Q&A Friday #104: Imagining A Fight Scene Between Blade And Edward Cullen
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Question: “Please describe, in detail, with dialouge, your version of a vampire fight between Blade and Edward Cullen.” — President_Friedman
Edward Cullen: Hi! I like baseball and I sparkle! Can we be pals?
Blade: Some motherf*cker’s always tryin’ to iceskate uphill.
Edward Cullen: Did I mention I’m over 100 years old and I like to date high school...
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Q&A Friday #104: Why Shouldn’t We Want To Copy Our European Pals?
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Question: “I am 45 and I work with and am somewhat influential with smart, younger people (25-30), most of who voted for Obama. To them “socialist”, “big government” and “european model” are not a scary thing. What would you say to someone who is not a dyed in the wool anti-capitalist, but who has been...
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Q&A Friday 104: What Will Obama Do If Libs Take A Beating In 2010?
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Question: “If the republicans take the House next year, do you think that Obama will moderate and work with republicans, like Clinton, and have a shot at reelection at 2012; or he is just too liberal for that and will continue with his policies, risking defeat at 2012?” — gustn
Question: “Having proven yourself over the...
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Q&A Friday #104: Why Is ObamaCare So Bad If Social Security And Medicare Are So Great?
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Question: “How would you answer Kristof’s “Wrong Side of History” piece in the 11/18 NYT? If Medicare, Social Security and similar past advances of the welfare state didn’t do us in, why should anyone believe this one (healthcare takeover) will be the one that kills our economy? Are we suffering from a “boy who cried...
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This Week In Quotes: November 13 – 19
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So the problem with the party regulars in Washington, who seem to be too much detached from real people, is they’ve got what I call this itty bitty schizophrenic concept of a Big Tent — which is we’re going to have a party where half of our candidates run like Ronald Reagan and the other...
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Frightening Democratic Incompetence: No Need To Interrogate Bin Laden?
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I’d be perfectly happy if Osama Bin Laden caught a bullet to the brain, got hit with the business end of a missile, or if a few of our GI’s were just to up and decide to impale the son-of-a-b*tch on a sharp stick for the fun of it.
However, if we do capture Osama Bin...
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Tabloid Trash Beat: Obama Has LUNG CANCER!!!
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When I saw this cover on the Globe, you just know I had to grab it:
This is an intriguing choice for the Globe because you may be able to hide a temper tantrum or an “enemies list” from the public, but you can’t really hide lung cancer for that long. So, if you were going...
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While I was at the Freedomworks event in Raleigh last week-end, I got an opportunity to interview former House Majority Leader and Freedomworks Chairman, Dick Armey. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of my interview with him.
Should the official Republican Party stay out of primaries?
You know, my general attitude is that everybody has got...
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Doing The Jaz McKay Show At 4:07 PM EST
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I’m doing the Jaz McKay show at 4:07 PM EST. You can listen here.
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Obama: Questions About The Race Factor
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Simple question: look at the difference between Obama’s approval rating with white Americans and black Americans and tell me whether you think that’s healthy for our country?
The President has a yawning gender and racial gap, with women approving his job performance 52 – 37 percent, compared to men’s 47 – 44 percent disapproval. He gets...
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“Too Big To Fail” Should Mean “Too Big To Stay Together”
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While I haven’t seen much analysis of the legislation Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.) is offering up and am suspicious of it, because he’s a liberal Democrat, I do agree in principle with the idea of what he’s trying to do here:
Rep. Paul Kanjorski has proposed dramatically expanding the power of federal regulators to dismantle large financial...
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Excuses, Excuses, Excuses: Why Independents Are Abandoning The Democratic Party
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One of the great lousy things about politics is that everything, no matter how obvious it may appear, can be twisted, spun, and finagled to serve one side or the other.
If you want to see this in action, take a look at an article in the Politico called “Dems alarmed as independents bolt.”
You see, independents...
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Five Terrible Cruelties of Liberalism
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“You will find that I am kind. Unlike the cruel Leonidas, who demanded that you stand…I require only that you kneel.” — King Xerxes, 300
Liberalism is an extraordinarily deceptive, ruinous and cruel ideology. That’s because liberalism comes, arms wide open, whispering sweet words of compassion and pity, even as it forcefully slams down a boot...
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Debate #3 Of 3: John Hawkins Vs. Conor Friedersdorf: What’s Your Advice For The Right Going Forward?
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(Hawkins’ Note: Conor Friedersdorf challenged me to a debate. I accepted. This is the third of three posts from the two of us on this subject. A link to Conor Friedersdorf’s posts will be listed at the end of the article.)
In our 2nd back and forth, Conor said:
Despite the fact that we even agree on...
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* Politics today: Figure out how they’re lying to you. Figure out who really benefits. Figure out how to get them to listen
* Healthcare reform has very little to do w/ improving healthcare & a lot to do w/ giving gov’t more control of people’s lives.
* Charlie Crist’s only hope of winning a GOP primary...
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The FreedomWorks Rally In Raleigh (12 pics)
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The fine folks over at FreedomWorks brought me in to do a speech at a rally in Raleigh, NC last week-end.
I drove down on Friday and that night, my pal Lorie Byrd picked me up at the hotel and took me over to a BBQ place where FreedomWorks was holding a little shindig for some...
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This Week In Quotes: November 6 – 12
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A Veteran knows things: He knows life is precious, because he’s seen life cut short. He knows life is strange, because those that should die live and those who have the most life sometimes die. He knows life is not easily wrapped up in a box philosophically. He knows that plans fail. He knows there’s...
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Because Barack Obama has been so dangerous, dishonest, and incompetent on the home front, many people have lost sight of how much of a bumbler he has been abroad. Seriously, we’ve got Jimmy Carter redux on the foreign policy front.
Obama got juked out of his shoes by the Russians, he has already taken too long...
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Why Devout Radical Jihadists Go For Lap Dances
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Many people seem puzzled that devout radical Muslims might go out for a lap dance before they go on a murder spree. So this might make them scratch their heads:
Hasan was a regular customer at a club close to the Texas military base and on one occasion spent six hours there watching women poledancing.
His behaviour...
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Christianity And Same Sex Marriage Are Incompatible
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If you say you’re a Christian and support same-sex marriage, I would tell you that you’re mistaken about one of those beliefs. Supporting gay marriage is not compatible with Christianity and more Christians should be willing to stand up, like the Catholic Church in DC, and say so:
The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that...
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Letting Students Buy Better Grades?
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No matter how much money we pour into the school system in this country, we get incessant complaints that the schools are underfunded. Worse yet, we hear gripes that teachers can’t get the supplies they need to do their jobs.
Yet, nobody ever seems to ask the basic questions: Does pouring more money into a school...
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It can sometimes be a little difficult to know for sure how the Founding Fathers would have viewed certain aspects of modern society. However, we can be certain that they would have been absolutely appalled by the emergence of the “career politician.”
Because of gerrymandering, party politics, and the rise of heavily monied interest groups, we...
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Debate #2 Of 3: John Hawkins Vs. Conor Friedersdorf: What’s Your Advice For The Right Going Forward?
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(Hawkins’ Note: Conor Friedersdorf challenged me to a debate. I accepted. This is the second of three posts from the two of us on this subject. A link to Conor Friedersdorf’s posts will be listed at the end of the article. The last post from each of us will be run on Fri.)
After reading Conor’s...
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