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Shelly Silver Has to Go

Pay close attention to the deafening silence coming out of Albany legislators right now. It tells you everything you need to know about the reality of politics. It shows how power trumps the rights of victims. And it demonstrates the appalling lack of courage in electoral politics today. It’s been over a week since we […]

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The Liberal’s Alarm Bells

There were a lot of great lines at the Republican National Convention this week. Clint Eastwood‘s “We have to let him [Obama] go” was one of them. Condoleezza Rice‘s “There is no country — no, not even a rising China — that can do more harm to us than we can do to ourselves,” was up there, too. But the […]

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Mitt Romney and the “Something” to the Obama “Nothing”

For all the similarities between President Obama in 2012 and President Carter in 1980 – and there are many – a nagging truth for Republicans is that Jimmy Carter tends to be defined by reference to President Reagan as much as by reference to Carter himself. In 1980, Carter didn’t have much to brag about, […]

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What’s that In the Air in Tampa? It’s Optimism.

There’s something in the air in Tampa, and it’s not rain. You can feel it in the hotel elevators and while on line for coffee at Starbuck’s. At first I confused it with good manners — I’m not staying with theNew York delegation but with effusively nice Midwesterners instead. But that’s not it either. What I’m feeling […]

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Neil Armstrong, RIP

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Abortion, The Verboten Topic

No Republican I know wants to be talking about abortion right now. But Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin has made that impossible. So let’s talk about it for a moment. But can we do it in a calm and rational way? Probably not. Because any frank discussion of the staggering quantity of abortions in the United States, or of its new forms, […]

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Video: Instant Celebrity

A friend of mine and I almost did this in the early 1980’s — we even printed business cards for the endeavor — but thought better of it upon reflection and canned the idea.  All I can say from this hilarious video is “Wow! It actually works.” Very funny stuff.  video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player

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The Nanny State Diaries: What the Fauquier?

Via Ed Morrissey at HotAir: What does every 10-year-old girl want for her birthday?  A big party and lots of room to have fun.  My own 10-year-old granddaughter had her campout/sleepover birthday party at our house three months ago.  Fortunately, we’re not farmers in Fauquier County, Virginia — where we would have had to apply […]

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What Notre Dame’s New Uniforms Say

Notre Dame stirs passion in college football fans — you either love ’em or hate ’em. But the team’s new helmet and uniform should, for once, bring us all together in revulsion and alarm. It’s tough to describe the new team duds, which will be worn just once this season. But suffice it to say […]

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Boston Market Unsalted

Boston Market announced today that is pulling salt shakers from the tables of its 476 locations. Instead, it will have a solitary shaker near where napkins and cutlery are kept.  I’ve been super critical of New York City’s nanny-state policies, but in this case, good for Boston Market — if that’s what it wants to […]

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