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Stephen Green, Pajamas Media and Fred Thompson in Iowa. Bravo, Stephen, bravo!

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Nadia, by Jeff Beck, from the album, “You had it Coming”

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Unbelievable. Heather Mills seals her reputation as a barking moonbat with the comment that people should start drinking rat milk.** My reaction is something along the lines of a) Stop talking, now, Heather. Just shut up and say no more, and b) You first, toots.
Interesting side note that I know other bloggers have picked up [...]

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This image below is the screenshot I made of the the news headlines on FoxNews.com this evening. Maybe it’s just Friday night and the interns are manning the watch. Can we be lucky?

“Human ashes dumped from Disneyland ride?” “8 Dead puppies found freezer during child porn raid?” “1 Killed when Montana prison bus hits deer, [...]

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If you are a news organization and in your coverage of the 2008 Presidential campaign, you continuously profess that you’re “Keeping Them Honest™”, shouldn’t you disclose the backgrounds of the “ordinary people” you trot out to ask questions of the candidates at a televised debate? Apparently not at CNN.
I watched the latter part of [...]

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Not a good morning in central Austin for McBride’s Guns. Someone managed to break in this morning resulting in a SWAT standoff. The Austin American-Statesman reports,
Police spokesman Joe Munoz said that the security alarm company for McBride’s Guns at 2815 San Gabriel St. called police at 4:36 a.m. saying that someone had broken into the [...]

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In reading the Washington Post piece linked by Glenn Reynolds, I made a couple of observations. First off, it’s a great Veteran’s Day article written by Army Major Elizabeth Robbins, a soldier serving in Iraq. She writes how they receive a great deal of support from American people, so much so that it amazes members [...]

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Peggy Noonan looks at the past few weeks of Senator Clinton’s campaign and the awakening that appears to be taking place in the electorate. Noonan does so under the light of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s true greatness; something Senator Clinton can never reach.
Margaret Thatcher would no more have identified herself as a woman, [...]

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Mark Steyn writes in the Corner:
“Humanity is the greatest challenge,” says Colorado environmental activist John Feeney in “The Green Room” at BBC News. It’s not enough to reduce emissions, we have to reduce the folks doing the emitting:
And a quick look over at the Beeb’s “Green Room” shows us Mr. Feeney-mo-meaney’s views on humanity:
We must [...]

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What people on the nihilistic Left have been saying will happen in Iraq:

What is actually happening in Iraq right now:

Michael Yon’s image of men & women, Muslims and Christians, affixing a cross atop St. John’s Church in Baghdad.
Michael Yon writes, “The Iraqis asked me to convey a message of thanks to the American people. ‘Thank [...]

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For those of you not in Austin, a taste. This time it’s Eric Johnson’s phenomenal work called “Cliffs of Dover: from Ah Via Musicom. That album was my road-trip music when I lived out in Alpine, Texas. I would take the top off a friend’s Jeep, crank the volume up loud on her Blaupunkt deck [...]

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