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  • Huckabee explains it all

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    Maurice Clemmons was sentenced to 60, 90, 108 years in prison in Arkansas at age 18. The number varies from source to source. He was a bad man who needed to be locked away from society for a long time. He served 11 because Republican Gov. Mike “Dukakis” Huckabee commuted his [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:19pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • 54 proof beer causes a stir

    Number of comments: 15
    Don’t know what to get Uncle Barney Gumble for Christmas? How about some overpriced beer in a fancy bottle? The Samuel Adams brewery is happy to oblige with “Utopia,” a 54 proof beer (27% alcohol) that costs $150 a bottle. Best of all, it is banned in 13 states (Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:13pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Pelosi’s flower power

    Number of comments: 7
    Well, she does represent San Francisco. Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi spent $2,993 of taxpayers money on flowers. “Pelosi, who has come under fire in the past for spending on flowers, also spent roughly $30,610 in food and beverage and about $2,740 on bottled water, contributing to the nearly $120,531 [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 7:21pm EST
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  • Support our SEALs

    Number of comments: 15
    3 Navy SEALs face courts-martial for allegedly giving a top terrorist they captured a fat lip. They had been offered Article 15s. My advice when the story broke 6 days ago was “They should have just shot him.” When they stop beheading and hanging ours, we will stop punching theirs. We are at war. We [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 6:02pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Daily scoreboard

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    1. CBS: “Asked to choose from among seven presidents, Americans tapped John F. Kennedy as the one they’d like to see added to Mount Rushmore. Kennedy polled 29 percent, with Ronald Reagan second at 20 percent.” The Scorekeeper thought The Won already was there. GOOD. 2. Mike Judge give Climategate its own Christmas [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 4:59pm EST
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  • Iran seizes 5 British sailors

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    British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was handed an Iranian hostage situation as the Iranian Navy seized a 5-man yacht, the London Daily Mail reported. And President Obama is willing to meet with the Iranians unconditionally, or as The Won put it “without pre-conditions.” “The yacht is believed to have been on its [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:31pm EST
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  • A liberal defends Mike Dukakis Huckabee

    Number of comments: 14
    In 1990, a judge sentenced Maurice Clemmons, 18, to 60 years in prison for his crimes of violence. Mike Huckabee let him out after 11 years. Clemmons committed more crimes, this time in the state of Washington where he was most recently raping a child. He was let out of jail pending [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:16pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Biden: Who do you trust on health care?

    Number of comments: 15
    With only 41% of American voters supporting Obamacare (53% opposed), the White House rolled out its big gun today. Joe Biden. In a video released today, the vice president said: “When it comes to explain what health-care reform means to you, who do you trust? “Do you trust the defenders of the status [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:45am EST
    by Don Surber

  • Cop killer suspect dead?

    Number of comments: 15
    Last night, I reported that as governor of Arkansas, Republican Mike Huckabee granted clemency to Maurice Clemmons, 37, now of Tacoma, who is suspected of killing 4 police officers in Parkland, Washington, on Sunday. That post is here. Now Clemmons may be dead. He may have committed suicide during an early [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:35am EST
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  • Man may sue over mugshot

    Number of comments: 11
    I must admit that the guy has a point. He was arrested for doing something stupid 4 years ago and now everywhere he goes, there is that mugshot of him on the Internet. The guy has substance abuse problems and this mugshot does not help. Ironically, I feel compelled to run [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:40am EST
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  • Huckabee granted clemency to suspect in 4 cops killed

    Number of comments: 15
    UPDATE: The suspect may have killed himself early Monday morning. That post is here. Back to the original post: Maurice Clemmons, 37, now of Tacoma, Washington, is a suspect in the murder of 4 Lakewood (Washington) police officers at a coffee shop this morning. “Nine years ago, then-Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee granted [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 9:46pm EST
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  • Ironic lefty argument

    Number of comments: 15
    In the wake of the Climategate scandal that raises doubts about the objectivity of the global warming researchers and calls intio question all the data they have compiled, the editors at Talking Points Memo decided to attack conservatives: There’s been a lot of recent evidence not only that Republicans disproportionately disbelieve [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 9:13pm EST
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  • Retailers: 2009 holiday is the same as 2008

    Number of comments: 10
    The National Retail Federation reported American shoppers spent an estimated $41.2 billion this weekend. A year ago, the federation reported American shoppers spent $41 billion, the federation reported. A year ago, the nation was in the midst of a 6.2% fourth-quarter contraction in the GDP. Glenn Reynolds nailed it on Friday: “RETAIL SUPPORT [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 6:59pm EST
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  • Daily scoreboard

    Number of comments: 9
    1. Remember the union thugs who tried to muscle Boy Scout Kevin Anderson, 17, out of cleaning up a park in Allentown, Pennsylvania? Well, they are gone and some union members decided to help him clean up that park. Noted the Allentown Morning Call: “As a result of the extra [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 4:59pm EST
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  • Detroit News: Climategate prof raked in $22.6 million in grants

    Number of comments: 15
    University of East Anglia Professor Phil Jones, the head of the Climate Research Unit that fudged data in order to con people into believing Global Warming, raked in £13.7 million ($22.6 million) in grants, Frank Beckmann of the Detroit News reported. Beckmann wrote: As Jones wrote to one-time United Nations Intergovernmental Panel [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 1:19pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • NYT: Obama’s tiny hut diplomacy is not working

    Number of comments: 15
    Barack Obama. December 28, 2007: “It’s that experience, that understanding, not just of what world leaders I went and talked to in the ambassador’s house I had tea with, but understanding the lives of the people like my grandmother who lives in a tiny hut in Africa.” So, 53% of American [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 11:28am EST
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  • Swiss ban minarets

    Number of comments: 15
    Voters in Switzerland voted overwhelmingly to ban minarets — despite the opposition of the Swiss Council of Religions and the Swiss government. Mutalip Karaademi, president of the Islamic Community, Langenthal: “We are fully integrated in Switzerland. We love this country almost more than our own.” Huh? Switzerland is not “our own” country? I can [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 8:55am EST
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  • A good question

    Number of comments: 15
    Better late than never, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has reached the conclusion that our jihadist major is a jihadist: “Major Hasan may have been mentally unbalanced — I assume anyone who shoots up innocent people is. But the more you read about his support for Muslim suicide bombers, [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 6:59am EST
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  • NYT: Hey, loggers were right. Chopping old growth forests helps the environment

    Number of comments: 15
    Long before the global warming crowd was cooking up data at the University of East Anglia, the self-proclaimed environmentalists were screaming about protecting the Northern Spotted Owl from those evil capitalistic lumber companies. Woodsman, spare thy ax and all that jazz. Nevermind that foresters said it was all right — that young [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 12:04am EST
    by Don Surber

  • Update

    Number of comments: 15
    Other gate crashers at the State Dinner revealed — including Bigfoot. [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 10:25pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Blue states sour on The Won

    Number of comments: 13
    Survey USA has some state by state job approval ratings for President Obama from November 20-22 surveys. Survey USA polls adults and it released results from only a few states. The job approval/disapproval numbers in 5 states he took (with Sept. 27-29 numbers in parenthesis): California 53/38 (62/33) New York 53/39 (63/33) Oregon 47/47 [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 7:59pm EST
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  • Climategate: University to release all its data

    Number of comments: 15
    The University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, agreed to open its files on climate data following the leak of many embarrassing e-mails and other exchanges that show a plot to “hide the decline” in global temperatures. “In a statement welcomed by climate change skeptics, the university said it would make all [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 6:31pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Daily scoreboard

    Number of comments: 6
    1. Letter to the editor of the day, from Gilbert Dewart of Pasadena to the Los Angeles Times on Climategate: It will be interesting if the hacker who reportedly broke into the secret climate files will try the same defense as the student who disrupted the oil lease sale. His motive? [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 4:59pm EST
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  • Quote of the day

    Number of comments: 10
    Standish, Michigan is, according to the London Guardian, “is a town on the edge of bankruptcy. The murderers and serial rapists who once packed the prison provided the town of fewer than 1,600 people with a major part of its income and hundreds of jobs.” But the people of Standish do [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 3:57pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Penn State silent on its Mann-made global warmer

    Number of comments: 15
    There is classic spin in the press release from Penn State on Michael Mann, who is accused of cheating to “prove” global warming. To wit: Professor Michael Mann is a highly regarded member of the Penn State faculty conducting research on climate change. Professor Mann’s research papers have been published in [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 2:47pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Bert Blyleven Hall of Famer?

    Number of comments: 4
    Silvio Canto Jr. makes the case. I agree. The rest of the players on his list (except for Lee Smith) are all-stars, not Hall of Famers. [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 12:39pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Global warming leads to too many polar bears

    Number of comments: 14
    I enjoy the way things are spun. The polar bear population has soared, rising from an estimated 5,000 polar bears 50 years ago to an estimated 25,000 today. Limiting the hunting of polar bears helped. Limiting the hunting of those delicious baby seals that polar bears like to eat. Now Canada [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 10:59am EST
    by Don Surber

  • Kos pollster worried about 2010

    Number of comments: 14
    The Daily Kos has so much money that it can poll 1,000 or so adults each week. Ah, Astroturf pays better than real grassroots. No dandelions. Kos is a little worried about this week’s poll. Wrote Steve Singiser: “The President’s numbers continue to soften (a trajectory that has been confirmed by numerous [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 9:58am EST
    by Don Surber

  • Climategate editorial

    Number of comments: 14
    Not everyone in the mainstream media is ignoring it. I suspect more will join us. The editorial. [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 8:59am EST
    by Don Surber

  • How to get them to cover Climategate

    Number of comments: 6
    Like most of its American counterparts, the Canadian Broadcasting Company has been reluctant to cover Climategate. I guess that’s that American hegemony we keep hearing about. One man decided to take matters in his own hands. I don’t encourage it because it makes Climategate sound like 9/11 Truthers. But it was amusing. Hat tip: [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 8:29am EST
    by Don Surber

  • Name that girl

    Number of comments: 13
    Name that calendar girl. It’s… Sarah Heath Palin. Must be a recent photo. No glasses. It is in a 2010 Calendar being sold at Cafe Press. Looks authorized. Meanwhile, Judith Warner at the New York Times: “I got a lesson in civility, grace under pressure and general human fellowship recently from, of all people, [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 6:59am EST
    by Don Surber

  • CNN’s scoop on Menugate

    Number of comments: 15
    CNN, the least-watch cable news channel in America, has the story that will break the White House wide open. No, it was not that Van Jones is a Maoist and a 9/11 Truther. Fox News broke that. No, it was not that Anita Dunn is a Maoist. Fox News broke that, too. No, [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 12:20am EST
    by Don Surber

  • Wal-Mart beats union — in Canada

    Number of comments: 5
    The Supreme Court of Canada has “endorsed the view that no legislation obliges an employer to remain in business,” and ruled that Wal-Mart indeed can close a store after its employees unionized. The cort voted 6-3 in upholding two lower court rulings that said Walmart did not break Quebec’s labor laws [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 9:59pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • BlogsLucianneLoves.com

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    Mark this link down: BlogsLucianneLoves.com. Don loves ‘em too. If you lose the addy, it is on the blogroll. [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 8:59pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Ahnuld owes the IRS

    Number of comments: 10
    The rumors of Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger joining the Obama administration might be true. He already has gone Geithner. TMZ reported: “According to documents filed in L.A. County Superior Court, Arnold Schwarzenegger owes the IRS $39,047 from 2004 and $40,016 from 2005.” Impeach the hypocrite already. [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 7:55pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Gatecrashers met Obama

    Number of comments: 15
    The photo. Well sure. Why not? They met Ambassador Arun Singh. This is not a little joke. This is a security breach. Heads. Should. Roll. The Associated Press report: WASHINGTON — A White House official says the Virginia couple who attended a state dinner without an invitation met President Barack Obama in the receiving line. Michaele and Tareq Salahi [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 7:01pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • News Max: Climategate includes Obama’s science czar

    Number of comments: 15
    Czars? Barack Obama is the czar. I prefer calling them community organizers. But News Max reported: “The director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Dr. John P. Holdren, is a key player in the Climategate e-mails flap, which is shaping up as the biggest scandal in the [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 6:09pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Daily scoreboard

    Number of comments: 13
    1. The nation’s retailers opened their doors before dawn in an effort to get people to buy, buy, buy, as a nation that is $1.3 trillion in debt to the Chinese was encouraged to run up more debt to buy products that are no longer made in America but rather [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 4:59pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Bureaucrats stop green projects

    Number of comments: 12
    The San Francisco Chronicle reported today: “Delays have hit more than half of the big solar, wind and geothermal energy projects under development throughout the state, according to a recent government report… As a result, California probably won’t meet its goal of getting 20 percent of its electricity from renewable [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 3:12pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Gallup: 59% say try 9/11 terrorists at Gitmo, not NYC

    Number of comments: 13
    Gallup reported today: “By 59% to 36%, more Americans believe accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed should be tried in a military court, rather than in a civilian criminal court. Most Republicans and independents favor holding the trial in a military court, while the slight majority of Democrats disagree.” Now [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 10:01am EST
    by Don Surber

  • ACORN loses backers in Pelosi-land

    Number of comments: 15
    “The troubles of the nation’s largest community organizing organization, ACORN, are being felt in the liberal Bay Area, where there is normally no shortage of supporters of the group’s efforts to provide free tax help and other services to low-income residents and people of color,” reported Joe Garofoli of the [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 7:59am EST
    by Don Surber

  • Thanksgiving Boobage

    Number of comments: 4
    Denny is known for his NSFW “Saturday Boobage” of young ladies who cannot find their shirts. He outdid himself with a bonus boobage on Thursday. [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 7:39am EST
    by Don Surber

  • England’s Hospital of Death

    Number of comments: 9
    Just in time for the American “debate” on Obamacare comes the National Health Service scandal at Basildon Hospital, Essex, England, where the Government’s Care Quality Commission inspectors found filthy conditions — and 71 related deaths in the last year. “Government investigators had rated the Basildon University Hospital as ‘good’ in October. [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 11:19pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Democratic congressman opposes Gitmo move — because it would upset the Muslims

    Number of comments: 9
    Today’s advertisement for term limits is 17-term congressman Democrat Ike Skelton of Missouri. He heads the House Armed Services Committee. He wrote Defense Secretary Robert Gates to protest the proposal to move Gitmo detainees to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. It might upset Muslims. “I have strong indications that, if detainees from Guantanamo were to be [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 10:32pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Dubai is (still) going broke

    Number of comments: 3
    On Oct 11, the Times of London reported — and I duly posted — on Dubai going broke. I was promptly was told I am all wet. The bourses (exchanges) were at an 11-month high. Um, yes, someone ran up the price to make a killing before the fall. Tonight, the Times of [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 9:49pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Noonan: “No one seems to love Mr. Obama now”

    Number of comments: 15
    Peggy Noonan believed she could join the cool kids by backing Barack Obama and dissing Sarah Palin. Today she wrote: I was reminded of something I began noticing a few months ago in bipartisan crowds. I would ask Democrats how they thought the president was doing. In the past they would extol, [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 8:29pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Gatecrashers embarrass Obama worldwide

    Number of comments: 13
    Tareq and Michaele Sahali crashed the White House state dinner on Tuesday and became international stars. Their photo used is with Indian Ambassador Arun Singh, not Vice President Joe Biden. The egg, though, is clearly on the president’s face. From Radio Programas del Perú: “La seguridad de la Casa Blanca no fue [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 8:07pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Russian TV covers Climategate — American TV ignores it

    Number of comments: 15
    It is official U.S. government policy that the materialistic sins of man are causing hell on Earth. That’s what global warming amounts to. We sin. We burn in hell on Earth. This is based on a computer model — that you cannot see — but trust the federal government. Just like WMD. But this month, [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 5:59pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Daily scoreboard

    Number of comments: 11
    1. Millions of Americans stayed home from work today to celebrate the 31st anniversary of Gordon Jump delivering the greatest line ever on American television. GOOD. 2. Glenn Reynolds: “It’s amazing the extent to which people who count themselves ‘progressive’ seem to still live in the 1950s.” Quote of the day. GOOD. 3. Buffalo News: [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 4:59pm EST
    by Don Surber

  • Stimulus 2.0 — because so many phantom congressional districts were left behind

    Number of comments: 10
    There was no sequel to “Howard the Duck.” The Rosie O’Donnell variety hour never had a second show. And new New Coke was never made. But that is how private enterprise works. From the makers of the $787 billion stimulus that was supposed to prevent 9% unemployment comes: Stimulus 2.0. “I hope we don’t play [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 3:58pm EST
    by Don Surber
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