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It’s Time for Big-Time College Football to Split from the NCAA

February 23, 2013
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It’s Time for Big-Time College Football to Split from the NCAA

The NCAA has long been a farce of a governing body, more hypocritical and corrupt than the old Soviet Politburo — but with “death penalties” that are only metaphorical, and with fewer pairs of contraband blue jeans smuggled to favored apparatchiks. It is long past time for the commissioners of the Division I-A football conferences (I refuse to use the Newspeak version: “FBS Division”) to convene the football equivalent of a “Continental Congress” and sign a Declaration of Independence from the NCAA. With apologies to…

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Phil Mickelson Earned His Money and Should Retract His Apology About Taxes

January 23, 2013
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Phil Mickelson Earned His Money and Should Retract His Apology About Taxes

Phil Mickelson, the affable “aw shucks” fan-favorite on the PGA Tour and one of the game’s greatest golfers, really stepped in it this week. He ticked off liberals by hitting it Dead Solid Perfect in a few off-hand comments about his dissatisfaction with current income tax policy. Poor Phil. He was too naïve to know that such talk is to be left only to the real pros — the tax-hiking, redistributive masters of our modern economy. He didn’t realize that his job in today’s American Culture is…

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Stars of ‘Won’t Back Down’ Reap Unexpected Teachers Union/Leftist Backlash

September 29, 2012
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Stars of ‘Won’t Back Down’ Reap Unexpected Teachers Union/Leftist Backlash

It appears that the stars of "Won't Back Down," which enjoys wide theatrical release today, had no idea they were participating in a movie that celebrated an idea that greatly annoys the left and Democrats — school choice via the Parent Trigger. That fact is ironic, considering protagonist Maggie Gyllenhaal is an active and vocal member of the fashionable Hollywood left. Yet, to her credit, Gyllenhaal is sticking by her guns, and with the parent-empowerment message of her movie despite protests by teachers unions.

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Chick-fil-A, the First Amendment, and the ‘Tolerant’ Fascism of the Left

July 27, 2012
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Chick-fil-A, the First Amendment, and the ‘Tolerant’ Fascism of the Left

One would be hard-pressed to find a better example of Liberal Fascism than the move by liberal politicians to ban Chick-fil-A from their jurisdictions because of the owner's opinion on gay marriage. In fact, stop looking. This will do for a long, long while.The flap has all the hallmarks of an absurd, ginned-up controversy by liberals and the media they control.

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The Death of the Daily Newspaper by Its Own Hand

June 25, 2012
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The Death of the Daily Newspaper by Its Own Hand

Yes, printed newspapers are struggling these days, but it's their own fault: they're lousy.

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‘The Office’ Is Dead, Long Live ‘The Office’ Reruns

September 26, 2011
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‘The Office’ Is Dead, Long Live ‘The Office’ Reruns

I am increasingly concerned that the syndicated reruns of The Office will continue to be the best of the show. And after watching the premiere of the new season, I’m actually worried that the new season will spoil even those good shows in my head. (For me, The Office started getting the water skis waxed up for the shark jump after Jim and Pam had a baby. Yet, for this new season, I held out hope. That hope is fading fast.) You bring James Spader…

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Behold: Libertarian Ron Swanson’s Pyramid of Greatness

September 7, 2011
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Behold: Libertarian Ron Swanson’s Pyramid of Greatness

If you are not familiar with the show Parks & Recreation on NBC, I highly recommend it. One of the heroes of the sitcom is a character named Ron Swanson, played by Nick Offerman. Ron Swanson is a staunch libertarian, and his “meta joke” for the show is that he’s the head of the Parks Department in the town of Pawnee, Indiana—and his goal in life is to shut down that department (and most others) because they are useless wastes of time and the hard-earned money…

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Big Brother Loves You, Will Text You to Prove It

May 11, 2011
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Big Brother Loves You, Will Text You to Prove It

By Jim Lakely Worry not, scared Americans. The government bureaucracies that brought you the eternal “Orange Alert” in airports are now stepping up their efforts to protect you from a terrorist attack by plugging into your cell phone: Emergency officials will soon be able to blast critical alerts to anyone with a cell phone in a certain section of the city. If Times Square needs to be evacuated because of a bomb threat or if a hurricane is bearing down on Queens, warnings will be bounced from cell…

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Margaret Thatcher Movie Buzz: Get Ready for an Oscar-Bait, Left-Wing Hit Piece

August 10, 2010
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Margaret Thatcher Movie Buzz: Get Ready for an Oscar-Bait, Left-Wing Hit Piece

By Jim Lakely How depressing to learn from The Daily Mail that a bio-pic on Margaret Thatcher — now reportedly in pre-production and tentatively slated to star Meryl Streep — will be a strikingly vicious hit job by the Hollywood left. Depressing, but hardly unexpected, no? The Iron Lady remains the only woman to achieve the post of Prime Minister of Great Britain, and she retained the confidence of her party and the people for 11-and-a-half years — one of the longest tenures in history.…

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Shirley Sherrod, Racism, Fox News and a Raw Deal

July 24, 2010
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Shirley Sherrod, Racism, Fox News and a Raw Deal

I’ve been too busy with paying work to read everything on this kerfuffle. But I see now that the story line has shifted to even people on the right giving Andrew Breitbart blowback for supposedly taking Shirley Sherrod’s comments — as the saying goes — “out of context.” According to a transcript of Sherrod’s comments James Taranto dropped in his “Best of the Web” column at The Wall Street Journal Online the other day, the former Ag official said this: The first time I was faced…

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A Troubling Precedent: NJ Court Says Bloggers Are Not Journalists

April 28, 2010
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A Troubling Precedent: NJ Court Says Bloggers Are Not Journalists

The Garden State has a shield law for journalists, meaning the government cannot force reporters or opinion writers to reveal their sources. There is nothing more vigorously defended among journalists than the right to keep secret one’s anonymous sources in service of “the public’s right to know.” The decades-long secret identity of “Deep Throat” in The Washington Post’s Watergate exposés is the standard of that journalistic principle. (And there is going to be reason to snicker at that example later. Be patient.) But a New Jersey state appellate…

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Celebrate Earth Day by Polluting the Air

April 22, 2010
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Celebrate Earth Day by Polluting the Air

That’s not a joke. OK. It’s kind of a joke to most of us around here. But it’s not a joke at all to Science magazine correspondent Eli Kintisch, who penned an oped for Sunday’s Los Angeles Times. He warned that the great strides we’ve made in the last 40 years reducing air pollution are actually going to make global warming worse. Please sit down for this. Are you sitting down? Go ahead. I’ll wait. Ready? OK. Here’s the gist, from Kintisch’s piece: You’re likely…

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Giving Obama a Mulligan for Playing Golf While Poland Mourns

April 20, 2010
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Giving Obama a Mulligan for Playing Golf While Poland Mourns

Stephen G. Smith, the editor of the reliably conservative Washington Examiner, penned an op-ed piece on Monday defending President Obama’s decision to play golf on Sunday when the erupting volcano in Iceland grounded his planned trip to Poland to attend the funeral of fallen president Lech Kaczynski. You’ll find no greater fan of golf on Earth than me. But I’m not convinced by Smith’s attempt to make light of this kerfuffle. Smith starts out chalking up complaints about Obama’s golf outing on such a dark…

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FCC Can’t Force Net Neutrality, Court Rules

April 7, 2010
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FCC Can’t Force Net Neutrality, Court Rules

A federal appeals court struck a blow against the desire of the Federal Communications Commission to enforce net neutrality rules on the Internet, ruling the FCC must first get Congress to approve such a sweeping expansion of its regulatory power. The decision made it clear that the FCC has no authority to force Comcast to stop managing its broadband network as it sees fit—in this case by throttling back the speed of a relative handful of “bandwidth hogs” who use bitTorrent programs to share enormous…

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Jack Bauer Is Dead. . . .

March 27, 2010
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Jack Bauer Is Dead. . . .

… at least on Fox come May after the conclusion of it’s eighth “day,” otherwise known as a season. From The Hollywood Reporter: Tick, tick, tick … and done. After eight seasons, Fox’s “24” is coming to an end. The groundbreaking action drama will air its final real-time episode in May, the victim of a confluence of circumstances: a swelling budget, declining ratings and creative fatigue. BOOOOO!!!!! Apparently, due to the fact that salaries spiral upward dramatically the longer a show is on television (especially…

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