This wasn’t easy, what with Lieberman, Robertson, and Brooks in the running, but we have a winner:

It’s as if Obama’s presidency hasn’t really started. He’s still taking inventory of the Bush years. Just this Monday, he referred to “long years of drift” in Afghanistan in order to, I suppose, explain away his own, well, yearlong drift on Afghanistan.

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We usually raid WorldNetDaily for the lighter side of rabid wingnuttery, but every so often — well…

A pro-life organization is blasting a Switzerland-based cosmetics manufacturer whose website openly admits some of its products were developed from the tissues of an aborted baby.

Too good to be true? Let’s find out!

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It’s not news when yet another Orly Taitz birther lawsuit is dismissed. But in shitcanning the latest entertaining travesty, U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter of California notes some curious behavior on her part:

Taitz encouraged her supporters to contact this Court, both via letters and phone calls. It was improper and unethical for her as an attorney to encourage her supporters to attempt to influence this Court’s decision.

Before our California barristers rush to update their ethics complaints, however, stand by for the whopper:

Additionally, the Court has received several sworn affidavits that Taitz asked potential witnesses that she planned to call before this Court to perjure themselves. This Court is deeply concerned that Taitz may have suborned perjury through witnesses she intended to bring before this Court.

Can we get a whoa?

Judge: ‘Birther’ lawyer may have urged witnesses to lie on the stand [Raw Story]

Barnett v. Obama [PDF, via LAT]

Boris & Natasha bobbleheads [Elmstreet Online]

You’ll recall, if you didn’t have better things to do, that Team Sarah sent us an email Tuesday pleading for some quick cash so Sarah Palin could read somebody else’s speech for the Iowa Family Policy Center — they were $41,000 shy of their $100,000 goal.

That set off a little, er, stink today, when politically inclined Iowans questioned the wisdom of paying anything at all to a prospective presidential candidate testing the waters:

“If somebody tells me they want me to pay an appearance fee, it tells me they’re not very serious about running for president,” said Ed Failor, Jr., president of Iowans for Tax Relief and an influential GOP insider.

Upon which IFPC said the hundred large wasn’t for Talibunny, but “only to secure a venue, pay for lighting and promote the event.”

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Is it something in the water?

Is it inbreeding? Is it the proximity to Oklahoma and its stupid congressional delegation?

According to the New York Times, the U.S. economy showed a 3.5% expansion in the 3rd quarter of this year, after more than a year of contraction. Read more »

Nancy Pelosi is expected to release the House version of the death panel healthcare bill this morning, and the good folks at Team Sarah are ready to crowdsource pages 1 through 1880 for signs of socialism. “Please ONLY report items that are truly egregious or Red Flags,” the leaders remind the troops, and for assistance, they’ve provided the following taxonomy of egregiousness:

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