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Irene might be headed to New England. No problem - we can deal with it. It's always a smaller deal than they make it sound. I call it "Weather Porn." And if Yankees can't deal with bad weather, who can? Heck, we enjoy bad weather.
Honey Money - The Power of Erotic Capital
Yes, attractiveness matters. Duh. But, cliche that it is, an appealing, sweet, sexy, witty personality trumps superficial beauty.
Speaking of which, looking for a new husband when over 50
A book about life in the Third Reich: IN THE GARDEN OF THE BEASTS: RITA KRAMER
Taki: A Rotting Carcass Called Europe
The Netherlands to Abandon Multiculturalism
Muslim immigrants to America seem to get with the program - that's why they came. I wonder why they form dangerous and socially-hostile ghettoes in Europe. Might it be because they are given too much? The workers in my Dunkin Donuts used to be all Hispanic women - now it's half Hispanic women and half Muslim men.
Where a Minimum-Wage Increase Would Bite
Rubio: ‘The free enterprise system has lifted more people out of poverty than all the government anti-poverty programs combined’
Look! No teleprompter! Rubio's grandfather was a reader in a Cuban cigar factory!
No Hope or Change When it Comes to Fannie Mae
Not Free to Choose: The Reality behind Clean Energy Standards
Researcher says tea party voters fear change
Byron York: Spending, not entitlements, created huge deficit
Only Obama can question someone’s patriotism
Watch Out for China's Air Force - The PLAAF is developing a fifth-generation fighter and becoming a high-tech, high-tempo aerospace force.
McArdle: Did Welfare Reform Work?
Hewitt:
Ezra Klein plays the first few chords of the Obama re-election theme: "Woe is us, it is so hard to be president, so impossible to govern, so difficult a time." This is the Song of Jimmy Carter, recut and remastered and still utterly without any ability to charm or persuade.
What an absurdity. Had Obama not shattered investor and employer confidence with massive intervention after massive intervention in the markets, had he practiced any fiscal discipline or simply not imposed the enormous burdens of Obamacare on employers, then the country would not be struggling to get unemployment under 9%. If he just called off the NLRB there would be more jobs in South Carolina, and that is one of thousands of destructive regulatory decisions, perhaps tens of thousands of such decisions.
Obama Added $9.5 Billion in New Regulations in Last Month
Shiver: The Five Most Catastrophic Hidden Costs of the Obama Presidency
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