1. FOSTER: Blanche Lincoln's Approval Rating Now at 27 Percent 6 hours ago   permalink

FOSTER: Blanche Lincoln's Approval Rating Now at 27 Percent
Corner.nationalreview.com

John Boozman will enter the Arkansas Senate race this weekend as the frontrunner. He leads incumbent Blanche Lincoln by an amazing 56-33 margin in our first poll of the race.

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Blanche Lincoln Poll   —  John Boozman will enter the Arkansas Senate race this weekend as the frontrunner. He leads incumbent Blanche Lincoln by an amazing 56-33 margin in our first poll of the race.

2. Obama's Strike Three: The Iranian Bomb 3 hours ago   permalink

American Thinker

Three strikes and you're out. Obama has blown two so far, and he's got one chance left when it comes to national security. What will happen if in the next twelve months or so the suicide-preaching fanatics of Tehran explode a nuclear bomb, as they obviously are dead-set on doing? What will happen if Israel tries a preemptive strike? What if the ...

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Obama seeks money for nuclear weapons work   —  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – President Barack Obama is seeking increased funding for nuclear weapons research and security programs next year, even as his administration promotes nonproliferation and has pledged to reduce the world's stockpile of nuclear arms.

The Redhunter
Obama's Strike Three: The Iranian Bomb Obama v Bush - Budget Deficits   —  Jim Treacher puts numbers and a graph to a conversation I'm familiar with: A simple five-step process for understanding the deficit and people's reactions to it 1) Read a story on the Obama administration's pledge to reduce the deficit. Pay special attention to quotes like this: "We wanted to draw a line in the sand and enforce some discipline ...

3. WONDERING WHY REUTERS WITHDREW ITS “BACKDOOR TAXES” STORY. 1 hour 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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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

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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.

4. Ill. primary results prime full-scale battles for Hill 5 hours ago   permalink

Ill. primary results prime full-scale battles for Hill
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CHICAGO — Illinois voters set the stage Tuesday for a high-stakes battle over the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President Obama, which could bring more changes to the balance of power on Capitol Hill.

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5. Illinois Senate primary: Lame and Lamer 4 hours ago   permalink

Michelle Malkin / Michelle Malkin

GOP cap-and-tax 8′er Mark Kirk won the GOP primary in Illinois for the Senate seat formerly occupied by Barack Obama. [...] Read the rest »

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Illinois Senate primary: Lame and Lamer Election 2010: Florida Republican Primary for Senate   —  Former state House Speaker Marco Rubio has now jumped to a 12-point lead over Governor Charlie Crist in Florida’s Republican Primary race for the U.S. Senate.

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Illinois Senate primary: Lame and Lamer � Kirk wins GOP race   —  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.

6. Pelican 2 hours ago   permalink

Pelican
Little Green Footballs

Compare Electricity Prices in your area. Texas Electricity is deregulated; you have the right to choose Texas Electric Rates from among many Texas Electric Companies.

7. Obama and Education: Pork You Can Believe In 3 hours ago   permalink

American Thinker

It's been a tough year for President Obama's legislative agenda. His centerpiece proposals have likely died while generating intense ideological rancor. Almost predictably, he now falls back on the apple pie and motherhood issue of education to elicit a legislative consensus and maybe, if lucky, enact something tangible. It's admittedly a tough ...

8. News 3 hours ago   permalink

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Scientist at the heart of the 'Climategate' email scandal broke the law when they refused to give raw data to the public, the privacy watchdog has ruled.

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9. Arianna Huffington AKA "Media Matters after a few drinks" 3 hours ago   permalink

AMERICAN DIGEST

Professor Beck schools Arianna ("Zsa Zsa") Huffington to a fare-thee-well: Next step, find someone who will flame Huffington hairless.

10. Environmental Activism in Russia - Different in Kind, or Just Degree? 4 hours ago   permalink

Big Lizards

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov -- personally appointed by Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin -- has ordered the wholesale demolition of houses in a Moscow neighborhood, based upon ambiguous land-title laws dating from the Soviet era; erstwhile residents are simply tossed into the street in subzero temperatures, while bulldozers obliterate their homes, ...

11. King Solomon's Mines 4 hours ago   permalink

King Solomon's Mines
Cobb.typepad.com

I've never seen The African Queen but now I know who this Alan Quartermain dude is supposed to be, and I can see how much better we had it with Indiana Jones. But this review is about a black thing. A small one, though.

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12. Congress Warned Terror Attack Likely Within Next Six Months 5 hours ago   permalink

Lawhawk / A Blog For All

Well, we've always been threatened by international terrorists for more than two decades, but this is a particularly worrisome report; Congress was warned that we should expect a terror attack within... Get the latest news, notes, and analysis from the NYC metro area and around the world.

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

Little Green Footballs

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: ...

14. Obama to bring Reverse Midas Touch to Australia, Indonesia 6 hours ago   permalink

Obama to bring Reverse Midas Touch to Australia, Indonesia
Michelle Malkin / Michelle Malkin

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15. CSI: Miami – Promoting the Good in Iraq 6 hours ago   permalink

CSI: Miami – Promoting the Good in Iraq
White Rose / A Soldier

Many of us have seen the MSM misrepresent or not even report the good things that our military is doing in Iraq. We see TV shows and movies on the big and small screen that stand on either side of the issue. Some are very elaborate and in your face while others are more subtle. The [...]

16. The 2010 Comprehensive Daily Kos/Research 2000 Poll of Self-Identified Republicans 15 hours ago   permalink

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As I've mentioned before, I'm putting the finishing touches on my new book, American Taliban, which catalogues the ways in which modern-day conservatives share the same agenda as radical Jihadists in the Islamic world. But I found myself making certain claims about Republicans that I didn't know if they could be backed up. So I thought, "why don' ...

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Why I Am Not a Republican   —  I can only conclude from this new poll of 2003 self-identified Republicans nationwide that between 20% and 50% of the party is either insane or mind-numbingly stupid.

17. Opportunist-in-chief complains about political opportunism 8 hours ago   permalink

Michelle Malkin / Michelle Malkin

This is what happens when Republicans fool themselves into thinking that the man in the White House will work with them. [...] Read the rest »

18. We Got Mail! 8 hours ago   permalink

Little Green Footballs

Since I began to break ranks with the right wing noisemakers, I’ve been receiving an average of five hate mails every single day , often more. Sometimes it’s the same person over and over. Once someone sent me more than three dozen emails in about 10 minutes before I blocked his IP address from the site. Sometimes it’s from a ...

19. Free Speech 8 hours ago   permalink

Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute

Stanley Fish is fascinating on the rival philosophies guiding the majority and minority opinions in the recent Supreme Court case which struck down parts of McCain-Feingold. Here he is on Stevens, author of the minority view: Stevens also values robust...

20. Dead tangos to stack like cordwood 11 hours ago   permalink

Dead tangos to stack like cordwood
Blackfive / BLACKFIVE

Getting back to something we can all groove about, Mr. Roggio has a report on a Predator swarm. I like the way that sounds. A swarm of unmanned US aircraft pounded an al Qaeda camp today in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. Five unmanned US strike aircraft, likely the Predators and Reapers, are reported to have fired 18 ...

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Predators pound terrorist camp in North Waziristan   —  A swarm of unmanned US aircraft pounded an al Qaeda camp today in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. Five unmanned US strike aircraft, likely the Predators and Reapers, are reported to have fired 18 missiles at a camp and vehicles in the village of Datta Khel, a known al Qaeda and Taliban stronghold. This is the largest ...