That guy who shot up the Unitarian church in Tennessee yesterday during a kids’ performance, killing two? Sounds like a talk radio fan:
The shotgun-wielding suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church was motivated by a hatred of “the liberal movement,” and he planned to shoot until police shot him, […]

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Hm. From the Bucks County Courier Times:
It’s being touted as the hot new trend in development — as a way to build high-density housing while reducing traffic, increasing mass transit use and enhancing overall quality of life.
It’s called transit-oriented development — TOD to those in development circles. It’s meant to “fully capitalize on [a transit […]

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Maureen Dowd has an amusing take on Obama’s sojourn:
The media behemoth slouching after the senator is scouring his every word, expression, bead of sweat, basketball shot and accessory — are those hiking boots too Bremer? Are the sunglasses too rapper? …
The One, as McCain aides sardonically call Obama, glided through Afghanistan, Iraq and Jordan, girding […]

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Always been a big fan of this tune as much for its social/historical significance as for the fact it rawks. Indeed, if John McCain really wants to summon the spirit of the radical ’60s, he ought to be playing this clip at campaign rallies.
The MC5 were a band of Detroit punks who wound up being ”guided” […]

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So I finally went out and bought “Guitar Hero.”
Guitar Hero III, actually, the one with Slash on the cover. On sale over at Circuit City, and since I turn 41 in a week I figured it could be a birthday present to myself. I also figured the boy would also want to play it. I […]

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Sort of amazed by this, but by now I shouldn’t be.
O’Reilly and his ilk continue to maintain that waterboarding isn’t torture, despite the fact that after WWII the U.S. prosecuted several Japanese soldiers for waterboarding U.S. servicemen. It was a war crime then. So what’s changed?
Well, obviously the fact that the “good guys” are using […]

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Maybe this is me turning Republican, at least in part, but I read the story about the “housing rescue” and I’m given big pause when I run into sentences like this:
The plan gives the Treasury Department power to spend unlimited amounts to prop up Fannie and Freddie, should they need it, to calm investor fears […]

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McCain and the right have apparently latched on to Obama’s “citizen of the world” comment, and gone nativist. Surprise.
A reader over at Sullivan’s place utilizes The Google to see if it’s really all that original or outrageous. And guess what the answer is?
A reader over at Politico has already noted that John F. Kennedy used […]

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As Dave Pigeon notes here, I like that McCain/conservatives fairly dared Obama to hit the road, and when he did, got all bent out of shape that he might, you know, travel outside the United States.
Funny thing, though, as Atrios notes - John McCain visited Latin America in early July.
Why didn’t he stay in the […]

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A question:
Have you seen a single John McCain for President sign anywhere in Lancaster County?
If so, where?
So much of the right’s approach to this election is slam Obama; precious few are working to build up McCain, and I suspect it’s because so many conservatives just don’t like him much. There is, we learned the other […]

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Wow. Numbers significantly worse than expected; and now the company will retool and refocus on smaller vehicles:
Ford also announced that it will bring six European small car models to North America by the end of 2012 as it deals with a market shift from trucks to cars brought on by high gasoline prices.
When I drive […]

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So the Yokel, apparently back from a vacation in the Boston area (or perhaps just using The Google), has a piece from the Reading, Mass., newspaper on how that community is trying to implement it’s own version of “smart growth”:
“The idea of a Smart Growth District in downtown is born out of the community’s interest […]

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I’m sorry, but McCain is simply losing it here.
Republican John McCain is pushing back against Democratic criticism that he misstated the timing of the buildup of troops ordered by President Bush in early 2007. He says parts of the new strategy began months earlier.
The Arizona senator has told reporters during a stop at a super […]

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While Obama speaks in Berlin, John McCain has decided to visit…
… an oil rig.
Maybe he should just come pump gas at my local Turkey Hill instead.
Update: Or not, as Drudge informs us:
UPDATE: MCCAIN RIG VISIT CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER… DEVELOPING…
Dude, Turkey Hill’s got an awning, so you don’t get wet.

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English. The wingnuts seem to think it should be the official language of Germany.

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… except when the media bends over backwards to cut you a break.

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Barack Obama is a scary black man. Now get off my lawn.

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So this, then, is the neoconservative position on why we ought to just ignore Maliki and stay in Iraq as long as we like, conveniently (and predictably) supplied by Max Boot:
But Maliki’s public utterances do not provide a reliable guide as to when it will be safe to pull out U.S. troops. Better to listen […]

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Worked at the bakery at SKH in Lititz for a few years when I was a kid, never saw anything like these. Bizarre. Disgusting. Vaguely disturbing. Party on!

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Because that’s what your getting, even - or maybe especially - if McCain wins the White House.

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