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Last Sunday, at Festifall in Chapel Hill, NC, I met a peace/anti-torture activist, from the NC Peace Coalition. I asked her what Obama had done for peace (of course knowing the answer, but wondering if she would be honest about it). “Nothing… but I love him anyway!” she at least honestly replied.
So Obama “won” the [...]

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I have no doubt that there is racial profiling, even rampant racial profiling, taking place every day in America. At first I thought this may have happened with Henry Louis Gates’ arrest last week.
But this photo tells a different story.

If anyone racially profiled, it was the Harvard professor’s neighbor, who apparently called police and [...]

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Obama Asks You to Save $6

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

That’s the equivalent of what he asked Cabinet agencies to save when he requested they each cut $100 million out of their billion-dollar budgets. Economist Greg Mankiw compares it to saving $3 a year and putting $30,000 on the family credit card. Megan McArdle is sympathetic.
The AP writes:
” The thrifty measures Obama ordered for federal [...]

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The Best Way to Spend $170 Million?

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

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Courtesy of The White Rabbit Cult.

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Obama Mania, Seen Through Cupcakes

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Obama is akin to a god in the eyes of many people. We’ll see how long that holds up. Meanwhile, it’s amusing to see the many ways in which his followers show their love for their leader.

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Disputing Obama’s citizenship is a losing battle, no matter how you look at it. Anyone who does it will be seen as a conspiracy theorist and a lunatic. Apparently the We the People Foundation feels they’re up to the task, since they have also repeatedly taken on the (alleged) conspiracy theorist/lunatic mantle with their previous [...]

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