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this just in: gloria steinem is still nuts

March 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

I don’t know what she was thinking, but (despite the Clinton campaign’s tepid disavowal) I sure know what she said, including: 
“Suppose John McCain had been Joan McCain and Joan McCain had got captured, shot down and been a POW for eight years. [The media would ask], ‘What did you do wrong to get captured? What terrible […]

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astounding symmetry on the left

February 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Michael Ledeen over at National Review Online points out an astounding symmetry exhibited by the Democratic Party’s candidates!

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unsafe by any rede

February 24th, 2008 · No Comments

I was awakened today by a metaphorical tumult of hosannas from the rooftops of the surrounded-by-reality city of Ithaca.
Ralph Nader has thrown his head hat into the ring! (I’ll be kind and not mention Harold Stassen… Oops!)
Ithaca ♥ Ralph, and while it is untrue that Mr. “I’m not a spoiler!” outpolled Dubya in Ithaca in ’04, […]

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bats in The Gray Lady’s belfry

February 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment

The New Republic, hardly a bastion of conservative thinking, wags its finger at The New York Times in the matter of The Gray Lady’s non-story about a long-ago non-relationship between John McCain and lobbyist Vicki Iseman.
(Well, there goes the “tired old man” angle, right out the window!)

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it takes a villa

February 21st, 2008 · No Comments

At National Review Online, Senior Hoover Institute fellow Victor Davis Hanson tells us about the “Ivy League Populists” slugging it out for the Democratic nomination.
Sample:
In these gloom-and-doom narratives by the well-off, we less fortunate Americans are doing almost everything right, but still are not living as well as we deserve to be. The common culprit […]

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