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7:30 AM, Sep 13, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

Bloomberg: "Obama Team Backed Solyndra Despite Concerns"

Business Insider: "REVEALED: Obama's Jobs Plan To Raise $400 Billion In Taxes"

CNN: "Cantor says no to jobs bill spending"

7:30 AM, Jul 18, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

Detainee policy and "Seven Errors in Today’s New York Times Editorial"

Mark Tapscott: "Obama generated twice as many campaign contributors as new jobs through second quarter of 2011"

7:30 AM, Jul 7, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

Jim Geraghty: "Obama Uses Some of that Political Rhetoric Left Outside the Door"

Jonah Goldberg: The hot new punchline is "That's Racist"

7:00 PM, May 11, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

"Want to guess which potential Republican candidate looks ready to pass the pH test on [cap and trade]? Mitch Daniels. In early 2009, when the issue was ill-defined, he was already arguing against it. That's a nice arrow in the quiver the next time he's asked about the 'social truce.'"

7:30 AM, Apr 21, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

"Welcome to Potemkin, Iowa."

The DCCC is only fooling some of the people some of the time.

"From suicidal astronauts to bestiality, you can learn a lot about what makes the world's worst tyrants tick from the terrible books they write."

7:27 AM, Mar 15, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

"Saudi Troops Enter Bahrain to Help Put Down Unrest"

Well over half of Americans support a no-fly zone in Libya.

Huh. Yesterday was Obamacare's first birthday. Where was the big White House celebration? Must have missed that...

New Video Shows Top NPR Executive Trashing Tea Party and Republicans

10:15 AM, Mar 8, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

So the latest video by James O'Keefe has been released. Bear in mind that there's always the matter of context when watching video stings and not all of O'Keefe's endeavors have been, uh, "winning" as one fomer sitcom actor might be inclined to say. You live by gonzo journalism, you die by gonzo journalism.

USDA Official Fired for Admitting Past Incident of Racism

12:29 PM, Jul 20, 2010 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

Andrew Breitbart posted a video yesterday of USDA official Shirley Sherrod saying during a speech to the NAACP that she had once withheld "the full force of what I could do" for a white farmer because of his race. Fox News reports that Sherrod was fired shortly after the video was posted:

Looting is not a form of civil rights protest.

Jul 26, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 42 • By HEATHER MAC DONALD

In a remarkable demonstration of defining deviancy down, Oakland is congratulating itself for the scale of the riots that broke out July 8 in response to the verdict in a police shooting case. “So a hundred businesses were damaged and looted,” the conventional wisdom in Oakland holds, “so police were assaulted with rocks and bottles, a California Highway Patrol car’s windshield was smashed, and fires were set in the streets.

As a long string of attacks from New York to Washington to London to Madrid to Bali to Lahore to Baghdad make plain.

1:37 PM, Jul 14, 2010 • By GABRIEL SCHOENFELD

A fascinating nugget comes from an unnamed senior U.S. official in a story today by ABC’s Jake Tapper. Citing U.S. intelligence, the official states that "Al Qaeda recruits have said that al Qaeda is racist against black members from West Africa because they are only used in lower level operations."

Heath Shuler Didn't Hear the N-Word at March Tea Party Rally

10:45 AM, Apr 15, 2010 • By MARY KATHARINE HAM

The testimony of Rep. Heath Shuler, a Blue Dog Democrat of North Carolina, has been cited as corroborating evidence of Tea Partiers slinging racial slurs since the accusations were made after a March 20 health-care rally in Washington, D.C.

His corroboration came in an interview with a local reporter from Hendersonville, N.C.

From the Scrapbook

Apr 5, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 28 • By

Plus: Dallas Tea Partiers respond to Keith Olbermann.

4:18 PM, Feb 23, 2010 • By MARY KATHARINE HAM

Perhaps Donny Deutsch will argue that "coconut," a racial slur implying that a person of color is a sell-out who is brown on the outside and white on the inside, is far more nuanced than "Oreo," and therefore acceptable.

8:50 AM, Jan 28, 2010 • By MARY KATHARINE HAM

Sen. John McCain (via Twitter): "I agree with the Mayor...the trials of terrorists should be held in military courts at GITMO."

Law enforcement official: There was no wiretapping attempt in O'Keefe case.

The five-cent bag tax in Washington, D.C. applies to "food establishments" that sell only tiny tins of mints.