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What America Needs: More Goof-Offs

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Could this AP report on the illegal aliens' goof-off day be any more one-sided? Not easily. My best idea for making the AP report even more favorable to the illegal alien cause would be to decorate the text with a ...
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Jean-Francois Revel’s Extraordinary Contribution

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Via Michelle Malkin comes the news that Jean-Francois Revel has died. Had he done nothing more than write his Cold War wake-up call "How Democracies Perish," his contribution to the world would have justly been called extraordinary -- yet he ...
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Parents May Be Fined for Helping Their Own Son

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The Cleveland Bar Association has made an outrageous decision: It is attempting to get an Ohio couple fined because they went to court on behalf of their minor son without hiring a lawyer. Says the Cleveland Plain Dealer: The bar ...
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Limbaugh Drug Charge Settlement Mischaracterized in Talking Points Memo

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Talking Points Memo's Josh Marshall has posted commentary to the effect that the settlement of the state charges in the Rush Limbaugh case is actually a plea agreement, implying that Limbaugh must have confessed guilt: Don't get bamboozled. In criminal ...
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When Will Politicians Learn to Stay Away from Anything Related to the Watergate?

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From TPM Muckraker : It's me-too time for Hookergate. The AP filed its story on the scandal last night, with no new details. The WPost, no doubt burned up that they missed the biggest Watergate-related scandal since, well, Watergate... Second-biggest? ...
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Deroy Lives in New York. I Guess You Can Tell.

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Josh Marshall does not seem to be entirely won over by Deroy Murdock's latest column. On the other hand, I loved it. A bit of advice from Deroy to the White House: "Don't leak; speak." Or another: "Leaking to the ...
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Bill Bennett v. Howard Kurtz

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Noel Sheppard on Newsbusters has posted a transcript of a debate between Bill Bennett and Howard Kurtz on the question, as phrased by Noel, "should journalists that report leaked military secrets during a time of war receive Pulitzer Prizes or ...
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Washington Post/Dana Priest Story: An Appeal for Disclosure — and Consistency

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I have difficulty respecting the choice of news organizations to run stories that are based on mysteries when the news organization knows the answer but choses not to inform the reader -- and glosses over their unwillingness to disclose. In ...
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More Union Nonsense

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The Allegheny Institute Blog writes about municipal bus drivers who have gone to court arguing they shouldn't be forced to pick up passengers. The bus drivers are the fourth-highest paid in the U.S. (for urban areas of 500,000 to 2 ...
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Global Warming and Polar Bears: One Sound Decision Deserves Another

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Peyton Knight sent this over: At a United Nations meeting in Paris last week, the Bush Administration told the U.N. World Heritage Committee that it should not add new sites to its list of endangered places based on the theory ...
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