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Dear Politics . . .
Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by Nicholas Martinez.
Dear Politics, You and I have been dancing around this issue for a while now. And despite our best efforts to keep up appearances, we just can’t avoid the truth: it’s just not working out between us. So, I think it’s best that we just take a break and see other people. Maybe we’ll realize […]
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Why Golf Is Obama's New Favorite Sport
Posted on 06. Dec, 2009 by Collin Orcutt.
So we know that Obama is the “sports president.” He’s been to a Wizards game, aired a video to kick off Monday Night Football, taken in an Oregon State Beavers basketball game (wifey’s brother coaches the guys team there)–he even went to a George Washington University men’s basketball game (insert a Guantanamo joke here at […]
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Begun, Obama's War Has . . .
Posted on 03. Dec, 2009 by Nicholas Martinez.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away . . . In the wake of an escalating civil war between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Republic Chancellor Palpatine (later revealed to be the evil Sith Lord Darth Sidious) received supreme executive powers, authority which he used to change the […]
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Are Politicians Now Cool?
Posted on 29. Nov, 2009 by Collin Orcutt.
*(I’m sorry Joe Walker, you don’t have to read this if you don’t want to)* This is a post about the Obama Gatecrashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi. I refuse to do them the service of linking to a story about their stunt, nor will I direct you to the Facebook pictures of Michaele with Joe […]
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I Care About Palin, Why?
Posted on 22. Nov, 2009 by Collin Orcutt.
Sarah Palin is everywhere. News sites, blogs, TV, a strip mall near you. At this point, I half expect the former governor of Alaska to message me in my Google inbox: “Don’t cha know I have a new book?” I guess this book and its adjoining tour is a big deal. Palin was the Republican […]
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'We're All Doomed' is not a good campaign slogan…
Posted on 16. Nov, 2009 by Robert Voris.
“Because one can almost feel it: what a bleak and merciless world this host lives in – believes, nay, knows for an absolute fact he lives in. I’ll take doubt.” – David Foster Wallace, “Host” Recently departed Nixon speechwriter and grammar police commissioner William Safire once wrote that liberals were, “nattering nabobs of negativism.” For […]
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Do Something Obama!
Posted on 15. Nov, 2009 by Collin Orcutt.
“You kidding me? You can’t be serious man. You can NOT BE SERIOUS!” –John McEnroe, Wimbledon, 1981 and Collin Orcutt’s inner monologue, New York City, 2008 This past Wednesday, the Catholic Archdiosese of Washington made a threat to the District: change the same-sex marriage bill or we’ll stop running the social service programs (that you […]
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Jack Bauer Vs. The Obama Adminstration . . .
Posted on 12. Nov, 2009 by Nicholas Martinez.
On Sunday January 10th 2010, America’s favorite son returns to face another day of intense action and suspense-filled plot twists and turns. Yes, Jack Bauer will blast his way through New York in order to save the city from another looming terrorist threat – – or die trying. But with the eighth and possibly last […]
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Mike and Collin Tackle the Presidency
Posted on 10. Nov, 2009 by Collin Orcutt.
Fellow “Obama Presidency” blogger Mike Preston and I were discussing the Ft. Hood shootings over lunch today. At first, we tried to figure out what to make of the tragedy. But then Mike presented an interesting idea. He wondered if the shootings were reflective of something bigger, a darker mood emanating from the American people. […]
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Wasteful Spending
Posted on 26. Oct, 2009 by Robert Voris.
“It’s like taking candy from a baby.” – ‘Tony,’ a con artist who defrauded Medicare of $20M This week’s 60 Minutes kicked off with a look at Medicare fraud in South Florida, where scamming the government for reimbursements of phony health provisions has supplanted peddling cocaine as the crime of choice for those not enrolled […]