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Durable goods orders drop in August, new-home market still flatlining
Maybe no one will notice the corpse. As Wreckovery Summer comes crashing to an end, perhaps it’s fitting that among the last of the indicators for the Census Bureau to report is durable goods. After...
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Video: “The Last Best Hope”
Change. Jim Geraghty over at NRO describes the following video this way: But all of this arrogant, out-of-control government triggered the creation of an idea: a broad-based popular movement that...
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It’s come to this: Fight breaks out at Reid/Angle candidate forum; Update:...
War. The bad news: It happened at a Christian candidate forum. The worse news: The first punch was allegedly thrown by an Angle supporter at a Reid supporter. The worst news: That Angle supporter was a...
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Video: The geekiest thing ever filmed
The final frontier. Via the Anchoress, alternate headline: “The greatest thing ever filmed.” Some dream of money, others dream of love, I dream of this. Actually, apart from its sheer surreal...
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Bob Dole: Bob Dole endorses Christine O’Donnell
Unity. Not only did he endorse her, he did it from his hospital bed at Walter Reed. And then he sent her the maximum possible donation allowable under law. Second look at the GOP establishment?...
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Ed Schultz: What’s up with this fat slob Chris Christie?
"He's throwing his weight around again." To cleanse the palate, via Mark Finkelstein and the ‘Busters, here’s the rapier wit that’s going to bring 300,000 people out onto the National Mall just like...
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Romney: Let’s face it, Obama’s going to be very tough to beat
"The economy recovers. It always has. It always will." Via GOP12, I’m surprised that this modest statement of painfully obvious fact is making waves today. Click the image below and skip ahead to 8:00...
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Video: Obama rips Ahmadinejad for Truther speech at UN
"It was offensive. It was hateful." This isn’t his entire answer, actually. As Tapper notes, he went on to stress that the Iranian regime lacks basic decency, which I take it was his way of using the...
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Quotes of the day
Radicals. This fatuous infatuation with the Constitution, particularly the 10th Amendment, is clearly the work of witches, wiccans and wackos. It has nothing to do with America’s real problems and, if...
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The Ouroboros revisited
Consumption. If you see yourself as a moderate, independent centrist, there is an image I would ask you to ponder: a great serpent consuming its own tail. It is called the Ouroboros, a symbol of...
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Breitbart to Bill Maher: You know you’re not a libertarian anymore, right?
Heh. The funniest thing about this? I’m not sure Maher does know. He knows he’s more socialist than libertarian when it comes to health care, but as a general proposition about how he self-identifies,...
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John Kerry: I wish these voters would pay more attention
Just like old times. Via JWF, who’s as incredulous at Kerry’s critique of mindless political sloganeering as I am. Never mind “Yes we can”; anyone remember how he and Edwards couldn’t agree on their...
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Video: Paul Ryan and Democrat try, fail to have adult discussion about...
Fail. Alternate headline: “Paul Ryan, Democrat succeed wildly at mugging for the camera while the other speaks.” Three thoughts. One: The dynamic here simply couldn’t be cuter. When Fox signs me as a...
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Statistical model of Delaware: Coons 37, Castle 34, O’Donnell 29
Close. Nate Silver took a stab at it but even he doesn’t sound terribly confident in his numbers. People are starving for a poll showing the effect of a Castle write-in bid on the race, though, so...
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Fun: Liberal Democratic hero suddenly a man with no known political affiliation
Independent. Worth a schadenfreudean giggle on a very slow Saturday afternoon. Needless to say, Feingold’s approach here is the smart way to go this year: Not once in either ad do the cursed names of...
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New Alan Grayson ad: My draft-dodging GOP opponent doesn’t love America like...
"Daniel Webster doesn't care about us." I hope this is the sleaziest ad of the year because, if it isn’t, I don’t want to see the one that is. Where to begin? Well, for starters, the photo of Teacups...
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Quotes of the day
Feel our pain. “In a plea for unity, candidate Obama said lack of empathy was ‘the essential deficit that exists in this country.’ He defined it as ‘an inability to recognize ourselves in one another;...
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Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?
Wakey wakey! Time to wake up, folks, and go through the academic exercise of choosing the Obamateurism of the Week! Long before Obama became President, the Creator failed to endow him with executive...
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Video: SNL on O’Donnell, Ground Zero mosque
Paint by numbers. Three clips for you from last night’s season premiere, although only one is worth watching. The O’Donnell skit is the “newsworthy” bit but the gags are so predictable that you might...
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New polls show Fiorina and Paul fading — thanks to screwy samples; Update: SF...
Hmmm. I linked the California poll in Headlines but I owe you a post about it because the numbers are almost certainly off. Dude, even I’m not this eeyorish: Brown, the former governor and current...
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