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Over at Slate today, Christopher Hitchens has a good — albeit week-late — hungover ramble about Obama’s narcissistic jokes at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and the court jestering of Wanda Sykes. Here he is on the latter:
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That’s the title of this post from the website Political Lore. Given all the attention Paul has received since Election Day of 2008, from cable news networks to Lindsay Graham, given the fact he faces a primary challenge for re-election next year in Texas and now with his son Rand Paul poised to enter the U.S. [...]
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Thanks to Jack Hunter for bringing this video clip to my attention. Graham is the worst possible face for the GOP: an unrepentant warhawk and Bush drone who is also unreliable on bread-and-butter conservative issues. The party will be in the wilderness for years to come so long as it tolerates the likes of Lindsey.
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The latest Dan Brown atrocity has hit the silver screen. Though I am myself a lapsed Catholic waiting for the Tridentine Latin mass to return in force before being born again, I find that I am offended whenever someone is out there making a buck by bashing Holy Mother the Church. “Angels and Demons” preceded the Da [...]
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Cast the British public in the role of pastor and our politicians in the role of congregation and we have a full scale revivalist meeting going on in the UK, or at least the the part of it where members of the congregation get up on the podium and confess their sins and offer sums [...]
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The single most distressing result of Barack Obama’s election is not the looting of your grandchildren’s economic prospects to pay for the new administration’s Great Lurch Forward into insolvency. It isn’t the accompanying loss of liberty. Nor is it the mass decampment of “anti-war” leftists now silent or openly supporting the escalation of the war [...]
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The British Members of Parliament expenses scandal, which Septimus reported earlier this week, just doesn’t stop. And it gets funnier and funnier. The best element is the absurdity of the items the UK’s public servants saw fit to claim: a ladies’ sweater, a $1.50 supermarket pizza, bath-robes, a junior minister’s “jaffa cake” cookies, a yoghurt [...]
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The current (May 18) issue of the magazine contains an important announcement that bears repeating for on-line readers: The American Conservative, endangered though it has been by the economic collapse, will survive. An outpouring of support from readers (and authors) heartened us to continue; that boost, plus some restructuring and an ambitious plan for fundraising, [...]
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Ron Paul’s son is running for Kentucky’s 2010 U.S. Senate seat — or at least exploring a run. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
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By reversing himself and refusing to release graphic photos of abused prisoners of war, Barack Obama has stunned liberals. They feel betrayed and abandoned by a president they put into office. On war and torture, at least, they thought Barack was one of them. He is not. Barack is not into ideology. He is into [...]
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