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The Obama administration has done something I didn’t think it was possible to do. It managed, in a ten-page report, to tattoo the word “extremist” on the foreheads of about half the country. Plenty of folks are writing about the Department of Homeland Security Report made public by Stephen Gordon at The Liberty Papers. And [...]
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The good news is that President Obama finally authorized the military to kill the pirates who had held an American citizen hostage for five. The bad news is that President Obama couldn’t give the authorization until he had cleared it with a few government lawyers, which is why it took five days. Obama’s involvement in [...]
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Bush. Obama. Eh, what’s the difference? In February, President Obama’s Justice Department quietly argued in a San Francisco court that it was maintaining the same position as President Bush’s Justice Department on a case involving detainees trying to sue a private company for its role in their (allegedly) extraordinary renditions. The Obama administration pushed the [...]
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I like my White House like I like my coffee…COVERED IN BEES* A swarm of honey bees took over a bush located between the Northwest security gate of the White House and the area where television networks stand-up positions are located early Thursday. CNN photojournalist John Bodnar said he came through the Northwest gate around [...]
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I’ve been out at dinner with an old friend tonight, cooking up some choral mischief, which means that my normal blogging has suffered. I am not of such a caliber as to merit a fine minion who slings the Monty Python like my friend Stacy McCain so I must do my own link-o-rama. Luckily, I [...]
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I’ll be a guest on The Rick Moran Show at 8 PM Eastern tonight along with Stacy McCain and Stephen Green. We’ll be talking about the President’s Worldwide “I’m Sorry” Tour and you just know, among the four of us, the discussion will be very entertaining. If you’re near a computer, be sure to listen [...]
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It’s tough out there for a jokester now that The Messiah is sitting in the Oval Office. What used to get the yuks just doesn’t seem funny anymore. A malaise has fallen over the gag writers and website authors who had grown fat on the pratfalls of George W. Bush. Oh me. Oh my. After [...]
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Last week, the President invited the heads of several banks to the White House for a little sit-down meeting during which he reminded them that he, like fellow Chicagoan Al Capone in The Untouchables, has enthusiasms. So, what are Barack Obama’s? What is that which brings him joy? Well, it sure as heck isn’t baseball. [...]
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