May 19, 2013

Sunday Off-Topic (Moderated) Open Thread (051913)

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May 18, 2013

Saturday Off-Topic (Moderated) Open Thread (051813)

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May 17, 2013

Friday Off-Topic (Moderated) Open Thread (051713)

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May 16, 2013

Thursday Off-Topic (Moderated) Open Thread (051613)

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Various Links, old and new:

At NewsBusters: “CNN’s Malveaux: White House Has Lost Some ‘Suport’ From Press Corps”

At NewsBusters: ABC did not cover the Gosnell trial until its verdict was announced. A Matt Drudge tweet: “Warning to reporters and sources: Assume all your communications are being monitored.”

Atlantic Wire: “Obama Tells Harvey Weinstein, Justin Timberlake to Blame Rush Limbaugh”

In case you missed it, Jon Corzine was sued by Louis Freeh almost a month ago.

From Reuters, almost a month ago, during which time nothing has changed: “Climate scientists struggle to explain warming slowdown”

And they said nooooooobody would eeeeeever seriously propose this if same-sex “marriage” became legal: “Legalize Polygamy! No. I am not kidding.”

May 15, 2013

NRO’s Williamson: Conference Question to IRS’s Lerner Was Planted

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When I first heard of limp faux apology by the IRS’s Lois Lerner on Friday for her tax-exempt division’s harassment of Tea Party and conservative organizations, I thought she had done so on a conference call.

Well, she did have a conference call with reporters later that day — the one where she said “I’m not good at math” — but her original apology occurred at a conference of the Exempt Organizations Committee of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association in Washington (Lerner’s relevant involvement is shown here). Why would such a mea culpa occur out of the blue at such a venue? The answer, per Kevin Williamson at National Review’s The Corner blog, is that it wasn’t out of the blue at all (HT to a BizzyBlog commenter; bolds are mine throughout this post):

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Wednesday Off-Topic (Moderated) Open Thread (051513)

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May 14, 2013

Tuesday Off-Topic (Moderated) Open Thread (051413)

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May 13, 2013

Monday Off-Topic (Moderated) Open Thread (051313)

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May 12, 2013

Sunday Off-Topic (Moderated) Open Thread (051213)

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May 11, 2013

Saturday Off-Topic (Moderated) Open Thread (051113)

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May 10, 2013

Friday Off-Topic (Moderated) Open Thread (051013)

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May 9, 2013

Thursday Off-Topic (Moderated) Open Thread (050913)

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