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h/t Charlie Martin

That’s Rich: Ahmadinejad May Be a Jew

Via Gateway Pundit comes this report: Mehdi Khazali, the son of the conservative Ayatollah Khazali, has written on his personal website that he recently learned that President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has Jewish roots. Oh the irony.

This Is Stimulus?

h/t to ReadtheStimulus.org It’s good to know that the stimulus (which is supposed to bring us out of the recession that we are in now) will likely distribute over 70% of the funds at a point in the future where we could likely no longer be in a recession. And people wonder why using government [...]

Debunking the Stimulus

GITMO Polilcy May Really Not Change

That’s the gist of this article on Politico. There may be less than meets the eye to the executive orders President Obama issued yesterday to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay and prohibit the torture of prisoners in American custody. Those pronouncements may sound dramatic and unequivocal, but experts predict that American policy towards detainees [...]

Stimulus Plan Bails Out Insurance Companies

The Heritage Foundation has pointed out that the pending stimulus legislation includes a provision in it that would subsidize COBRA to the tune of $30.3 billion. For a quick primer (or reminder for those who know what COBRA is), let’s see how the U.S. Department of Labor defines the program: The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation [...]

Technology

Take a look at the picture below: (Click to enlarge) This is a map of the relationship network of Congressional members who are on Twitter. It’s pretty easy to look at this map and get really pumped up: The Republicans “win”. The problem is that GOP dominance of Twitter doesn’t mean anything if it doesn’t [...]

Eerie

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So This Must Be That Image Restoration We Were Promised

Behold: Also last year, Trade Minister Luis Plata warned IBD that denying free trade to Colombia in a hemisphere full of U.S. free-trade treaties amounted to sanctions on an ally because the other countries with which America has agreements are its competitors. In Santos’ view, it would be “an insult” and a “slap in the [...]

Okay, This Is Just Freaking Cool

For those of you who get into digital photography, check out this very hightech digital panoramic picture of the Obama Inauguration. It was taken with a camera that splices together hundreds of smaller, very high resolution pictures to make one big picture. There’s lots to be seen in this picture (including a sleeping? Justice Thomas).