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I’ve never thought of it this way:

NY Daily News – Palin vs. Edwards, a case study in media bias

When in 2004 John Kerry picked Edwards, whose entire resume in public life at that point consisted of six years in the U.S. Senate, to be his vice-presidential nominee, few questioned whether Edwards was qualified [...]

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NRO – The Great Peasant Revolt of 2010 The president’s supercilious modesty is getting him into trouble. By Charles Krauthammer

This being a democracy, don’t the Democrats see that clinging to this agenda will march them over a cliff? Don’t they understand Massachusetts? Well, they understand it through a prism of two [...]

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Citizens United (Hillary: the Movie) v. Federal Election Commission

I liked this video. I liked this Supreme Court ruling because it’s made my liberal acquaintances heads explode about eeeevil corporations. Apparently the thought is that if you can’t be thrown in jail, you shouldn’t be able to donate money to political parties. No word on whether [...]

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Hitler Finds Out Scott Brown Won Massachusetts Senate Seat

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The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10c

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• Had retired at normal retirement age (65) • Had retired at late retirement age (70) • Had retired at really late retirement age (75) • Had retired when he got BRAIN CANCER • Had retired when he LEFT WORK BECAUSE HE WAS TOO ILL TO WORK BECAUSE OF THE BRAIN CANCER

Martha Coakley news at Instapundit (dissing voters, sense of entitlement), Wheat & Weeds [...]

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Wheat & Weeds – A Party of Socrates

They turned to fascism because they were tired of partisanship, corruption and politics as usual

Oh joy. Then comes She Who Must Not Be Linked.

I think this might be the first post I’ve tagged “elections” meaning not elections generally but specifically those next year. screams and [...]

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A much more interesting Person of the Year:

The Times – Person of the Year<br/> Neda Soltan, killed by a government thug, became a symbol of Iranians’ yearning for democracy and the ruthlessness of a bankrupt regime

Every few years a man, or a woman, whose name is often familiar to few beyond the circle of [...]

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I was about to tweet this with a comment like, “Gosh, it would be hilarious if it accidentally passed” (and I could see it happening, too, the press ignores it and doesn’t poll on it and everyone, both lonely souls, the married, the sad sack divorcés and the ironic all vote for it):

SF Chronicle – [...]

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So the Swiss have voted to ban minarets (incidentally, an interesting article here on how the vote was being led by Swiss women:

“If we give them a minaret, they’ll have us all wearing burqas,” said Julia Werner, a local housewife. “Before you know it, we’ll have sharia law and women being stoned to [...]

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Well, well, well. It turns out that little vote we Washingtonians (well, not we precisely because I never registered to vote and Peter was somehow listed as “inactive” (uh huh suuuuure)) just had on Prop 71 with the obnoxious “Protect all Washington families” tagline (and “keep the domestic partnership line” tagline on most of the [...]

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Telegraph Blogs – James Delingpole: Enough eloquent excuses, Dave: the only place for a Conservative Britain in Europe is out

[T]he European Constitution has stolen British sovereignty; it will make us poorer, more highly regulated, less democratically accountable and less free. You cannot run an effective Conservative government within a Socialist Europe. You can’t. [...]

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As per the Twitter, the messages “If you’re a good person, you’ll vote my way way” are starting to rack up. I was thinking of making it a drinking game but, living in Seattle, I’d run out of booze.

Anyway, will update should anything interesting happen. Otherwise, here’s your open thread.

Update:

Tweet of the night, from Toby [...]

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Generally, leave The Corner alone till after morning coffee. But this is what prompted this morning’s tweet:

NRO – Where Is Obama’s ‘Center’?<br/> Look at his Rolodex and then figure out just where such a man would estimate it to be. By Mark Steyn

As I’ve written before, the appeal of this issue to him and [...]

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Ahh, what a theme for the day:

WaPo – After the Governator, the Calculator. By George F. Will

The most ominous domestic event of the 1970s was the collapse of self-government in New York City, which before being put into receivership by the state was liberalism’s laboratory. Since then, California has been the slate on [...]

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