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• That sums it up for me

  
  The Daley Gator — Authority: 595
  American Glob has some links to some great cartoons, but I admit, I like the one they show the best. It really sums up the Nanny State menace we face.
  5 hours ago

• Democrat Senator Delves to a New Low

  
  Vital Signs — Authority: 441
  The injustice, lies and totalitarian drive of the Left are all being played out in frightening detail in the once-venerable halls of our capitol.
  13 hours ago

• Hello, Police? My Country Has Just Been Stolen From Me.

  
  Vital Signs — Authority: 441
  Robert Costa over at NROs "The Corner," has a very sobering pos t quoting Republican Senator Judd Gregg on the ugly "New American Era" that weve been shoved into. American government changed last night. “We are now functioning under a parliamentary form of government,” says Sen. Judd Gregg (R., N.H.) in a ...
  14 hours ago

• Maximum Achievable Damage

  
  RochesterConservative.com — Authority: 426
  By Mona Charen Townhall.com Does anyone remember the TV show “Supermarket Sweep”? Contestants would compete with one another by careening through a supermarket and grabbing as many products as they could toss into a basket. The winner was the shopper whose cart carried the biggest price tag when the bell ...
  14 hours ago

• Experts in "Sustainable Living" Decree: Your Dog Has Got to Go

  
  Vital Signs — Authority: 441
  Back in October I gave you a post ( A New Environmental Wacko Target? Dogs! ) dealing with a wave-making book with the uncomfortable title, Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living. Well, the book is still making waves as two groups find their usually compatible worldviews (both reflecting a ...
  14 hours ago

• Im going to start off this morning with Sen. Dianne Feinstein(Hypocrite Democrat-CA, but you knew that)

  
  Irons in the Fire — Authority: 520
  and her strong desire to develop renewable energy: Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation in Congress on Monday to protect a million acres of the Mojave Desert in California by scuttling some 13 big solar plants and wind farms planned for the region. But before the bill to create two new Mojave national ...
  15 hours ago

• That Bizarre Filibuster Thingy

  
  Charlie Foxtrot — Authority: 505
  Much like the sudden disappearance of the "No Blood For Oil" liberal objection to the ongoing war, we have also seen the sudden disappearance of the liberals love affair with the filibuster. E.J. Dionne as quoted in The Corner : Of course what has happened on the health-care bill is enraging. Its quite clear ...
  1 day ago

• Freedom- It’s Spreading

  
  Carolina Politics Online — Authority: 134
  Don’t make the hookah bar owners angry. You won’t like them when they’re angry. On Jan. 2, a law extinguishing smoking in bars and restaurants statewide takes effect. There are a few exceptions, but none for bars that offer hookahs, the water pipes for smoking fruit-flavored tobacco that originated in the ...
  1 day ago

• "Obama is Possibly the Most Dangerous and Destructive President We Have Ever Had." (Nat Hentoff)

  
  Vital Signs — Authority: 441
  "I try to avoid hyperbole, but I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had." (Nat Hentoff) Heres the interview John Whitehead did of the famed civil libertarian.
  1 day ago

• Just In Time for Christmas: Ben Nelsons Sell-Out, Budget-Busting Boondoggles & Other Democrat Antics

  
  Vital Signs — Authority: 441
  * Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oka.) said it is “absolutely fictitious” that there is an anti-abortion provision in the Senate Democrats’ reworked healthcare reform bill. “The negotiations, whoever did them, threw unborn babies under the bus,” Coburn said. * The federal ban on abortion funding that has been in ...
  1 day ago

• The Dangerous Joke That Was the Copenhagen Summit

  
  Vital Signs — Authority: 441
  As always, Gerald Warner is well worth reading. Here is the first part of his splendid evaluation of the Copenhagen summit. The entire column (and youll want to read it, I guarantee) is right here. When your attempt at recreating the Congress of Vienna with a third-rate cast of extras turns into a shambles, when ...
  1 day ago

• Professor Denounces Use of "Nerd" and "Geek"; Banning, Shaming to Follow?

  
  Runnin' Scared — Authority: 709
  The Times used the term "cool nerds" in an article, and seems at first to have been taken to task for it by psychology professor David Anderegg. Under the headline, "Nerd and Geek Should...
  1 day ago

• 2009: When "Globalism" Turned from a Catchword Into a Command

  
  Vital Signs — Authority: 441
  ...2009 was the year in which "global" swept the rest of the political lexicon into obscurity. There were "global crises" and "global challenges", the only possible resolution to which lay in "global solutions" necessitating "global agreements". Gordon Brown actually suggested something called a "global alliance" in ...
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• Five Reasons It Might Not Pass

  
  RochesterConservative.com — Authority: 426
  By Rich Lowry & Robert Costa National Review Online Harry Reid got his 60. Ben Nelson resorted to the typical Washington expedient in such situations and bought into a few window-dressing compromises, in exchange for an enormous Medicaid benefit to his state. The Cornhusker Kickback joins the Louisiana ...
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• Code TEA: Tea Parties, Go Home! All Politics Is Local

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  TEA Parties nation-wide have found that calling, writing, and showing up in person in D.C. has the same impact as a hiccup in a hurricane. After turning out thousands of citizens at rallies, overwhelming the Senate phone lines and crashing Congress’ e-mail system, our elected representatives are poised to enact the ...
  1 day ago

• Regulation of the Day 88: College Football’s Playoff System

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 572
  “ College football is bringing big bucks to K Street as lawmakers take aim at dismantling the Bowl Championship Series ,” says a story in Politico . A six-figure sum is being spent lobbying what really shouldn’t be a government issue. Millions more are being spent on other issues affecting college sports. ...
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• Why Not For A Week?

  
  The Coalition Of The Swilling — Authority: 139
  I’m just not seeing any downside to this Federal government offices in the Washington region will be closed on Monday. Nonessential government workers will be granted excused absences.
  1 day ago

• “Cash For Cloture”

  
  The Coalition Of The Swilling — Authority: 139
  This Health Care Bill, which hasn’t been written yet, is so obviously a great idea that here’s the list of Senate Bribes to get votes from the Democrats for it. Absolutely sickening. Everyone of the bastards needs to get voted out in 2010 and 2012. Oh, and the best part is we get the bill for the bribes, ...
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• K?

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 152
  Oh dear, a council in England has had to make an embarrassing apology to the 1,000 or so residents who didn’t receive their new friggin wheelie bins. Hmm, seems the  bin contractor for Oxon employed “illiterate” men who were unable to read addresses or street maps (but they could drive?). The South Oxfordshire ...
  2 days ago

• Jim is handing out awards

  
  SnarkyBytes — Authority: 131
  Well deserved too: I hereby award the BoVLB travelling trophy to two recipients this time. Our winners this time? Why none other than Sen. Ben Nelson (D, Nebraska) and Sen. Mary Landrieu (D, Louisiana).
  2 days ago

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