Monthly Archives: January 2010

The Ego Has Landed – Narcissism Edition

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Gaius

Wow. What breathtaking arrogance. Rep. Marion Berry, D-Ark., fears that these midterm elections are going to go the way of the 1994 midterms, when Democrats lost control of the House after a failed health care reform effort. But, Berry told … Continue reading →

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Lions And Tigers and Bears Elephants, Oh My

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Gaius

Or when it all falls apart: Stuart Rothenberg, a political analyst who follows Congressional races, said a report he will release Monday will count 58 Democratic House seats in play, up from 47 in December. The number of Republican seats … Continue reading →

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Women And Children Democrats First

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Gaius

It begins: Arkansas Rep. Marion Berry is expected to announce his retirement tomorrow morning, according to three sources briefed on the decision. Berry will become the sixth Democrat in a competitive seat to leave in the last two months but … Continue reading →

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Creepy

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Gaius

Human bedwarmers. Tweet

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No Rulez

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Gaius

For radicalz. Robert Stacy McCain with a video. Tweet

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When Incoherence Strikes

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Gaius

Three senior administration munchkins, three wildly different estimates of jobs invented or imagined by the economic “stimulus” plan: White House advisers appearing on the Sunday talk shows gave three different estimates of how many jobs could be credited to President … Continue reading →

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You’re Out Of The Woods, America!

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Gaius

The Wizard of O’s maladroit, mendacious munchkin chorus keeps insisting that we’re on the way to economic nirvana, propelled into prosperity by the 700 gazillion jobs imagined or invented by the economic “stimulus” plan in just the past two nanoseconds. … Continue reading →

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Surprise!

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Gaius

He’s got his hands in all that lovely money that the bogus claims of the IPCC funnel to his own organization. …Last week, the IPCC, led by its increasingly controversial chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, was forced to issue an unprecedented … Continue reading →

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The Won To Blame

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Gaius

Mickey Kaus places the blame for the collapse of ObamaCare directly on the Wizard of O: Have I mentioned that the point isn’t that I’m right or Bob’s right–the point is that this is an entire debate we didn’t need … Continue reading →

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The Wizard Of O And His Cowardly Lyin’

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Gaius

Michael Goodwin uses the references to The Wizard of Oz that I have been using for some time in his column today: Just as Dorothy and Toto exposed the ordinary man behind the curtain in “The Wizard of Oz,” the … Continue reading →

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Gunday Evening

Posted on January 23, 2010 by Gaius

Stoeger Cougar, 9mm parabellum, 15+1 magazine capacity. Unusual rotating barrel locking system that does not pivot the barrel down, instead rotating the barrel while keeping it in the same plane. Essentially identical to the Beretta Cougar (it is actually produced … Continue reading →

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Really, Really Important History

Posted on January 23, 2010 by Gaius

One of the most important inventions in all of human history turns 75 tomorrow. All hail canned beer! Be sure to crack open a cold one on Jan. 24, the day canned beer celebrates its 75th birthday. New Jersey’s Gottfried … Continue reading →

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Flying In To Phone It In

Posted on January 23, 2010 by Gaius

Mark Steyn: So what went wrong? According to Barack Obama, the problem is that he overestimated you dumb rubes’ ability to appreciate what he’s been doing for you. “That I do think is a mistake of mine,” the president told … Continue reading →

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That Titanic Feeling

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Gaius

If it is this bad in Washington, DC, home of the Ever-Bloating Federal Bureaucracy™, how bad will it get in the real economy? The District’s 12.1 percent jobless rate is the highest since the government began collecting the data in … Continue reading →

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Sweet Dreams

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Gaius

Charles Krauthammer: Democratic cocooners will tell themselves that Coakley was a terrible candidate who even managed to diss Curt Schilling. True, Brown had Schilling. But Coakley had Obama. When the bloody sock beats the presidential seal — of a man … Continue reading →

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