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The Atlantic Has A Mess On Its Hands

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Posted by    Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 6:39pm

The Atlantic Magazine thought it would be able to speak poetic historical justice, by splashing the headline that the original reviled one, Kenneth Starr of Monica and Bill and Blue Dress and Impeachment fame, had been arrested for running a Ponzi Scheme.

Oh, the deep, deep satisfaction. They could feel...

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Arlen Scorned

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Posted by    Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 12:15pm

This was completely unexpected:

Friends tell The Daily Beast that the departing senator, injured by Obama’s failure to show last-minute support, may well shift right on key votes from Kagan<...
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Why Did No One Ever Think Of This Before?

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Posted by    Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 10:27am

I am glad to be living in a nation where we have visionary thinkers, who think up thing that never have been thought up before in the history of our nation:

Military superiority is not enough to maintain U.S. strength and influence in the world, and the United States must build global...
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Left-Wing Epistemic Closure to Inconvenient History

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Posted by    Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 9:15am

There is a must read article at City Journal by author Claire Berlinski, A Hidden History of Evil – Why doesn’t anyone care about the unread Soviet archives?:

In the world’s collective consciousness, the word “Nazi” is synonymous with evil. It is widely understood that the Nazis’ ideology—nationalism, anti-Semitism, the autarkic ethnic...
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“It Depends Upon What The Meaning of ‘Job Offer’ Is”

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Posted by    Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 7:00am

Joe Sestak says “I was offered a job” by someone senior in the Obama administration in exchange for getting out of the Democratic primary against Arlen Specter.

“Joe heard what he wanted...

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Mr. Creepy, Reporter

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Posted by    Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 4:24pm

Travel plans once again took me away from the world most of the day, but I did catch a glimpse of Dave Weigel’s piece, Sarah Palin’s strange, unprofessional and paranoid grudge, in which he excoriates Sarah Palin for complaining that a reporter writing a book about her rented a house right...

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Admiral Sestak Needs Loose Lips To Save His Sinking Ship

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Posted by    Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 9:15am

Admiral Joe Sestak’s political ship is sinking. Not from loose lips, but the opposite.

Sestak has stated more than once that someone in the Obama administration offered him a job if he would drop out of the Democratic primary against Arlen Specter.

But Sestak is sticking by the admonition that “loose lips sink...

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Will Obama Really Fight For This Judicial Nominee?

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Posted by    Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 5:45am

John J. “Jack” McConnell, Jr. is the Obama administration’s nominee for an open seat on the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island.

As documented in my prior post, McConnell donated at least $430,000 to Democrats, including tens of thousands to the Democratic...

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Mexico Tells Obama What To Do With Those National Guard Troops

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Posted by    Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 7:27pm

Literally. Mexico told Obama what to do with the national guard troops Obama just ordered to the border.

Not kidding. Mexico told Obama what to do with the national guard troops Obama just ordered to the border.

You may not understand. Mexico did not make a profane suggestion, as in, put those troops...

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Bankrupt City Uses Federal $ To Outbid Private Home Buyers

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Posted by    Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 2:38pm

Last week I chronicled the saga of Central Falls, Rhode Island, which has filed for receivership, the state equivalent of bankruptcy, under the weight of union contracts and debt, Has First Public Sector Union Dom...

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There Probably Is Something I Care Less About

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Posted by    Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 12:19pm

Than this:

U2 Tour on Hold: Bono Recuperating from Emergency Back Surgery

I just can’t think of what it is right now.

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Another Dangerous Moral Equivalency

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Posted by    Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 11:30am

The perpetually anti-Israel British newspaper The Guardian ran an article suggesting that Shimon Peres of Israel offered to sell nuclear weapons to South Africa in the 1970s.

The article was based upon minutes of a meeting recently uncovered, which, depending upon how you interpreted the minutes, might have led to such...

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Arizona Will Not Come To Rhode Island

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Posted by    Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 9:15am

A bill introduced by Democratic Deputy Majority Leader Peter Palumbo in the Rhode Island House of Representatives, similar to the Arizona immigration law, will not be permitted to go to a committee hearing, much less a vote:

House Speaker Gordon D. Fox decided Monday that Rep. Peter Palumbo’s controversial Arizona-style bill on...
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“Little-Noticed” is the New “Unexpected”

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Posted by    Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 7:14am

Unexpected” has become the term of choice for the mainstream media to excuse the Obama administration’s economic failures.

Yesterday I read an article in The NY Times about something unexpected in Obama...

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As Deep Inside The Beltway As It Gets

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Posted by    Monday, May 24, 2010 at 3:34pm

Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post profiles Chuck Todd of NBC News, NBC’s Chuck Todd: White House correspondent, anchor, blogger, twitterer:

“Chuckie T,” as he’s sometimes called, is an unabashed political junkie from Miami who fed his habit during 15 years at the news digest Hotline. He seems most passionate on television...

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