James Taranto

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''So sharp, he sneezes thumbtacks.''--@greggutfeld

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Why is Eric Holder In Charge of Oversight on Eric Holder's Surveillance of Journalists Policy?

pressfreedomfoundation.org — President Obama delivered a much-anticipated speech yesterday on national security policy, where he unexpectedly touched on the recent AP and Fox News press freedom scandals.

GOODBYE TIN-FOIL HAT.

alicublog.blogspot.com — I mentioned the other day that some of the brethren think Obama used mind control like some kind of supervillain to get his minions to persecute the Tea Party. Today James Taranto takes this to a whole new level. First he recounts some recent secret-message fantasies by various press dopes.
"This war, like all wars, must end." So can we finally sign a peace treaty with poverty, cancer and drugs?

In Praise of the "Anti-Mentor"

businessweek.com — It's important to have role models, but most of us owe a bigger debt of gratitude to the people who teach us by bad example The hotshot vice-president who took over where I worked when I was in my 20s was a great anti-mentor.
.@sjackson1997 Heh--and more to the point, I don't think there's ever been an invidious stereotype around tacos. @jessewashington
.@jessewashington I think most people like fried chicken and have never seen images like that one, so their ignorance is honest.
Puffington Host is siding with Fox News and calling on Holder to resign? Obama really is capable of producing miracles.

Who'll Frame the President?

online.wsj.com — "Two assailants hacked a man to death on a busy southeast London street Wednesday afternoon before delivering a rant about Islam to bystanders, leading Prime Minister David Cameron to cut short a diplomatic trip to Paris to deal with what he described as a likely terrorist attack," the Washington Post reports.
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