Mickey Kaus is tearing into Carl Bernstein for his hypocritical comments on the News of the World hacking scandal, noting that Bernstein used the 1970′s equivalent of phone hacking to crack the Watergate scandal, using connections at the phone company to access phone private records, as well as obtaining private credit...
Perhaps so. Katie Pavlich has obtained an email in which ATF Assistant Director of Field Operations Mark R. Chait wrote the following:
This does not prove, as some on...
In the Spring of 2009, the Obama administration called for the banning of “assault rifles” and .50 BMG “sniper rifles” due to their use in crimes by Mexican drug cartels. Obama dubiously alleged that 90% of these weapons were tracked back...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports:
Cost savings from worker contributions to health care and retirement, taking effect today as part of the new collective bargaining laws, will swing the Kaukauna School District from a $400,000 budget deficit to an estimated $1.5 million surplus…. The district… plans to hire...
The same institution that put countries such as Libya, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia on their Human Rights Council and Iran on their Commission on...
This story is not getting nearly the attention it deserves, so I’m highlighting it here. In January 2009, President Obama appointed National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Vice President for Research, Advocacy, and Legislation Cecilia Munoz to be his Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.
Since then, federal funds to NCLR...
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As the mainstream media strained its resources and even brought on amateurs to power through Sarah Palin’s old emails for the scandal that wasn’t there, a slow-motion constitutional crisis has been unfolding.
The War Powers Resolution clearly states that president can authorize military action for 60 days without seeking congressional...
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I recently managed to get a few parking tickets dismissed. My parking permit fell off my mirror, resulting in about 4 tickets overnight. The parking office told me there was no rule against duplicate citations, and so did whomever processed my written appeal, which was rejected. ...
Its not The Onion, its the chutzpah of authoritarianism.
China’s state-run Xinhua news service praised the Chinese Communist Party’s latest volume of the “History of the Chinese Communist Party” as objective, containing “No exaggeration of glory and no denial of failure.”
Among other things, they blame “rightist” thought within the CPC for...
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Yale recently announced the closing of the The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), America’s first academic institute to study anti-Semitism, citing a lack of scholarly output and student interest. The overall Jewish community, and some newspaper columnists, are up in arms, claiming conspiracy.
However,...
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You might think so, from the “at least we aren’t hypocrites” defense that comes up every time a Democrat is caught with his pants down where they shouldn’t be.
When liberals and the MSM (…but I repeat myself) amplify Republican sex scandals and minimize Democratic ones by playing the hypocrisy...
This is a Prius; in the parking lot of a Starbucks; in Beverly Hills; with an Apple sticker; and a couple public employee union stickers. (Sheriffs, but still). Yet also, this intriguing anti-Obama bumper sticker. People are complicated that way.
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…that is, the fact that he or she is driving a Prius.
I took this picture in the parking lot of the California Republican Assembly convention in Orange County last spring. I saw the same car at the California Republican Convention the following fall in Sacramento, although I am unaware as to the identity of the activist.
EDIT: Added some close-ups for readability.
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In a closed door meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz asked Netanyahu to demand a pledge from the Republican Jewish Coalition not to make Israel a campaign issue in 2012. He did not.
To the uninitiated, Wasserman Schultz’s bizarre request seems...
