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Kathleen McCaffrey ponders liberal myth and Organize Wall Street peeves, one and the same, from Legal Insurrection:

I also think that a lot of people in favor of OWS are mourning the death of a dream. I can sympathize

Liberty Township, PA– Yes, I’m still here. The roads around here opened up last night,  but in all the excitement of the floods and road closings and such I must have kicked up a bit of road junk. I’ve got

Leaders lead, Dumbo shucks, from Daily Caller:

A cascade of bad economic and political news knocked President Barack Obama off his game today, and prompted him to revive his 2008-style criticism of his predecessor, and also to suggest

Nice Deb on Harry Alford:

Harry Alford is the president and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, and he’s a lot of fun to listen to. (You may remember his acrimonious confrontation with Barbara Boxer, at a

Julia Seymour:

As gas prices rose in 2008, network reporters mentioned President Bush in 15 times as many stories than they brought up President Obama in a similar period in 2011.

Bush drew gallons of coverage in 2008.

In a Pajamas Media article I wrote just after Obama was deified:

Indeed, it is Obama who apparently is doing the most in terms of recognizing (the far left’s bleeding anti-Bush vitriol notwithstanding) that Mr. Bush didn’t do that bad

Ruth Marcus, Washington Post, is puzzled:

It was a jarring moment from an ordinarily smooth pol. Haley Barbour, governor of Mississippi, chairman of the Republican Governors Association and 2012 presidential prospect — which helped explain the big turnout

Whites House denies Elena Kagan is a Frank and denies that there anything wrong with that, Howard Kurtz, Washington Post:

The White House ripped CBS News on Thursday for publishing an online column by a blogger who made

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• FIRST, THIS SNARK:  From Reynolds:
  

  POLL: Tea Party 48, Obama 44.

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

Jennifer Rubin on the Dim Won’s fading power of oratory, Commentary:

[Barack Obama’s] rhetoric (which to the amazement of many conservatives – who noticed he was largely talking New Age gibberish during the campaign – transfixed a great number

Jake Tapper says this morning that the White House has given a go ahead to offshore drilling.

On Wednesday morning at Joint Base Andrews Naval Air Facility in Washington, DC, President Obama will announce that his administration will allow the

There’s a  number of people last night heaping praise on Obama’s speech at Ft Hood yesterday.  Predictably,  Marc Armbinder is one of them:

Today, at Ft. Hood. I guarantee: they’ll be teaching this one in rhetoric classes. It was

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• SITYS #7216:Fox News, yesterday:
  

  Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday that the Bush administration had developed a new strategy on the

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• MORE ANITA DUNN:  Victor Davis Hanson, on Saturday:
  

  I am not a big fan of saying that officials should resign

It may the greatest love the world has ever seen, Barack Obama’s enormous and passionate love for himself.  Jennifer Rubin, Commentary:

This is, of course, nothing new. Obama’s entire presidential campaign was constructed on nonsensical rhetoric and an inflated