1. It's Time To Face The Facts On Obama: He's A Moron 1 hour ago   permalink

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Look, I'm as willing as the next guy to cut Obama some slack. He's from a broken home, the first black POTUS, yadda, yadda. But two years in a row and right before a trip to Nevada to try and save his corrupt Senate leader? It's time to face the facts, folks. Obama's a moron. I'm thinking the teleprompter must have been down . They shouldn't let ...

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It's Time To Face The Facts On Obama: He's A Moron Brennan: All Transferred Detainees Who Returned to Terrorism Were Released by Bush, No Recidivism for Those Released by Obama   —  In a letter to congressional leaders sent Monday night, White House adviser John Brennan, the assistant to President Obama for homeland security and counterterrorism, argued that President Obama had made "significant improvements to the detainee review process" under President Bush and pointed out that all the former detainees released ...

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It's Time To Face The Facts On Obama: He's A Moron The Quiet Revolution: Obama Has Remade the State in More Ways Than You Can Imagine   —  These days, liberals don’t know whether to feel betrayed by or merely disappointed with Barack Obama. They have gone from decrying his willingness to remove the public option from his health care plan to worrying that, in the wake of Democrat Martha Coakley’s defeat in Massachusetts, he won’t get any plan through Congress. On ...

2. WONDERING WHY REUTERS WITHDREW ITS “BACKDOOR TAXES” STORY. 56 minutes ago   permalink

WONDERING WHY REUTERS WITHDREW ITS “BACKDOOR TAXES” STORY.
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"Glenn also has a rather dry sense of humour, which I'm guessing not enough people pick up on." -- Andrea See

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WONDERING WHY REUTERS WITHDREW ITS “BACKDOOR TAXES” STORY. White House Gets Reuters To Pull Budget Story   —  Obama administration aides appealed to the Reuters White House reporting team to kill a story by another reporter of the news service that suggested the president's new budget blueprint included "backdoor" tax hikes.

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JIM GERAGHTY: An Incorrigible Way Of Counting Unemployment.   —  "Glenn also has a rather dry sense of humour, which I'm guessing not enough people pick up on." -- Andrea See

3. Obama Administration Secured Help of Abdulmuttalab's Family to Get Him to Share Intelligence 6 hours ago   permalink

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The family of the failed Christmas Day bomber, Umar Farouq Abdulmuttalab, played a pivotal role in getting their son to start cooperating with federal authorities in sharing information about Al Qaeda, a senior administration official said Tuesday evening.

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ABC: Obama Administration secured help of Abdulmuttalab's family to get him to share intelligence Reuters Baselessly Links Obama Budget Plan To "Backdoor Taxes" On Middle Class   —  A February 1 Reuters article - subsequently withdrawn by the wire service -- claimed that the Obama administration's budget plan includes "backdoor tax increases that will result in a bigger tax bill for middle-class families," citing increases to marginal federal income tax rates that would go into effect if the Bush tax cuts were allowed to ...

4. ApocaLost Now 2 hours ago   permalink

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No liveblog tonight (because, are you kidding me? It's TWO HOURS. My fingers would fall off). Plus we have friends from the College and Young Singles over to watch, and I wouldn't be much fun hunched over a laptop the whole time.

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5. $100 Million Bonus Plan at A.I.G. Draws Fire 5 minutes ago   permalink

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The American International Group has agreed to cut employee bonuses by $20 million and will distribute about $100 million on Wednesday, according to people with knowledge of the negotiations.

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6. No Blogging Time Wednesday 2 hours ago   permalink

No Blogging Time Wednesday
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7. Pelican 2 hours ago   permalink

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8. Bad economic talk 2 hours ago   permalink

Bad economic talk
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An Econ 101 student could tell you that this is flat out wrong, and rather dangerous, talk. The government should not cut spending during an economic downturn, or the economic downturn will turn even worse.At a town hall meeting there today President Obama tried to hammer home his message that the federal government needs to rein in its spending ...

9. Spectacular Bid 3 hours ago   permalink

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Thirty years ago today, in a world record time that still stands.

10. Polls in Britain Point to a Tightening Race 3 hours ago   permalink

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With a general election in the United Kingdom due by June 3, 2010, polls now indicate a tightening race. The latest poll by The Independent shows the Conservative party down to 38 percent, down seven points since December, with Labour up two points to 31 percent. The Liberal Democrats polled third with 19 percent. Based on these projections, the ...

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11. McCain appears to shift stance 10 hours ago   permalink

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12. One hour of driving could reduce life by 20 minutes: Study 3 hours ago   permalink

One hour of driving could reduce life by 20 minutes: Study
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TORONTO — Researchers at a Toronto hospital say that every hour spent driving could lead to a 20-minute loss in life expectancy. Using complex computer models, a team at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre determined that, much like how each cigarette smoked takes about five minutes off of a person's life, the more time spent behind the wheel, ...

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13. TT: Almanac 4 hours ago   permalink

About Last Night

"I think that every novelist ought to entertain before he does anything else. And that's very difficult. It's much easier...

14. Poll Finds Dropping Health Care Plan Doesn’t Help Dems. So Pass The Bill! 13 hours ago   permalink

Poll Finds Dropping Health Care Plan Doesn’t Help Dems. So Pass The Bill!
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The latest poll from Public Policy Polling finds that Dems are in a tough spot heading into 2010 whether or not they pass health care reform. While this may make some Dems even more skittish about passing reform, this finding, in a rational world, actually presents a pretty strong case for passing it. The poll finds that Republicans lead in the ...

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15. Bo the Dog Captured in the Snow 5 hours ago   permalink

Bo the Dog Captured in the Snow
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Oh, that Bo . He's (apparently) enjoying the snow storm tonight on the White House lawn. CNN's Ed Henry captures this overly dark (come on, Ed, where's the flash?) shot of FDOTUS, President Obama's Portuguese Water Dog, in the snow as D.C. endures yet another heavy snowfall in less than a week. (We greatly miss Henry's shots of Hawaiian sunsets ...

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Bo the Dog Captured in the Snow A State of the Union Bounce?   —  It's still too soon to gauge whether or not Barack Obama received a lasting bounce from his State of the Union address last week -- but we are beginning to get an indication that he has received a short-term-bounce, at the least. In Gallup polling in the field from January 25 through 27, the last survey in the field almost entirely before ...

16. Largest-ever federal payroll to hit 2.15 million 17 hours ago   permalink

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The era of big government has returned with a vengeance, in the form of the largest federal work force in modern history. The Obama administration says the government will grow to 2.15 million employees this year, topping 2 million for the first time since President Clinton declared that "the era of big government is over" and joined forces with ...

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17. � Kirk wins GOP race 4 hours ago   permalink

� Kirk wins GOP race
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U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk easily coasted to victory in today�s Republican primary for the U.S. Senate seat once held by Barack Obama. With 75 percent of precincts reporting, Kirk had 57 percent of the vote, easily trouncing the field of five other little-knowns candidates.

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18. Giannoulias wins IL Senate primary for Obama's old seat 5 hours ago   permalink

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I sat down with Giannoulias for an hour over the holidays (or maybe over Thanksgiving, I'm clearly getting old). I like him. He seems quite sincere. And earnest. Which is nice, and different, for a politician.

19. I'm Off . . . 1 day ago   permalink

Corner.nationalreview.com

To lunch with Instapundit (oh the schemes we will hatch!). Meanwhile, I won't be online for a while. But if you were following me on Twitter, oh the things you would learn. I'm 805 followers from 6,000, at which point Thorn Industries will take over the Internet.

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20. Family Research Council Spokesman: Gay Behavior Should Be Outlawed 5 hours ago   permalink

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Tonight on the Chris Matthews show, in a discussion about the proposal to repeal the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, “senior fellow” Peter Sprigg of the far right religious group Family Research Council openly said he wants to see “gay behavior” outlawed. Wow. [Video] (Hat tip: ...