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NEW BOOKS BY POLITICIANS WE CARE ABOUT

ile links Meet the latest Abraham Lincoln biographer: Bill O'Reilly. The Fox News host and best-selling author is working on "Killing Lincoln," a history book that will take readers "into Ford's Theater and into the mind of Lincoln's assassin, John...
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GOVMENT

File links I was having a wonderful tete-a-tete with Doomer this morning and even Q chimed in. I was thinking of the repubs and govment and all that crap.  Today the repubs will speak of the Demcrat party.  They just...
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THE PLEBS

Missy has some of us thinking of a an old leader in Café. Lux was his handle.  You can see Missy's blog here:  http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/b/a/barefoot/2010/02/lux... All she was doing was highlighting one of Lux's posts from '08 when I first...
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MAY DAY

Okay, let's see what I got here. Once upon a time there was a  Lieutenant colonel François de La Rocque. It was 1930 in Paris, and La Rocque becomes the leader of a group of WWI veterans who were...
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DUGFUCKNOW MUST BE DESTROYED

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides with the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and good will shepherds the weak through...
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TO BLEED OR NOT TO BLEED

                    File links I watched some good movies this week end. I was particularly intrigued by The Client.   This is a film set in the South and one can never go wrong with Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Sarandon...
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PSYCHOPATHS FOR PERRY

ile links You realize I have not done a Rush Limbaugh blog for a long time.  This is the closest I have come in a long time. Auntie Sam sent me this gem today: Jake Gibson of Fox News' Liveshots...
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ARIZONA HEAT

Arizona is our 48th State. We finally decided to render unto it statehood in 1912, fifty years after it had become a territory and a hundred years before it would become a permanent penal colony.  It is part of...
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GROUNDHOG'S DAY

Size of this preview: 800 × 599 pixels To tax (from the Latin taxo; "I estimate", which in turn is from tangō; "I touch") is to impose a financial charge or other levy upon a taxpayer (an individual or legal...
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AS GOOD AS IT GETS

                                                     THE JOKER I have basic cable. If I had money, I would still have basic cable. It is on as background 'music' most of the time. A lot of people at Café just say to hell with TV...

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