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Quick Takes
Now playing at LU’s YouTube channel…
Our first video is a talk at the Conservative Forum by comedian Evan Sayet. The theme is “Why Liberals Think Conservatives are Evil.”…
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Quick Takes
Stamping out food stamp fraud
Too bad the Obama administration is too busy grousing about income inequality to focus on entitlement recipients who are abusing…
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Education
Middle school sex-ed poster crosses line: Asks about anal, oral sex
When Mark Ellis’s 13-year-old daughter first showed him a cell phone picture of a poster at her middle school, he…
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Economy
The nanny state’s idea of a War on Poverty
Having solved all of the nation’s woes in his first five years in office, Barack Obama announced this week that…
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Unyielding
Stubbornly clinging to the dream of one nation under Obamacare
The fiftieth anniversary of Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty is focusing much attention on the plight of the neediest.…
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Law and Government
Teen who sexted nude pix of boyfriend’s ex faces porn charges
If there is an ancient moral to this story, it is not to act out of spite. There’s also a…
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Law and Government
California state senator proposes extending government health care to illegals
Who else but a Democrat and where else but in California would a lawmaker have the absolute chutzpah to suggest…
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Quick Takes
If a baby cries in a fancy restaurant, does the chef make a sound?
Give Chef Grant Achatz credit, if for nothing else than for cramming more content into the 140 characters allowable within…
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Law and Government
Senior Capitol Hill staffers’ Obamacare woes
This is the sort of sob story that prompts even the most compassionate soul to retort gruffly, “Line forms in…
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Unyielding
Hospital workers steal patient IDs, collect tax refunds
If you’re going to bilk people out of their hard-earned cash, the best time to do it is when they’re…
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Unyielding
NBC report: Black dogs got no reason to live
The title is a modified borrowing of a lyric from a Randy Newman song about short people that some diminutive…
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Unyielding
Jeremiah Wright invited to be keynote speaker at MLK Day event in Chicago
"Wright may be controversial, but so was Dr. King."
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Quick Takes
Watch a blind 8th-grade basketball player sink a shot
Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Alek Wolfe, an eighth-grader at Saint Albans City School in St. Albans, Vt., can…
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Foreign Affairs
Obama fighting to ‘protect’ Iran deal from Congress?
An article at LU yesterday noted in passing that Barack Obama is number 2 on the list of the world’s most…
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Economy
Your tax dollars at work: Fed shells out $175 million for penis pumps
Lest I be accused of making a mountain out of a molehill, the $175 mil was spread out over six…
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Quick Takes
‘For the caution of health’: Obama speaks Spanglish to Hispanics
Lucky for conservatives who oppose immigration reform without first sealing the borders that they have liberals to light the way.…
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Media
What liberals (including Ezra Klein) don’t get about health care
The title of this post riffs on one by Klein himself at Bloomberg (“What Liberals Don’t Get About Single Payer”)…
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Foreign Affairs
Sunday news shows’ fixation on Bridgegate
The Sunday after terrorists stormed the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the weekly news shows covered the attacks, more or…
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Quick Takes
Where in the world is Michelle Obama?
Let me preface the following remarks by assuring concerned readers that the first lady is safe and sound, and her…
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Unyielding
Pimp sues Nike for not warning that their shoes can be used as weapons
A Portland, Ore., man who was sentenced to 100 years in prison after brutally stomping another man’s face, is claiming…
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Law and Government
Ohio man manages to sign up for Obamacare after only 3,118 failed attempts
If you don’t succeed at first, try, try again. And again and again and again. ABC Cleveland affiliate WKYC has the story…
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Education
NJ bill mandates that middle schoolers be taught social media skills
In case you thought the only news coming out of the Garden State revolved around Chris Christie’s lousy bridge hand,…
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Media
‘It’s cool to be a liberal again’?
Forgive my skepticism, but I’m trying hard to remember when it was cool to be a liberal the first time.…
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Law and Government
Christie and Obama, together again: The MSM’s two faces
For those who still can’t forgive Chris Christie for his misplaced gushiness toward Barack Obama for making a per forma…
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Quick Takes
State Dept mouthpiece Jen Psaki: Let a smirk be your umbrella
The situation in the Middle East is grave right now. Iraq has largely fallen back into the hands of al…
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Education
Teacher reportedly threatens student with fake gun
This column has taken a dim view on schools that take a dim view on the use of imaginary weapons…
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Quick Takes
State’s rights, shmate’s rights, says Eric Holder (once again)
Earlier this week, the governor of Utah said that the state will not recognize some 1,300 same-sex marriages performed in…
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Media
LU gets a new look
Welcome to LU’s new digs! Our much-awaited (by us anyway) relaunch went live at 10:30 this morning, marking the end…
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Quick Takes
Obama in the Promised Land
A short time ago, the White House Blog published a post reminding readers that in his last State of the…
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Economy
When will the economy really ‘turn the corner’?
On Apr. 2, 2010 President Obama, ebullient over the addition of 162,000 jobs the month before, announced: Today is an…
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Education
University production celebrates white self-loathing
From the description at the University of Oregon’s website, you might expect that “The Race Card Project” was the creation…
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Education
Toddler removed by child services after police union posts video of him spewing obscenities
A story out of Omaha raises more questions than it answers. Here are two: What responsibility does society have toward…
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Law and Government
The TSA has a video for kids
The Transportation Security Administration has had its share of flubs, such as when it cleared a passenger for takeoff despite his…
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Social Issues
Who’s ready to desegregate organized sports in favor of white athletes?
There is much talk about sports in the news these days, most of it centering on outrage over offensive team names…
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Media
Salon writer out-MHPs Melissa Harris-Perry in comments over Mitt Romney’s black grandchild
If you think the “jokes” by MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry and a panel of fellow knuckle-draggers in re former Massachusetts governor Mitt…
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