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OOOOPS! Excel 2007 Doesn't Calculate Right

=77.1*850 equals 100,000 NOT!! Microsoft has a fix on the way, if it's not already here.

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Rush Limbaugh: Anatomy of a Smear

Rush Limbaugh opened his radio program yesterday describing how, in the past 24 hours, the Media Matters (a Hillary Clinton/George Soros front group) website, Democrats in Congress, Howard Dean and the drive by media had conducted a coordinated attack against Rush. The lie that these liberals are spreading is that Rush had described US soldiers who are against the war as "phony soldiers". That is a lie. What Rush said has been taken totally out of context. I know, because I was listening to his show when Rush said it.

Rush was speak, specifically, about Jesse MacBeth who had been a hero of the left. Jesse MacBeth had claimed he was an Army Ranger who had served in Iraq, and had seen other US soldiers commit horrible atrocities. Turns out that, just as Rush had reported, Jesse MacBeth has never been an Army Ranger and he's never served in Iraq. Jesse MacBeth was run out of boot camp after just a few weeks.

Watch this video of Rush, on his radio program, accurately describing exactly what happened:

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What Is More Powerful: Online Activism or Punditry?

Here's an interesting give and take between Dean Barnett and Patrick Ruffini as to whether blogosphere punditry or online activism holds more sway. Fascinating reading as both Barnett and Ruffini are super bloggers and real smart political guys.

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S-CHIP Expansion: Will President Bush Veto?

Ed Morrissey doesn't think that Bush will veto the horrific expansion of the S-CHIP program. We shall soon see. The captain does offer an interesting strategy for the Republican leadership. Be sure to read the whole post.

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Tennessee State Government: Crazy Intrusion into Private Lives

The state government of Tennessee raised cigarette taxes some time ago, so natch many smokers in Tennessee drove to other states to buy cigarettes and save some money. Now the Tennessee government is going to check people at the border to see if they bought cigarettes out of state. If they do, then some folks may not be able to drive to other states at all. Wow. Just wow. Now that's some huge, horrific government overreach.

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General Petraeus Helped to Pave the Way to Victory in Iraq

Last night in the yet another, interminiable Democrat debate, the Democrat candidates wouldn't commit to a withdrawal from Iraq by 2013. Because Petraeus and The Surge are improving things on the ground in Iraq, and the American people want to keep the positive momentum building to victory.

Cue the outrage at the Daily Kos - good times, good times.

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SCHIP Legislation Would Accelerate Entitlement Bankruptcy

It's for the children, don't cha know. Republicans can't vote against the S-CHIP expansion because the media will make sure the Republican Party becomes the party of that's mean to poor kids. Unhappily, for the future financial security of our country, we can't let the facts get in the way of the MSM narrative/template. The national bankruptcy bill we face now is $50.5 trillion - that's for Social Security and Medicare. The SCHIP will cover families earning up to $83,000 a year.

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Iraq's Sistani Doesn't Like the Media Either

Don't know much at Sistani, the Shiite Meester Big of Iraq, but I do know that I agree with Sistani's take about the MSM - his media opinions didn't, of course get reported in the MSM.

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Columbia's Ahmadinejad Invitation

So Lee Bollinger, invited the Islamo-fascist Ahmadinejad, to speak at Columbia University. The Iranian pip-squeak shows up to give his speech a couple days ago, and Bollinger harshly scolds him for being the murderous dictatorial tyrant that Ahmadinejad is.

Dean Barnett has a point, that Bollinger is to be applauded for looking evil in the eye and calling it out, but that Columbia should have never have invited the jerk in the first place.

John Podhoretz also makes a good point when he writes that Bollinger should not have invited Ahmadinejad to speak, and then use this as an opportunity to (metaphorically) pin him to the wall.

There is a larger point to be made here, I think. Doesn't all of this seem/feel awfully contrived? Regardless of the particulars in this case, Ahmadinejad, Bollinger and Columbia University got tons and tons of publicity and media love this week. All kinds of attention from conservative bloggers, talk radio, Free Republic, Rush Limbaugh, and on and on. And isn't this the real object of Columbia and Ahmadinejad's exercise? How many web pages were generated this week that focused their text, photos and videos on the Iranian Little Man, Bollinger and Columbia? The answer, obviously, is tons and tons of web pages. And all of these web pages are linked to and from each other, creating an internet web that extends from hither and yon - all of them generating serious tonnage in Google's search engine rankings and revenue for Google Adsense.

The moral of my little rant: it's really Google that runs the world.

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Hate Crime Amendment to Broaden Scope

Democrats are attaching a hate crimes amendment (the Kennedy/Smith amendment) to the Defense Authorization working its way now through Congress. As it stands now, included in the amendment is language that some pastors fear would result in their being prosecuted for preaching critically (and scripturally) against homosexuality. Sound ridiculous? Yes it does, but pastors have, in fact, been prosecuted in some foreign countries. Byron York has more.

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