Saturday, October 30, 2010

A Brief History of the Jack O' Lantern...

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From History.com: People have been making jack o'lanterns at Halloween for centuries. The practice originated from an Irish myth about ...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

Help! My Doctor is "Going Boutique"

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Not too long ago, my internist "went boutique." What does that mean? A 2002 article in the British Medical Journal described it th...

WSJ: US Intelligence Budget Over $80 Billion

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And what do we get for our money, exactly? Someone please tell me. Oh, you can't because it is a secret? Well, I can tell you that we di...

WSJ: Bloomberg's FOIA Problem

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In today's Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg's Matthew Winkler complains that FOIA isn't helping Bloomberg find out what the US Tr...

Treasury FOIA Officials Mission: "...withhold information from release to public"

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From the Washington Examiner: Officials at the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Stability contracted with a small consulting firm t...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Jerry Brown's Endorsement, from Meg Whitman, on YouTube...

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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

James Taranto on Katie Couric

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From the Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal: They Have Indoor Plumbing Too Howard Kurtz, who recently moved from the Washington Post ...

William Easterly on the Ivy League v Middle America

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From Aidwatchers.com : There has been a lot of talk this political season about Ivy League Elitism. My own background—of belonging and yet n...

Robert Spencer on Juan Williams

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From Human Events : Juan Williams makes the understandable post-9/11 observation that the sight of Muslims on airplanes makes him nervous, a...

Seth Lipsky: NPR Bad for High Culture

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From "The Real Case for Defunding NPR," in the Wall Street Journal: My quarrel with government subsidies to NPR—via grants from t...
Friday, October 22, 2010

Our Readers are Invited to an Exhibition of Paintings By Polly Evans at the Arts Club of Washington on November 5th

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Click to print invitation.

Sarah Palin: End Federal Funding for NPR

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Has NPR's firing of Juan Williams given Republicans an issue with "curb appeal" to swing voters? First Mike Huckabee , now Sa...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

Juan Williams: NPR Worse Than Nixon

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From FoxNews.com : This all led to NPR demanding that I either agree to let them control my appearances on Fox News and my writings or sign ...

Jihadwatch: NPR Fired Juan Williams Under CAIR Pressure

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Robert Spencer writes: It turns out that NPR fired Williams after CAIR [Council on American Islamic Relations] sent out a national press rel...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

My Lunch at Ray's Hell Burger

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Today someone I know and yours truly had lunch at Ray's Hell Burger , the nondescript hamburger stand located in a Wilson Boulevard stri...

CIA or CYA? Panetta Reports on Chapman/Khost Attack Findings

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IMHO, After reading this news report, they might as well change the middle initial in the name of America's leading intelligence agency....

Fox News: Bush Pentagon Hosted Al Qaeda Mastermind

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From Fox News (ht Drudge): According to the documents, obtained as part of an ongoing investigation by the specials unit "Fox News Rep...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

CIA Sues Former Agent Over Book Charging Corruption

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From The Washington Times: Ishmael Jones, pen name for the 20-year CIA veteran and Arabic speaker who said he sought to expose corruption in...

US Justice Department, Michigan AG Charge Blue Cross With Price-Fixing

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From the Detroit Free Press : Millions of Michigan consumers have paid higher health insurance premiums over the last three years because Bl...
Monday, October 18, 2010

NY Times Reporter to Outraged Reader: "F--- you"

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From Jihad Watch : Jihad Watch reader Mike read this post about a New York Times article in which the author, James C. McKinley, Jr., noted ...