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The Truth About Tytler – Loren Collins

This is an enlightening article about a couple of anonymous quotes that apparently make the forwarded e-mail rounds every once in a while. I found it clicking through a Snopes page that I found when I googled a phrase that I heard from one of Rush Limbaugh’s guest hosts recently: “Professor Tyler’s definition of [...]

Anger Is Crowds Overarching Emotion at McCain Rally — Michael D. Shear and Perry Bacon Jr., Washington Post

Can’t say that I blame them.

Why Martin Luther King Was Republican — Frances Rice, Human Events

Of course this only makes sense given the history of the Civil War, but for some reason reading this took me aback. Some residual public school/media conditioning still held some slight sway, I guess. With this, there’s less now than there was yesterday.

The Obamamessiah has another uh-oh moment. — Cassy Fiano, Wizbang

Mormon Church attempts to gag Internet over handbook — Wikileaks

Stolen Laptop Helps Turn Tables on Suspects — Lisa W. Foderaro, New York Times

This is a fun one. Check it out.

Sweet Seventeen — Ari, The Edge of the American West

“On this day in 1913, the Seventeenth Amendment was ratified, providing for the direct election of Senators…”

If This Media Existed in 1992, Would Bill Clinton Have Won? — Jim Geraghty, The Campaign Spot @ NRO

Algorithms Are Terrific. But to Search Smarter, Find a Person. — Brendan I. Koerner, Wired Magazine

Cyber-Rebels in Cuba Defy State’s Limits — James C. McKinley Jr., New York Times

School Choice Isn’t Enough: Instructional Reform is the key to better schools — Sol Stern, City Journal

Sorry, but no one is going to win, check out the delegate math — Thunder, Redstate

Huckacide: A shiny Christmas present for the Democrats. — Rich Lowry, National Review Online

Era Of Open Government Commencing — Ed Morrissey, Captain’s Quarters

The Golden Compass: A Briefing for Concerned Christians — Albert Mohler

Rural Britain wants to take itself off the GPS map
— Sarah Lyall, International Herald Tribune

Please Don’t Marry Our Daughters
— Brad Stone, Bits: a New York Times Blog

The website covered by this article is thankfully a prank. Yikes.

Modern Science Needs Its Version of Sarbanes-Oxley
— .cnI redruM, Redstate

US public sees news media as biased, inaccurate, uncaring: poll — AFP on Breitbart

Bush orders new crackdown on U.S. border
— Mike Allen, Politico.com

It’s about freakin’ time. There is a lot of broken trust to be recovered in these matters. Example: The new Bush immigration enforcement plan: Color me underwhelmed — Michelle Malkin