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Bill Whittle has a great video about political branding. Gunzip takes it a step further:      Gunzip tip from James Hudnall. Read more

… when an old lefty like Nat Hentoff jumps ship. Read more

…should be good for the gander.  My stocks and mutual funds get repriced by the market every day, and I certainly cannot claim that my cars are worth their sale prices.  Take all this with a grain of salt, however.  While Merton did share the 1997 Nobel Prize (he’s the one who didn’t get his… Read more

It seems ObamaCare requires enforcement assistance from the IRS.  That alone makes it stink to high heaven. Tip from the Instapundit. Read more

You are Kenneth Gladney. Read more

The Obama team is having trouble getting its budgetary act together, whether it be spending cuts, a major agency budget, or the overall state of the economy.  Can’t anybody here play this game? Update (23 July).  Uh-oh.  It’s starting to look less like incompetence, and more like malfeasance.  Tip from Mahalanobis. Read more

This is one scary wall of numbers. Tip from the Belmont Club. Read more

Good art, even street art, requires no explanation. Stolen shamelessly from Michelle Malkin. Read more

The White House denies that Michelle Obama went a traveling with a $6000 designer purse.  It was the cheaper, $875, patent-leather version.  Hey, times are tough, and everyone, even the FLOTUS, has to economize.  Mom went shopping on Rodeo Drive, and all Malia got was this lame-ass sixties t-shirt. Some folks call that symbol "the… Read more

I’m sure this is no reflection on persons or policies of the Obama Administration. http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/onn_embed/embedded_player.swfIn The Know: Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole? Tip from the Instapundit. Read more