Apparently, CBS News was merely trying to cover up the real story. This footage shows Hillary playing it Terminator-cool in the midst of  intense sniperyness:

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There’s really not much to talk about this morning. The news has been pretty dull this week. I’ll check back in later.

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…Please offer a prayer for my uncle, Catholic father of 10, grandfather of 2, and a personal role model for me as a young man. I honed my interest and skills in debating religion and politics around his dinner table, and I’m fairly certain I wouldn’t be writing here (or anywhere else) on these topics if [...]

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I couldn’t help thinking of Conan O’Brien’s skit of that name when I saw this clip from the 1930s depicting their forecast for fashion in the year 2000.
Some things, they got right, like the personal phone. I could use a central chest mount like that, actually.
When it comes to women’s clothes, however, I guess they [...]

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My latest column went up yesterday at Inside Catholic. Entitled “Guilt By Association”, it takes a rather dismissive look at the (in my opinion) overblown significance attached to the relationship between politicians and social pariahs, with a focus on the Obama/Rev. Wright fiasco.
Not surprisingly, it isn’t winning me many fans. I expected disagreement, and I [...]

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As I read through my copy of the Examiner this morning, a familiar theme emerged that began to bother me. The first story, entitled, “Some residents see search for guns as targeting blacks,” dealt with D.C.’s ridiculous new plan to send police door-to-door to perform voluntary gun searches. Apparently the idea is that any guns [...]

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These are the sorts of insightful questions that cradle Catholics either take for granted, or never think to ask:
Now that I am a Catholic
First question: Where does my new name go? I am John Justin-Martyr Charles Wright? Or does it go after my middle name: John Charles Justin-Martyr Wright? Do I use the whole saint’s [...]

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Hillary’s selective memory gets her in trouble when the video archives don’t match her dramatic account:

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Out of Iowa today comes a story about truckers, some of whom are planning to go on strike on April 1st. What they intend to accomplish by the strike is unclear. They appear to stand more to lose than to gain. But as one trucker put it, “In no way, shape or form do truckers [...]

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I read a great commentary piece in the Examiner this morning by columnist Melanie Scarborough. She takes a look at the hubris of the Bush administration as exemplified by Vice President Dick Cheney:
Dick Cheney has been dismissive of other people for so long that his lips curl in a permanent sneer. Still, it was stunning [...]

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