Well I never said that Mrs. B.J. Clinton the Smartest Woman in the World. Did you? The Secretary of State, who is never ready for three AM phone call, get smacked down by her infamous reset button, from Paul Richter

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davidl on November 24th, 2011

Word to the wise, change is not a synonym for improvement, see frying pan, fire, from Kim Sengupta and Solomon Hughes,Independent (UK):

Thousands of people, including women and children, are being illegally detained by rebel militias in Libya, according

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Eric Florack on July 18th, 2011

Hickory Run, PA– I’m at my stop for the night, along Interstate 80. This is actually a favorite stop of mine… not for the facilities…. they need some help, actually… but because it’s very near to a place I load

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davidl on June 9th, 2011

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With the departure of chief economic adviser Austan Goolsbee, that’s the number of members from the original Obama economic team still working for the administration, not quite three years into the first term.

Rats, say goodbye to the ship of

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Lessons for life, Don’t step on Superman’s cape and don’t piss in the girls’ room, unless you are really a girl.

Great quotes in non-history:

I will find the real killer or killers, if have to look on every

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davidl on April 14th, 2011

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POTUS speech reax:

From Nice Deb:

It was a grotesque and dishonest speech.

From Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post:

The president speaks, says very little

As I and many others expected, Obama today gave a speech about nothing much

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davidl on February 26th, 2011

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Obami stand mute, from Dana Milbank, RCP:

WASHINGTON — There have been worse times to start a new job in Washington. When Abraham Lincoln arrived in the capital 150 years ago this week, for example, the South had

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davidl on November 22nd, 2010

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If these completely arbitrary naked scans and gropings of American citizens by the TSA could actually protect us from terrorists, then perhaps we would be willing to go along with them. But surely it has already occurred to the terrorists

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davidl on May 4th, 2010

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Obama dithered while the Gulf burned, a time line from Doug Ross:

Perhaps if the oil breached the Louisiana levees, then caught on fire, and then turned New Orleans into a Dresden-like inferno, the President would stop campaigning

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Eric Florack on April 18th, 2010

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M.  Gates has warned in a secret three-page memorandum to top White House officials that the United States does not have an effective long-range policy for dealing with Iran‘s steady progress toward nuclear capability,

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davidl on April 17th, 2010

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Mrs Clinton still stuck on stupid, Telegraph(UK):

The US Secretary of State urged “bold leadership” from all sides to resolve one of the world’s most intractable disputes.

Speaking at a dinner attended by the ambassadors of Israel and

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davidl on March 18th, 2010

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White House flood of misinformation, Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review:

Talking Points Memo, living up to its name, is providing the White House’s talking points on health care. Obamacare is to be voted on amid a final orgy

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davidl on March 4th, 2010

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Rat’s losing the Fat Vote? Micheal Moore has crisis of faith, from Sahil Kapur, Raw Story:

Just over a year ago, Michael Moore vigorously campaigned for President Obama and the Democratic Party. But watching them jettison the public option

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General Alexander M. Haig, United State Army, died today at age 85,  from Mark Feeney, Boston Globe:

Alexander M. Haig Jr., who as secretary of state declared “I’m in control here” when Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981, and

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