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Your mainstream media at work: Time Mag cover of way too old kid breastfeeding

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Posted by    Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 1:23pm

Time Magazine wants attention, and it is getting it:

I will fight to my dying breath to preserve the freedom of the depressed former titans of information to run “don’t look at that car wreck on the side of the road” covers.

And to engage in a bigger mommie war, as detailed by Noah Rothman at Mediaite, ...

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Regrets, they have a few

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Posted by    Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 11:18am

But then again, not too few to mention.

Dave Serchuk in Forbes, Congratulations! You Just Made Rush Limbaugh Sympathetic! (emphasis mine):

Imagine this scenario: you are a lifelong liberal. You pretty much hate everything Rush Limbaugh stands for, and says. You are really glad that the times have finally seemed...

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Thought police at Univ. Rochester

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Posted by    Friday, March 9, 2012 at 8:30am

From University of Rochester (NY) Professor Stephen E. Landsburg, a blisteringly refreshing view of Sandra Fluke, Rush to Judgment (via Althouse h/t Instapundit):

But while Ms. Fluke herself deserves the same basic respect we owe to any human being, her position — which is what’s at issue here — deserves none whatseover.   It deserves...

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What Democracy Looks (And Sounds) Like

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Posted by    Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 9:00am

A common protest chant of the Occupy Wall Street crew and other radicals is “This is what democracy looks like!” – a trite, rhythmic expression of self-congratulation layered over an implication that they represent the true will of the people.

Yes, these protests are examples of things that can happen in a...

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Frank Zappa: “I’m A Conservative”

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Posted by    Tuesday, December 7, 2010 at 10:34am

Sent to me by a reader as a potential “Video of the Day” candidate, but deserves its own post.

As a youthful Zappa fan, I enjoyed this very much. The “I’m a conservative” statement comes at 3:15.

I didn’t realize until I graduated high school that there w...

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“If The Government Ran [_____], It Would Look Like [_____]“

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Posted by    Monday, November 8, 2010 at 5:24pm

If the government ran Hollywood, it would look like the BBC:

The BBC Trust, which scrutinises the corporation’s output on behalf of the licence fee payer, said daytime television on the BBC had become too dominated by shows about “collectables hunting and property”….

The Trust also said that BBC One needed to show...

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Jamie Gorelick Helping Rewrite Privacy Laws

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Posted by    Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 11:20am

I previously posted about Jamie Gorelick’s hiring as a lobbyist for Sallie Mae, the student loan agency. After the debacles she created by raising...

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Which Came First, The Single Payer or The Censorship?

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Posted by    Monday, March 22, 2010 at 5:59pm

At first, I thought this was a hoax, so I held off posting. But apparently it is for real, University of Ottawa’s letter to Ann Coulter.

I am reprinting it in full, because it is a paradigm of intolerance of opposing conservative viewpoints under the guise of promoting freedom of...

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Reagan on the Foundation of Freedom

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Posted by    Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 7:54pm

Ronald Reagan’s words on the foundation of freedom, so timely now as we are on the verge of the subservience of the individual to the state on the most fundamental aspects of our lives:

“Rejection of...
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What Don’t You Understand About The Internet

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Posted by    Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 1:32pm

In order to justify China’s crackdown on free speech on the internet, including banning YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, a Chinese communist newspaper posed this question:

The People’s Daily editorial asked rhetoric...
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He’s Not Really Into That “Rule of Law” Stuff

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Posted by    Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 2:41pm

Barack Obama reacting to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down parts of McCain-Feingold campaign contribution restrictions:

With its ruling today, the Supreme Court has given a green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics. It is a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks,...
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Alan-Grayson-Is-Nuts-talanche

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Posted by    Friday, December 18, 2009 at 7:25pm

I’ve posted about Alan Grayson before. The Congressman from Florida is the class clown of Congress (that’s including Al Franken in the equation).

Grayson not only is nuts, he has dangerous tendencies. As reported at Politico, Grayson is trying to get the Justice Department to prosecute someone who set up the...

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Fight for Anita

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Posted by    Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 2:59pm

Anita MonCrief is an ACORN whistleblower who is facing substantial legal fees to defend lawsuits brought against her by ACORN and its affiliates. A new website has been established to support her, the Anita MonCrief Defense Fund.

While you’re at it, visit Defend Hannah Giles, the young woman in the videotapes of...

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Beck Boycott A Defining Battle In Racial Politics

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Posted by    Tuesday, August 18, 2009 at 9:09am

The pressure put on advertisers to pull ads from the Glenn Beck show on Fox News has caused about a dozen major corporations to instruct their ad agencies to make sure their ads did not run on the show.

These advertisers never directed their advertising to Beck in the first place, but...

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Fishy Flag Operation Down But Not Out

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Posted by    Monday, August 17, 2009 at 11:47am

The White House appears to have taken down the Flag@Whitehouse.gov e-mail address used to have people report fishy comments by other people about health care. But, the bounce-back when you send an e-mail provides an alternative address, to the White House “reality check” web page:

At the “reality check” web page, people...

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