davidl on December 11th, 2010

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Don’t Ask, Don’t Think, the New York Slmes goes stupid:

The Senate Stands for Injustice

On one of the most shameful days in the modern history of the Senate, the Republican minority on Thursday prevented a vote to allow

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davidl on December 10th, 2010

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Hell no to ethanol, from Matt Kibbe, Forbes:

[S]ubsidizing blending ethanol into gasoline is fiscally indefensible. If the current subsidy is extended for five years, the Federal Treasury would pay oil companies at least $31 billion to use

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davidl on December 9th, 2010

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Dumbo’s Delusions, Peter Wehner, is searching for a word to describe Barack Obama, but doesn’t quite find it.  The word is not contradictions but rather delusions, from Commentary:

It appears to me that Obama is a man of

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davidl on December 8th, 2010

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Worst press conference — ever

I don’t mean just for Obama. I mean any president. Or head of state. When I wrote this morning that he doesn’t do well in defeat, you didn’t know how right I was, huh? Let’s

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davidl on December 8th, 2010

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Elizabeth Edwards, Raleigh News Observer:

Elizabeth Anania Edwards, who became a national figure in her fight against cancer and as a partner in her husband John’s political career, died today. She was 61.

Ulysses S. Grant, Cold

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davidl on December 7th, 2010

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Dumbo throws ‘rate underneath the bus, Barack Obama and congressional repubolicans agree to extend Bush era tax rates, from Shailagh Murray
Washington Post:

President Obama and congressional Republicans agreed Monday to a tentative deal that would extend for

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davidl on December 6th, 2010

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Naturally, I knew better than to think of Clinton as some champion of my gender. As Christopher Hitchens, who wrote my favorite book on the Clinton family (“No One Left to Lie To”), explained: “It’s often said, by people trying

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davidl on December 6th, 2010

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Dumbo on Wiki: Grab a mop, the Obama administration is leaking information like a thatch rook, in a gale.  So do the Obami shut down the leakers?  No the Obami order low-level government workers not to read the leaked

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davidl on December 5th, 2010

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Fat Lady of the United States to ban school bake sales, FLOTUS, Michelle Obama just can’t keep her paws off you kids school lunch, from Mary ClareE Jalonick:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Don’t touch my brownies!

A child

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davidl on December 4th, 2010

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‘Rats question Pubs’ Patriotism, then inside the Beltway, respect is a one way street, from John Stanton, Roll Call:

Following several hours of floor speeches hammering the GOP, a handful of Democrats including Sens. Bob Menendez (N.J.), Charles

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davidl on December 3rd, 2010

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Dumbo Care is pile of poop, from the Cat Food Commission, via John Merline, AOL News:

2) Health reform’s cost savings apparently were bogus. Remember how Democrats boasted that health reform would cut the budget deficit by $170

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davidl on December 2nd, 2010

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Welcome to December, from 13WHAM:

Rochester, N.Y.— The first day of the December brought some more holiday-like weather as the Rochester area saw the first major snow accumulation of the winter season. Early Wednesday morning rain caused several

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davidl on December 1st, 2010

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Algore’s mistake, Debra Saunders, RCP:

You Can Stop Paying for Al Gore’s Mistake

In Greece earlier this month, Al Gore made a startling admission: “First-generation ethanol, I think, was a mistake.” Unfortunately, Americans have Gore to thank for

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davidl on November 30th, 2010

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Obama the bully, from Kyle Smith, New York Post:

One staffer was conspicuously overweight. The president, in an incident that Wolffe believes proves how caring the man is, took it upon himself to present the aide with a

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davidl on November 29th, 2010

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Good Intentions, by Jay Ambrose, Orange County Register:

Good intentions will get you if you don’t watch out. That’s true of the invasion of the body scanners, of minimum-wage laws, of some welfare programs and – please don’t

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