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Ben Gazzara, R.I.P.

American Spectator  | Links  | Related | Feb 04, 2012 12:40 AM EST

Actor Ben Gazzara passed away on Friday of pancreatic cancer. He was 81. The New York born character actor had a career which spanned six decades on Broadway, film and TV. Gazzara was a member of the original Broadway cast of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and worked with directors ranging from Otto Preminger in Anatomy of a Murder to the Coen Brothers in The Big Lebowski. He also collaborated with John Cassavetes in the 1970s on a trio of films - Husbands, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Opening Night. Others still might remember Gazzara as the villain in the Patrick Swayze movie Road House. However, when I think of Ben Gazzara the first person that comes to mind is Yogi Berra. Gazzara played the Yankees legend in an Off-Broadway one man play called Nobody Don't Like Yogi. In...

Not National News: Significant Non-Citizen Voting Found in Fla. Two Days After Tampa Editorial Says It's 'Nonexistent'

NewsBusters  | Links  | Related | Feb 03, 2012 11:44 PM EST

In what is apparently completely unimportant news to just about everyone except NBC2 in Southwest Florida and Andrew Breitbart , numerous instances of illegal voting by non-citizens have been uncovered. Projecting the problems across the state and into the rest of the nation would seem to indicate that many thousands of people who are registered to vote should never have been allowed to register and are routinely casting ballots illegally. A Google News search on 'Florida vote fraud' (not in quotes) at Google News at 11:00 PM ET indicated that there was a grand total of six stories on this disturbing development. Immediately below the reference to the non-citizen voting news is a link to a Tampa Bay Times editorial posted two days ago which claimed that voter fraud is 'a nonexistent problem in this...

Quotes of the Day

race42012  | Links  | Related | Feb 03, 2012 10:47 PM EST

A primer of things to come: Imagine for a moment how Democrats would feel late on the night of Nov. 6 if news outlets began to call the race for Mr. Romney or another Republican. The comedown from four years earlier would be one of the starkest in American political history. The promise of Mr. [...]

The best response yet to #PPact's thuggish anti-#Komen tactics + my take :)

Sister Toldjah  | Links  | Related | Feb 03, 2012 10:12 PM EST

Read this in FULL . Please. (Hat tip: Memeorandum ) I had planned on writing the epic rants of all epic rants tonight, which would have probably have included some uncharacteristic profanity on my part, but I've mellowed a bit as the night has gone on which is probably a good thing, and Daniel Foster's piece is pretty definitive. What I would add to what Foster wrote above is this: Point of clarification: The Komen Foundation is not pro-life and are arguably not pro-choice .  Steve Ertelt at Life News makes a good point about that here : FACT:  Komen is not a pro-life organization. When Komen announced its decision to change its policy to not funding organizations that are under formal investigation or that act as pass-through agencies rather...

The Case for Gold — Again

Cato-at-liberty  | Links  | Related | Feb 03, 2012 10:10 PM EST

By David Boaz In the New York Times, Floyd Norris reminds us: The 1980 presidential election was fought by a Democratic incumbent weakened by a poor economy amid worries that the United States had lost its ability to compete in the world. Gold prices had risen to unprecedented levels as the election approached, and the Republican nominee hinted [...] The Case for Gold — Again is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog

The 'Out-Of-Touch' Narrative Begins

Ace of Spades HQ  | Links  | Related | Feb 03, 2012 09:45 PM EST

Remember when George H. W. Bush was gobsmacked by that newfangled grocery store scanning technology? Yeah, not so much. Here we go again:...

The Happiest Wives in America

The Corner  | Links  | Related | Feb 03, 2012 09:44 PM EST

In my syndicated column this week , I take a break from politics to  ask: Just who are the happiest wives in America? (Hint: Ann Romney, Rick Santorum, and Carol Paul are all examples). Keep reading this post . . .

Video: The best Super Bowl ad you’ll never see

HotAir  | Links  | Related | Feb 03, 2012 09:20 PM EST

'We have a kerfuffle.'

Big labor plans 'Occupy CPAC'

Beltway Confidential  | Links  | Related | Feb 03, 2012 09:02 PM EST

You'd be wise to keep a cool head if you're going to CPAC. From the D.C. AFL-CIO : Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)With workshops like “Return of Big Labor: What Can We Learn from Wisconsin & Ohio,” and “Taking back Wall Street: The Tea Party vs. Occupy Wall Street,” the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) descends on the nation’s capital February 9-11 and local labor activists are planning a DC lesson to ensure that the voice of the 99% are heard at this elite conservative gathering. Actions are currently being planned for noontime and after work on Friday, February 10. Featured speakers at CPAC include Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, and presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum. You may remember what the union-aided Occupiers managed to do at...

Ron Paul's Pahrump Security Volunteers

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run  | Links  | Related | Feb 03, 2012 08:57 PM EST

Pahrump, Nev.  - This is the only county Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) won in the 2008 Nevada Caucus, and Paul's campaign event at the Skate Zone today made it  pretty clear why . The entirely volunteer-run event had all the trappings of a professional campaign: people providing information on where to caucus , merchandise hawkers, audio and visual people, and a massive map for people just to make sure, again, that they knew where they were going tomorrow. Even before arriving at the event I had to drive by several massive 'Ron Paul for President' signs that dotted the main roads into town. Paul's event in Elko was well run but this was on a whole different level.  'Like all the grassroots Ron Paul things, there's nobody really in charge. Somebody says something needs to get done somebody...

The Church of Government

Power Line  | Links  | Related | Feb 03, 2012 08:56 PM EST

(John Hinderaker) Liberals tell us that the most important principle is the separation of church and state. That applies, of course, only until liberals want to enlist the church in support of the state. The state, in their view, is the real church. So Michael Ramirez envisions our president as the Pope of the Church of Obama, who destroys all lesser faiths. Like Christianity, for example: Is liberalism the only acceptable faith?

Economic Indicators and Election Prediction

Outside the Beltway  | Links  | Related | Feb 03, 2012 08:48 PM EST

UCLA political scientists, Lynn Vavreck shows in a post at Erza Klein’s WaPo blog that the unemployment rate is not the best predictor of election outcomes.  Instead, the place to look is GDP growth: The data suggest that for every 1 percent growth in GDP from the fourth to the second quarter of an election [...]

BOOMERS BEHIND BARS

Tim Blair  | Links  | Related | Feb 03, 2012 08:44 PM EST

A population explosion in Australian prisons: Twenty-one violent jihadists have been convicted and jailed over the past six years in a series…

KEEP THE SWITCH ON THE PITCH

Tim Blair  | Links  | Related | Feb 03, 2012 08:44 PM EST

There is no such thing as a simple cricket argument.

Rubio at Susan B. Anthony Gala

race42012  | Links  | Related | Feb 03, 2012 08:37 PM EST

Marco Rubio’s speech at the Susan B. Anthony Gala. It’s a funny thing but I find that I’m only able to envision someone else as VP after I’ve gone a few weeks without hearing Marco Rubio give a speech.  Can you imagine what this guy would do with a Noonan speech, at Tampa, as Romney’s [...]