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The addition of Randy Moss to the Patriots’ roster and Cleveland’s awesome draft weekend dominated the water cooler chat today. The big question: will Moss help or hurt the Pats? I think he’ll be a great addition, and so do some from Fox Sports News. Moss isn’t the key, Belichick is! Belichick can make the magic [...]
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Fred Thompson was favorably reviewed by Mike Deaver, a Reagan standard-bearer from the good ol’ days, according to the UK Telegraph this weekend. Like many on this site, I’ve been more interested in Thompson as a conservative alternative to the Rudy-McCain-Romney pickle conservatives have found themselves in lately. The base really needs a new substantive [...]
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They look a little less pathetic by default after last week’s circus, but the Republican field for 2008 is nothing to brag about. Rudy Giuliani, the presmptive frontrunner, is a pro-choice social liberal from New York City. John McCain, the candidate with the best organization, has a habit of playing Steve Urkel to [...]
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There are many reasons why Joe Biden is a long shot to win the Democrat nomination in 2008. Most of those reasons stem from two flaws that have dogged Biden throughout his career. First, he is infatuated with the sound of his own voice. Second, he grossly overestimates his own intelligence. Combine [...]
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The following video from Fox News’ Red Eye featuring Niccole Trzaska contains a fascinating discussion about several important issues like um, I forgot.
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Video via The Daily Gut
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While General David Petraeus’ US military troop surge for the “Baghdad Security Plan” is roughly half in place, the Dems have been screaming failure and bloody murder as if the whole thing failed before it’s even in had a chance. In fact Muqtada “Mookie” al-Sadr sounds like a mainstream Democrat on this point, and he’s [...]
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One story that seems to pop up every year is how nasty New Jersey’s shoreline is. Not just the air and the bad drivers (apparently the critics of NJ drivers never drove through Rhode Island before!), not just the obnoxious amounts of makeup and “that can’t be for real” accents, but the tons of trash that keep [...]
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On behalf of all Jets and Patriots fans associated with Axis of Right, I sincerely thank the Miami Dolphins for their decision to take a pass on Brady Quinn.
UPDATE: Quinn winds up where he always wanted to go. Congratulations Cleveland.
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Most people thought the European Constitution was dead. Back in 2005, many across the continent were uneasy about surrendering more of their national sovereignty to a bureaucratic nightmare that even refused to mention the role of Christianity in European history. Some nations flat out rejected the proposal via referendum. Heck, even the [...]
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Senate Majority Whip, Dick “No Nickname Needed” Durbin, barked this week about his frustration on pre-war intelligence. He believed that the intelligence he saw in 2002 showed him that Bush was misleading the public. So he was one of 23 Senators who voted against it. Apparently, Democrat Jay Rockefeller (who’s still not in jail for some [...]
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One of the major topics in last night’s Democrat Primary Debate was climate change and the environment, and instituting tough policies that would require sacrifice from the American people. I think that the Democrat candidates for President should look in the mirror and start with themselves. All eight Democrat candidates in last night’s debate chartered [...]
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Earlier tonight, eight Democrats participated in a debate hosted by their party’s media wing, MSDNC. From a conservative perspective, it was surprisingly entertaining.
Although there were plenty of losers both on camera and off, the big loser tonight was the network itself. I have yet to see a breakdown of how much time each [...]
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In just a few moments eight Democrats are going to spew more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than all the SUVs in Dayton! NBC’s running the debate so no one’s going to watch it. But, if you’re a political junkie and want a good laugh, you can see:
Barry O’Bama looking pur-ty and articulating well
She Who Must [...]
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Barack Obama showed how naive he could be when it comes to foreign policy. Commenting on the Democrat’s passage of a bill to withdraw troops from Iraq, Obama said:
We are one signature away from ending the Iraq War. President Bush must listen to the will of the American people and sign this bill so that [...]
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Although Justice Scalia is the undisputed master of witty dissents, he may soon have a run for his money. Yesterday, the Supreme Court, by a vote of 5-4, struck down three death penalty cases in Abdul-Kabir v. Quarterman. Writing the dissent for the four Justices who have actually read the Constitution, Chief Justice Roberts [...]
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I pointed out last week that a war on free speech was underway after the Imus firing. It appears that the Ocean State, the state of origin of all three members of the Axis of Right, has become a primary battleground in this war. The following three stories should be proof enough.
WJAR Channel 10 yesterday called [...]
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There’s a buzz around the blogosphere about Joe Lieberman’s response to Harry Reid’s “the war is lost” rhetoric. The buzz isn’t about Lieberman’s support of the war, but of something much more ominous: Joe’s very liberal, but also very independent, having been abandoned by the Connecticut Democratic Party and getting reelected anyway. What if he decided [...]
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Failing to read beyond the headlines of recent news stories, Barrack Obama criticized Rudy Giuliani for his remarks that America would face another 9-11 if a Democrat won the White House. According to the empty suit,
Rudy Giuliani today has taken the politics of fear to a new low and I believe Americans are ready [...]
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Oral arguments were held today in the Supreme Court for the case FEC v. Wisconsin Right to Lifeinvolve ads that WRL wanted to run during the 2004 election cycle urging Russ Feingold to support a piece of Pro-life legislation. This ad fell under McCain-Feingold’s draconian 60-day rule, and was not allowed to be aired. The [...]
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The Non-candidate candidate Newt Gingrich is attempting to establish his 2008 campaign platform by taking traditional conservative issues and expanding or refining them, coming up with new approaches to traditional conservative issues. He is also attempting triangulation at traditional liberal issues such as health care, and attempting to proactively push more conservative solutions to these [...]
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China will surpass the evil insidious, polluting juggernaut that is the United States of America in greenhouse and other pollutant emissions this year! They were supposed to pass us in 2010, but their economy is on fire and beat the evil expectations. What I looooove about China is that they are exempt from the Kyoto [...]
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Deval Patrick, the Premier of the People’s Republic of Massachusetts, has decided that the state will no longer apply for a federal grant which is used to promote Abstinence Education in high schools. The State of MA currently receives that grant (and has since 1998) and since 2003 has used it as part of an [...]
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A U.S. Marine stationed in Ramadi, Iraq, wrote an email to a friend in which he lambasted the Democrats and Harry Reid for saying that the war was lost. This Marine points out how the situation in Ramdi has dramatically improved, and has a few choice words for the Majority Leader. Additionally, Army reservists from [...]
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Not only am I writing this post from a laptop whose Internet is powered by Wifi technology, my contribution to the wireless world could be harming little children, the environment and me! Another scary suggestion from British scientists says just that and adds that cell phones and other wireless technology could be, and I quote, “the [...]
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The Dow reached an all-time high last week, and is at the cusp of hitting 13,000 for the first time. The Dow has posted gains in 15 of its last 16 sessions, a feat only accomplished three other times and last done 15 years ago, prior to the Clinton presidency. The economic slowdown that some [...]
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Forget the Half Hour News Hour. If you are ever suffering from insomnia or merely in the mood for late night news and entertainment, be sure to check out Fox News’ Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld. Red Eye is basically a program where moderately cool people joke about the news. I think [...]
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Boris Yeltsin, the first President of post-Soviet Russia, died today at the age of 76. Known to many as the father of Russian democracy, Yeltsin is best remembered for his bold and courageous leadership against hard line Communists during a coup attempt while the Soviet Union was on the threshold of that ash heap [...]
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Al Jazeera. Jonah Goldberg couldn’t add much and neither can I. This joke just writes itself.
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The final trailer for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has come out today and, surprise surprise, is all over YouTube. It looks like it’ll probably be the best movie so far (I think Azkaban, Goblet and Prince are better books). The books get more intense and the story gets larger and more [...]
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Something tells me this lady would not have been Miss America in today’s age. When Venus Ramey, Miss America 1944, discovered a thief on her property, she shot out the tires on his truck with a .38-caliber to prevent him from escaping justice. Undoubtedly a bold move, some people wondered what would have [...]
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