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Tweet What made Andrew Breitbart extraordinary was that he understood that the best way to make a point was to show Progressives in the act of being hypocritical.  This is different from what the conservative blogosphere is doing (and doing quite well, I might add), which is to report on hypocrisy when it happens.  This [...]

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Tweet I am really becoming a fan of Kevin Williamson, over at National Review.  Today, he goes beyond Progressives’ superficial characteristics (wealth reallocation, gun fear, etc.), and digs deep into their values and their psyches.  It’s fascinating reading on its own terms.  It’s also extremely useful because, as Williamson himself says, you have to understand [...]

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Tweet Wayne LaPierre, the NRA’s executive VP, says that our violent culture is to blame for gun violence and that, as long as the culture is what it is, school children should have police protection.  Despite the fact that the majority of Americans agree with him, the drive-by media is excoriating as if he had [...]

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Tweet I have to admit that I can’t stomach more than one or two seconds at a time of Rachel Maddow.  She’s such a party hack that, even if one stops pretending that she’s a journalist, she doesn’t come anywhere near being entertaining.  She’s also in touch with her Leftism by being fiercely anti-Israel (an [...]

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Tweet One of the really icky things about the Left is that it lacks a moral compass.  There is no good or evil.  There are only evil haves and victimized have-nots. In a sane moral universe, cultural arbiters would readily be able to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys in the Middle East.  [...]

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Tweet So, now we know that Susan Rice made the talk show rounds relying on an information sheet that “somehow” got modified between the CIA and Rice.  Hmmm.  Who had the authority to do that?  Hmmm.  I’m sure it wasn’t someone subordinate to Petraeus.  Maybe it was someone higher up the food change who reports [...]

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Tweet Yesterday, during his first press conference in months, Obama tried a little swagger: But let me say specifically about Susan Rice, she has done exemplary work.  She has represented the United States and our interests in the United Nations with skill and professionalism and toughness and grace. As I’ve said before, she made an [...]

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Tweet I do believe that vote fraud had an effect on this election, although I don’t know if it was big enough in swing states to change the outcome.  Abe Greenwald’s theory makes a lot more sense when it comes to explaining how conservatives could have so completely misread the election outcome: Barack Obama ushered [...]

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Tweet My forte is spotting problems, not finding solutions.  Thankfully, when I put out a call for suggestions, many of you responded.  This post sets out practical list ways to get conservative messaging past the media gatekeepers that so effectively insulted Romney, praised Obama, and squelched or promoted news stories depending upon whether they help [...]

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Tweet My sister, who is only vaguely interested in politics, told me the other day that the Dems are lucky, because they’ve got such a deep pool of candidates for 2016 — and then proceeded to name Hillary and Cuomo.  She had no idea who Rubio, Jindal, West, Love, etc., were, and she knows who [...]

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Tweet Here’s what didn’t happen in Benghazi on September 11, 2012:  Despite advanced warning of the attack, and despite urgent, detail rich phone calls from the CIA/former Navy SEAL operatives under attack, and despite real time video feeds of events unfolding on the ground,* no one came to help.  No one came to help the [...]

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Tweet John Podhoretz takes a clear-eyed view of recent polls, all of which show an Obama surge.  It’s a long post, and can be summed up simply:  the polls probably oversample Democrats, but the fact is that Obama is doing extremely well and may even have a small lead.  Mitt Romney’s campaign should shake off [...]

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Tweet When the Left talks about “the children,” they only mean certain children.  For example, the useful idiots working at the New York Times have never waxed lyrical about the Israeli children killed in pizza parlors, in their homes, or at bus stops.  They’ve never expressed concern about the thousands of missiles that periodically rain [...]

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Tweet The chronology has been simple.  On September 11, 2012, a mob attacked our Cairo embassy, which promptly apologized to the mob. Also on September 11, 2012, a well armed Al Qaeda group attacked our consulate in Benghazi and murdered four people, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, who was there as the embodiment of the United [...]

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Tweet We all know Michael Ramirez as one of the most talented editorial cartoonists ever.  (And no, I’m not exaggerating when I say that.)  I happen to know from going to a luncheon at which he was the guest that he is also a delightful speaker. Now we all get to learn that he can [...]

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Tweet John Nolte doesn’t dispute the polling numbers. They are what they are. What he disputes, however, is the post convention narrative that the MSM is spinning. It’s a con, to elevate Obama’s convention bounce into an inevitable victory, he says, and then proceeds to explain why.  This makes for heartening reading.

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Tweet A liberal friend sent me the editorial that the New York Times published practically within seconds of Mitt ending his speech, and asked me to try to defend Mitt from the editorial’s charges.  Nothing easier, says I.  Here’s a nice little Fisking of the New York Times’ alternate reality: Mitt Romney wrapped the most [...]

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Tweet Yesterday, I did a post in which I said that, while the HuffPo was crowing about an alleged Paul Ryan, I caught David Axelrod red-handed in a repeatedly disproved lie.  I had my doubts about whether Ryan had lied — it’s not his style — but that’s not where I was going with my [...]

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Tweet This one didn’t make the original post, because the malfeasor isn’t a politician, she’s a journalist.  Nevertheless, Elspeth Reeve deserves to be called out for her lies. UPDATE:  Welcome, Ace of Spades readers!  As you’ve probably figured out, Maetenloch gave more meat to the story than I did.  The only thing I did was [...]

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Tweet Arthur Brisbane has written a rumination about his two years’ as the New York Times’ public editor.  It is an interesting piece, as notes the way in which (a) the New York Times has slimmed its one massive corporate holdings so that they consist only of core news corporations and (b) it has encouraged [...]

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Tweet Tom Groseclose explains: Hat tip: Seraphic Secret

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Tweet Chris Matthews managed to do an entire interview of Elizabeth Warren without once mentioning the scandals now dogging her.  Instead, he offers, “as a journalist,” to help her.  See the video and read more about Matthews’ water-carrying at American Power. I’ll add only that, while liberals like to sneer that “military intelligence” is an [...]

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Tweet I got a $5 Amazon gift card, so I overcame my usual skinflint habits and purchased Edward Klein’s The Amateur.  It is a very easy read (I’m more than halfway through after only an hour and a half), and a scary one too.  The book’s title could just as easily have been “The Malignant [...]

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Tweet I caught exactly one minute of Rush today, during which he mentioned a commentator who had said that the only reason that critics called Obama a “socialist” was because the “L” word had lost its power to scare people.  Rush disagreed, saying something along the lines of “words have meaning,” which is why people [...]

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Tweet I’m impressed, both that these Politico writers wrote about the bias and that Politico published their article: Republicans cry “bias” so often it feels like a campaign theme. It is, largely because it fires up conservatives and diminishes the punch of legitimate investigative or narrative journalism. But it also is because it often rings [...]

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