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LIVE AT FIVE – 03.10.11

TOP NEWS Wisconsin Senate Passes Public-Sector Union Curbs Budget provisions stripped from bill, leaving only collective bargaining repeal which is passed by Senate 18-1 Video Sting Roils NPR CEO Vivian Schiller pushed to resign Libyan Rebels Consolidate Gains As Terror Grips Capital Loyalists hiring mercenaries from Mali, Niger as Tripoli neighborhoods purged by security forces, […]

A Gastric Pacemaker

by Smitty Insty’s link invites the question: to what lengths will we go to evade maturity and self-discipline? At a cost of around $21,000 for the device and surgery, Abiliti is slightly more expensive than a stomach bypass and nearly twice the price of a gastric band, says Sarela. However, it should have none of […]

VIDEO: Liberal Punk Tries to Embarrass Herman Cain, Gets Embarrassed Himself

This is four minutes of undiluted awesomeness: Herman’s spent the past few years doing talk radio, and knows how to deal with punks like that. Isn’t it time you joined the online grassroots army at Citizens for Cain?

Feminism: Wrong From the Start

Betty Friedan (left) leads a 1971 protest supporting the Equal Rights Amendment Instapundit links to a column by Barbara Kay that is premised on a counterfactual revisionist narrative: The feminist revolution began as a necessary reform movement, but unfortunately evolved into a marxism-imbued, revolutionary one. Second-wave feminism’s focus soon shifted from women’s equal rights (which […]

Oops: PBS Got Stung, Too

One of my friends who has very close connections to the operatives involved in James O’Keefe’s sting against National Public Radio had hinted in a phone call that I should expect further exposures and — my, oh, my — what do we have here? PBS confirmed Wednesday that like NPR, one of its executives attended […]

‘National Palestinian Radio’ Sting Shows That Liberals Still Blame America First

During James O’Keefe’s undercover video sting of (now ex-)National Public Radio executive Ron Schiller, “Ibrahim Kassan” — pretending to represent a Muslim Brotherhood front group that wanted to make a large donation to the NPR foundation — made a number of provocative statements about Jewish control of the media: “Jews do kind of control the […]

You Don’t Need To Be Cynical, You Need To Be Clear

by Smitty Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF): If you haven’t told me what we’re doing to eradicate Fannie and Freddie, you haven’t told me much. Dan at POWIP chides Stacy for insufficient cynicism. Shag all that. Let us be perfectly clear: individual housing is not, nor has it ever been, a proper federal task. The […]

Missed Metaphor Of The Day

by Smitty The Blaze has a post that mentions a guy who stabs someone else halfway through a trip to the barber, then flees, serving up a great mug shot. However, for an age where everything is political, a better caption was needed:

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