Monthly Archives: April 2013

Boston Bombing Suspect Update: One Dead, One in Custody

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Lawrence Person

Just in case you weren’t breathlessly watching coverage of being unable to see a suspect hiding under a tarp in a boat that wasn’t on fire you couldn’t see in a trailer behind a house you couldn’t see, the second … Continue reading →

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Boston Bombers: Muslim Brothers from Chechnya

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Lawrence Person

At least that’s how it appears now. Of course, they’re still only alleged bombers, but people with nothing to hide seldom get killed in shootouts with police. I wonder if we’ll finally hear Obama say the words “Muslim Terrorist.” I … Continue reading →

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MSM 4 Months Ago: Gun Control Inevitable. MSM Today: Gun Control Was Always Impossible

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Lawrence Person

They say that hindsight is 20/20, but when it comes to issues where the media elite disagree with actual voters, the MSM has always been at war with Eurasia. Take a look at this Jennifer Steinhauer piece from yesterday explaining … Continue reading →

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Legislative Mountain Labors To Give Birth to Dead Gun Control Mouse

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Lawrence Person

Manchin-Toomey went down in flames today, a cloture vote falling six votes short (including four Democrats (Baucus (MT), Begich (AK), Heitkamp (ND) and Pryor (AK) voting no) of the 60 it needed. Let’s catalog what Democrats won’t be getting during … Continue reading →

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Greece: More Bailouts, More Fake Austerity

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Lawrence Person

While attention was focused on the Boston bombing, Gosnell, and gay marriage, Greece just got another bailout. This is in exchange for further “austerity.” What sort of “austerity” is Greece practicing? The sort that involves

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Texas vs. California Update for April 16, 2013

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Lawrence Person

Time for another Texas vs. California update: The Stockton Bankruptcy: Alarm bells have been ringing loudly in the heads of municipal bond investors…If you’re the chief of municipal bond investing for a big bank, whether on Wall Street or in … Continue reading →

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Thoughts On the Boston Bombing

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Lawrence Person

I assume you’ve heard about the atrocity de jour. A few random points As Dwight points out, nobody knows nothing yet about who did it. I’ve seen people say “Al Qaeda couldn’t have done this because it’s too small-scale and … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for April 12, 2013

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Lawrence Person

Time for another Friday LinkSwarm: Mary Steyn on Margaret Thatcher: “A generation on, the Thatcher era seems more and more like a magnificent but temporary interlude in a great nation’s bizarre, remorseless self-dissolution. She was right and they were wrong, … Continue reading →

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Liberal Anti-Gun Ads Target…Ted Cruz?

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Lawrence Person

ObamaOrganizing For America is using anti-gun ads to target Sen. Ted Cruz. That’s some mighty fine political ad targeting you’ve got going on there, Lou. The same Ted Cruz that pantsed David Dewhurst in the Republican primary runoff because Dew … Continue reading →

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And Even More on Margaret Thatcher

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Lawrence Person

And still more on the late, great Margaret Thatcher: Thatcher was right, and the left was wrong. An appreciation by Paul Johnson. Thatcher didn’t just smash paralyzing, militant trade unions, she also smashed the traditional British class structure. Reagan’s greatest … Continue reading →

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