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• Yikes

  I really, really hope this won't be as awful, artless and unfunny as this Weekly Standard writeup makes it sound. [...]
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  Posted: August 05, 2008, 8:55pm EDT
  

• This is why the world's poor want to come to America

  Because people struggling to make ends meet very often look like this: [...]
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  Posted: July 19, 2008, 10:24am EDT
  

• McCain Camp Starts Swinging

  It's not too often a Republican actually mounts a spirited defense of himself. I love this: We have all become familiar with Senator Obama's new brand of politics. First, you demand civility from your opponent, then you attack him, distort his record and send out surrogates to question his integrity. It [...]
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  Posted: May 08, 2008, 9:07pm EDT
  

• Strickland endorses Clinton Impeachment?

  Had to share this little nugget from a story about Gov. Ted Strickland and embattled state Attorney General Marc Dann: It appears that Attorney General Marc Dann lied to Gov. Ted Strickland's chief of staff recently about rumors that were swirling around Capitol Square about an affair, Gov. Ted Strickland said [...]
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  Posted: May 06, 2008, 9:08pm EDT
  

• The Biofuels Boomerang

  Andrew Stuttaford in The Corner: Britain's The Independent is, in many ways, Britain's most irritating broadsheet, not least because of its relentless, and catastrophe-laden, enviropreachiness. That unkind Mr. Eugenides has now posted this gem from an editorial that ran in the paper back in November 2005: At last, some refreshing signs of [...]
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  Posted: April 17, 2008, 9:09am EDT
  

• Michael Ramirez wins Pulitzer

  I was perusing the list of 2008 Pulitzer Prize winners, and was pleasantly surprised to see that conservative editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez took home a prize this year. I'm mostly familiar with his work through National Review and The Weekly Standard's frequent use of his cartoons. It's nice to see [...]
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  Posted: April 07, 2008, 7:02pm EDT
  

• RIP Charlton Heston

  He passed away yesterday at the age of 84. [...]
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  Posted: April 06, 2008, 9:35am EDT
  

• If you're not excited about the new Batman movie, this will get you going

  H/T Peter Suderman [...]
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  Posted: April 03, 2008, 10:08pm EDT
  

• McCain-Romney '08 ?

  John McCain and Mitt Romney's joint participation in a fundraiser has created speculation that Romney may be McCain's choice for a running mate. It would be a good choice, in my opinion, as Romney's optimism, speaking ability, and economic expertise would be valuable assets to the McCain campaign. However, there is [...]
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  Posted: March 28, 2008, 7:36am EDT
  

• Ohio State schedules home-and-home with Tennessee

  Ohio State announced today that they will play a home-and-home series against Tennessee in 2018 and 2019. This continues OSU's pattern of scheduling 1 marquee out of conference opponent a year. For those keeping track, here are the big matchups through 2019: 2008-2009 USC 2010-2011 Miami 2012-2013 California 2014-2015 Virginia Tech 2016-2017 Oklahoma 2018-2019 Tennessee [...]
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  Posted: March 27, 2008, 6:39pm EDT
  

• And by "sniper fire", I meant "friendly media"

  Not so good for Hillary. [...]
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  Posted: March 27, 2008, 2:23am EDT
  

• Quote of the Day

  David Frum: Meanwhile the National Union of Teachers are simultaneously calling for (a) the elimination of Christian private schools, (b) instruction of all children in the elements of Islam, (c) acceptance of headscarves in classrooms and (d) higher pay for themselves. In a world of flux, it’s reassuring to see that [...]
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  Posted: March 25, 2008, 9:40pm EDT
  

• And by "sniper fire", I meant "friendly media"

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  Posted: March 24, 2008, 10:36pm EDT
  

• Happy St. Patrick's Day!

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  Posted: March 17, 2008, 10:50am EDT
  

• Daily Show skewers Berkeley

  No, really, the Daily Show. [...]
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  Posted: March 14, 2008, 8:20am EDT
  

• Spitzer

  I'm not all that interested in the scandal. He should be ashamed of himself, and he should resign, of course. Whether he will or not is an open question at this point, but odds are that he'll go, I think. But while I realize there's a certain element of schadenfreude in [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2008, 6:19pm EDT
  

• Sun rises: it gets lighter outside

  Thomas Sowell has an article on crime this morning. He writes: [A] recent New York Times editorial has returned to a familiar theme among those on the left, on both sides of the Atlantic, with its lament that "incarceration rates have continued to rise while crime rates have fallen." Back in 1997, [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2008, 8:13am EDT
  

• Not the way to play defense

  I thought this was too funny not to pass on: H/t: Galley Slaves [...]
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  Posted: March 07, 2008, 1:25pm EST
  

• Progressive Taxation

  Megan McArdle looks at tax figures for the U.S. and Britain and concludes: No one believes me when I say that George Bush's tax cuts made the tax system more progressive, but it's true--the cuts for poor people were, on a percentage basis, bigger than the cuts for rich people. The [...]
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  Posted: March 06, 2008, 6:25pm EST
  

• How many can you get?

  112 I did pretty well, I think. [...]
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  Posted: March 06, 2008, 6:20pm EST
  

• Democrat campaign will continue; McCain locks up nomination

  Hillary Clinton won the two most important contests last night: the Texas and Ohio primaries. This means that her campaign will keep going at least through Pennsylvania on April 22, and probably all the way to the convention. Neither she nor Barack Obama can win the nomination with the delegates [...]
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  Posted: March 05, 2008, 8:03am EST
  

• Voting

  I voted first thing this morning at about 7:15. Not too many people in the polling place (it was early after all), but there were a few. I seriously considered switching over and voting in the Democratic primary since McCain has the Republican nomination wrapped up, but I ran into [...]
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  Posted: March 04, 2008, 6:55pm EST
  

• Delicious Irony

  The New York Sun editorializes: [T]he publisher of the New York Times, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., had sold his Upper West Side apartment to his wife for $3.25 million for what a Times spokeswoman described as "estate-planning purposes." ...[T]he Times editorialized on April 15, 2005, that "The only thing driving the push for [...]
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  Posted: March 04, 2008, 6:50pm EST
  

• Well, that's it: I'm an Obama voter

  You couldn't make this up if you tried: Vote for Obama, because if he wins we'll live in a world without fear. (Except fear of Republicans ruining the environment?) Jaime Sneider has the definitive takedown: Christmas has come early for the right wing attack machine. Obama the sequel is the latest viral ad about [...]
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  Posted: March 03, 2008, 7:11pm EST
  

• Must Read: Texas vs Ohio

  The Wall Street Journal has an article comparing the economies of Texas and Ohio today. Read the whole thing, but here are a few tidbits: Ohio, Indiana and Michigan are losing auto jobs, but many of these "runaway plants" are not fleeing to China, Mexico or India. They've moved to more [...]
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  Posted: March 03, 2008, 8:34am EST
  

• Obama the Cynic?

  For a guy who seems to think that cynicism is the biggest enemy our country faces, Barack Obama has been awfully, well, cynical lately. First there's this story about Obama's campaign reportedly telling the Canadian government not to worry about his anti-NAFTA rhetoric - it's just campaign boob bait for [...]
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  Posted: February 28, 2008, 6:39pm EST
  

• William F. Buckley, Jr. RIP

  I just got back from lunch to discover that William F. Buckley, Jr. passed away this morning. I'm sure I'll have more to say later. For now: requiescat in pacem. Update: I find I have not much to say. Buckley was a great man, and the father of the modern American [...]
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  Posted: February 27, 2008, 1:10pm EST
  

• Time to dye the polar ice caps black

  2007 was a record year for climate change - only not the way our modern Cassandras have been warning us for the past couple decades. Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than [...]
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  Posted: February 26, 2008, 6:19pm EST
  

• What she said

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  Posted: February 25, 2008, 6:12pm EST
  

• Clinton campaign resorts to whining

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  Posted: February 25, 2008, 8:59am EST
  

• Watching the Oscars...

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  Posted: February 24, 2008, 9:29pm EST
  

• Ya gotta love that

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  Posted: February 24, 2008, 12:30pm EST
  

• Get Used to It

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  Posted: February 20, 2008, 9:16pm EST
  

• Romney Drops Out

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  Posted: February 07, 2008, 6:48pm EST
  

• McCain Wins Florida...and the Republican Nomination?

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  Posted: January 29, 2008, 10:03pm EST
  

• Romney Wins Michigan

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  Posted: January 15, 2008, 9:33pm EST
  

• But at least global warming will be reduced by .000000000000000003%

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  Posted: January 14, 2008, 8:56am EST
  

• Buckeyes fall short again

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  Posted: January 08, 2008, 12:31pm EST
  

• Huckabee and Obama Win

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  Posted: January 03, 2008, 9:56pm EST
  

• Iowa Caucus Prediction

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  Posted: January 02, 2008, 4:59pm EST
  

• Happy New Year!

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  Posted: January 01, 2008, 11:51am EST
  

• National Review endorses Romney

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  Posted: December 11, 2007, 6:10pm EST
  

• It's official: Ohio State vs LSU

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  Posted: December 02, 2007, 8:39pm EST
  

• Buckeyes headed to second straight national title game!

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  Posted: December 01, 2007, 10:59pm EST
  

• On the media's reaction to the stem cell breakthrough

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  Posted: November 28, 2007, 7:07pm EST
  

• The End of the Stem Cell Debate

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  Posted: November 20, 2007, 6:36pm EST
  

• Summing up Ohio State's performance against Illinois

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  Posted: November 11, 2007, 8:37am EST
  

• Is this headline from the AP or The Onion?

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  Posted: October 16, 2007, 10:03pm EDT
  

• "Ex-General Drops Bomb"

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  Posted: October 13, 2007, 10:12am EDT
  

• Consider my world rocked

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  Posted: October 10, 2007, 8:24am EDT
  

• Must read for Buckeye fans

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  Posted: October 08, 2007, 12:03pm EDT
  

• Silence in Syria, Panic in Iran

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  Posted: September 28, 2007, 8:43am EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• Humorous video for today - "Drunk guy slingshot"

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  Posted: September 20, 2007, 7:16pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• NBC to drop Notre Dame

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  Posted: September 18, 2007, 9:50pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• I hate this scandal, and you Hsud too

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  Posted: September 18, 2007, 9:48pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• Important News!

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  Posted: September 18, 2007, 9:45pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• The best damn room in the land

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  Posted: September 18, 2007, 1:35pm EDT
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• Infantilizing the Military

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  Posted: September 17, 2007, 6:45pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• College football notes

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  Posted: September 16, 2007, 1:38pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• The Petraeus Report

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  Posted: September 10, 2007, 7:38pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• Least surprising news of the day

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  Posted: September 10, 2007, 8:39am EDT
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• And speaking of college football misery...

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  Posted: September 09, 2007, 1:49pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• More on Michigan's Misery

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  Posted: September 09, 2007, 1:45pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• Michigan goes down again

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  Posted: September 09, 2007, 8:56am EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• I always wanted to read Jack Kerouac's "On the Road"

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  Posted: September 06, 2007, 8:23pm EDT
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• Michigan loses to Division I-AA school

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  Posted: September 03, 2007, 6:19pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• President Bush in Iraq: A Turning Point?

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  Posted: September 03, 2007, 6:11pm EDT
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• Foreign aid results in worst mass-poisoning in history

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  Posted: September 03, 2007, 4:41pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• Former OSU President Holbrook Rants

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  Posted: August 29, 2007, 7:41am EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• The abolition of Britain?

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  Posted: August 28, 2007, 8:02am EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• Euro-Hypocrisy

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  Posted: August 21, 2007, 7:59pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• Big Ten to recruit Texas or Tennessee?

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  Posted: August 14, 2007, 10:12pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• Karl Rove to resign

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  Posted: August 13, 2007, 7:02am EDT
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• Sorry for the light posting

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  Posted: August 07, 2007, 7:03pm EDT
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• Raining on the parade

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  Posted: August 02, 2007, 9:50pm EDT
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• Man bites dog

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  Posted: July 30, 2007, 9:10am EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• Further thoughts on Harry Potter

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  Obligatory spoilers warning, though how can you not have finished by now? * * * I love Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It is a great book and a fitting conclusion to a wonderful series. Sure, one can quibble - there are too many coincidences, and much of the action is driven by [...]
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  Posted: July 26, 2007, 8:49pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• Typical Times

  From James Taranto's Best of the Web Today column: All the News That's Fit to Reprint Yesterday's New York Times carried a story on a new poll that found an increase in the number of Americans retrospectively backing the liberation of Iraq: Americans' support for the initial invasion of Iraq has risen somewhat [...]
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  Posted: July 25, 2007, 6:26pm EDT
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• Ward Churchill Sacked

  The University of Colorado has (finally) gotten rid of Ward Churchill. Just two years after his "little Eichmans" comment came out. A scant one year after an investigation detailing his mendacity and plagiarism was completed. Who knew government funding of higher education meant government efficiency, too? [...]
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  Posted: July 24, 2007, 9:26pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• Surging to success?

  Strategypage posts this: The surge has basically been chasing the terrorist and criminal gangs around the suburbs of Baghdad, or even into northern or western Iraq. This has taken its toll. Time spent in flight cannot be spent planting IEDs or killing people. Putting all these guys on the road, also [...]
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  Posted: July 24, 2007, 7:01pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• Wisconsin pushes for government healthcare

  The Wall Street Journal editorializes on the subject today. They write: And, wow, is "free" health care expensive. The plan would cost an estimated $15.2 billion, or $3 billion more than the state currently collects in all income, sales and corporate income taxes. It represents an average of $510 a month [...]
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  Posted: July 24, 2007, 9:06am EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• Two more good Harry Potter links

  Plenty of good stuff at Hogwartsprofessor.com and Sword of Gryffindor. This should be the last word on Harry, for now, though I may have something more to say on my own part once I've finished a second reading of Deathly Hallows. [...]
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  Posted: July 24, 2007, 8:52am EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• Good Harry Potter reading

  Thomas Hibbs reviews Deathly Hallows at NRO, and blogger Russell Arbin Fox posts his thoughts here (via Ross Douthat). [...]
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  Posted: July 23, 2007, 7:02pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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  It is immensely satisfying and, of course, a little bittersweet to have read the 7th and last book in the Harry Potter series. I don’t want to write too much for fear of spoiling the story, but here are a few quick thoughts: The story is as crackling as any other [...]
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  Posted: July 21, 2007, 6:55pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• Schadenfreude alert

  Valerie Plame lawsuit dismissed. [...]
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  Posted: July 20, 2007, 7:05am EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• Everything you ever wanted to know about Ferris Bueller

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  Posted: July 17, 2007, 9:51pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• Media bias at work

  Here's a fascinating article from Dutch journalist Joshua Livestro. An excerpt: The column was an attack on the idea of a double ‘Cordon Sanitaire’ against the leftwing Socialist Party of Jan Marijnissen and the rightwing Freedom Party of Geert Wilders. Together, these two parties scored as high as 30 percent in [...]
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  Posted: July 16, 2007, 6:18pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• Red Shirt Fridays

  Here's an interesting email forward I just got: > If the Red shirt idea is new to you, read on to the end...Worth The Read.... > > Last week, while traveling to Chicago on business, I noticed a Marine > sergeant > traveling with a folded flag, but did not put two and two together. > > [...]
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  Posted: July 16, 2007, 12:44pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• Summer Movie Roundup

  I've seen three new movies recently; here are some thoughts on each. Transformers: Really, really entertaining. Just a satisfying movie experience. It's humorous, it's got action, some romance, and giant robots fighting each other. What more could you ask for? Ratatouille: I know this movie is getting glowing reviews from just about [...]
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  Posted: July 15, 2007, 1:44pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• You just can't help but laugh

  Cindy Sheehan to run for Congress against Nancy Pelosi. It should be interesting - given that Pelosi's district in San Francisco is one of the most liberal in the country, Sheehan might really have a chance. Although it will be harder for the media to ignore her monumental stupidity in the [...]
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  Posted: July 11, 2007, 9:04am EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• What he said

  Andy McCarthy: Lemme make sure I have this straight: It is to be the sense of Congress that as long as we maintain a dialogue with the people whose imperative is "Death to America," who have been actively killing Americans since we got to Iraq (to say nothing of the previous quarter-century), [...]
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  Posted: July 09, 2007, 8:55pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• What happened at Live Earth?

  Mark Hemingway has an entertaining writeup on NRO. Here's my favorite bit: 4:13: Czech supermodel Petra Nemcova, famous chiefly for her Sports Illustrated cover and being caught at a Thai resort during the 2004 tsunami which killed her fiancé, takes the stage in London to explain that she wasn’t angry at [...]
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  Posted: July 09, 2007, 8:46am EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• Happy Independence Day!

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  Posted: July 04, 2007, 10:57am EDT
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• Bush Commutes Libby's Sentence

  "Scooter" Libby had an emergency appeal denied today, meaning he would have to begin serving his 2 1/2 year jail sentence even before his normal appeal winds its way through the courts. As a result, President Bush commuted the sentence, sparing Libby from jail. Commuting the sentence is a step [...]
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  Posted: July 02, 2007, 6:52pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• "Subtle as a Brick"

  Captain Ed has the details on another example of the AP's not-quite-subtle bias. [...]
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  Posted: June 30, 2007, 9:09am EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• Day of conservative victories

  The Senate's "comprehensive" immigration bill has failed to get even a majority to support closing the debate, as today's cloture motion went down 46-53. Please, please, please Senators: if you must take immigration up again, make it an enforcement-only bill. Otherwise, let the issue fade for a while. Please. In other news, [...]
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  Posted: June 28, 2007, 12:18pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• The end of Harry Potter?

  No, Harry Potter won't end like this, but I loved the video anyway: [...]
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  Posted: June 28, 2007, 7:28am EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• The sun sets on Tony Blair

  Today was Tony Blair's last in office as Prime Minster of the United Kingdom. I'm hardly an expert, but herewith a few thoughts on Blair's time in office: Coming to power in 1997, Blair was the first Labour leader to be elected 3 times. Renaming his party "New Labour" and swept [...]
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  Posted: June 27, 2007, 7:24pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• Tough days ahead in Baghdad

  Fred Kagan - an advocate of the "surge" strategy well before the administration adopted it - gave Congressional testimony today. He states that the strategy is to come in 3 phases, and that the recent combat operations are only Phase 2: The purpose of this deployment was not to clear-and-hold those [...]
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  Posted: June 27, 2007, 7:15pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger

• Point Break

  I'd like to have some deep, philosophic reason to link to this article, but really I'm just doing it because Point Break is one of my favorite guilty-pleasure movies of all time. And not just because Keanu Reeves plays an ex Ohio State quarterback. (For only the first time in his [...]
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  Posted: June 27, 2007, 6:33pm EDT
  by Phil Prenger