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Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
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NEW JERSEY: Thousands take part in ‘tea party’ protest against high taxes in Morristown. TEXAS: Sen. Cornyn booed at Capitol “tea party”. “‘You’re the problem,’ a crowd member hollered.” Also, Thousands attend America’s Tea Party protest at Southfork Ranch. NEVADA: Fourth of July Marked with Tea Party in Reno: “The tea party, in [...]
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Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
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THE HOUSING COLLAPSE: As far as I can tell, it’s caused in no small party by idiots. I’ve learned this by watching HGTV. On the one hand, I saw a rerun of a show on people buying their first house the other night. It was from 2007. The buying couple paid pretty [...]
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Wonkette (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
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Nutty Palin spokeslady Meg Stapleton was in New York when Nutty Palin suddenly resigned as governor of Alaska, the state that elected her as governor two-and-a-half years ago. Listen to Meg make NO SENSE as a baffled Anderson Cooper asks her again and again, "Lady why are you talking about ...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
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On the morning of August 29, 2008, minutes after the stunning news of the Vice Presidential nomination, I wrote a post entitled "What Is McCain...
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inca kola news (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
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Cute huh? Enrique Ortez (for it is he) Meet Enrique Ortez, the man given the job of Chancellor of Honduras (basically foreign minister) by the usurper Micheletti. In an interview on Honduras TV last night he said the above about President Obama and a whole lot more. Here's a translation of this report in the El Salvador daily, LaPagina : Following the Coup D'Etat over José Manuel Zelaya, the de facto...
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Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | yesterday
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If the Obama fiscal boost program has its anticipated impact on the economy as its main effects take hold over the next year, it is still half the size of the program it now looks like we need. Only if it magically turns out to be twice as strong as we think--only with simple Keynesian multipliers of 3 rather than 1.5--is it the right size. And, of course, if the situation deteriorates further we will...
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About Last Night (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
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On Friday NPR broadcast a story by John McDonough about the last great reunion of veterans of the American Civil...
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Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE looks at California’s problems. But Chris Reed at the Union-Tribune notes that they forgot to mention public employee unions. “There is a reference to same-sex unions. There is a reference to Gavin Newsom dealing with the SEIU in San Francisco. But the CTA? The prison guards union? [...]
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One Detroit Network (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
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Today is the 4th of July. In other words Independence Day. We must reflect on our nation's birth. But I am declaring another type of independence today. Far too often we cannot think for ourselves. One of the major factors of poverty is ignorance . To many, the word ignorant is an insult. What we mean is simply that some people do not know some things; there is no shame in that. In urban communities...
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Gizmowatch (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
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I very recently bought one of those regular red Swiss Knifes for myself. Haven’t had a real opportunity to use it in the wilds yet, therefore 'am planning a trip very soon, but I know its capabilities real well. Given to the craze, this Victorinox...
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Eschaton (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
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MooPig Wisdom (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
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Sheep Shrink just like your sweater in the Dryer -- Wire Report says: RFTM by Pat Darnell and the EAGLE I r ead the local newspaper, The Eagle , for Friday July 3rd, Bryan/College Station, in anticipation of Happy News for the Fourth Holiday. But, of course, I am drawn immediately to an I nternational Wire Report ... ever do that? I also read Magazines backwards, or back to front. Oh that might explain...
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Balanced News Blog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
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A top Iranian cleric said Friday that some of the detained Iranian staffers of the British Embassy in Tehran will be put on trial , and he accused Britain of a role in instigating widespread protests that erupted over the country's disputed presidential election.
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Calculated Risk (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
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From Don Lee at the LA Times: Another wave of foreclosures is poised to strike Just as the nation's housing market has begun showing signs of stabilizing, another wave of foreclosures is poised to strike, possibly as early as this summer, inflicting new punishment on families, communities and the still-troubled national economy. ... Just how big the foreclosure wave will be is unclear. But loan defaults...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
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With respect to many of the Palinologists below, I think they're getting way too hepatomantic over the entrails. As a political move for anything other than the 2010 Senate race, today's announcement is a disaster. And I'm not sure it's a plus for the Senate - and, even if it were, the manner and timing suggest it was not a professionally planned event and therefore is unlikely to have any grand strategy...