Let's continue to hold some of these unlawful combatant scum indefinitely.  Yeah, that's the ticket.

You know, if I didn't know better I would suggest that Senator HopeyChangey was simply demagoging the issue during the campaign to score some cheap political points against Chimpy McBushitlerBurton and suck-up to the moonbats.

But that would never happen.  Would it?

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... if the President of the United States were actually trying to destroy the economy of the country - for whatever reason or none at all - what, precisely, would he be doing differently?

Seriously.

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So, how's Barack's ass tasting these days?

The Obama administration has begun serious talks about how it can change compensation practices across the financial-services industry, including at companies that did not receive federal bailout money, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Color me unsurprised...

Retail Sales Drop Unexpectedly in April

Well duh!  People are losing their jobs by the millions - doesn't make one want to run-out and buy that Hi-Def Plasma Big Screen.  But this headline does provide us a nice segue to...


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You're welcome.

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Yeah, I'm sure Chris Buckley's dad would have voted for a far-left radical over John McCain, too.

And by that I of course mean I'm pretty sure he would never, in a million years, have done any such thing.  But hey, must keep to The Narrative^TM, and all that.

The apple did indeed fall rather far from this particular tree.

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I concur.

There's really no good single point to excerpt - it's really best to read the whole thing.


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... I'm with the former Vice President on this one.

We already have one (ultra-)left party in the United States - it's called the Democrats.  If being more like them were the key to electoral success methinks the Massachusetts GOP wouldn't currently be outnumbered in the MA legislature by something like 9-1 (seriously, Google it).

I thank you for your past service to the country, Mr. Powell.  Now I thank you to STFU.

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You probably haven't figured it out yet, but this is your cue to, you know, do something.

You now have, basically, the entire Democrat Party congressional leadership caught in The Big Lie^TM.  Do. Something.

Just about anything would be helpful at this point - and yes, just get past the fact that the MSM is too busy looking for shiny objects to distract the sheeple to care about this.  Do. Something.


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So, let's recap, in a nut shell, what just happened here.

The President of the United States - acting in his capacity as self-appointed ruler of the fucking planet, I suppose - publicly negotiated the bankruptcy of an ostensibly private company (Chrysler) in such a way that the principal benefactors would be - surprise! - huge contributors to the campaigns of he and his political allies.

The negotiated settlement also screwed-over senior (and allegedly secured) bondholders, who will end-up with the table scraps left by the politically preferred, but junior and unsecured, debt holders.

And all of this was just blessed by a Federal Bankruptcy Judge - a 1995 appointee of Bill Clinton, of course.

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Benedict Arlen Specter is learning first hand just how Democrats treat "moderates".

Arlen Specter's switch to the Democratic Party has cost him his seniority on Senate committees. The Senate passed a resolution Tuesday night that made him the most junior Democrat on the committees on which he serves.

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Pakistan (with at least 100 nuclear weapons - need I remind) is in the process of melting down.

The Pakistani Army has finally begun to act against the Taliban and its allies in Swat and Buner, but the effort may be too little, too late.  The government in Islamabad told Swat residents to flee, and more than 500,000 refugees may descend on the capital as the Army prepares to dislodge the extremists after an ill-advised truce allowed them to seize control and initiative.

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Top revenue source for state governments?  Why, it's Uncle Sam, of course!

In a historic first, Uncle Sam has supplanted sales, property and income taxes as the biggest source of revenue for state and local governments.

The shift shows how deeply the recession is cutting. Federal stimulus money aimed at reviving the economy and a sharp drop in tax collections have altered, at least temporarily, the traditional balance of how states, cities, counties and schools pay for their operations.

What could possibly go wrong with that arrangement?

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Videos from when MTV actually played, you know, music.

Here's this week's fave...

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Ladies and gentlemen, Howard Lawrence Carr...

The Boston Globe is dying this weekend, one way or the other. It probably lingers on a while longer, on life support, a Terri Schiavo of journalism, but this comedy is ending the way it was destined to.

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How does Barack's ass taste now, geniuses?

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I know this is pretty much old news by now, but I just want to go on record as saying that I really didn't find very much wrong with "old" America.

You know, the one that rewarded hard work, that had a moral center, that believed in its own exceptionalism, that believed itself to be - on balance, in spite of its faults - good.

That America. "Old" America.

It's this "new" America that I have problems with.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, on behalf of the travel and mass transit industries of the country, the Vice President of the United States of America...

Vice president Joe Biden said today he would tell his family members not to use subways in the U.S. and implied schools should be shuttered as the swine flu outbreak spread to 11 states and forced school closures amid confirmation of the first U.S. death.

"I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now," Biden said when asked whether he would advise family members to use public transportation.

Biden made his comments during a brief interview on NBC's "Today" show during an interview with Matt Lauer.

"I would tell members of my family, and I have, I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now. It's not that it's going to Mexico, it's you're in a confined aircraft when one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That's me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation suggesting they ride the subway. "

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Unless it turns out that I actually am surrounded by morons.

Hopeful signs that the worst may be over for the economy boosted Americans' moods in April, sending a closely watched barometer of sentiment to the highest level since November.

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Awesome.

General Motors Corp. outlined a revamped survival plan Monday that would leave the U.S. government as its majority owner in return for an extra $11.6 billion in federal aid.

The plan includes an ambitious debt-swap offer that moves the auto maker closer to restructuring through the bankruptcy court.

Restructuring as - what?  The automotive equivalent of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting?

Well, looks like President Lightworker is going to get to play Captain of Industry in addition to his nominal day job as President of the United States.

Like I said - awesome.

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