Ted Olson Never WAS ‘a Conservative’

Stink Progress, as with much of the left like to label the Bush administration as being ‘conservative’ when it suits their purposes.  Example:

This morning, Ted Olson — the conservative lawyer who represented President Bush in Bush v. Gore

THE WASHINGTON POST FRETS ABOUT the “controversial social studies standards” just adopted by the Texas state board of education, but it fails to quote or even to link to the text of those standards.  Everything is paraphrased… appallingly inaccurately.

More violence from illegal immigrants in Arizona, from Arizona Republic:

A Pinal County Sheriff’s deputy was shot in the stomach Friday by an undocumented immigrant off Interstate 8, according sheriff’s officials.

Lt. Tami Villar told 12 News that

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• FOX CAVES? It certainly appears so.  Any

B.J. Clinton in the New York Stimes:

Criticism is part of the lifeblood of democracy. No one is right all the time. But we should remember that there is a big difference between criticizing a policy or a politician

Remember this, equals is a mathematical concept.    The idea of equality has no relationship biological or social groups.    I hold that no two groups have ever been equal, Thomas Sowell, in Investor Business Daily:

One of the most ominous

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  POLL: Tea Party 48, Obama 44.

  Best headline: Tea Party More Popular Than Obama, Frank Rich

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For those who didn’t see it on Facebook, I passed the driving test for my new employer.I’m fairly excited about it

Obama administration stuck on stupid, Jackson Diehl, Washington Post:

Obama has added more poison to a U.S.-Israeli relationship that already was at its lowest point in two decades. Tuesday night the White House refused to allow non-official photographers

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• HAYWORTH & MCCAIN: Whatever else J.D. Hayworth may represent, to John McCain he represents the worst nightmare possible.  Hayworth, as you may

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• NO MODERATION HERE: Jennifer Rubin of Commentary opines:
  

  David Brooks says he’s out on the ledge, morose, and about to have

After being gone for a month, from around here, I find that I am terribly behind in my reading, and even further behind in my commentary on that reading.

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I make this point up front.  Destitution, the lack of access to the essential commodities of life is bad.   Poverty, as officially defined is not necessarily bad.   Destitution means lack of ability to get the needed commodities of life.  Poverty,

Look who is slamming Eric Holder now:

Poor Eric Holder. The fact is that he is none too smart … and none too versed in constitutional issues. Although Ronald Reagan did appoint him Judge of the Superior Court of the