Wingnut Hip Hop (Wing Hop?) is nothing new, but we’re strangely charmed by Hi-Caliber, who neatly wraps up all the teabagger memes in four minutes. The ironies are too thick to catalog, but they can be neatly summarized by noting that the video was produced by FreedomWorks, Dick Armey’s corporate astroturf group.

Armey earned $250,000 from FreedomWorks in 2008 for “consulting”. Cal, “a construction worker injured after falling from a ladder,” did the video for free.

Oh, and before you jump to an obvious conclusion: Cal and his African American wife have three kids. Sometimes caricatures aren’t as tidy as we’d like.

Busting Rhymes In The Name Of Tea Parties [TPM]

We don’t like to admit breaking a sweat, but last night we spent a couple of hours working up a deliciously vituperative post about what appeared to be a soldier-exploiting scheme to sell books. It was so vituperative that we triple-checked facts to make sure our premise wasn’t wildly off the mark.

And wouldn’t you know, just as we were ready to click Publish — we finally found the crucial fact that undermined everything.

But while the post’s villain (hello, WND!) must await another opportunity, the post’s hero doesn’t deserve to be buried in our frustration.

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There’s only one relevant question regarding Major Nidal Malik Hasan: Did he act alone?

That was the lingering question Thursday afternoon, when the news talked of “multiple suspects” in the Fort Hood shootings. Big difference between a sole sorry nutjob and a conspiracy.

But when the potential conspiracy evaporated — the other suspects were cleared — well, folks went on looking for one anyway. There are books to move, after all.

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This morning’s guest columnist is Kimberly Daniels, founder of Kimberly Daniels Ministries International, in Jacksonville, Florida. Normally we would abridge her fine work, but we don’t want our immortal soul TP’d by the Creator.

Halloween — October 31 — is considered a holiday in the United States. In fact, it rivals Christmas with regard to how widely celebrated it is. Stores that sell only Halloween-related paraphernalia open up a few months before the day and close shortly after it ends. But is Halloween a holiday that Christians should be observing?

The word “holiday” means “holy day.” But there is nothing holy about Halloween. The root word of Halloween is “hallow,” which means “holy, consecrated and set apart for service.” If this holiday is hallowed, whose service is it set apart for? The answer to that question is very easy — Lucifer’s!

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“Mick Jagger said in a song once, ‘you can’t always get what what you want. But if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need,” Pawlenty said. “For those of us who are Republicans and conservatives, we didn’t get what we wanted in the 2008 election for president but we did get something that we needed. And that is a chance to ask ‘what are the lessons from 2008 and 2006?'”

You’re the kind of person
You meet at certain dismal dull affairs.

Give me champagne when I’m thirsty
Give me a reefer when I wanna get high

When I’m drivin’ in my car
And a man comes on the radio
He’s telling me more and more
About some useless information

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzY5i4A1zgA

We’ve given it a lot of thought, and looking through the universe of possibilities of important news to bring to your attention, we could think of nothing more breathtakingly awesome than Capt. Howdy’s hot tip.

• AP: “Miley Cyrus quits Twitter, deletes account”
• MTV: “Miley Cyrus Deletes Her Twitter Account For Liam Hemsworth”
• NJ Star-Ledger: “Miley Cyrus quits Twitter because of her boyfriend? Make your own decisions, Miley”
• Sawf News: “Miley Cyrus: ‘I didn’t quit Twitter because my boyfriend told me to'”

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