Swanky Conservative

Support free trade. Even New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is for the Columbia Free Trade initiative.
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hat tip to Glenn.

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I went to the first of my annual crawfish boils this last weekend. My boiling pot and burner arrived from Amazon the day before, so I took it along in case we wanted to use two. We did, and I am amazed at the difference between the older, 35,000 btu burner we used and my [...]

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So how many five-year-olds can you take on?
29

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Here is how ABC News’s Cynthia McFadden introduced tonight’s post-Clinton / Obama Philadelphia debate:
Good evening. I’m Cynthia McFadden, reporting tonight from Philadelphia. Over my shoulder here, Independence Hall, where 220 years ago, the founders crafted a Constitution that would not have permitted either of the democratic candidates vying for the presidency in tonight’s debate [...]

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Inspired by one of Stephen’s posts:

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Ed Morrissey has the best breakdown on Obama’s aloof, elitist statement at a San Francisco fundraiser last weekend:

Let’s break this statement into its component insults:
“[T]hey cling to guns…” Cling to guns? Americans have “clung” to guns since the founding of the Republic. It’s such a core value to this nation that its founders placed it [...]

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From Babalu, Venezualan thug-in-chief Hugo Chavez announce he’s gonna nationalize Sidor, the largest steel company in Venezuala.
I predict two things: Sidor won’t be the largest steel maker in Venezuala for long, and Chavez will blame everyone but himself for that outcome.

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Note to Senator McCain’s campaign: This is a point that can be exploited, and rightly should, when it comes to Senator Obama:
The junior Senator from Illinois has a particularly tricky balancing act when it comes to the subject of the Olympics: Chicago is vying to host the 2016 games and one of Obama’s top campaign [...]

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David Freddoso at the National Review passes along a chart showing how Democrats shift their stance (go figure, they are, after all, politicians) on the state of the American economy.

Democrats on the Economy in 1996:
“Our economy is the healthiest it has been in three decades.” (President Bill Clinton, State of the Union Address, January 23, [...]

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It’s CSS Naked Day 2008. This is when thousands of web sites remove their CSS for a day. Why? To promote clean, semantic use of XHTML. Web Standards, in other words. With good design starting with good content, I, and many many others strip off our design for a day, leaving the pink bits of [...]

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In looking through the kitchen for dinner ideas, the only real main course I had was a bag of frozen chicken breasts. Hrmm… there’s also a can of pineapple chunks in the pantry. Bingo. Call it Caribbean Chicken, or Pineapple Jerk Chicken.

4 thawed chicken breasts (I used the frozen boneless variety)
1 can pineapple chunks (12oz [...]

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