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Add a 20mm turret and I’m there.

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Good luck to ’em. It’s a good thing that somebody is taking up the torch.

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People who join the military have more education and are better off economically than the population as a whole, a study indicates, casting doubt on the popular wisdom that enlistees are often disadvantaged or cannot find other work.

But of course they’re just stupid cannon fodder stuck over in Iraq….

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What a thumbsucker. The Washington Post actually pays money for this stuff.

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Oh, say it ain’t so….

McNeil Nutritionals, which markets Splenda, has rejected the study, pointing out that it was part-funded by the Sugar Association  –  which is involved in a U.S. lawsuit critical of Splenda’s marketing claims. The association initially took action against McNeil regarding Splenda’s old slogan of ‘Made like sugar, so it tastes like sugar’.

Well, that’s all right then.

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However, the first-term Democrat, in a tight bid for re-election, insists he broke no laws and will not resign. Voters chose him on a family values platform to replace Mark Foley, a Republican who resigned amid revelations that he sent lurid Internet messages to teenage male pages who worked on Capitol Hill.

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Sounds like a fine job for Angelina Jolie.

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I was wondering how long it would take them to fix that.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

(When you read about some poor illegal immigrant maid taking out a $400,000 loan that she didn’t understand from a predatory lender, read carefully and you’ll note that the “predatory lender” who talked her into was almost always a Spanish-speaker himself.)

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It remains an explosively flammable gas. I, for one, ain’t ridin’ around with a tank of that under the seat.

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I must admit that I look forward to these. It’s the next best thing to being in a position to slap Garrison Keillor in person in a vain attempt to wake his brain up.

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Barack Obama got an unexpected greeting from a voter at the Cape Fear BBQ and Chicken.

“Socialist, socialist, socialist — get out of here!” 54-year-old Diane Fanning yelled when the Democratic presidential nominee made a surprise visit to the restaurant.

Presumably the next few days will reveal that Diane’s name isn’t realy Diane, and she doesn’t actually have a license to address a semi-black Presidential candidate.

Fanning, who works a nearby Sam’s Club, said she’d heard Colin Powell had endorsed Obama but that “Colin Powell is a RINO, R-I-N-O, Republican In Name Only,” she said upset that Obama and his entourage had interrupted her meal.

“This is my one day off,” she muttered.

A famous Republican once said, “You can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”

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And the RINOs come home to roost.

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We have the technology.

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Since 1947 Pakistan has been a failed state in the making, and now that failure is finally upon us.

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

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Takes a stab at answering the questions that everyone ought to be asking — and isn’t.

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An interesting idea — if it really works.

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India has a serious role to play in that area. Good to see them stepping up to the plate.

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The seven-month-old program, one of the most ambitious in the nation, seems to have been derailed by two factors: shortfalls in the state budget, and families dropping private insurance to enroll their children in state-subsidized coverage.

Boy, there’s a shocker — what did they expect would happen?

The major problem with “progressives” is that they’re distributionists — somehow somebody somewhere is going to produce all this wealth that they’re busy “spreading around”. Comes from never having held a real job, I suppose.

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I have no idea what “knees up” means in British slang, but it doesn’t sound good.

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Well, progress.

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I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

Can’t wait for the movie. Should sell a lot of popcorn.

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“Global Strike Command”? Sounds like a video game.

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I’d feel better about it if they weren’t so ugly. But that’s me.

Amazing how a simple desire to make money can create a product that, were it the result of a government program, would cost ten times as much, look ten times as ugly, and take ten times as long.

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Note that the reason is not because the AP stories are tendentious crap, which they are, but because they are competing with the tendentious crap that the newspapers are generating by themselves.

Well, it’s still progress, of a sort, I suppose.

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Not to be confused, of course, with the device that certain emergency vehicles carry that causes the light to go green for them no matter where it might be in its normal cycles. No, they would never even think about putting that in a regular vehicle — why, that would be illegal . Wouldn’t even think of it. Never. No, sir, not ever.

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Harbinger of the Obama Nation.

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The geek equivalent of spray-painting your initials on an overpass, perhaps.

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Hey, it was the stone age, after all.

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Well, submarines are just as easy to find and a lot slower. I think they’ll find that this isn’t a winning strategy.

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With less than a month to go until the US election, the BBC’s North America editor, Justin Webb, explores why a certain streak of pro-Republican individualism in Middle America may be left unscathed by the economic collapse.

But there is a second fact as well, which the economic emergency tends to mask – times were already tough for most Americans, and on one level, they kind of like it that way.

One of the attractions of Sarah Palin – which does not really translate to Europe in a readily explicable way – is that she lived the ordinary life in an ordinary town, and still does to a large extent.

This is seen by many Americans as admirable in and of itself: she coped.

Brad DeLong captures the essence.

The Bush administration, having entered office as social conservatives, leaves office as conservative socialists, proprietors of the most sudden large expansion of the state’s role in the US economy since mobilisation for the second world war.

As I’ve always sayd – W is just Nixon without the 5-o’clock shadow.

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Well, that’s a relief.

Arnold Kling tells it like it is.

Now, there are rumors that the Democrats plan to re-appoint Paulson as Treasury Secretary. This American Mussolini has captivated Washington by demonstrating the exercise of raw power.

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Change you can believe it.

Pogue has had about enough.

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And I would have done the same.