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Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

Reading The Roe Tea Loves

Newsweek has a contribution to the Rove indictment watch, but precious little insight is shed:
Behind the scenes, White House aides—as well as other prominent Republicans in Washington—are nervous that their most valuable political player could be taken out of the game on the eve of a crucial midterm election this fall. “To see him […]

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Monday, May 15th, 2006

Nora Ephron Is Not A Feminist

Why? Because if a person doesn’t support a woman’s right to choose, she can’t be a feminist:
Laura Bush isn’t a feminist. You can’t be a feminist if you don’t believe in a woman’s right to choose.
Well, that’s brilliant stuff…and let me just extend that by saying, if a woman is not free to choose whether […]

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Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

What Are The 5 Issues That Will Most Effect The November Midterms?

USA Today has its own answers, but before you look, pick your own, then see if you agree. The top two, for sure…and you can make a case for four out of five….but I don’t think the paper’s #5 is really that much of a factor…

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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

There’s Gold In That There…er, Gold

Wow - I knew gold was on a tear, but I wasn’t keeping up with it daily. I’m old enough to remember when gold briefly went over $900 an ounce…only to plunge below $500, where it stayed for decades…
This is a strange economy - booming on many (most?) fronts, defensive on others…

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Friday, May 5th, 2006

Anybody Believe This Story?

Going to vote at 2:45 a.m. - disoriented from prescription medications?
Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy crashed his car into a security barrier near the Capitol early yesterday, and officers at the scene suspected that he might have been intoxicated, a police union official said.
Kennedy (D-R.I.) issued a statement late last night — his second in several […]

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Friday, April 28th, 2006

At Long Last - An Open Thread!

I’m off to Vegas, folks, my home away from home…it’s a relatively short trip, and I’ll be back on Monday.
Meanwhile, you get to live the dream - that’s right, it’s the first ever Decision ‘08 Open Thread! Now, if I come back on Monday and you haven’t taken advantage of this, I’m going to […]

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Monday, April 24th, 2006

Global Warming: Myth and Reality

Good piece in the New York Times that attempts to assess what we do and don’t know about global warming, a condition taken as a given by most liberals but still seen as contentious by a lot of conservatives:
Between the poles of real-time catastrophe and nonevent lies the prevailing scientific view: without big changes in […]

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Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

Dallas Night Club Wins Round One

Though the TABC could still rule to revoke the Dallas Night Club’s liquor license, an administrative judge on Friday ruled against the TABC and for Dallas:
An administrative law judge recommended Friday that Dallas Night Club keep its liquor license, saying that the evidence presented in a January hearing did not support the Texas Alcoholic Beverage […]

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Thursday, April 20th, 2006

Strange Bedfellows Department

Mickey Kaus defending Ann Coulter? Believe it…

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Sunday, April 16th, 2006

Happy Easter To You All

Let’s leave aside the troubling news from Iran, even if only momentarily, and get into the spirit of the day. Richard Wightman Fox, author of Jesus In America, looks at two new books about the meaning of Jesus…intriguing reading, to be sure…

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Thursday, April 13th, 2006

Completely Unforgivable Tidbit of the Day

Go to a Drudge ‘Flash’ page, today or any day…like this one, for example…
Now hit the Drudge Report logo…
and you’ll see this:
404 Not Found
The requested URL ‘/matt.htm’ was not found on this server.
This is not a temporary glitch…it’s a permanent flaw - and it’s easily fixed (just make the damn logo link back to http://drudgereport.com)…
Unbelievable […]

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Thursday, April 13th, 2006

A Post Wherein I Correct The AP

There’s been much merriment made over the ridiculous policy of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission to go ‘trolling bars looking for drunk people (much like scouring Las Vegas for gamblers, in my view). It’s not funny to the bar owners, however, and I take issue with this far-too-believing AP dispatch:
The state of Texas said […]

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Sunday, April 9th, 2006

If You’re Looking For A PlameGate Update This Weekend…

…you know where to go!…

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Friday, April 7th, 2006

When The News And Grade-School Humor Collide

The results might look something like this:
“Um, Dude, did you know there’s a blue ring around Uranus?”
(Thank God I have a public outlet for brilliance like this)…

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Thursday, April 6th, 2006

Apocryphal Judas Text Echoes Modern Novel

Or should I say presages? I don’t pretend to be a biblical scholar (I only pretend to be a pundit), and I’m not trying to start any controversies (I would imagine the Decision ‘08 readership ranges from devout faith to strict atheism), but I do find this intriguing, concerning the recently revealed discovery of […]

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Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

Okay, I’ll Hold The Snark

I thought of many things to say about this news from Glenn Greenwald, most of it snarky. So I’ll just say congrats on the book deal - I’m officially jealous. There - I said it…

6 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Mark

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Saturday, March 4th, 2006

The Sad, Sad State of American Education

More evidence that the NEA and, yes, inattentive parents are failing our children - well, your children; my beagle is very well-educated, as far as beagles go (hat tip to the Great Goldstein)…

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Friday, February 17th, 2006

Want A Break From Politics?

Try this fascinating piece in the New Atlantis by Mark Halpern on the Turing Test…if you know what it is, you’ll enjoy the discussion - and if you don’t, you should…

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Monday, February 13th, 2006

Paranoid Much?

What subject, do you, think has been the subject of the last six posts by Josh Marshall at the popular leftie blog Talking Points Memo? Nice job, Josh, you’ve got a Pulitzer in your future for your work on this one…
UPDATE 11:29 a.m.: Just go to the Huffington Post (I know, I know - […]

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Monday, February 13th, 2006

The 2006 Winter Olympics: How Deep Is The Ocean Edition

How bad was Sunday for the U.S. Olympic team? How high is the sky? Here’s Mike Celizic from MSNBC:
Call it Black Sunday, the day the sky fell in on the U.S. Olympic Team. And nothing the team can do during the next two weeks can make up for the opportunities already lost.
The United States […]

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