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  1. What is wrong with Mike Huckabee?

    → Wizbang | 20 Nov 2008 | 6:00 am MST

    I tried to watch the Dr. Helen & Instapundit interview with Mike Huckabee. (Interview starts about 7 minutes into video.) I really tried to watch the whole interview. I happen...



  2. The Kennedy Myth

    → Webloggin | 20 Nov 2008 | 5:58 am MST

    I was not a rebellious youngster.  I accepted my parents’ values and their rules, and pretty much toed the line.  My one area of rebellion was, looking back, a rather bizarre one:  I refused to buy into the Kennedy mythology.  Perhaps because I was a child of the Watergate era, I simply refused to accept [...]

  3. Minnesota Recount: Team Franken glad their supporters are uneducated?

    → Hot Air » Top Picks | 20 Nov 2008 | 5:53 am MST

    "Minority people"?

  4. Mortgage Processor: Loan Mods Don't Work

    → Bizblogger | 20 Nov 2008 | 5:03 am MST

    According to Lender Processing Services, which processes mortgage payments and tracks roughly 80% of all outstanding mortgages, loan modifications very often do not work.

    "Industry evidence indicates that in a majority of instances loan modifications simply delay the timeline from default to foreclosure but don't prevent them from taking place," Nathaniel Otis and William Clark, analysts at KBW, wrote in a note to investors on Tuesday.

    Some companies, including IndyMac, are finding out that even well-intentioned modifications simply do not work. This would be (and will be) more money down the toilet.

    FT points out that the plan would likely have the perverse consequence of increasing foreclosures by convincing current loans to go delinquent.


  5. Chloe’s Back!

    → Support Your Local Gunfighter | 20 Nov 2008 | 5:00 am MST

    And she’s packing heat! Actually, the entire cast of 24 is back on Sunday night in 24: Redemption. It’s wild, it’s crazy, it’s . . . Jack Bauer in Africa. Yes, Africa Africa. Okay, I know it sounds lame, but after a year and a half, it will be good to see Jack [...]

  6. Fake Duck Blood

    → Wizbang | 20 Nov 2008 | 4:46 am MST

    The latest product scandal from China. Duck blood tofu is cubes of clotted duck blood. According to a recent report from Reminbao, the majority of duck blood tofu now served...



  7. Larwyn's Link Kerplosion: Blood, Sweat and Crossword Puzzles

    → Doug Ross @ Journal | 20 Nov 2008 | 4:15 am MST

    • Media Research Center: Barack Obama's Margin of Victory • Ace of Spades: Flashback: Billions Paid to Keep 12,000 Downsized UAW Workers Paid, But Not Working, Unless You Consider Doing a Crossword Puzzle all Day "Working": Ken Pool is making good money. On weekdays, he shows up at 7 a.m. at Ford Motor Co.'s Michigan Truck Plant in Wayne, signs in, and then starts working -- on a crossword



  8. WWRRD?

    → Wizbang | 20 Nov 2008 | 3:30 am MST

    Yesterday, as word got around about the CEOs of the Big 2.5 automakers hopping on their private jets to go begging before Congress, I found myself thinking about Ronald Reagan,...



  9. Obama’s Rumored Picks Cheer Up GOP

    → Pajamas Media | 20 Nov 2008 | 1:04 am MST

    Leaks regarding Obama's likely cabinet choices have Republicans smiling.



  10. That Giant SUCKUP Sound in Washington

    → Pajamas Media | 20 Nov 2008 | 1:00 am MST

    The Seemingly Unlimited Cash Kitty Under Paulson (SUCKUP) is essentially deposing free market capitalism. Where is the outrage? (Also, Roger L. Simon: What Do Al Gore and the Big Auto CEOs Have in Common?)



  11. A Letter from London to Post-Election America

    → Pajamas Media | 20 Nov 2008 | 1:00 am MST

    Distance from my homeland has only heightened my awe of the unique American experiment.



  12. Christians and Gays Behaving Badly

    → Pajamas Media | 20 Nov 2008 | 1:00 am MST

    In the wake of Proposition 8, gays need to stop the thuggery and Christians need to cut the condescension.



  13. Social Security Fraud in the Classroom

    → Pajamas Media | 20 Nov 2008 | 1:00 am MST

    A Dallas scandal takes corruption, incompetence, and mismanagement to a new level.



  14. If I Held A Gun To Your Head…

    → Freedom Folks | 19 Nov 2008 | 11:35 pm MST

    And asked you to prove you were a douchebag, could you do it any better than this? In Libel Suit Against Simon & Schuster, Man Insists He Is Not A Douchebag LAS VEGAS (CN) - A man claims Simon & Schuster defamed him in the book “Hot Chicks with Douchebags.” Michael Minelli says two pages of [...]

  15. A damned defeat

    → American Thinker | 19 Nov 2008 | 11:04 pm MST

    We've just suffered a damned defeat, not as bad as the loss of a beloved father, but all the same a very bloody punch in the nose. Telling the truth is the first step to recovery. All is not lost.

  16. Obama Out-Gores Gore at Climate Summit

    → American Thinker | 19 Nov 2008 | 11:03 pm MST

    Barack Obama managed to say all the wrong things at this week's Governors Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles -- without even showing up.

  17. Iraq War: Right Time, Right Place, Right War

    → American Thinker | 19 Nov 2008 | 11:01 pm MST

    It needs to be said, even as we look ahead to an Obama Administration that has pledged, whatever the cost, to begin a draw down in Iraq: It was smart to go to war in Iraq

  18. Is Israel a Banana Republic?

    → American Thinker | 19 Nov 2008 | 10:01 pm MST

    is the State of Israel a banana republic? The Israeli Left seems to think so.

  19. Carolina Officers Use Taser On Pallbearer

    → Support Your Local Gunfighter | 19 Nov 2008 | 10:00 pm MST

    Damn, that must have been one Hell of a funeral! WILMINGTON, N.C. – A North Carolina sheriff’s official has apologized for plunging a funeral into chaos when undercover agents tried to arrest the dead man’s son — and used a Taser on him in the process. It happened as the coffin was being loaded into a hearse. [...]

  20. Obama is a roll of the dice on Israel

    → American Thinker | 19 Nov 2008 | 10:00 pm MST

    Obama's move to the center on Middle East Issues looks like a head fake in the light of what has transpired since the election.

  21. BBQ Covers Require Maintenance

    → House of Eratosthenes | 19 Nov 2008 | 8:58 pm MST

    …or else. The story begins “So im using my bbq this weekend…thought ill clean it up.” It involves an enemy hidden under a veil until after it’s neutralized — and a can of roach & flea killer. Summertime play equipment neglected throughout a fertile spring. Man against nature. Yeah…

  22. Quote of the day

    → Hot Air » Top Picks | 19 Nov 2008 | 8:40 pm MST

    Change.

  23. Al Qaeda Number 2 Calls Obama A House Negro

    → The Urban Grind | 19 Nov 2008 | 8:30 pm MST

    Americans just elected a black supremacist, Marxist crypto Muslim as their next President. Yet to Al Qaeda, he’s nothing but a “house negro.” In al-Qaida’s first response to Obama’s victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect—along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice—”house negroes.” Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term “abeed al-beit,” [...]

  24. Obama Names Fidel Castro Attorney As White House Counsel

    → The Urban Grind | 19 Nov 2008 | 8:21 pm MST

    Obama has chosen yet another Clintonite, attorney Gregory B. Craig as White House Counsel. Here’s some background on the man, and who he’s defended in the past. Mr. Craig directed President Clinton’s defense team during the impeachment battle against the president in 1998-1999, and he briefly served as a State Department official in the Clinton administration. [...]

  25. Idiot RINO Congressman - It’s Not Your Money!

    → The Urban Grind | 19 Nov 2008 | 8:07 pm MST

    The idiot RINO in question is Rep. Joe Knollenberg from Michigan. Here’s a video of him saying that the money for the bailouts of the auto industry doesn’t belong to taxpayers. Where does he think that money comes from? The tooth fairy? And if this bailout gets approved, all that money [...]

  26. A Little More On That Thing That absolutely — Positively Isn’t Happening!

    → Freedom Folks | 19 Nov 2008 | 7:48 pm MST

    And if it were it would be a good thing, so there! This is from John Fonte Piece on Alex Aleinikoff, co-chair of the O’s immigration transition team… Today, in the major precincts of mainstream American liberalism, the merely international is passé; the transnational, or global, is ascendant. As John [...]

  27. A5 wins 2009 Design of the Year

    → Doug Ross @ Journal | 19 Nov 2008 | 7:36 pm MST

    Automobile Magazine found a winner for its Design of the Year award. Last year, after disputing Volkswagen Group design chief Walter de'Silva's assertion that Audi's A5 is his best-ever design, we went on to confirm that he had indeed created a beautiful car... Just how beautiful has been clarified by seeing A5s on the road, but no one really fully appreciates the quality of its total design



  28. Franken Challenges Obviously Flawed Ballot

    → Doug Ross @ Journal | 19 Nov 2008 | 7:30 pm MST

    In the recount for the open Minnesota Senate seat, Al Franken is challenging this ballot: That’s my vote. I tried to write in Karl Rove. If I had written SCHMUCK across the ballot, then it would have been an obvious vote for Franken. Talk amongst yourselves. Topic: During the third century AD, three crises challenged the Byzantine Empire. Discuss.



  29. Perino: Conditions in Iraq now amount to victory

    → Hot Air » Top Picks | 19 Nov 2008 | 7:29 pm MST

    Hmmm.

  30. What does the Obama logo really mean?

    → Doug Ross @ Journal | 19 Nov 2008 | 7:00 pm MST

    Finally, from the horse's mouth, we get the real backstory on the ubiquitous Obama logo. Like any good piece of art, Prez-elect Barack Obama's campaign logo inspires many interpretations. At first, the ubiquitous "O," with its iridescent blue top and curved red-and-white stripes, seems simple enough. It's a disjointed flag with a rising sun at its center, intended to invoke both patriotism and



  31. Obama's Inauguration Could Break DC Bank

    → Wizbang | 19 Nov 2008 | 6:58 pm MST

    Barack Obama's inauguration is going to be so big and expensive that it could break Washington DC's bank when it comes to security. One commenter, Grant, had a great idea...



  32. Giving Up - On Kathleen Parker

    → Webloggin | 19 Nov 2008 | 6:52 pm MST

    Another case of conservative columnist spending too much time patting herself on the back for saying what her peers at the Washington Post will pat her on the back for saying. Personally I’m sick of cutsey columnists believing in themselves so much that they speak as if they are the official mouthpiece of conservatives. So when [...]

  33. What's the Point of Voting in California?

    → Wizbang | 19 Nov 2008 | 6:40 pm MST

    The citizens of California voted and decided that they want their state constitution to define marriage as being between one man and one woman. Well, not satisfied listening to their...



  34. Obama Names Eric Holder As His Attorney General

    → The Urban Grind | 19 Nov 2008 | 6:31 pm MST

    Here’s some background information on the guy. What the article I linked to glosses over is Holder’s involvement in the last minute pardon of fugitive tax cheat Marc Rich. But wait. There’s more. Holder was also very much involved in the pardons of Weather Underground terrorists Linda Evans and Susan Rosenberg. [...]

  35. Bail out the King!

    → Doug Ross @ Journal | 19 Nov 2008 | 6:31 pm MST

    Chris Kelly, writing at the Stuffington Roast, argues persuasively against a bailout of Chrysler Cerberus. There's no such thing as Chrysler. It doesn't even have any stockholders to save. If the bailout passes, your money will go directly to the hardworking men and women of something called Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. Cerberus, named for reasons unknown after the mythical three-headed



  36. Video: Metaphor of the day

    → Hot Air » Top Picks | 19 Nov 2008 | 6:05 pm MST

    Yes, it's Che.

  37. Bill Ayres Tries To Give Himself A Makeover

    → The Urban Grind | 19 Nov 2008 | 6:03 pm MST

    Now that Obama is our (ugh!) President Select, domestic terrorist Bill Ayres has come out of the woodwork in an effort to try and give himself a makeover. Of course, the MSM is helping him by giving him air time. His latest spiel is that he was a peaceful anti-war activist. But [...]

  38. Humpday History Highlight

    → Support Your Local Gunfighter | 19 Nov 2008 | 6:00 pm MST

    November 19, 1942 - Soviet Counterattack At Stalingrad The Soviet Red Army under General Georgi Zhukov launches Operation Uranus, the great Soviet counteroffensive that turned the tide in the Battle of Stalingrad. In their attempt to take Stalingrad, the German Sixth Army faced General Vasily Zhukov leading a bitter Red Army employing the ruined city to their [...]

  39. Shocking video proves: Football tailgaters can be boorish

    → Hot Air » Top Picks | 19 Nov 2008 | 5:30 pm MST

    Bombshell.

  40. By Hook Or By Crook!

    → Freedom Folks | 19 Nov 2008 | 5:10 pm MST

    Narrow Category?  Sure Gomer, sure… Feds revive amnesty of 1986 The federal government plans to give legal status to certain unauthorized immigrants who applied for a 1986 amnesty program but were either unfairly excluded or never received a response to their request. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials said the period to re-apply will be open for [...]

  41. Why Is Mexico The Way It Is?

    → Freedom Folks | 19 Nov 2008 | 5:09 pm MST

    An ongoing series… Gangs say they’ll hurt kids to get teachers’ holiday bonuses Elementary school teachers are the latest victims of an exploding extortion racket in the border city of Ciudad Juárez, as criminal gangs threaten educators to either hand over their coming Christmas bonuses or see harm done to their families or students, [...]

  42. Pirates: Terrorists at Sea

    → Webloggin | 19 Nov 2008 | 4:36 pm MST

    Pirates are terrorists, no other way to describe them. Their general operating procedure is to seize a ship, hold the crew as hostages, and demand large sums of money for the crew’s safety. Today the pirates/hijackers/terrorists demand $10 million for the Saudi super tanker (See Daily Mail.online article, amazing images) Two months ago Somalia [...]

  43. Still More Hate Mail

    → Support Your Local Gunfighter | 19 Nov 2008 | 2:00 pm MST

    It’s not easy being a highly successful blog professional. Just ask Sebastian. However, even terribly ineffective hack bloggers like myself sometimes garner a little hate mail. The mail bag is usually filled after a police officer dies in the line of duty. Like clockwork, all of the cop-hating toads and thugs [...]

  44. Market Shows Lack of Confidence in Obama

    → Bizblogger | 19 Nov 2008 | 1:53 pm MST

    While some may argue otherwise, I don't believe it's a coincidence that the stock market is down nearly 20% in just two weeks since Obama was elected president.

    As a discounting mechanism of future results, the market has no idea of what the economy might do under Obama's policies, but it clearly isn't optimistic. Think about what has changed since the election - not much. LIBOR spreads have more or less improved to a normalized level, but the stock market has tanked. The severity of a potential recession has been in the headlines for months, so the one key item that has changed is leadership - Obama and the Democrat majority in Congress. And the market is giving them a big vote of no confidence.

  45. America’s True Enemy

    → Webloggin | 19 Nov 2008 | 12:48 pm MST

    Will this finally get the nutroots to see Al Qaeda as a true enemy? Drudge’s headline:  Trash Talk:  Al-Qaida Insults Obama In New Message. The underlying story, here, explains that: Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the [...]

  46. Least Surprising News Of The Day!

    → Freedom Folks | 19 Nov 2008 | 12:33 pm MST

    From the “Gee Wilbur, why is Mexico the way it is?” files… Head of Interpol Mexico arrested for drug ties MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico arrested its head of Interpol on Tuesday for allegedly working for a powerful drug cartel and sent the military to take over police duties in the city of Tijuana in another step [...]

  47. Alliance shattered!

    → Cold Fury | 19 Nov 2008 | 12:32 pm MST

    Looks like the Left finally has a reason to want to see Muslim terrorists crushed: CAIRO, Egypt – Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites. The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims [...]

  48. National Review: Eric Holder Worst Possible Choice for AG

    → Bizblogger | 19 Nov 2008 | 12:29 pm MST

    The National Review makes a compelling argument that Eric Holder is not only an "uninspired" choice to be Obama's Attorney General, but the "worst possible choice" in today's age of terrorism. Holder is significantly more serious abut enforcing laws on affirmative action, racial profiling and gender rights than he is about terrorism and national security.

  49. Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah

    → iowahawk | 19 Nov 2008 | 12:11 pm MST

    The Summer Camp Letters of U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry PaulsonCAMP WAPSIPINOCONOMOWAC WISCONSIN"Where Boys Learn the Ways of Nature"June 8, 1956Dear Mom and Dad,How are you? I am fine. I am having fun at camp. Today we swam. I rememburd to...

  50. Operation Moonbat

    → Webloggin | 19 Nov 2008 | 11:43 am MST

    Operation Moonbat Sets Its Targets on Cheney With Grand Jury Indictments Now that the savior of the left has been elected to the nation’s highest office it is time to unleash the Daily Kosmonaut agenda and proceed with stringing up President Chimpy Chimperson and his evil co-conspirator Darth Cheney up by their giblets. Operation Moonbat is officially [...]

  51. Chris Matthews Disses The Hill-dabeast

    → Support Your Local Gunfighter | 19 Nov 2008 | 10:00 am MST

    Yeah, it’s funny, but Matthews is still a complete and utter tool. MSNBC shouldn’t hold their breath waiting for a Hillary Clinton interview. Matthews, who once opined that men who supported Clinton were “castratos in the eunuch chorus,” forgot the cardinal rule for those who are often mentioned on Page Six - he didn’t take a [...]

  52. A Look Around

    → Common Sense Junction | 19 Nov 2008 | 9:18 am MST

    While we look South, is the real invasion from the Far East? Appeasement is not victory but Saudis think its a strategy. UK to start charging Johns with rape if prostitute has a pimp. A day for all occasions now includes World Toilet Day. Student bonfire destroys 1,000 homes. The Pied Piper’s solution didn’t last. Hope is not a strategy; change [...]

  53. Microsoft To Offer Free Anti-Virus, Security Solution

    → Common Sense Junction | 19 Nov 2008 | 8:30 am MST

    Microsoft couldn’t compete in the fee-based anti-virus malware market so it has decided to give its stuff away. In a surprise move, Microsoft has announced it will offer a free anti-virus and security solution from the second half of next year. It will stop selling OneCare, its all-in-one security and PC management service, from the end of [...]

  54. Toolbox Adrift

    → House of Eratosthenes | 19 Nov 2008 | 8:06 am MST

    I remember one of my past linkages was particularly uncomfortable around machines, tools and such; she was the type of gal that fat old aristocratic drunk guy was talking about in Titanic when he said “women and machinery don’t mix!” or words to that effect. One day she needed me to take off from work [...]

  55. GOP Problems Run Deeper Than Repugs Want To Admit

    → Common Sense Junction | 19 Nov 2008 | 7:30 am MST

    If Republicans want to regain a meaningful place at the political table they had better start addressing ALL the crap that has frazzled the faithful. It’s clear the party has to get back to basics like smaller government, controlled spending, national security, personal integrity, family values, lower taxes, balanced budgets, and so forth but there’s another [...]

  56. Dems Want to Steal Kentucky House Seat

    → Bizblogger | 19 Nov 2008 | 7:08 am MST

    Democrats are trying to steal a House seat in Kentucky by proposing to throw out all of the 1,000+ votes in a district that went strongly for the Republican.

    Why stop there? Why count any votes that went for Republicans nationwide?


  57. Big 3 Autos = Sierra Club for Democrats

    → Bizblogger | 19 Nov 2008 | 6:50 am MST

    The WSJ points out that the root causes of the Big 3's troubles are by the Democrats' own making (sound familiar, Fannie Mae?) and the easiest way to help them is to ease the environmental restrictions that Democrats placed on them.

    If Congress wants to ease the immediate burden on Detroit, it could also ease the onerous fleet-mileage standards (CAFE rules) that force the companies to make cars domestically that are unprofitable. A mere tweak would help a lot -- for example, simply allow Detroit to meet CAFE standards by counting the cars it makes at home and abroad. This alone might save Chrysler from bankruptcy. But Congress won't budge on that simple change.

    ...All of this shows that Democrats don't merely want to save jobs. They want an entirely different American auto industry that serves goals other than selling cars to consumers. The green lobbies have disliked Detroit for decades -- for resisting fleet mileage standards and having the audacity to make SUVs, trucks and other vehicles that people have wanted to buy but that violate modern environmental pieties. For the greens, the bailout is their main chance to remake Detroit according to their dictates.

    Of course, why bother correcting the root of the problem when you can throw more free money around? (Free to the people that want to spend it, anyway.)

    *Update*
    Mitt Romney says that we need to let the companies go through bankruptcy in order to save them.


  58. It Took A World Recession To Make Kyoto Treaty Work

    → Common Sense Junction | 19 Nov 2008 | 6:28 am MST

    Greens Spell Progress R-e-c-e-s-s-i-o-n Climate Change: Great news for global warm-ongers: New data show the world is on target to meet the Kyoto targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The bad news: It took a major economic collapse to get it done. The U.N. says the 40 signatories to the Kyoto treaty have, on average, cut their [...]

  59. Cassy on the Post-November Patriots

    → House of Eratosthenes | 19 Nov 2008 | 5:44 am MST

    Cassy’s back, feeling better hopefully, and she has some words for the folks instructing the rest of us to love the country, with them, only now that His Hopey-Changey-ness has been elected President. What’s really pathetic is how for [Julianne] Malveaux, and many liberals like her, their love for their country is wrapped up in which [...]

  60. This Is Good LVII

    → House of Eratosthenes | 18 Nov 2008 | 9:20 pm MST

    (And in shame, I quietly peel down my pathetic little LOLRadrz post, crumple it up in a little ball and toss it in the scrap-basket. It’s been up for half an hour. Fate is cruel.) H/T: FrankJ.

  61. LOLRadrz

    → House of Eratosthenes | 18 Nov 2008 | 8:07 pm MST

    I say, if this makes a lick of sense to you…that means you’ve been hitting this site way too hard.

  62. Your Xmas Gift Prayers Are Answered

    → iowahawk | 18 Nov 2008 | 4:40 pm MST

    Thanks to my extremely talented buddy Greg May of ArtBitz, who designed this tasty new logo. Soon available on quality t-shirts and other commemorative merchandising scams! I would rather avoid CafePress and similar high-price services so I can pass the...

  63. Man in DFW greater metropolitan area who most deserves to have his ass kicked today.

    → Rachel Lucas | 18 Nov 2008 | 4:14 pm MST

    I was driving along a busy freeway a few hours ago when I came upon a traffic jam. The left lane slowed to a crawl and everyone was cramming into the right lane. Using my awesome powers of deduction and foresight, I decided to follow the herd and do the same. I [...]

  64. The speech you’ll never hear

    → Cold Fury | 18 Nov 2008 | 3:24 pm MST

    More of this, please. Now, please.

  65. A thought

    → Cold Fury | 18 Nov 2008 | 12:58 pm MST

    Know what I’m maybe most looking forward to about the coming Obamareich? When moonbats start blaming the inevitable failure of his policies on his being too “moderate,” too “bipartisan,” and eventually even “right-wing.” And you already know they will, after their attempts to pin it all on Bush and the Republicans become so laughable as [...]

  66. Did you vote for the Messiah?

    → Cold Fury | 18 Nov 2008 | 12:14 pm MST

    Then most likely, you’re an idiot.

  67. Franken: Election Workers Broke Election Law

    → California Conservative | 18 Nov 2008 | 11:56 am MST

    That title isn’t a direct quote from Franken. After you analyze their 11th hour attempt to get additional ballots include, though, that’s their unintended message. Here’s what Coleman for Senate Campaign Manager Cullen Sheehan said in his press release: “In a last minute attempt to stop the recount, directly contradicting what they said yesterday, the Franken [...]

  68. The Great Texas Migration: Part One

    → Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler | 18 Nov 2008 | 11:10 am MST

    As most of us in these parts know, the Imperial RadioCIA Studios™, and residence of the “M” and “JB” families has been in the process of moving to our real home, The Great Republic of Texas (can I get a yee-haw??). We’re happy to report that the move is officially completed with personnel and livestock [...]

  69. Gaggghhhhh… Bug!

    → Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler | 18 Nov 2008 | 11:00 am MST

    Just a public service announcement to explain why His Imperial Majesty, yours truly, hasn’t exactly been meeting publication deadlines as of late which, he’s sure, has caused widespread Misha Rant Deprivation Syndrome across our Empire. It turns out, upon consulting with a physician to confirm what we already, being all-knowing, knew, that His Imperial Rottieness has [...]

  70. Cat conversation

    → Cold Fury | 18 Nov 2008 | 10:48 am MST

    No, I’m not remotely kidding. (Via Mere Rhetoric, who has two more good ‘uns)

  71. State Canvassing Board Rejects Franken’s 11th Hour Bid

    → California Conservative | 18 Nov 2008 | 9:39 am MST

    According to this Strib article, the 5-member state canvassing board will reject Al Franken’s 11th hour gimmick and certify Norm Coleman the winner of the US Senate election. This isn’t what Franken wanted by any means. At 1pm this afternoon, Minnesota SecState Mark Ritchie will certify Norm Coleman the winner for a second time. It [...]

  72. How AND Why Obama Was Elected

    → Common Sense Junction | 18 Nov 2008 | 9:26 am MST

    Zogby Poll 512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points 97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions 57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing) 81.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing) 82.6% could NOT [...]

  73. $1.83!

    → Rachel Lucas | 18 Nov 2008 | 8:50 am MST

    It’s been fun watching the gas prices drop every time I drive past gas stations on my way to class. It’s like Bizarro World. Two weeks ago, one Racetrak station went from $2.19 per gallon (unleaded) on a Tuesday to $2.09 on Thursday to $1.99 Friday. Last Tuesday, it was $1.91, and [...]

  74. How Obama got elected

    → Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler | 18 Nov 2008 | 8:03 am MST

    More here 512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points 97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions 57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing) 81.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing) 82.6% could NOT [...]

  75. Now That the Election’s Over…

    → California Conservative | 18 Nov 2008 | 2:48 am MST

    Now that the election is over, the FMSM is publishing lots of self-examination articles. This article by Deborah Howell focuses on The Washington Post’s not vetting Obama. This article by Howard Kurtz speaks to the depth of the media’s infatuation with President-Elect Obama. Here’s the portion of Ms. Howell’s editorial that irritated me the most: Combine these [...]

  76. You have GOT to see this dog.

    → Rachel Lucas | 17 Nov 2008 | 4:41 pm MST

    Oh my god. I want to go up to Oklahoma City and kidnap that dog so that I can give her noogies and pork treats all day long for the rest of her awesome little life. If you can’t watch the video, I sincerely - TRULY - feel sorry for you right now. [...]

  77. California Proposition 8 Fallout [Reader Post]

    → Flopping Aces | 17 Nov 2008 | 2:40 pm MST

    I’d like to explain how it is that a (mostly) liberal like me can be against same-sex “marriage.” Right now, there is a raging protest going on over the passing of California’s Proposition 8, which was a California constitutional amendment to ban same sex “marriage.” What is bothering me and what is motivating me to write this, [...]

  78. Scenes from chem lab.

    → Rachel Lucas | 17 Nov 2008 | 11:27 am MST

    If you’re new here, I went back to college this fall as a degreed undergrad to take some science classes I need to get into grad school. These are freshman chemistry and sophomore biology at a decent 4-year university. I like to bitch about my classmates because I’m 36 years old and impatient [...]

  79. Obama Advisor - Lobbyist Who Undermined Fannie Oversight

    → Flopping Aces | 17 Nov 2008 | 10:41 am MST

    Another day, another report of a Obama transition team member who just happens to have played a big part in the Fannie/Freddie fiasco: One of Obama’s top transition team members, Thomas Donilon, oversaw an aggressive, backdoor lobbying campaign by mortgage giant Fannie Mae to undermine the credibility of a probe into the firm’s accounting irregularities, according [...]

  80. President Bush Still in Action Despite News Blackout

    → Flopping Aces | 16 Nov 2008 | 10:29 pm MST

    G20 Economic Summit in Washington! With all the Obama-hype readers may be forgiven if they are unaware we already have a President who is still on the job working on global economic issues. This weekend, President Bush held a summit of the world’s top 20 economic leaders in Washington. President George W. Bush addresses G20 leaders during [...]

  81. Breaking the Brass Ceiling

    → Flopping Aces | 16 Nov 2008 | 9:50 pm MST

    U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody smiles during her promotion to General, where she was pinned by Chief of Staff of the Army General George W. Casey, left, and her husband Craig Brotchie during her ceremony at the Pentagon Nov. 14, 2008. Dunwoody made history as the nations first 4 star female officer. DoD [...]

  82. “Beware the Evil Christocons!”

    → Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler | 16 Nov 2008 | 7:15 pm MST

    …and the demonization of that mythological, Christian fundamentalist known as the “social conservative” continues apace (h/t LGF) After a resounding electoral defeat, in which voters in this once-red state rejected Republicans McCain, Schaffer, and Musgrave, the Colorado Republican Party will undoubtedly be asking themselves, “Why did we lose?” I want to let them know that they lost [...]

  83. The Intolerance of Liberal Activists and a T-Shirt Experiment

    → Flopping Aces | 16 Nov 2008 | 4:44 pm MST

    In the weeks before the election, I noticed a growing number of my fellow citizens wearing Obama’s face on their t-shirts, usually in the spirit of socialist realism art. There’s not a politician alive who I admire enough to the point of worshipful adoration that I’d sport his likeness on my clothing or plaster [...]

  84. Obameinführer No Friend of the Jews

    → Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler | 16 Nov 2008 | 12:12 pm MST

    Which, really, is pretty much a “dog bites man” headline when you’re talking about The Anointed One, B. Hussein Obama. Barack Obama is to pursue an ambitious peace plan in the Middle East involving the recognition of Israel by the Arab world in exchange for its withdrawal to pre-1967 borders, according to sources close to America’s [...]

  85. Lies And the Lying SOB’s That Peddle This BS

    → California Conservative | 15 Nov 2008 | 8:17 am MST

    I’ve reached the point where I think that Al Franken makes Joe Wilson look almost honest. Al Franken is the most disgusting, dishonest person I’ve ever seen in public life. I offer this Coleman campaign press release as proof: COLEMAN FOR SENATE STATEMENT ON FALSE FRANKEN CLAIMS REGARDING BELTRAMI COUNTY VOTER ST. PAUL - Statement from Cullen [...]

  86. Refreshing Talk From Miami

    → California Conservative | 15 Nov 2008 | 12:32 am MST

    Byron York’s article for NRO is a great elixir for dispirited conservatives. Here’s the key portion of Mr. York’s column: To hear Palin, as well as the other governors tell it, voters will be looking for future GOP leaders who are not like current GOP leaders. Here at the conference, when a speaker denounces “Washington D.C.,” [...]

  87. Damn that Lucius Vorenus!

    → Rachel Lucas | 14 Nov 2008 | 4:37 pm MST

    I think I’m on pretty solid ground when I say the HBO series “Rome” was in the top 5 most awesome things to ever be on television. I never even had HBO until I saw an ad for “Rome” a few years back and knew instantly: I must have it. As soon as [...]

  88. Internationalhawk

    → iowahawk | 13 Nov 2008 | 4:56 pm MST

    Anarchy in the U.K.!Actually make that Anorak in the U.K., the offbeat British tabloid-monitoring news site which will soon be be hosting occasional contributions from Yours Truly. This joint will remain my main internet home, but my stuff for Anorak...

  89. Election Analysis: America Can Take Pride In This Historic, Inspirational Disaster

    → iowahawk | 6 Nov 2008 | 9:58 am MST

    Although I have not always been the most outspoken advocate of President-Elect Barack Obama, today I would like to congratulate him and add my voice to the millions of fellow citizens who are celebrating his historic and frightening election victory....

  90. Live from HawkNewsNow Chicago Electionpalooza Control Desk

    → iowahawk | 4 Nov 2008 | 6:40 pm MST

    Otherwise known as the wooden cable spool in my garage, where foreign correspondent Tim Blair and I are busy filing updates and nursing hangovers from last night's reader get-together. Newest updates at the top! ------------------------12:05 AM Let the Celebration BeginParty...

  91. Biden: Petraeus ‘Dead Flat Wrong’ on Iraq

    → Sweetness & Light | 23 Aug 2008 | 6:23 am MDT

    A flashback to less than a year ago from NBC’s Meet The Press, September 9, 2007: MR. RUSSERT:  Joe Biden, welcome back.  Welcome back from Iraq.  What did you see, hear, learn? SEN. JOSEPH BIDEN (D-DE):  Well, what I saw, heard, learned is a little bit what you heard from a general just a moment ago.  There [...]



  92. Biden Also Plagiarized, Padded His Resume

    → Sweetness & Light | 23 Aug 2008 | 5:31 am MDT

    A bit of history from archives of the New York Times: Biden Was Accused of Plagiarism in Law School By E. J. DIONNE JR., SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES Published: September 17, 1987 Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., a Democratic Presidential candidate, was accused of plagiarism while in his first year at Syracuse University Law School, academic [...]



  93. Biden Vowed To Fight Any Surge In Iraq

    → Sweetness & Light | 22 Aug 2008 | 10:05 pm MDT

    [Please note: this is a reprise of an article S&L posted back on December 26th, 2006.] From his fans at the DNC’s Associated Press: Biden vows to fight any Iraq troop boost By ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer Sen. Joseph Biden, the incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he will fight President Bush if the [...]



  94. Biden: What You’re Dealing With - Blacks

    → Sweetness & Light | 22 Aug 2008 | 10:04 pm MDT

    [Please note: this is a reprise of an article S&L posted back on October 25th, 2007.] From the DNC’s Washington Post: Biden Stumbles in Interview Thursday, October 25, 2007; A07 In an interview with The Washington Post’s editorial board, Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) asserted that he is more prepared to be president than any other candidate, disputed the notion [...]



  95. Biden: Will Shove Iraq Down Bush’s Throat

    → Sweetness & Light | 22 Aug 2008 | 10:03 pm MDT

    [Please note: this is a reprise of an article S&L posted back on May 1st, 2007.] The latest pronouncement from this Solon of the Senate, via YouTube: As USAToday points out: Biden on Bush & Iraq bill: ‘We’re going to shove it down his throat’ By: Mark Memmott and Jill Lawrence “We’re going to shove it down his throat.” So said [...]





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