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Dick Lugar … The Untouchable?
Touching. The New York Times seems to have found itself a new favorite Republican. Yesterday the newspaper profiled Senator Dick Lugar, whose seat comes up for voter review in 2012, by noting that...
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Irish take $90B bailout
Go n-éirí an t-adh libh. Ireland became the second EU nation to accept a bailout this year after fears that its banking sector would collapse. Like Greece in the spring, Ireland will have to impose an...
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Dean: We need to sanction TV guests through the Fairness Doctrine, or something
Levels of ignorance. Behold the most incoherent statement from Howard Dean since his famous “Yeargh!” in Iowa, and that’s saying something. The Blaze clips the audio of a Dean appearance from almost...
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Wikileaks a “terrorist organization”?
Overreach. Does Wikileaks belong on the same list as al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and FARC? Rep. Peter King (R-NY) think so. In a statement earlier today on MSNBC, King proposed adding Wikileaks to the...
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Iranian nuclear scientists targeted in bomb attacks, one dead
Who's the likely suspect? Fresh off the revelation that Iran’s Sunni neighbors urged the US to attack Iran and decapitate its regime, two bombs targeting scientists in Iran’s nuclear program killed one...
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Obama to freeze federal worker pay, save $5 billion over two years
Big help. Give the President some credit. This mainly empty gesture will net a lot more than Barack Obama’s earlier exhaustive budget trimming that saved all of $100 million after running up a $1.3...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Kevin McCullough
3 pm ET! Today on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Kevin McCullough joins us again to discuss the intersection of faith and politics. Kevin and I will also talk about the fizzle of National Opt-Out...
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Behold the power of pork, Part MDCLXVII
Corrosion. The GOP has indicated that it will fight to reduce federal spending in the next budget cycle. What about this budget cycle? After all, Democrats put off creating a budget for FY2011 (which...
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Korea: Verbose Silence, Interpolation
Not blinking, just looking away. One of the most worrisome aspects of the Obama administration’s foreign policy is the effective inconsistency of its “information” posture. The crisis on the Korean...
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Does Wikileaks demonstrate impotence of Obama administration?
Strongly worded memos. Could the Obama administration have stopped any or all of the three Wikileaks data dumps? Former Bush aide Marc Thiessen argues that not only could the White House have...
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Video: Why Keynesian policies fail
Consumer consumption is not the origin of growth. The Center for Freedom and Prosperity has another in its Econ 101 video series, this time showing why Keynesian economic policies generally fail to...
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Hillary on Wikileaks: This isn’t an attack on America, it’s an attack on the...
Damage control. It surely wasn’t intended as an attack on the international community — Wikileaks’ statement yesterday afternoon made it abundantly clear who their target was — but this is nifty spin...
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Bad news: Bills receiver blames God after dropping game-winning TD pass
Doubt. Via TMZ, a desperately needed palate cleanser as we await the next round of document-dumping this afternoon by Wikileaks. (Word on Twitter is that it’s set for 5 p.m. ET.) To set the scene:...
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New Wikileaks docs revealed: China open to Korean reunification?
Change. Time for the daily diplo document dump, which should be a 5 p.m. staple for at least the next week. Most of you will go looking for the Times’s write-up but the Guardian’s is better in this...
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Judge Napolitano: It’s hard for me to believe that WTC7 came down by itself
"Truth." Via the Right Scoop, it’s a few days old but shouldn’t pass unmentioned. Skip ahead to 3:44 for the key bit. In lieu of repeating the points about WTC7 that I made the last time a Fox...
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PPP 2012 poll: Mike Bloomberg fee-vah not yet raging among Americans
Go figure. I don’t get it. The media sure seems to like him, what with the GOP having been captured by those darned wingnuts and their beloved Bambi turning into the god that failed. Surely a...
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Video: And now, an important message from Harry Reid about an awesome college...
Yes, really. Via Mediaite, five minutes of your tax dollars at work. Actually, it’s a nice transition from the Thanksgiving holiday: If you’ve never been trapped at the dinner table on turkey day next...
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Quotes of the day
Leaks. “Federal authorities are investigating whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange violated criminal laws in the group’s release of government documents, including possible charges under the...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Monty Hall. How desperate did Barack Obama get to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay? Desperate enough to start acting like Monty Hall. However, even the legendary host of Let’s Make a Deal...
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Pay freeze the beginning of Clintonian triangulation strategy?
Playing the angles. Before the midterms swept aside the Democratic majority in the House, many wondered whether Barack Obama had the sense and the willingness to emulate Bill Clinton and move to the...
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