Monthly Archives: November 2011

Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Obama Bashing Romney Edition)

While Republican presidential wannabes Herman Cain (R-More Stories Than Richard North Patterson) and Rick Perry (R-Laughing Gas) stumble around the political landscape, the Obamanaut super PAC Priorities USA Action is dropping 100 grand on web videos attacking Mitt Romney (R-Anderson? … Continue reading

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Screen Shot o’ the Day (pat. pending)

  That’s pretty much it in a nutshell, yes?

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Let The $4 Billion* Rumpus Begin! ( Make Us Great Again Edition)

(* The amount that will likely be spent on political ads this election cycle.) GOP presidential wannabe Rick Perry (R-Have I Stopped Laughing Yet?) is now being propped up by a $382,000 ad campaign just launched in Iowa and South … Continue reading

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Nation (College Degree Edition)

From our Compare and Contrast in Clear Idiomatic English desk: Dueling op-eds in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal and New York Times about the value of a college education. From William McGurn’s WSJ piece: College tuitions have risen more than 440% … Continue reading

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Quote o’ the Day (Tom McNeeley Edition)

From the New York Times obit of Cambridge native Thomas William McNeely Jr., a heavyweight boxer whose most notable fight was a 1961 heavyweight championship bout against the great-but-troubled Floyd Patterson (see What a Time It Was, by the great … Continue reading

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Cain & Disable (The Harmanator Edition)

Monday started out so well for presidential wannabe Herman Cain (R-I Did Not Have Settlement with Those Women – Oh Wait, I Did). There was, for starters, the indulgent New York Times piece that flicked away “the reports of inappropriate … Continue reading

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Perry & Thrust (Really Very Bad Day Edition)

Monday started out so well for presidential wannabe Rick Perry (R-Don’t Secede From Me Yet!). From Politico Playbook: –FIRST LOOK – NEW PERRY IOWA TV SPOT, “Doer” – The smiling governor, coatless and tieless, against a white background: “If you’re lookin’ … Continue reading

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