The Puzzling Math Behind $16 Muffins
A federal auditor shocked the baked goods world Wednesday with the revelation that the Justice Department has been spending $16 per muffin at the conferences it hosts. The steep sticker price on a...
View ArticleGovernment Funding Bill Fails Over Cuts to Pay for Disaster Relief
In an unexpected development that makes government shutdown more likely, a bill to fund the government through November 18 has failed over attached spending cuts to pay for disaster relief for...
View ArticleThe AP Fact-Checks Paul Krugman's Fact-Checking
It's a fact-checking bar brawl! Tonight, the Associated Press is pushing back against criticisms from New York Times columnist Paul Krugman that it ran a "stupid" fact-check item on President Obama's...
View ArticleGoogle's Antitrust Hearing According to Mafia Metaphors
Eric Schmidt managed to come out of Wednesday's Senate antitrust hearings gaffe-free. Unless you count when Senator Herbert Kohl asked whether Google had a monopoly on search marketing, and Schmidt...
View ArticleRick Perry and Russell Crowe Are Total Bros
It's not clear if they see eye-to-eye on circumcision, but they sure do like each other. This morning, Politico explores the under-reported kinship between Texas governor Rick Perry and hard-partying...
View ArticleTonight's Debate Will Be Another Perry-Bashing Fest
In the Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove writes that at Thursday's Republican debate in Tampa, frontrunner Rick Perry "needs to change the dynamic of the debates, in which he's been (in his words) the...
View ArticleDrudge Report Finds Class Warfare with Obama's 'Bling' Irresistible
Why do people like class warfare so much? Because class warfare is fun! It's fun to comfort yourself with the thought that people with more money than you are stupid, or undersexed, or coke addicts,...
View ArticleAlec Baldwin and Michelle Malkin Both Lose Troy Davis Twitter Fight
The Players: Alec Baldwin, star of 30 Rock who may or may not have hopes of becoming New York City's next mayor; Michelle Malkin, conservative columnist, author and Fox New Channel contributor The...
View ArticleBill Clinton Didn't Treasure His Moon Rock
What's a good way to treat a valuable gift you have no idea what to do with? Selling it isn't an option and you can't throw it away. The conundrum, at least in one case, was solved by filing it away...
View ArticleShowing the Softer Side of Ron Paul Means Showing Less Ron Paul
Rep. Ron Paul inspires deep adulation from his supporters. But no one has ever accused "the good doctor" of being very cuddly. His kind of distant crank image was on display in two revealing moments...
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