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• Global warming alarmists' hacked e-mails reveal "pressure from climate skeptics"

  That's according to The Guardian (via The Corner). The key (laughable) paragraph: The alleged emails illustrate the persistent pressure some climatologists have been under from sceptics in recent years. There have been repeated calls, including Freedom of Information requests, for... [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:12pm EST
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• An extremely dumb idea courtesy of Gov. Markell

  The ever-on-top-of-First State-education-happenings Kilroy gets some scoop on some disturbing news: Governor Markell plans on removing SROs -- School Resource Officers, aka police officers -- from various schools: Letters from DOE per the request of Governor Jack Markell were sent... [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 11:38am EST
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• Hube's Spanish Language Video of the Week

  Who else but Los Amigos Invisibles -- recent winners of the Latin Grammy for Best Alternative Album -- here live a few years back with their 1999 hit "Ultrafunk":... [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:57am EST
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• The most strained reasoning why Nidal Hasan's actions weren't "terrorism"

  ... comes from the New York Times: While there are important differences between the soldiers killed at Fort Hood and the examples Mr. Walzer cited — they were filling out forms at a readiness center in Texas before deploying to... [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:22am EST
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• MSM priorities

  The Associated Press coverage of the health care bills vs. Sarah Palin's new book: Number of AP reporters assigned to story: • ObamaCare bills: 2 • Palin book: 11 Number of pages in document being covered: • ObamaCare bills: 4,064... [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:02am EST
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• Hard to argue? Not really

  Michael Lind in Salon (h/t to Joanne Jacobs), despite some ridiculous bloviating against conservatives and the GOP, makes a pretty persuasive case that the Pledge of Allegiance is "un-American": Shouldn't the government pledge allegiance to the people rather than the...' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:01pm EST
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• Breaking and continuing: Evidence that global warming alarmists have been faking it?

  In a word, "wow."... [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:49pm EST
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• Dopey Philly Inquirer Letter of the Week

  Peter A. Friedrichs, like one of the LGOMB (pandora), doesn't understand what profiling is: Racial and ethnic profiling is morally reprehensible because it seeks to label people based solely on their race or nationality ("Fear of offending is a threat...'" [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:03pm EST
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• Watcher's Council results

  First place in the Council category was Bookworm Room with The Perils Of An Affirmative Action President. First place in the non-Council category was The Rosistance with The lawyer in the White House and the spy in federal prison giving... [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:55pm EST
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• More evidence the Left doesn't believe in free speech

  Remember -- it's only "dangerous speech" when the Right does it. Here's Arianna "I'm Only Somebody Because I Married Rich" Huffington on why Glenn Beck doesn't deserve First Amendment rights: "It is frightening," Huffington replied. "Well, I would say the..." [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:53pm EST
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• Yep, I'm sure it's just a coincidence

  ... that just happens to neatly coincide with the nigh-near passage of some sort of Obamacare: Most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually, say new guidelines that conclude that's enough to... [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:42pm EST
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• Ever wonder why the U.S. lags [so far] behind others in math?

  This might be an answer.... [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:22pm EST
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• Obama: "We've restored America's standing"

  Via CNN: A little more than a year after his election, President Obama said his administration has laid the groundwork for success on global and domestic matters. "I think that we've restored America's standing in the world, and that's confirmed...'" [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:56pm EST
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• Jesse Jackson: Un-American

  Yep, that's right. Isn't it "un-American" to say that someone is not "really (insert race/ethnicity)" merely because they disagree with you? Isn't that like saying that someone is "un-American" because they disagree with the Iraq War? Or someone is "un-American"... [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:42pm EST
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• Why they're called the L.G.O.M.B.

  UPDATE: Steve Newton beat me to the punch, and as usual, does it so much better. That's the Local Gaggle of Moonbat Bloggers. Case in point (this time): Delaware Dunce, the same "guy" who once desired that all Republicans "be..." [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:19pm EST
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• Delaware has its own phantom congressional districts!

  Imagine if there was a Republican in the White House ... and that administration was putting forth claims of "created" or "saved" jobs ... in congressional districts that don't even exist! And Delaware was included! Here's a stimulus success story:...' [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:23pm EST
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• "Unfit?"

  One of the more rational (usually) folks over our LGOMB, pandora, writes that Sarah Palin is "unfit to be president" because she apparently said she'd favor profiling Muslims to save American lives. "I’m really sick of this sort of talk,"...' [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:08pm EST
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• Negative Palin book review by WaPo ...

  ... even though reviewer admits to not reading the entire book! Then again, Palin is Republican, and the WaPo is MSM. No surprise here!... [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:46pm EST
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• And this idiot got a Nobel too

  The Inventor of the Internet, Al Gore, proves (again) why we should really just guffaw hysterically at him: CONAN O'BRIEN, HOST: Now, what about ... you talk in the book about geothermal energy... AL GORE, NOBEL LAUREATE: Yeah, yeah. O'BRIEN:... [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:22pm EST
  by Hube

• The Messiah vs. other foreign leaders ...

  ... on greeting other foreign leaders. Meanwhile, the AP makes use of White House talking points. What a surprise.... [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:47pm EST
  by Hube

• Bush/Cheney still to blame for Hasan killings

  That is, according to "progressive" punditry. First we saw Stephanie Miller; now, MSNBC dunderhead Ed Schultz actually did the unthinkable for a lib -- called Hasan a "terrorist" -- but then proceeded to, yep, blame George W. Bush and Dick... [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:55pm EST
  by Hube

• A little secret

  How pumpkin pie is really made: (h/t to cardinals fan!)... [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 7:47am EST
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• Obama: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will get a "full military trial"

  Check out the video here. So, what happened? What changed? Is it "Eric Holder is acting alone" or some other such nonsense again? Keep in mind that ... the current special military tribunals were created by the 2006 Military Commissions... [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 7:39am EST
  by Hube

• So much for those "courageous conversations," eh?

  Black [male] Columbia professor slugs white [woman] colleague in the face during an argument about race.... [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 7:15am EST
  by Hube

• Watcher's Council winners

  First place in the Council category was Joshuapundit with Death By A Thousand Cuts. First place in the non-Council category was Selwyn Duke /American Thinker with Jihad and America, the land that cried sheep. Full results are here.... [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 9:22am EST
  by Hube

• The Messiah still in "blame the US" mode in Japan

  This time he refuses to answer a Japanese reporter's question as to whether dropping the a-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the right decision: PBO gave a halting response that utterly failed to answer the question. The closest he came... [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:12pm EST
  by Hube

• "We're sorry"

  It's bad enough that the MSM was twisting itself into pretzels to be politically correct in reporting the Hasan-Fort Hood matter; now Canadian officials are apologizing for not being PC after arresting a couple of FBI terror suspects: Windsor police... [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 3:59pm EST
  by Hube

• Today

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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:59pm EST
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• You knew it was bound to happen!

  Remember -- there is NOTHING for which George W. Bush can't be blamed. In this case, he's culpable for Nidal Hasan killing thirteen people. So says liberal radio gabber Stephanie Miller: You know I think in his (Hasan) particular case...' [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 10:09am EST
  by Hube

• More fun with the MSM fact-checkers

  You know, the media that has "layers and layers" of fact checkers and editors. Like the one that wrote this caption about John Kerry's Vietnam War Senate testimony. And now, this. Revile: To assail with abusive language; vituperate. Reveille: The... [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:53am EST
  by Hube

• Times change. Indeed.

  Nancy Pelosi in 2005:... [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:01am EST
  by Hube

• The problem with Islamic terrorism and the Left

  It's looks more and more like the Fort Hood assassin had at the very least radical Muslim beliefs, if not connections to known terrorists and terrorist sympathizers. The Washington Post reports that Nidal M. Hasan "lectured on Islam, suicide bombers..." [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 3:55pm EST
  by Hube

• Good thing we have the MSM "fact checkers" to learn us bloggers!

  Case in point: Newsweek's caption of John Kerry's Senate Foreign Relations testimony during the Vietnam War. I think this is the year they were looking for.... [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 3:45pm EST
  by Hube

• Al Gore advocates civil disobedience to stop global warming

  The Inventor of the Internets, in an interview with The Guardian (via The Corner): Amid increasing incidents of climate protesters disrupting the operations of fossil-fuel industries and airports in Britain and elsewhere, Gore suggests the scale of the emergency means... [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:54am EST
  by Hube

• Watcher's Council winners

  First place in the Council category was The Glittering Eye with What’s A Foreseeable Rate of Taxation? First place in the non-Council category was Black & Right with Comment of the Day. Full results are here.... [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:17pm EST
  by Hube

• Fort Hood: Muslim extremism just can't be considered

  ... especially if you're part of the MSM. Take Newsweek, for example. Not a single mention of how Islamic extremism just might have played a role in the shootings perpetrated by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. However, there's certainly plenty speculation...' [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:24pm EST
  by Hube

• Los Amigos Invisibles win Latin Grammy!

  Mis panas from Venezuela, Los Amigos Invisibles, won their first Latin Grammy last evening for Best Alternative Album. Heartiest congrats, my friends! Left to right: Mando (keyboards), Chulius (lead vocals), Maurimix (percussion, vocals), Catire (bass), and Cheo (guitar). (Drummer "Mamulo"... [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 12:18pm EST
  by Hube

• Benefits of the stimulus

  From the AP: President Barack Obama's economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, only 508 people work there. I believe that's also part of... [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 4:21pm EST
  by Hube

• Benefits of the stimulus

  From the AP: President Barack Obama's economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, only 508 people work there. I believe that's also part of... [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 3:21pm EST
  by Hube

• Honduras -- is the U.S. coming to its senses?

  Via the AP: Ousted President Manuel Zelaya is asking the Obama Administration to explain why, after pressing for his reinstatement, U.S. officials say they will recognize upcoming Honduran elections even if he isn't returned to power first. In a letter...' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:04pm EST
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• Honduras -- is the U.S. coming to its senses?

  Via the AP: Ousted President Manuel Zelaya is asking the Obama Administration to explain why, after pressing for his reinstatement, U.S. officials say they will recognize upcoming Honduran elections even if he isn't returned to power first. In a letter...' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:04pm EST
  by Hube

• Burris is back ...

  ... that's Dave Burris, by the way, at the new Dave Burris.com. Today he has an apt analysis of why Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman lost in New York district 23. And though Dave doesn't really explicitly mention it (but...' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:38pm EST
  by Hube

• "The place for politics"

  Or maybe not: MSNBC boasted that on election night they would present a "special live edition of Countdown" at 10:00 pm. But with bad news for the Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a funny thing happened on the way... [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:23pm EST
  by Hube

• "This is not about me"

  Oh, but it is: During the 10AM ET hour of America’s Newsroom on Fox News Channel, fill-in co-host Martha Maccallum told viewers what President Obama watched on election night while Democrats suffered big losses in New Jersey and Virginia: “Robert... [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:18pm EST
  by Hube

• Burris is back ...

  ... that's Dave Burris, by the way, at the new Dave Burris.com. Today he has an apt analysis of why Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman lost in New York district 23. And though Dave doesn't really explicitly mention it (but...' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:38pm EST
  by Hube

• "The place for politics"

  Or maybe not: MSNBC boasted that on election night they would present a "special live edition of Countdown" at 10:00 pm. But with bad news for the Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a funny thing happened on the way... [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:23pm EST
  by Hube

• "This is not about me"

  Oh, but it is: During the 10AM ET hour of America’s Newsroom on Fox News Channel, fill-in co-host Martha Maccallum told viewers what President Obama watched on election night while Democrats suffered big losses in New Jersey and Virginia: “Robert... [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:18pm EST
  by Hube

• "V" as the Obama administration?

  Jonah Goldberg says that many of his readers have noted the similarity: As many, many readers have noted the Visitors seem to share much of Barack Obama's agenda. We bring you free healthcare! We bring you hope and change! But... [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 6:43pm EST
  by Hube

• But remember -- 20 years in his church and he "didn't hear a thing"

  Barack Obama's pastor and mentor Jeremiah Wright is back at it, this time praising "no-nonsense Marxism," and calling the US "land of the greed and home of the slave." The preacher went on praise the FMLN and FSLN, the El... [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 6:12pm EST
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• "V" as the Obama administration?

  Jonah Goldberg says that many of his readers have noted the similarity: As many, many readers have noted the Visitors seem to share much of Barack Obama's agenda. We bring you free healthcare! We bring you hope and change! But... [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:43pm EST
  by Hube