Swanky Conservative

The bluest of the blue counties in Texas loses Air America. The 78704 zip code seethes in frustration. Last week the station quietly switched to Spanish-language format, one that’s apparently much more profitable (a word Air America never seems to understand) in central Texas.
Austin Arbitron ratings for Spring 2007 show KOKE pulling a 0.9 [...]

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A Brit’s eyes have been opened, at least a little bit, to how emasculated the once great British society has become. Ewan McGregor and a friend motorcycled from the northern-most tip of Britain to the southern tip of Africa.
“Our trip opened my eyes to how insane the rules are in Britain — CCTV [...]

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Captain Ed brings us news that Fox News may have tweaked Sunday night’s Republican Presidential debate for game 7 of the American League Championship. Morrissey writes that Romney advisor Ben Ginsburg told him that Fox “cooked the first part of the show to highlight the four frontrunners.”
According to Ginsberg, Fox — which aired Game 7 [...]

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Oh puhleaze. KDFW reporter Rebecca Aguilar writes this on MyFoxDFW’s site:
Thanks for your feedback.
First of all, Mr. Walton is the one who told me where he was going to buy his shotgun. Though he didn’t want his face on camera, after he showed us the new weapon…. he did want to share his [...]

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All comment spam is bad. That’s a given. Comment spammers, like email spammers, have their own level of Hell. I gotta hand it to this one, though:
paintball equipment » Blatant anti-gun bias at CNN | paintball-equipment.dailygeektoy.com/?p=2157 | IP: 74.52.105.98
[…] came across this post - Blatant anti-gun bias at CNN - and thought it was worth [...]

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Update: KDFW is demanding the video be pulled. I’ve updated the video embed below to point to a source where it’s still online.
KDFW, a Dallas-Fort Worth television station, crossed the line into sensationalist drivel when Rebecca Aguilar, an apparent award-winning reporter, ambushed a 70-year-old man in his car after he defended his property and life [...]

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Gore wins it for his film, “An Inconvenient Truth.” This ranks up there with giving it to Jimmy Carter and Yasser Arafat for their peace efforts. From the Times Online:
Mr Justice Burton identified nine significant errors within the former presidential candidate’s documentary as he assessed whether it should be shown to school children. He agreed [...]

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Here’s the photograph CNN is running on their website with a story about a Pennsylvania boy who was arrested due to suspicions he was planning a “‘Columbine type event” at a high school.

Pretty damning, eh? That kid’s got a crap-load of weapons. MP5, four AK rifles, some pistols, fantasy swords, shotguns… he was loaded for [...]

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Ah hell. This sucks: France beat New Zealand in the Rugby World Cup 20 - 18. Ugh. Add on Scotland’s loss to Argentina and my teams aren’t doing well. Time to root for England, now, when they play the Frenchies on the 13th.

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“Pull up!”
“No. I’m alright… Aghhhhhh!!!”

Poor Porkins.

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I’m a proponent of the death penalty. I believe it a just sentence for those who commit murder. That said, I also expect our legal system to work. If a person is on trial for murder, then he or she should get the best possible representation. Unfortunately, that’s not always been the case in Texas. [...]

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