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22nd December 2008
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After eight years of playing defense for President Bush, the conservatives who dominate talk radio are back on offense.
Well, yeah. I, for one, am looking forward to it.
Fred Thompson, the “Law & Order” star turned presidential candidate, will begin hosting a two-hour show in March, as the syndicator Westwood One is expected to announce this week. Mr. Thompson’s show would take the place of Mr. O’Reilly’s.
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22nd December 2008
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Gotta love Australians.
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21st December 2008
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Bet they fix it so that Harold wins this time.
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21st December 2008
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The next step is to come up with a government program to assist them in integrating fully into a responsibly multicultural forest society.
Or perhaps he was part of the loot stolen from Paris Hilton’s home. You never really know.
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21st December 2008
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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.
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21st December 2008
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If they can use it to make a diet soda that doesn’t taste like horse pee, I’m all for it.
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21st December 2008
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We have the technology.
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21st December 2008
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Well, I guess it really worked, didn’t it?
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20th December 2008
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This would be neat, if it works.
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20th December 2008
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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.
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19th December 2008
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I am not making this up.
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19th December 2008
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Oh, the humanity….
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19th December 2008
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Always wondered where the word ‘gas’ came from
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19th December 2008
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We have the technology.
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19th December 2008
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Let that be a lesson to us all.
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19th December 2008
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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
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19th December 2008
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I suspect that they will find it much changed.
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19th December 2008
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This is God telling you not to eat raw fish. Wisdom. Attend.
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19th December 2008
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16th December 2008
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15th December 2008
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The Red Army Kittens get into the spirit of the season.
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15th December 2008
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Mr Hecht did some overlay work, and came up with this remarkable fit: “The divide between the (more free-market) PO and the (more populist) PiS almost exactly follows the old border between Imperial Germany and Imperial Russia, as it ran through Poland! How about that for a long-lasting cultural heritage?!?” How about: amazing, bordering on the unbelievable?
History doesn’t repeat itself but it does rhyme.
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15th December 2008
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15th December 2008
Well, how prepared were they? Read it an find out.
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15th December 2008
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14th December 2008
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14th December 2008
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13th December 2008
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Gotta love that Global Warming.
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12th December 2008
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With Mencius Moldbug, I’m holding out for the Prince of Liechtenstein.
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12th December 2008
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This is actually pretty clever.
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12th December 2008
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Truly, there is no such thing as bad publicity.
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12th December 2008
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We have the technology.
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12th December 2008
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So bring it right here.
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12th December 2008
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12th December 2008
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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.
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12th December 2008
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Dead cow and spuds are the basis of any true civilization.
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11th December 2008
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This is pretty cool.
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9th December 2008
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All my illusions, shattered.
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9th December 2008
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Or a Klingon, it’s kinda hard to tell.
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9th December 2008
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Their colleges must be about as useless as ours.
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9th December 2008
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Gotta love Australians.
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9th December 2008
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Viewership for President-elect Barack Obama’s weekly YouTube “fireside chats” has tanked, dropping more than 50 percent since his initial video three weeks ago.
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8th December 2008
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Energizer’s set to unleash a new battery — dubbed the Zinc Air Prismatic — at CES in January, which they say will offer three times the juice of similar alkaline and lithium-ion batteries.
We have the technology.
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8th December 2008
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Who doesn’t know that? Tea with honey and lemon, for preference.
The study found that “a simple hot drink of fruit cordial can provide immediate and sustained relief from symptoms of runny nose, cough, sneezing, sore throat, chilliness and tiredness”, the researchers report in the journal Rhinology.
Yeah, that works too.
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8th December 2008
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Let that be a lesson to us all.
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8th December 2008
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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.
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8th December 2008
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Mom always liked them best.
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7th December 2008
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Be the first on your block….
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6th December 2008
Alex Tabarrok tries to explain how in the world Krugman got a Nobel Prize.
Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.
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6th December 2008
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We have the technology.
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