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Instapundit » Blog Archive » MORE ON SKILLED TRADES: In this interview with Andy Grove, he talks about his support for vocationa…: "Success is a process, not an event. "

Man accidentally gives away life savings hidden away in donated suit | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News

Man accidentally gives away life savings hidden away in donated suit | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News: "The 80-year-old man, who didn't trust banks, had kept his life savings of $13,000 sewn inside the lining of one of his suits."

His Life savings is $13,000.00 dollars?

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Instapundit: "So move your factories offshore. That’s clearly the signal they’re sending. Jobs for Americans? Not such a priority."

L.A. County Sheriff to reopen Natalie Wood case - latimes.com

L.A. County Sheriff to reopen Natalie Wood case - latimes.com: "Wagner and Walken had an argument. Wagner said in a 2008 interview with The Times that the argument concerned how much of one's personal life should be sacrificed in pursuit of one's career and art."

News from The Associated Press

News from The Associated Press: "In Illinois, government officials stopped working with Catholic Charities on adoptions and foster-care placements after 40 years because the agency refused to recognize a new civil union law. Illinois bishops had sued the state but on Monday said they would stop the legal fight and no longer provide state-funded services."

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OWS CHUDs - By Jonah Goldberg - The Corner - National Review Online

OWS CHUDs - By Jonah Goldberg - The Corner - National Review Online: "It’s very rare these commenters actually mount anything like an effort to respond to the actual substance of the posts. We point out dead bodies at OWS camps, and their response boils down to “Hah! Made you look!” I think it’s almost charming in its lameness.
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The Worst Line in Scriptwriting History - YouTube

The Worst Line in Scriptwriting History - YouTube: "mother i want chinese

too bad

you

get thai!!"

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Not From The Onion — Marginal Revolution

Not From The Onion — Marginal Revolution: "What astounds me is not that someone could amass $35,000 in student loans pursuing a dream of puppetry, everyone has their dreams and I do not fault Joe for his. What astounds me is that Richard Kim, the executive editor of The Nation and the author of this article, thinks that the failure of a puppeteer to find a job he loves is a good way to illustrate the “national nightmare” of the job market."

CARPE DIEM: Ridley: "I Can't Find One Piece of Data That Shows Unprecedented Change, or Harmful Change."

CARPE DIEM: Ridley: "I Can't Find One Piece of Data That Shows Unprecedented Change, or Harmful Change.": ""Stalagmites, tree lines and ice cores all confirm that it was significantly warmer 7000 years ago. Evidence from Greenland suggests that the Arctic ocean was probably ice free for part of the late summer at that time. Sea level is rising at the unthreatening rate about a foot per century and decelerating.

Greenland is losing ice at the rate of about 150 gigatonnes a year, which is 0.6% per century. There has been no significant warming in Antarctica, with the exception of the peninsula. Methane has largely stopped increasing. Tropical storm intensity and frequency have gone down, not up, in the last 20 years. Your probability of dying as a result of a drought, a flood or a storm is 98% lower globally than it was in the 1920s. Malaria has retreated not expanded as the world has warmed.

And so on. I’ve looked and looked but I cannot find one piece of data – as opposed to a model – that shows either unprecedented change or change is that is anywhere close to causing real harm.""

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Pundit & Pundette: Herman Cain explains Planned Parenthood to Bob Schieffer

Pundit & Pundette: Herman Cain explains Planned Parenthood to Bob Schieffer: "CAIN: If people go back and look at the history and look at Margaret Sanger's own words that's exactly where that came from. Look up the history. If you go back and look up the history. Secondly, look at where most of them were built. 75 percent of those facilities were built in the black community and Margaret Sanger's own words, she didn't use the word genocide, but she did talk about preventing the increasing number of poor blacks in this country by preventing black babies from being born."

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Car Talk. Car tips, advice, and troubleshooting. | Car Talk Driving Notes

Car Talk. Car tips, advice, and troubleshooting. | Car Talk Driving Notes: "Styling screams "I peaked in high school""

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Instapundit » Blog Archive » FRANK J. FLEMING HAS A NEW BOOK COMING OUT: Obama: The Greatest President in the History of Everyth…

Instapundit » Blog Archive » FRANK J. FLEMING HAS A NEW BOOK COMING OUT: Obama: The Greatest President in the History of Everyth…: "FRANK J. FLEMING HAS A NEW BOOK COMING OUT: Obama: The Greatest President in the History of Everything. I’m pretty sure it’s fiction."

Davy Rothbart interviews Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko about a new documentary on their lives - Grantland

Davy Rothbart interviews Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko about a new documentary on their lives - Grantland: "There's a famous French film director, Claude Lelouch. He was a big boxing fan, and he once said, "Boxing is the cruelest sport, but the one that is most similar to life." In boxing, you need to have a goal and fight for it. Sometimes you deliver punches, sometimes you find yourself on the floor, and that's when you need to find the power to stand up and fight again. In the end, you will be the winner if you have enough heart and enough patience. Life has the same exact rules."

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FDA Medical Device Approval « Truth on the Market

FDA Medical Device Approval « Truth on the Market: "The New York Times today has an article on approval of medical devices. The take is that venture capitalists want a more efficient process. The tradeoff mentioned is between faster approval for investor returns versus safety of devices if they are approved faster. There is no mention in the article of the benefits to patients and consumers of more rapid availability of medical devices. The entire literature following the Peltzman analysis delays in drug approval is totally ignored."

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How the 1 percent ‘harm’ us--Frank J. Fleming - NYPOST.com

How the 1 percent ‘harm’ us--Frank J. Fleming - NYPOST.com: "That’s what the wealthiest 1 percent do to us a nation: It’s just impossible to appreciate our affluence while other people are allowed to have so much more than us."

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