neoneocon.com - 11/10/2008
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One thing Barack Obama needs to learn is that, despite his much-vaunted coolness, he’s not a funny man. I noticed this and wrote about it quite some time ago, and now he’s proven it once again at his first post-election press conference with his extremely tone deaf and classless ...
reason.com - 11/7/2008
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reason.com —
According to the Washington Post , Barack Obama
is "looking at possibly appointing Robert F. Kennedy Jr....
to head the Environmental Protection Agency, according to sources familiar with the process, though he is eying several other prominent ...
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A Chavista at the EPA?
consumeraffairs.com - 11/8/2008
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consumeraffairs.com —
ConsumerAffairs.com November 7, 2008 The Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and other...
government agencies that affect consumers, are likely to look very different under President Obama than they do under ...
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Obama Eyes Consumer Activists for Agency Posts
scotusblog.com - 11/11/2008
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scotusblog.com —
Analysis Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s reputation as a
“swing” vote in the Supumereme Court is well known,...
and frequently validated. It is not often, though, that the tendency to swing is evident as early as the oral argument in a ...
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Argument analysis: As Kennedy goes…
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Obama's shaggy dog story
sisu —
... We appreciate the attempt at humor on the part of a person our friend neo has correctly pegged as "not a funny man, but two objections come to mind. First, what does being a mutt have to do with whether or not a dog is hypeoallergenic? Answer: Nothing. Senator Obama is voting "present," ...
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