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LIVE AT FIVE – 10.21.10

TOP NEWS Ninth Circuit Overrules Judge Phillips, Stays Order Striking Down DADT Decision leaves gays, military in limbo; Holder forced to defend law Obama wants repealed Fourth Debate Between Illinois Gubernatorial Candidates Brings Social Issues Into Play GOP candidate Brady repeatedly ties Governor Quinn to disgraced ex-governor Blagojevich, establishes pro-life, pro-RKBA credentials Senate Races Tighten […]

Democrat Demolition Demonstrated

by Smitty (via Dr. Melissa) Frank J. delivers the imagery: So the Democrats sucked. But not just plain old, usual politician sucked, but epic levels of suck where it’s hard to find an analogue in human history that conveys the same level of suckitude. It was sheer incompetence plus arrogance — and those things do […]

The WaPo Looks Really Bad Over Christine O’Donnell

WaPo, As a subscriber, one hopes that the correct people are held accountable for this debacle: http://patterico.com/2010/10/20/wapoap-caught-revising-the-o%E2%80%99donnell-story-without-issuing-a-correction/ Suggestion: man up, do the correct thing, and give Christine O’Donnell a proper interview, post-haste. The media, in general, is engaged in a McCarthyite war against a lawful candidate, and the WaPo ought to be extinguishing, rather than […]

Room Under The Bus For As Many Elites As Required

by Smitty Does the Progressive wing, breast, and thigh of the GOP not get it? Belvedere reports that Senator Gregg is making squishy noises in the vicinity of the Depends at the thought of repealing ObamaCare. Paco points to Rush Limbaugh, emphasis mine: Well, now it’s official. The elites in the GOP want to compromise […]

Trials With Progressive Politicians Could Prove Tricky

by Smitty Instapundit notes An experimental drug developed by researchers at the University of Edinburgh reverses age-related memory decline in mice, returning their brains to a more youthful state of cognitive function. Now, if used on Lefty rats from the 111th Congress, the chance of a head ‘splosion when they recall their oath to support […]

Desperate Barney Frank Now Begging for More Democratic Baby-Killer Money

“A vote for me is a vote to save your right to destroy your inconvenient unborn children.” — Barney Frank Oh. Wait. Barney didn’t actually say that. But as Pundette says, that’s what he meant when he said this: My opponent, Sean Bielat, supports the reversal of Roe v. Wade. When asked by a reporter […]

Is Jillian Bandes Stalking Marco Rubio?

The intrepid Townhall reporter is following him all over Florida while singing silly love songs in her car: We can forgive Jillian if she seems a wee bit obsessed. Marco had us at “hello,” and few developments of the mid-term campaign are more encouraging for conservatives than the success of Rubio, who inspired the “Not One […]

Mrs. Patrick’s Tax-Funded Aide

They don’t call it Taxachusetts for nothing: Rose Arruda, who makes $55,000 a year to run [Gov. Deval] Patrick’s ribbon cuttings and speaking engagements across the state, also works on up to 52 events a year for the governor’s wife, who’s a lawyer at the prestigious Hub firm Ropes & Gray. Republicans immediately seized on […]

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