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More violence from illegal immigrants in Arizona, from Arizona Republic:

A Pinal County Sheriff’s deputy was shot in the stomach Friday by an undocumented immigrant off Interstate 8, according sheriff’s officials.

Lt. Tami Villar told 12 News that

So who is the Tea Bagger? I won tries to muddle the message, from USA Today:

President Obama said many Tea Party followers have “mainstream legitimate concerns,” but their movement is built around a “core group” of opponents who

Dodd Harris over at OTB makes the excellent point that:

At the core, corporations are just human constructs. We invented them to further our own purposes. They exist as concepts rather than physical objects, but have no more or less

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• THE OBAMACARE FALLOUT: The Politico’s David Rodgers scored an interview with Queen Nancy yesterday. It’s posted here. Says Rodgers:
  

  Even before

An interesting “Mia Culpa” from the New York Times this morning, in the form of an article from Clark Hoyt, The Times “Public Editor”

ON Sept. 12, an Associated Press article inside The Times reported that the Census Bureau had

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• First, some Housekeeping: We’ve upgraded the WordPress Core software over the weekend to version

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• From our Dept of Intemperate Thoughts: So, now that Whalen has (wrongly, I think) apologized for

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• Charges against Countrywide?  As we go to press, word is coming off the wires that

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• The Honeymoon is officially over:  Jennifer Rubin:
  

  The jig is up.

  The stimulus is a

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• Flailing About: You know, watching this Pelosi thing is rather like watching someone who is drowning,

Arthur Brooks, at  The Wall Street Journal suggests that there’s a bit of a culture war going on about the future of capitalism.  The headline suggests that “The Real Culture War Is Over Capitalism “

There is a major cultural

Somehow, I ended up on the mailing list of the New York GOP.  Found this in my mail last night:

“Since its founding, the Republican Party has stood for the time honored values and ideals of opportunity, personal responsibility, accountability

OK, I know that by now a lot of you either saw or read though this speech of Obama’s, and so it’s old news. But I’ve seen nobody rip through this thing point by point. I can understand why… with