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Drudge teaser: Wikileaks tool to be named Time’s “Person of the Year”
Too dumb to check. Just a single line at the top of the page, but it’s all too plausible and Assange is, after all, leading Time’s online balloting. By a lot, in fact. In second place, trailing by more...
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Video: It’s a very Basil Marceaux Christmas
Very. Via Mediaite, it’s the palate-cleansing musical equivalent of a frosty cup of eggnog spiked with a heavy, heavy hallucinogen. Two things here. One: Obviously, to make this go truly viral,...
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Dead end: U.S. drops demand for Israeli settlement freeze in ongoing peace talks
Surprise. Could be the end of this latest futile round of the peace process, with the next futile round to begin at a date as yet undetermined. Sometime in The One’s second term, perhaps? The surprise...
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Great news: Shanghai teens destroy U.S. in respected international...
"We have to see this as a wake-up call." Hey, who’s up for a little civilizational-decline anxiety on a slow Tuesday news night? Why, I haven’t wet myself like this over China since that Chinese...
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Jim DeMint: I’ll vote to filibuster the tax cuts deal
Opposition. From today’s Hugh Hewitt radio show, with audio via Breitbart. It’s mainly a symbolic gesture, as most observers — Mitch McConnell included — seem to think the votes are there in the...
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Scientists: NASA’s alleged discovery of arsenic-based life is crap
"This paper should not have been published." I gave it the front-page treatment when the big announcement was made, so now the big skeptical response gets front-page treatment too. Simply devastating —...
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New Jersey paper: Why, Chris Christie’s nothing but a big ol’ bully
Aw. I’ve gotten two e-mails today from a reader begging me to post this as an outlet for Palin fans to dump all over the big guy. Remember when he goofed on her on Jimmy Fallon’s show? Here’s your...
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Quotes of the day
Compromise? “When debating with Republicans, the president uses tough rhetoric, and he dished some today. He said he was ‘itching for a fight on a whole range of issues.’ But when talking about...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Capitulance. Barack Obama’s political strategy in working to a compromise on the tax hikes scheduled for January 1st seemed pretty clear. Obama could claim that he worked across the aisle with...
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Exclusive: EPW report on China’s supposed “green” leadership, interview with...
Plus, Inhofe supports the tax deal and opposes START. This morning, the minority caucus of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee will release a report that attempts to deconstruct the...
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Emmer to concede MN gubernatorial race
Governor Brave Sir Mark Dayton. The present Minnesota recount has been more pleasantly conducted, but it comes with the same unfortunate ending. Tom Emmer, the Republican candidate, will concede later...
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Gallup poll shows Americans want spending cuts, not stimulus spending
Plus, Ramirez on the same topic. Almost everyone, it seems now, understands that the economy isn’t growing significantly, certainly not enough to get the kind of job creation necessary to lower...
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DNI report shows recidivism of released Gitmo detainees increasing
Inexorable. Maybe this explains why the push to close Guantanamo Bay has slowed to a mere memory. The Obama administration waited until the last minute to publish a report from the Director of...
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Video: Gregg schools Mitchell on “paying for” tax cuts
Assumptions. Via Radio Vice Online,outgoing Senator Judd Gregg gently schools Andrea Mitchell on the concept of “paying for” tax cuts. That construct, Gregg explains, assumes that all income belongs...
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WH source says Obama has no confidence in Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill
What a coincidence! It’s time for another pass-the-popcorn moment in the unfolding drama that Barack Obama unleashed by cutting a deal with Republicans on tax rates. Both sides gave ground on...
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Russia Today: Hey, let’s nominate Assange for a Nobel Peace Prize!
Paranoia power. According to Russia’s English-language television news Russia Today, the Kremlin thinks that Julian Assange is too important for a Time Magazine Person of the Year and needs more...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Guy Benson, Jim Geraghty
3 pm ET! Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we’ll struggle for something to discuss with two titans of political analysis, Townhall political editor Guy Benson and National Review’s Jim...
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Feds bust another would-be bomber
Target: a military recruitment center. Less than two weeks after stopping a Portland, Oregon teen from bombing a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony, the FBI has caught another erstwhile bomber in...
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Olby: Obama won’t get renominated if tax deal goes through
Empty threat. How angry has the professional Left become? Their oracle on MSNBC isn’t just warning that Barack Obama won’t get re-elected after cutting a deal with Republicans, but won’t even be on the...
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Reid to sneak online poker legalization into tax deal?
Stud. Harry Reid must be a political opportunist — excuse me, optimist. Where others see defeat, Reid sees a chance to win a hand or two for his casino backers in Nevada. Politico reports that Reid...
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