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remember when no one but Al Sharpton cared about Trayvon Martin and out of nowhere Eric Holder arrested George Zimmerman?

Senegal’s Senate Abolished in Name of Fiscal Responsibility
By Patrick Brennan
September 23, 2012 8:57 P.M. Comments1

If on January 20, a president Romney were to find himself with a still-Democratic Senate and a Republican house, maybe he’ll be tempted to emulate Senegal’s new president:

Senegalese MPs have voted to abolish the senate as part of moves to help the victims of recent deadly floods.

President Macky Sall has said the money reserved for the upper house – about $15m (£9.5m) – will also go towards preventing further flooding.

But critics say the aim is to weaken the opposition as most of the senators were supporters of the ex-president.

The 100 senators had fought to be retained, but lost the vote in the joint session of parliament.

lolwhut

facetious because it would require a new amendment in the usa, which isn't going to happen, but i would support it. proportional representation now!

(i see that the majority of the senate of senegal was appointed by the president, so it was a totally useless organization anyway.)

What these guys have been reduced to writing about:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/328482/turkey-school-lunch-stanley-kurtz#comments

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/328642/love-other-mark-krikorian

Enh, that's just dumb.

"but it’s clear that many of Obama’s supporters want him to be a Muslim, want him to have been born in Kenya."

It's clear you are an idiot, sir.

"clear"/"clearly" may be the word of the obama years

what is with the comments, now? have they switched off of disqus (again?)

i wake up every morning praying that our long national nightmare will be over and that the president will turn out to be a muslim who was born in kenya

Fox and Friends
By Mona Charen
September 27, 2012 4:33 P.M.
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I’ll be on Fox and Friends tomorrow morning at 8:15 to talk about press bias.

http://www.nationalreview.com/sites/default/files/nfs/uploaded/tmp/cover_121001_toc.jpg

lol

By Kathryn Jean Lopez
September 28, 2012 2:05 P.M.
Kate Trinko has just made clear that President Obama’s transformative work on us has yet to be completed. The reeducating of American thinking, to understand that abortion, contraception, and female sterilization are basic health care has yet to stick. She probably still believes, like the people who the New York Times has polled and the swing voters the Susan B. Anthony List has discovered, that people have the freedom to not cover such things, that their religious freedom includes the right to believe and practice such sick thinking. She does not yet know what is best for all, and the true meaning of freedom: having fertility suppressed, drugged as if it were a disease. Four more years and she might get the hang of it.

It's kinda amazing they still let KLO write for them.

I genuinely worry about what will happen to her if Obama wins re-election.

depends, is she allergic to cats?

lmao

If you got your information from the mainstream media — I wish there were a better term — you would never know Romney is an impressive man. You would never know he has been successful in most everything he has ever done. You would never know he was bright, experienced, or capable. Or warm, decent, and charitable.

You would think he was a moron. And a jerk, to boot.

You remember those “ordinary people” at the Republican convention who told about the extraordinary acts of charity Mitt Romney has performed? If Obama had performed those acts, they would be famous. They would be legends, they would have entered the national lore. Schoolchildren would be instructed to sing about them.

That's got to be Nordlinger.

Did you hear that Obama tithed 10 percent to his church? We must build a statue so that future eras may know.

Schoolchildren would be instructed to sing about them.

I bet he chuckled as he typed. "Can't wait for Rich and Kat to read this!"

Pareene's last take on Klo rings true; that she seems a deeply sad person who's only happy or fulfilled when attending Mass and that's about it.

Should we close this one, mods? It's election season!

let's send it out on top, then:

Unlike Mitt, I loathe Sesame Street. It bears primary responsibility for what the Canadian blogger Binky calls the de-monsterization of childhood — the idea that there are no evil monsters out there at the edges of the map, just shaggy creatures who look a little funny and can sometimes be a bit grouchy about it because people prejudge them until they learn to celebrate diversity and help Cranky the Friendly Monster go recycling. That is not unrelated to the infantilization of our society. Marinate three generations of Americans in that pabulum and it’s no surprise you wind up with unprotected diplomats dragged to their deaths from their “safe house” in Benghazi.

ah, yes, finally someone has made clear the straight line between Sesame Street and being the victim of a ghastly murder.

there were no murder victims prior to sesame street, fyi.

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