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Mideast Media Sampler 03/17/2013 – Dump on Thomas Friedman Day
1) When elephants crash land Recently, I brought up an example of how Professor Barry Rubin handled a mistake. First he admitted it. Then he explained the forces involved. His behavior showed a few...
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NYC Big Soda Ban Just Crazy
On March 12, 2013 I was a guest on the Mark Carbonaro Show, talking about the Court ruling striking down Bloomberg’s Big Soda ban. The decision is available at our earlier post, Sometimes I feel like a...
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Whistle-blowing Scientist Sues UCLA for His Job
UCLA’s Dr. James Enstrom is one of my personal heroes of the “Tea Party” movement. The importance of his work on behalf of Californians cannot be understated. The Environmental Health Sciences...
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Two bad weeks for Obama, in words
Matthew Knee, former LI contributor and now at TargetPoint Consulting, sent this infographic showing what people are saying on “the internet” about Obama the past two weeks. It’s mostly negative...
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“Another conservative in the penal colony of MD”
Another restless reader in Maryland. From frequent photographer Ulises: Another conservative in the penal colony of MD By the way, is Mark Levin who calls MD a penal colony for conservatives…
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Mideast Media Sampler 03/18/2013
Cheerleading the Intifada The New York Times has done it again. Less then two weeks after publishing an intellectual attack against Israel, it publishes an article glorifying physical attacks on...
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The definition of insanity
sane /sān/ Adjective (of a person) Of sound mind; not mad or mentally ill: “hard work kept me sane”. (of an undertaking or manner) Reasonable; sensible. in·sane /inˈsān/ Adjective In a state of mind...
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Is it a wonder our kids can’t add and subtract?
In part it’s because of an educational culture focused on punishing rambunctious young boys who chew breakfast pastries into the shape of a gun … and incorporating theories such as “white privilege”...
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Mission accomplie
The primary goal of ElizabethWarrenWiki.org was to serve as a resource for people who don’t have the time to search dozens of websites and blogs. So when I stumbled on this at HuffPo the other day, it...
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RNC strategy for African American outreach: internal affirmative action plus...
I’ve just begun to comb through the newly released RNC’s ”Growth and Opportunity Project” report, co-chaired by a group including Ari Fleischer and Haley Barbour. Reading through the methodology, and...
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4-H urged to switch to air rifle/pistol due to ammunition shortage
We have written before about the severe ammunition shortage ever since Democrats announced broadened gun control plans, with store shelves almost bare. Reader Danelle writes about a shortage of .22LR...
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Branco Cartoon – Forward 2016
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Ladies and gentlemen, Sarah Palin!!
Watching Sarah Palin’s canny performance at CPAC the other day—and particularly the moment she held up that Big Gulp in a Statue of Liberty pose after a provocative double entendre about her “rack”—two...
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Two HOT graphics
One of the iconic “proofs” of man-made global warming is the infamous ”hockey stick” graph”. “Hockey Stick” graph. Skeptics questioned the statistics and data used to generate the graph. So, as...
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Elizabeth Warren cherry-picked $22 per hour minimum wage number
True to form, Elizabeth Warren has proved adept at grabbing a headline for a talking point made at a Senate hearing, and the media is swooning without actually examining the substance. The talking...
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Mideast Media Sampler 03/19/2013
1) Is there any hope left for Mideast honesty in the New York Times A few people have pointed out that I missed an op-ed by Rashid Khalidi, Is Any Hope Left for Mideast Peace? One paragraph really...
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Dana Loesch: Paul McKinley “just took us to church”
Dana Loesch, conservative star on the rise and host of The Dana Show, interviewed Republican Paul McKinley (IL-02) at CPAC, concluding at the end of the powerful interview, “go and support this man, he...
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Cyprus rejects bailout provision to seize percentage of bank deposits
By a vote of 36 against, 0 in favor, with 19 abstentions, Cyprus lawmakers today rejected a provision that would have made a proposed $8.7 billion bailout contingent upon taking 6.75 percent of the...
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RNC Report — 100 pages and not a single word about bloggers
The RNC rolled out its 100-page report on what went wrong in 2012 and what could be done better. The report has 39,136 words in it. One word is missing. Tells you everything you need to know. Contrast:...
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Being a bridesmaid isn’t that bad
Last year Legal Insurrection received the ignominious CPAC award for Most Underrated Blog. I knew we were nominated for Blog of the Year this year, to be voted on by other bloggers, but given the...
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