online.wsj.com - 11/18/2008
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"I make no excuses, I only wear them." Remember that? It was the pitch made by Donna Rice for a pair of tight-fitting stonewashed jeans some 20 years ago. Too bad the brand is long gone, since we're at yet another No Excuses moment in American politics. Specifically: a liberal No Excuses moment. ...
online.wsj.com - 11/25/2008
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online.wsj.com —
It's a safe bet, dear reader, that the
title of this column has caused you to either...
(a) roll your eyes and wonder, What century do you think we're living in? or (b) scratch your head and ask, Yes, why don't we? Wherever you come down, the question ...
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Bret Stephens: Why Don't We Hang Pirates Anymore?
joannejacobs.com - 11/21/2008
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joannejacobs.com —
Homework's not done? British students blame their computers,
a survey finds. Of the top-five tech homework excuses,...
computer crashes resulting in lost essays came out on top. Others were accidental deletion after completing the homework and a failed ...
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21st century excuses
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Daily Kos —
Your one stop pundit shop. Bret Stephens gives Barack Obama one year to clean-up George Bush and the Republican Party's: ...financial crisis, the mess in Detroit, the disposing of Guantanamo detainees, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Russian hostility, Chinese assertiveness, maybe the disintegration of Pakistan. After that? It's all the liberal's fault. William McGurn wants Barack Obama to ignore Stephen Hadley's role in misleading this country in war with Iraq and give him a Medal of Freedom. ...
No More Ifs
Fraters Libertas —
Good piece in today's WSJ by Bret Stephens pointing out that with an Obama administration and control of Congress, there are no more Excuses for Liberals : Now the long wait is over, and the liberal ship has come in. In Mr. Obama, liberals have a president who seems to have stepped out of the last episodes of the West Wing. He has the Congress in his left pocket, the news media in his right pocket (or is it the other way around?), and he floats on a tide of unprecedented international enthusiasm. The Republican Party has no obvious standard-bearer, as it did in Ronald Reagan ...
Big Budget Concern Trolling.
INSTAPUTZ —
The party that has, in its necrophiliac zeal, rendered Reagan's corpse Swiss cheese, says With the election of Barack Obama and huge Democratic majorities in Congress, liberals must now practice something other than the politics of nostalgia... Really? Yes, Democrats -- let's take advice from a guy who thought Sarah Palin was the second coming of Truman and Roosevelt.
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