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Telegraph headline:

Reese Witherspoon chides Michelle Obama for stealing capital’s style crown Reese Witherspoon says her “Legally Blonde” character Elle Woods has been ousted as the most stylish woman to come to the US capital by Michelle Obama.

Categories: Entertainment

A new reason to rescue yesterday’s t-shirts from the back of your closet. Once upon a time, it was your statement to the world — a show of school pride, a taste for graphic design, a photo of your favorite singer’s mug shot. These days, it probably sits unworn in [...]

Categories: Business & Media

Telegraph – Canadian women’s ice hockey team apologise for beer and cigars on ice The all-conquering Canadian women’s ice hockey team has apologised after players celebrated winning Olympic gold by quaffing champagne and beer, and smoking cigars, on the ice.

Victorious players emerged from the dressing room, still in their uniforms and with gold medals [...]

Categories: Sports and Leisure

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 [...]

Categories: Politics

I love this. Mark Steyn is proven right:

[T]he imams have spoken: Saying that body scanners violate Islamic law, Muslim-American groups are supporting a “fatwa” – a religious ruling – that forbids Muslims from going through the scanners at airports. [...]

Categories: War and Peace

The Australian – Menace in mad march of the thought police, by Janet Albrechtsen

THE dark spectre of illiberalism is slowly poisoning Western liberal democracies. You won’t hear about it from much of the left-liberal press. It is part of the problem and its silence only confirms that basic liberties integral to Western liberal [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

And lookit what’s been published in the Washington Post: Tebow’s Super Bowl ad isn’t intolerant; its critics are

I’m pro-choice, and Tebow clearly is not. But based on what I’ve heard in the past week, I’ll take his side against the group-think, elitism and condescension of the “National Organization of Fewer and Fewer Women [...]

Categories: Sports and Leisure

This is amazing:

University of Cairo, class of 1959, and the class of 2004 (spot the difference!):

Class of 1959.Class of 2004.

Click to enlarge. Curtsy: Pajamas Media via Mark Steyn in The Corner who repeats this little anecdote I’ve tried finding before (so here it is again for ye olde external memory drive):

The other [...]

Categories: History

After a BBC video report on the misery – and upcoming elections! – in Darfur:

UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has told African leaders he is outraged by the use of rape as a weapon of war.

After another year of it, maybe he’ll say he’s “shocked”. After another year, “gravely disappointed”. A third [...]

Categories: War and Peace

I like this:

Curtsy: Wheat & Weeds’ eldest weed’s music teacher’s cryptically described lecture to the parents.

Categories: Entertainment

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

Categories: Politics

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 [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

(I had this ready to go at 11 last night but events intervened and prevented me from hitting publish. So I’m doin’ the ol’ back-datin’ trick.)

Reason, on that mammogram backpedal:

Republicans as well as Democrats ridiculed the notion that Americans should be denied any test they want at someone else’s expense. Said Sen. John [...]

Categories: Politics

Instapundit:

NEW HEALTH CARE COST-CONTAINMENT HEROINES! More women choose do-it-yourself births. Soon: Articles on the hip new trend of DIY brain surgery!

The story is about some fool from Ashland, Oregon, who had her baby with just her husband on hand to make sure she didn’t bleed to death. So basically, where the government is [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Carly Fiorina Delivers Weekly GOP Address<br/>

Categories: Politics