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If you want to spend the next few minutes or hours on “the Twitter”…. the kids are having a LOT of fun with Harry Reid with “ugly rumors” about Harry Reid. It’s in response to an equally inane and asinine smear he did of Mitt Romney.

Catch up on the fun here at Twitchy. Journalism [...]

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Night Ranger. Don’t tell me, I don’t want to know…

From the Trailer Park — Skyfall

Full Trailer… releases November 9

The Phantom Menace

I guess the U.N.’s IAEA couldn’t find its own butt if it had its hands tied behind its back.

Britain will help the Iraqi government dispose of what’s left of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons, still stored in two bunkers in north of Baghdad, the British embassy in Baghdad announced Monday.

The British [...]

Classic Pick O’ the Day — August 1

Allegheny Uprising (1939) Colonial settlers fight the corrupt British in the days before the American Revolution. Dir: William A. Seiter. Cast: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, George Sanders. Chill Wills. TV-G. 7:45 AM EDT. TCM.

This is not in the upper echelon of Duke films, but seeing how heady that level is, this is still [...]

Rockin’ the Speedo

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While not a huge follower of swimming (like most I focus, if at all during the Olympics), I do keep up a bit more now that my daughter has taken an interest and I’ve had more students on the swim team over the years. I would [...]

Mister We Could Use A Man Like Milton Friedman Again

Economist and free marketeer Milton Friedman would have been 100 today. He died just 6 years ago, but already we can see the wisdom of his words by seeing the folly of the opposite view. Stephen Moore has a nice op-ed in today’s Online Wall Street Journal:

More influential than Friedman’s scholarly writings [...]

Tuesday Open Thread/Happy Birthday, Lars!

Set sail into a new year! and note the complete lack of horns on this cake.

The Choice This Fall….

Here’s an interesting op-ed from The Daily Mail (UK) on the choice we must make this Fall:

In fact, there is now a well-established career path for the cronies: write the laws surrounding your industry in a lobby shop or congressional office, administer the laws in the bureaucracy, get to know all the players in [...]

From the Trailer Park — The Rise and Fall of The Clash

The London premiere is on August 15. It comes out on DVD in Japan August 30 — no official U.S. release date yet that I can find.

The documentary’s Facebook page is here.

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Honeymoon Suite. Hot summer night, storm clouds in the air…

Stay Tuned For Your Next African Adventure

Ivory Coast leader foresees Mali intervention within weeks to chase out Islamist extremists.

http://fxn.ws/OckyNU

Just in time for POTUS to show off that smart diplomacy of his for the electorate.

Classic Pick O’ the Day — July 31

There’s Always a Woman (1938) While working on a simple case, married private eyes uncover a murder. Dir: Alexander Hall. Cast: Joan Blondell, Melvyn Douglas, Mary Astor. TV-G. 10:30 PM PDT. TCM.

Joan Blondell never got her due from Hollywood. Great early in pre-Code films and as the wise-cracking doll or gangster moll she [...]

Monday Open Thread

Yeah the Olympics are run by corrupt bureaucrats by and large, but defeat still crushes. U.S.A.’s Jordyn Wieber, after losing out on going to the Women’s All-Around Finals in Gymnastics.

Salt Meet Wound

Florida man who lost hand charged with feeding gator.

http://fxn.ws/OvHfgE

Talk about a kick in the pants. The prosecutor should be run out of town on a rail for wasting taxpayers’ money.

No Se Puede

Conan O’Brien had a great bit on new Obama campaign slogans this past week. I ran across it at The Blaze — amid all of the posts telling me about Beck crying, restoring love, and selling more tix than Paul McCartney at Dallas Cowboys Stadium.

Classic Pick O’ the Day — July 30

The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960) A physician lost at sea discovers lands populated by tiny warriors and giant kings. Dir: Jack Sher. Cast: Kerwin Mathews, Jo Morrow, June Thorburn. TV-G. 6:00 PM EDT. TCM.

This is a fun version of the Swift classic complete with special effects by Ray Harryhausen and Bernard Herrmann [...]

Sunday Open Thread

Ryan Lochte, 400 M IM Gold medalist. Don’t bite too hard, it ain’t real.

Sunday Gospel

From the Trailer Park — 2001: A Space Odyssey (Fanmade)

What if 2001 was marketed as a summer blockbuster? This is better than movie.