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Obligatory — Krystal Ball uses daughter as prop
on April 05, 2013
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Alternative headline -- Krystal Ball daughter forgets lines forcing mother to cross-examine her on TV ...
The Thresher and The Scorpion
on April 05, 2013
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April 10 is the 50th anniversary of the disappearance of The Thresher submarine. At 9:18 a.m. on April 10, 1963, sonar operators aboard the U.S. Navy submarine rescue ship Skylark, which was accompanying the nuclear attack submarine Thresher, heard a chilling sound “like air rushing into...
Obamacare failing from impossibility not just incompetence
on April 05, 2013
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Joe Klein recently wrote, ObamaCare incompetence (via memeorandum) Let me try to understand this: the key incentive for small businesses to support Obamacare was that they would be able to shop for the best deals in health care superstores — called exchanges. The Administration has had...
What don’t you understand about these budget plans?
on April 05, 2013
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The choice is so clear. Which means they won't make the right choice. Via WaPo: ...
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The language police win again: AP bans term “Islamist” (Update: List of Muslim leaders who already have violated AP style guide)
on April 05, 2013
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The language police are getting crazy. There now no longer are Illegal Immigrants. And as of today at AP, there are no Islamists. We use the term Islamist here to distinguish the fundamentalists and radicals from the non-radicals. The Muslim Brotherhood is Islamist. Hamas is...
By all means continue with the charade
on April 05, 2013
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The Obama Administration has come up with another transparent stunt to attempt to paint the lackluster sequester doom as something other than the PR attempt that it was. Obama announced he would give 5 percent of his salary to the Treasury, a move that has now...
Mideast Media Sampler 04/05/2013 – Names will never hurt me
on April 05, 2013
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1) Casting the first stone - and all the subsequent ones too What's the difference between assault with a deadly weapon - a shooting - and assault with rocks that hit cars at potentially lethal speeds? Why should teenagers think of rock-throwing as something fun to...
Obama jobs “recovery” nears completion as people leave workforce in droves
on April 05, 2013
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The "unemployment rate" is a number which increasingly is just political, as we have the Obama-phenomenon of large numbers of people leaving the workforce thereby dropping the "unemployment rate" since people who leave the workforce don't count as unemployed. Long ago a reader predicted the terms...
Dem candidate in #IL02 blames Aurora victims: “Nobody pulled out their gun to kill the gentleman”
on April 05, 2013
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Robin Kelly apparently doesn't know theater was gun-free zone...
Branco Cartoon – Ready, Aim, Thud
on April 05, 2013
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Note: You may reprint this cartoon provided you link back to this source. To see more Legal Insurrection Branco cartoons, click here. Branco’s page Cartoonist A.F.Branco ...
5 Signs BuzzFeed May Have Peaked
on April 04, 2013
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I will take credit for the "Everybody Be Like BuzzFeed" mania sweeping politics, with my post Do not underestimate BuzzFeed Politics, which ran on February 6, 2013. I pushed the mania into overdrive when I mentioned the word ...
RI Senate approves Father-Daughter dances, ACLU still opposes
on April 04, 2013
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Father-daughter dances, currently banned in Cranston, Rhode Island after the ACLU and a single mother threatened to sue under the state anti-discrimination law, are one step closer to reinstatement. The Rhode Island Senate has approved language amending the law to allow single-sex events if comparable events are...
“Humans versus Zombies” Nerf gun game may have caused lockdown of U. Rhode Island
on April 04, 2013
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There was a lock down of the University of Rhode Island campus in Kingston today after reports of a possible gunman on campus. Lockdown lifted at URI Kingston campus; police say no evidence of shooter The Providence Journal had live coverage including a Twitter map showing locked-down students tweeting...
Pallywood fakes Palestinian handcuffed to hospital bed
on April 04, 2013
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Pallywood never sleeps. You already now that Pallywood is the longest running series in the history of fiction. Now it's being used to help incite a Third Intifada over the death of a Palestinian terrorist from cancer while in prison in Israel, via WaPo: Maysara Abu Hamdiya, 63, died...
Remembering Michael Kelly – 10 years later
on April 04, 2013
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Instapundit linked to Jeffrey Goldberg's tribute to Michael Kelly, an editor of The Atlantic who was killed in Iraq 10 years ago. Goldberg makes an observation that is apt: I miss Michael a lot, not least because he was one of the few funny people in Washington, but...
Ta-Nehisi Coates puts the “mask” on Dr. Ben Carson
on April 04, 2013
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... and so removes his own....
