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The Virginian: “Party Crashers” had five-year relationship with Obama before state dinner

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:08:00 -0500

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Could it be that they were not "party crashers" at all? How do you crash a party ...when they came into the tent with a Bravo Reality TV Show “Real Housewives of DC” professional camera crew and makeup artist in tow ...? [...]

Brutally Honest: Behold, thy King cometh unto thee

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:53:43 -0500

Posted by guest blogger Fr. D.

Advent 1

Romans 13:8–13

St. Matthew 21:1–13

+ In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

Romans 13:12 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us [...]

Brutally Honest: Obama's brilliant first year

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:51:11 -0500

Chronicled nicely by Chris Muir's Day by Day cartoon:

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Brutally Honest: Iran emboldened by Western weakness (UPDATED)

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:35:17 -0500

Ahmadinejad is clearly thumbing his nose at Obama:

Iran's government will build 10 new sites to enrich uranium, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday, a dramatic expansion of the country's nuclear program and one that is bound to fuel fears that it is attempting to produce a [...]

Pen and Sword: Bananastan Delusions

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:15:00 -0500

Number of comments: 5

President Obama’s Dec. 1 speech about his decision on the Bananastans (Afghanistan and Pakistan) is unlikely to surprise anyone. The sanctioned leaks have been coming fast and furious the past few days, and it appears that Gen. Stanley McChrystal will get what he asked for. Maybe.

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Brutally Honest: 4 police officers ambushed, killed

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:45:47 -0500

Near Washington State Air Force Base:

Four police officers were shot dead in an ambush at a Washington state coffee house, a sheriff's official said' [...]

VB Dems: Sen. Mary Landrieu Channels Sen. Frank Wagner: "Shit Happens"

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:49:41 -0500

Louisiana's Sen. Mary Landrieu was presented with the facts surrounding offshore drilling at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee last week. First, she accused those testifying against drilling of lying. Then standing in front of a large poster of the flaming Australian oil platform, she exclaimed "The fact" [...]

Journal: SUNDAY MORNING TALKING HEADS

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:12:54 -0500

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Brutally Honest: The global warming house of cards is on the verge of collapse

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:26:08 -0500

So much for peer review:

SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.

It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to [...]

Brutally Honest: Bush allowed Bin Laden to escape!

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:10:38 -0500

Posted by guest blogger Locutisprime.

Look for that headline, just as soon as John Kerry and his staff members on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and their Democratic majority operatives can package and sell this tripe to their minions in the media.

Senate Report: [...]

Tidewater Liberty: Beating Trees into Hockey Sticks

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:32:22 -0500

Not that you would know it from the mainstream press, but the largest economic fraud in history, greatly dwarfing the housing bubble, has just been revealed. The press on this side of the Atlantic is carefully avoiding it, but in Britain, where there is still a free press, Climategate is [...]

SmartRegion.org: The USS Monitor

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:39:00 -0500

James River, VA. Close-up view of officers on the Deck of the U.S.S. Monitor near the turret. Taken July 9, 1862 (photo: James F. Gibson, b.1828)
(source: United States Library of Congress)

It was the most celebrated ship in the U.S. Navy at the time, [...]

The Virginian: Deb Saunders and Sarah Palin - Why the chattering classes don't understand her.

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:34:00 -0500

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Deb Saunders writes for Townhall.com and the San Francisco Chronicle. Neither fish nor fowl nor good red meat, Deb reflects the Republicanism that lost the 2008 election. You can tell how her column on Palin’s book, “Going Rogue,” is going to turn out by her opening paragraph, referring to Sarah [...]

Bearing Drift: Cash for Flunkers

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:24:55 -0500

SNL just nails it in this skit. My favorite line at 3:21 states “each of your plans to save money involves spending even more money”

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