Oct

28

Third Parties Face a Radical Choice: Infiltration, or Extinction

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Well, it’s almost that time of year once again when we choose between the candidate who supports taking what we’ve got and financing the rest to our kids – and their kids – and their kids; and the one who wants to do the same thing, but a little slower. In almost all races, either a Republican [...]

Oct

27

Lynne Cheney Gives CNN a Smackdown

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Dick Cheney’s wife Lynne, appearing with Wolf Blitzer on CNN, stuck honey down CNN’s pants and released the bees. Commenting on CNN’s decision to be a propaganda puppet for terrorists, Cheney asked, “Do you want us to win?” “Journalistic integrity,” combined with at least a rudimentary understanding of public relations, suppressed any inclination CNN suits might [...]

Oct

27

My Brush With Psychic John Edward, Tonight on The Glenn Beck Show

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As many of you know, I write for Glenn Beck’s magazine, Fusion. Glenn has a nationally syndicated radio show and also has a terrific TV show on every night (7 e.s.t., repeated at 9 and midnight) on CNN Headline News. On tonight’s show, Glenn will have psychic John Edward on for the entire hour. I was [...]

Oct

27

Cutting Off Our Stem Cells To Spite Our Faces

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There’s not much more that can be said specifically about the Michael J. Fox anti Jim Talent stem-cell ad and subsequent Rush Limbaugh commentary on same, other than that I think we’re totally bogged down in a complete missing of the point. Some are accusing Fox of being used by the Dems, but Fox insists [...]

Oct

26

Bush Signs Border Fence Bill, Attendance at "Bruce Jenner's Caracas Pole Vault Camp" Skyrockets

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From the A.P.: President Bush signed a bill Thursday authorizing 700 miles of new fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border, hoping to give Republican candidates a pre-election platform for asserting they’re tough on illegal immigration. “Unfortunately the United States has not been in complete control of its borders for decades and therefore illegal immigration has been [...]

Oct

26

Bush Signs Border Fence Bill, Attendance at “Bruce Jenner’s Caracas Pole Vault Camp” Skyrockets

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From the A.P.: President Bush signed a bill Thursday authorizing 700 miles of new fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border, hoping to give Republican candidates a pre-election platform for asserting they’re tough on illegal immigration. “Unfortunately the United States has not been in complete control of its borders for decades and therefore illegal immigration has been [...]

Oct

26

"Undecided Voter": The Oxymoron That Won't Die

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We constantly hear about the much courted “undecided voter,” a term that should be an oxymoron, but unfortunately isn’t. I suppose it sounds better than “uninformed guesser.” This is a group of people who are, as the election rapidly approaches, being bombarded with messages in order to get their last-minute vote. This is a scary thought, [...]

Oct

26

“Undecided Voter”: The Oxymoron That Won’t Die

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We constantly hear about the much courted “undecided voter,” a term that should be an oxymoron, but unfortunately isn’t. I suppose it sounds better than “uninformed guesser.” This is a group of people who are, as the election rapidly approaches, being bombarded with messages in order to get their last-minute vote. This is a scary thought, [...]

Oct

25

Exploding Beer Keg Kills Man — Rest of Crowd Managed to Dodge the Draft

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A Connecticut man was killed after some idiot threw a beer keg in a fire. This story has been circulating the ‘net as a potential “Darwin Award” winner, but that’s not the case. Had the moron who threw the keg in been killed (as God intended but missed), then it would have qualified — but it [...]

Oct

25

Gilligan's Laboratory: The Incompetence and Corruption of Los Alamos

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Police in New Mexico who were conducting a drug raid at a mobile home discovered more than just drugs — they also found classified information taken from the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Hey, how did those get out of Sandy Burger’s pants? Here’s a bit more explanation: Police alerted the FBI to the secret documents, which [...]

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