Quick Takes
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No Guinness at NYC’s St. Paddy’s Day parade
Don’t get me wrong. The Guinness will flow like water today, during and after the Big Apple’s annual St. Patrick’s Day…
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Saudi cleric issues fatwa against fat: All-you-can-eat buffets off-limits
Maybe his objection is that he thinks it’s Allah-you-can-eat. From the International Business Times: A Saudi cleric named Saleh al-Fawzan…
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Video: ‘Shut up your mouse, Obama’
“What’s this I hear about the president’s mouse?” Emily Litella might ask. Only in this case, do mind. A woman…
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Barack Obama’s excellent (shopping) adventure
It is no big secret that President Obama was in New York yesterday (traffic here was horrific) and stopped by…
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Video: The Al Sharpton doll: Pull a string, and hear Obama’s words
Michele Hickford, editor of Allen West’s blog, deserves credit for calling this hilarious video to our attention (h/t Washington Free…
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Video: For CPAC Palin rewrite Dr. Seuss
Sarah Palin, who gave a rousing keynote speech at CPAC, also treated the crowd to a little revisionist Dr. Seuss.…
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‘Sicilian Space Program’ launches pastry into stratosphere
“That’s one small step for dessert…” In a story that sounds so much like a report from “The Onion,” that…
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Video: Losers whine, leaders carry on
You get two guesses who the “whiners” are in this video, which comes to us courtesy of our friends over…
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Review: The Meaning of Hitler
The Meaning of Hitler by Sebastian Haffner (translated by Ewald Osers, Harvard University Press, 1979) I’ve read and reread a…
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Inevitable: Photo of Obama on phone with Putin
Photographic moments of heroism, president-style.
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Remembering Andrew Breitbart: ‘Your peril will be my peril’
Today marks the second anniversary of the passing of Andrew Breitbart. In commemoration of the life and untimely death of…
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Does your first name predict how you vote?
I just discovered that there are 213,121 registered voters named Howard. Far more importantly, I learned that Howards lean left, if…
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‘Homeless Jesus’ sculpture ruffling features
Once again, the worlds of art and religion collide. From Yahoo News: Outside St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Davidson, North…
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Does NFL plan to ban f-word next?
No, not that f-word — the one my brother once referred as the “granddaddy of all swear words.” It’s the other…
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Video: UCLA student literally hysterical after losing BDS vote
A new standard for Israel Derangement Syndrome.
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IRS’s Lois ‘Ten Pinocchios’ Lerner being called to testify March 5
The former head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS, Lois Lerner, who apologized for targeting conservative groups and later…
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Joe Newby faces off tonight against Va. Dem he attacks in post
Forgive the shameless act of self-promotion, but if this isn’t an indication that LU stands behind its words, nothing is.…
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‘Thank you, Mr. Garbage Man: May God bless you’
Think of it as a variation of the conundrum about a tree falling the forest. If a person performs an…
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Harold Ramis dead at 69
“Who you gonna call?” That iconic question and its equally iconic answer — “Ghostbusters” — were calling cards for that film’s costar…
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Alec Baldwin says he’s leaving ‘public life’ (sort of?)
Oh, no, say it ain’t so … said no one. Alec Baldwin says he’s done with public life. But he said the…
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Video: Female homeowner shoots, kills armed robber
This time it’s for keeps. LU’s Around the Web feature carries a headline about a mother at home with her…
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Video: Driver runs down man at Las Vegas gas station
Rage, rage against the pedestrians in the parking lot?
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