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When is an earmark not an earmark?
Redefining moments. Back a little more than two years ago I heard a number of people refer to the election of Barack Obama as a defining moment for our nation. Fast forward one cycle and we saw a new...
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NARN, the Deja Vu Presidency Edition! Update: Web only
Live video and chat, 1-3 CT! The Northern Alliance Radio Network will be on the air today, with our eight-hour-long broadcast schedule starting at 9 am CT. If you’re in the Twin Cities, you can hear us...
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Open thread: Army-Navy Game
The proud tradition continues. The game itself is of no particular consequence to the championship, or to the bowl matchups. In an unusual year, both academies will go to bowl games this year. Navy...
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Video: The “Air Pod”
Party of one! In scores of science fiction films from the 1950s through the 1970s, we would already be driving cars that ran on air … but somehow, they looked a lot cooler than the new vehicle from...
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Unemployment Benefits Being Held Hostage by Dems
Cruel to be kind? You would never know, would you? In all of the fury and progressive passion to soak the rich, no one is chattering about the expiration of unemployment benefits–except for the...
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Explosions in Stockholm kill one, injure two
Unintentional suicide? Two explosions rocked a retail area of Stockholm, killing one and injuring two. While authorities have refused to specify the nature of the attacks, the blasts appear...
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Quotes of the day
Contrasts. “Equally riveting and astonishing, Mr. Clinton’s blast-from-the-past performance in the White House briefing room on Friday afternoon reinforced the impression of political déjà vu, the...
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Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?
Walking away. This isn’t the poll of the moment — it’s the poll you have to take right now. Time to choose the Obamateurism of the Week, and our motto here is to make sure you get a chance to choose...
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NFL week 14 open thread; Update: Metrodome roof collapsed; Update: Game on in...
Letdown? The Pittsburgh Steelers won a huge game last week on the road in Baltimore, beating the Ravens in the Blood & Guts Bowl 13-10 in a great defensive battle. This week, they have to guard...
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A note on the unemployment extension
No more funds for 99ers. There seems to be some continuing confusion over exactly what form the unemployment extension takes in the Obama-GOP tax deal. On every occasion where I have discussed this,...
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Storm of the century?
Buried. Well, this century is pretty young, but as NBC reported this morning, the Minneapolis-St. Paul area received the most snow in a single December day since records began in the late 19th century....
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Venezuela acquired 1,800 antiaircraft missiles from Russia last year
Sulfuric. Juan Forero, reporting at the Washington Post, Venezuela acquired 1,800 Russian antiaircraft missiles in ’09 Russia delivered at least 1,800 shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles to Venezuela...
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Video: The 12 Days of “Winter”
Holiday spirit. We’re less than two weeks from Christmas, so why not toss out a holiday-wars post? This one comes from The Heidi Harris Show on Las Vegas’ KDWN, and it’s pretty amusing. Instead of...
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Quotes of the day
Out of control? “What happened here has, to my knowledge, never happened. When the president finishes speaking, whenever the president finishes speaking, the event ends. Period. “Not any longer....
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Obamateurism of the Day
Making molehills out of mountains. Today’s OOTD comes to us from … Paul Krugman. No, really! The New York Times columnist couldn’t quite believe his ears when Barack Obama attempted to explain the...
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Steele to drop out?
One and done. The troubled stewardship of the RNC appears to be heading to a close. According to Politico’s sources within the Republican Party, Michael Steele will announce his withdrawal from the...
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Pawlenty: Public-sector unions illegitimate
Not exactly pandering to Big Labor here. Fat pensions. Big salaries. Civil-service job protections. If any group of workers never needed union representation, it’s public sector employees. Outgoing...
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Breyer: Madison wrote 2nd Amendment to appease the states
Historical illiteracy. It’s not just the Constitution that is a “living document,” as Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer proved yesterday when discussing the Second Amendment. Breyer argued that...
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Tea Party freshmen get high-profile committee slots
Fresh blood. If the assignment of House committee chairs provided a letdown to Tea Party activists, especially on Appropriations with Hal Rogers, the assignment of newly-open seats on critical...
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Bayh not running for governor in Indiana
Hmmmm. When Evan Bayh decided not to seek re-election this year almost at the last minute, speculation held that the two-term Senator and former Governor had grown tired of life as a legislator and...
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