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Mark Hemingway: Won't somebody think of the trustafarians?
Worse than waterboarding: Iraqi detainees use Favre to taunt Wisconsin soldiers.
Jay Cost: Of course 60 Democratic senators will vote yes on Saturday night's motion to proceed to debate on the health care bill.
Wesley Smith: ...
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Barack Obama
Sarah Palin
Andrew Malcolm wrote this up yesterday , news from the last stop of Obama's Asia trip:
Even President Obama himself during his just-concluded trip to Asia admitted that he was surprised to receive the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this year without actually producing any peace.
In fact, the ...
White House
Barack Obama
Afghanistan
Gallup Poll
Lee Jones
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Sen. Chuck Grassley asked Attorney General Eric Holder
in a hearing Wednesday for a list of the
employees at Dept. of Justice who might have to recuse themselves due to conflicts of interest over detainees. Some DOJ employees and their former ...
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WashTimes: DOJ has Conflicts of Interest on Detainees
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John Noonan is correct in stating that NORAD
will be sorely stretched by the requirement to stand
alerts against incursions by Russian bombers and reconnaissance aircraft (even if these pose only a minimal objective threat, air sovereignty must be ...
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Re: NORAD Looks Inward
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Politico reporters will give right-wingers the kind of
fair treatment than they can get almost nowhere else,
but in this piece on McCain's shift on cap and trade includes a line that just drips with bias. Reporter Lisa Lerer, wrongly in my opinion, ...
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"Productive Solutions"
What’s become of Captain Silvertongue Goldenvisage, bewitcher of men, mascot of children, icon of fools, fetish of knaves? His ship’s afloat, but barely. His sextant’s faulty. His rudder’s sluggish. His port side’s taking on water. His officers await his orders, flirt with mutiny. His crew is ...
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The New York Times has an interesting article up on the role of US and Canadian air defense in the post-9/11 world. Between 2001 and 2007, NORAD provided for regular combat air patrols over major US cities. Due to the spiraling costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, military planners swapped ...
World
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Another fun email from the NIAC treasure trove...Given
that J Street blasted Sarah Palin for her support
for the official policy of the government in Jerusalem, and given that even ADL chief Abe Foxman is questioning J Street's "pro-Israel" bona ...
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J Street: Not Really So Concerned About Israel's Security
It was reported this morning that Obama would not be letting us enjoy our Thanksgivings without a cameo from him, and now THE WEEKLY STANDARD has acquired this copy of the upcoming ad:
All right, I kid. The real ad is here, but almost equally weird.
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United Nations
Senator Ben Nelson announced today that he will vote yes on the motion to proceed Saturday night. Politico reports two Democrats remain undeclared: "A few moments ago, Sen. Dick Durbin walked back a statement he made earlier today that Sen. Blanche Lincoln told Senate Majority Leader Harry ...
Congress
Blanche Lincoln
Dick Durbin
Harry Reid
Bill Nelson
The National Iranian American Council denies it engages in lobbying, yet the organization's internal emails tell a different story . The group calls itself the National Iranian American Council, but it's run by Trita Parsi, an Iranian national who didn't even have a green card when he started ...
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Eric Holder
Iran
Old and busted storylyine: Tea Parties are aggressively, throughly corporate-organized Astrotuf.
New hotness: Tea Parties not organized enough .
Tea Parties: Illegitimate if you do. Illegitimate if you don't.
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Here are four key facts about the costs of the Democrats' 2,074-page Senate health bill:
1. According to the CBO, only 1 percent of the bill's costs would kick in prior to the fifth year of its alleged "first ten years" (2010 to 2019). Starting in 2014, 99 percent of the bill's costs would ...
Congress
Health care
Harry Reid
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It is things like this that make me
love the Internet. This week, MSNBC's intrepid Norah O'Donnell,
with the help of a team of producers and researchers, bravely confronted a 17-year-old girl in line for a Palin book signing about the ideological ...
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Teen Palin Fan Ambushed by Norah O'Donnell Responds to ...
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The University of Georgia is mourning its mascot,
Uga VII, who unexpectedly died of a heart attack
yesterday at four years old. He had served fewer than two seasons as the football team's mascot, the shortest tenure of any in the long line of ...
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The Daily Grind (Uga VII Memorial Edition)
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When Sarah Palin offered her unqualified support for
the Israeli government's policy of settlement expansion in East
Jerusalem and the West Bank, the self-described "pro-Israel, pro-peace" J Street blasted her for "pandering to her right-wing base ...
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ADL Blasts J Street: "Question Mark" About Pro-Israel ...
Last week, the West Virginia Supreme Court issued a well-deserved slap in the face to a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court, which all too often makes up the law out of whole cloth to meet its latest view of what is social and politically correct.
In June, the Court issued what may have been ...
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Virginia Foxx
Congress as an institution will never win any popularity sweepstakes. More than any other branch of government, it’s a forum for open, raucous, and partisan debate. And as a result, it also exposes the lack of consensus on many public policy questions.
Yet as this recent Gallup poll finds, ...
Congress
Nancy Pelosi
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The new Rasmussen poll for the 2010 Arizona
GOP Primary—John McCain 45%, J. D. Hayworth 43%—will generate
a fair amount of buzz. But August is a long way away, and I assume that when McCain gets back to Arizona and campaigns, he’ll pull it out. ...
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How Palin Will Help McCain
Senate Republican aides say that Harry Reid has scheduled the first vote on his health-care bill for Saturday night for 8:00 p.m. after 10 hours of floor debate. Ed Morrissey notes that registered voters oppose the House health care bill 51 percent to 35 percent ; a poll done by the Democratic ...
