Perhaps our political interests in Iran are “unchanged,” though only in a realpolitik sense—that is to say, only if we give up any notion that this country should so much as pay lip service to its ideals.
But that does not address the question of whether the Obama Administration had been representing out interests in that [...]

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He was pretty far ahead of his time on the issue of gays; certainly if he’d been elected we wouldn’t have this “don’t ask, don’t tell” bullshit.
I mean, can’t Obama take some time out from screwing up the economy/foreign policy and at least address that?
One more, though, Meghan McCain doesn’t understand it when people [...]

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There’s nothing wrong with the way Meghan McCain looks, and it’s too bad that Laura Ingraham felt the need to “go there.” James:
’ll be delicate here seeing as how I’m married and McCain was born a few months after I graduated high school — Meghan McCain is, um, not fat and, er, not particularly bad [...]

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It’s a twitter-ball; quite clever.
Smart Girl Politics is proud to announce that it will be hosting the 1st Annual SGP Twitterball on January 20, 2009 at 9:00 PM EST. Twitterball is a virtual party for the entire Conservative online community. We are very excited to share this news with all of our members. [...]

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I didn’t see the number for Banacek’s car phone on the “Top 500″ list; maybe I missed it due to the lateness of the hour.
(Via a tweet from one of the Australian Andrews.)

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And why am I attempting to do it myself?
Is it a form of haiku, perhaps? Or simply a steaming pile of shit?

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Final thought — Accelerated Churchillian Development — Every liberal at 20 is a possible conservative at 25. Engage fearlessly ! —Michael Pleahy
He tweeted that, and I thought it was rather good.
Five year, though? That would require a person to move at quite a pace, which practically requires a “road to Damascus” moment. Like, well . [...]

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. . . on the attacks in Mumbai.
Also, here’s the best starting point for the twitter-coverage of the terrorist attacks in India, courtesy of Ana Marie Cox, who tweets, “Yes, part of the world did blow up. Real time reax on Twitter, natch http://is.gd/9aCI; advice to call ahead before giving blood prolly good.”
Which means Rachel [...]

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