This retarded tautology neatly encapsulates MSNBC’s incapacity for critical thinking (or even self-awareness):

From Newsbusters, via Ace of Spades.

From Kathy Garriott at American Thinker:

What’s so different about Amy Bishop’s existential meltdown that it doesn’t get the 24/7 coverage that a mass shooting usually garners? For starters, she’s a woman, rare in killings of this type. She has a Ph.D. …from Harvard. There you go. She got her Ph.D. from the same place where Obama got his law degree.

The left is leery of this story because Bishop is one of the “educated class” of which David Brooks approves. She doesn’t fit the more comfortable narrative of the dangerous, ignorant fanatic who clings bitterly to guns and has red-state bonafides. And, Buffy, she’s from Harvard! And Northeastern University! That last is particularly ironic, since that makes it definitive that she’s not a southerner. Her politics are even their politics.

Have you heard from any of the networks that none of those dead in this shooting are white? She killed two black professors and another of East Indian descent. White woman kills two black people in Alabama. No big issues here. This isn’t the mass killer you’re looking for.

H/T Mike B.

–From The New York Time Magazine–

Why Women Can’t Let Sarah Palin Go

By LISA BELKIN

If life is like high school, then today’s educated, ambitious women are the student-council presidents and Sarah Palin is the head cheerleader.

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After Cheney

By JAMES TRAUB

Sounding board, sage on foreign policy, twister of senatorial arms: Joe Biden could be the second-most-powerful vice president in history.

(The dictionary defines sage as “a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom”.  Joe Biden?  Seriously?)

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–From the MSNBC website–

Much less stable ice for polar bears, expert says

Survey by ship finds satellite data about thicker Arctic ice was wrong

(Thank goodness – I was starting to fear our planet would actually be okay, but it looks like the global warming movement will live to fight another day)

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Experts: Iran enrichment plans largely bluster

French official says Tehran’s scheme to build 10 plants is a ‘bit childish’

(Whew! I was starting to get worried about Iran.  I’m glad to know they’re just being childish.)

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7 items you didn’t know were in the Senate bill

Little-publicized provisions include breast-pumping rooms and bone scans

(That’s right, even MSNBCcan’t get on board with this rotten disaster of a healthcare bill.)

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—From the Newsweek website—

Jonathan Alter

The faux populism of Palin, Dobbs, and Beck.

(Hey liberals, you’re in luck!  It turns out conservatism was actually a Fox-sponsored sham…)

Via Jim Treacher.

From Hope n’ Change.