News and politics
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The 2016 Election, Summarized
The domestic issues of the recent election, summed up in one photo: Tip from American Digest. Read more
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Are you a turtle?* Is this a fluke?
Just when you think science can’t get any more weird, we get something like this A new species of blood fluke was found infecting the lungs of turtles in Malaysia. This parasitic flatworm has been dubbed Baracktrema obamai, in honor of the President of the United States (who is the fifth cousin twice removed of Read more
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Obamito Goes to Washington?
Rumor has it that San Antonio Mayor and Democrat Latino Heartthrob Julian Castro is being considered to become the next Secretary for Housing and Urban Development. Naturally, there’s already speculation in the Alamo City corridors of power about who will replace Little Obama when he leaves. Or is really leaving? The Internet has made opposition Read more
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Where’s my gimme cap?
I’m pretty sure this letter never got sent. Tip from the Instapundit. Read more
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“…surely we have an obligation to try.”
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Tip from The Washington Examiner’s Beltway Confidential, via the Instapundit. Read more
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Greg Gutfeld’s advice to the new college student…
… is a hoot. Tip from commenter LukeHandCool at Legal Insurrection. Read more
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Labor Day is also National Empty Chair Day
So tap into your inner Clint Eastwood and put one of these out in your front yard. Update (3 September). Leave Barack alone! Read more
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OK, this is slick
CBS News describes the Romney campaign’s painstaking efforts to keep the selection of Vice President candidate Paul Ryan’s selection under wraps. This bodes well for a Romney Administration that won’t be as leaky as the current one. Read more
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The Man with an Orange for a Head
“…no narrative structure is big enough to contain the infinite perversity of the human heart.” Read more
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Not the conversation he expected, is it?
When he was campaigning for election, Barack Obama said the country needed to have a “conversation about race.” In the wake of the Martin-Zimmerman tragedy, we’re getting it, but I don’t think it’s the I-talk-you-shut-up-and-listen conversation he imagined. Black folks are disenchanted, and some white folks are tired of shutting up. The President may have Read more
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