THAT’S OKAY, I’M SURE HE’LL DO A FINE JOB OF INVESTIGATING HIMSELF PER OBAMA’S INSTRUCTIONS: Holder Ok’d Search Warrant For Fox News Reporter’s Private Emails. Meanwhile, Roger Ailes responds: The recent news about the FBI’s seizure of...
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NEWS YOU CAN USE: 5 Examples Of The “Kobayashi Maru” In Dating. Who knew there were so many dating lessons from Star Trek. But the most important one: Always go for the green-skinned alien chicks. They’re easy. Related video here.
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IT’S A DUMB IDEA, OFFERED AS A DISTRACTION BY A PRESIDENT WHO FUNDAMENTALLY DOESN’T LIKE CRITICISM: Roll Call: Old Objections Hang Over New Push for Media Shield Law. Here’s something I wrote back in 2005. We need protection for journalism, not...
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THE OBSOLESCENCE OF FEMA: Oklahoma Tornado: Glenn Beck and Twitter to the Rescue. “Shortly after the destructive twister tore through the town of Moore outside Oklahoma City , conservative radio personality and talking head Glenn Beck used Twitter...
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NICK GILLESPIE: Obama’s War on Journalism: ‘An Unconstitutional Act.’ “The press-punishing, speech-chilling, and unabashedly overreaching actions by the Obama administration against the Associated Press and Fox News Channel’s James Rosen lay...
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SAL RUSSO: IRS scandal symptom of intrusive government: Controversy indicative of a federal bureaucracy that has expanded beyond control. “When the IRS story broke, it seemed immediately plausible to us. As the Tea Party Express conducted its national...
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PHILIP KLEIN: How Much News Has The Obama Administration Successfully Suppressed? On the heels of news that the Obama administration Department of Justice was spying on reporters at the Associated Press, Monday brought the startling disclosure by the...
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JOURNALISM: Oops! CNN’s Cuomo Scolds ‘Congressman’ Over D.C. Disaster Politics, Finds Out He’s Not Congressman. There’s no IQ test for those jobs.
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NEWS FROM THE PROFESSIONAL CAREER CIVIL SERVICE: IRS Worker Used Federal Plastic For Amazon Buys: Government credit card paid for years-long shopping spree. “Entrusted with a government credit card, an Internal Revenue Service worker allegedly used...
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IN LIGHT OF OBAMA’S “BULWORTH MOMENT” TALK, somebody on Twitter — I think it was Matt Welch — was referencing this 1998 essay from Suck. “A powerful man casts off his whiteness, and becomes authentic and direct. Take a moment with that one.”...
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CHANGE: Homeland Security bulletin warns 3D-printed guns may be ‘impossible’ to stop.
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BOB KRUMM: Peggy Noonan Gets It Almost Right.
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JIM TREACHER: GOOGLE ACTUALLY DOES SOMETHING PATRIOTIC. “This has to be some sort of mistake.”
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JOE PAPPALARDO: How Obama Criticized—and Defended—His Own Drone War.
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ZIMMERMAN TRIAL UPDATE: Gun, drug texts feature in new Trayvon Martin shooting evidence. “The evidence, George Zimmerman’s attorneys say, paints a different picture of the 17-year-old than the one portrayed by his family and supporters. Lead defense...
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YOU DON’T NEED A WEATHERMAN TO KNOW WHICH WAY THE WIND IS BLOWING: Poland Set for Biggest-Ever Increase in Military Spending.
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THE HILL: IRS political targeting scandal: Latest news.
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YES, AND THAT WAS ONE OF THE GOALS: “Has feminism made it much harder for lower class men to do well in life?” As the Insta-Wife notes in her new book, Men On Strike, people shouldn’t be surprised by the response.
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I HOPE THIS PANS OUT: Vitamin C kills drug-resistant TB in lab tests.
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WAR ON SCIENCE: Joe Williams Fudges Weather Fact. There’s no IQ test for these talking-head positions.
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STOP ME BEFORE I KILL AGAIN: Obama pledges to rein in drone use, close Guantanamo. UPDATE: Questions: “So what the hell just happened? A big deal or almost nothing? I assume Obama wanted to appease the doves, but are they appeased and, more important,...
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WHO DOESN’T LIKE FRIED CHICKEN? Why remarks about race and fried chicken elicit such raw feelings. But here’s a tip: If you have to have taken Race & Gender Studies 101 to undrstand why something is racist, it’s not racist.
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HELPFUL ADVICE FROM MOTHER JONES ON HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN UNTRACEABLE AK-47. Thanks, guys!
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K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Chicago to shutter 50 schools, largest mass closing in major U.S. city. “The country’s third largest school system, Chicago is facing a $1 billion budget shortfall. Declining enrollments have led to inefficient, half-empty...
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MOSTLY SAVAGE: Are Savages Noble? “It may astonish you readers, as it initially astonished me,” Diamond writes, “to learn that trench warfare, machine guns, napalm, atomic bombs, artillery, and submarine torpedoes produce time-averaged war-related...
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AT AMAZON, Top Deals in Sports & Outdoors.
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UNDERCOVERED STORIES: Male Military Rape Survivors Speak Out. And compare these numbers: “The Pentagon estimated about 13,000 of the 1.2 million men serving in the military suffered sexual assault last year, NBC News reported. About 12,100 of the 203,000...
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A SMARTER FUTURE? Humans With Amplified Intelligence Could Be More Powerful Than AI.
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OUCH: Peter Daou: “Wish I could say Obama’s speech is in response to brave progressives defending civil liberties but I think it’s more Rand Paul.”
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MORE COOL PICS: Daredevils post breathtaking pictures atop Seattle landmarks.
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NEWS YOU CAN USE: Cooking Tips From The Great Depression.
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COOL PICS: Jacob’s Well, Wimberley, Texas.
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HEH. The whole “empty chair” thing is looking more and more prescient.
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JOHN MCCAIN CONTINUES TO PUSH for unbundling cable TV.
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J.D. JOHANNES WRITES: Normally I don’t find books about the current wars compelling because I’ve lived them in person. Sixty-seven pages in to Ardolino’s “Fallujah Awakens” and will probably stay up reading it all night. Ardolino has crafted...
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AT AMAZON, markdowns on Musical Instruments. Including a piano you can roll up. For $31.99. How cool is that?
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FASTER, PLEASE: ‘Universal’ flu vaccine effective in animals: Self-assembling nanoparticles could make updating seasonal vaccines easier. “Current flu vaccines use inactivated whole viruses and must be regularly remade to target the strains most...
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THE SWELLING TREND OF “BREASTAURANTS.”
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HOW AN AMERICAN saved the Porsche 911 from extinction. Related: A Porsche thank-you from Jack Baruth.
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TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 14. Related: John Fund: The Real Voter Suppression of 2012: Voter ID didn’t reduce turnout, but the IRS may have.
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CAN YOU PREDICT PEOPLE’S POLITICAL VIEWS by their views of masturbation? Punchlines abound.
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BREAKING BAD WORSE: Massachusetts Pol Busted For Dealing Meth. He used to chair the Massachusett’s Legislature’s Ethics Committee, which seems about right . . . .
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EBOOK REVOLUTION CONTINUES: Amazon To Build A Market For Fan Fiction. Up until now, most fan fiction has been in a sort of legal limbo–regular publishers won’t touch it because of copyright infringement. Amazon proposes a way to get around that problem:...
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ANNALS OF THE .00001 PERCENT: WSJ: Penny Pritzker Understated Income By $80 Million.
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DISTRACTION: Obama Probes Create Immigration Magic as Bill Advances. But unions are paying attention and don’t like it.
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IN THE MAIL: Higher Education in the Digital Age.
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TERMINATION: “I’m quite surprised that no one has mentioned Section 1203 of the Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998, which mandates terminations of IRS employees who commit any of what are known in the Service as the 10 Deadly Sins.’ . . . At...
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WHY THE IRS WENT AFTER THE TEA PARTY, instead of Establishment Republicans.
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SO OF POLLS COMING OUT IN THE LAST FEW DAYS, Obama is up in 1 (Gallup) and down in 3 (Rasmussen, Fox, Economist/YouGov.)
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