davidl on April 28th, 2007

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Imus called some nice, successful college student-athletes prostitutes. That was ugly and unseemly. Limbaugh, via Shanklin, suggested that a longtime public figure with a criminal past and presidential aspirations was inarticulate. That’s neither beyond the pale nor even untrue.

James

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davidl on April 28th, 2007

Barack Obama gave a less than sterling silver response to how he would deal with a terror attack.   Yet Mrs. Clinton, of all people, had the audacity to question Obama’s response, or lack thereof.   The Clinton campaign claimed,

“Hillary was

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davidl on April 28th, 2007

Richard Gere denounces ‘Moral Police’

Richard GereRichard Gere denounced a small right-wing minority in India whose complaints and protests led to a judge issuing an arrest warrant against the Hollywood star for violating the country’s strict public obscenity laws.

Gere is

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davidl on April 27th, 2007

Exxon Mobil Corp. announced record first quarter profits.  Ok.

In response, Senator Bob Casey, (D-PA) introduced a bill to tax windfall profits.   Casey  somehow “hopes will curtail rising gasoline prices.”

Bob CaseyHow?   On what planet, if any, did Casey study

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davidl on April 27th, 2007

Sister Toldjah did what I could not bear to do, watch eight mental midgets pontificate in presidential debate.

Best I can make out the moderator, Brian Wilson, asked all the canidates who many supported Dennis Kucinich bill to impeach Vice

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davidl on April 26th, 2007

On May 17, 2006, Jim Miklaszewski and Mike Viqueira, NBC News reported on an alleged massacre in Haditha, and said the story was confirmed by John Murtha:

Military officials told NBC News that the Marine Corps’ own evidence appears to

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davidl on April 26th, 2007

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Dirty Harry Reid say “This war is lost.”  Funny the the Boy Scouts in Iraq didn’t get Dirty Harry’s message.   The scouts go camping in Baghad.   Allahpundit, Hot Air, has the video.?

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davidl on April 26th, 2007

Alec BaldwinBit reported, the since confirmed, rumor that Rosie O’Donnell was leaving the View.   Now Rosie is reporting that Alec Baldwin is leaving the country.  Alas there is joy in Mudville.

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davidl on April 25th, 2007

“I do not stand alone,” Dennis Kucinich said as he stood, alone, in front of a cluster of microphones yesterday evening.

Or so Dana Milbank reports in the Washington Post.  

It would take what two hundred nineteen votes to

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davidl on April 25th, 2007

See Lori Byrd for the details:

Townhall has an online petition you can participate in to let Harry Reid know that you don’t think the war in Iraq is lost, while others are asking Joe Lieberman to fire Reid

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davidl on April 24th, 2007

You might recall that one reason John “Breck Girl” Edwards ran  for vice president is that he would have lost his Senate seat if he ran for re-election.   A.J. Strata, Strata-Sphere, reports that Nebraska Republicans war preparing to rinse

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davidl on April 24th, 2007

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Critics of vulgar, violent gangster-style rap music make a mistake when they write off the rap stars as stupid, immoral and self-destructive. They may be immoral and self-destructive, but they’re not stupid. As one of my readers observed in a

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davidl on April 24th, 2007

Philadelphia is lost.  It has erupted into a civil war.   The policy has failed.  We must pull out now:

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A bloody, bullet-filled weekend left 11 people dead across the city, where drugs and disrespect have

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davidl on April 23rd, 2007

In the Washinton Post, Jonathan Safran Foer asks, “Some People Love Guns. Why Should the Rest of Us Be Targets?

Knives also cut bread and carve wood and aid surgery, but guns only shoot bullets. That’s what

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davidl on April 23rd, 2007

Iraqi soldiers interogate suspect, who then then gives up the location of a bomb factory. Of course the Times is still upset about it:

After the prisoner was returned to the Iraqis, Captain Fowler was asked whether the Americans realized

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