If you care. Kinda surprised at the Ryan Tannehill pick by the Dolphins.

UPDATE: Okaaaaay

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 05:04 PM | Comments (218)
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Enjoy the new thread smell while it lasts.

Posted by: DrewM at 03:51 PM | Comments (389)
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The weekly YouGov/Economist poll, which had already shown Romney shrinking the gap in it's previous weekly release, now gives Mitt a tiny lead amongst registered voters surveyed. Partisan breakdown is 42% Democrat, 33% Republican, 24% Independent, and age groups, race and gender all break down matching registered voter population.

Further, amongst hispanics (which every other pollster has screamed HUGE GAP OMGZ! DEMOGRAPHIC DOOOOOM): Obama 52%, Romney 42%.
Amongst women: Obama 49% Romney 45%. So much for the War on Women.

Then (for me) the moneyshot: when asked who they thought would win, Obama is down to just 52% of respondents, Romney comes in at 44%. This is significant, as many voters oftentimes break with whomever seems popular and destined to win. The perception that you have a candidate that can win boosts turnout and enthusiasm amongst your base, particularly after a daunting primary in which the eventual winner did little or nothing to pitch themselves to them.

Update- A few morons mentioned to me there is a lot of eeyoring today, particularly at a few sites I will not name, because of a few maps floating out there I'm not going to link. Well guess what? They're wrong or Im wearing a shirt made out of bacon. AoSHQ map as of 4/26/2012 below:
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Posted by: CAC at 12:21 PM | Comments (563)
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I'd like the critique of Obama to move off his being "cool" and towards the real problem: He's superficial in thinking and character. Neither has ever been tested, until the moment he got his first real job.

I kind of think successful people are cool. People who know stuff and are good at things.

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Posted by: Ace at 10:56 AM | Comments (468)
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And actually makes the same point the RNC ad did, contrasting some of the highlights of Romney's victory speech with Obama's buffoonish shenanigans.

Oh, it's not very funny, as it usually isn't. But it is worth noting.

And a few days ago Leno remarked that Republicans had a better sense of humor about themselves.

Oh: Dick Morris Predicts Liberal Media Will Turn On Obama. Sounds insane to me, but who knows.

Actually, scratch that "Who knows." It's insane. But I've had it open in my tabs for days and it's time to just clear it from the tab bar.
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Posted by: Ace at 09:52 AM | Comments (271)
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Ever have the fantasy where we do nothing except what they demand we do? For like four years?

And then we turn to the public and say, "Examine the wreckage. Against our better judgement we voted for all of their prescriptions. Shall we continue doing so?"

So, let's tax small businesses more.

Boehner: I've Got a Great Idea. Let's Take the Money From ObamaCare. Democrats don't seem to like that idea much.

Posted by: Ace at 09:06 AM | Comments (214)
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In Tulsa, Oklahoma. Corrected: I thought this was Tampa, Florida.

An 85-year-old woman was sexually assaulted and battered to death by a home invader who also shot her 90-year-old husband in the face with a BB gun.

Nancy and Bob Strait, who had celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary in December, were discovered by their daughter at their home in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Both the pensioners were rushed to hospital where Mrs Strait, who was nearly blind, died from her injuries.

One rapist/home invader/murderer is in custody, but others are at large.

The home invaders made off with their Dodge Neon, a television and $200.

And a life. And, most likely, another life too.

CEO of "RangerUp" wants Bob Strait's story told, and he wants the media to let them know they care. In particular, he's asking Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to call Bob Strait. more...

Posted by: Ace at 08:09 AM | Comments (273)
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Supposedly this was all an accident.

And yet the same identical false edits were created both at NBC/NY HQ (for the Today show) and down at the NBC Miami affiliate.

An unnamed source at NBC6/Miami indicates that NBC really isn't sorry at all:

“The network is very sensitive about the whole Al Sharpton/MSNBC issue, so when the right-wing bloggers started hammering, they needed to throw them fresh meat,” said the station source, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the controversy. “It’s not at all clear how this happened. Obviously, there was miscommunication.”

So NBC didn't fire anyone because they thought they committed a firable offense -- they just wanted to appease "right-wing bloggers" with some "fresh meat" due to their being "sensitive" about the "Al Sharpton/MSNBC issue."

Meanwhile, Reuters begins to correct the egregiously misreported story of George Zimmerman.

Based on extensive interviews with relatives, friends, neighbors, schoolmates and co-workers of Zimmerman in two states, law enforcement officials, and reviews of court documents and police reports, the story sheds new light on the man at the center of one of the most controversial homicide cases in America.

The 28-year-old insurance-fraud investigator comes from a deeply Catholic background and was taught in his early years to do right by those less fortunate. He was raised in a racially integrated household and himself has black roots through an Afro-Peruvian great-grandfather – the father of the maternal grandmother who helped raise him.

A criminal justice student who aspired to become a judge, Zimmerman also concerned himself with the safety of his neighbors after a series of break-ins committed by young African-American men.

Though civil rights demonstrators have argued Zimmerman should not have prejudged Martin, one black neighbor of the Zimmermans said recent history should be taken into account.

“Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. I’m black, OK?” the woman said, declining to be identified because she anticipated backlash due to her race. She leaned in to look a reporter directly in the eyes. “There were black boys robbing houses in this neighborhood,” she said. “That’s why George was suspicious of Trayvon Martin.”

Duh.

Anyway, so now Zimmerman might be okay because he's partly black himself? This continues the disgusting pattern of determining guilt or innocence based on Racial Status. I'm glad for Zimmerman that this bit of genetic inheritance might help him -- but is this what America is now? Essentially deciding guilt or innocence by a racial mitichlorian count?

Over at the American Spectator, John Hayward recapitulates the egregious lynch-mob "reporting" here.

Why did the media push a story so completely at variance with the picture Reuters paints of Zimmerman in this extensive profile? My guess is a combination of the hunger for sensationalism, a political agenda, and pure laziness. There was a time when such a major story would have called for more shoe leather, and less reliance upon press releases from interested parties.

Oh, let me offer a couple of more reasons:

Despite the fact that the media claims to be above the blogs, they do in fact consume and trust blogs -- Leftwing blogs. Although we on the right think we've done something awesome when we push a true story into the MSM, leftwing blogs have far, far more influence on the media. After all-- they can get false stories into the MSM.

And cowardice. You know the "elephant in the room" that black woman mentioned? Yeah, the media -- brave and dauntless in its pursuit of truth -- is too cowardly to mention slightly discomforting facts, like the pattern of robberies committed by teenaged black boys in the neighborhood.

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Wow!

Oh, by the way, she's also dead as a rock.

Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger reports that a woman starved to death after embarking on a spiritual diet that required her to stop eating or drinking and live off sunlight alone.

The Zurich newspaper reported Wednesday that the unnamed Swiss woman in her fifties decided to follow the radical fast in 2010 after viewing an Austrian documentary about an Indian guru who claims to have lived this way for 70 years.

Yeah. Indian gurus. I trust them implicitly.

What's that word for them again...? Oh yeah, fakir.

1 b : an itinerant Hindu ascetic or wonder-worker
2
: impostor; especially : swindler
See fakir defined for kids »

Examples of FAKIR:

a traveling carnival that was run by fakirs preying on small-town rubes

Sounds like the guy I want to take medical advice from.

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US Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich claimed in a response to Congress that the DoJ never permitted assault weapons to be walked into Mexico. This letter was "retracted."

On Feb. 4, 2011, Weich wrote to Congress that the idea that “ATF ‘sanctioned’ or otherwise knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons to a straw purchaser who then transported them into Mexico … is false.”

“ATF makes every effort to interdict weapons that have been purchased illegally and prevent their transportation to Mexico,” Weich added in that letter.

The DOJ has since retracted WeichÂ’s letter but has not held anyone accountable for providing that misinformation to Congress, or for Operation Fast and Furious itself.

Now he'll be resigning.

That's not the only scandal he's covering DoJ on. The Daily Caller has recently reported on a bribery scandal in the Virgin Islands, with the Governor taking up to $20 million in bribes for favors. Weich's claiming DoJ doesn't know anything about that, either -- despite the fact that...

...TheDCÂ’s investigation unearthed allegations that two DOJ prosecutors on a team of more than 25 accepted cash bribes from indicted finance executives in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Up to seven DoJ prosecutors may be implicated in bribery.

And the DoJ doesn't know about it?

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