The freelance McCarthys and Torquemadas of the Rightie blogosphere are literally in a feeding frenzy. From the roiling of the waters, you’d think someone was dumping chum into a tank of piranhas that hadn’t eaten in a week. Except that I have far too much repect for piranhas to humiliate them with a comparison to the Rightie blogs, led by Michael Goldfarb (of Murdoch’s Weekly Standard) and Michelle Malkin (a regular and paid contributor on Murdoch’s FAUX Nooz). Piranhas...

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The Associated Press reports this breaking story: Sunni Arab bloc quits Iraqi government By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Wed Aug 1, 7:56 AM ET BAGHDAD – Iraq’s largest Sunni Arab political bloc announced its withdrawal from the government Wednesday, undermining Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s efforts to seek reconciliation among the country’s rival factions. Violence continued unabated, with 50 people killed and 60 wounded when a suicide attacker exploded a fuel truck near a gas station in...

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Sometimes, just as you realize that some of the most rabid, misanthropic lunatic righties would like nothing better than to see you and anyone like you dead, they pull off a stunt that reminds us all of what astonishingly pathetic losers they actually are, and why they couldn’t actually hold a job in the Real World, unless backed up by cranky zillionaires even more screwed up in the head than they are. I’m speaking, of course, of the Kewpie...

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CNBC reported a few minutes ago: News Corp. to Succeed In Buying Dow Jones … “It did come awfully close, in fact, closer than many had anticipated,” Faber said. “But at the end of the day, according to people who were working on this, a number of the Bancrofts who had been somewhat vocal in their opposition–Chris Bancroft for example–seemed suddenly at the realization that they were going to have to pay all these banking fees said ‘Wait a...

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Americablog is running this story: BREAKING… Home Depot dumps O’Reilly by John Aravosis (DC) · 7/31/2007 11:46:00 AM ET Home Depot seems to have had a change of heart. They’re now unequivocally telling their customers that they will not advertise on Bill O’Reilly’s show. Oddly, however, they’re now also claiming that they never advertised on O’Reilly’s show. Funny, though, that Home Depot already admitted to advertising on O’Reilly’s show in the hateful email they sent customers just a...

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