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• Suicide by Billing Rates: Let’s call this what it is; the Associated Press is busily committing

Joyner this morning, sounds rather incredulous, as well he might, when he relates to us the claim of Baitullah Mehsud:

The diminutive Mehsud is considered the prime suspect in the murder of Benazir Bhutto and he’s taken seriously.  But

An interesting, and mostly unsurprising report from the New York Times this morning.  Indeed, the only thing surprising about it is that it comes from the New York Times. Here’s some of it:

SAN FRANCISCO — It sounds like such

Frank Rich, New York Times, is asking for the real Barack Obama to stand-up and speak out:

A CHARMING visit with Jay Leno won’t fix it. A 90 percent tax on bankers’ bonuses won’t fix it. Firing Timothy Geithner

Barack Obama even needs a teleprompter to get mad.

Maureen Dowd, New York Times.   Tis a shame, I could not have snarked this all Irish squabble on Saint Patty’s Day.  Alas the luck of the Irish wasn’t with me.

With a nod to WPGB’s Jim Quinn, I want to call to your attention, this monring to an article that appeared in National Review, yesterday, by  Hans A. von Spakovsky, called “A Leadership of Cowards?”

Here’s a bit

I am neither a lawyer, play one on television, nor give press conferences pretending to me one.    In other words, I am not Barack Obama,  Helene Cooper, New York Times:

WASHINGTON – President Obama vowed to try to stop

From Jen Rubin at Commentary:

Jake Tapper appears to be one of the few (only?) mainstream reporters keeping current on the Chas Freeman story. You would think it would be hard to ignore the growing tidal wave of protest

President Obama set to sign executive order allowing federal funss to given to butchers for killing human beings,David Stort and Gardiner Harris, New York Times:

WASHINGTON – President Obama will announce Monday that he is reversing Bush administration limits

Having  successfully spent the last six months talking down the economy, President Barack Obama now wants to do the same thing to Afghanistan, New York Times:

WASHINGTON – President Obama declared in an interview that the United States was

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 This is the ‘Because I can’ edition.  Well, mostly, because, well, you know.  And also, because that seems Obama’s attitude about spending our

Steve Gilbert, Sweetness & Light, has up, “:Obama To Half Deficit By End Of Term:”

We get a tip off about the mendacity in this New York Times article early on:

The president inherited a deficit for

Charles M. Blow, New York Times, thinks were are all racists ;

[A] CNN poll from last January found that 72 percent of whites thought that blacks overestimated the amount of discrimination against them, while 82 percent of blacks

Unfortunately, new facts have come to light – involving his failure to pay substantial taxes that were owed and his sizable income from health-related companies while he worked in the private sector – that call into question his suitability for