davidl on February 24th, 2009

Ed Morrisssey, Hot Air, writes:

When discussing war crimes during World War II, two events usually get thrown out as indictments of the Allies: dropping atomic weapons on the Japanese and the raid of Dresden, in which 25,000 people

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davidl on February 24th, 2009

The San Francisco Chronicle reports on an attempted mugging gone terribly awry:

(02-20) 11:29 PST OAKLAND — A 23-year-old visitor from the East Coast had just gotten money from an ATM when he told his friend on a cell phone

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Eric Florack on February 23rd, 2009

Christopher Buckley writes today:

It’s tricky, trying to channel your father’s ghost. Hamlet tried it. I think I won’t. But I miss WFB’s takes on—everything that’s going on. Often, I’d find myself flailing aimlessly or circularly about some issue, trying

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davidl on February 23rd, 2009

ABC 2 News, Baltimore, MD:

Some community activists could face criminal charges after breaking into a home in Southeast Baltimore.

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After snapping a lock with bolt cutters, ACORN member Louis Beverly told supporters “this is our house now

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davidl on February 21st, 2009

When the reprohate who thinks  he is Attorney General called us a Nation of Cowards, he surely wasn’t referingn to Heather McDonald, “So says Eric Holder, but what’s really cowardly is racial dishonesty.”   I gave trying to find

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davidl on February 20th, 2009

Nadya SulemanHow does a mother of fourteen on welfare afford plastic surgery and in vitro ftertiliation, Celebrity Cafe:

The media has already been speculating how Nadya Suleman, the mother of the octuplets and six kids from a previous in vitro,

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davidl on February 18th, 2009

Shakespeare, in Henry IV, Part One, 1596:

‘The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.’

Martin Luther King,  Selma, Alabama, A.D. 1964:

I have a dream that my

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davidl on February 18th, 2009

Cassy Fiano:

How much longer will the country look the other way? I won’t hesitate to say that Planned Parenthood is an evil organization. Even if you’re pro-choice, who sees abortion as something so positive and wonderful that you’d

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With all the attention being placed on the story out of Buffalo about the beheading of Aasiya Z. Hassan the other day,  I’ve been watching the Buffalo outlets a bit more closely.  This morning, I note this story from yesterday

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Eric Florack on February 16th, 2009

Heather MacDonald got an awful lot of traffic around blogdom for her anti-religious rant:

Will Bill O’Reilly or anyone else who saw the hand of God in the safe landing of US Airways Flight 1549 this January please explain

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davidl on February 16th, 2009

I’d just love to report that  Susanka Bersin is the Bitsblog German bureau chief, but alas.   So just follow the link, to see how an honorary Swamp Stomper responds.  Lucky for Hans that Suzanka does not kick.

Hat tip:  

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davidl on February 16th, 2009

Nadya SulemanNadya Suleman has no job but she has a nanny whom she pay five hundred dollars a week; Elisabeth Snead, Los Angeles Times:

Despite having no job, Nadya can afford to pay a nanny around $500 a week to

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Eric Florack on February 13th, 2009

Something I found while scouring the Buffalo News sources for info on the plane crash of last evening… found in The Buffalo News:

Orchard Park police are investigating a particularly gruesome killing, the beheading of a woman, after her

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davidl on February 12th, 2009

I don’t for a minute believe this speech was written by a twelve year old. But it is stunning in its presentation and delivery, video:

Hat tip:  Cassy Fiano.

Just think, in just twenty-three years, she will be old

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davidl on February 11th, 2009

DavidL's Breakfast ScrambleGeithner:

Administration officials were greeted with sarcasm and laughter Monday night when they briefed lawmakers and congressional staff on Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s new financial-sector bailout project, according to people who were in the room.

The laughter was at

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