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LinkSwarm for December 19, 2014

I trust everyone reading this has already heard about Sony Picture’s spinelessness in cancelling their release of The Interview, and Paramount’s even more-spineless refusal to allow theaters to show Team America: World Police in its place. This would be good … Continue reading →

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Texas vs. California Update for December 17, 2014

Time for another Texas vs. California update: California’s unfunded health care obligations for retired employees hits $72 billion. (Hat tip: Pension Tsunami.) Meanwhile, the state comptroller says that California’s unfunded pension liabilities has hit $198 billion. (Ditto.) California may extend … Continue reading →

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Mike Brown: A Not-So-Gentle Giant

This video, reportedly of Freguson’s own Mike Brown (and it does look a great deal like him) presents an glimpse of him distinctly at odds with the “Hand up don’t shoot” crowd’s characterization of him as a “gentle giant”: Usual … Continue reading →

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Bombshells Continue to Explode Discredited Rolling Stone UVA Rape Story

Now ABC has joined the Washington Post in debunking still more aspects of the Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s Rolling Stone UVA rape story. ABC got hold of and interviewed “Jackie”‘s friends, all of whom contradict Rolling Stone‘s account of the event … Continue reading →

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BattleSwarmBlog Celebrates Victory Over Amanda Marcotte Day

After spending days pointing out Amanda Marcotte’s factual and intellectual fallacies over the unraveling Rolling Stone UVA rape story on Twitter, this finally happened: I love the smell of Amanda Marcotte blocking me in the morning. It smells like…victory. Henceforth, … Continue reading →

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What a “Sober” South Texas Democratic Judge Looks Like

For all the justified talk of Republican gains in the Rio Grande Valley, it’s still overwhelmingly Democratic at the county level. So it’s no surprise that when a Democratic 13th Court of Appeals Justice Nora Longoria got arrested for DWI, … Continue reading →

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Eulogies for The New Republic Go Straight Past Laments To Rending of Garments

The aftershocks following the collapse of The New Republic following an editorial change by Facebook millionaire owner Chris Hughes (no doubt still stinging from his inability to buy his boyfriend a congressional seat) continue to reverberate around the punditocracy. For … Continue reading →

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Democrats Hate the South, And The South Hates Them Right Back

With the defeat of Mary Landrieu, the Democratic Party no longer has a single national office holder anywhere in the South. In fact, with South Carolina re-electing Tim Scott, “there are now more black Republicans than white Democrats from the … Continue reading →

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Little Rock Holiday Inn Presidential Seeks Very Specific Client

The Little Rock Holiday Inn Presidential seems firmly committed to celebrating the legacy of the 42nd President (and, to a lesser extent, his wife and other Presidents). But I think they go a bit farther than that. Paul Martin, my … Continue reading →

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Rolling Stone UVA Rape Story Falls Apart, Feminists Freak Out

In today’s LinkSwarm, I mentioned how the Rolling Stone accusation of a fraternity gang rape at the University of Virginia was unraveling. Well, shortly after that it collapsed completely. So much so that even Rolling Stone itself is backtracking on … Continue reading →

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