How did they go from $250,000 or more to this in a few weeks?
If they continue like that, Joe the Plumber will be considered rich even if he never makes enough to buy that plumbing business he’s always wanted.
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Stanley Kurtz has got the goods on Obama’s past, once again:
Obama’s New party ties graphically illustrate the connection between his troubling “associations” and the core economic issues of the presidential campaign. The New Party’s agenda was radically redistributionist. More important, the New Party’s specific strategy for achieving its economic goals precisely paralleled Obama’s now infamous 2001 radio remarks on “major redistributive change.”
(Via The Corner)
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The result would be something like this.
Pretty clever, if not always funny.
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Nice. I wonder if all model Tivo’s will have this capability. I used to have a DirecTV Tivo and it couldn’t do everything free-standing Tivos could.
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Reuters: Qaeda Wants Republicans, Bush Humiliated.
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Alas, not many protestors, but at least they’re out there.
Via Hot Air.
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First the AP, now CBS. Reality Check: The Cost of Obama’s Pledges.
If his numbers don’t add up, that means he’s either not going to deliver on his promises or he’s going to raise taxes way more on many more people than what he assures us is his plan.
H/T: Instapundit.
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Looks like they definitely could, depending on where you live, even if you don’t work for a federal defense contractor. Communities in certain states derive much income from defense projects.
Via Instapundit.
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NYT: Mourning Old Media’s Decline.
I don’t know that many outside of Old Media are mourning it, but at least my future mother-in-law is. We were discussing the topic yesterday, on the occasion of the Christian Science Monitor’s decision to go web-only.
H/T: Thompson on Hollywood.
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Ask them how they feel about government surveillance.
They probably oppose it, except when it comes to political opponents. Convenient!
It all started like this. But as it tends to be with these things, you only see the tip of the iceberg at first.
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Some Democrats could be seeing that possibility.
Welcome back, Fairness Doctrine! (Not)
What an affront to free speech, really.
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So who is this Rashid Khalidi guy with ties to Obama (and Bill Ayers), and whom the L.A. Times is intent on covering up?
The Middle East Forum has some answers (from a Dr. Fiancee tip).
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So says Rasmussen.
I guess people are paying attention now. Either that or “redistribution” has more resonance than “hope and change”.
Of course, there’s only one poll that counts and that’s not it. We’ll see next week.
(H/T: Hot Air)
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Via Drudge: AP fact-checks Obama’s figures and promises while calling his spin.
This is the AP? I feel like saying “Who are you and what have you done with the news service?”
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The details, plus what it might mean to Google’s dispute with Viacom, at the WSJ’s Law Blog.
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No decision yet from the 9th Circuit, but California’s Attorney General’s office seems intent on taking this all the way; and so do the videogame industry lawyers, who are arguing this new law infringes on the First Amendment.
Via GamePolitics.
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A friend of Anne Thompson’s who also covers the entertainment biz has caught a screening of the new DiCaprio-Winslet starrer, Revolutionary Road
(it’s almost as if they lived happily unhappily ever after post-Titanic). He or she has shared first impressions with Anne and she has posted them here.
I know little about the film, except that it’s Sam Mendes’s new project and that it’s shaping up to become an early Oscar favorite. Evidently it’s an adaptation of a novel of note, but I had never heard of it before.
You can watch a trailer for the film here.
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Via Drudge: No wealth spread Aunt Zeituni’s way?
But why??? I thought Obama was all about fairness!
Oh, right. The thing is to spread other people’s wealth, not one’s own. Got it.
UPDATE: Instapundit has more links.
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National Review’s Jim Gheraty writes “If You’re Going to Worry, Worry About the Right Things.”
Via The Corner.
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Not in Nevada, so far (via Drudge).
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Why She’s Doing It: “Not only has this party belittled working people in this campaign, it has also been part of tearing down two female candidates.”
But there’s more. Give it a read, here.
Via The Corner.
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Talk about Infernal Affairs
: Mexican drug cartels allegedly placed moles in Mexico’s Attorney General’s office and maybe even in the U.S. Embassy.
It has been a bad year for Mexico and its drug war. If true, the moles would partly explain why.
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Drudge has Gallup showing Obama +2 among likely voters under Gallup’s traditional model!
And earlier today the Dow closed almost 900 points higher than it was yesterday.
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In the tradition of that funny A-ha video: now it’s Tears for Fears’ turn.
Funny.
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Cheeky moves: Obama camp falsely claims the endorsement of a big-time conservative think tank.
Via Instapundit.
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Wow. A European leader thinks Obama is too green on foreign policy. Never thought I’d see the day.
Not that I disagree with him…
RELATED: Marc Ambinder wonders if Europe is worried about Obama (H/T: Insty)
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Via Drudge: “The traditional media are playing a very, very dangerous game — with their readers, with the Constitution and with their own fates.”
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Nikki Finke has the Top 10, with analysis. No surprise: High School Musical 3 is Number 1. W, not so much.
I know I’m a little late with the information, but it was a busy weekend and it kind of extended into Monday…
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Via Drudge: October Surprise Extravaganza!
Obama has been talking redistribution of wealth since 2001. In the same speech he finds flaws in the U.S. Constitution.
On the NYT in 2007, he puts down suburbia.
Someone’s been doing opposition research…
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THR: Crisis helps low-rated shows land full-season orders.
Well, this season of Sarah Connor Chronicles certainly hasn’t lived up to the quality of the first one
. I would have expected Fox to cancel it by now, but good for them.
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Biden gets angry and then the Obama campaign blackballs the TV station “guilty” of tough interviewing.
I can just imagine what an Obama Presidency would be like for “non-compliant” media…
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Janet Maslin reviews Donald Spoto’s Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies
for the NYT.
H/T: Thompson.
One more to add to my list!
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NOT SO FAST, GUYS: Obama staffers had to pull their bogus Ohio registrations AND ballots.
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Via Drudge: Government computers used to find information on Joe the Plumber.
An investigation has begun. I thought Obamaniacs were against government spying and all that FISA court stuff. I guess not so much…
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Anne Thompson reflects on “Changeling” after seeing it a second time. She also links to a couple of reviews.
“Changeling” is based on a true story of injustice about a 1920′s Los Angeles woman whose son disappears to the consternation of much of the city. The authorities eventually bring back to her a different boy; and put her in an insane asylum once she protests their ineffectiveness.
Which is just what I would expect our L.A. City Hall to do.
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Via Hot Air: looks like those of us who were uncomfortable with the whole assault and “B” on the cheek tale were on to something.
I guess the backwards “B” is a dead giveaway, but what stunk in my opinion was the delay between the event and the story breaking out.
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Wow. When I saw that the government of perennial financial screw-up Argentina was planning to confiscate private pensions to make up for a lack of funds, I told myself something like that could never happen here.
Looks like I was wrong. The Democrats are planning something pretty close to it if Obama becomes President. Say goodbye to your 401K. And forget about 401K tax breaks.
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Samsung Blu-Ray players that can stream Netflix content! Nice.
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I had linked before to a number of British paper reviews of the new Bond flick. Now here’s a review from our very own Hollywood Reporter.
But concluding that “Craig’s humorless Bond is in danger of becoming simply a very well-dressed but murderous thug”? This must be a darker Bond. But that sounds right, since Quantum is largely a revenge story.
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Biden’s gift keeps on giving…
(Via Hot Air)
