Bravo Zulu, Navy, Squids – 5, Pirates – 0, from NBC News:
NAIROBI, Kenya – U.S. naval forces said Thursday they’ve captured five pirates after exchanging fire with them, sinking their skiff and confiscating a mother ship.
Job
Trait: The competency to raise your family alone, without extended family nearby.
I have a running list of “how to tell you’ve met a military mom.” At the top, is the tell-tale sign of finding out that every
In a battle of wits between the The father/daughter tag team of Dick and Liz Cheney and the entire Obama administration, it’s easy to see who comes out on top:
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- POPULISM? Frankly, I have always had my difficulties with political populism. But it strikes me is nothing shy of hilarious that
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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This is the “Burgers and Fries and Cherry Pies” Edition. Ah, Charley Pride.
- NEW WORLD ORDER: Does anyone remember when that
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I’ll probably get in trouble with Eric for even mentioning the name of the twit Meghan McCain, but I am bored and feel like swatting a gnat. Miss McCain notes in the Daily Beast:
So Michelle Malkin successfully rounds
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This is the First Dept Edition
- From our Dept of Intemperate Thoughts: So, now that Whalen has (wrongly, I think) apologized for
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I commented the other day, about Billy Beck’s writing on the anniversary of his father’s death. As I told him offline, in other correspondence, he has the (I think, rare) gift for casting the thoughts surrounding those events into
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This is the “Proposal” Edition
- Spin City: You can be reasonably assured of the Republicans pointing up the failure of the so-called
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This is the Teleprompter Edition.
We have written a virus that only works on Teleprompters, as demonstrated here, on the President’s prompters
As Eric rambled:
The Book: You’ve heard about Obama’s half billion dollar kids book deal, right? How many copies are being sold to school districts on the taxpayer dime, I wonder? And he didn’t even write the bloody
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
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Word from the Boston Pheonix, this morning:
This morning, Massachusetts State Senator Dianne Wilkerson was arrested on charges of attempted extortion and wire fraud after an 18-month investigation by the FBI. The FBI alleges that Wilkerson took bribes from
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- Yeah, yeah, yeah… I know, Colin Powell. All the rage over the weekend. I don’t think there’s much argument against the idea that there’s a
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