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Newt’s Big Night
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John King questioning his marital arrangements plus Rick Santorum questioning his mental stability, adds up to a big win for Newt in the Palmetto State!
Mahervelous Performance
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Tebow is the Family Circus of football – hated by sophisticates, loved by millions. Sophisticate-in-Chief, Bill Maher, took it on the chin by the numbers.
Christopher Hitchens, RIP
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My favorite atheist has moved on to meet his maker. He deserves extra credit for his independent mind, brilliant wit, courage, and humanity.
Here’s a link, sent by another Hitchens fan, to a speech he made to the Christian Academy in Texas.
“Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.”
Civility
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James Hoffa only wants to take the S.O.B. s out, Maxine Waters wants to take the Tea Party to hell .
Rebuttal
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Nancy Pelosi is offended that Republicans won’t tear themselves away from the game tonight to complain about Obama’s speech.
Tea Party version 1.1
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Aside from being jihadists, hostage takers, and terrorists, some say that the Tea Party version 1.1 (version 1.0 was racist) has no interest in governing.
Slapstick Scandal
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Mrs. Murdoch slapped silly her husband’s Parliament pie assailant yesterday. No word on whether the guy smuggled the fully assembled shaving creme concoction in his pants or if he assembled it on site. In any case he managed to achieve the impossible – not by outsmarting security – but by turning Murdoch into a victim, for a moment.
David Cameron is now calling for more media regulation. Here’s an LA Times editorial.
World Cup
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Is soccer the new tennis? This from USA Today: The women’s World Cup outdrew any ESPN soccer broadcast ever with 13.5 million viewers for a 7.4 national rating. Last year’s U.S. Algeria men’s game drew a 4.0 rating. The most watched game on any network was the 1999 women’s final with a 11.4 rating.
Furious
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Operation Fast and Furious should make you furious. Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms ran a gun running program into Mexico. They expected the guns to lead them to Mexican drug kingpins. One of those guns was used to murder border agent Brian Terry in Arizona.
Ten million dollars for Project Gun Runner, the parent of Fast and Furious, was included in the stimulus bill. Guess you really do need to read the bill to find out what’s in it.
For an additional amount for ‘State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’, $40,000,000, for competitive grants to provide assistance and equipment to local law enforcement along the Southern border and in High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas to combat criminal narcotics activity stemming from the Southern border, of which $10,000,000 shall be transferred to ‘Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Salaries and Expenses’ for the ATF Project Gunrunner.
Media Matters, which is to Fox News as Hamas is to Israel, disputes this. They claim the money wasn’t spent in Arizona so it’s all a Fox Fib.
Presser
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The president’s press conference ran about an hour today. It seemed like each answer ran that long. The thrust was 1.) the Republicans better do their job and raise taxes and 2.) Malia and Sasha are more responsible than Congress. Number 2 I agree with.