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I hope you’re sitting down because it appears that the suspects are Muslims atheists who are cowardly hiding behind and twisting one of the most beautiful and peaceful religions in the entire history of humanity. An Ottawa-based terrorist cell with…

Well done, boys! (I put “combat” in quotes not because these guys aren’t combat but because I’m less than convinced those left behind are not. I do not think the 50,000 troops left behind are purely non-combat, even subtracting the…

Good list, and there’s more to the post: 1. A mosque isn’t a mosque if it includes a pool and a basketball court. 2. Ground Zero does not extend one single inch past the lip of the crater. 3. Shut…

Candidate John Gomez wants to know if his opponent, Steve Israel, continues his lockstep support of Obama. Dan Riehl writes: He thinks he is setting an example, providing us a teachable moment, while at the same time, doing everything he…

That’s Slublog. Now, he has done more. So my question is: Do I do a bunch of them, wasting them tonight, or put one up a day for a while? I guess I answered my own question. One More:…

The ‘great cow’ at Racenna in great trouble, Led by fifteen shut up at Fornase: At Rome there will be born two double-headed monsters, Blood, fire, flood, the greatest ones in space. Oh, wait, they don’t mean every third quatrain…

Gee, I’m sure glad the Obama administration is lavishing hundreds of billions of dollars on his union cronies. So they can turn around and hire the non-union unemployed up at the lowest possible hourly rates to do their picketing for…

Just a reminder: For two weeks Gallup had the Democrats surging on this and the GOP plummeting. Just some noise, I figured, or really hoped, because who knows. Well… I guess it was just two bad, bad polls in a…

Ooof. Nevada has gone from Toss-Up to Lean Democrat; Pennsylvania from Lean Republican to Toss Up; Washington state from Toss Up to Lean Democrat. (Missouri went from Toss Up to Lean Republican, the sole happy change.) Could just be some…

Last week, Democratic Congresscritter Charlie Rangel* got pissy that a mere reporter would dare to ask him about his ethics problems. Today Democratic Senator John Kerry had an uncomfortable confrontation with reporters asking about tax-evasion and his yacht. Actually, watch…

Remember this little gem from Kos? Break their back, crush their spirits See, here’s the deal — we’re going to win the White House, we’re going to win big in the Senate, and we’re going to rack up big gains…

By that sneaky Andrew Breitbart. With regard to the initial media coverage of the resignation of USDA official Shirley Sherrod, we have come to the conclusion we were snookered by Fox News and Tea Party Activist Andrew Breitbart into believing…

One interesting snippet has emerged from this. When the original emails were released I reported on an inquiry made to Lord Oxburgh by Oliver Morton of the Economist about how Oxburgh’s Eleven papers were chosen. When he replied, Oxburgh…

Abigail Thernstrom is a conservative member of the Civil Rights Commission who has been saying for months that there’s not much there there when it comes to the New Black Panther Party case. Now she’s accusing the other Republican members…

I’m cynical. I think I’m even more cynical than most of you, and that’s saying something. So when I read that a Penn State investigation had “cleared” Michael Mann of wrongdoing, I assumed, of course, it was a whitewash, but…

Happy Birthday America!! Lock up the horses and bring out your finest grog and ale for tonight we party like it’s 1776! How About Some Independence Day Rap Staring Ace and the Founding Fathers From the guys at JibJab….

To say he “admits” it isn’t quite right; this isn’t a grudging admission, but a statement that he feels he was defrauded. So, he publicized bunk polls, but at least he’s copping to it. I have just published a report…

Sure, bloggers often engage in a little hyperbole. Even I, as level headed and objective as I am, have been known to engage in a little exaggeration from time to time. Not this time tho. This time, I mean it….

Sure, bloggers often engage in a little hyperbole. Even I, as level headed and objective as I am, have been known to engage in a little exaggeration from time to time. Not this time tho. This time, I mean it….

This word you keep using, “inconceivable.” I donna think it means what you think it means. Pretty video at the link. Obama: Hey, Let’s Give Up On This While We Still Can! Let’s f*** up as much sh** as we…

Two big hearings, Elana Kagan for the Supreme Court and General David Petraeus to command the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. Amazingly, neither are very exciting given that the outcomes in both cases the outcomes are more or less…

Thomas’ concurrence rejects the Court’s “incorporation” analysis and instead seeks to overturn 100+ year precedent, to base federal power to restrict the states on the Privileges and Immunities clause rather than the due process clause (long a bogeyman of endless…

Equities ended mostly unchanged yesteday. The Dow closed at 10,138.52, and the S&P 500 closed 1,074.57. My intellectual betters at the Fed think I should just shut up and leave the economic opinionating to the experts. What do I say…

It’s just crazy enough to possibly be true. Gore said he was tired from travel and described in detail the massage he wanted. It included work on the adductor muscles, which are on the inside of the thighs. “I mentally…

WELCOME TO THE MONDAY. OH AND TODAY WAS ALL CAPS DAY IN HONOR OF BILLY MAYS WHO DIED ONE YEAR AGO. Five Realistic and Tough To Watch Movie Plane Crashes If you’re afraid of flying, you may want to skip…

WELCOME TO THE MONDAY. OH AND TODAY WAS ALL CAPS DAY IN HONOR OF BILLY MAYS WHO DIED ONE YEAR AGO. Five Realistic and Tough To Watch Movie Plane Crashes If you’re afraid of flying, you may want to skip…

Aw, baby wants attention. RadioEqualizer puts it cleanly: While reaction to [Senator Byrd's] passing is examined syllable-by-syllable by the left’s partisan sensitivity screeners, expect the hate emanating from the own side to once again be ignored. McCaskill Aide: Tea Partiers…

I think they just spin a couple of Aunty Enitity Thunderdome wheels and make a game show out of the results….

I hope to God someone lodges a lawsuit. They want to handle this scam by having a Special Election in 2012 for five or six weeks left in Byrd’s term (Nov. 2012 to Jan. 2013) and also a general election…

(I don’t want to steal any of Ace’s daytime-posting thunder, so I’m going to keep most of this post “below the fold” for those interested.) I meant to post this as a snarky aside in one of my “Daily Financial…

Ouch. This as to do with ZeroSheep’s point: One part of the law specifies the need for a special election. Another part of the law, though, specifies timing requirements that seem to put off a special election… until the actual…

Twittering sarcastically… “At Least 29 Shot In Chicago Over The Weekend.” It’s the fault of our damn unconstitutional gun laws. This is so insensible I would feel dirty having to point out what makes it so dumb. Roger Ebert, Person…

ZeroSheep sends this link. He says this means the limitation of two years, six months applies to the length of service of the appointed replacement, and thus state law okays it if the Governor waits a week (or, presumably, a…

Very cool. The video consists of interviews with gun-rights theorist John Lott and plaintiff Otis McDonald….

A representative of Frum complained that FrumForum was not allowed to join the Blogads Conservative Hive advertising network. And he sort of threatened Hawkins, kinda. At least he threatened to make a public fuss about it, which, honestly, isn’t much…

So cuddly! Thanks to JoeM, via SciFiWire.com….

You might think this was obvious, but in fact, had Robert Byrd lived until July 3rd, there would have been no special election at all — the Governor (a Democrat) would have appointed someone to hold the seat until Byrd’s…

Remember the whole “Office of The President Elect” thing? I joked that that was the office Obama really wanted, lots of meetings, the chance to give lots of fun speeches to adoring crowds, plenty of time for waffles but no…

Remember the whole “Office of The President Elect” thing? I joked that that was the office Obama really wanted, lots of meetings, the chance to give lots of fun speeches to adoring crowds, plenty of time for waffles but no…

Just breaking and it will take some time to unpack but here’s Gabe’s post on the issue when the Court announced it would take the case. Via SCOTUSBLOG. 14th Amendment incorporates 2nd Amendment as part of Due Process clause….

This used to be a funhouse, but now it’s full of evil clowns….

Here’s the Fox News link. No flaming skull because the guy was 92 and it’s not like nobody saw this coming. RIP, Senator Byrd….

What good news have we on this mean old Monday morn, my bretheren? Well, here’s a bit of splendid economic news that probably won’t make the CNBC news-crawl: the Cadiz, Kentucky Civitan Yard Sale was a big success. Treasurer Ronnie…

The Year Is 1985 Ronald Reagan is president, a gallon of gas is just $1.09, inflation is only 3.5%, Gorbachev is the new leader of the USSR, New Coke is unveiled, the top rated TV program is The Cosby Show,…

I wish him good health so he can retire for the fall. Byrd, 92, was admitted to the hospital after “suffering from what was believed to be heat exhaustion and severe dehydration as a result of the extreme temperatures,” according…

This is from Iran’s semi-official news agency, so it’s probably just propaganda, and even if it’s “reportage,” I doubt a cleric-run news agency gets a lot right. But… Israel Air Force aircraft dropped off large quantities of military gear at…

The Green company sending the package apparently had its actual package — a report — swapped with car parts at some point in the mailing. And then… When [Calzada] called to ask about it, he was told: “It’s our response…

I love how Democrats seek to portray themselves as friends of the little guys (or “small people” as the Scandis say) yet they have no trouble to keep their mouths shuts when they don’t stick to the script. Occasionally the…

I generally read much more non-fiction than fiction, and my particular tastes run to history, economics/finance, astrophyhsics and astronomy, and information technology and cognitive science. I read the occasional baseball book, like George Will’s Men at Work. I even enjoy…

Hello, hello all M&Ms. Welcome to your regularly scheduled CatSaturday night ONT. The Star Trek-Ke$ha Mashup Okay I know that Ke$ha seems to drive a lot of people crazy even worse than lady GaGa does but I kinda like her…

This dude is cracking: Last night, the White House sent the press corps — which by agreement stays close to the president in order to report on any incident — back to Toronto, leaving the president 150 miles behind. In…

Above-the-Post Update & Bump: Dave tweets with respect to this post: Hey, guys, I was referring to the Caller story. You could have learned this if you did, you know, reporting. http://minx.cc/?post=303031 Wow. And here so many people on the…

Good morning, sports fans, after a shaky match against Algeria, it’s the Round of 16. The U.S. team will take on Ghana at 2:30pm Eastern. Ghana is supposedly the weakest team to make it past the group stage, so the…

Alright, I thought I was done with this issue yesterday evening, but a Howie Kurtz article on Dave Weigel’s resignation caught my eye. Weigel declined to comment except to say that none of the e-mails was sent after he joined…

Why the Daily Mail will survive the coming print media apocalypse. Cutting edge reporting about actual sex, after midnight, with ladies, in their vaginas. Contrary to popular fantasy about the need for hours of passionate activity, sex therapists say around…

Above-the-Post Update: Well that was fun. If you missed it and want to listen, the show will be up here, for listening over the web, or you can find the Stage Right Show on iTunes. Original Post: I know, I…

I know, I know, we’ve all heard a lot about it today, but I’ll be on Larry O’Connor’s Stage Right Show at 9pm PACIFIC arguing with Larry about Dave Weigel and his departure from the Washington Post. Direct link is…

Not Obama. Not just yet. Hugo merely paves the way to the future that we’d best wake up to and change. CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela’s government has seized control of 11 oil rigs owned by U.S. driller Helmerich & Payne,…

TGIF and please have your drinks ready… “We are in a Depression now and have been since 2008″ Via Doug Ross comes this pronouncement from Karl Denninger. He makes a pretty good case that we’re really in a depression and…

Suppose you’re a restaurant owner. Suppose a local newspaper restaurant reviewer has announced they’ll be dining at your establishment on a particular night. You’d do all you could to make them a happy camper, right? You’d cater to their every…

Began this day, 60 years ago. The Soviet Red Army, a latecomer to the Pacific War, occupied the north in the summer of 1945, an assertion of their intent to expand their sphere of influence in the region. There were…

NOTE: There was enough late-breaking stuff that I didn’t want to wait until Monday to post it. Feel free to breeze on by if you’ve had enough Financial Armageddon for one day. Friday trading ended with a shrug as the…

Stunned. The news that a man was shot at a 30th birthday party for Eagles quarterback Michael Vick has taken a twist, with reports that Quanis Phillips, one of the co-defendants in the infamous dogfighting case that landed Vick in…

Remember when I said, you know, don’t just steal videos? Sometimes you have to. Background at Hot Air. Anyone notice how the “masseuse” here is acting? Does it seem… familiar? Well, if it does, you just outed yourself. She acts…

It’s like the end of Excalibur when the Viking funeral barge sails off to Avalon. Journolist is done now. I’ll delete the group soon after this post goes live. That’s not because Journolist was a bad idea, or anyone on…

Asymptotic. The 42% identifying as conservative represents a continuation of the slight but statistically significant edge conservatives achieved over moderates in 2009. Should that figure hold for all of 2010, it would represent the highest annual percentage identifying as…

I guess this is sort of a thing, huh? “The case was not investigated any further because detectives concluded there was insufficient evidence to support the allegations,” the Portland Police Bureau said in a prepared statement Wednesday, responding to inquiries…

I know he’s probably pissed off at the online right, but, look, all the Daily Caller did was “hug” him a little. More, And That’s It: Erick Erickson writes that he thinks Weigel was doing exactly the job the WaPo…

mrp just linked this video from 2008. Almost seems as quaint as hula-hoops and fallout shelters….

mrp just linked this video from 2008. Almost seems as quaint as hula-hoops and fallout shelters….

At the moment, just that headline from commenter Guy Fawkes. I’ll keep checking for a link, though. Review, Not Change? Drew sends this Telegraph pieces saying Petraeus intends to review the ROE’s, not necessarily change them, but this is from…

At the moment, just that headline from commenter Guy Fawkes. I’ll keep checking for a link, though. Review, Not Change? Drew sends this Telegraph pieces saying Petraeus intends to review the ROE’s, not necessarily change them, but this is from…

I am speculating that it was his hatred of conservatives as revealed on JournoList– and his endorsement by Ezra Klein as “one of our own” — that got the WaPo to hire him. The man’s entitled to his opinions, and…

I am speculating that it was his hatred of conservatives as revealed on JournoList– and his endorsement by Ezra Klein as “one of our own” — that got the WaPo to hire him. The man’s entitled to his opinions, and…

That headline probably seems a little underwhelming — but that’s because the story is a little underwhelming, at least as of yet. Mere knowledge of something isn’t itself some sort of breach. We don’t know how long he entertained the…

Sort of, as they at least ponder the question of whether he’s the best governor in the country. Or the worst, as they of course have to ask, too. But they concede he’s definitely the most robust and transformative. In…

Sort of, as they at least ponder the question of whether he’s the best governor in the country. Or the worst, as they of course have to ask, too. But they concede he’s definitely the most robust and transformative. In…

Well, “rout” is as good a word as any to describe what happened to equities yesterday. The Dow closed down 145 points at 10,152.80 and the S&P 500 was off 18 points at 1,073.69. DAGGER’s bold gambit of earlier in…

Happy Thursday all. Crab Comes Out of Its Shell So here’s a time lapse video of a spider crab shedding its shell. The good part happens around the 0:50 mark. It’s new shell will harden over the next 24 hours….

Unbefuckin’lievable. Somebody gave this young lady a passing grade, or two, or fifteen, that she did not earn. It’s not bad enough that she doesn’t know her geography; unfortunately, lots of Americans fail miserably in that regard. What makes it…

So, so sorry. Dave Wiegel’s not a bad guy at all. I like him, personally, based on brief meetings. But… come on. The “right wing correspondent” gets his spin from the exact same place the left wing correspondent does? The…

A little going away present for Gen. McChrystal. Afghan and Coalition forces killed the top Taliban commander in a vital district in Kandahar province after destroying an IED factory in an airstrike. The clashes took place after Coalition aircraft bombed…

What? A company did this? Spain’s Dr. Gabriel Calzada — the author of a damning study concluding that Spain’s “green jobs” energy program has been a catastrophic economic failure — was mailed a dismantled bomb on Tuesday by solar energy…

No, seriously. Chief executives of several major corporations, including Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, Disney and News Corp., are joining Mayor Michael Bloomberg to form a coalition advocating for immigration reform — including a path to legal status for all undocumented immigrants now…

This guy either has cajones of Titanium, and/or he’s crazy like a fox and willing to sacrifice his life to prove the point.The son of one of the founders of Hamas is turning his back not only on the organization…

Vid. We’re giving relief to people that I deal with in my office every day now unfortunately. But because of the longevity of this recession, these are people — and they’re not minorities and they’re not defective and they’re not…

Her? She wants attention?…

I suppose this is the logical conclusion to the theory of social promotions, worrying about “self-esteem” more than achievement, grading on effort rather than results and the soft bigotry of low expectations.One day next month every student at Loyola Law…

The Supreme Court issued seven decisions this morning. Unfortunately, none of them are the Second Amendment incorporation case we’ve all been waiting for, McDonald v. City of Chicago or the First Amendment religion and schools case Christian Legal Society v….

Thuuuuursdy. Bleargh….

After bad US housing news sent stocks into an early swoon, DAGGER marshaled his various cybernetic forces and drove the Dow up to a tiny gain for the day to close at 10,298.44. The S&P 500 likewise moved up off…

Happy Hump Day all. Today’s Epic 3-Day Wimbledon Match On Tuesday afternoon John Isner and Nicolas Mahut started a first round match but had to stop after three hours due to darkness. They restarted this morning and after 7 hours!…

Well, that was interesting. I know a lot of folks here didn’t think McChrystal should have lost his command and career over the Rolling Stone article and none of us like Obama. But McChrystal did throw his job away and…

Well, that was interesting. I know a lot of folks here didn’t think McChrystal should have lost his command and career over the Rolling Stone article and none of us like Obama. But McChrystal did throw his job away and…

Well, that was interesting. I know a lot of folks here didn’t think McChrystal should have lost his command and career over the Rolling Stone article and none of us like Obama. But McChrystal did throw his job away and…

Bill Kristol floated this idea yesterday. Wow. Patreaus is staying at CentCom taking a step down to** and will run Afghanistan day to day. Damn. Good luck to him. And us. He’s probably the only guy people would believe…

Obama is going to make his McChrystal announcement at 1:30 so here’s a little something to hold you over until then… Eliot “Keep You Socks On” Spitzer is going to be hosting a show on CNN with Kathleen “Sure I’ll…

Pretty good. This team has a serious problem with not getting it together until the 70th minute of a game….