I think National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg was trying to be so earnestly serious that he let a joke go right over his head:
Still the support for Cain is interesting in its own right. In all the coverage as well as in the comments sections from readers and in my own email and conversations you find people saying, in effect, “He made a pass, he took no for an answer, what's the big deal?”
When you put up a government website and promise to answer any question that gets enough petition signatures, this is the kind of foolishness that can be expected:
The U.S. government has said it has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet or that an extraterrestrial presence has ever contacted any human being.
Every move we make:
The Supreme Court is considering whether police use of GPS devices to track criminal suspects requires a judge's advance approval.
The case being argued Tuesday could have implications for other high-tech surveillance techniques in the digital age.
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The government argues that people have no expectation of privacy concerning their travel on public streets.
People who do in-home stuff for us don't think our time is nearly as valuable as theirs, which is why they give us big windows instead of specific times, as in: "Yes, we can have someone there between noon on Wednesday and 2 p.m. three weeks from now." But out time is worth something:
Isn't this the kind of thing they say in all those disaster movies to lull the population and prevent a panic?
"There is no chance that this object will collide with the Earth or moon," Yeomans said.
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Thank goodness we don't have to put him on the injured reserve list:
Governor Mitch Daniels returned home after undergoing surgery to his right knee Friday morning.
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New from the Cato Institute, Libertarianism.org, a resource on the theory and history of liberty. From the opening page introduction:
Nipplegate ends up being a bust:
A federal appeals court has ruled that the FCC acted improperly when it imposed a half-million dollar fine on CBS for broadcasting an image of Janet Jackson's exposed nipple for a fraction of a second during the 2004 Super Bowl. The court ruled that the broadcast was legal under the FCC's then-current policy of allowing "fleeting" indecency on the airwaves, and that it was unfair of the FCC to change the policy retroactively.
I know some of you have followed the media's bias, ignorance and downright incompetence when it comes to gun issues. Hot Air here covers MSNBC's spectacularly stupid questioning of Sheriff Chuck Wright, the lawman who made news recently by urging law-abiding citizens in general and women in particular to arm themselves. Could anyone possibly be as clueless about self-defense as this question seems to indicate?
Ready for another party?
Favorable views of the Democratic Party have fallen to their lowest since the Reagan landslide of 1984. Even fewer Americans see the Republican Party positively, and Americans by 2-1 say they'd welcome an independent alternative for president.
