Senator Roland Burris is claiming credit for a provision in Harry Reid’s “manager’s amendment,” unveiled Saturday morning, that could funnel money to ACORN through the health care bill.On December 9, Burris, an Illinois Democrat, pledged that he would filibuster a health care bill without a public option. “If we have to get 60 and it [...]
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Jacob Laksin | December 22, 2009 | Posted in
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I have long held MSNBC host Ed Schultz’s erratic behavior stems from his political and professional status: he envies those whose careers surpass his. As David Swindle noted in the roll-out of this series, “Ben’s posts on Schultz are collected and all future articles will be collected here under the series name ‘Genius Envy,’ a [...]
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Ben Johnson | December 21, 2009 | Posted in
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I have a new article at RightBias.com:
Uncle Obama has gotten a hold of your credit card. And he’s amassing charges on it that – you – not he – are liable for. You can call the fraud line, you can call the police, you can call any politician or government agency, and they [...]
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Nancy Morgan | December 20, 2009 | Posted in
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The more I think about Media Matters taking credit for the “firing” of Lou Dobbs, the stupider the situation gets.
Even if Media Matters is responsible for Dobbs’ departure (which I doubt), how pathetic and ineffectual does that make them look?
The George Soros Steno Pool are always the first to criticize Glenn Beck for supposedly trying [...]
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Kathy Shaidle | December 19, 2009 | Posted in
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Today, leftist magazine TIME announced the “Person of the Year” 2009. Although I’m sure they took several conservatives into consideration, the title went to…
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
So what did Bernanke do to deserve this honor? Well, not much, really, except for, you know, prolonging the economic crisis and drastically increasing the size of the [...]
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Vasko Kohlmayer | December 14, 2009 | Posted in
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Since I gave him so much grief for accepting the prize in the first place, I have to give the president credit for the speech itself. He faced the impossible task of having to give multiple addresses at once: A speech his European hosts expected to hear from a Nobel Prize winner; a speech that [...]
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Jacob Laksin | December 10, 2009 | Posted in
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What will keep the whole system up? What will bring it down?
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Vasko Kohlmayer | December 9, 2009 | Posted in
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To read part 1, click here:
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As the economy continues to slip towards the cliff-edge, financial institutions are becoming ever-more skittish about their bottom lines. In the December 5 Naples (Fl) Daily News, an attorney who represents homeowners’ associations takes off the gloves and lists all the remedies available to creditors [...]
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John Nampion | December 7, 2009 | Posted in
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I wish I could take credit for that line, but it was the fellow behind the now-defunct blog Beautiful Atrocities.
Sadly, I also can’t lay claim to the word “gaslighting,” a “form of intimidation or psychological abuse in which false information is presented to the victim, making them doubt their own memory and perception.”
Jamison Foser at [...]
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