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The kind of political chutzpah that “Prime Minister’s Questions” junkies have experienced for years on C-SPAN finally made it to the floor of the EU. British MP Daniel Hannan wrecks on British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in a classic Tory beat-down of bad Labour policies, this time on an international forum which everyone could see! Check it out:
“Brezhnev-era apparatchik [...]
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Everybody in the Rhode Island area has either heard of or been a client of the Foxy Lady — a place of ilrepute in the midst of a town called Providence, known for all sorts of things including a “Legs and Eggs” special, while being as classy as Southern New England can do a public strip club. [...]
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I taught Roe v. Wade in class this week and was shockingly objective. It’s really hard when you’re a pro-life Catholic teaching in a public school, being morally opposed to abortion as a form of birth control — I just think it’s sick. I felt like I needed a bath and confession afterwards. I NEVER say “fetus”; [...]
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Freedom!!! We love it, we cherish it, we want to spread it! Well, of course we do, we’re Americans and (at least on this site) conservatives too.
However, as Nicole Russell writing for the American Spectator points out, not all states are created equal when it comes to securing people’s freedom. She cites a George Mason [...]
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I was sitting at the car dealership yesterday getting ready to pick up my new sweet ride, when I looked at the clock. It was 4:40pm and I was going to miss Rush’s speech to CPAC. Suddenly, the last people in the waiting room left and I decided to fiddle with the TV in order to see [...]
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Yeah, yeah, if you looked down a few posts, you’d see Mr. Doom Gerald Celente talking about impending tax revolts as a first sign of American discontent with the system. The sky is falling! The sky is falling! OK, but here’s a few stories out today, dealing with that very potential:
1. Malkin’s got some angry [...]
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HotAir’s Allahpundit has made it known for quite some time that he is no fan of Sarah Palin. In the world of political discourse and debate, that is fine. People can have differing opinions and views on who would make the best candidates (I personally think that Sarah Palin has a great future in the [...]
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Being a lazy Sunday morning with no football to look forward to, I decided to surf for something interesting, something “Anything Else.” Typically, however, certain things always tend to catch my eye.
The latest War on Terror buzz is that Obama is still continuing Bush’s drone policy out in the wilds of Afghanistan — cool, but Big Barry [...]
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Victor Davis Hanson has a great article reprinted on RCP which deals with a retrospective on the year that was. Since Obama’s “change” mantra was embedded in our brains in such a “Sieg Heil” kind of way this past year, I thought Hanson’s take on what “change” means about a month-and-a-half after Election Day was enlightening:
Imagine [...]
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I grew up in Rhode Island. Like New Jersey has New York envy, RI has Massachusetts envy — we just want to matter, so we’ll latch on to certain aspects our more exciting neighbor to bask in some of their glow.
That being said, RI is in love with the Kennedy’s. John and Jackie were married in Newport, [...]
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We’re in it pretty deep. Listening to Rush today, he read from an article written by Quin Hillyer for the American Spectator about the trouble we’re in for 2010 and 2012; it’s very enlightening and scary at the same time, and worth repeating as well.
Hillyer argues that since unabashed Libs now control so many levels of [...]
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No real down-home American can stomach the $700 billion Wall Street bailout suggestion of Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson so rumor has it Congress has a draft bill going around which will do something different:
$250 billion immediately
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$100 billion a bit later
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$350 billion thereafter
= Ok… carry the one… all right… $700 billion?!?
This Congress makes me sick. And not [...]
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The community organization ACORN ( Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now ) has had a real pattern of voter fraud through a history of sketchy registration practices and embezzlement. They are die-in-the-wool Democrats rooting for Barack Obama obviously. ACORN also has successfully gotten their hands into a Congressional slush fund designed to hook up low-income people with risky home-loans. Believe it [...]
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With under seven weeks until Election Day, some Electoral College map fun can be found here at Real Clear Politics. It lets you change the states from Obama to McCain and vice versa, tallying the new Electoral Vote totals as you mess with it. After about five minutes I realized this fits the description of a “timesuck” worth [...]
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Real Clear Politics has, for the first time all summer, McCain beating Obama by 2.9% when all major polls are averaged together. Some outliers even have McCain up by as much as 10 points!
However, this is the important question for me at this juncture: is this just a typical convention bounce of about 6-8 points [...]
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Reason #314 why I will not be voting for a Democrat any time soon: former DNC Chairman, Don Fowler was giddy with the notion that the deadly Category 4 Hurricane Gustav (as of this writing anyway– it could go up to Cat 5 by landfall) is timed so well with the Republican National Convention that it just [...]
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Renowned pollster Scott Rasmussen has polled the immediate reaction of voters to Alaska Governor and GOP Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
67% had NO idea who she was before Friday.
Yet, amongst all voters 53% have a positive rating of her (including 29% VERY favorable), while 26% do not like her at all. In contrast, the better-known [...]
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After the Dems decided to start a five-week vacation, about 40 or so House Republicans, led by Mike Pence, stayed in the House chamber after the Dems adjourned to make a point about the Republican’s determination to get a drilling bill up for a vote. On her way out San Fran Nan had the lights turned [...]
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Former White House Press Secretary, radio talk-show host, moderator of “Fox News Sunday,” and former speechwriter for Bush 41, Tony Snow finally succumbed to the colon cancer he had been battling for a few years now when he died at about 2am Saturday morning at Georgetown University Hospital. Although they had removed his colon a [...]
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