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I didn’t think Ben Domenech

by John Cole|  August 19, 20028:01 pm| Leave a Comment

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I didn’t think Ben Domenech would have much to say about last night’s pre-season game between the Steelers and the Redskins. Probably because our first and second team players beat his first string defense into the ground. The ‘fun and gun’ offense was more of the ‘son of a gun’ offense.

Sure, the Redskins came back in the 4th quarter and won. Big deal. What that means is that all the guys the Redskins are going to cut are better than all the guys we are going to cut.

Go Steelers!

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Let’s See- Racial Profiling at

by John Cole|  August 19, 20027:56 pm| Leave a Comment

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Let’s See- Racial Profiling at Airports is Verboten,

But the NY Times thinks it is just A-OK to track down and arrest only deadbeat dads. What would the outcry be if they had arrested only women?

BTW- someone in the blogosphere had stuff recently on deadbeat moms, I just can not remember who. For most issues like this, I go to Richard Bennett’s Omphalos. Here is a sample of his insight.

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Speaking of Mike Moynihan and

by John Cole|  August 19, 20027:46 pm| Leave a Comment

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Speaking of Mike Moynihan and the Politburo:

He has also had an encouner with the north end of a south bound cow named Professor John Farley. Farley is the loony green candidate that Lawrence Haws at Hawspipe wrote about several months ago.

Go read the Hawspipe report, then check up on the Moynihan story. Al Gore was right- A leopard can’t change its stripes.

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The other day I compared

by John Cole|  August 19, 20027:38 pm| Leave a Comment

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The other day I compared Farrakhan with Mugabe. Maybe I was not that far off. Look at this quote from Farrakhan from the Reparations Rally this past weekend:

The rally got its most energetic jolt just before 2 p.m. when Minister Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, gave a short speech on the need to use the money responsibly, if reparations are ever approved.

“We cannot settle for some little jive token,” he told the crowd. “We need millions of acres of land that black people can build.”

Louis Farrakhan. America’s Mugabe.

For more on the reparation nonsense, go check out the Politburo’s outstanding coverage and sound bites.

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This Is How A First

by John Cole|  August 19, 20022:08 pm| Leave a Comment

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This Is How A First Blog Entry Should Read:

From Norah Vincent’s brand-spanking new blog:

Yes, it

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This is what is passing

by John Cole|  August 17, 20023:27 pm| Leave a Comment

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This is what is passing as the ‘intelligent’ left. Snicker. And Republicans are stupid?

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Ever Wonder What It Would

by John Cole|  August 12, 200210:42 am| Leave a Comment

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Ever Wonder What It Would Be Like

if Louis Farrakhan was President of his own country? Read this.

HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Monday told white farmers, defying orders to hand over their land, that he stands by an August deadline for them to clear out and pave the way for his black resettlement land reforms.

“We set ourselves an August deadline for the redistribution of land and that deadline stands,” Mugabe said in a televised address during a funeral for a former finance minister.

Mugabe’s government had ordered 2,900 of the remaining 4,500 white commercial farmers to surrender their lands without compensation to black settlers by midnight last Thursday, August 8.

“We, the principled people of Zimbabwe, we, the true owners of this land, shall not budge. We shall not be deterred on this one vital issue, the land. The land is ours,” Mugabe told more than 15,000 supporters.

Read the whole thing.

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