Archive for February, 2006

Weblog Post of the Year

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If there was an award for best weblog post of the year Tom McMahon’s would be on the short list. As a matter of fact, I’m declaring it already. It’s touching, timeless, moving, and full of wisdom.
“What I Have Learned In 15 Years”

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Reynolds’ Bad Politics

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It’s important not to make the perfect the enemy of the good. Unfortunately on the school choice compromise that’s what State Senator Tom Reynolds is doing. Tonight, on Jessica McBride’s show on WTMJ he said he wouldn’t support the compromise unless it included some indexing that would help Milwaukee property taxpayers. I wasn’t sure what […]

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TPA Public Hearing Tomorrow

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Tomorrow there is an important public meeting in Pewaukee on the Taxpayer Protection Amendment. Here are the details provided to me by Americans for Prosperity:
Who: Senate Select Committee on Taxpayer Protection Amendmentand Assembly Committee on Ways and Means
Date: Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: Country Springs Hotel, Woodfield Room, 2810 Golf Road, Pewaukee 53072
Topic: Senate […]

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The MSM, the Olympics, and the War

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Robert Byers at Watchman’s Words compares the Winter Olympics coverage to that of the Iraq War. Here’s a portion:
The Olympics coverage didn’t have the same knee-jerk opposition that the war does, but it did display the same lack of historical perspective and sense of balance that have marked the media’s coverage of the War on […]

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More on Cheney Resignation

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James Joyner doubts the Cheney rumor because
if the rationale for dumping Cheney is that he is a political liability, then why wait until after the only remaining election that directly impacts this president? The GOP could certainly use a boost to help ensure that it retains a majority in both Houses of Congress. Whatever buzz […]

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Waste of Time

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White House correspondents like David Gregory think they’re being made foolish by right wing spinners and an administration that considers the media as another special interest:
David Gregory, the NBC correspondent who has been among the most ardent questioners in the briefing room, apologized for yelling at Mr. McClellan over the Cheney incident but said the […]

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Porn Star’s Wine is Good…Really

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Natalie Oliveros, AKA porn star Savanna Samson, made a wine so good it impressed wine critic Robert M. Parker.
“It’s a very fine wine — awfully good,” Mr. Parker said by telephone. “It was really opulent and luscious and it had a personality.”
I don’t think Savanna serviced Parker to get that review.
I’d make another joke, but […]

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Charlie’s Show Prep #54

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Dick Cheney leaving the White House after the mid-term elections? That’s the rumor. All it is is a rumor, but it’s fun to play “Cheney’s Replacement.”
With a headline reading, “Paper: Coast Guard Has Port Co. Intel Gaps,” I thought Dubai Ports World opponents might have a leg to stand on. John Hinderaker points out later […]

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Lying about an Unprovable Crime

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Here’s more evidence Scooter Libby is being Martha Stewart’ed: he’s being prosecuted for lying about a crime the prosecution can’t prove. This from Byron York:
CIA leak prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald argued at a hearing Friday that, as far as the perjury charges against former Cheney chief of staff Lewis Libby are concerned, it does not matter […]

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Michael Joyce: a Tribute

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When National Review’s John Miller wrote A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America it gave him the opportunity to talk at length with Michael Joyce who ran the Olin Foundation before moving to the Bradley Foundation. Miller briefly collects a few of Joyce’s accomplishments.
To have a glimpse into Joyce’s influential […]

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Still a Snob

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The JB Van Hollen campaign just “informed” me JB has a weblog. Obviously my e-mail address is on one of their media/weblogger lists and no one checked to see I already commented on the weblog. Nothing like an impersonal e-mail to make a weblogger feel special.
To be an equal-opportunity snob (since I have no horse […]

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Charlie’s Show Prep #53

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Lefty weblogs love Sen. Russ Feingold. That’s news only to those who don’t read weblogs. (Yes, another example of me being a snob.)
Michael Joyce is a legend. Maybe the most-important conservative figure of the last 25 years no one has heard of. I know there are many conservatives who don’t know who Joyce is and […]

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Late Night Munchies

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My late night hunger pangs kicked in. It’s time for a tuna fish sandwich. My standard recipe is tuna fish and Miracle Whip. I raided the pantry and fridge tonight. The sweet pickle relish has an unnatural green color (probably irradiated with gamma rays), but it’s sweet and crunchy, the reason it’s in there. The […]

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Somebody Better Check Their Bot

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Adding this humble weblog to this list of “The Best Global Sites XXX” will help my traffic but not do a thing for those in need of a little carnal stimulation.

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So Wicked

Wicked yet funny.
“Michael Jackson’s Favorite Comic?”

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