The Other McCain

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It’s FDIC Bank Failure Friday!

Associated Press: Regulators have shut down two Florida banks and one in Virginia, lifting to 113 the number of U.S. bank failures this year. That count evidently omits today’s announced closure of Chicago’s ShoreBank. Bloomberg News reports: ShoreBank Corp., the Chicago lender operating under a Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. cease-and- desist order for 13 months, […]

I’d Vote For A Frickin’ Wiccan

by Smitty . . .if that candidate took the Oath of Office in a serious way. Note to conservatives fretting un-knowable aspects of the Presidential character (is he Moslem?): nice gills. This argument joins Birtherism in the list of shiny, tangential arguments that can be used to manage the tempo of the news cycle. As […]

Dan Collins Is an Evil Right-Wing Islamophobic Neocon Hatemonger

Really, it’s a miracle he doesn’t have his own syndicated talk-radio show and a primetime slot on Fox News: At least AP journalists are able to refer to it as a mosque, though I’ve been challenged on those grounds as well, by sympathizers who feel that they can defuse the issue by characterizing it instead […]

WARNING: Polls Are Not Campaigns

Instapundit links Fisherville Mike’s caution against over-optimism turning into apathy for Republicans. Meanwhile, Karl Rove is trying to forecast the relationship between “generic ballot” polls and the likely GOP gains in November. WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! If all you’re doing is following the national polls — Obama’s numbers down, Republican numbers up — you are seriously […]

The Obama Obsession

Da Tech Guy‘s habit of watching Morning Joe on MSNBC, to get a daily read on what liberals are thinking, is a habit I’ve started to adopt. It’s interesting to watch the Obama-centric worldview in action. Today, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinsksi spent a full ten minutes discussing with Savannah Guthrie and Evan Wolfson this Pew Poll that shows […]

Ace Is Absolutely Killing

When he’s on, he’s really on: It would never even occur to me, or any decent person, to erect a Museum of American Achievements in Aviation in Hiroshima. And here he makes an analogy so brilliant I’m ashamed I didn’t think of it myself. Having been endlessly lectured by our enlightened betters about the need to be […]

Malibu Plastic Surgeon Dies in Car Crash; Was Driving While Texting About His Dog

Not an Onion parody: Dr. Frank Ryan, plastic surgeon to Heidi Montag and other celebrities, was sending Twitter messages about his border collie before his fatal car accident. The California Highway Patrol is investigating whether Ryan was texting at the time he crashed Monday . . . A close friend of Ryan’s says Ryan sent […]

SHOCKER: Doctors Say Lindsay Lohan Doesn’t Actually Have Mental Disorder

She’s not technically crazy, she’s just a part-time lesbian who sometimes makes bad decisions like driving drunk and bleaching her red hair blonde: [T]he doctors who have evaluated Lindsay Lohan at UCLA have concluded she does not suffer from the drug or psychiatric problems that were previously diagnosed. . . . We’re told Lindsay has […]

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