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Bowling Giveth, Bowling Taketh Away
I have a theory about that campaign stop almost exactly a year ago, where President Barack Obama bowled miserably at Pleasant Valley Bowl in Altoona, Pennsylvania. For better or worse, most of the time a black candidate doesn’t have to worry about convincing voters that he’s got some basic coordination and rhythm. Since Obama already…
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Fire Geithner First
“I don’t know karate—but I know cr-azy.” —James Brown The Washington Post’s Steven Pearlstein finally said the F-word. Fraud. While Congress and the Treasury mull over approaches to the financial crisis with exotic names like “cram down,” “claw back” and “disgorgement,” and tax AIG executives “1000 percent” on their $160 million in bonuses, Pearlstein posed…
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Steele Trap
Michael Steele probably saw Blazing Saddles once upon a time and then envisioned himself as the hero, Sheriff Bart: saving the humble citizens of Rock-Ribbed Republican Ridge before riding off into the sunset on his trusty steed, tipping his 10-gallon hat. But perhaps Steele would have preferred to skip over the part where Sheriff Bart…
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Legalize It?
Today Vice President Joe Biden announced Seattle police chief Gil Kerlikowske will coordinate national policy as Director of the Office of National Drug Control—otherwise known as America’s Drug Czar. Biden said, “I’ve been a little disappointed the last eight years it hasn’t gotten the attention that it should have gotten. But that’s about to change.”…
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Bum Rush the Show
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The Political Decline of the White Male?
It must be pretty disconcerting to be part of the white male political class these days. Nancy Pelosi is the first woman speaker of the House; Michael Steele is the African-American chairman of the Republican National Committee. Bobby Jindal, an Indian-American governor, “delivered” the official Republican response to the first congressional address by the first…
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Can Conservatives Even Hear Themselves Talking?
Why, when there are already well-established fabulists on the far right, do more and more of them compete for the same job? NATIONAL REVIEW’s Jonah Goldberg took a quick dig at Obama for starching high school drop-outs in his congressional address. Goldberg asks, “why is it okay to question the patriotism of high school drop-outs…
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Jindal All The Way
So, this morning I was listening to my local morning radio program, and a caller compared Gov. Bobby Jindal’s sing-songy delivery of the Republican response last night to Kenneth (Jack McBrayer) from 30 Rock (the two also appear to have the same barber). That’s probably a little unkind to Jindal, but it’s also pretty accurate…
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Is Detroit Too Black to Fail?
A couplet… Detroit is the blackest city in America. And after witnessing New Orleans, another venerable majority-black city, go down for the count in 2005, by way of government indifference in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it behooves President Barack Obama to do everything he can to help save Motown and its auto industry. This…
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Taming the Party Animals
If you’re a through-and-through progressive, or maybe even the Speaker of the House, and you’re still counting on a far-left agenda from President Obama, you should think again. If you’re part of the Republican leadership, or a maybe a rank-and-file Rush Limbaugh “Dittohead,” waiting for Obama to enact a flurry of “socialist” regulations on the…
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