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Late and busy day at the office, followed by a league softball game in D.C.
Better late than never, a do-it-yourselfer at the OTB linkfest.
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A do-it-yourselfer at the OTB linkfest.
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About James Joyner
James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. Follow James on Twitter.
A Perfect Morning
Today, Tuesday, May 17, 2005, was a perfect morning to be in the woods. I got to the secret spot well before day break. Put out the famed jake decoy and found a nice tree to sit next to.
Then I heard the sound…the gobbler was up on the roost, ba…
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CHECKS AND BALANCES AND SENATE FILIBUSTERS
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Indra Nooyi: Let the Pepsi Boycott Begin
Indra Nooyi President and CFO, PepsiCo “Now as never before, it’s important we give the world a hand — not the finger.” May 15th speech, Columbia Business School I’ve been on the phone this morning (and again this afternoon)…
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The Best Financial Advice I Can Give, Part 2
Here’s part two of our series asking five top personal finance experts to offer their single best piece of advice: “Spend less than you earn. Successful financial planning really stems from that simple statement. If you retain a portion of
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Global Strike Plan Raises Questions
The administration’s Global Strike Plan may fail the Just War tests and be strategically unsound. The just war question is raised — obliquely — by the title of William Arkin’s opinion piece in Sunday’s WaPo. Not Just A Last Resort?
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Gone Fishing With Karl Rove
I was fishing at the DU last night and became very amused by the DUers who were claiming Karl Rove was the architect of the Newsweek mess
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Trump Must Build
The City That Never Sleeps should be home to nothing less than the Towers Than Would Not Die.
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RUSH RUSHES TO PODCAST
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New “Drunk Pill” On The Horizon
Newsmax magazine reported yesterday that a new herb has been found that greatly reduces a persons desire to consume alcohol. An extract from the plant,
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Our Obligatory Post on Newsweek
Isn’t the Bush White House dressing down Newsweek for printing unsubstantiated rumors about this war a little like Hannibal Lecter calling for the death penalty for runaway brides?
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Maybe They Had a Lot of Luggage
In a St. Louis Post-Dispatch story entitled Amtrak train hits tractor-trailer, we have an inadvertant argument in favor of ending Amtrak subsidies….
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A TAM Mea Culpa
When doing media criticism or criticism of the critics one should always start with original documents. I gave Michael Isikoff…
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Berlin coaches get educated on steroids
The Berlin Citizen
The steroid-related arrest of six Daniel Hand High School football players two months ago brought to light a troubling fact n a growing number of young athletes are turning to performance enhancing drugs in order to gain a competi…
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NY’S TWIN TOWERS: ULTIMATE COMEBACK?
The best idea for a new set of Twin Towers comes from Kenneth Gardner and Herbert Belton. Their project, http://www.TwinTowersII.com, is a sensible plan. Now, Donald Trump has championed their plan…
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michael mccafferty’s world is a populist conservative blog by a fellow who has been involved in politics for 40 years. Check it out.
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Newsweek has done this before – two million died
Loose lips sink ships…and lots of people die. I wonder what Andrew thinks about this?
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Tangled Bank 28: Another Medical Carnival
I stumbled onto another med/science blog carnival sponsored by The Tangled Bank. This week’s listings are posted at Medical Mad House, and consist of links to legitimate blog posts, surrounded by contrived descriptions of questionable medical products…
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Flushing The Retraction And The Apology
I had no interest in the apology.
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Why Star Wars Sucks !
There many reasons why Star Wars sucks, but at present the most compelling is Bai Ling pictured at right. There is some dispute over when and why the Korean hottie was axed from the lastest Star Wars debacle but little that she is deserving of being f…
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Wal-Mart revolutionized retail business, one pickle jar at a time
When Wal-Mart decided to sell a gallon jar of dill pickles, it looked towards, Vlasic, a company that specialized in premium pickles. For years, Vlasic had maintained that customers should pay a premium price for premium pickles. That soon changed when
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Trump Must Build
When Daniel Libeskind’s Freedom Tower design was accepted as a replacement for the World Trade Center, I felt a kick to the pit of my stomach. It was an impressive piece of architecture, but could not contain what the World…
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Affair with staffer a mistake, Mfume says
baltimoresun.com – Affair with staffer a mistake, Mfume says
Attempting to distance himself from allegations that he created a hostile environment for women at NAACP headquarters, U.S. Senate candidate Kweisi Mfume yesterday called his affair with a…
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Line of the Decade
Who among us can say, with any degree of certainty, that we will not be forced to confront a potential terrorist among a future-in-law this very day?
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Dulles Rant
The first part of my rant deals more directly with Independence Air and I’m sure that experience probably contributed to how the other bits of idiocy affected me. I had noticed on my trip out on the 7th at GSP…
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Forsake The Troops website creator killed (UPDATE: smells faked)
Michael Crook, the creator of the reprehensible ForsakeTheTroops.info website died last night, according to a posting on his personal website.Crook was allegedly beaten by persons upset with his site, and died as a result of those injuries.As it mentio…
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Rhetorical overdose of the week
So it’s only monday, and this is only one post, but I’m already sick of Nuclear option talk.
A sampling from the Carpetbagger (h/t solodialog):
Yesterday, on CNN, Lugar wasn’t nearly so certain, saying that the nuclear option amounts to “ska…
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Heh. Thanks for the link.
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DAMAGE CONTROL: LAURA BUSH TO MIDEAST
I hope her “South-Park Schtick” routine doesn’t come back to bite her on this trip. That would be a disaster. With all the feelings and e
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Newsweek Article Spurs Wave Of “Islamo-rappers”
As fellow fake news outlet Newsweek continues their internal investigation into the Koran flushing incident, it appears the law of unintended consequences has struck across the Middle East. Many Muslims have become so enraged by the reported desecratio…
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Damn the Force, Just Make It Good
Just a few more words about the nearly released Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. There’s a general consensus (with which I agree) that the first three Star Wars movies (now known as Episodes 4, 5, and…
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2 Billion Dollars for Viagra?
Not only no, but hell no. Not with my tax dollars!
The federal government will spend nearly $2 billion in the next decade on male impotence drugs under its Medicare program, according to a new cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office that …
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More Criticizing the Critics
It’s been a long time coming but Andrew Sullivan has made an point important enough to pass on to you….
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Test the degree of trust
Here’s my idea on how to truly test the level of trust of “journalists” against those two groups of people:
Each reporter at Guantanamo gets a choice – 10 minutes alone with a prisoner, without handcuffs or any other restraints or 10 minutes alon…
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So Now Let’s Welcome George Galloway, MP
I have seen films of the Kefauver investigation into organized crime, I have seen films of the Army/McCarthy hearings, I watched the Watergate hearings live on television. None of those equalled Mr. Galloway’s testimony today.
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Democrat Dirty Tricks
David Limbaugh writes:
If anyone doubted which side of the political aisle is playing dirty in the fight over federal judicial nominees, he hasn’t read about the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League’s mission to dig up financial a…
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Muslims Vandalize Holy Places
I remember well walking through the streets of Varanasi, India in 1991 when there were deadly riots between hindus and muslims.
Muslims were killing hindus, hindus were killing muslims in revenge . . . martial law was declared and the only living…
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The Politics of the Draft
Why worry about women in combat? Why not just let the Pentagon go ahead with boiling the frog? After all, proponents argue, it is an all-volunteer army now. Let me highlight one reason, among others: the draft. This argument is…
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Vaccines for Age-Old Enemies: Plague, Fat and…Smoking?
News comes in threes, I’ve heard, and the last few days has brought word of vaccines under development to combat some stubborn foes.
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My Daughter, The Hero
It was 8:30 PM and I was furious. It was getting dark out and my daughter wasn’t home yet. The planning of her punishment in my head was interrupted by the phone ringing. I answered it and found out my…
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The Gorilla In The Living Room: Toilet Flushing And Other Insane Reasons To Commit Murder
the real story in the Newsweek fiasco, the 800 pound gorilla(really big gorilla) in the living room, was not Newsweek’s stupid mistake and escape from journalistic standards and reason, but the reaction of the Muslim world to the Newsweek article.
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Catching Up
Thanks for all of the messages that have streamed in since MSNBC appearance on Friday afternoon. I went to DC early Saturday afternoon and didn’t get back to Baltimore until about 2:30 or 3 a.m. Sunday thanks to the weather…
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No god but God
Aslan makes a convincing case in rejecting the notion that Islam is a religion of war, and his explanation of the nature and evolution of “jihad” is must reading.
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The Best Financial Advice I Can Give, Part 1
Americans are hit with so much financial advice these days that it’s impossible to understand and keep up with it all.
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Smart Aleck Chicken Gets What’s Coming To It
Three boys were arrested for allegedly torturing a chicken to death by lighting it on fire at Evergreen Camp in Lawrence. The Boston Globe reports…
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Growing Greener II
Election Day is Tuesday, May 17, 2005. On the ballot is an initiative, dubbed Growing Greener II.
The ballot question states: “Do you favor authorizing the Commonwealth to borrow up to $625,000,000, for the maintenance and protection of the enviro…
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The Fewer People Who Know About Your Blog…
File this one under ‘be careful what you blog about’.
The “Phantom Professor” blog dished about epidemic eating disorders and wealthy students looking for a “Mrs.” degree. The author dubbed girls in $500 sandals toting $1,500 handbags “the A…
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Augustine’s Laws and Religious Speech on the Job
Employers, fearful of religious expression in the workplace, must be even more nervous after yesterday’s story about the forced (?) removal of a Lutheran chaplain from her post as executive officer at the Air Force Academy. Faye Fiore, in today’s
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Kevin McGehee wants to shoot New Yorkers with a bow and arrow.
Nah, you ever try cleaning one?
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Who is the Radical
Nuclear Option
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Newsweek Editor Apologizes, Magazine To Begin Inquiry
Newsweek Magazine apologized Sunday for a May 9th report that U.S. personnel had desecrated and then flushed a copy of the Koran down the toilet while interrogating Muslim prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. After the article was published, large riots erupted
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New Girls Gone Wild Said to be Darker, More Violen
HOLLYWOOD (CA) – Critics who have seen an early screening of the latest in the enormously successful Girls Gone Wild series, have called it a “dark” and “violent” movie, deserving of its NC-17 rating.
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Back on the Blog
Back on the Blog I didn’t mean the last post here, over 2 weeks ago, to itself be an epitaph. I could explain that given the nicer weather, my new full-time job (I’d been a contractor for a few years),…
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Affirmative Action in the Classroom
Seeing as how American engineering programs attract a lot of students from different countries, there were also times when white students were in the minority in my classes. And yet no one ever made any concessions for us. Indeed, see my article from…
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Staying What Course?
Quagmire? When have we heard that before? Oh, yeah! Vietnam. And we all know that Vietnam and Iraq are exactly the same. Of course Mr. Krugman does not intend to insult both of those nation’s in one sentence, does
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Stewardesses Stripped !
< ?php echo ImageHeadline_render( 'T','font_color=#CC4444&font_size=25&shadow_spread=5' ); ?>hat title outta pump out a few more Google hits. Leaving aside my cheap attempt to gain traffic there is an important issue at hand. A bankruptcy…
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Sergeant Christopher Pusateri: Who was with him when he died?
We’ve been following the Pentagon’s “boiled frog” strategy related to women in combat. . . the plan has been to simply go ahead and put women into combat, present it to the American people as a fait accompli, knowing that…
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Henry Hudson Collapse
Henry Hudson Collapse
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Longing for Statesmen
The days of statesmanship and civil disagreement are over.
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Not an equal protection issue
Stanley Kurtz links to and rebuts Saturday’s Washington Post editorial about the Nebraska same-sex marriage ruling from last week, which overturned Nebraska’s state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Kurtz’s post to The Corner can be rea…
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Eight Unusual Ways to Create Cash
If you’ve been reading this blog for any amount of time, you know that Principle 1 is to maximize income from all sources and Principle 2 is to minimize expenses.
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New Al Gore “Tell-all” Book Causing A Stir
Former vice-president Al Gore has recently completed an autobiography on his life that has left some people ducking for cover, and others begging for more. The book is entitled
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Moose and Buds
Here I am chillin’ with some friends in Pittsburgh.
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Your Gift to The Sparrow’s Nest Will Be Doubled — Plus Get Some Great Stuff
Here are a couple exciting announcements: For the next month (or until we raise an extra $10,000, whichever comes first), every donation made on this site will be doubled!
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Commies Are Cool, m’kay?
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The Chomsky Rule
If Noam Chomsky, or any group or figure who draws inspiration thereof, is opposed to a measure, said measure carries the strong presumption of excellent policy. Hmm…there must be a flaw there, but I don’t see it…
UPDATE 05/13/05 5:40 p.m. – We…
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HufPo Watch: Will Somebody Shut Conyers Up?
Well I’ve been trolling the Huffington Post again. At times it can be like reading a PG-13 version of the Democratic Underground. The level of Moonbattery is just as high if not higher but they are all polite and so far no one’s called Bush Hitler
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Dark Side Caption Contest
Sample: I can feel the force!
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The Time Has Come for Immigration Reform
It is time for the issue of illegal immigration to come front and center on the stage of American politics. It has been ingored for far too long, and there are a now a number of signs indicating a burgeoning…
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Richard Cohen Loves The Filibuster (For Now)
In his piece Mr. Smith’s Lost Cause, Richard Cohen clings dearly to an elitist democratic conceit – that when liberal ideals are faced with foreclosure, extreme defensive measures are not just possible, but necessary. Liberal ideas are so necessary, …
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With the Filibusterers
At 8:30 in the evening, nearly everything around the Capitol Building is closed, as senators and congressmen, staffers and lobbyists, and assorted other critters have left their places of work in favor of other climes.
At 8:30 in the evening, ju
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Sometimes I Wonder…
Sometimes I wonder what the defining difference is between pro-life and pro death penalty. I had this revelation this morning and after about thirty seconds I realized it was the difference between the innocent and the evil. I’m pro-life for…
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NIGHTMARE SCENARIO: NUKES OVER WASHINGTON D.C.
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UPDATE: Values Stand-down Day for Recruiting
Tell me what other job gets that kind of scrutiny and affects the opinions of other people so strongly. I’m sure there are some, but not many. And it’s not what our servicemen and women thought they would have to do when they originally enlisted.
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It’s the Culture (of Death), Stupid
The New York Times has a story about the African ritual of “cleansing” a widow after her husband’s funeral by having one of her husband’s relatives, in what is tantamount to rape, have intercourse with her. The thrust of the story is that the threa…
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Sanford on Black Candidates
Mark Sanford doesn’t deserve some of the criticism he’s getting for saying South Carolina isn’t likely to elect a black candidate statewide anytime soon.
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Chimps
Things took another turn for the creepy in the case of embattled pop superstar Michael Jackson when it was revealed during testimony yesterday that the erstwhile
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Submission Screened in Italy
Apparently Italian TV will screen Dutch film “Submission” despite Muslim protests and death threats. In case you did not know, this is the film that got it’s maker Theo van Gogh brutally murdered and sent Ayaan Hirsi Ali the writer and Dutch MP into…
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FRIEDMAN WRONG AGAIN: THE WORLD AIN’T FLAT – OR EVEN GETTING FLATTER!
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Kos-Kooks for Jesus
The Kos-Kooks have suddenly come out in favor of religion in politics. They report favorably on the display of a billboard that says
Jesus Cares for the Poor, so do We — Democrats make America Stronger
We wonder if those hypocritical THEOCRATS! e…
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BRAC List Leaked
Although the news isn’t suppose to be released until tomorrow, a few sites have what is purported to be the official BRAC list of suggested base closures and realignments. Navyseals is one of the sites who has the list. Check the official Base Realign…
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Tom DeLay Dinner: Shiva or . . . Hootenanny?!?
Monday’s Washington Post article about tonight’s dinner in honor of Tom DeLay quoted Marshall Wittman, (former Republican-now DLC staffer) as saying: “Tribute dinners are how politicians sit shiva for their dead.” Well, maybe that’s often true, bu…
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Another Fatuous Mouthpiece
Jim Lampley demonstrates why sports announcers should stick to sports
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Huffington Post to become HR Puffington Post
After the devastating review by Nikki Finke, and a general lack of excitement around the blogosphere, Arianna Huffington has retooled and relaunched The Huffington Post as The HR Puffington Post.
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Waynesville pastor resigns: lessons for the rest of us
Chan Chandler has resigned, according to the Associated Press.
WAYNESVILLE, N.C. — A Baptist preacher accused of running out nine congregants who disagreed with his Republican politics resigned Tuesday, two days after calling the issue “a great mi…
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Dave, Trey & Henry; three great bloggers we met at BlogNashville. (Mr Baseball, The Video King and Mr Making Money all got their due.) Each influential leaders in their respective fields and all around great guys.
Henry we have some good video for you from the restaurant.
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Reid Failing to Learn from his Predecessors Mistakes (aka, Lessons of BlogNashville)
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JOSH MARSHALL VS JOSH MARSHALL
Hm. Some people need to read their own blogs. In criticizing President Bush’s Yalta remarks, Josh Marshall opines: Roosevelt didn’t hand the Baltics, Poland and the rest of what became the Warsaw Pact countries over to Soviet rule. The Red…
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Not Going Nuclear
With North Korea and Iran both making nuke-related noises again, I’m back to a thought I’ve had many times through the years. The United States is, and has been, the largest nuclear power on the planet, both in the military…
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Anti-Shrubbery Syndicate
Following the attack on the plants in front of the British Consulate in New York last week, the same terrorist group attempted a grenade attack on another bush this week.
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ABC News Sinks to New Low on Iraq Reporting
It seems that ABC News no longer differentiates whether deaths in Iraq are U.S. soldiers, Iraqi citizens or terrorists. ABC News Radio said the following during the top-of-the-hour news update this afternoon: “A new spate of violence in Iraq le…
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World’s First Urine Powered Bicycle Hits The Market
The scientific community is all abuzz over an invention many are calling the greatest creation mankind has seen since the spork. A team of soon-to-be-phenomenally-wealthy scientists from Wolverhampton, England have discovered a technique to harness the…
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The long and winding tale
I completed about 30 pages of the first draft of Book 2 today. Moona has almost completed the next to last nitpicking of Book 1, and we’ll soon discuss all her suggestions, add the agreed changes to those changes made…
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The Force Is Strong With This One…
I could not understand why it was reported the the man responsible for Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan wept at the end of Star Wars, Revenge of the Sith.
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The UN – Dumber than a sack of hammers
It appears that the UN High Commissioner for Shooting the Messenger has a blog now, and the good commissioner doesn’t like it when people point out the MASSIVE CORRUPTION and HORRIFYING INEPTITUDE of his beloved organization. So if you…
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Atlanta missing & murdered children case being reopened
The missing and murdered children case, which gripped metro Atlanta a generation ago is being reopened.Five murders from the spree more than 20 years ago are being reopened by the DeKalb County Cold Case squad. DeKalb Police Chief Louis Graham…
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Breaking News: Congress Addressing Women in Combat
Just got word: Congressional Republicans are finally moving to address the problems we’ve been highlighting with the new Army policy of assigning women to Forward Support Companies. I wrote about the FSC issue here. And the women in combat posts…
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Caption Contest: Sixties edition
You know you have a comment…
(hi OTB people!)…
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The middle is a tough place to be
I’ve been hashing out the controversy over the “nuclear” “constitutional” Byrd option in my admittedly befuddled head, and in blog comments here and over at Jack’s Random Fate, and I still remain convinced that the Republicans are marginally on t…
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Tuesdays With Kim
Tuesdays With Kim Caption Contest
Caption/Photoshop Contest
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Mayor Proposes “Fat Tax”, Obese And Morbidly Obese Hit Hardest
Hoping to whittle down a nearly $300 million dollar budget deficit, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has recently proposed a 2% surtax on fast-food. The so-called
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Some Call It A Bonfire/Carnival Of Classiness…
We call it “Classiness, All Around Us.” Click to explore more WILLisms.com. In no particular order, WILLisms.com presents classiness from the blogosphere: 1. Vodka Pundit rants about his moral exhaustion in debating the War On Terror, then, almost as…
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Continuing Series of Really Offensive Historical Interviews: The Pope
In the next installment of my continuing series of interviews with historical figures, I present you with the new Pope: Me: So, how's the whole Pope gig working out? PB: Pretty good, got some new bling bling, new robe, new digs, overall no complain…
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Grenade Thrown at President Bush
A grenade was thrown in front of President Bush during his trip in Georgia; it didn’t go off; no injuries. (h/t The Political Teen) MORE: MSNBC calls it a ‘device’. A device, possibly a hand grenade, was thrown toward the stage o…
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The Alamo was fought to defend slavery! Nickelodeo
According to the report, the 50 second children’s TV network short states that the battle was fought
so white farmers could keep their slaves.
The article states that Nickelodeon was warned by respected historian R. Bruce Winders that the descript…
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Punishment With a Capital “P”
The MPC forwards a link to Pro-Death Penanty.Org, a site devoted to support for, and information relating to, the death penalty. Capital punishment isn’t a topic as pleasant as puppy dogs and ice cream, but given Jayson’s post over at…
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No news? Or no debate?
John Derbyshire made a comment in The Corner recently to the effect that there’s nothing much going on in the news lately. We agree it sort of seems that way, but as the Mudville Gazette points out, there’s all kinds of news out there. The presiden…
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They are Evil Once Again
When Judicial Watch was suing the Clinton Administration, the press referred to them as “a conservative group.” Ooooo – you can sense the evil! But, Judicial Watch also began suing the Bush Administration, so the “conservative” label was convenient…
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Laura To World Leaders, ‘Give me back my hubby’
Desperate Housewife Laura Bush has a lot to be desperate about this week, as her philandering husband was captured yet again by photogs, this time on a super secret date with hunky Russian strongman Vladimir Putin…
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Pressures On Recruiters High
Don’t get me wrong, I’m one of those Soldiers that loves the Army and believes in the recruiting mission. I don’t necessarily believe in all the tactics and techniques, but I didn’t believe everything I heard when I was in Special Forces, either. W…
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DOWN THE SLIPPERY SLOPE: BRAZIL CELEBRATES ‘ORGASM DAY’
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Korean Nuke Tests
Inevitable? I hope so! We have been conducting nuke tests every day this month and still have not gotten one to explode!
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Paula Abdul Faces New Accuser
As the controversy over her alleged affair with former American Idol contestant Corey Clark rages on, Paula Abdul awoke this morning to discover that new romantic allegations have been leveled against her by former dancer and co-star from some of
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When Illegals Attack
My friend Michael Graham of WMAL will be on Hannity & Colmes at 9 p.m. EDT tonight to discuss the events that transpired over the weekend (Michelle Malkin will also be there.) If you’re in DC, Michael will also be…
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Top 5 Phrases Bush did not make while in Georgia
1. “Frankly, Mikhael Saakashvili, I don’t give a damn.”
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Will there be enough sand?
During my recent shopping adventures, I have seen an amazing variety of products made from silicon, things I had never imagined, like bake ware, oven mitts, and ice trays. My friend just purchased a keyboard completely encased in silicon. I…
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Atlanta courthouse shooting suspect Nichols converts to Islam
According to broadcast reports this evening, Brian Nichols, the suspect in the Fulton County Courthouse shootings in Atlanta on March 11, has had a jailhouse conversion to Islam.Nichols, who was indicted last Thursday on 54 charges, including four coun…
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How Was Your “Orgasim Day?”
RIO DE JANEIRO, BrazilSex rarely makes the news in Brazil’s conservative Northeast — until a small town declared an official Orgasm Day on Monday.
Espertantina Mayor Felipe Santolia endorsed the May 9 holiday, which he said was intended to improv…
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Brahmans of Science: We won’t play…
I’m aware that this is not fully a conservative versus liberal issue – but the brahmans of science are certainly continuing to emulate the left in their rhetoric and alignment with the liberal stream media. CBS wants us to understand that there are ne…
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A do-it-yourself day at the ole linkfest.
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Denied By Google “News”
I’ve followed the story of Jawa’s delisting from Google News because of alleged “hate speech”. Using my Jedi mind skills I sent Google News an email with just “add this site” in the message, with a link to GOP and the City. I was denied, it must …
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Chlamydia Outbreak At Zoo Kills Penguins, Paris Hilton Wanted For Questioning
A chlamydia outbreak among penguins at the San Francisco Zoo has left a dozen of the flightless birds dead and countless others urinating with great discomfort.
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a new definition for military journalism?
Fred Schoeneman raises an interesting point about what good military journalism is. He also is inviting discussion about the topic of perhaps “awarding” military jounalism. This former Army Ranger has some interesting points.
I threw my 2 cents in…
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You’re Breaking My Heart
Sex Offender’s Suicide Raises Questions: OCALA, Fla. – For nearly four years, Chuckie Claxton lived anonymously amid the gated horse pastures and moss-draped oaks of the Florida Orange Groves subdivision. Then the crimes of others drew new attention t…
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Winslow Might Have Company
I am still shaking my head in amazement over the utter stupidity Kellen Winslow showed by risking his career for a motorcycle ride. Well, Steelers fans also have reason to be concerned: Despite Kellen Winslow Jr.’s accident and his own…
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backcountry traffic jam …
When you’re driving down a two-lane, winding road in rural South Carolina, you sure don’t want to see one of these:
This is known in our area as the “slow white truck,” as in “I would have been on time, but I got behind a slow white truck….
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Mysterious rumblings
Allow me to add my two cents. First off, nobody’s BURNING BOOKS and nobody is going to arrest anyone for either writing the book or defiantly condemning it. Lighten up on the rhetoric people.
I haven’t read, and probably won’t read, the book becaus…
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The One Soldier’s Story Project Online Writing Workshop
The One Soldier’s Story Project is currently accepting literary non-fiction personal accounts from soldiers and veterans for a book-length anthology to be published in 2006. This workshop is one way to encourage participation.
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Fightin’ Words!
Fun article about a poetry blog raising hackles in academia.
‘Foetry’ blog claims enrage some poets: The Oregonian
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Background on Background
I have a post coming up giving a bit of backgound on the world of Dragon Earth. The subject is the history of the 20th century, starting with the European War (our World War I). At first I had the…
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Oh My…
That Democratic anger is just boiling over again:
In the course of a discussion on filibusters and Senate rules, Washington’s top Democrat gave the 60 juniors a lesson in partisan politics, particularly about the commander in chief. “The man’s f…
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You’re Breaking My Heart
Sex Offender’s Suicide Raises Questions: OCALA, Fla. – For nearly four years, Chuckie Claxton lived anonymously amid the gated horse pastures and moss-draped oaks of the Florida Orange Groves subdivision. Then the crimes of others drew new attention t…
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A late and somewhat abbreviated daily linkfest:
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Another reason to close the border
John Cole writes today on baseball owners and managers complicity in the MLB steroid problem:
The players who used steroids may have broken laws regarding the use of steroids, but they DID NOT CHEAT. It simply was not against the rules of baseball t…
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Thursday Afternoon Insanity
Chad Evans tells us about a man on the terror list that was apprehended with a George Washington Bridge painter’s ID: Sami Ibrahim Isa Ardel Hadi was arrested yesterday afternoon by Bergen County Police, say sources, on Route 46 by…
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Twisted Ghost Hiding in “Lost”?
Terry Mattingly at GetReligion writes about ghosts – those religious images that are hiding in news stories or television series. Last night we watched the plane crash survivors on ABC’s series Lost bury Boone, who died in a previous episode.
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Bailey’s Beaver Problem
I was in my office talking with Department of Natural Resources about a beaver problem in my district when H. 3652 came up. I would like to be recorded had I been on the House floor. I would have voted “yes” to table on H. 3652.
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Top 9 Unintended Consequences of Witches Being Granted Tax Exempt Status
The ACLU has been taken to task recently for their decision to support tax exempt status for covens of witches, while simultaneously continuing their assault on Christianity in America. Meanwhile, the organization’s own Policy #92: Religious Bodies Ta…
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New John Kerry Ad
Response to the Sconner’s ad
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Why Do Men Like Military History?
WarHistorian has some intriguing thoughts.
… military history functions as one of the ways–perhaps a very important way–by which males in our society learn how to be men.
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Law prohibits sexy cheers without safety pole
Rep. Al Edwards, D-Houston said. “I was at a football game and I was shocked to see the suggestive moves and sexuality of these otherwise fine young women, without so much as a safety pole for the girls to swing around on.”
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Gee Thanks Dude
Lap dance victims will get their day in court!
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The daily linkfest:
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Blogger Anthem!
Wanna hear my new, official Blogger Anthem ringtone? It’s sure to annoy everyone around you, especially your spouse. If you…
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Blogging for Books #11
Well the following melodrama is presented for your pleasure as my entry in this month’s contest. It seemed the topic was either lying, fornicating, or going home. I tried to supply a tale of twisted home coming intermixed with some…
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More Tolerance From the Liberal Loony Left; Ann Coulter Part II
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Round the Reader – Wednesday, 04 May 2005
Tomorrow is Cinco de Mayo; if someone wants to celebrate for me this year then please do; I’ll be playing Mr. Mom. On to the news: I rearranged my OPML file quite a bit (to help have it in my…
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“A” Modest Proposal
“A” is most often misused, I’ve found, on sports talk radio where the host and his stupid callers try to sound more sophisticated by sticking an “a” in front of some subject when they are actually speaking about the actual subject.
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YOM HASHOACH
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The Orange Revolution’s Unsung Hero: Sign Language Interpreter.
Amazing story, centering around television sign language interpreter Natalia Dmytruk, of Ukraine: On Nov. 25, she walked into her studio for the 11 a.m. broadcast. “I was sure I would tell people the truth that day,” she said. “I just…
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Way to go, Joe.
Newsday has a magnificent story about baseball pitcher Joe Valentine. Valentine is an up and coming closer for the Cincinnati Reds. He’s also a blue state man in a red state sport: Who is Joe Valentine? He is a 1997 graduate of Deer Park High School. …
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We need confirmation
There’s been a lot in the news about judicial confirmations, the “nuclear option,” and so on. I don’t really pay attention to this stuff; it’s more a topic for my fellow Patriot bloggers. But I stumbled upon the whole controversy while doing my da…
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Bill Cosby Says Look In The Mirror
Let us assume that racism is rampant in the US. If you are black, how do you respond? Do you light a candle or curse the darkness?
Any racial minority that relies upon the goodwill of the majority to end racism will have a very long wait – but this…
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Lessons from Reconstruction for Pentagon Officials
David Ignatius in today’s WaPo on James McPherson talking to Pentagon higher-ups on the lessons of the ACW for Iraq
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Deeper Meaning to Tweets
Birdwatching and the problems with random mutation
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Learning To Blog VII: How To Use Trackbacks
Lately have been reading Harvey’s blogging tips, and taking them as courses. I’m hoping that if I am able to learn from those smarter and more experienced, I’ll move up to semi-adequate as a blogger. And then one day, adequate.
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Fact (or fiction?) from the media
There’s fodder from the media for blogger publication Of a contest-entry post on lying or on fornication. Surf the net or tune to news on your favorite TV station And hear the latest gossip as it sweeps across the nation:…
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Ooops! I meant to link with my post instead of Tig’s post from several days ago. Here’s mine:
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Black Bear Attack
Black bear attacks 3 at state park.
Three people were injured and one remained hospitalized yesterday after being attacked by a black bear Saturday at Hickory Run State Park.
Park officials said the attack is the first by a black bear in park histo…
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New Line Of Hippie Fragrances Announced
A group of world renowned fragrance makers has recently announced a joint venture that has as it’s sole purpose the creation of an entire line of hippie-themed colognes, perfumes and other toiletries. The consortium is known as Le Ranke and
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The Paramilitary Dilemma: Should We Recruit Iraqi Thugs to Beat Iraqi Thugs?
Praktike spots a trend in Iraq: whether it’s paramilitary commandos employed by the government, or paramilitary militias that “pop up” on their own, the war against the Iraqi insurgents is increasingly being fought by Iraqi paramilitaries. This is g…
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PGH: Hanoi Jane’s Book Signing
A follow up to last week’s “Filthy Lie,” Sam Beckett’s Quantum Leap takes an unusual and unexpected turn.
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BlogNashville, Do you have questions of the BlogFather?
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The Titans of the Blogos vs. The Mainstream Media (MSM) – It’s all over except for the ‘fat lady’ singing
The Blogos has replaced the MSM as the relevant source of objective news/info of the day. This revolution has been quietly preceding for sometime. As Hugh Hewitt suggests in Blogs, this transformational process is as profound as that of the Reforma…
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The Crazies ‘Round Here
Most bloggers have their fair share of assholes, trolls, morons, idiots, and crazies but I have a feeling that this one particular clown from the University of Salford in the United Kingdom is going to be a person of interest…
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How to Be an Internet Woo-Woo
Not sure what a “Woo Woo” is–but it applies just as well to some bloggers.
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Keeping the terrorist pig in the poke
There has been some good discussion on what to do about hostages. Thanks to everyone who is participating. One additional suggestion involves desecrating terrorists’ bodies with pork products. This, I think, is a reference to General John “Black Jac…
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The Crazies ‘Round Here
Most bloggers have their fair share of assholes, trolls, morons, idiots, and crazies but I have a feeling that this one particular clown from the University of Salford in the United Kingdom is going to be a person of interest…
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Your State Political Heroes – up to no good
HB1561 would allow individuals to obtain Texas drivers licenses with foreign identification papers.
SECTION 1 Amends Section 521.142(a), Transportation Code, by requiring the Department of Public Safety to accept as proof of the identity of an app…
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Things apple does that infuriates me
I hit the software upgrade today to download a copy of the upgrade to Quicktime. It’s now at Quicktime 7. The download goes without a hitch, and the computer restarts to get the new version cranked. All’s Cool.
EXCEPT!
The new version of Quick…
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Runaway Bride; Charge Her With a Criminal Offense
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What, No Farm Animals?
South Carolina governor Mark Sanford is expanding his list of approved political props.
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Flashpoint: North Korea
Will Kim’s Regime Collapse? Just because you are paranoid, doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you. Apparently Kim is obsessed with being deposed by his own people, in the style of Ceaucescu of Romania. Odd, considering that the national motto is “…
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EU-Iranian Negotiations Falter, Iran Warns US
The United States has been openly critical of Iran’s refusal to give up their nuclear arms program and this fact does not sit well with the Iranian spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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An Observation
There are those in the blogosphere who insist Russia and China hate each other, and thus would never join forces for any reason. They forget one thing, they have a common enemy in the U.S. Russia hates the U.S. for…
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Hostages: Time for America to Act
The Jawa Report’s series of interviews with family members of American hostage Roy Hallums is a gut-wrenching look at a little-noticed front in the War on Terror. So far, America has an inauspicious record on dealing with hostage situations….
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Judicial retention case study: Kansas
Larry says retention isn’t a panacea, and what is? In a perfect world, judges would be infinitely wise. Voters would be perfectly informed. An election would be fought on facts. I would own a house on the beach and a very large boat.
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Just returned from the MSNBC appearance and dinner downtown. No linkfest but feel free to create your own below.
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Political Talk Radio In DC Is Giving Listeners A Big, Fat Headache
Bad news for Rush, Sean, Michael, Randi and Al: listeners are getting tired of you and tuning out..at least
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Women combat casualties – is this what America wants?
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Speaker Hastert’s Letter to Nancy Pelosi
Must quote the Pirate’s Cove! Shocking stuff. A shiny pirate thong for all who do. You may be aware of the letter that Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert released, supposedly as sent to Nancy Pelosi. However, I have gotten
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In Defense of Pedophiles?
I vividly remember a few years ago when I came across the NAMBLA website. (And I’m talking about the North American Man/Boy Love Association, not the North American Marlon Brando Look Alikes) I was sick and depressed for days; I…
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San Diego City Council: still wacky, but not insane
The San Diego City council seems to be coming to its senses with respect to choosing the next mayor, but we’ve still got a scandal-plagued Deputy Mayor who stands to become Acting Mayor. Matthew T. Hall reports in today’s…
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Take a Filibuster Break
I need a filibuster break. So today, instead, a little history…
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Destination: Oil Creek
We are heading to Oil Creek this weekend…hopefully the fishing will be awesome!
If you have fished this fine creek, please give us some tips…we can reciprocate with central PA streams (the Letort, Clark’s Creek, Yellow Breeches).
I have foun…
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The Sheep May Run Amuck !
You gotta be shitin’ me!
A “Wine Village.”A multi-million dollar wine village is to be built in North Canterbury with its backers claiming it will bring big benefits to wine and tourism industries.
Driven by Waipara Wine Village Developments, …
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NAMBLA & the ACLU – A Match Made in Hell
NAMBLA states that they are on an important, historic mission. They state that their mission is simple – abolition of age-of-consent laws that classify sex with children as rape. NAMBLA is the North American Man/Boy Love Association.
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Another do-it-yourselfer at the Traffic Jam today.
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Behold the Chicken!
Living, as we do, within thirty miles of three or four of the worlds largest chicken producers (Tyson, Georges,…
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Useful tool
A friend passed along the Ron Mexico name generator. My alter ego is apparently “Bruno Jamaica.”? Incidentally, at least none of my students in intro last night thought the Supreme Court case that applied the exclusionary rule to the states…
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Navy and environmentalists can hug each other!
[T]he four turbines will generate 3,800 kw, and in years of typical weather the wind turbines will produce almost 8 million kilowatt-hours of electricity. They will reduce the consumption of 650,000 gallons of diesel fuel, reduce air pollution by 26 to…
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More Oil Refineries, HELL YES (aka How to Rile up the Left)
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Insanely Dangerous Internet Feedback Loop Experiment
Stop reading now if you’re a squeamish, fretful nancy boy, because things could go horribly wrong and get ugly fast.
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Bill Frist and the Nuclear Option (or Constitutional Option, if you like)
If Sen. Frist had the 50 votes he needed, he would have pulled the trigger on this.
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Coming soon to a bank near you: A Bubba dollar?
Just imagine using a dollar coin with the likeness of former President Bubba. Or even one with President Bush on it.Now before you click to another site in disgust (or alternately, in glee; and to coin a phrase from Paul…
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With Textualism, Add Steroids
May I borrow a phrase from President Reagan? Trust but verify. Appoint the “right judges” by all means. Trust them to be faithful to the document they’re sworn to uphold. But verify their performance…
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Next steps for San Diego
The latest from San Diego is that the City Council is considering appointing a Mayor to replace the resigning Dick Murphy. What a stinking idea! Being a constructive kind of guy, I thought I’d lay out what the next…
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Another Historical Figure Interviewed: Albert Einstein
My next interview with a famous historical figure was with Albert Einstein, world renound theoretical physicist: Me: You know, Albert, my last interview was with Adolf Hitler. AE: Fucking Nazi bastard. Me: Quite. So, I must tell you that I've been …
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Kelley Is Back
The blight has descended once more on the suburbs, which means Kelley has returned to blogging. While this is good news to those of us who were her readers (and whom she utterly failed to tell about her return -- I had to find out from Technora…
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My Blogging
I write about what interests me. If it doesn’t interest you there are other bloggers out there who handle subjects you might be interested in. I make my writing as clear as I can. But sometimes I do have to…
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Top 9 Things That Cheese Bono Off
Newsmax.com reported yesterday that Irish rock star and human rights activist Bono is furious with Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. Bono is upset because he feels Martin has reneged on a pledge to boost Canada’s foreign aid to developing countries.
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Busy afternoon ahead, so another do-it-yourselfer at the old Traffic Jam.
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How progressive is the income tax?
Instapundit links to this post from TaxProf Blog, which has a very tidy table illustrating that the Top .1 % of earners pay quite a high proportion of the total tax bill, the Top 5% a substantial proportion of the…
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FOX News Breaking Point – Iran: The Nuclear Threat
FOX News aired yesterday on Breaking Point, with Chris Wallace Iran: The Nuclear Threat”? (Sunday, April 24, 2005). In this broadcast FOX analyzes the magnitude of the Iranian nuclear threat and what are the US options. Short of direct military action…
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Oh crud — I’m 50
I awoke this morning to the bleeping of my cell phone alarm. It seems that today is my birthday … the golden anniversary* of my birth. I have now experienced 50 years of life and just working up to this…
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Uh, Is This My President?
Isn’t this taking the diplomatic handshake a little too far? I know the prince is wearing a dress n all, but George, it’s a man, baby. That mustache and goatee are a dead giveaway.
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Blogger Considers Successors To Frist
Bill Frist’s removal from power earlier this month by the little known
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Zarqawi: quite dumb for a terrorist
LOL@him leaving behind the laptop. Next thing you know he’ll be carrying around a cellphone w/ text messaging service. I can imagine him now, hiding somewhere typing out with his thumbs something like “LOL@U
New Strain Of “Shapeshifting Grackles” Discovered
My Way News reported yesterday that a gaggle of large black birds called
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In Defense Of Newsweek
One of the persistent arguments coming out of the Newsweek debacle is that, even if Newsweek could prove with certainty that Koran desecration took place, that Newsweek should not have printed it.
I completely understand this impulse. We conserva…
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Journalistic Overkill
Michelle Malkin has been on top of the case of USMC 2nd Lt. Ilario G. Pantano from the beginning. The Raleigh News & Observer, as part of the mainstream media that has thus far failed to convict the LT on…
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Steroid Abuse, Jason Giambi & Barry Bonds
Frank commentary the other day by sportswriter Neil Hayes. He focused on baseball star Jason Giambi’s steroid use and its bad effects on his career — specifically, his health. He also brings in Barry Bonds’s continuing struggle against a stubborn st…
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Schools Recruit Anti-Military Mindset
Heaven forbid er… Goddess of Trees and Peace forbid Insert non-secular exclamation here, we should perform torture or aggressive war against those that would behead innocent people or suicide bomb women and children. After all, those animals deserv…
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