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I’d be more impressed if they had a Navy to put there.

“We have created a new defense front in the region,” the admiral was quoted as saying. “We are capable of preventing the entry of any enemy naval forces into the strategic Persian Gulf.”

He forgot to add “… for up to an hour.”

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Is AlGore in town?

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Be the first on your block to give way to your inner racist by recognizing that, yes, Obama is a socialist, and yes, he wants to take money from people who earned it and give it to people who didn’t.

A cartoon is worth a thousand words.

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Well, they had to get Capone on tax evasion; we work with the tools we’ve got.

A federal jury found Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Stevens guilty today of accepting and concealing tens of thousands of dollars in free home renovations and other gifts, a felony conviction that likely spells the end of a legendary Senate career.

We can only hope. This arrogant thief has been a chancre on Alaskan politics and the Republican party for most of my lifetime; I thank God that I may live to see the day he goes to jail.

Next, let’s see if we can arrange to put Robber Byrd in the next cell.

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Amazing how leftoids can get away with this shit. Oh, right, the media are on their side. I almost forgot.

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Which, considering the history of the U.N., is sufficient reason to vote for The Other Guy.

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Who did it? Hint: They weren’t Presbyterians.

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The NannyStaters strike again.

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And about time, too.

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But you knew that.

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Not that there’s anything wrong with that….

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I know, I know, Inside Baseball — but it has a great picture of an icon of all the Orthodox Saints of North America, including St Raphael of Brooklyn.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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The Obama campaign, in conjunction with the entire mainstream media, has been attacking Sarah Palin for letting the RNC spend $150,000 on her wardrobe, as she runs for Vice President of the United States.

But the Obama campaign spent 5.3 million dollars for that phony Greek temple in Denver’s Invesco Field. For one night.

Not a peep from the media.

Bias? What bias?

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Insurers, automakers and American subsidiaries of foreign banks all want the Treasury Department to cut them a piece of the largest government rescue in U.S. history.

Who couldn’t see this coming?

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Where is Indiana Jones when you really need him?

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Popular mythology to the contrary notwithstanding.

Any discussion of reforming America’s federal tax system should begin with the recognition that it is already highly progressive. According to the latest Internal Revenue Service (IRS) data, the top 1 percent of income earners paid nearly 40 percent of federal individual income taxes in 2006, compared to roughly 19 percent in 1980. Between 1980 and 2006, the share of federal income taxes paid by the top 5 percent jumped from under 37 percent to over 60 percent. During that same period, the share paid by the top 10 percent went from around 49 percent to almost 71 percent.

But Barack thinks that the wealth isn’t being shared enough.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Well, I warned you.

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The ban follows a spate of cases of lorries becoming wedged between steep banks or stuck under low bridges after drivers trusted directions on their satnav devices.

Highways officials at Gloucestershire County Council had also begun to notice surfaces on country roads never designed for lorries being worn down by extra traffic.

We have the technology.

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Well, what can you expect from somebody named “Jackie”?

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Reminds me of a card I saw once: “Congratulations on getting your charge reduced to simple assault.”

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The Ministry of Truth has spoken.

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Just another guy from Mr Obama’s neighborhood.

Jerry Pournelle indulges in politics. Jerry asks the right questions but doesn’t always come up with the right answers. But his thoughts are always worth reading.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Dogs….

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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said the federal government is considering outlays of as much as $25 million to help ethanol plants, which have been hit by volatile commodity prices.

Ethanol? Brass. Big ones. No doubt in compensation for the little teeny tiny ones on most of this supposedly-Republican administration.

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The Hog is glad to be out of politics.

Last night I learned that “socialist” is a “code word” for “black.” I had no idea. I thought it was a code word for “Democrat.” And there’s more. It turns out “Ayers” means “watermelon,” and “McCain” is actually secret code for the mighty N-word itself. So now the networks will have to quit running McCain ads, especially if they refer to terrorist nutcase Bill Ayers.

When I think of socialists, I don’t think of black people. I think of spoiled white people who hate their parents and want other people’s money. I’m fairly sure the “code word” thing was invented this month. Correct me if I’m wrong.

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Megan McArdle examines the noise being emitted about the “death of libertarianism”.

To put it another way, society has multiple possible equilibria, and some of those equilibria are better than others. Removing the existing set of rules does not, of itself, guarantee or even make it particularly likely that we will arrive at a better one.

And this is the central truth about politics that progressives don’t even bother to deny because it’s entirely off their radar.

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If McCain were to be a close associate of a white suprmacist neo-Nazi, how would the dinosaur media respond? And yet Obama gets a pass for hobnobbing with Ayers.

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I know why. Now it’s your turn.

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Put a 20mm mount on that puppy and I’m there.

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What is it like to get paid — and paid well — for not thinking? I want that job.

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The US military have launched a competition to find a design for a flying submarine, a week before the release of the latest Bond film.

And, once again, the private sector takes the lead.

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Now that’s comedy.

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We have the technology.

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Steve Sailer likes to poke into the dark recesses of Muslim culture.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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The United Nations, with a headquarters staff of approximately 15,500, is apparently relying on a battalion of retirees to fill important vacancies. The cost of keeping codgers on its payroll to do jobs that full-time employees apparently cannot handle has soared from $33 million in 2004-2005 to $50 million in 2006-2007.

In the process, the world organization appears to have been violating its own limits on how much retirees are allowed to earn after they take a U.N. pension, and how long they can be kept on the job. Those rules were seemingly designed to prevent double-dipping by former workers, or the filling of jobs that might otherwise go to full-time staff.

I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

And you’re paying for all of this. Aren’t you proud?

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Wonder if you can fit a grenade in that pot….