January 19, 2010
Politifact notices Mass. Senate race

But only to note that President Barack Obama has done a full-flop on the benefits of independent politicians.

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January 17, 2010
Bias in media coverage

There’s lots of ways that the media can inject their biases into their coverage. Several years ago my case study of how The New York Times buried the lede in the the race for a Maryland Senate seat got me a mention in a media criticism textbook. But burying bad news deep down in a […]

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January 16, 2010
Why Martha Coakley should be hounded from public life

Martha Coakley is the attorney general of the state of Massachusetts and the Democratic nominee to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy in Tuesday’s special election. Coakley shouldn’t be given any position of public trust – even dogcatcher – as Pulitzer Prize winner Dorothy Rabinowitz noted last week in the Wall Street Journal. I strongly encourage you […]

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January 13, 2010
AP reporter demonstrates self to be hack – yes, AP reporter

A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing – a fact demonstrated by Mark Sherman of the Associated Press reporting on this morning’s Supreme Court session. Scalia (yes, Scalia) invokes foreign law in court By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer Mark Sherman, Associated Press Writer – Tue Jan 12, 2:45 pm ET WASHINGTON – Supreme […]

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January 11, 2010
Winning the general

Jillian Bandes, a columnist over at Townhall.com, has a piece up likening the upcoming Senate race against California Democrat Barbara Boxer as a potential repeat of the Dede Scozzafava debacle in NY-23 last year in which RINO Scozzafava split the conservative vote allowing the Democrat to win the House seat. With memories of NY-23 fresh […]

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January 11, 2010
Losing all credibility

In a post last month I mistakenly identified the incorrect state for Rep. Mike Pence. A couple of commenters – who apparently came here from a left-leaning site – claimed that the mistake proved I had “lost all credibility” and conveniently ignored the larger point of the post. I quickly – and accurately – corrected […]

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January 7, 2010
Pod people

Who is this guy and what has he done with Jack Cafferty? Welcome to the real world, Jack.

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January 7, 2010
Better to be thought a fool…

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano would be advised to never speak in public again. Where has this woman been since 9/11/2001? She really thinks that it’s a new tactic of using a single suicide bomber? Maybe she’s never had to take off her shoes at the airport. There’s been some criticism in the […]

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January 4, 2010
The next boxer bomber

President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have decided that the man who attempted to blow up a plane in midair and kill nearly 300 people is a common criminal who deserves all the rights granted citizens of the United States. In an interview yesterday on “Fox News Sunday,” assistant to the president for […]

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January 3, 2010
Interesting eminent domain strategy

Friday’s Wall Street Journal recounted an interesting tactic used by Columbia University in order to get an area declared “blighted” so that it could create a research and academic facility. Columbia can’t use the Kelo justification because the university will not bring in more tax money than the existing businesses and private property, so they’ve […]

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