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  • Your Random Saturday

    Andrew Tallman pointing out the obvious to the oblivious:Teaching introductory logic for ten years made me vividly aware of the low average quality of reasoning among college students. It also showed me how little improvement can realistically be accomplished by only one semester’s training in the art of thinking [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 6:30am EST

  • Your Random Friday

    Baloney sandwiches still available in the Obama aisle, courtesy of David Limbaugh:Just to illustrate the speciousness of Obama's preposterously unprovable claim that saved jobs are measurable, you should know that two administration financial officials, Ed DeSeve and Jared Bernstein, were unable to say how many of the 640,329 jobs [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 6:32am EST

  • How Stimulating

    Hope this doesn't keep you from being able to give some thanks tomorrow:House Republicans asked the Obama administration to stop touting the number of jobs “saved or created” by the $787 billion economic stimulus law, citing widespread reports that the data are inaccurate. They requested a response from the' [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:00pm EST

  • Heh

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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:54am EST

  • The Real Inconvenient Truth

    IBD:For years, noted scientists and other global warming skeptics have been accused of being on the take, their research tainted and funded by grants from Big Oil and other fossil-fuel interests.

    Now, it turns out, it's the warm-mongers who are fudging the numbers and concealing the inconvenient truth...
    [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:20pm EST

  • Government Motors Deal Keeps Getting Worse

    Gee, another "we told you so" moment for the great and mighty Won from the right. We said all along that the GM bailout would be a disaster. After saying he didn't want to run GM, Obama personally canned the CEO of GM and put 'his' guy in charge. They' [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:51pm EST

  • Let Me Guess - The Public Is To Blame?

    I have to conclude that the fact that about 80% of the citizens of the United States no longer believe Obey-Won can only mean one thing to the press - that they're stupid, need more prime time speeches on every network, need more of their businesses to be run by' [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 6:11pm EST

  • Don't Hold Your Breath

    Any conservatives, small government proponents, or 'right wing talkers' holding their breath waiting for apologies from the fever swamps of the left now that this news has come out?A Kentucky census worker found naked, bound with duct tape and hanging from a tree with "fed" scrawled on his chest [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:59pm EST

  • Look What's STILL Considered Headline News

    Unreal.

    10-21 featured headline: Obama: Afghan troop decision possible before vote result

    11-9 featured headline: Sources say Obama near decision on Afghanistan troops

    11-13 featured headline: Obama: decision soon on troops for Afghanistan

    Today?

    11-24 featured headline: White House: Obama Afghanistan decision 'within days'
    [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:39pm EST

  • Your Random Saturday

    So. Ummm....

    Yeah.

    I got nothin'.

    Sorry about that.

    Hey, long weekend for many next week, extra long Random Saturday next week! Probably even a Random Friday to read after you get back from the Black Friday madness and need to unwind.' [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 6:27am EST

  • Talk About A Chilly Reception

    Hmmm...seems someone (an insider? ex-insider? flat-out hacker outsider? EXXONMOBIL?!) hacked the system of a major global warming pusher, copied a bunch of files and emails, and the published them for the world to read. The Algore crowd has a lot of explaining to do...

    cuz...

    you see...

    [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:24am EST

  • You Gotta Wonder

    You really have to wonder about their sanity when you read liberal press and hear liberal pundits and more pundits reporters when they talk about how dead the Republicans and conservatism is and then actually look at polls.

    Obey-Won's approval rating? Toilet:The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:52pm EST

  • Oh, The Hypocrisy!

    The increasingly desperate, irrelevant, and ridiculous Newsweek (their editor is the one that called Obama "a god" you might recall) tried to defend using a photo of Sarah Palin from a running magazine on their cover to a skeptical Matt Lauer. It didn't go well and raised more questions than' [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:15pm EST

  • What A Waste

    There's a good reason why adults today are unhappily telling their children that, for the first time in many generations, the world they are leaving them is not better than the one their parents left for them. Instead of doing something about it, of course, the Democratic Debt-i Knights [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:10pm EST

  • The Left Is Officially Out Of Ideas

    How else do you explain this:

    UN: Fight climate change with free condoms [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:35pm EST

  • What Was Old Is New Again

    To steal a phrase from the race-baiting left - I have to wonder if, when people say 'racist', they mean 'anti-socialist'. Or, as put not-at-all subtly in the comic The Knight Life: Do you think, when people say 'racist', they mean something else? In other words, is the far left [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:15pm EST

  • Obama And Holder Call 9-11 Trial Opponents Cowards

    Great. Now along with being the cause of all of America's problems and racists - now the Won's political opponents are cowards for opposing aggrandizing the $@#$% that planned the 9-11 attacks and giving him the same Constitutional rights as an American citizen acting within the United States instead of [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:50pm EST

  • Uneconomical Renewable Power Gets Less Economical

    Hard to believe, but it looks like the solar power pipe dream (for now) is poised to become even more uneconomical compared to, well, every fossil fuel and nice, clean nuclear. Enviro news is reporting:Solar thermal projects are sprouting in the Southwest like desert flowers after a rain, spurred by [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 5:29pm EST

  • Rats

    Sigh. Just when I thought we were coming up on the "two minute drill" it turns out we're far from done.' [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:28am EST

  • Union Thugs Target Student Volunteers

    Well, well, well...isn't this an interesting development? You've got Obey-Won telling his union thugs to keep up the good work intimidating his political opponents, he's met with their head more than anyone else, his dimwitted assistant told them that it was his turn to "dance" with them since they [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:03pm EST

  • Anyone?

    Can anyone explain why this is in the Amazon "Sci-Fi Sale"? [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:18pm EST

  • It's Simple

    I'm not even going to bother to read this article, because it can't have much merit with such a dunderheaded headline:

    The media vs. Sarah Palin
    Is sicking an army of fact-checkers on Palin's memoir "Going Rogue' just good journalism — or "politically motivated" overkill?

    Let's answer'" [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:03pm EST

  • MSNBC Busted Using Fake Palin Pics As If Real

    Tsk, tsk, tsk:On Friday's edition of Morning Meeting, host Dylan Ratigan featured fake photos of Sarah Palin during a mocking segment on why Americans are fascinated with the former vice presidential candidate. While listing the show’s top ten reasons, Ratigan showed a doctored photo of Palin’s head on the [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:47pm EST

  • What Will This Do To The Unemployment Rate?

    Napolitano Announces Obama Administration Plan to Give Amnesty to Illegal AliensHomeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday that the Obama administration will push for “immigration reform” by giving the estimated 14 million people who are in the United States illegally “fair pathway to earned legal status.”

    “A [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:36pm EST

  • In The News?

    Anybody wanna bet this shows up in the papers without the minority report or anything about else in this article on sex ed 'analysis'? [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:33pm EST

  • I Don't Get It

    Obama China Town Hall: Select Audience, Easy QuestionsIt was a town hall, but this time Barack Obama was not in Iowa or New Hampshire. There were no hay bales, no bunting and no activists with questions about universal health care, clean coal or legalizing marijuana. This forum, after all, [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:33pm EST

  • Graphic Unemployment

    Feelin' Stimulated?



    Thanks here and apologies here.' [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:08pm EST

  • Something To Keep In Mind While Christmas Shopping

    I know how it goes - even with the down economy you're going to be out at the stores looking at "unbelievable" and "outrageous" deals this Christmas season. And you're going to spend a bit more than you planned - after all, you're going to efile in January and have' [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:05pm EST

  • Ghost Writing

    A couple of posts at American Thinker are definitely worth checking out, if only out of curiosity and to get 'ahead of the curve', or ahead of the media, if you will.

    The first just sets the stage, here: Here comes the Sarahlanche

    The much more damning [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:25pm EST

  • Bud's Birds

    Maybe the NFL was right...Rush Limbaugh just doesn't fit into this kind of company:Whatever his reason, Adams found a new way to draw the spotlight to his franchise when he was caught not once, but twice flashing a set of middle fingers at the Buffalo Bills sideline during Sunday’s' [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:31am EST

  • It's Not Just Me, Is It?

    Please, please won't someone tell me that I'm not the only one that is continually infuriated by the idiotic and uninformed nonsense spewing forth from Troy Aikman on Fox's top game week in and week out? The guy's a freaking train wreck whenever he veers away from breaking down plays.
    [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:39am EST

  • More Quick Hits

    Do you think the media's pre-emptive strike on Sarah Palin has failed? Their spurt of Palin bashing, before her book is even out, has done nothing except generate headlines that, in turn, have "Sarah Palin" as the #1 search currently at Yahoo. Keep up the good work.

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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 9:30pm EST

  • editoriaLIES

    Hey! Haven't had one of these in a while, eh? As usual, the editors let their emotions get the better of them and can't stick to the truth writing about a liberal issue near and dear to their hearts...

    In today's paper -

    Coverage would be notable better [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 8:09pm EST

  • Quick Hits

    So I see Obey-Won is going to have a "jobs summit" to figure out how to "make jobs".

    Funny, I thought he and his Democrat Debt-i Knights spent a trillion bucks earlier this year to "make jobs". I thought it was working 'beyond their wildest dreams'.

    -

    [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 3:17pm EST

  • America Sucks

    What else could the dipstick possibly think?

    What part of: 'The President of the United States does not bow to foreign leaders' does he not understand?

    Most amateur, unprepared, unprofessional president evah!

    I mean, the worst part is that he did this after getting raked [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 5:37pm EST

  • Yup, More Bias

    Is this bias? Well, depends on who you ask, but taking a step back and simply checking the facts of the cases...of course it is.Back in June, Times liberal columnists lined up to link conservative talkers Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh to James von Brunn, the 88-year-old [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 10:50am EST

  • Your Random Saturday

    Thomas Sowell makes it look easy on health care:If the government has some magic way of reducing costs-- rather than shifting them around, including shifting them to the next generation-- they have certainly not revealed that secret...

    What about insurance companies denying reimbursements for treatments? Does anyone imagine [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 7:40am EST

  • Meep!

    How hilarious is this? Meep! [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:13pm EST

  • Are They Serious?

    On Monday I posted about the following headline:

    Sources say Obama near decision on Afghanistan troops

    Gee, guess what's a headline today.

    Did you guess?

    Obama: decision soon on troops for Afghanistan

    Isn't it fun having a completely inept and inexperienced "executive" running the [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:17am EST

  • Dum - Dum - Dumb

    Busted.Thursday’s off-lead story by James Glanz and Walter Gibbs is on recent revelations that Peter Galbraith, an “unpaid adviser to the Kurds” who has influenced Democratic policymakers like former senator/VP Joe Biden and Sen. John Kerry, stands to make millions from his closeness to the Kurds and a Norwegian [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:52pm EST

  • Charter Schools Succeeding

    I'm not going to link much of this because the original is loaded with backing links - so I recommend reading it there:"Opponents of school choice are running out of excuses as evidence continues to roll in about the positive impact of charter schools," declared the Wall Street Journal' [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 7:17pm EST

  • IBD Updates The Important Stuff

    IBD's editorials today really wrap up all the big stuff and, naturally, this is stuff you won't read much about in the MSM.

    Iraq:Democracy is finally taking hold in the wake of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. That, not American withdrawal, should be the big story. It's time to acknowledge [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 6:28pm EST

  • You Gotta Have Priorities

    Of course decent, patriotic Americans have different ones than the media:(MRC) Our eagle-eyed archivists at MRC who record live network coverage thought it was curious that ABC and CBS weren't joining in as NBC offered live coverage of today's memorial service for the dead and wounded at Fort Hood. As [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 5:42pm EST

  • The Bridges Of Albany County

    Hey, did you hear? Paterson has come up with a solution to all these bridges being closed and/or on the brink of collapse! Great news, eh?

    No, I know what you're thinking, but he's going to use federal 'stimulus' money to fix the bridges instead of paying off teachers'' [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:07am EST

  • Sorry, did that hurt?

    Ouch!

    -

    Ben Nelson can't figure it out:Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) told CNSNews.com that because he is not a constitutional scholar he was “not going to be able to answer that question” of where specifically the Constitution authorizes Congress to mandate that individuals' [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 7:55am EST

  • Obama Disses McChrystal

    OK, so Obama gets into office and immediately sets up a group to make suggestions on what to do about Afghanistan. They give recommendations. Obama puts "his guy" in charge, Gen. McChrystal. This is roundly applauded as McChrystal is widely acknowledged as a guy that knows how to do what [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 7:05am EST

  • Facts Not On Your Side? Ignore Them!

    I think with one simple question I can, well, utterly destroy the claims made in a letter the Gazette printed from Sandra Natale of Wilton on Tuesday. Sandra attempts to knock down the claims of those that have the crazy idea that marriage is historically between men and women, not [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 7:32pm EST

  • Time To Spin

    I sort of wonder why the sudden push to inflate Obama right now by the media. I guess it must be socialized health care, trying to get the insulated Senators to vote against their constituents on the mistaken impression that Obama is popular - which means they should vote for [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 6:12pm EST

  • Thank You

    My thanks to our vets, more explicitly today than other days, though they have my thanks the rest of the year as well. [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 6:00am EST

  • Turn The Middle Side Topwise

    Nothing like a Simpsons' quote* to enliven the train wreck that is the Democratic leadership. I just passed along how the Democrats are trying to grab full control over our economic system (forget about health care's 17%!) by putting the government in charge of basically everything about companies - [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:00pm EST

  • Not What You Think

    So I see this headline: "At Ford Hood, Obama takes on new role" and I think, 'You mean he's finally going to start acting like commander-in-chief? He's going to take charge, buck stops here, confront the extremists, and support the troops?'

    No-o-o-o...silly me.

    "Obama pressed into role as" [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:59pm EST

  • As We Approach Veteran's Day...

    it's always good to know what the other side is thinking.

    What is MorOn.org thinking this fine November day as we approach Veteran's Day? Do their thoughts turn to bravery under fire, under appalling conditions, adapting and overcoming, no surrender? Do their thoughts turn to heroes?

    Well...sort of. [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:05pm EST

  • More Fed Officials Say 'No Jobs Coming'

    More Fed presidents are openly saying that all these wonderful things Obey-Won and the Debt-i Knights in Congress are spending money (that they don't have) on aren't going to get people working again...as if that were their plan in the first place (people making money don't vote for more' [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:39pm EST

  • Owens Immediately Sells Out NY-23

    Wow, that was fast! Mere hours after being sworn in to represent the 23rd, Bill Owens goes from being against the socialization of health care bill currently before Congress to voting for it...after getting to meet with Obey-Won. Any true moderates that voted for Owens because of his stated stances [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:09am EST

  • Our Bold Leaders

    Wow, budget deficits soaring into the billions! State running out of money?! What are we going to do?!

    There's only one thing we can do!

    Gay marriage.

    Now that's leadership. [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:03am EST

  • Democrats' Power Grab

    You'd think that they'd be content with controlling the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court, etc etc. You'd be wrong.

    Of course if you have your eyes open and realize that the "democrats" running the show in the White House and Congress are actually communists and fascists you'd realize [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 8:42pm EST

  • This Is News?

    For crying out loud, this is headline news now:

    Sources say Obama near decision on Afghanistan troops

    Sigh.

    BREAKING NEWS! OBAMA DOESN'T FINISH HIS PEAS!

    Weep for America.' [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 8:29pm EST

  • Global Warming Equals More Hurricanes?

    So, uh...it's like well into November, isn't it? And they're on Ida for named storms?? Seems to me that's like 9. Only 3 hurricanes this year?

    Seems to me that if a single hurricane is "evidence" that either:

    1) God is angry at America for emitting carbon dioxide; [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 7:38pm EST

  • Save Us, Government!

    Whoops. Earlier I had praised Sports Illustrated's writer, Peter King, for 'getting it' on our military men and women.

    Well, broken clock twice a day and all that. Falling off the cliff of rational thought he farts forth thusly:My heart goes out to the victims of the [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 5:59pm EST

  • Best Summary Evah

    Who knew that the "debate" over "socializing health care" could be boiled down so succinctly?!Let me get this straight. We're going to pass a health care plan written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but whose members' [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 5:42pm EST

  • Oh, Goody!

    Advance warning on tonight's news and tomorrow's papers: Expect to be barraged with "market surges to highest level in a year!!" soon. Nevermind that the market was in the toilet, no, in the drain below the toilet a year ago and people were wondering if they could retire.

    Nonetheless, [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 5:20pm EST

  • What Are They Afraid Of?

    So I'm reading the Saturday Daily Gazette and they have a big, above the fold lead story on the unemployment rate jumping over 10%. Nothing wrong with that. The sub-headline is "Fear freezes new hiring; 15.7 million out of work". Interesting.

    However, if you read the story, nowhere will' [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 6:47pm EST

  • House Socialized Medicine Bill DOA In Senate

    Good news:The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.

    Speaking from the Rose Garden about 14 hours after the late [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 5:24pm EST

  • Oldie But A Goodie

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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 12:05pm EST

  • Your Random Saturday

    Star Parker has an interesting hate crime analogy:Can you imagine a football game where the penalty for roughing the passer is 20 yards rather than 15 yards if the referee concludes that the violence perpetrated was motivated because the quarterback was homosexual?Most open and transparent administration - evah!Late [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:36am EST

  • Press Tries To Humanize Muslim Mass Murderer

    Well, this is disturbing. I started reading this story where it appears clear to me that the press is trying to 'humanize' the mass murdering muslim, Nidal Hasan. As my incredulity grew, I started thinking back...is this what the press usually does with headline murderers? Hmmm...how about Scott Roeder, the [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:13pm EST

  • Sarah Palin's Greatest Gift

    I just had one of those revelation things, I think. You know, when something just jumps into your head and the light goes on and all that.

    Now, the first thing to keep in mind is that the following is nothing more than wild speculation on my part. It [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:00pm EST

  • Hypocrite Of The Day Award

    He actually deserves it for the year, but in this case we'll give it to him for the day:President Barack Obama ordered the flags at the White House and other federal buildings be at half-staff and urged people not to draw conclusions while authorities investigate.

    "We don't know" [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:37pm EST

  • Unemployed Blows Past 10%

    As expected (in some quarters):News that the unemployment rate for October climbed more than expected to a 25-year high of 10.2% amid a steeper-than-expected decline in monthly nonfarm payrolls has sent stock futures markedly lower.Anyone that read my Wednesday post saw that this week's unemployment was going to come in [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 9:39am EST

  • Insert Head 'C' Into Sand 'D'

    Have you ever seen such willful (even desperate) ignorance as was on display in the papers this morning? I mean really - Gee, we have no idea why a muslim would suddenly start murdering people in a rampage, it's not like that ever happens.

    Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. And just [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 7:50am EST

  • Oh, That's Classy

    The left is just, like, soooooo classy, you know?Plenty of celebrities issued crazy statements in their efforts to defend director and rapist Roman Polanski but none went as far as author Gore Vidal did when he labeled Polanski’s victim a “young hooker.”

    In an Oct. 28 interview with [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:15pm EST

  • Hypocrisy

    Tell me something - when that priest was murdered in NJ last week, a crime with unknown circumstances at first...

    Why didn't the press immediately bemoan anti-religious/anti-catholic bigotry of liberal pundits, in particular I'm thinking Bill Maher?

    Why didn't the press go after anti-catholic, violent gay activists?
    [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:12pm EST

  • Emmerich: Changed Movie Out Of Fear Of Muslims

    If we don't live our lives the way we wish, then the terrorists will have won.

    Meet Roland Emmerich, a man whose movies I have indeed enjoyed in the past, letting their oft-foolish storylines and even liberal propaganda wash over and past me without leaving a trace while enjoying,' [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:53pm EST

  • D'uh

    Actual Headline: Officials: AARP will endorse House Democratic health bill

    Similar headline: NASA: Sun to rise in east tomorrow [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:10pm EST

  • Smells Like Bias To Me

    Could you write the following story without so much bias? Of course you could. So why doesn't the press do so? I don't think they can. Check out what I've highlighted and consider whether the language used:

    1) is fair to the side the writer clearly disgrees with; and[...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:08pm EST

  • Learn Something New Every Day

    It shouldn't be a saying, it should be a creed to live by. Maybe some of you knew this - I didn't:LEGO...is the world's sixth-largest toy manufacturer: Children across the world spend 5 billion hours a year playing with its toys. Founder Ole Kirk Christiansen created the company name [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:05pm EST

  • Market Updates

    I haven't really been motivated to do many posts on this subject lately...really, who wants to keep reading "businesses continue to shed workers and basically everything is in neutral until the Democrats stop throttling businesses"? Briefing.com points to a continuation:Participants also digested in the early going the ADP Employment Change' [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:56pm EST

  • New Signs On NJ Highways

    Maybe New Jersey should consider putting up new signs in lieu of 'Welcome to New Jersey, so and so governor' signs that so many states have. Maybe a warning sign - a warning to liberals but also to Republicans who think they can get elected there...

    [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:05am EST

  • NY Bucks Trend

    Well, it's official, NY is bucking the national trend to an extent. In Virginia and New Jersey, independent voters broke heavily for the Republicans, leading to one expected and one surprising victory in gubernatorial races. But in New York, good old liberal New York, Democrats voted for Democrats, independents voted' [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:54am EST

  • Ha!

    The irony! Oh, the irony! [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:53am EST

  • AP's Initial VA Report Very Honest

    Cheers to the AP for the initial brief filed on the victory in Virginia for Republican Bob McDonnell. This is, of course, a severe blow to the Washington Post that exerted massive efforts to derail McDonnell, dredging up college papers or some such nonsense and trying to create a surge [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:18pm EST

  • Let The Desperate Spinning Begin

    Let's see...

    Congressional approval is still absolutely appalling.

    Republicans continue to lead the generic ballot poll.

    Republicans are trusted over Democrats on each of the 10 key polled categories.

    Since the Democrats took over Congress the economy has gone into a recession and since Obama has [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:00pm EST

  • Black Immunity

    Well, this is just ridiculous: Racial disparity: All active ethics probes focus on black lawmakersThe House ethics committee is currently investigating seven African-American lawmakers — more than 15 percent of the total in the House. And an eighth black member, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), would be under investigation [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 6:00pm EST

  • Hogwash!

    In the House, Republicans produced a draft health care bill that focuses on bringing down costs rather than extending coverage to nearly all Americans.

    A 230-page draft was obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press. A spokeswoman for Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said changes were still being made     [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:37pm EST

  • About That New Health Care Bill

    Well, it's not like anyone expected anything different:Though no lawmaker will be able to read the House's health care bill before it hits the floor for a vote, some Americans are doing the country an indispensable service by poring over the shameful mess. What they are finding — and [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:33pm EST

  • If Mohammad Won't Come To The Mountain...

    then the Merkel must come to the Hussein - Merkel meets with Obama, then talks to CongressMerkel, who met Obama shortly before her appearance on Capitol Hill, said she wanted to use the Oval Office session and her speech to Congress to express gratitude for American support "throughout the" [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 12:32pm EST

  • 23 Skidoo

    IBD's view:But the reason Hoffman was able to end Scozzafava's candidacy is that the people in NY-23 preferred a Reaganite citizen politician to a party machinist doing an impersonation of liberal Sen. Olympia Snowe, the Maine Republican.

    Now that Scozzafava has, in an act of incalculable pettiness, endorsed [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 7:38am EST

  • Government Motors

    Well, here we are months later.

    Remember when we were told that Obama just had to take over GM, because otherwise the entire economy would collapse?

    Yeah?

    Well, Obama take take over GM instead of letting it go through a normal bankruptcy process. And they're barely staying' [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 7:17am EST

  • Hey, Mac

    Tell me something, Mac...just how insecure do you have to be to base your entire advertising campaign around pretending to have your competitor lie about, misrepresent, and generally disparage their own product instead of, I dunno, showing your own product and talking about what it offers consumers?

    I can't' [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 9:34pm EST

  • Left! Left! Left - right - left!

    Have you found yourself increasingly tilting your head at the news over the past few months? Squinting a bit? Cocking your head at an angle?

    Does it seem like something just doesn't seem right - but you can't quite put your finger on it. Like when you hear a [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 8:00pm EST

  • Trillion In The Toilet

    As we said as far back as February, it was likely the U.S. economy would grow by the third quarter of this year. Well, it did — and the 3.5% rebound was better than expected...

    They include presidential adviser Larry Summers, who said last week that "thanks largely" [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 6:21pm EST

  • Insert Head 'A' Into Sand 'B'

    3 strong economic reports lift hopes for recoveryHopes for the fledgling economic recovery got a boost Monday from better-than-expected news on manufacturing, construction and contracts to buy homes.

    U.S. manufacturing activity grew in October at the fastest pace in more than three years, according to a private group's' [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 5:41pm EST

  • Mozzarella Wishes And Pepperoni Dreams

    Turns out when the economy turns down the meat lovers stop the lovin'. When pizza prices went up, people didn't go out. Interesting news from Investopedia.com here drawing from SBA data on franchise failures.

    Of the top 15 franchise failures, based on percentage of franchisees failing to repay [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 5:24pm EST

  • Mayor Stratton's Funding Solution? Illegal Aliens!

    You have got to be kidding me. Mayor Stratton's answer to beefing up the government handouts to Schenectady is to make sure the census counts illegal aliens?? The Gazette reports:Every person that is not counted will cost the city roughly $20,000 in federal and state aid over the next decade, [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 7:19pm EST

  • You Stay Classy, Green Bay

    Wow, talk about classless. You can take all that 'what great fans Green Bay has' and stick it where the sun don't shine. Brett Favre just took the field for the first time for Minnesota and was met by a preponderance of boos from the 'classy' cheeseheads.

    They do' [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 4:23pm EST

  • Stimulus Shmimulus

    IBD:The White House says it "created or saved" 650,000 to 1 million jobs through its stimulus. Maybe so, but only if you count the jobs that never existed in the first place...

    No question, this has been a hard recession in terms of jobs. Since it began in [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 9:29am EST

  • Your Random Saturday

    Jolly pumpkin day, everyone. Be good. And, uh, sorry about being behind on these.

    Gee, commie Chavez (big fan of Obama and vice-versa) is ruining his country by trying to centralize everything...anybody surprised?In his latest absurdity, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is dictating three-minute showers and no singing. Claiming it's' [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 6:50am EDT

  • Reuters Continues Myths About Plame

    Bunch of carp:Ultimately, senior State Department official Richard Armitage was found to be the source of the leak.No, initially Armitage was found to be the source of the leak. He admitted as much to Fitzgerald at the beginning of the probe, for some obscure reason the investigation was continued [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 9:37pm EDT

  • Seven (More) Wonders

    I wonder...

    1. why no one helped out poor seng who posted the following to a tech advice site:what mean of lcd and lcd srceen??? my lcd sceen has some strange line which has some colour.so if i want to repair, whole lcd change or just lcd screen [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 9:05pm EDT

  • They Can't Even Get Propaganda Right

    Obama: Is there anything he can do?

    Seriously, they can't even get their propaganda right:The White House is promising that new figures being released Friday will be a more accurate showing of progress in President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan. It aggressively defended an earlier, faulty count that' [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 6:06pm EDT
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