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• Breeding Distrust

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  John Brennan will go to Capitol Hill today for his confirmation hearing as the next director of the CIA.  Thanks to the news about the memo on drones, it should be an interesting hearing.

  Whether or not you think killing people — Americans or not — by remote control is [...]

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• A Confederacy of Dunces

  Sometimes I think I should do just a collection of links to the latest outbursts of stupid without comment, much in the same way I do the Short Takes every morning.  That way you could see what the far side is up to in a short burst and then get [...]

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• The Russians Know The Truth

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  The conspiracy theories just keep getting better and better.

  What do you get when you combine the president’s ability to secretly kill American citizens and the recent push to restrict gun access? One of the most bizarre anti-Obama conspiracy theories ever—and it takes a lot to win that [...]

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• Ready For His Closeup?

  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) will deliver the GOP response to President Obama’s State of the Union address next week.

  House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., selected Rubio — an influential Latino conservative who was first elected in 2010 — to speak for Republicans in [...]

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• Short Takes

  China warns North Korea about nuke test.

  U.S.P.S. cuts mean no more Saturday mail delivery.

  The Obama administration will brief Congress on drone policy.

  Sequester sign — The Navy cuts back on carrier deployment.

  Scouts delay vote on gay ban.

  The Northeast braces for a winter storm.

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• A Little Night Music

  In 1971 my best friend and I made a black and white Super 8 film called A Portrait of the Artist as a Mad Fisherman for our high school English project.  We used this music for part of the soundtrack.  This is the first time I’ve heard it since then.

  I [...]

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• Gas Price Survey

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  I haven’t done this in a while, and the last time I did, gas was hovering around $3.33 a gallon here in Miami.

  Not any more.  I paid $3.62 Monday morning at the Mobil station on the corner of US 1 and SW 152nd Street.  Up the road prices ranged [...]

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• Random Thought

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  How can America be the greatest country in the world if people actually believe that buying a 4.5 foot tall teddy bear for your best-beloved will get you laid?

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• Out Of Control

  One of the many knee-jerk GOP memes is that President Obama has exploded the deficit and is spending our nation down the road to oblivion and it’s getting worse with every passing moment.

  Yeah, except it’s not true.

  The federal budget deficit in 2013 is projected to be $845 billion, the [...]

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• The New Edsel

  Some automotive history:

  In February of 1959, Ford Motor Company executives sent a letter to the remaining Edsel dealerships expressing their confidence in the Edsel line, and that the all new 1960 model would be introduced in October. Even though research had indicated that Edsel could not make it through [...]

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