CulperRing: Increased foreign pressure leads to Yemeni takedown of a top Al Qaeda brass.
‘Bout time.
That’s Dr. Fiancee’s blog, by the way. So read it…
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As some of you may know, R.S. McCain was in Southern California last week apropos of the Texas/Alabama BCS game. I spoke with him early in the week, by phone. But, as I was wrapping up story-producing an episode of a Discovery series (more on that closer to its debut), I was unable to meet him in person.
Last Saturday, however, I gave R.S. a ring while I was running some errands in L.A.’s Miracle Mile district. He was in Burbank, hanging out with Joe Fein of Valley of the Shadow. I headed into the Valley at once to introduce myself in person, as he was leaving town that evening.
Foolishly, I didn’t bring a camera with me, but at least I connected in person with both bloggers; and that was nice. While visiting, I also had the opportunity to speak on the phone with R.S.’s sidekick and co-blogger Smitty. Not bad for a quick visit on a Saturday afternoon.
Joe and R.S. left soon after for the Altadena Tea Party and I went back to do errands. I had to work Sunday, so Saturday was not exactly a leisurely day, except for meeting these fellow bloggers. Looking forward to the next time!
Now, with my show wrapped up, I’m back on the job hunt. Which reminds me: would you be so kind as to hit the tip jar? Karma – and I – will thank you!
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A Boston family is trying to figure out how their pet cat was summonsed for jury duty.
This story is really getting the “weird and wacky” treatment here. Great to wrap up the evening newscast. But this is probably ACORN’s work. And there’s nothing funny about ACORN, unless you think child prostitution is funny…
UPDATE: Related (marginally): They’re gonna need a lot more cats: Majority would vote against Obama re-election.
No crap.
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Ed Driscoll on Pat Robertson’s latest stupid utterance.
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So much for the potency of ridicule. Alinsky Rule 5 ineffective when John Yoo meets John Stewart.
(H/T: Instapundit)
UPDATE: Insta-lanche! Thanks for the link, Prof. Reynolds!
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The Supremes are so not ready for some football.
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R.S. McCain catches a train to – as Democrats might say – Massachewsettes, to cover the Brown campaign: “We’re all teabaggers now!”
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Karl Rove: “On many of the most basic issues raised in the campaign, and in describing the kind of leadership he would practice, Mr. Obama misled voters.”
A nice catalog of Obama’s many broken promises.
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Sad, indeed…
UPDATE: Speaking of play, God forbid a TSA employee should get too bored while on the job (although, in all fairness, the picture at the link is from an airport security checkpoint in Italy).
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Reason: How public servants became our masters: “Exempting themselves from traffic laws in the name of a threat that no longer exists is bad enough, but what government workers do to the rest of us on a daily basis makes ticket dodging look like child’s play.”
Sad, but true – especially here in California. It’s a long piece at the link, but give it a read.
Then take the Galt exit and turn right! And fight your way back to limited government…
Related: John Romano’s very own petition initiative to limit California public employee pensions. Still under review by the California AG.
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…at Nikki Finke’s blog, where she’s been constantly updating as she gets the latest scoops.
Related: the legal ramifications of the Conan/NBC disagreement.
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Almost three years and thousands of dollars in legal fees later, the saga of Rathergate comes (very probably) to an end: Rather Loses Appeal In CBS Case.
But don’t relax just yet. “Fake but accurate” will likely remain a standard practice in the legacy media for a long time to come…
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Never cross anyone with engineering skills…
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But a hell of an office prank: Paintball landmines.
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Liberalism at its most representative (but this time on land as opposed to the high seas).
Maybe we should convince Democrats that their prospects in the 2010 midterms aren’t really so bad, what with them being “at hope” of losing control of the House and Senate.
(Via Insty)
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…about firearms, religion, freedom, and common sense.
Who is Mark Muller and why isn’t he working for the Reason Foundation or the CATO Institute?
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His racist comments have been downgraded to merely “indelicate” on the LAT. Whew!
On the print version – which I was able to read during a break from work yesterday – they were labeled “impolitic” instead. So Reid’s comments have gone from “racist” to “impolitic” to “indelicate” in less than 36 hours. Well done, Senator!
Plus, “The real scandal is comparing him to Trent Lott.”
The real scandal is that the current focus on the double standard at work here has taken so long to bring about…
The real scandal is comparing him to Trent Lott
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Anne Thompson speculates after the big news that Sony scrapped the project for a different, younger version sans Sam Raimi and the original cast. No director is attached yet.
“Let’s hope it’s not McG.”
Ha!
UPDATE: Lots more at the LAT.
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Charles Gasparino: How Obama’s routing the recovery.
But owners of small businesses — the usual engines of economic growth — are still refusing to hire back workers as they normally do when the economy turns up from a sharp decline.
Talk to them, and they’ll gladly tell you why: Having weathered the recession, they now fear the administration will choke off the nascent recovery and increase their costs through higher taxes to pay for the myriad of programs President Obama has in store for us, including the hyperexpensive health-care overhaul.
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Ben Smith: The Clintons Stand Alone:
What’s notable about the highly publicized release of “Game Change,”…is the virtual silence from the Clinton camp. The lack of public outrage seems to mark the sputtering end of what was once known as the Clinton political machine and underlines a fact that onetime Clinton loyalists acknowledge: The book’s primary sources about the former candidate and current secretary of state are her own former staffers and intimates.
Outplayed by the Chicago Machine…
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“This Mark Fiore animated cartoon has been out there since June 2009, and I had no idea.”
Mark Fiore, of all people!
It didn’t fit the narrative at the time, so it was buried. Now that the Obama bubble has burst…
Via @EdDriscoll
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If you were on a small boat, would you try to ram a larger boat?
Doing it to save the whales, won’t change the result, you know?
It’s the activist equivalent of beer muscles: cause muscles.
People on this show are generally smarter. As are the people who produce the show.
Just sayin’…
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Daily Beast‘s March Thiessen says you can’t possibly blame the CIA for failing to do what it’s not allowed to do in the first place. Namely, interrogating terrorists.
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The Corner: Government jobs have overtaken goods-producing jobs.
I believe economists call this Californization. At least it’s starting to look that way.
The big question in 2010 and 2012 will be “has big government made you better off?”
How we answer that question will decide our nation’s character for generations to come.
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I should have done this in Cannes three years ago. Kicking myself over the omission…
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So Robert Stacy McCain is in my neck of the woods. Sort of. Just talked to him about 90 minutes ago. He’s in SoCal, but staying in the O.C. – over an hour’s drive from my Hollywood digs and my Burbank workplace – hanging out with Professor Douglas of AmericanPower as they prepare to attend the Alabama/Texas game in neighboring Pasadena tomorrow night (great town, by the way). R.S. is a big Alabama fan, as you might already know.
They’re getting together for drinks in my old stomping grounds of Redondo Beach with LittleMissAttila, GayPatriot (Daniel Blatt, I presume), and who knows who else. If I still lived in Redondo I’d certainly drop by, but I’m too tired after another long day of making quality television for your viewing pleasure. It was great to speak with R.S., though. Class act. Expected no less.
I hate to disappoint him, but I’m a native Texan and I attended the University of Texas at San Antonio for 2 years, before transferring to NYU. So I cannot possibly root for the Crimson Tide.
Sorry, Stacy. Hook’em Horns!
And yes, Dr. Fiancee and I are homebodies…especially on weeknights!
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Lawyers for Phillip K. Dick’s estate – he of Blade Runner fame – sue Google for naming the Google-phone Nexus One.
But their arguments are far from iron-clad…
(via THR, Esq.)
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I’m exhausted…and I just got back to the show on Monday! I think I’ll get little blogging done today, as a result. I have 6 business days left on the show, though. So I guess I should start catching up on sleep – and start looking for another job – very soon.
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Sharon Stone as cautionary tale.
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Blogprof: Were They Going To Tell Us? TSA Considers Passengers A Layer of Security to Stop Terrorist Attacks.
So we’re all the last line of defense. Who knew!
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This is really out of control. We’ve entrusted transportation security to people who can’t even use a Rolodex?
UPDATE: The horror: Imagine if the same people ran healthcare facilities…
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TNR compares Obama to Herbert Hoover…”but it doesn’t have to be that way”, their headline adds: “Hoover’s example shows that a person who is highly qualified to be president and who boasts significant accomplishments in office can still fail because of the enormity of the challenges he faces.”
Let’s leave the “highly qualified” alone for a moment. But “can still fail”? Come on. Has anyone looked at unemployment lately? (Scroll all the way down, at the link)
Of course, TNR wasn’t the first one to compare Obama to Hoover. That sort of happened by accident last year:
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The Onion: Obama’s Home Teleprompter Malfunctions During Family Dinner. Oh, they managed to work a Reagan joke into the script. Don’t you worry, Media Matters…
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Ha! Ed Driscoll sees a touch of the Coppola-esque in the White House this week.
But I must remind him that the spirit of The Godfather saga has very much been at the heart of this administration since early last year.
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Via American Power.
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Avatar is looking more and more like the King of the World; and remains the #1 movie in box office sales domestically. The Alvin sequel, Sherlock Holmes, It’s Complicated, and The Blind Side round out the Top 5.
Nikki Finke has the figures and analysis.
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NY Post: “The deep-pocketed Alavi Foundation has aggressively given away hundreds of thousands of dollars to Columbia University and Rutgers University for Middle Eastern and Persian studies programs that employ professors sympathetic to the Iranian dictatorship.”
And so the corruption of American academia continues…
(Thanks to Dr. Fiancee for the tip. Don’t forget that she blogs on national security goings-on at her very own blog, here)
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NYT: Audiences Laughed to Forget Troubles.
Forget? Maybe in the fantasy world the NYT inhabits. You know, the one where the Denial School of Journalism happens to be.
You can bet there will be no forgetting in 2010. If it seems that way, it’s because Tea is better served cold. But for those who like it hot, there’s hot Tea coming up, too.
Also on the menu: a lot of Instant Karma, which will stay hot for months to come. You can be sure of that.
And if you feel sorry for Obama, don’t. He can only blame himself.
