. . . at a lowish-but-respectable level. I take it the best ways to bulid traffic are:
1) come up with a turn of phrase clever enough to attract the attention of Glenn Reynolds;
2) provoke arguments among my readers about abortion;
3) run pictures of my chest; and
4) criticize abusive fundamentalist preachers.

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Carol of “No Sheeples” fame has joined the cause! Here’s the graphic she produced:
For years, this man risked everything to stop terrorism and save innocent lives, but the United States Department of Homeland Security is considering deporting him.
In 2007, Mr. Yousef came to the United States, where he converted to Christianity from Islam and applied [...]

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Da TechGuy will cover your event from his blog for $1000 a week, plus expenses.
And, yes: the Rockford Files joke has been duly made in his comments. But it would be difficult or impossible to find a place in Paradise Cove—or anywhere in Malibu, California—that would be compatible with that income level. Even in a [...]

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Stacy McCain and Dan Riehl are all over the Jesse Griffin story like ecru on stone-ground grits.
Oh—and here’s rumor-monger Jesse Griffin:
[F]or future reference if you think an allegation or rumor is incorrect then just wait it out and make fun of the person after it proves to be false. That keeps your integrity [...]

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Stacy and Ace have apparently made up, and are sending each other electronic flowers in the form of links at the tops of their pages. It’s terribly sweet. From Acey’s sidebar:
The Rest of McCain’s Post: No chumming me; actually, pretty sensible
They’ve resumed those trips to the mountains together as well. Fishing, they say.
Jimmie’s got a [...]

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. . . and everyone should read it.
Here’s a taste:
there was evidence to suggest that the Obama administration may have been wielding its economic power — gained at future taxpayers’ expense — to punish political enemies. The accusation was serious enough to call for very thorough reporting, but the major media tried to dismiss [...]

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I was one of the youngest kids at University Middle School, and certainly the most naive. I used to go into the music room, which had posters on the walls, large cushions, and incense burning. (Other substances were burned at the school as well: this was the mid-1970s, after all.)
The first time I listened to [...]

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But she’ll settle for interesting journalism from her bloggy cohorts; roundup here.

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. . . what Stacy thinks Cassandra means. Not by a long shot. And if he think she’s a radical Feminist, or an embittered spinster . . . this could become very interesting, very quickly.
Ace’s site is, of course, the Heffalump in the room, as he runs the original “Boyz Playhouse, Some Girlz Allowed” of [...]

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All the cool kids have already run this video, but since I’m the shy nerdy girl in the corner wearing clothes from J.C. Penny that don’t seem to fit me as well as they should and scribbling poems in a notebook, I’m running it now:

Via—this time around—AllahP at Hot Air, who points out that it’s [...]

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