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Harry Reid: “I Have Nothing to Announce, So Pay Attention”

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Posted by    Monday, October 26, 2009 at 3:15pm

Harry Reid just completed his press conference in which he committed to pushing a “public option” through the Senate. What form of public option? The Opt-Out form. What is the Opt-Out form? Let’s see what the legislative language says.

Does Reid have the votes to stop a filibuster? He would not say,...

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Avoiding The Real Health Care Questions

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Posted by    Monday, October 26, 2009 at 11:30am

The Democratic push on health care restructuring focuses on costs and control. But there are some questions the Democrats are avoiding:

Instead of solely considering costs, shouldn’t we ask if Americans are willing...
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A Clintonian Defense of Our Nixonian President

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Posted by    Monday, October 26, 2009 at 7:43am

It’s slipping away from the protectors of the Obama image. Increasingly, the mainstream media is using the term “Nixonian” in the same sentence as Obama. And all because of an unnecessary fight Obama picked with Fox News.

The term Nixonian has taken on a meaning far beyond the man Richard Nixon. While...

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Balloon Boy Derangement Syndrome

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Posted by    Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 6:06pm

I’ve been waiting patiently, armed with foresight that one of these days Bush Derangement Syndrome would work its way into the Balloon Boy hoax story (no links on the story, if you don’t know about it, go back to your cave).

And I’ve waited. And waited. It has been almost a week....

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What If He Can’t?

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Posted by    Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 8:57am

Toby Harnden, the great columnist and blogger for The Telegraph newspaper, has an article titled Barack Obama must stop campaigning and start governing.

The thrust of the article is that the U.S., being the land of the permanent campaign, naturally gave rise to the President who is on permanent campaign:

Perhaps we should...
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Saturday Night Card Game (Pandagon)

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Posted by    Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 6:30pm

The latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:

This time, it’s the reaction to my post about the two South Carolina Republican county chairs who used a sterotype of Jews being penny pinchers in a misguided and failed attempt to praise Sen. Jim DeMint’s frugal...

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The Most Monumental Power Grab You Never Heard About

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Posted by    Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 10:06am

The pre-weekend information dump included an announcement by the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department that the federal government proposes to extend its control over pay packages beyond financial institutions which received bailout funds.

According to the press release, the government proposes to monitor and, if need be, veto pay packages at any...

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Gallup: Most Against Obama Nobel Prize

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Posted by    Friday, October 23, 2009 at 7:32pm

Remember when Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, and Media Matters (the same entity coordinating a media boycott of Fox News) claimed that anyone who was unhappy with the award must be anti-American:

Well, at least conservatives are consistent in their open disdain for American achievement under Obama.

Reminiscent of the Friday Freakout...

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Concern Trolls Against Fox

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Posted by    Friday, October 23, 2009 at 4:15pm

Joe Klein is a concern troll. In purporting to criticize Obama’s attacks on Fox News, Klein devotes most of his latest post to attacking Fox News:

Let me be precise here: Fox News peddles a fair amount of hateful crap. Some of it borders on sedition. Much of it is flat...
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Caroline Glick Not Interested in Israel’s Survival?

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Posted by    Friday, October 23, 2009 at 9:12am

There are many stupid things said on the internet. Add to the list of top-ten contenders the claim that author Caroline Glick is not concerned with the survival of Israel.

This claim is made in a post at the Lawyers, Guns & Money blog, a left-wing group blog which for some bizarre...

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Mainstream Media Confronts The Monster It Created

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Posted by    Friday, October 23, 2009 at 7:54am

The Obama administration’s attack that Fox News is not a real “news organization” reflects on the psyche not of Fox News but of our Commander in Chief and his emissaries. It also is a pathetic re-write of history in light of the incredibly biased, pro-Obama media coverage during the election, when...

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Schoolyard Bully

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Posted by    Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 9:40pm

I’m late to this story, so I’ll mostly link to others. Barack Obama tried to bar Fox News from the White House news pool, a move that is unprecedented.

I have been sounding the alarm about Obama’s intolerant tendencies for a year. I was right.

Fortunately, the schoolyard bully backed down, because the...

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Grayson Death Number is Fiction

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Posted by    Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 7:30am

Alan Grayson, Democratic Congressman from Florida, is building his claim to fame on the accusation that 45,000 Americans die each year from lack of health insurance. Grayson even has started a website to count the dead. Grayson bases this number on a study released by Harvard Medical School and the Cambridge...

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If Obama Loves America, Press 1

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Posted by    Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 2:05pm

I’m no polling methods expert, but something about automated telephone polls strikes me as strange. Such as this question and method of response:

Do you think that Barack Obama loves America?
If yes, press 1. If no, press 2. If you’re not sure, press 3.

The responses to this question in a Public Policy...

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Obama’s Fox News Diversion

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Posted by    Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 7:05am

With each passing day, I am becoming more and more convinced that the Obama administration’s sustained and crude attacks on Fox News are a big diversion.

Sure, the attacks on Fox News are unprecedented in the post-Nixon era. Barack Milhous Obama may not be change we can believe in, but it is...

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