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Last chance: DREAM Act vote coming tomorrow
Crunch time. The thinking all along has been that they’ll fall a few votes short, that squishy Republicans like Snowe and red-state Democrats like McCaskill and Tester won’t dare tempt fate by backing...
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Oh my: No invite for Obama to British royal wedding
Not-so-special relationship. Hey — if you gave gifts as crappy as the ones this guy gives, you’d be left off a lot of invite lists too. It’s bad enough that his grand gesture to the queen last year was...
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Bob Corker hints: If Reid pushes DADT vote, we’ll vote no on START
Hmmm. And almost as quickly as he dropped the hint, he picked it back up and put it in his pocket. “I felt like momentum was growing for START,” Corker said, adding that since Reid announced he was...
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Aw: Post-partisan president signs bipartisan bill that no one likes
"I don't believe that either party has cornered the market on good ideas." Present for the event to lend it some added gravitas: Al Sharpton. Conspicuously absent: Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and...
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Herman Cain: I’m forming an exploratory committee for 2012
Hmmm. I know the basics of his bio — accomplished CEO, talk-radio host, cancer survivor — but not much more beyond that. Even so, it got my attention a few days ago when he won Red State’s 2012...
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Video: World’s biggest rock star not in the mood for questions about sex charges
"Tabloid schmuck." Pity the poor sainted man forced to interrupt his important work of “crushing bastards” to field the odd question about sexual assault. Which brings us to your must-read of the...
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PolitiFact’s biggest lie
Truthy. The easy joke is that PolitiFact naming “government takeover of health care” as the 2010 Lie of the Year is PolitiFact’s biggest lie. I do not think that is true, for reasons which will become...
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Great news: Cuba banned Michael Moore documentary for being too rosy about...
Useful idiot. No foolin’. So fulsomely slavish to the cause have our progressive icons become that their propaganda now makes even the Castros blush. Keep on rocking, “reality-based community.”...
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It’s come to this: Fox may add musical soundtrack to NFL games
Game over. Via Guy Benson, note well: We’re not talking about a few seconds of the theme song to Fox’s pre-game show being piped in up against a commercial break. We’re talking about music during the...
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Quotes of the day
Hard choices. “Even some of Bolton’s admirers might not support a presidential run. Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer told POLITICO he’s a ‘big John Bolton fan,’ lavishing praise: ‘He...
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NARN, the 2010 Finale Edition!
1-3 pm CT, live video & chat! 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...
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Poll: Obamateurism of the Year, Flight 3
Taxing. Time for another round of choices for the Obamateurism of the Year! It occured to me yesterday that I’d have to offer a poll today and on the 26th in order to fit all of the polling in and get...
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Moore: Hey, Cuba loved my movie!
Petards, hoists, etc. In the Someone Left The Irony On Department for today, Michael Moore erupts in indignation today at Huffington Post over the reporting of a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks...
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Shutdown day moves to Tuesday
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas ... Today was supposed to be Shutdown Saturday, with authorization to spend money expiring at midnight tonight if Congress didn’t act to either pass a budget...
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DREAM Act cloture fails, 55-41
More wasted time. Another day, another waste of time by desperate Democrats in the lame-duck session: Senate Republicans have blocked a bill to grant hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants brought...
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Endgame: DADT cloture vote passes, 63-33; Update: Obama cheers; Update: Final...
Repeal. The vote on the bill itself will come at 3 p.m., but that’s a formality. The roll: Six Republicans — Brown, Collins, Kirk(!), Murkowski, Snowe, and Voinovich — joined 57 Democrats to push it...
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Chavez, not allowing a disaster to go to waste, seeks dictatorship
"A new geography of power." As I have asserted, every move Hugo Chávez makes consolidates power around himself. The latest is his bid to rule by decree following disastrous floods: Chavez seeks power...
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Reason TV’s Nanny of the Year is …
Strong candidates, plus -- take the poll! … a really tough choice. Thanks to an unending supply of potential nominees, Reason TV must have spent at least a few hours just making a decision on which...
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It’s Time to Bury the Estate Tax
Funeral for a fiend. The Wall Street Journal has brought up yet another argument against the ebb and flow of the estate tax debate this week. The crux of it is that the uncertainty over how large the...
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Food-safety bill victim of omnibus defeat, incompetence
Unmourned. When Harry Reid pulled the plug on the omnibus spending bill Thursday night, he also ended his best hope of fixing a monumental blunder committed earlier in the lame-duck session. Senate...
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