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The full spin on the alleged U.S “pullout” of Iraqi cities was on full display a few moments ago when Gen. Ray “head like a bullet” Odierno lumbered through a very brief interview with FOX News Sunday, the first, I am sure, of many such interchanges with military officials leading up to the June 30 [...]
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I guess I don’t get it even though I was saddened when Elvis died. Two TAC blog items (admittedly Kara’s was somewhat scathing) attracting twenty comments on Michael Jackson the self-styled King of Pop. Is there a more bizarre figure in recent American pop culture? Dangling the baby out the window, a walking exhibit of plastic surgery [...]
Filed under: Culture
President Obama issued a statement today on the United Nations International Day in Support of Torture Victims. I wonder if Obama’s ghostwriter was wearing hip boots when this statement was put together. The opening of his statement could have been recycled from the George W. Bush years: “Torture is contrary to the founding documents of [...]
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CBS reports, “The White House hasn’t yet decided whether President Obama should issue a statement on the death of Michael Jackson.” A 1984 letter from Ronald Reagan to the singer makes a strong case for executive restraint. After Jackson’s hair caught fire while filming a Pepsi commercial, Reagan wrote, “All over America, millions of people [...]
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After my recent blog rant against Sarkozy, a kind French woman has taken the trouble to put me right with the following reply: What’s wrong with Sarko is that he is very short and walks like Charlie Chaplin trying to catch up with Hardy. Nothing wrong in wanting to dissuade every French woman from wearing [...]
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Readers of this blog may enjoy Joseph Stromberg’s latest Freeman article on the land question.
Filed under: Magazines
Why should the people get something through government–that is, at the point of a gun–simply because they want it? The rest of my weekly TGIF is here.
Filed under: Congress
Looking for my wallet and car keysI feel compelled to share this gem.
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — In just a few weeks time, California hits the wall. And Americans should take a good, long look at the fiscal and social wreck of the Golden Land, because California is at a place to which all of America is heading. In May, when five fund-raising proposals were put on the [...]
Filed under: Economics, Immigration, Politics
From la Frum: I’ll be curious to see whether one – just one! – of the many media sources that have condemned the Bush administration’s terrorist surveillance program will deplore the publication by Reuters of Mark Sanford’s love e-mails. What on earth does the publication of this embarrassing and hurtfully intimate material add to a [...]
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