Archives for the 'America' Category
Backlash
Published on 7 Nov 2009 at 9:57 am.
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Filed under America, Islam.
Speaking of audacity, the AP has a handwringing piece about renewed Muslim fears of an anti-Islamic backlash, highest ever since 9/11:
Big Guns Make Bad Neighbors
Published on 7 Nov 2009 at 8:26 am.
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Filed under America, Boston, guns, history, military.
I say, Muffy, that deuced gunnery is flattening the bubbly! Old Ironsides’ la-di-da waterfront condo neighbors want to muffle the guns … a.m. and p.m. salutes to the flag, unsettling. Boston Herald:
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Dots, Not Connected
Published on 6 Nov 2009 at 1:10 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, America, Iraq, Islam, Jihad, Palestinians, military.
Not in time, anyway. The murders of 12 people and wounding of 31 others by one man with two handguns probably made a lot of things painfully obvious, and probably helped cut through a lot of clutter and red tape pretty quickly.
But when, within a matter of hours, the following facts and suspicions are widely reported, [...]
“White Men Are Not Very Progressive”
Published on 2 Nov 2009 at 8:25 am.
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Filed under America, Obama.
That’s Matthew Yglesias looking mournfully, or maybe more accusatorily at this electoral map. Sounds like a vast swath of the American elecotrate needs its politics corrected:
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Never Know How You’ll Go
Published on 28 Oct 2009 at 9:41 am.
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Filed under America, courage, history.
I’m guessing he never saw this coming. Silver Star-decorated Normandy, Bulge combat veteran, 87, killed while raking leaves. Salem News:
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Jon & Octomom Plus 22
Published on 19 Oct 2009 at 10:37 pm.
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Filed under America, TV, moronocy, shameless opportunism, shameless self-promotion.
Important tabloid news update … Octomom has a crush on Jon Gosselin:
LIED
Published on 18 Oct 2009 at 9:13 am.
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Filed under America, art, dummkopf!, shameless opportunism, shameless self-promotion.
There’s a lot of Shepard Fairey posts out there. I like the Deceiver.com one. “Shepard Fairey Is A Liar.” Simple, to the point. In fact, it’s almost like the “HOPE” of Shepard Fairey plagiarizing perjurist posts, captures the true Fairey spirit iconically.
News via NYT. But because the Shepard Fairey story is a sort of iconic American charlatan’s [...]
The Truth May Be … Out There
Published on 16 Oct 2009 at 11:59 am.
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Filed under America, TV, UFOs, aircraft, ancient mysteries.
My local radio talk-show pal Michael Graham questions whether its a hoax. How could anyone plan anything that would fly the way that did and attract the kind of attention that did? And what kind of gain could he possibly expect?
I dunno. The guy’s showing all the signs of being a full-throttle crackpot visionary. He claims [...]
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Really Real Reality TV
Published on 15 Oct 2009 at 10:41 pm.
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Filed under America, TV.
I’m not a big fan of charging people for emergency services. But when someone accidentally launches a 20-foot balloon he constructed to conduct lighter-than-air commuting research, and having failed to keep track of their six-year-old, report said tyke is aloft, forcing the local international airport to postpone flight operations, military helicopters to be launched and emergency chase vehicles [...]
The East (Side) Is Red
Published on 1 Oct 2009 at 10:31 am.
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Filed under America, China, commies.
Imperialist Running Dog … excuse me, I mean Empire State Building goes red and yellow for Commie 60th. Big Apple: red not delicious. Fox:
The Ugly American
Published on 27 Sep 2009 at 8:12 pm.
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Filed under America, Obama.
Bruce Walker at The American Thinker basically tells Obama: What you say is what you are.
Truth Hertz Donut
Published on 23 Sep 2009 at 10:10 am.
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Filed under America, Obama, UN.
Today’s bitter breakfast compliments of Nile Gardiner, UK Telegraph, The UN loves Barack Obama because he is weak:
Patrick Swayze
Published on 15 Sep 2009 at 12:04 am.
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Filed under America, Hollywood, commies.
Won’t be down to breakfast. Star of Red Dawn and … some other films,* dead of cancer at 57.
Before & After
Published on 11 Sep 2009 at 10:25 am.
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Filed under America, al qaeda.
Nobody comes out of any given eight-year stretch quite the same person they went in, thanks to normal aging and experience. In time of war, with a sharply defined starting point, the change is likely to be more profound. The banality of a sunny workday morning with all its unremarkable elements rendered sinister and traumatic, [...]
Happy Labor Day!
Published on 7 Sep 2009 at 7:36 am.
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Filed under America, Canada, capitalism, history.
I’ll celebrate the way I usually do … working, and damned glad I have a job. Thanks to the sound and aggressive management of the company I work for, with an owner/publisher who made the tough choices and did what he had to do to keep us going. The unions helped to the extent that the unions got out [...]
Upward Mobility Downturn
Published on 6 Sep 2009 at 9:14 am.
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Filed under America, Obama, history, money.
Happens to coincide with the Great Society, War on Poverty, etc. Imagine that. The social scientists don’t seem to have quite figured it out yet, though. Boston Herald:
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Clinton Had It Right
Published on 1 Sep 2009 at 7:24 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, America, al qaeda, terrorists.
That’s not exactly how he puts it, but that’s what I’m getting off this George Will column, “Time to Get Out of Afghanistan,” which can be summed up quickly: War’s hard. Vietnam was hard, and also impossible, Afghanistan’s harder and more impossible. Abandon now. Cruise missile counterterrorism policy, please.
Woodstock, Celebrating 40 Years Of …
Published on 14 Aug 2009 at 8:00 pm.
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Filed under America, history.
… flaming hypocrisy from the back-to-nature crowd, which trashed a meadow, disturbed the bucolic peace with electronic noise, disrupted dairy operations, narrowly avoided a public health disaster, contributed to the destruction of untold thousands upon thousands of lives, and never looked back … except in self-congratulation!
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Civic Involvement Decried
Published on 7 Aug 2009 at 8:46 am.
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Filed under America, Norman Rockwell, Obama, media, pols.
Paul Krugman among others are fully handwrought over the latest expression of American democracy, decrying the fact that citizens are involved, that they give a damn what their government is doing, that they are mad as hell, etc. Krugman wants to know whatever happened to Rockwellian democracy.
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Propaganda Management 101
Published on 6 Aug 2009 at 12:59 am.
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Filed under America, Clintons, Kim, North Korea, courage, dummkopf!, military.
I was trying to figure out what it was that bothered me about this picture. Bill and all the other hostages look suitably glum, as anyone forced to pose for propaganda shots should. Then I realized what was missing.
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In Which We All Just Get Along
Published on 31 Jul 2009 at 8:42 am.
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Filed under America, Bush, Obama, academia, cops, racism.
The beer thing went off well enough, I guess, though it had already jumped the shark before they actually sat down, even before a Boston cop got himself in hot water by firing off a racist email.* My only comment on that thing last night is … which White House protocol genius forgot to tell everyone the appropriate [...]
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Nanny State Goes To War
Published on 12 Jul 2009 at 1:11 pm.
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Filed under America, military, moronocy, tobacco.
“War is redneck as hell,” as Sgt. Howison observed one hot morning in Baghdad a few years back. He was talking about all the big vehicles, all the blowing shit up, and with all that lead and high explosive flying around the place, all the smoking and dipping and nobody much giving a damn about potential future health threats.
Yeah, [...]
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By George, I think He’s Got It
Published on 5 Jul 2009 at 9:03 am.
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Filed under America, Britain.
“Basil” reports back on his British Fourth of July celebration, after reading yesterday’s Fourth of Old Blighty post:
Ha ha ha ha ha! Laughed so much a bit of wee came out!
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Fourth of Old Blighty
Published on 4 Jul 2009 at 5:01 pm.
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Filed under America, Britain.
Happy Fourth! Just back from taking the kids to get clams and hotdogs at Sullivan’s at Castle Island and watch the USS Constitution’s turnaround. BOOM! Unfortunately, due to budget cuts or something like that, the old girl didn’t make it past Rowe’s Wharf, and no BOOM! So the view was not this good.
A Brit pal … [...]
Rule Of Law By Military Coup*
Published on 3 Jul 2009 at 8:54 am.
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Filed under America, law & order, military.
That’s different. Here’s a Honduran lawyer who says the old Latin American standby is a step forward. Octavio Sanchez lays out the constitutional case for the ouster of the president by the military in Honduras, with consent of several elected and appointed authorities, heralds a bright new day. Christian Science Monitor:
Tegucigalpa, Honduras - Sometimes, the whole world prefers a lie [...]
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The Week Pop Culture Died
Published on 29 Jun 2009 at 7:58 am.
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Filed under America, money, sex, western civilization.
First Ed McMahon. Then Farrah Fawcett. And wham, before anyone really had time to react to that news, Michael Jackson.
Now Billy Mays. Cut down in his prime by a freak overhead luggage bin accident. Allegedly. The black-bearded pitchman has sold his last tub of OxyClean.
It felt like the week pop culture died. So much of our weird, [...]
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BYO Sharia
Published on 23 Jun 2009 at 9:14 pm.
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Filed under America, Iran, Obama.
By special request of American Neocon, as our president prepares to celebrate our nation’s independence by inviting a lot of backward, murderous, Koran-thumping religious extremists to eat U.S. taxpayer-subsidized hot dogs, here’s Angie Harmon. You remember Angie. What a sweetheart. I’m guessing she’d have no problem looking hot, looking All-American and telling off mullahs all at the same time. [...]
Hot Dog Diplomacy
Published on 22 Jun 2009 at 1:42 pm.
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Filed under America, Iran, Obama, food.
Still on, as the Great Satan extends an invite to mullah diplomats on the Fourth. O admin’s Strategic Mullah Hotdog Initiative looks like a pretty dumb idea but that doesn’t mean patriotic American diplomats can’t make it work. Mullah-Proof Your Fourth field guide below. News first from AFP:
Piece Of Work In Progress
Published on 17 Jun 2009 at 2:30 am.
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Filed under America, ancient mysteries, blogs.
Great name of the new blog of the funny and weird Dan Collins, a.k.a. Vermontaigne, because he lives in that state somewhat left and north of where I am currently located that was for some weird part of its history not even part of the United States. When every other state around it was.
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Sacrifice
Published on 11 Jun 2009 at 11:22 am.
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Filed under America, Holodenial, guns, racism.
Stephen T. “Big John” Johns joins the long line of men and women who have given up their lives for others. Washington Post suggests he didn’t have time to react before he was shot by a deranged, hatemongering killer. Two fellow security guards opened fired and took down the gunman. The guards’ union had been pushing contractor [...]
HOT
Published on 29 May 2009 at 7:54 am.
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Filed under America, Bush, GWOT, Obama, military.
Lady Gaga and Small Wars Journal. Both hot. But don’t take my word for it. Rolling Stone:
Since we launched the Hot List in 1986, we’ve had our share of hits and misses (check our cover gallery to revisit all out past Hot Issues, from Angelina to Giselle to Britney). In 1988, we profiled “Hot Character Actor” [...]
You Say Soto-My-YOR, I Say Soda-Meyer
Published on 27 May 2009 at 11:39 pm.
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Filed under America, free speech, gaffes, language.
Let’s call the whole thing off.
Krikorian at The Corner on the “Sotomayor” pronunciation thing notes that Obama went American on it after his initial NPR-like effort at PC ethnophonics, settling on something like “Soda-meyer.” I thought it was a good move. No Grey Poupon on your linguistic burger, dude. Krikorian, who himself endures the constant Yank mispronunciation of his own Armenian name [...]
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Because We Have Nothing Better To Keep Obsessing About
Published on 24 Apr 2009 at 8:27 am.
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Filed under America, al qaeda, lawyers.
And because all the other photos, along with the prosecutions, international condemnation and and political recriminations weren’t enough, the DoD will release 44 more photos depicting possible abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan in response to a 2004 ACLU lawsuit. FOX.
That’s fine. It’s a free country, with a government that is compelled to respond to citizens’ petitions.
What [...]
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It Was About Hope, And Change …
Published on 20 Apr 2009 at 8:21 am.
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Filed under America, Boston, Britain, history, military.
Patriots Day may be the least known American holiday, and the day most deserving of our recognition. Observed by schools and government today in Massachusetts and Maine only. Don’t know it? It marks the day, April 19, 1775, on which Americans took up arms against their king, and bled, at the crack of terrible dawn.
The following collection of first-person [...]
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Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em
Published on 12 Apr 2009 at 9:39 am.
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Filed under America, Europe, free speech.
The assault on free speech from western governments. Jonathan Turley at Washington Post lays out the familiar story of European governments prosecuting speech, with policies and laws designed to to avoid hurting the feelings of people who want to subvert freedoms Europeans struggled for centuries to achieve. Europe more or less deserves what it is getting. Turley [...]
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Welcome To Europe
Published on 9 Apr 2009 at 1:49 pm.
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Filed under America, Europe.
Rasmussen: Just 53 percent of your neighbors think capitalism is better than socialism.
Dive into the numbers and it looks like the “If you’re not a socialist at 20, you have no heart; if you’re still one at 40, you have no brain” thing is at play. Here’s the good news. Everyone’s getting older.
LA Times lefty [...]
Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder
Published on 7 Apr 2009 at 8:27 am.
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Filed under America, Europe, Obama.
Euro love wins Yank approval, as a new poll gives Obama 66 percent overall approval rating on the heels for his mega-junket. CBS:
As President Obama concludes his well-publicized trip to Europe, Americans are more positive about the respect accorded to a U.S. president than they have been in years, according to a new CBS News/New [...]
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Great Taliban Victory
Published on 4 Apr 2009 at 9:32 am.
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Filed under America, Pakistan, crime.
Claimed in Binghamton mass murder. FOX: Pak Taliban chief Baituallah Mehsud “I accept responsibility. They were my men. I gave them orders in reaction to U.S. drone attacks.”
Usually the absurdity of propaganda tends to undercut it. But Mehsud knows his audience. It isn’t us.
Huddled Masses Yearning To Breathe Free
Published on 31 Mar 2009 at 10:27 pm.
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Filed under America, Germans, Nazis, education.
OK, well, maybe not even an entire mass, probably not huddling at all, but two Germans and their kids, anyway, who have fled the bonds of Old Europe. AP: Curricular refugees seek asylum in Tennessee from jackbooted sausage-eating education Nazis.
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Is Nothing Sacred?
Published on 26 Mar 2009 at 12:12 am.
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Filed under America, Hollywood, culture.
Variety: Sean Penn to play Larry, Jim Carrey to play Curly, Benicio del Toro to play Moe in Farrelly brothers Stooge flick. Not a biopic, an actual “Stooge” feature.
Why improve on perfection? Maybe it’s meant to be a tribute. That cast sounds like an abomination. You want a Stooges tribute, have a three-day Stooge-a-thon. Or [...]
On Being Redeemed
Published on 17 Mar 2009 at 7:18 am.
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Shelby Steele at WSJ looks at ”redemptive liberalism” … punishing Americans today for the sins of the past … and its lure to minorities as an obstacle to GOP growth among same.
Not Socialist Enough
Published on 16 Mar 2009 at 7:37 am.
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Filed under America, Europe, money.
Nobel Economics Laureate Krugman at NYT re Europe, about which he frets. He is disappointed that Congress and Obama didn’t drive up the deficit three times higher, and Europe has failed to meet even our current paltry standard for agenda-pushing porkulus. No worries, Krugman, they’re switching to a new system over there, anyway. European Umma.
Meanwhile, NYT reports the Obama [...]
The Brakes Of Wrath
Published on 13 Mar 2009 at 10:34 pm.
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Filed under America, cars, literary.
It looked like a Coen Brothers knockoff at first. Fargo. AP: 3 execs, 81 cars missing from a Nebraska car dealership. Some of the cars have turned up at auction, elsewhere. Employees show up to an empty lot. The owner and a couple of execs are wanted on suspicion of theft.
Then I realized it was Steinbeck, updated. Neo-dustbowl, [...]
Great Depression
Published on 8 Mar 2009 at 10:26 am.
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Filed under America, Boston, history, money.
A couple of comparisons, macro and micro, at the Boston Herald.
Clash Of Uncivilizations
Published on 4 Mar 2009 at 11:24 pm.
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Filed under America, Islam.
Zombie with art and comment on the “Submit To God” bus ad in SF. Fascinating to contemplate liberal, secular, gay San Francisco forced to contemplate even abstractly the cause of not particularly tolerant Islam the Kumbayahists have been shilling for with earnest efforts to undercut the hated Bushitlerites and get them to stop hating us. I support this campaign, and [...]
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How It Ends
Published on 4 Mar 2009 at 9:24 pm.
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Filed under America, Russia, impending doom!, moronocy.
It’s whimper, not bang for us, according to the wackadoo Russky whose apocalyptic vision of America’s future has made him the toast of the Kremlin. Maybe more of a squeal, with some whinging, some ouchy noises, and qjuite a bit of bowing and scraping, according to that map. For those interested in Igor Panarin’s ideas of the collapse of [...]
Five-Year Plan Accelerated
Published on 4 Mar 2009 at 10:04 am.
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Filed under America, Russia, impending doom!.
US to collapse in 2010, split into six rump states by 2011. Given the general lefty gullibility re all things Russian … worker’s paradise, social justice, useful on Iran, etc. … this Ivan economist’s predictions take on a tone of ominous, self-fulfilling prophecy. via FOX:
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Misery Index
Published on 3 Mar 2009 at 11:25 am.
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Filed under America, impending doom!.
BusinessWeek rates the unhappiest cities in America, tops the list with Portland, Oregon, due to No. 1 in use of anti-depressants, No. 4 status in divorce, and 222 cloudy days a year. I dunno. Sounds to me like they’re happy pill-poppers who ditched the ball and chain. Not my lifestyle, but who’s to judge?
I’d have to put [...]
Re Racism, Cowardice
Published on 23 Feb 2009 at 11:26 pm.
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Filed under America, racism.
American Thinker essayist goes to town on Eric Holder.
LTC (ret’d) Allen West does likewise.
Presidents Day
Published on 16 Feb 2009 at 11:26 am.
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Filed under America, history.
Waking up on Presidents Day, 2009, quick check out the window, still looks like America out there. Obama gets a free throw today. No mockery, despite his chief of staff’s revelation last week that mockery is the new statesmanship … at least until you hit the water’s edge, at which point suckupery … sorry, I [...]
