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Tucker Carlson’s greatest journalistic achievement.
La Barbie Caught: One of Mexico’s most notorious drug lords has been caught! Also, applications now being accepted for Notorious Mexican Drug Lord. Apply at the FBI. [Read more]

Alan Simpson’s opinion of Social Security and those that accept it.
Pakistan Floods: The watery nightmare continues unabated.
NYC Cabbie Stabbed: Make no mistake, this was a text book hate crime. But what set Michael Enright off? [Read more]

You just aren’t American if you aren’t protesting something.
More Bad Eggs: Remember, if you’re going to make an omelet, you’re going to have to give a few thousand people salmonella.
CIA Interrogation Tapes: If you want to make sure torture tapes are eliminated, make sure you check under the desk. [Read more]

Nowhere in the bible does it say that Jesus isn’t a raptor.
Pakistan: A slow-moving tsunami wrecks havoc, as help is slow to come.
John McCain – Winner: Say what you will about John McCain’s flip-flopping, but it will lead him to six more years in the Senate. [Read more]
Sarah Palin talking with “Nicolas Sarkozy.” We must never forget.
V-Iraq Day: Combat troops are on their way out of Iraq. The war is over! Just ignore the 50,000 troops we left there. [Read more]

When you have the money to paint your churches gold, you have enough money to pay income tax, says I.
Freedom isn’t free. So why is freedom of religion tax-free? At my latest post at “Alan Colmes Presents Liberaland,” I take a look at whether it’s time to pull the non-profit rug from underneath Churches. [Read more]

Bats. Why did they have to be bats?
Pakistan Floods: Capitalism not stepping up to the plate to help out Pakistanis stuck in a watery hell. [Read more]

Nothing quite showcases the hallowed ground near Ground Zero better than Thunder Lingerie.  [Read more]

Don’t say you weren’t warned about blood-thirsty terror babies.
Terror Babies: Texas State Rep. Debbie Riddle believes there is a plot involving pregnant women from other countries traveling to America as tourists to give birth, and then raising the babies as terrorists. These are the death throes of a Republic. [Read more]
Video of Steven Slater quitting his job at JetBlue. Yes, Faye Dunaway was there.
Google: The data will explode. And the Mayans will be correct. Also, Google goes to the dark side. [Read more]
Why blogging is better than spitting fire: My face almost never bursts into flames.
August 10, 2010:
Census Bureau Returns Cash: Counting people isn’t as expensive as first anticipated. [Read more]
Erik Akkersdijk once solved a Rubik’s Cube in 7.08 seconds. Today, that record doesn’t mean jack, thanks to God’s number. [Read more]
Weekend Forecast: Partly cloudy with sporadic outbursts of Coked-up Stimulus Monkeys. [Read more]

If Bill Cosby would just remember that he made “Leonard Part 6,” maybe he’d rethink his stance on living.
Iran: Many an Iranian will look back to this day as the day someone almost killed Ahmadinehad. [Read more]
Despite early failures such as the one above, Jake Tapper has still managed to achieve lofty status in the D.C. media world. [Read more]

Vampire Babies. Yes, we’ve reached the point of a demand for Vampire Babies. I just have to believe these are the death throes of a dying fad.
Is anyone really talking that much about the Pentagon’s inability to account for $8.7 billion in Iraqi reconstruction funds? [Read more]
Basil Marceaux for Governor. Have a nice day. (Via Mario Piperni)
Redemption: Just because Tony Hayward was at the helm when British Petroleum dumped millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico doesn’t mean it’s his fault. You jerks. [Read more]

Look on the bright side – at least the Gulf of Mexico now looks super-bitchin’ under UV lighting.
Arizona Immigration Law: A federal judge strikes down parts of Arizona’s Illegal immigration law, meaning Jan Brewer will spend more of the state’s money on lawyers. And John McCain has a sad. [Read more]
Humans – the cure for a tranquil planet. [Read more]
Paul Briggs does an outstanding imitation of how the Obama Administration handled the Shirley Sherrod video nontroversy. [Read more]
Prompted by Peggy Noonan's claim in The Wall Street Journal that "we are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate," Andrew Sullivan steps forward to defend Pres. Obama's honor. "Can she actually believe this?," he asks incredulously.
By Julian Pecquet, The Hill, May 18, 2013
Congress is ramping up a new round of sanctions against Iran, ignoring the Obama administration's request to let diplomacy run its course.
In back-to-back hearings this week, lawmakers on key House and Senate panels put the State and Treasury departments on notice that their patience is wearing thin after the latest round of talks last month failed to produce a deal. Both chambers have legislative efforts in the works – the House foreign affairs panel will vote next week – but the administration is warning against any moves that could undermine international support for the existing sanctions against Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program [....]
By Carl Zimmer, New York Times/Science, May 16/17, 2013
An article that summarizes the recent work of Ya-Ping Zhang, a geneticist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who has led an international network of scientists who have compared pieces of DNA from different canines which is pointing to the theory that dogs domesticated themselves.
But the article's message is not just what it first appears to be. When you get to the concluding paragraphs there are some real though provokers:
[....] SLC6A4 may have played a crucial part in this change, because serotonin influences aggression.
To test these ideas,...
By Neha Paliwal, Passport @ ForeignPolicy.com, May 17, 2013
On Friday, chaotic clashes broke out in Georgia as an angry mob -- comprised mainly of young men but also including robed priests and some women -- descended on a gay rights rally commemorating International Day Against Homophobia. A day earlier, the head of the Georgian Orthodox Church had demanded that authorities stop the rally, calling it a "violation of the majority's right."
According to EurasiaNet, the mob, which numbered...
By Miriam Elder in Moscow, The Guardian, May 17, 2013
Federal Security Service spokesman breaches protocol as he accuses US agency of crossing 'red line' in its recruitment efforts