Coherence from Cohen, some sobering questions from Richard Cohen no Egypt, from the Washington Post:
Egypt’s problems are immense. It has a population it cannot support, a standard of living that is stagnant and a self-image as leader
The the big news story for the last couple of weeks has been the IPO of General Motors . They managed to raise something on the order of $20 billion last week selling literally millions of shares owned by the
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If Sonia Sotomayor were a horse, thny would shoot her. Ok, Sotomayor was never going to convince Rush Limbaugh to support her, but her weak and unconvincing testimony hoa lost support from Eva Rodriquez, Washington Post:
I’m surprised and
A great piece from Mary Grabar at Pajamas Media today. Here’s a bit of it:
But those streets, once havens for displaced persons, soon were destroyed by the utopian plans of collectivists and their agitators who urged the
Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble.
This is the “Yet Another Truck Stop” Edition
That’s two Truck Stops in as many weeks, I know. I’m not sure what
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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
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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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(From The Conservative Reader)
Well, it took almost 3 months, but Congress finally passed the bill Saturday, on older version of which was passed by the House in May, after some considerable back and forth between the Senate
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After the downright stupid USSC ruling of earlier today, there was something that didn’t sit quite right with me about the ruling from a historical perspective, that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. I couldn’t get it out
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