News and politics
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Need some serious Red State red meat ranting?
Check out Ann Barnhardt, who is Ann Coulter on speed, steroids, and a serious tear. Tip from American Digest. Read more
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Matamoros, indeed
After a long time coming, US Special Forces have punched Osama Bin Laden’s ticket. So, can I stop taking my shoes off in the airport? Or do we need to rub out another couple thousand of those Al Qaida rat bastards? I suggest we accelerate our troop withdrawals, and focus our efforts on those whack Read more
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My kind of guy
Read about the energy biz in the NY Times: “Things are picking up,” said Cody Chase, 24, who had just finished an overtime shift at a coal mine north of here and was having a 7 a.m. burrito and beer at a downtown breakfast joint. Hours at the mine are up, said Mr. Chase, who Read more
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Wusses in Washington
Did I miss the memo about Senator Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) having his penis removed? Next thing you know, Harry Reid will be crying because some Tea Partier made a mean face at him. Read more
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Looking bad for the 2012 re-election
Jeez, Louise. If Barack-0 and his handlers can’t even drum up high school graduation gigs, how’s he gonna get votes in 2012? Update (9 March). It’s worse than I thought. Read more
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And folks wonder what makes the Tea Partiers angry?
From today’s Wall Street Journal: Departing members of the House of Representatives awarded millions of dollars in extra pay to aides as they closed down their offices, according to lawmakers’ spending records. The 96 lawmakers paid their employees $6.7 million, or 31%, more in the fourth quarter of 2010 than they did, on average, in Read more
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The case for campus concealed carry
There’s a whole lot of debate, handwringing, and gnashing of teeth over Jeff Wentworth’s proposed legislation that would permit the concealed carry of handguns on Texas college and university campuses. I just received this via email, which seems like a good argument in favor of CCC: Read more
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The fix is in, and we’re tired of it
Michael Barone begins to get at the motivation behind middle-class Tea Partiers: The recoil in 2010 against the Obama Democrats’ vast expansion of the size and scope of government seems to have a cultural or a moral dimension as well. It was a vote, as my Washington Examiner colleague Timothy P. Carney wrote last week, Read more
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Pay no attention to the man before the curtain
British Foreign Secretary William Hague takes the concept “if you can’t blind them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit” to a whole new level. Read more
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