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WaPo suddenly discovers ObamaCare costs more, helps fewer than predicted
Welcome to the party, pal. The failure of ObamaCare’s Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan has been known for weeks, at least to readers of the Wall Street Journal and Hot Air. The Washington Post...
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WSJ: Almost 100 bailed-out banks on verge of collapse
Mostly smaller recipients. The Wall Street Journal’s analysis of third-quarter data, reported on Sunday, shows an increase in the number of TARP recipients on the edge of failure. The number of banks...
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Hot Air’s top 50 posts in 2010: 31-40
Familiar faces. After consulting the web gurus and technical wizards behind Hot Air’s big green curtain, we have our next set of the most-viewed posts for 2010. This set is heavy on Tea Parties,...
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CNN poll: The GOP’s got a fee-vah and the only prescription is more Mike...
Fee-vah. Like a pipin’ hot bowl of chicken soup on a frosty winter day, this shameless bit of traffic bait during the slowest news cycle of the year is mmm mmm good. I know this guy’s enjoying his TV...
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Video: Can-do billionaire technocrat not doing so well coping with snow
No labels. Say what you will about him, at least the man makes the trains run on time. Or at least he did, until the blizzard hit and passengers started getting trapped on city subway trains for seven...
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What if Romney decides not to run?
Dude? K-Lo, a Romney fan of longstanding, thinks the unthinkable at NRO. And the Conservatives 4 Palin people are all over it. Given that his path to the nomination is impossible unless Mike Huckabee...
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Chris Matthews: Sometimes I get the feeling that Democrats don’t want to...
Nuance. Via Mediaite. Yesterday he demanded to see Obama’s birth certificate, today he’s punching hippies for being weak on immigration. Tomorrow he’ll be wearing a Gadsden flag t-shirt and doing...
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Great news: Congress discovers exciting new ways to earmark
Accountability. Maybe I’ve been wrong all along. Maybe it really is time for a third party. Though Mr. Kirk and other Republicans thundered against pork-barrel spending and lawmakers’ practice of...
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Revolt: NY City Council members rip Bloomberg over snow removal, vow to hold...
"I thought he was a good manager. Now I am starting to have doubts." Simply devastating. And by “devastating,” I of course mean hilarious. Somewhere Bloomy’s sitting in a dark room, a bottle of Jack in...
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Ed Rendell: Postponing the Eagles game over snow means we are now a nation of...
"We don't have that pioneer spirit." I haven’t a clue why NBC would devote three minutes to this on its flagship news broadcast — slow news day plus free promo for tonight’s Eagles/Vikings game, I...
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Surprise! London arrests did have US connection after all
Similarities. When Director of National Intelligence James Clapper got stumped on national TV by a Diane Sawyer question regarding the arrest of a dozen terrorist suspects in the UK, the Obama...
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Video: Tucker Carlson says Vick should have been “executed” for dog killings
Exaggeration for effect? The subtext for this is obviously, “Oh, those wacky conservatives and their thirst for vengeance!”, but that isn’t really Tucker Carlson’s focus in this clip from his...
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Hot Air’s top 50 posts in 2010: 21-30
Irony. We return once again to the most-trafficked posts at Hot Air this year, courtesy of the web wizards and tech geeks who dove into the numbers to determine the most-viewed articles. On Monday we...
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Can-do billionaire technocrat: Okay, maybe we did a bad job with the snow...
"We did not do as good a job as we wanted to do, or as the city has the right to expect." A rare bit of contrition on a day when the local papers are running stories about newborns who died after...
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Professors launch website encouraging people to donate their tax cut savings...
Dig deep. The problem, it seems, is that even in the midst of a recession “the wealthy continue to prosper.” The AP reports: “Extending the tax cuts for the very wealthiest Americans is frankly...
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The emerging Democratic majority vs. the oncoming train
Off the rails. One of the nice things about the 2010 midterm election was that we were largely spared triumphalist punditry about political “realignment.” After all, sentiment among conservatives and...
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Feds investigating Christine O’Donnell for misusing campaign funds
Spending. RINO conspiracy? Federal authorities have opened a criminal investigation of Delaware Republican Christine O’Donnell to determine if the former Senate candidate broke the law by using...
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Video: The obligatory “R. Lee Ermey calls Obama a socialist” clip
Palate cleanser. Half a dozen e-mail requests for this in just the past hour or so. That’s how slow this news day is. Although it’s actually sort of topical: In hindsight, I can’t believe I didn’t...
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New Hampshire 2012: The graveyard of RINOs?
Oh my. Speculative fun from the Boston Phoenix. All along I’ve been assuming that Iowa would be the de facto social con primary (or rather, caucus) and New Hampshire the de facto centrist primary, with...
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Good news: School officials destroy girl’s college plans over knife mix-up
Zero tolerance. Suspended for the school year and charged with misdemeanor possession of a weapon on school grounds. And by “weapon,” I of course mean … a paring knife. Just one question: Is it true?...
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