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Six days from being sworn in, Barack Obama surprised that the crack vetting staff he thought he hired are really Moe, Larry, and Curly. How else to explain the the scary monsters that keep lumbering out of his nominees’ closets every few days? The latest Obama Drama involves his nominee for Secretary of the Treasury, [...]
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I don’t normally quote an entire blog post, but this one from Glenn Reynolds would be wrecked if I excerpted it. IF YOU’VE GOT TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY TO PAY FOR THE INAUGURATION, does that mean you’re broke? Or does it mean the inauguration’s awfully expensive for economically tough times? Funny how you don’t hear [...]
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Indicted Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon was a proud supporter of Barack Obama during the campaign and he was a proud receipient of that support. Now that she’s facing 12 separate criminal charges, it seems he’s less excited about bring seen in public with her. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Bumpity, Bump! Under the bus she goes!
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Reed Galen makes a very good case that Barack Obama has done some industrial-strength sucking up to John McCain in the hopes that McCain will return the favor and help bust any potential Republican filibuster. I find the theory very credible. McCain is a sucker for ego-stroking moves, especially ones that play to his power [...]
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Are you ready for your first tax increase of the People’s Glorious Democratic Paradise? President-elect Barack Obama and congressional leaders plan to move soon to block the estate tax from disappearing in 2010, suggesting the levy might outlive the “Death Tax Repeal” movement that has tried mightily to kill it. The Democratic stance on the [...]
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President-Elect Obama is allegedly going to issue an executive order to close the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay as his first official act as President. But it won’t really close. In fact, it won’t close in the first hundred days of his Presidency or even in the first year. According to the report, all the [...]
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Here’s an interesting little science story for you this morning. Most galaxies our size and larger are a lot quieter than they should be, which puzzles scientists, who like to see their theories borne out by observation. Here’s the problem. These galaxies, the theory goes, have a supermassive black hole at their center. That black [...]
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There’s a reason it’s important to have conservatives in the Senate. We got a good look at the biggest reason yesterday when Harry Reid bribed and cajoled a dozen limp moderates into helping him shove through a land-grabbing, pork-filled, wasteful, corrupt lands bill without any real debate. Conservatives keep folks like Reid honest. If not [...]
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