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This is an actual letter sent to a man named Ryan DeVries regarding a pond on his property. It was sent by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Quality, State of Pennsylvania . This guy ‘ s response is hilarious, but

“One off” theory somewhat off, from Jake Tapper, ABC News:

In his first Sunday morning interview, Attorney General Eric Holder revealed that the Pakistani Taliban was behind Faisal Shahzad’s attempted bombing of Times Square last week.

“We’ve now

Hmnn, Naureen S. Malik, Wall Street Journal:

A small oil refinery just southeast of downtown San Antonio is on fire following an explosion, leading to a one-mile evacuation, a local fire department spokeswoman said.

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An 18-wheeler that was

I note Mark Steyn, this morning:

Hillary Clinton, America’s secretary of state, was in Canada last week. She criticized Ottawa for not inviting aboriginal groups to a meeting on the Arctic, and for not including the facilitation of abortion in

Henry Waxman is the new Ken Lay.  It has  been said the an honest man has nothing to fear.  The demorats are sweating bullets.   The Obami fear, honest accounting, from the Washington Examiner

Dems fear honest Obamacare accounting

Remember

Israel attacked, from Haaretz:

A Qassam rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck an open field in a kibbutz near Ashkelon on Sunday, just three days after a foreign worker was killed by a rocket in the northern

Rush Limbaugh uses the term ‘retarded” a lot,  video:

Hat tip video: Media Spatters.

Tim Shriver, Special Olympics, soils his nappies, from Ben Smith, Politico:

But the Special Olympics, which organized a delegation that ultimately accepted Emanuel’s apology and

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The Obama administration has confirmed one of  the most controversial assertions of The Bell Curve.   Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray published TBC in 1994.   From a summary of TBC, by Brian Beatty et al:

Raising Cognitive Ability –

Barack Obama is making history.   He has achieved the greatest presidential communication failure since Jimmy Carter’s malaise speech.

Video:

Charles Krauthammer,  Washington Post:

Any government can through laxity let someone slip through the cracks. But a government that refuses

Not in my wildest dreams would I believe that a US official could be so stupid as to say something like this in the face of unrelenting facts.

And intriguing enough is that it happened on CNN, whose reporting tends