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The envelope please…. (Drum Roll)

Now for the blog event of the year, the Bitsblog Snark of the Year.  And the winner:

How easy did these people think it was going to be when they decided to elect a man

KITV in Honolulu is reporting:

Conservative radio talk host Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu hospital on Wednesday afternoon with chest pains, sources told KITV.Paramedics responded to the call at 2:41 p.m. at the Kahala Hotel and Resort.

Limbaugh’s

If we can’t catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly feminine-looking underpants and a syringe full of acid, a man whose own father had alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a traveler whose ticket was paid

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• THE ILLUSION OF PEACE: Over at Politico, Mike Allen points to a statement by former vice

If a terrorist says he’s al Qaeda, he is, even if he doesn’t have a union card from Jihadi Local 632.

We’re dealing with a global Muslim movement, not a Masons’ lodge.

Ralph Peters, Lt. Colonel, United States Army(retired), New

Note the timing of the dim one’s national security speech.   Janet Napolitano makes her Tour de  Farce on the Sunday talk shows, and by Monday, Barack Obama  is in full damage control mode.

Avi Zenilman, Who Runs Government, seems

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• WHEN EVEN THE NY TIMES ADMITS IT: Bob Herbert at the Times notes that there’s more than a bit of

Well you can’t rush a good thing.   Instead of making an impromptu speech, the nation’s orator in chief waited three day to give this speech that may well  rival the Gettysburg address, video:

I can just see the Islamists plunging

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• BACKTRACKING ALA NAPLITANO:I see Janet Napolitano has spent most of today backtracking, and admitting exactly what I said as an

Not in my wildest dreams would I believe that a US official could be so stupid as to say something like this in the face of unrelenting facts.

And intriguing enough is that it happened on CNN, whose reporting tends

It has been said that writing down one’s thoughts and expecting others to read them is one of the most narcissistic acts possible.

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