Jan

8

Tuesday Morning/Afternoon Open Thread: Brent Musburger Mentors Boys on How to Pick Up Chicks as Hot as AJ McCarron’s Girlfriend

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Lots going on this morning and early afternoon, so I doubt I’ll be able to get to anything of political substance until a little later. Until then, here’s Brent Musburger’s mind (and other things) wandering during last night’s Notre Dame/Alabama game. When I was a kid I don’t recall Tom Brookshier giving pointers like this [...]

Jan

7

Time for Another Episode of ‘How it Would Have Been Reported if the Political Affiliations Were Reversed’

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Here’s how this story would have been reported in the mainstream press if a white Republican said it about a black Democrat: VP says victorious white candidate did country a favor by getting black man out of Congress: Vice President Joe Biden apparently isn’t the biggest fan of now-former Rep. Allen West. During a rooftop [...]

Jan

7

Farewell Alien Attack Stimulus: Paul Krugman Says it Would Be a ‘Bad Idea’ to Nominate Him for Treasury Secretary

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What? No space alien attack stimulus? No trillion dollar coin minting to pay down the debt? Say it ain’t so: In a blog post on the New York Times website, columnist Paul Krugman says no to serving as treasury secretary. Which is clarifying, even though he was never offered the job anyway. “Yes, I’ve heard [...]

Jan

6

An Educational Gun Owner Map the Journal News Should Publish

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Last month, as a Christmas gift to burglars so they know which homes to avoid, the suburban New York paper Journal News published an interactive red-dot maps featuring the names and addresses of people in two counties who have permits to carry guns. However, a more telling piece of information for the general public would [...]

Jan

5

Campaign Now in Charge of Keeping the Nation’s Books Fined $375,000 for Inept Bookkeeping

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The Federal Election Commission has just fined President Obama’s 2008 campaign to the tune of $375,000 for basically not having their books in order — or having no paperwork on the books at all — for a series of donations made toward the end of the campaign: The fines are among the largest ever levied [...]

Jan

4

Schadenfreude-Inducing Question of the Day

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This is hilarious. A registered user at Democratic Underground who has posted many times there in the past, who is presumably an ardent Obama supporter, is a little uneasy. Hey, wasn’t it only the rich who were supposed to take it in the shorts? If you can’t read that, it says “What happened that my [...]

Jan

3

You Can’t Buy iPads with Food Stamps?

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Who knew? In all fairness, the woman does look like she was probably planning to eat them. (h/t Erika Johnson)

Jan

2

Photo: Hillary Clinton Discharged from Hospital — Caption Bill

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According to the State Department, Hillary Clinton has been discharged from the hospital after being treated for a blood clot in a vein behind her right ear. Her family, friends and associates expect her to make a full recovery and be elected president in 2016. Below is a photo from Reuters that shows the whole [...]

Jan

2

Report: During Fiscal Cliff Negotiations, John Boehner Told Harry Reid to do Unto Himself What He Does Unto Taxpayers on a Regular Basis

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To paraphrase Michael Corleone in Godfather III, “every time I think Boehner’s pushed me out, he keeps pulling me back in!” It was only a few days before the nation would go over the fiscal cliff, no bipartisan agreement was in sight, and Reid had just publicly accused Boehner of running a “dictatorship” in the [...]

Jan

1

Video: Hollywood’s Gun Hypocrisy

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First off, happy New Year everybody! Here’s to a happy and healthy 2013 and a wave goodbye to an… interesting… 2012. This year promises to have some big changes, and I’ll keep you posted about those as we head more toward spring. Over a week ago I asked if President Obama would include his Hollywood [...]