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Gang, I think our side of the blogosphere is waaaay overdoing the outrage over this whole “report on your neighbors” thing

I have intentionally stayed away from all the furor over this post on the Whitehouse.gov blog (my emphasis):
There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. [...]

Honorary Skepticrat of the Month: David (UNRR)

David’s blog is The Unreligious Right:  The Opinions of a Highly Opinionated Right-Wing Atheist, and I found it today through a comment he left at Professor Jacobson’s. Obviously, he and I don’t see eye-to-eye on the existence of God. But here’s part of what David (who blogs as UNRR) had to say about recent criticism from [...]

A lowlight for the blogging right

I blog under a pseudonym. So I take special note of the recent outing of the anonymous liberal blogger “Publius” by Ed Whelan at National Review’s Bench Memos blog. Publius turns out to be a law professor, and Whelan uses this to ridicule his wish for anonymity:
In response, I received . . .  an e-mail [...]

Common sense on the Obamas’ Broadway outing

I don’t like the word “moderate,” but there’s such a thing as fair, and today’s post by Jazz Shaw at The Moderate Voice is about as fair as they come on the subject of the Obamas’ night out on Broadway:
To be fair here, our first observation should go out to our Republican and conservative friends [...]

Maybe I’m departing from conservative orthodoxy, but selective tax breaks are bullshit

I don’t understand why anyone thinks this is a good thing (emphasis mine):

North Carolina lawmakers are pushing to give Apple Inc. a multi-million dollar tax break should the company bring an East Coast computer server farm to the state — an estimated $1 billion investment, according to a state official with knowledge of the recruitment [...]

Finally, some conservative common sense on the DHS terror threat report

The conservative outrage over the DHS report on right-wing terror threats — the one that alerts law enforcement that right-wing extremist groups may make special efforts to recruit returning veterans, and was released in a rush without considering possible civil liberties violations — is largely unmerited, it seems to me. Hate to agree with lefties, but [...]

On what’s good for the gander . . . should Republicans filibuster Obama’s nominees?

Ed Morrissey tries to take the high road at HotAir over threatened Republican filibusters of Obama judicial (and administration) appointees. Normally, I’m all for the high road, but in this case, I’m not sure.  I’m not even sure that what he is advocating is taking the high road so much as it is driving right [...]

Stop trying to mitigate what Rush said and embrace it instead

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Patterico has a poll of sorts up, asking people to answer this question in the comments to his post (yes, with bullets AND numbers!):
However, when [Rush Limbaugh] says “I want Obama to fail,” what did he mean? His line could have meant one of two things:

1. Rush opposes President Obama’s [...]

Is Ed Morrissey really missing the obvious? UPDATE: Apparently, not!

Ed Morrissey apparently finds it dishonest for Democrats to lambaste Rush Limbaugh over his comment that a health care bill would be named after Ted Kennedy, since they themselves suggested it less than two months ago.   But what did Rush actually say?  Here it is, with my emphasis:

Before it’s all over, it’ll be called the [...]

David Brooks wakes up and smells the Kool-Aid while “Republicans for Obama” remain as clueless as ever

There is a lot posted on righty blogs already (like at Ace, Michelle, and HotAir) about NYT columnist David Brooks’s all-too-predictable lament that he was hoodwinked by Obama the moderate during the campaign only to find the country run by Obama the extremist:
Those of us who consider ourselves moderates — moderate-conservative, in my case — [...]

Is “Joe the Plumber” really “Joe the Dumber”?

Dan Riehl seems to think so.

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Calling “Bullshit” on Ben Stein’s “gotcha” detractors

As you probably already know, Ben Stein bowed out of speaking at University of Vermont’s commencement ceremony.  Apparently, students were upset by Stein’s creationist views, which he aired last year in the film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. I haven’t seen that movie, not because I had some concerns about accusations that he had hoodwinked people [...]

All of a sudden, the Republicans are deficit hawks?

“Zip, Zilch, Nada.”
Before you click on that link, see if you can guess whether the quote refers to (a) the number of Republicans that voted for the “stimulus” package that passed the House today; or (b) the credibility that Republican congressmen have on the issue of fiscal discipline.
The writer meant (a), but I think it’s [...]

What is in the name “Hussein”?

Good grief.  After bringing it up on TV last night, Hannity kept pressing Bob Beckel on the radio today to admit that now that we know Barack Obama is going to use his full name – Barack Hussein Obama – when he is sworn in on Inaguration Day, we should all be free to use [...]

A conservative’s defense of Rahm Emanuel

Sorry to go after Michelle again so soon, but I really think her post complaining about Rahm Emanuel “hiding behind his kids” is off base. Her complaint is that when a reporter tracked Emanuel down in the lobby of City Hall, where he was preparing to watch his children participate in a Christmas concert, [...]

Can we please stop exaggerating UAW wages?

I keep seeing everywhere — JammieWearingFool is just the latest place — that United Auto Workers members earn $73 per hour when you include their benefits, and its driving me nuts, because I know that figure includes future health care and pension benefits. Even if the figure is technically an accurate calculation when taking [...]

Come on, Michelle! Don’t turn everything into something political! (UPDATED w/scaled back criticism)

Michelle Malkin cites to the touching reaction of Dong Yun Yoon, the man whose family was killed in the Marine Corps jet crash in San Diego County the other day. The man — again, who has just lost his entire family in the crash — asked people to pray for the pilot, who ejected [...]

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