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Taking a Crack at ACORN

From today’s New York Post: Pointing to a string of probes that ACORN is facing and news reports about the two groups sharing a Nevins Street address in Brooklyn, the suit seeks to flush out the overlap. Critics of the

Tuesday Open Thread: A Time For Choosing

Today, in 1964, Ronald Reagan’s “A Time For Choosing” speech in support of Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater was broadcast on the nation’s airwaves. Just 16 years later, Reagan righted our listing ship. Enjoy… [youtube lvg7lRsCVJ8]

As Swine Flu Shots Begin, Officials Fear Shortage

From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Mark O’Keefe Outside Vaccine Lines in Milwaukee As the Milwaukee Health Department gears up for its first public swine flu clinic Friday, the beginning of what is expected to be the largest mass vaccination in decades,

FACT CHECK: Health Insurers Profits Not So Fat

From the Associated Press: WASHINGTON – Quick quiz: What do these enterprises have in common? Farm and construction machinery, Tupperware, the railroads, Hershey sweets, Yum food brands and Yahoo? Answer: They’re all more profitable than the health insurance industry. In

Sunday Open Thread: St. Crispin Day Edition

Today is St. Crispin Day, anniversay of the Battle of Agincourt, fought in 1415. The outnumbered English, employing superior technology and tactics, destroyed an overwhelming French force. Today is also the anniversary of the Charge of the Light Brigade, from

Saturday Open Thread: Another ACORN Campaign Ad

As far as we know, this is the second campaign ad that builds off the ACORN scandal. Media Matters can spin and Big Media can ignore, but the public is paying attention. If ACORN becomes toxic for politicians, they are

Breitbart Tribute to Ron Silver

Earlier this week, Andrew Breitbart paid tribute to the late Ron Silver at the Center for Security Policy’s Keeper of the Flame dinner. Attendees included Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. (Comment at Big Hollywood)

HUD Counseling Funds Tripled Despite Criticism

From USA Today: WASHINGTON — Federal funding for a housing counseling program carried out by local non-profit groups such as ACORN has more than tripled since 2002, even though it has been criticized by government auditors for failing to show

Friday Free-For-All

The Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, began today, in 1944:

NOW They Tell Us: Media Matters Comes Clean Over Rush Smears

The Radio Equalizer blog has published audio of Media Matter’s Karl Frisch admitting to Stephanie Miller on liberal talk radio that Rush Limbaugh never made the two famous racist statements defending slavery and praising Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James

WaPo: Duo Release Another Video of Their Meeting with ACORN Worker

From the Washington Post: Two undercover videographers released another videotape Wednesday of their interaction with an ACORN worker, contending that it reveals help they received from the community group’s Philadelphia office when they posed as a pimp and a prostitute

AP: Video Makers Release Tape of Philly ACORN

From the Associated Press: (Washington)–Two conservative activists released a new undercover video targeting the community organizing group ACORN on Wednesday, an attempt to re-ignite a simmering political controversy surrounding the Democratic-leaning organization. The new videotape shows filmmakers Hannah Giles and

ACORN Empire Strikes Back

In the wake of the release of the ACORN Philly video, which shows conclusively that ACORN continues to lie to the public, press and its own supporters, ACORN is marshalling its remaining allies for a ‘rally.’ Scheduled for tomorrow in

Carville: Conservatives Are From Outer Space (More or Less)

The always enjoybable Byron York has this (funny?) piece in today’s Washington Examiner: Are you, by chance, a conservative? A Republican? Did you vote for John McCain last November, as well as the GOP candidate in your local congressional race?

Breaking: NY County GOP Chairman Writes Off Scozzafava

Tea Partier and blogger Michael Leahy reports: In an exclusive interview with the TCOT Report, George Joseph, Republican Party Chairman of Oneida County, one of the eleven counties in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, today slammed Republican Party nominee Dede

DOJ Bombshell: City MUST Have Democrat and GOP Parties

Probably isn’t long before DOJ orders the election outcomes, as well. From today’s Washington Times: Voters in this small city decided overwhelmingly last year to do away with the party affiliation of candidates in local elections, but the Obama administration