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  • Buy the ticket, Take the ride

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    Following the Orlando visit of the Tea Party Express this past evening I had the distinct pleasure to meet two fellow bloggers. On the east-side of the Lake Eola bandshell during the event I met Barbara Espinoza of Scottsdale, AZ. Barbara blogs at American Freedom and ventured all the [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 3:23am EST
    by Mike

  • Orlando Tea Party

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    Yeah, it's been a while...

    This evening Rachael and I decided to attend the final stop of the Tea Party Express as it made it's way to Lake Eola Park in downtown Orlando. About 4000+ people showed up to protest higher taxes and the Pelosi/Reid/Obama plan [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 3:05am EST
    by Mike

  • A Nobel Shame

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    In Norwegian the phrase goes something like this:

    Hva i helvete!

    Roughly translated? WTF!

    President Barack Obama on Friday won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.

    "Only very rarely" [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 3:29am EDT
    by Mike

  • Now There's a Selling Point!

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    This doesn't happen often enough.

    Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note Thursday from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold confirming the penalty for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for not buying health insurance.

    Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor' [...]

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    Posted: September 26, 2009, 6:03am EDT
    by Mike

  • R.I.P Mr. Borlaug

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    "One of the greatest threats to mankind today is that the world may be choked by an explosively pervading but well camouflaged bureaucracy."

    I had the privilege of meeting Mr. Borlaug...once, many many moons ago. Very few times have a left an encounter wishing I had a lifetime [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2009, 8:49am EDT
    by Mike

  • Now That's Change™ I Can Believe In!

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    They hold me they were bringing a certain amount of Hopeychangitude to the Beltway....and they finally delivered.....

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the first time yesterday suggested she may be backing off her support of the public option. According to CNN, Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2009, 7:22am EDT
    by Mike

  • Call It When You See It

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    Coming from perhaps the most overrated Progressive punk out there...

    Still it did strike me as noteworthy that your basic tea party crowd isn’t the sort of crowd in which a Confederate flag is unwelcome. I feel like if you’d tried to bring this to a health [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2009, 6:58am EDT
    by Mike

  • Headline Of The Day

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    Yes We Cannibal.



    Yet another in a long line of right-wing nutjobs man bites dog progressive activists doing what they do best...attempting to bite off the hand that feeds them. Perhaps, though, we'll deal in the moral eqivalency argument that it's perfectly acceptable to bite off a [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2009, 12:32pm EDT
    by Mike

  • Good Times In The 321*

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    We made it over with about 30 minutes to spare. It's supposed to be the last night-time launch and they are simply breathtaking. It was also C's first launch day or night. I thought a lot about my father taking me to see the Apollo launch [...]
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    Posted: August 29, 2009, 6:26am EDT
    by Mike

  • Undercover AstroTurf

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    Steven Crowder goes undercover in the progressive PIRG-O-SPHERE. The results? Hilarious!



    Ya gotta love comments like "people shouldn't be allowed to vote on that."

    Mike' [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 5:11pm EDT
    by Mike

  • Obama's 'Fart Tax'

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    With due apologies to Gregg, if Obama's nomination of Cass Sunstein as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, White House Office of Management and Budget is countenanced by the U.S. Senate, the "human beings" arguing on their behalf might be likened to the Jackass. With' [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 11:15pm EDT
    by Mike

  • It's Tester Time Allright...

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    (Hat-Tip to the phosphorescent Carol at Missoulapolis)

    Since I'm not exactly "in the loop" as far as Montana-related news goes these days I was surprised to find a mention of Montana's junior senator on, of all places, Ace's place.

    U.S. Sen. Jon Tester said that a' [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2009, 9:50pm EDT
    by Mike

  • Why Be Embarrased By A...Puffy Shirt?

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    Will Wilkinson writing on his eponymous blog:

    Here is a good debate proposition: It ought to be less embarrassing to have been influenced by Ayn Rand than by Karl Marx.

    Even for those of us who came of age after 1989, Marxism, [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2009, 9:24pm EDT
    by Mike

  • You Can't Make This Stuff Up

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    While there are no doubt hundreds of eulogies out there concerning the passing of Senator Kennedy. This is the one I find most appropriate...

    Kennedy led a long, large, and mostly well-intentioned life (yeah, yeah, "Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment"), was loved by millions, resented or [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2009, 10:10pm EDT
    by Mike

  • Bad For Thee, But Not For Me?

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    In the Mishblogha, a week is a long time, but the time span of 3 or 4 months is the equivalent of a eternity. That's why I found a short segment on the Hannity program last night fascinating. The interview featured Pennsylvania and Oxford-alum Dr. Frank Luntz, who was discussing' [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 7:19pm EDT
    by Mike

  • Go Ahead...Read It!

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    When a Princeton guy says:

    Whether left or right, if you read one article on health care reform it ought to be this one. It is so reasonable and such a departure from the received wisdom among the progressivetariat that I am surprised The Atlantic published it. [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2009, 8:18am EDT
    by Mike

  • Elul Means School

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    Enough about health care and more about the things that really matter!

    As the last month of the Jewish year dawns it ushers in change™ I really can believe in. School starts on Monday. For most parents this is a blessed occasion. For me? Not so much. [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2009, 11:39pm EDT
    by Mike

  • An M.D.'s Take on Health-Care Reform

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    Came across this article via a link from Twitter:

    An Anesthesiologist's Take on Health-Care Reform

    Kind of a primer on anesthesiology, surgery, obstetrics, and the incorrect assumptions progressive's have not only towards tax policy but health care delivery, with Max Weber and Calvinism thrown in for good [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2009, 10:55pm EDT
    by Mike

  • Reason...from Reason™

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    A (very)brief primer on the history of progressive racism. Damon Root writing at Reason...

    Have some ugly views cropped up at the recent health care protests? Sure. But to take that as evidence of a century-long battle between enlightened liberal reformers and knuckle-dragging laissez-faire racist goons is to [...]
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    Posted: August 20, 2009, 8:53pm EDT
    by Mike

  • Keep Up The Good Work Kids!

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    No time like the present to throw out a big hallelujah to the nutrooters. Please kids, keep pushing Obama and the Congress to the left while deluding yourselves into believing that this is anything but a slightly center-right nation. The consequences will be delicious to savor.

    Charlie [...]
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    Posted: August 20, 2009, 3:26pm EDT
    by Mike

  • So...why the edit?

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    Doesn't fit with the narrative, huh?

    (H/T Newsbusters)

    On Tuesday, MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer fretted over health care reform protesters legally carrying guns: "A man at a pro-health care reform rally...wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip....there are questions about whether'" [...]
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    Posted: August 20, 2009, 10:47pm EDT
    by Mike

  • No Sense of History...Or No Sense of Shame?

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    How many times have we on the right, when we dare point out that the progressive left's preeminent websites promote an anti-Israel bias, are ridiculed under the guise that the offending post is simply "....a post...on a website," despite the fact the post if often ranked to front page status' [...]
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    Posted: August 19, 2009, 11:58am EDT
    by Mike

  • Real Hope, Real Change

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    Just a blip on the radar or part of a growing trend? Not surprising considering the progressives have deluded themselves into believing that the public are actually with them on this.

    Jennifer Rubin, writing at Commentary Magazine:

    The Democrats are understandably stunned. They and those sympathetic to [...]
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    Posted: August 13, 2009, 7:08pm EDT
    by Mike

  • Whole Foods Serves Up Healthcare Choice

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    The free market in everything?

    Eight things we can do to improve health care without adding to the deficit

    While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of [...]
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    Posted: August 12, 2009, 6:31pm EDT
    by Mike

  • Know Your Town Hall Mob Agitators!

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    Go. Read. It. (H/T Iowahawk)

    After you're finished, read this and ask yourself, why no outrage when various and sundry conservative congressmen or and/or pundits were shouted off the dais at events they were invited to speak at? Why no calls for investigations?

    The manufactured outrage' [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 11:12pm EDT
    by Mike

  • PeopleProgressives in Glass Houses

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    Ain't it grand being part of yet another Vast Right Wing Conspiracy™? I mean, come on ladies and gents, where are you spending your economic stimulus VRWC™ royalty payment? First it's the "tea baggers" being paid agents of yet another boogeyman created in the technicolor dreams of progressives, and now [...]
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    Posted: August 05, 2009, 9:09pm EDT
    by Mike

  • So much for transparency....

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    I thought we were in for the "politics of change."

    The Obama administration is refusing to release government records on its "cash-for-clunkers" rebate program that would substantiate—or undercut—White House claims of the program's success, even as the president presses the Senate for a quick vote for $2 billion to' [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 11:34am EDT
    by Mike

  • Stick a Fork In it....

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    Stick a fork in it....


    It's done...or will be once the actual truth is known. (H/T Doug Ross @ Journal)
    Mike' [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2009, 8:36pm EDT
    by Mike

  • Leave It to an Accomplished Montana Woman...

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    While the hand wringers busy themselves putting words in other people's mouths, an obviously accomplished Montana attorney distills the issue of Sonia Sotomayor in a way we all can understand.

    The woman grew up in the capital of the world, went to two Ivy League schools, and was blessed' [...]
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    Posted: May 29, 2009, 1:23pm EDT
    by Mike

  • Happy Mother's Day

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    Mike [...]
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    Posted: May 10, 2009, 2:44pm EDT
    by Mike

  • Dubai Ports Deal--Redux

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    By now the news of Obama's infamous bow before Saudi royalty is old news. However, Obama's mettle will be tested over news that's likely to infuriate those on both sides of the political aisle who are concerned with national security. In the coming weeks and months we'll see if the [...]
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    Posted: April 17, 2009, 6:30am EDT
    by Mike

  • 2 Letters for Schakowsky

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    The letters? F and U.

    Seems the socialistProgressive representing IL-9 in the House is taking her talking points from like-minded socialists.

    CHICAGO, IL (April 15, 2009) – Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-IL, released the following statement in response to “tea parties” being held on Tax Day.

    “The [...]
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    Posted: April 16, 2009, 6:29pm EDT
    by Mike

  • Yo Bama!'s Mexican Gun Lies

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    I returned from a relaxing afternoon playing golf and turned on the TV to find out what I had missed in the last few hours. Lo and behold I couldn't escape live coverage of a press conference featuring Mexican president Calderon and community organizer president Obama.

    During a' [...]
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    Posted: April 16, 2009, 3:54pm EDT
    by Mike

  • Meet the Radical Right--Tea Party...Orlando

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    The faces of Right-Wing Extremism
    Orlando, FL 4/15/09


    I took Caleb to the Tea Party gathering this evening in downtown Orlando. Generally I'm terrible at guessing crowd numbers but 'well over a thousand +' would seem to do it. Nationwide it seems the' [...]
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    Posted: April 15, 2009, 8:17pm EDT
    by Mike

  • Blago at WDW

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    So, former Democrat governor Blagojevich, where are you going to go when you know a 16 count federal indictment is coming your way?
    Why he's going to Disney World of course ;-)
    Mike

    UPDATE: Thanks to Doug Ross @ Journal for the Ross-o-lanche![...]
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    Posted: April 02, 2009, 9:05pm EDT
    by Mike

  • It's All Good

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    Excuse the absence for the past few months. I've been busy getting to know my 8 year-old son, who I never knew about until mid-December. Nothing, NOTHING has been more important than that.


    Regular posting to resume sooner or later.
    Mike' [...]
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    Posted: April 01, 2009, 6:21pm EDT
    by Mike

  • Dinner

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    It sure as hell beats the back-up plan.

    Mike [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2008, 1:15pm EST
    by Mike

  • Good Day

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    Near Abaco.

    Not a bad way to spend a pre-Thanksgiving.

    Mike [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2008, 5:45pm EST
    by Mike

  • Calypso Thanksgiving

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    With fuel prices down at the moment I thought it would be a welcome change to juice up the boat and spend the holiday around the Bahamas. Though a back-up plan remains in place, we'll eat what we catch, and get back when the rum' [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2008, 7:55am EST
    by Mike

  • The Gift That Keeps On Giving

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    Thank G-d that Barack Obama will bring us a different kind of politics, and we as a society will finally turn the page on the politics of pandering and demagoguery.

    It's just that I wish someone could provide the Al Sharpton with the memo.

    Putz.

    Mike[...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2008, 12:42am EST
    by Mike

  • In Search Of...

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    A post-racial breathalyzer device.

    A lawyer representing a man charged with drunken driving has claimed Connecticut's breathalyzers discriminate against blacks.

    Attorney James Ruane represents 40-year-old Tyrone Brown, of Norwalk, who was arrested April 9 by Connecticut State Police on Interstate 95 in Fairfield.

    In a motion' [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2008, 11:49pm EST
    by Mike

  • Time...and Elections Heal All Wounds

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    It seems like only a few months ago that the majority of Montana's nutrooters were pooh-pooing Senator Baucus, hoping for either a viable primary challenge from the "legitimate left," or for a retirement so he could "make way" for Governor Schweitzer.

    Not long after Baucus fought a successful battle' [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2008, 11:16pm EST
    by Mike

  • On Private Jets and Secret Ballots

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    I hear I've missed quite the sideshow. Public relations students will be studying this for years. Picture three well paid Detroit executives traveling to Washington to ask for a bailout. The only problem is that they fly in luxury private jets while begging for public money to shore-up the mistakes' [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2008, 9:05pm EST
    by Mike

  • Namibiblog

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    Greetings from Windhoek. I'm over here on business but managed to work in a little pleasure as well. This morning I'm finally plugged in just in time for me to head back to South Africa for another meeting and then back to the States.
    Since [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2008, 8:34pm EST
    by Mike

  • Night of the Long Knives

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    Deroy Murdock writes a powerful piece over at NRO on how to get this train wreck of a party back on the tracks...and how GWB should spend his retirement. Read the whole thing.

    ...

    Now, what about those whom Obama and his supporters vanquished? What the Republican [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2008, 2:40pm EST
    by Mike

  • Works for Me

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    Obama as a one-termer? It's still a bit early to write his political obituary but USNWR's James Pethokoukis makes some good points.

    The 2008-09 recession may actually be far nastier than its 1990-91 twin. Every day, Wall Street forecasts worsen. Jan Hatzius, chief U.S. economist at Goldman Sachs, [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2008, 9:30am EST
    by Mike

  • Rebuilding the Party

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    For some interesting ideas start here.

    Another good place to get up to speed on building the kind of infrastructure that will help win elections in 2010 and beyond is here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

    Finally, the [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2008, 9:15am EST
    by Mike

  • Egyptian Lawyer...Stayin' Classy

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    I guess we'll all have to wait for the United Nations to spring into inaction over this one, seeing as it's classified officially as a "crime against humanity." It's patently obvious that Al-Arabiya's guest on this program is a crime against decency.



    Mere Rhetoric's Omri Ceren' [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2008, 8:40am EST
    by Mike

  • Remember the Name

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    It's hard to say if Governor Huntsman is behind the rumors or not, but someone is putting his name out there, and having known some members of his family for pretty much my entire lifetime, I'm only too happy to add his name to my "Google Alerts" list...and hope [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2008, 8:30am EST
    by Mike

  • About Marriage

    Number of comments: 1
    So the anti-Proposition 8 protests are ongoing, and never one to be late for the ball, even reaching the relative wilds of Montana. It's never too late to create a fake controversy in order to raise awareness money for the greater cause, no? I just find it interesting to note' [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2008, 11:18pm EST
    by Mike
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