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Surely they can find another Duke of Parma.

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I can’t say he’s wrong.

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No, it didn’t have a body that looked like Russell Crowe. At least they’ve stopped using Kirk Douglas.

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Brian Hubbard has regularly cut and weeded the small patch of grass outside his three-bedroom home since he moved in four years ago.

He also picks up any litter, rakes the leaves and cleans up after the council contractors have left their grass cuttings.

But he has received a letter accusing him of “encroaching” on council land and been told that he must stop tending to the grass and “return the area to its original state within 28 days” or the work would be carried out at his expense.

Well, that’s government for you.

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Sounds like a great plot for a movie.

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Sometime life’s like that.

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Ian Carter, 39, was in bed with the girl, 15, when her father walked in on them.

A court heard Carter denied there was anything going on between them even though he had no clothes on

Modern times.

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They prefer Obama, of course.

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And that’s all it takes: A pack, not a herd.

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God forbid that somebody providing a service should charge more than the insurance company — or the government — thinks is proper.

But several challenges have cropped up in court, from hospitals and docs who say the agency doesn’t have the right to intervene. “We believe our legal authority to protect consumers from balance billing is clear, and we believe our moral authority is even more clear,” the department chief told the LAT.

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In contrast, union members perceive themselves as less competent than other workers.

Must as does the rest of society.

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And so I have always considered it.

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“It was a take it or take it offer,” said one person who was briefed on the meeting, speaking on condition of anonymity because the discussions were private. “Everyone knew there was only one answer.”

Well, that’s what happens when the government is involved.

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Gotta love Australians.

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And if you believe that one they’ll tell you another one.

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Sounds like something my wife would do.

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How long before “progressives” demand an organic alternative?

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Not really news, but a useful reminder.

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A pensioner who is deaf and without speech was left without his benefits after Post Office officials insisted on speaking to him to access his account.

Well, there you go.

1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
2. Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. Probably in California, where it will be insisted that you speak Spanish.

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The last time this happened, they were called “recusants”. Wonder what they’ll be called this time.

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Money well spent, I think. After all, he bribed Stalin — using Roosevelt’s money. (Well, our money, actually, but none of them drew that distinction. Still don’t, come to think of it.)

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Is your politician promising you a fish? Or a pole?

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Times have indeed changed.

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Shucks, I missed it.

Steve Sailer takes a step back.

Ayers is a funnier, livelier writer than Obama. I can’t imagine a ghostwriter producing anything as dull as Obama’s Dreams.

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Just a reminder that Muslims aren’t the only problem out there.

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Until somebody flies a plane into it. Oh, wait….

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And you can believe as much or as little of that as you care to.

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So what else is new?

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I’m glad they have nothing more serious to worry about.

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We have the technology.

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Not really news, but a useful reminder.

Michelle Malkin has the goods on the Obama Nation.

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Yup, pretty progressive.

Arnold Kling demythologizes.

The myth is that mortgage securitization reflects the genius of Wall Street. The reality is that it reflects the stupidity of the way that regulatory capital requirements are calculated.

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We all have dreams.

(Mine is Ted Kennedy in a pine box, between Barney Frank and Chris Dodd similarly arrayed. But I don’t have Shamino’s money.)

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The team has also found evidence to support the theory that pandas are a subspecies of the black bear, rather than a relative of the raccoon.

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

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Don’t know why British people can’t use commas correctly, but there it is.

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One of the cleftest of sticks for White People today.

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We have the technology.

Lileks looks at the economy.

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Guess there are a few shreds of the Old Britain remaining, eh?

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1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain Europe.
2. Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. Probably in California.

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Cole and Ohanian calculate that NIRA and its aftermath account for 60 percent of the weak recovery. Without the policies, they contend that the Depression would have ended in 1936 instead of the year when they believe the slump actually ended: 1943.

“The fact that the Depression dragged on for years convinced generations of economists and policy-makers that capitalism could not be trusted to recover from depressions and that significant government intervention was required to achieve good outcomes,” Cole said. “Ironically, our work shows that the recovery would have been very rapid had the government not intervened.”

Of course, if you’ve been paying attention you know this already.

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Eighteen years ago, Rashin Soodmand’s father was hanged in Iran for converting to Christianity. Now her brother is in a Mashad jail, and expects to be executed under new religious laws brought in this summer. Alasdair Palmer reports.

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

Boy, those Zimbabweans are sure lucky they’re no longer under the boot of that oppressive white regime.

Thank God for the U.N. and the international community, or who knows what sort of hell they’d be living in now.