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Wal-Mart Becomes Obama-Mart

Orit Sklar at the Daily Caller: Michelle Obama and nutrition czar Sam Kass have taken the Food Police nationwide. Last week Wal-Mart announced that it is joining the first lady’s anti-obesity campaign by reducing the salt and sugar content of the food it sells. As perfectly staged as Thursday’s White House-Wal-Mart press conference was, it […]

Glenn Beck Wants You to Threaten Violence Against Harmless Academics

That’s what liberals have been claiming. The Nation published several nasty e-mails professor Frances Fox Piven received because she has become “the target of a relentless campaign to demonize her.” This accusation got repeated in a New York Times story with a scary headline: Spotlight From Glenn Beck Brings a CUNY Professor Threats And that leads […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 1.25.11

TOP NEWS Deadly Blast At Domededovo Airport “Well-Planned Terrorist Attack”: Medvedev Obama Under Scrutiny for Clues To Deficit In SOTU Speech Illinois Appellate Court Tosses Rahm Emanuel Off Ballot POLITICS Loughner Pleads Not Guilty To Arizona Shootings Cantor Nixes Bankruptcy For States Obama Climate Advisor Latest To Depart Staff Texas Sanctuary City Bills Vague On […]

Blogger Reaches 1 Million Hits; Celebrates by Linking Entire Freaking Blogosphere

Sam Foster at Left Coast Rebel did a crapload of linking here, and points out that it was Keith Olbermann’s split with MSNBC that put them across the million-hit threshold. So when Keith Olbermann gets elected to the Senate, he should remember to thank Left Coast Rebel. I was talking to my buddy Chris Cassone today and when he mentioned […]

Nebraska Nullification?

Our friends at the Red State Eclectic blog get quoted in a story in The Hill about an educational effort: Last fall, the Nebraska Campaign for Liberty distributed copies of Tom Woods’s book Nullification to 44 of the 49 members of the Legislature. They followed up with discussion with some other senators about the kind of things […]

Media Shocked — Shocked! — To Discover That Ann Marie Buerkle Is Pro-Life

Da Tech Guy and The Lonely Conservative call attention to the latest “news” from those pillars of journalistic objectivity at the Syracuse Post-Standard: After steering clear of abortion politics during her campaign last year, U.S. Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle is now seizing chances in her first month in office to change federal laws as “an […]

Court to Rahm Emanuel: ‘F*** You!’

It’s the Chicago Way! Rahm Emanuel was thrown off the ballot for mayor of Chicago today by an appellate court panel, a stunning blow to the fund-raising leader in the race. An appellate panel ruled 2-1 that Emanuel did not meet the residency standard to run for mayor. Appellate justices Thomas Hoffman and Shelvin Louise […]

They Got the Gold Mine …

. . . and taxpayers get the shaft: Since the government took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taxpayers have spent more than $160 million defending the mortgage finance companies and their former top executives in civil lawsuits accusing them of fraud. . . . Since the government took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, […]

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