Lickety-Split Links (111709, Morning)

Good thing they spent $18 million on the web site revamp — “Recovery.gov lists hundreds of millions spent and hundreds of jobs created in Congressional districts that don’t exist.”

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Maybe we should hold the congressional elections on April 16, 2010 — TaxProf Blog has a roundup of establishment press items reporting that 15 million taxpayers “could unexpectedly owe taxes” on April 15, 2010 when they file their 2009 returns because of the stimulus plan’s “Making Work Pay Credit.”

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“N.A.A.C.P. Prods Obama on Job Losses” — and proposes doing more of the things that have accomplished the opposite.

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From the “We apologize, until the next time we’re caught” Dept. — “MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan apologized on Monday for using photoshopped images of Sarah Palin firing a gun while wearing a bikini.” Separately, but not really, it’s clear that the establishment media believes that opportunistic sexism is okay any time it involves Palin, but heaven forbid you pull similar stunts on anyone else.. Good on Sarahcuda for calling it out (HT Hot Air Headlines).

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Speaking of Palin, as Mark Steyn noted at the Corner on Saturday, the Associated Press had 11 reporters assigned to fact-check her new book. To call their objections specious is to give them too much credit. “Lame,” the adjective John at Powerline uses, is better.

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Ted Kennedy was “a man of his Church“? If the “church” Nancy Snyderman was referring to was one other than the Catholic Church, and that “church” is okey-dokey with feticide, and a member whose reaction to a companion of his drowning in a car he was driving is, “What am I going to do, what can I do?”

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“Instapundit Channels BizzyBlog” Quote of the Day, in response to news that Congressman Jim “Earmark the Sh*t Out of It” Moran will have a challenger — “No incumbent should go unchallenged, in primary or general.”