buzzflash.com - 11/21/2008
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THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter
So the people's representatives and Detroit's Big Three remain locked in spirited competition for the nation's title of top cretin. All eyes are on the race this year, because there really haven't been any credible challengers to the ...
citizenchris.typepad.com - 11/19/2008
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citizenchris.typepad.com —
With the click of a mouse and boots
on the street, hundreds of thousands of newly minted
activists across the country last weekend declared independence from the top-down, black-tie, this-cutesy-logo-brought-to-you-by movement for gay civil rights. It ...
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A modest marriage proposal
americablog.com - 11/24/2008
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americablog.com —
The Mormon religion says I'm going to hell,
and my religion says they're a cult. So, I
lose my right to marry and they lose their religious tax status, right? A lot of religions, starting with Catholicism, think that Mormons are cultists, what with ...
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A Modest Mormon Proposal
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... report on what happened while offering prayers and best wishes. Mukasey collapsed not long after a heckler called him a tyrant, The Corner’s Kathryn Jean Lopez says. The Attorney General seemed to have stumbled on a word before collapsing, Ann Althouse says, while Gawker’s Ryan Tate reports that the Justice Department refuses to say whether Mukasey suffered a stroke. FROM THE BLOGS: [image] Musings Over Morning Coffee – DemFromCT, Daily Kos [image] A Modest Proposal on Automakers – P.M. Carpenter, BuzzFlash [image] ...
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