, has a life of its own. This is as true of presidents as anyone else.
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Beck's 'Obsession' with Black Liberation Theology Thoroughly Justified
→ American Thinker | 2 Sep 2010 | 12:04 am MDT
LA Times columnist Tim Rutten has dug himself into a pit of theological quicksand with his harsh criticism of Glenn Beck.
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The Joe Miller Lesson Applied to the GOP Congressional Leadership
→ American Thinker | 2 Sep 2010 | 12:04 am MDT
On the cusp of what is trending toward a significant Republican victory in November, the current GOP congressional leadership has yet to make a compelling case that they're ready to lead a majority party.
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Black Civil Rights Mafia Betrays Black America
→ American Thinker | 2 Sep 2010 | 12:04 am MDT
Black civil rights dinosaurs and their liberal white guilt-ridden sycophants campaign to "Keep Hate Alive."
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Psycho Alert: Hostages held by environment whacko in Discovery Channel building
UPDATE: AUTHORITIES HAVE SHOT THIS NUTBALL. Boy, he sure achieved a lot today, didn’t he? By now you have probably all heard about the psycho who has probable explosives attached to his psycho self, along with a “Dead Man’s Switch”. His name is James Jay Lee and he is a veteran protestor. He was arrested [...]
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King Narcissus Reluctantly Manages to Mention Somebody Other Than Himself in Speech
→ Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler | 1 Sep 2010 | 11:15 am MDT
Yes, it must have hurt him most grievously but, kicking and screaming, he allowed himself to be dragged into spending one whole paragraph mentioning President Bush in a speech about a war that was started and almost won under the administration of, well, President Bush. This afternoon, I spoke to former President George W. Bush. [...]
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Obama Education Sec. Invites DOE Employees to Sharpton Rally
→ Bizblogger | 1 Sep 2010 | 10:07 am MDT
Just catching up on some of the news over the past week. Obama's Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, invited all DOE employees to Al Sharpton's rally last week. Incidentally, the Beck-Palin rally, held on the same day, had 100 times the number of people.As David Boaz explained in the Examiner, it was a ”highly inappropriate” thing to do, pushing people who are supposed to serve all Americans to support one side of a “political debate.” But that’s just the most obvious problem with Duncan’s weekend doings.
Perhaps just as troubling as his rally-prodding is that Duncan declared education “the civil rights issue of our generation” at Sharpton’s event. This only about a year after helping to kill an education program widely supported by many of the people he and Sharpton insist they want to empower. I’m talking, of course, about Washington, DC’s, Opportunity Scholarship Program, a voucher program that was proven effective. But the heck with success — Duncan and President Obama let the union-hated program die.
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Paul Krugman is Pissing Himself
→ Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler | 31 Aug 2010 | 1:08 am MDT
It appears the famous ENRON consultant and New York Slimes “economist” has finally gotten out of denial and started reading the polls, now that they show a 10 point gap between Republicans and Democrats in the “what generic candidate will you vote for?” poll. It’s not just historic for being the first time in the [...]
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Wanna Buy Some Books?
→ Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler | 30 Aug 2010 | 11:23 pm MDT
Well here’s your chance. I’m sure you’re all familiar with LC & IB Baldilocks, since she and I go back a looooong time, not to mention that she’s one of the more famous blogmeisters out there. She’s been using her immense talent for writing to put out a book, all she needs is some PR [...]
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Have Your People Call My People
→ iowahawk | 30 Aug 2010 | 1:33 pm MDT
(Image courtesy Nate Whited) Jim Treacher reports that former child actor (and pride of the Evanston Township HS English Department) John Cusack has discovered the joys of Twitter, with somewhat predictable results. Crueler folks have already analyzed Mr. Cusack's 140-character...
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My holiday is being ruined by global cooling. But try telling that to the ’scientists’
→ James Delingpole | 29 Aug 2010 | 8:33 pm MDT
I’m writing this in Salcombe, Devon on a rainy, miserable summer’s day which, I fear, may be all too symptomatic of the climatic rubbish we can all expect for the next 30 years as – thanks to changes in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation combined with a solar minimum – we enter a period of global [...]
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Help a Brother Out
→ iowahawk | 29 Aug 2010 | 11:32 am MDT
Longtime Iowahawk readers will recall my old Ozark hotrodding medico friend Darren "Doc" Lee from Operation Dumb-Vee, where we successfully conspired to plaster Doc's Army unit's vehicles with morale-boosting refridgerator magnets from home, during his stint in Iraq. You also...
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Cheaterama!
→ iowahawk | 29 Aug 2010 | 10:18 am MDT
You restore America your way, I'll restore it mine. Of all the car events I attend (and I attend a lot of 'em) none tops Cheaterama, the annual hot rod convocation organized by my wisecracking / car building buddies in...
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Why I’m Not Hiring
→ California Conservative | 27 Aug 2010 | 5:07 pm MDT
When you add it all up, it costs $74,000 to put $44,000 in Sally’s pocket and to give her $12,000 in benefits. With unemployment just under 10% and companies sitting on their cash, you would think that sooner or later job growth would take off. I think it’s going to be later—much later. Here’s why. Meet Sally [...]
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Let’s Get Serious
→ California Conservative | 26 Aug 2010 | 11:59 pm MDT
Reid Wilson’s article isn’t just delusional. It’s denying reality. Wilson makes some traditional, conventional wisdom arguments that aren’t persuasive, starting with this one: Money: On both a macro level and a micro level, Republicans are seriously behind in the money chase. Most candidates enrolled in the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s Frontline program for endangered incumbents have [...]
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Battered but triumphant
→ James Delingpole | 26 Aug 2010 | 8:01 am MDT
Big River Man (part of More 4’s ‘True Stories’, Tuesday) was one of the most gripping and brilliant, infuriating and disappointing documentaries I’ve ever seen. (to read more, click here)
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It is not drugs that cause the problems, it’s the wholly unwinnable war on drugs
→ James Delingpole | 26 Aug 2010 | 7:59 am MDT
At a dinner party a couple of years ago I was lucky enough to be sat near one of my heroes, Roger Scruton — like being a couch away from Socrates at a symposium. But then, halfway through, the great man began sounding off on one of the two things he is completely and utterly [...]
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Keep it Simple
→ California Conservative | 25 Aug 2010 | 11:28 am MDT
Dick Morris’ latest column has some great advice for Republican candidates. Here’s his advice: Republican negative ad writers always delight in describing the Stimulus package as bloated, wasteful, government-growing, and useless. The adjectives get in the way. The polling we’ve done indicates that the simple words “stimulus package” convey all that and more. There is no need [...]
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Vacation time
→ Bizblogger | 25 Aug 2010 | 7:02 am MDT
On a personal note, I will be away from blogging for about a week while I'm on vacation.
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Vast Majority of Mainstream America Oppose GZ Mosque
→ Bizblogger | 25 Aug 2010 | 7:01 am MDT
68% of America's political class like the idea of the Ground Zero Victory mosque. 77% of America's mainstream are opposed to it.
Out of touch as usual.
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Intel CEO Gives Us the "Bitter Truth:" Obama Destroying Economy
→ Bizblogger | 24 Aug 2010 | 5:14 pm MDT
Intel CEO Paul Otellini offers an ominous view of the U.S. economy and the Obama administration's faltering.
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Off on a Fool's Errand
→ iowahawk | 23 Aug 2010 | 6:51 pm MDT
Brief note to emailers curious about my recent posting hiatus: no worries, all's fine and dandy in Iowahawkland. I'm just temporarily shifting attention to a couple of writing projects, one of which is a book of all-new material. I've always...
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The Personification of Desperation
→ California Conservative | 21 Aug 2010 | 6:51 pm MDT
If ever there was a campaign tactic that’s doomed for failure, it’s the tactic that the Wisconsin Democratic Party is deploying against Sean Duffy. Here’s what’s being reported on the Democrats’ stunt: The campaign for the Wisconsin 7th District House seat being vacated by retiring Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey took a strange turn on Friday [...]
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Is the Second Recession Bush’s Fault, Too?
→ California Conservative | 21 Aug 2010 | 2:42 pm MDT
Months ago, when the Q4 GDP numbers came out, the Obama administration touted how their stimulus bill had pulled the country back from the brink of a new Great Depression. The Q4 GDP was 5.7 percent annual growth rate, a strong showing. After seeing first time unemployment applications jump to 500,000 this week and with Q2 [...]
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Why conservatives shouldn’t believe in man made climate change
→ James Delingpole | 17 Aug 2010 | 8:58 pm MDT
My friend and colleague Ed West has written a catch-comment piece entitled Why Shouldn’t Conservatives Believe in Man Made Climate Change. I’ve no objection to catch-comment pieces (I really must do an anti-Obama one soon to catch up with Nile Gardiner: after all I did write the book on the subject). And I’ve even less [...]
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I know exactly what I want to read this summer — if only I could find it
→ James Delingpole | 15 Aug 2010 | 3:14 am MDT
What I thought I’d do this summer holidays is catch up with all those classics I’ve been meaning to read for ages: A la recherche du temps perdu, Moby-Dick, David Copperfield, Crime and Punishment, Madame Bovary, Vanity Fair, everything by the Brontës, anything German, Metamorphosis, the Odyssey, the Iliad, most Balzac, anything by P.G. Wodehouse, [...]
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The World Was Happy
→ iowahawk | 14 Aug 2010 | 10:50 am MDT
Happy VJ Day and special thanks to all veterans of the Pacific Theater. From Richard Sullivan some amazing film shot by his father in Honolulu, August 14, 1945. VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August 14, 1945 from Richard Sullivan on Vimeo.
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