Eric Florack on December 24th, 2012

Edtor’s note:

Once again as in years past, I’ve found my inbox filled with messages from longtime readers who wonder if I’m going to be re-posting “A Bithead’s Christmas”, and begging me to do so.

As I believe I’ve told

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davidl on December 30th, 2011

From an hysterical and deluded Talking Points Memo:

Michele Bachmann Is In Love With The AR-15 Assault Rifle

Quite wrong moose breaths. An assault rifle is capable of fully automatic fire, from Wikipedia:

An assault rifle is a

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Eric Florack on December 24th, 2010

Editor’s note:
We’ve been reposting this at BitsBlog for over a decade, now, each Christmas.  It’s among the most popular and requested posts we’ve ever had. It’s become a site tradition.

A Bithead’s Christmas

I find myself wanting to take

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Eric Florack on July 6th, 2009

A great piece from Mary Grabar at Pajamas Media today. Here’s a bit of it:

But those streets, once havens for displaced persons, soon were destroyed by the utopian plans of collectivists and their agitators who urged the

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on July 4th, 2009

declaration-of-independenceTwo hundred and thirty-three years ago, the men of the Second Continental Congress made a bold gesture as they sought to uncleave themselves from their ties with Great Britain.  A gesture intended to convey that they were serious about the

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davidl on June 18th, 2009

The National Bureau of Economic Research  has released a study purporting to show that women’s happiness has declined since the ‘Seventies, or about since when Riic came off the market.  Color me skeptical that happiness is actually a  measurable metric   

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