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Spot on from Scott Brown, Republican running for the Senate in Massachusetts. “With all due respect, it’s not the Kennedy seat and it’s not the Democrats’ seat, it’s the people’s seat.”
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10.0% unemployment is never a good thing.
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Their own words…
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Good Lord, this is huge. 1502 pages of legislative language ready for your perusal, fresh off the Finance Committee site. This is what’s been called the Baucus Bill, I believe.
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Today’s American military leaders are experiencing, in a smaller dose, what many of their forerunners went through after the Tet Offensive. A remote American outpost in Afghanistan was abandoned after being successfully defended against attacks by Taliban forces. In the wake of the attack, and as part of General McChrystal’s strategy shift, the base...
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“to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” – Alfred Nobel The shocking news of the Nobel Prize for Peace going to President Obama will be spinning heads across...
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Eric Scheie asks the right questions: Has conservatism changed? Is it the kind of change that “change” produced? I don’t have to go along with Obama’s form of change, I don’t see any reason why I should have to go along with conservatism’s form of change. If I don’t like left wing Alinskyism, why should I...
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Michael Yon writes up more on the British Ministry of Defence & Bullshit Bob. What the hell is wrong with Her Majesty’s higher-ups?
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Looking at images of the (pretty weak turnout, eh?) protests in Pittsburgh at the G20 Summit today, I noted at how different the September 12 protest in Washington really was. Today’s brouhaha looked like a watered-down retread of every anarcho hippie scum protest that’s taken place since the 1999 Seattle WTO protests. Same $hit,...
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From an editorial in today’s Washington Post, comes an odd-sounding editorial that belies a serious detachment from reality and from the distrust of government that once was a hallmark of serious journalism. A group of well-meaning professional activists — and, so far, over nearly 60,000 online petitioners — want members of Congress to sign a...
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About that recovery, Mr. President: The Bureau of Labor Statistics found that mass layoff events, where a single employer lays off 50 or more employees, increased 24.7% from July, by far a high for this year. Initial jobless claims also hit a high, giving an indication that the economy is far from recovery. via Hot...
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Well said, Mr. Steele. I only wish Jimmy Carter and Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., were in the studio to hear this:
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