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Pardon us for dredging up Peggy Noonan again, but something has gone unremarked about her appearance last Sunday, and it’s really nagging at us.

It’s not what she said. It’s how she said it.

First, let’s get to the quote itself, starting around 2:50:

Sometimes in life, you want to just keep walking… Some of life has to be mysterious.

Peggy’s plea for proactive ignorance aside, watch her delivery — the sincerity, the earnestness, the empathy. Yes, we know the Wronged Woman shot the bastard, but he was a bastard, and sometimes we have to take extenuating circumstances into account. Doctor Phil, your comment?

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Earth Day is next Wednesday, and as a public service we offer what’s being promoted as the environmentally friendly way to get rid of yourself: underwater burial in an artificial reef.

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Budget Bunny Buster: Mossberg 12 Gauge Shotgun & Tactical Easter Candy! [GlockWorld email, via RML]

Some exciting GOP Tournament play this week, as Sarah “Talibunny” Palin introduced her volcanic “Monitor This” offense against archrival Bobby “The Exorcist” Jindal, throwing elbows to her own Republican legislators for good measure.

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Reader-submitted humor at WorldNetDaily:

• What is the difference between God and Obama? God doesn’t think he is Obama.
• What do Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have in common? Neither one is an African-American.
• Obama is a very wise man. He has come up with an excellent plan to get distressed homeowners back on their feet. He is going to take away their vehicles.

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We’ll admit we’re cutting Barry some slack right now. He’s following the most destructive Administration in American history, he’s reasonably cautious, and frankly the wingnuts are far more amusing at the moment.

But just for practice, we thought we’d take a nibble at Friday afternoon’s announcement that the term “enemy combatant” has been dropped from the official lexicon. Hurrah, we’re supposed to think, one of the Bush abuses has been tossed aside:

Rather than relying on the president’s authority as commander-in-chief, the department explained, the new standard “draws on the international laws of war to inform the statutory authority conferred by Congress.”

Thus TPM, whose judgment we usually trust, celebrates the announcement as a “historic gesture”. But note that “statutory authority” — it’s the September 2001 “Authorization for the Use of Military Force” (AUMF), which was ostensibly directed towards the perpetrators of 9/11. That’s the legislation that politicized a crime, that created a “war” when an FBI manhunt would have been more effective. If you want to date the birth of the Bush Tyranny, that’s as good a place as any.

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Dobson Resigns [Washington Monthly]

Focus on the Family to cut 202 more jobs [Denver Post, 11/17/2008]

Conservatives Pick Soft Target: A Cartoon Sponge [NYT, 1/20/2005]

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