I just want to thank all of you who nominated me. It all started as a joke…I never expected it to get this far.

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Amused.I.Be:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gwqEneBKUs

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Last night, in the midst of an IM conversation with The American Conservative’s associate editor, Michael Brendan Dougherty, I interjected that I had to go. Metro was running with major delays again (have they been on time yet this month?) and I was coming dangerously close to missing my connection with the older-fashioned trains of [...]

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I’ve never liked McCain, and I won’t vote for him. This video isn’t the sort of damning evidence its creators and promoters probably think it is, but it does give an insight into why I don’t trust him:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlX9l1g1ZE0

(Note: Some of that testimony at the end should be taken with a big grain of salt; I [...]

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This impersonation is SPOT-on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRbBJi0jfdU

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I dropped this in a comment box yesterday near the end of a discussion. Nobody responded to it. But I need to throw it out there, for what it’s worth:
What makes us think that Iraq will ever be able to stand on its own, without us propping them up?
Saddam kept things stable by being a [...]

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I never thought I’d see it. You’d swear that the two hated each other’s guts. Then all of a sudden, the music fades in, and it’s “So Happy Together“:

In a show of Republican unity, one-time bitter foes John McCain and Mitt Romney raised money and campaigned together Thursday for a single goal - getting McCain [...]

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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:
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=uHVEDq6RVXc]

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Hillary’s selective memory gets her in trouble when the video archives don’t match her dramatic account:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BfNqhV5hg4]

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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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