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Kelo was for naught. New London gets to choke on all that non existent new tax revenue now.
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Losing Longmont candidate seems to think we voters are hos. Bought and paid for by Montana groups, yet forgetting the amounts of outside money spent in the last election to get the left elected.

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Sarah Palin deals with the fact that she’s attractive, while the attractive Huckabee just whines about it.
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Matt Lauer and Lech Walesa seem to think the US didn’t have much to do with the Berlin Wall going down. Lech gives credit to Gorbachev being so weak (without noting that a Reagan buildup might have had something to do with that weakness) Matt just thinks we think the world revolves around us and wants to deflect. Meanwhile, did you know Obama was black? Isn’t it amazing?
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David Brooks takes on the old Hasan needed therapy front notes in the news.

The conversation in the first few days after the massacre was well intentioned, but it suggested a willful flight from reality. It ignored the fact that the war narrative of the struggle against Islam is the central feature of American foreign policy. It ignored the fact that this narrative can be embraced by a self-radicalizing individual in the U.S. as much as by groups in Tehran, Gaza or Kandahar.

It denied, before the evidence was in, the possibility of evil. It sought to reduce a heinous act to social maladjustment. It wasn’t the reaction of a morally or politically serious nation.

Amen.
And Ralph Peters answers the question I’ve been asking. How did Hasan get promoted?

A dirty big secret in our Army has been that officers’ promotion boards have quotas for minorities. We don’t call them quotas, of course. But if a board doesn’t hit the floor numbers, its results are held up until the list has been corrected. It’s almost impossible for the Army’s politically correct promotion system to pass over a Muslim physician.

ps – he was making 6 figures. Where is the money?