Kirsten Powers Gets It Right - Again

Liberal writer Kirsten Powers isn't making excuses for her side when it comes to the double standards of the left-wing intelligentsia including the Obama Administration when it comes to Rush Limbaugh and Bill Maher.

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Obama Super PAC Keeping Maher's Million

Bill Burton, the head of the Obama Super PAC - Priorities USA Action won't return Bill Maher's $1 million donation.

Quel surprise.

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Tarkenton Echoes Hillyer

Earlier this week, Quin Hillyer held nothing back against his beloved New Orleans Saints in light of revelations of a bounty system instituted the Saints former defensive co-ordinator Gregg Williams which other team officials including Sean Payton were apparently aware of. Simply put, Williams paid members of the Saints' defensive team to deliberately injure opposing quarterbacks.

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The Obama Video I'd Like to See

Matt Naugle provides with us a link to a video of a young Barack Obama when he was President of the Harvard Law Review back in 1990.

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Study: Springsteen Turns Whites Racist

Yesterday, as Bruce Springsteen's new album Wrecking Ball was released, a study done by the University of Minnesota was also released. It's thesis is white students are more apt to be unconsciously racist if they listen to white musicians like Springsteen.

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Romney Wins Ohio

With 96% of the votes counted, FNC has called Ohio for Mitt Romney who leads Rick Santorum by just over 12,000 votes.

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The Rick Perry Factor in Ohio

With 93% of the vote, Mitt Romney is leading Rick Santorum by 7,229 votes in Ohio.

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Romney Wins Idaho

Although only 12% of the vote is in, Mitt Romney has decisively won the Idaho caucuses with 78% of the vote with Ron Paul and Rick Santorum fighting for second place.

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Santorum Wins North Dakota

FNC has just called the North Dakota caucuses for Rick Santorum with Ron Paul and Mitt Romney in a fight for second place.

With 77% of the votes in, Santorum with 40% of the vote with Paul narrowly leading Romney (27% to 25%).

Santorum: I Have Never Been For An Individual Mandate on a State or Federal Level

While speaking in Steubenville, Ohio, Rick Santorum pointedly said, "I have never been for an individual mandate on a state or federal level."

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Santorum Leading Romney in Ohio

With less than a quarter of the vote counted in Ohio, Rick Santorum is leading Mitt Romney by 6,000 votes (39% to 36%).

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Super Tuesday Going As Expected So Far

Super Tuesday is pretty much going as expected.

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There Will Always Be Hockey Night in Canada

Ross Kaminsky draws our attention to an article in The National Post citing a study by researchers at McGill and Concordia University (both in Montreal) which postulates that climate change could mean the end of outdoor hockey rinks in Canada in the next fifty years.

What shall Canadians do?

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The Rush-Maher Double Standard Goes Beyond CNN

Although I was critical of Rush Limbaugh's behavior last week, it doesn't mean I am not critical of liberals who behave badly and the liberals who look the other way. Jeff Lord, via Brent Bozell, has enlightened us to Piers Morgan's double standards when it comes to Rush Limbaugh and Bill Maher.

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Remembering John Belushi Thirty Years After

Whenever I see March 5th on a calendar, the first thing that comes to mind is that it is the day John Belushi died.

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Obama: I Don't Bluff (Tell That to Eric Cantor)

In an interview last week with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic concerning Iran's pursuit of a nuclear weapon, President Obama said, "I think that the Israeli government recognizes that, as president of the United States, I don't bluff."

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Romney Wins Washington

With 94% of the votes tabulated, Mitt Romney has won the Washington GOP Caucuses with 37% of the vote winning 30 delegates. Ron Paul edged out Rick Santorum for second place with both men earning five delegates apiece.

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Rush Apologizes to Fluke

Rush Limbaugh did the honorable thing today and apologized to Laura Fluke.

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O'Reilly on Fluke

Tonight, Bill O'Reilly offered a tough critique of Sandra Fluke and her support of taxpayer subsidized contraception.

Yet he managed to put forward his views without calling Fluke a slut. How perspicacious of him.

MLB Adds Two Wild Card Spots

After months of deliberation, MLB has announced it will expand the playoff format and add a Wild Card team to both the AL and the NL beginning this season. This means ten teams, five from each league, will make the post-season.

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James Q. Wilson, 1931-2012. R.I.P.

Social scientist James Q. Wilson passed away this morning at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital here in Boston of leukemia. He was 80.

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The American Conservative Defends Taibbi For Bashing Breitbart

Last night, I took Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone to task for delighting in the death of Andrew Breitbart.

Well, this morning Clark Stooksbury of The American Conservative (which these days is neither particularly American nor conservative in its outlook) rushed to the defense of Taibbi. Stooksbury complains, "He quotes the nasty part of Taibbi's obit but leaves out all the nice parts and whines about how mean liberals are to conservatives."

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Why Liberals Cheer When Conservatives Die

Earlier today, Quin Hillyer ripped Matt Yglesias a new one after he went to Twitter to delight in the death of Andrew Breitbart.

Well, Yglesias was outdone by Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone who wrote this afternoon, "Good! F#*k him. I couldn't be happier that he's dead."

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Rush Pulls an Ed Schultz

I found it interesting that Sandra Fluke should choose to make an appearance on Ed Schultz's show on MSNBC. Fluke is the Georgetown Law Student who testified in front of a Democratic congressional committee concerning the HHS mandate of contraceptives. Her testimony prompted Rush Limbaugh to call her, amongst other things, "a slut."

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Andrew Breitbart, 1969-2012. R.I.P.

I couldn't believe Ross Kaminsky's post when I saw it.

But it's true. Andrew Breitbart is dead at the age of 43. He apparently collapsed while taking a walk near his home in Los Angeles just after midnight and never regained consciousness.

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