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Quick Takes
Shirley Temple, ‘America’s Little Darling,’ dies at 85
Of natural causes at age 85. USA Today reminds readers that the child singer, dancer, and actress helped lift the spirits of…
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Quick Takes
Food Network: Gay and proud … and stupid
If there was any lesson to be derived from the short-lived impasse between A&E and Phil Robertson, the star of…
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Law and Government
Leaked WH document shows plan to sabotage bill that would bring transparency to DC
Remember Barack Obama’s promise of unparalleled transparency? It’s OK if you don’t. The White House website has a page that will refresh…
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Law and Government
Gun control activist claims he forgot he was ‘carrying’ while visiting school
What do you call a community leader who urges his state to pass legislation that makes it a felony to…
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Quick Takes
Starbucks for Dummies
This appears to be a contagion. Yesterday Quick Takes noted that a “Burger King” had opened in Pittsburgh that was…
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Unyielding
Death by Nehi: Parents forced 5-year-old daughter to drink so much soda she ODed
In a story that is as bizarre as it gruesome, a Tennessee couple are being held on $500,000 dollars bond…
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Unyielding
Amputee veteran told he could not bring his service dog into Starbucks
“You go through the low points and high points,” muses Yancy Baer. He knows a lot about both. While serving…
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Foreign Affairs
Ambassadorgate
No, this is not apt to rise to the ranks of the other “phony scandals” plaguing the Obama administration, such as the IRS…
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Quick Takes
How much is Obamacare PR blitz costing you?
The face of Obamacare changes from day to day. One day it’s the flaccid, smarmy smile of Obama Boy, the…
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Unyielding
FL bill would give schoolchildren right to bear make-believe arms
Think of it as zero tolerance for zero tolerance. It is to a bill introduced in the Florida state legislature…
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Education
PETA requests 10-foot-high roadside memorial for chickens killed in accident
Oh, the humanity poultry! Last month, a tractor trailer carrying an indeterminate number of live chickens overturned on a highway outside Athens,…
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Sports and Culture
U of Chicago Sex Week includes ‘Temple of C*m,’ ‘Taste of Kink,’ rope-tying
A riddle for you: What do Wicked Pictures, Early2Bed Sex Store, and the University of Chicago have in common? The answer is Sex…
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Quick Takes
Delegation to Mandela funeral cost $19M
Those commercials with Alex Trebek are evidently right: The cost of funerals is through the roof. The Weekly Standard did a…
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Quick Takes
CBC feuds with Valerie Jarrett over Obama judge picks
“This is a terrible mistake; history will record it as such. And it breaks my heart that it’s a black…
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Unyielding
Black History Month school menu causes outrage … take 728
How many times is this story going to be repeated? It’s Black History Month … check. A high school wants…
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Unyielding
16-year-old girl busted on child porn charges after posting naked ‘selfies’ to Twitter
If you take and/or disseminate nude photographs of a teenager, you are engaging in child pornography. That’s true even if…
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Quick Takes
Poughkeepsie mayor: Bloomberg wanted to confiscate guns illegally
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg may not have styled himself a liberal, though he played one in public…
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Quick Takes
Manhunt for Mexican national who raped teen girl 70 times
Another story not receiving the media attention it deserves is that of a nationwide manhunt underway for a Mexican national…
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Media
MSM silent after Dem lawmaker’s gun accidentally discharges
If a Ruger LCP semi-automatic is accidentally fired inside the office of a Kentucky state representative, will it make a…
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Quick Takes
Dem: Lawmakers who lie about O’care should wear Pinocchio noses
Jackie Speier, a Democratic congresswoman from California, shared a fantasy today on Twitter. Don’t worry if there are children in…
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Unyielding
Community organizers’ strange ‘victory’ over Trader Joe’s
It may be a slum, but it’s our slum. That seems to have been the response from black community leaders in Northeast…
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Unyielding
School refuses to allow day honoring America because it might ‘offend immigrants’
This has got to be the final triumph! Administrators at a Colorado high school turned down students’ request for a…
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Unyielding
Loony-left NYC mayor Bill de Blasio wants to close public schools for Muslim holidays
How many Muslims does it take to close New York City Public Schools? The answer is 69,985 — roughly 21/2500…
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Unyielding
Super Bowl Coke ad features multilingual version of ‘America the Beautiful’
O beautiful for spacious skies… Wait, make that “O hermoso para los cielos amplias.” Scratch that. Instead sing, “O زیبا…
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Law and Government
911 operator sends police on wild goose chase, tips off boyfriend
The job of a 911 operator is to help the authorities respond to emergencies. An operator in Wilmington, Del., did…
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Politics
Video: Banned Super Bowl gun ad going viral
Last night’s Super Bowl was dripping with pseudo-patriotism. The big game started not just with the singing of the National…
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Quick Takes
Video: TV commentator pulling for Brady, NE to win Super Bowl
The clip has gone viral and, had it been in a season when the New England Patriots were actually in…
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