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White Christmas: Three Inches of Snow Global Warming Forecast for Atlanta

Isn’t climate change wonderful? A strong storm system churning its way through the desert Southwest early Thursday will bring metro Atlanta a good chance for a white Christmas, with accumulating snow possible as far south as the Columbus and Macon areas, forecasters said. . . . “Across the north Georgia mountains, the precipitation should fall […]

Save the Bats!

They’re not cute and cuddly like baby seals, but we don’t want to kill them, do we? Conservationists filed suit Wednesday to block the start of Maryland’s first industrial wind project, contending the turbines built atop the state’s highest mountain in Garrett County threaten to harm federally protected rare bats. Making good on a threat […]

Pensions, Bankruptcy . . . and Racism?

Instapundit links to a New York Times story about the failure of the pension plan for municipal workers in Pritchard, Alabama. One thing that intrigued me about the story is something New York Times reporters Michael Cooper and Mary Williams Walsh barely brushed up against, the elephant in the room, race: The situation in Prichard […]

Doing a ‘Macaca’ on Haley Barbour

If you’re not from the Deep South and don’t personally know people who lived through the civil rights era — or if you’re a liberal just trying to smear a conservative Republican from Mississippi — it seems perfectly fair to play the kind of dirty game that Matthew Yglesias is playing with Haley Barbour. Yglesias […]

Did Obama’s Election Cause Outbreak of Racist Grafitti in Philadelphia?

That’s what is claimed by an attorney representing plaintiffs in a civil-rights lawsuit: Several black men who were contracted to work at the Sunoco refinery in Philadelphia were forced to clean up racial slurs written about them on bathroom walls, the men claim in a federal civil rights lawsuit. . . . The six plaintiffs, […]

MELTDOWN: Wisconsin GOP Chair’s RNC Bid Destroyed by Stimulus Scandal

Wisconsin Republican Party chairman Reince Priebus was, until tonight, a contender to replace Michael Steele as chairman for the Republican National Committee. But Priebus’s evident involvement in soliciting federal stimulus funds for his law firm’s clients emerged Tuesday as a scandal that will likely destroy whatever chance he had, as Dan Riehl explains at Big Government: […]

Airport Shuttle Bus Driver Named ‘Muhammad’ Goes on Hit-and-Run Spree; ‘No Indication of Motive,’ Police Say

Probably just having a bad day or something: The driver of a speeding SuperShuttle van left a trail of damaged vehicles as he fled at least six hit-and-run crashes along Interstate 66 and the Dulles Access Road on Monday morning, police said. Virginia State Police, Arlington County police and Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority police were […]

VIDEO: Florida School Board Shooting

Following up on our earlier report: The man who is seen on the video trying to talk Clay Duke out of it is school superintendent Bill Husfelt: Duke talked about how his wife had been fired by the school system. But Husfelt and the members of the board told Duke they did not remember his […]

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