tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62648032011-12-14T21:34:39.625-05:00"It's like a dose of pure unadulterated Lorenzo Llamas!" -- Former Representative and General Fruitcake Cynthia McKinney <img src="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/images/mideast/jan-june98/cong10.gif"><BR><BR> Comments/criticisms-- Email aceofspadeshq@yahoo.com Acehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08725380608608947980noreply@blogger.comBlogger9061100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6264803.post-53489548328252627202007-05-02T21:39:00.001-04:002007-05-02T21:39:27.927-04:00

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Sorry that comments are down. Again.

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Yeah, yeah, another stupid Atrios thread.

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Here.

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It's fun!And it's safe. Before trying cornhole in real life, why not see if you like it with this STD-free demonstration.Thanks to "Staffy."

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Got something to say about the day's doings?

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Got something to say about the day's doings?

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Congratulations to the Red Sox. The great thing about the win is that we don't have to hear about that stupid "curse" anymore. Well, we'll hear about it a lot in the next few weeks, and in the beginning of spring training next year, and then-- not so much. From now on, Sox, when you blow a 6 game lead in September, you'll have to admit it's just because you collapsed and weren't very good

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Who can blame him? Who can blame him? They're big fans of his in Paris. The stinkiness, the unkempt beard, the, you know, Jew-killing. Let's all not-pray for a swift recovery. Thanks, GregS.

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Nice: The Labor Department (news - web sites) reported Thursday that new filings for unemployment insurance declined by a seasonally adjusted 25,000 to 329,000 for the week ending Oct. 16. That marked the lowest level since early September. In the prior week, claims had climbed by 16,000. The latest snapshot of the layoffs climate was better than economists were expecting. They were forecasting

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Well, we've gone and done it. We're now at Ace.mu.nu, our new home. There are a couple of kinks over on the new site, including craptacular archives and a very boring commenting display, but there are helpful people over there and we should have that straightened out in a couple of days. There won't be any further posts at this blogspot address, unless/until we blow out Mu.Nu's servers with

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Earlier came the good news that surging revenues would lower the deficit by perhaps $100 billion or more. But now comes even more good news. It seems you can't have that kind of blockbuster growth in receipts unless, get this, a lot more people are working for more money than they used to. This great article puts the surge in tax-revenues into perspective: May 4 (Bloomberg) -- Budget

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Hat tip to Donald Luskin, who still bothers to read this buffoon on a regular basis. As we predicted some time ago, American economist Paul Krugman is increasingly frantic to find topics to write about other than the American economy. Check out Luskin's piece. Not only does Krugman blame the current violence on (what else?) tax cuts -- we must assume for the "Iraqi wealthiest one-percent" --

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At least that's what the doctor treating him remembers: I have a very clear memory of an incident which occurred while I was the Medical Officer at Naval Support Facility, Cam Ranh Bay... The story [Kerry] told was different from what his crewmen had to say about that night. According to Kerry, they had been engaged in a fire fight, receiving small arms fire from on shore. He said that his

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Factory orders up, up, up. Big time, as the man says: The Commerce Department said factory orders advanced 4.3 percent in March, the strongest rise in nearly two years, after gaining a revised 1.1 percent in February. Wall Street had forecast orders to gain a more modest 2.3 percent in March and the surge, which came as the Fed signaled it was preparing to raise interest rates, points to an

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We've been delaying the actual move for too long, since we've been worried that our traffic would take a hit and all that jazz. Plus, we're still having a a little trouble getting everything on mu.nu to work they way we'd like. But it's time to impose a deadline on ourselves, or else we're never going to move. As of tomorrow, we'll be posting entirely on Mu.nu, and we'll start to close down

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Cut the deficit in half over five years? How about we start off by cutting it 25% in one year?: The U.S. budget deficit may narrow to $370 billion in fiscal 2004, halting a two-year increase, as a stronger economy boosts tax revenue, economists at Citigroup Global Markets Inc. said in a weekly report. Citigroup's forecast is lower than the Congressional Budget Office's outlook for a $477

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But don't worry, we think we have more cowbell on the way.

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A tipster (not sure if we can name him; let's just call him Deep Stoat) sends us this news: According to the latest survey from the Institute of Supply Management (ISM), economic activity in the manufacturing sector grew in April for the 11th consecutive month, while the overall economy grew for the 30th consecutive month. Highlights: The manufacturing economy grew in April for the 11th

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Drudge. Only Drudge. Was it wrong to "humiliate" Iraqi prisoners? Well, yes. Although, let's be honest, all interrogations are at least somewhat coercive. If you're really against all threats and psychological torment, then you're really against interrogating enemy prisoners at all, and you should be honest enough to declare your support for a total ban on interrogations. Did they recover

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Recently, lefty pro-war (i.e., he's just "on the other side") agitator Micah Wright had the "courage" and "guts" to admit he'd perpetrated a "hoax" about being a combat-veteran Ranger in order to claim victim status when arguing against America's right to defend herself. It is time to for us to follow Mr. Wright's example. We too have committed certain "hoaxes" in order to advance our positions

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...and he's blogged up a veritable storm, ranging from a post on Kerry's disturbing neediness in constantly casting himself as "victim" in every situation, to the top ten reasons for questioning your patriotism.

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That's not just what Michele at ASV says, that's what this fucking douchebag tool now admits in a sad-sap Oprah confessional. Who is Micah Wright, you ask? Good question -- he's a nobody. But he's a nobody who got a book contract based on his anti-war agitation and his claim that he knew the horrors of combat, having served in war as an Army Ranger. Here's Our Ranger Hero Micah in typical

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One of the cheapest but most enduring rhetorical moves is to deny that there's any downside to your advocated plan of action. Race-quota or race-preference advocates routinely argue that quotas help minorities get jobs they wouldn't have but for quotas, but simultaneously argue that quotas never result in a non-minority not getting a job he otherwise would have. Errrm, how could this possibly

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So, we've done what Sistani and all the other "moderate" Iraqi clerics wanted: we negotiated a truce that essentially lets the terrorists continue terrorizing. It's not necessarily all bad. It's been angering us for some time that the Iraqis are engaging in an irresponsible-verging-on-childish politics for some time. One one hand, they do nothing but complain that their security is poor, and

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It's an amazement to us that so many bachelors get rolled while engaging in perfectly innocent non-sexual behavior in city parks at night: Supreme Court Justice David Souter was assaulted by several men while jogging in Washington Friday night, the court announced Saturday. Souter suffered slight injuries and was taken to Washington Hospital, where he was treated and released. And none of

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How does one respond to the simpering little twerp who viciously maligned Pat Tillman? Protein Wisdom has "discovered" this twee twit's homepage and presents it for your enjoyment.

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Or at least it's easy to get them to link you. First Ann Coulter, now Cathy Seipp of the Independent Women's Forum, and the MoDo Watch Feature. She's nice enough to quote us in her latest article. But she didn't actually provide a link to the article in question. If anyone cares, it's here. Be warned, it's more of a Professor of Comedy rant against tasteless puns and cutesey wordplay than a

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Two Braincells was nice enough to link us in this post, but the really funny thing here is "Neurotically Yours." Check it out.

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Via Allah Pundit, Liberal Lion Mario "Made Man" Cuomo waxes philosophical about the filthy, hidden hand of the Jews in world violence: "You can't ever make serious progress against terrorism unless you deal with Israel. We are not dealing with Israel. We've backed away. We're afraid of the political consequences." Pat Buchanan talking? No, in fact it was former New York governor Mario Cuomo.

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Wellllll... isn't that special. CAIRO, April 30 (IslamOnline.net) -- World Muslim scholars meeting in Cairo urged incorporation of Sharia into the International Law to avoid eruption of more crises or other forms of injustice. Injustice = Christians and Jews, and Buddhists and Hindus as well as non-lunatic Muslims, attempting to defend themselves from crazed Islamist terrorists. "Some western

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The boom in factory activity is attributed to increasing orders for "more cowbell": NEW YORK (Reuters) - Midwest factories boomed in April, and at such a quick rate that manufacturers may even have to take on new workers to support the expansion, a report showed on Friday. Even as factories hummed along at a rapid clip, consumer sentiment managed to deteriorate slightly in April. Eh.

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The caption claims it's George Michael, but for some reason we keep thinking it's Buddy Hackett with a Shatnerweave. We believe that's his actual hair like we believe those were Riccardo Montalban's pecs in Wrath of Khan. Is this really George Michael? Or did some one just dig up a primate's skull and do one one of those Nova-style facial-reconstructions with modeling clay and a wig? "Well,

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That's why The Truth Is that Representative Charles Rangel is a fucking liar. And that's just for starters. den Beste is pissed off by the lies that pass for debate on the American left, in Europe, and in the terrorist-lairs of the Middle East, and he vents by offering up some cold hard truths that a lot of our fellow patriotic Americans and good European allies and Palestinian freedom fighters

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...comes courtesy of (who else?) Hillary Rodham Clinton, by way of bubble-headed Brit Tina Brown, who just slays us with the cute, "punny" title Taking the GOP Bait, Hook, Line, and Stinker. Stinker? How does she do it? At any rate, our hearts soared when we read this delectable quote from Hillary Clinton. What's the best part of the quote? The damning-with-no-praise-at-all for John Kerry,

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We were wondering about this. After all, while far too many of our heroic soldiers and Marines are dying this month (one is too many), we're not hearing about them being killed by roadside bombs or sneak rocket attacks or car-bombs. They're mostly dying in combat, which is hardly any comfort to their families, but it does seem that bringing the fight to Fallujah has arrested the terrorists in

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This may be a joke that only six people get: Sexual Acts, Don Mad Magazine Martin-Style. Ga-shLOSH, ga-shLOSH, gu-SHLOCK... ffffbbbbt!!!... Shwizzshhh... Ga-shLOCK, ga-SHLOCK, ag-SHLITT! We think we did that one once, long ago, before our knees gave out.

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Marc Rich, the fugitive financier pardoned out of the goodness of Bill Clinton's bleeding heart, just so happens to have applied for, and to have been granted, permission to join in the Oil-for-Palaces swindle. A spokeshack for his company denies that any actual trading was done; he claims that he merely applied to participate, as did many other outfits. But then he immediately walks back that

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We noticed that, over at the really terrific site The Perfect World, some people are just perplexed by our cowbell .gif. This is a wonderment to us. We cannot imagine that anyone, anywhere does not yet know of the magic of the cowbell. If you want an explanation, here are two. This is the video of the famous SNL cowbell sketch. If that goes down, due to our scary-enormous Ace-o-Lanch

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We haven't commented on UNSCAM, because we had nothing much to add to the good work being done in the blogosphere and the right-wing press, if nowhere else. But now the GAO says that eighty percent of Saddam's contracts have just -- poof! -- vanished, "crippling" their efforts to investigate fraud. All we can say is that the general excuse for press non-coverage of this sordid scam was that the

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Three straight quarters of above-4% growth. How about a full year? The reports spin this as disappointing news, which frankly baffles us. Yes, in the past few weeks, there had been elevated expectations of 5% growth. But 4.2% is very strong, especially when it's not merely a one-quarter aberration, but rather the rate we just keep seeing over and over. Furthermore, the GDP has been adjusted

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It was inevitable: decrepit Senator Frank Lautenberg has put the Democrats' long-anticipated plan of attack into action by "questioning the patriotism" of Cheney and Bush. We always knew this was coming, of course. The Democrats are bad on the issues, so they have to pretend that the biographical detail John Kerry's four months in Vietnam constitutes a coherent and effective national security.

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Fine? Why Fine? (we don't get that name either) picks up on a great suggestion from Black Five: Why not honor Pat Tillman, and the US Armed Forces, and simultaneously give the team a majorly cool make-over by renaming it the Arizona Rangers? Unless we're wrong, Arizona had Rangers, just like Texas, so the name works on muliple levels. Who'd you rather root for? The Arizona Cardinals (does

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Cheney delivered an important foreign policy speech -- which just happened to also be an attack on John Kerry's "Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella" foreign-policy stylings. We always love it when Cheney says stuff like this: When Senator Kerry speaks about the direction of the war on terror, he often returns to a single theme -- the need for international cooperation. He has vowed to usher in a

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This is an excellent Ben Shapiro article linked by Nick Kronos on The Perfect World. The first half is stuff you've almost certainly read if you read blogs at all. It recounts the Hateful Left's vicious attacks on fallen hero Pat Tillman. But it's the second half that's really interesting. Because, as much as the "reasonable left" would like to pretend that these people aren't a part of their

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The Subservient Chicken is a man in frightening chicken-outfit who will obey your typed commands. Is this funny, scary, or just a waste of valuable time? Maybe all three. More creepiness. On Ebay, "Rick and Tammy" want to sell you their prized collection of wax-statue country-music stars. And the creepy theme continues. Ever thought, "Gee, I'd really like to make an

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From Little Green Footballs, Pearl 2001: Sept 11, 11:30 am Sophie et al, ...I was riding in a cab down Broadway at 8:45 when the first plane flew over. I couldn't believe it, I heard the engines and looked up, it was just above the buildings, a small jet I thought, and a moment later, a boom. Tons of beautiful white paper drifted down on Manhattan. Our Democratic primary is today and my first

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51%-49%. Good Grief, we really had a shot. And we came up short. We hate to be all "every vote counts" n' stuff -- that kind of pious civic-minded whininess is soooo MoveOn.org -- but honestly, all of them do. If there are any Pennsylvania conservatives that sat this election out in favor of just sitting around and complaining, maybe it's time to make sure you're registered for November.

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Pixy at Mu.nu was nice enough to invite us over to Munuvia (after Miss Apropos was nice enough to bring us to Pixy's attention). We're in the process of getting the website over there in-shape for the formal move. If Blogspot goes down in the next couple of days -- and what are the odds of that? No more than one in three -- we'll just start posting over there sooner than we'd anticipated. The

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More from that tiny minority of Muslim extremists we hear so much about: Leading Egyptian Journalist: The Jews are Behind Every Disaster or Terrorist Act In an article in the Egyptian government daily Al-Gumhouriyya titled 'The Secret Israeli Weapon,' deputy editor Abd Al-Wahhab 'Adas accused the Jews of perpetrating all terrorism throughout the world, including the Madrid bombings. The

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Sure, that's a little misleading. Saying that FoxNews beats CNN and MSNBC combined is like saying that CBS beats ABC and Ace of Spades HQ combined. Or that Wonkette is more obsessed with anal sex than the hillbillies from Deliverance and Pat Boone combined. But still. Link should be fixed now.

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Yes, yes, we're going siren-crazy lately, but we think you'll have to admit this is HUGE: At least one of the al Qaida plotters arrested in Jordan earlier this month as part of a weapons of mass destruction plot that Jordanian officials say could have killed 80,000 people revealed on Monday that he was trained in Iraq before the U.S. invaded in March 2003. In a confession broadcast on Jordanian

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Yeah, yeah, we feel almost as bad about it as you do. But what the heck. Everyone else seems to have a tipjar; why not us? The reclusive, anonymous billionaire benefactor we know only as "Mr. Tranh" pays us well to wreak havok on liberals, but even the generosity of anonymous billionaire benefactors has its limits. We decided to put up the PayPal donation button because, well, we figure we

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Given Qaddafi's apparent change of heart, it's tempting to deem him some sort of visionary humanist. But this rambling speech, in which he pleads with Western leaders not to "make him" return to terrorism, would seem to indicate he's still a lunatic. He's just a lunatic who has, with typical lunatic zeal, struck upon a new obsession. That obsession could quickly be discarded in favor of a

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Said to be near the Iranian Embassy. Police now reported to have the situation under control.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer (reg. req'd) says that turnout is very light in the Philadelphia area. Which would seem to mean that the election is going to be determined by the most-animated -- that is, most conservative -- voters, and that the liberal and moderate Democrats in the Philly area just aren't coming to his rescue. Here's hoping! And if you're a Pennsylvania Republican-- why are you

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The very, very patriotic left "eulogizes" our fallen heroes on Iraq, in their typical very, very patriotic fashion.

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For some time, we've seen confidence climb, only to be knocked back down after a disappointing jobs report. Confidence would climb, heralding a quickening recovery; but then the jobs report would undermine that confidence, delaying a full-scale boom. But finally both jobs and confidence seem to be in good sync, and they might finally begin reinforcing each other: NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- U.S.

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And we thought we were just jacking around on a computer: People in black trench coats might soon be chasing blogs. Blogs, short for Web logs, are personal online journals. Individuals post them on Web sites to report or comment on news especially, but also on their personal lives or most any subject. Some blogs are whimsical and deal with "soft" subjects. Others, though, are cutting edge in

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Right now, CNN just has a headline promising "details soon." Geeze, it's awfully funny that Jordan, right there on the Iraqi border, keeps having to contend with these chemical-weapons terrorist attacks. One might even begin to wonder where the chem weapons came from. At least, one might wonder that, if one weren't working for CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, The New York Times, Newsweek, Time,

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It's a standard, dopey question that's asked all the time on job interviews: What, would you say, is your greatest flaw? And the question never gets answered honestly. Because, of course, people don't want to talk about their actual flaws; in fact, most people don't even examine themselves honestly enough to even know what their greatest flaws might be. Hence, the standard answer -- at

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Sales of new homes surged by 8.9 percent in March, the largest monthly increase in nine months.... NOTE! We were overusing the Drudge Siren. The siren, we figure, ought to be used for very important breaking negative-ish news. Not for great news which isn't really full of immediacy. But it just so happens that RD Brewer tossed us this awesome "Gotta Have More Cowbell" gif. So, beginning

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Does anyone know if one can request replacements for "lost" medals? And would anyone know if such a request would be found in Kerry's records? Just wondering if the two controversies are actually related. Maybe one of our super-duper news-sleuths in the supremely objective media could get around to asking Kerry those questions. Just to get him nice and on record on the point. UPDATE: Our

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We don't read Nicholas Kristoff, but The American Thinker does. And he notes Kristoff making the altogether unexpected complaint that liberals really ought to practice "tolerance" and "inclusion" as regards Christians if they expect the same in return. This would seem to be a fairly major heresy in the liberal secular evangelicalism (a sub-creed of "transnational progressivism," as Steven den

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Booming Job Market Will Force Many Underemployed Americans to Choose Between Over-Time and Leisure-Time; Women, Minorities to be Hardest Hit W A S H I N G T O N -- Stung by the realization that President Bush will accomplish something never attained during Bill Clinton's "Miracle Economy" -- nine months straight of above-4% annualized GDP growth -- liberal and progressive economists announced

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First Time in Ten Years Growth Has Beaten 4% For Three Straight Quarters Sorry for the double-siren. But this is a huge story that completely rubbishes all previous assumptions about the 2004 election. We're not just being optimistic, or trying to bait liberals. This is a sea-change. CBS MarketWatch's headline, not ours: First-quarter GDP another scorcher WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- For the

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Actually, there's little need to substitute our own headline for this piece. Let's go with the AFP headline: Sizzling factory sector data shows US economy in high gear WASHINGTON (AFP) - A blockbuster report from the factory sector shows the US economy is shifting into high gear, portending an end to the period of super-low interest rates, economists said. The Commerce Department (news - web

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One of Donald Luskin's readers apparently discovered the top-secret document left behind on a Starbuck's table. (This is a humorous piece. It's not real.)

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The Belmont Club traces it to Algeria: A generation obsessed with Vietnam was blind to the fact that the Algerian war provided a far more powerful model of offensive action against the West than Indochina. It was always impossible for Giap to transport his coolies and NVA regiments overseas, but it was clearly feasible, indeed only a matter of time before the Arabs extended their operations

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So, for the wymyn out there, and for our three gay readers (we're looking at you, "Gay Dean"), FloridaCracker's posting beefcake shots of Andre Agassi. We've got half a mind to retaliate in kind. The only thing stopping us is, well, doing so would seem a bit Oliver Willis-ish. And we can't go down that road. We just can't. Slow News-Day? What about the death of Pat Tillman? We don't

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We're bad at making predictions ourselves, but maybe Barnes & Kondracke are better. The popular weekly political talk show "Beltway Boys" on the Fox News Network predicted an upset win by conservative Congressman Pat Toomey against Incumbent RINO Senator Arlen Specter. To the surprise of many inside the Washington DC beltway, a solid pro-life Republican who will support President Bush in

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Well, if you're reading the Internet at all, you probably know that conservative Pat Toomey is challenging "the Scottish Senator" Arlen Specter for the Pennsylvania Republican Senate nomination. Our usual impulse is a conservative one. Not "conservative" politically, but "conservative" in pragmatic terms of "Who has a better shot of winning the actual election?" Specter gets only 42% lifetime

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Travelling Shoes finds an eerie similarity between Andy Rooney's five questions for our soldiers in the field and five questions asked by the Nazis on propaganda leaflets. Can you tell the difference? a. Do you think your country did the right thing sending you into [war]? b. Are you doing what America set out to do [], or have we failed so badly that we should pack up and get out before

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That's John "I voted for it before I voted against it" Kerry responding to a question about the SUV kept at his Idaho mansion. A rather thin distinction, to say the least. The man just gets more and more fucking nuanced every day, don't he? Thanks to Kausfiles, who is apparently thisclose to declaring Kerry all done.

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Kerry loses advantage in the vaunted "youth vote." How can this be? Haven't the youngsters heard that... ...John Kerry rocks? In fact, he's been known to "rock the house." It's a win-win situation. Not only does Bush blunt the Democrats' historic advantage with the dopiest segment of the voting public -- sorry, young voters! But you know it's true, as a group -- but maybe MTV will see

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Liquid armor may provide state-of-the-art ballistic protection to future troops. First integrated test of anti-ballistic laser-jet. And in related news... United States Marines express "interest" in John Fabulist Kerry's patented "flyin' Wonderdog" technology: Photo Credit: Allah Pundit's Flyin' Wonderdog Media Group

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Sorry to keep boring everyone with this dreadfully-dull news. We know it's dull, because the mainstream media won't report it. What other reason could they possibly have? At any rate: WASHINGTON - Fewer people signed up for jobless benefits last week, a sign that companies are feeling less inclined to slash their work forces now that the economy is rebounding. The Labor Department (news -

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You are a wise-cracking loose-cannon who plays by his own rules. You're the "Which Vega$ Character Are You?" Quiz. But you have a mix of real anger. So you are also partly the "Which Falling Down Character are You?" Quiz. No offense-- but is anyone as sick to death of these "Which Character are You?" quizzes as we are? Didn't they sort of jump the shark some time ago? Maybe we're just

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All right, all right. You can have your nukes. But I draw the line at anal... Why are you giving me that look? What have you heard? Hat Tip to GregD and RDBrewer.

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There's an angle on it this time 'round: NEW YORK - Major American Jewish organizations are praising President Bush (news - web sites)'s support for Israeli plans to withdraw from Gaza and maintain some settlements in the West Bank-- but a few groups are criticizing him. Jewish voters are being courted by both Republicans and Democrats, but many Jewish groups see little difference on Israel

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Liberal-activist-slash-talking-wig Jon Bon ("Who?!") Jovi moderately-entertained the liberal troops at a recent Kerry rally. His rousing solo performance of You Give Love a Bad Name was said to generate "a smattering of half-hearted applause." AllahPundit, Who is Wise and Mighty and Gets Tickets to Everything, was there to snap pictures. The picture from the main event is great, but the snaps

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The markets seem to be figuring out that the threat of rising interest-rates somewhere down the road is a bit less important that surging profits, increasing jobs, rising productivity, and an all-around roaring economy.

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Boston Irish, who's sadly on hiatus, was on this when it first happened. But Ipse Dixit is on it now, and it remains important.

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Spielberg is just about the only director with the clout to make a film about such a "controversial" subject. It's sad that in most of the world-- and in broad swaths of liberal America -- it remains "controversial" to insist that butchering innocent Israelis is somehow "wrong." We suppose we should have some fear that Spielberg will make this into a "Why do they hate us?/Must be something we

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Hi, gang. Michael Moore here. I had an interesting encounter in a diner and I thought I'd share it. So me and Joe Palooka are sitting around at Mavis's diner talking. Joe looks at me. His eyes are wet with anger. I push a large joint of mutton down my enormous feeding orifice. The bones crack and pop like July fireworks as my massive tusks rend the meat and work the bone into a thick paste.

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Hat tip to AllahPundit. The story's everywhere, of course, but we we saw this particular account on his site: Iraqi insurgents targeted the British run city of Basra today killing at least 55 people, including ten children on their way to schools, in a series of bomb blasts. The explosions ripped through three police stations and a police academy in the southern city. At least 238 people were

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Donnie Darko is going to be re-released in director's cut format, featuring an additional 20 minutes of footage. Why is this important? It isn't. It's just... kinda interesting. If you haven't seen it, Donnie Darko is a smartly-made, interesting movie which is entertaining throughout and which... sort of doesn't make any damn sense and lacks anything resembling a satisfying conclusion. It's

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Just a tease so far: "Economic activity increased across the nation," the Beige Book said. "The growth was widespread." Retail sales improved, while manufacturing, mining, tourism and services all grew. Commercial real estate markets remain a soft spot. Meanwhile, labor markets "tightened somewhat with modest wage increases," the report said. Our political moods plunge and soar with Bush's

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The administration with the worst economic record since Hoover is projected to grow the nation's economy at the fastest rate since Reagan: WASHINGTON (AP) - The global economy, after being battered by recession, terrorist attacks and war, should grow strongly this year and next with growth in the United States hitting the fastest pace in 20 years, the International Monetary Fund predicted

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Just as we're nearly going bonkers about our servers being down in Chicago and Los Angeles -- damn that lying Liu-ser! -- Aaron Burr helps bring our blood pressure down by sending us a link to the top ten worst album covers of all time. This album cover clocks in at Number Nine: We think Joyce wuz robbed. There must have been some chads dangling over at this blog. Only the "whiff of facism

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We're glad someone else said it. We hate having to state the obivious ourselves: Scarcely a month ago, presumptive Democratic nominee was chiding Mr. Bush for his failure to engage Middle Eastern oil producers. In a March 30 statement, Mr. Kerry claimed, "I'll use real diplomacy to do what George Bush hasn't -- pressure OPEC to start providing more oil." The release added, "As president, John

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Definitely worth reading in full: For a generation, Israel, America and Europe have been seeking peace between the Jews and the Palestinians on the theory of good-faith negotiations between the parties. But Mr. Arafat's rejection in 2000 of the Clinton-brokered best deal possible, compounded by the subsequent policy of suicide bombing Israeli civilians in Israel-proper, forced Old Man Sharon to

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Only a snippet is available on-line; we've got a strong urge to buy the paper edition: TED KOPPEL: "And so then what happened?" MOHAMED ATTA: "Well, Mr. Koppel, as I was boarding the plane, or should I say, trying to board the plane, a uniformed officer took me aside . . ." TED KOPPEL: "Just you?" MOHAMED ATTA: "No, no. That's the thing. It wasn't just me. It was me and a guy named Abdulaziz

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Or is the "crisis" merely kind which will require politicians to enact marginally-unpopular, but fairly minor, fixes which will cost them a couple of percentage points of popularity in the short term? This game allowing you to fix Social Security by "enacting" changes would seem to indicate the former. Just reducing the much-too-benefit COLAs by one-half percentage point gets us 37% of the way

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Well, as you might know, we at Ace of Spades HQ were involved in a dispute over payments to our syndicator, Albert Liu. He claimed the check bounced, but of course he's a lying Liu-ser. This resulted in blog black-outs in Chicago and Los Angeles (although our signal was reportedly quite strong in Portland; we like to say we "own" Portland). We've had to scramble to get fresh server space.

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It's a legitimate issue. And it's legitimate to ask why the media isn't as interested in the topic as it's been in the past: "I've had thorns from a rose that were worse," says Grant Hibbard, John Kerry's former commanding officer about the wound the senator received on December 2, 1968, that earned him his first Purple Heart award. Earlier this month, the Boston Globe reported that Hibbard is

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He's quite careful with his own money: Like Al Gore, who donated a miserly $353 to charity as vice president in 1997, John Kerry may be a serial cheapskate. During the early 1990s, with no apparent presidential aspirations, Kerry contributed the following amounts: $0 in 1991; $820, 1992; $175, 1993; $2,039, 1994; and $0, 1995. Last year, however, after media attention, he gave $43,735. However

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Nice: WE NEED A reasonable plan and a specific timetable for self-government" in Iraq, Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) said in December. "That means completing the tasks of security and democracy in the country -- not cutting and running in order to claim a false success." On another occasion, he said: "It would be a disaster and a disgraceful betrayal of principle to speed up the process simply to

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