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• F_CK WHO?

  A lot of responsibility, being avant garde, cutting edge, and just too damn sexy for your shirt. Being a pop star now days not only involves the requisite provocations, can’t let your talent stand on it’s own, but certain signed documents are necessary stating that if you are going to be a dick or a buffoon, open up your wallet:

  M.I.A.’s Super Bowl middle finger could potentially cost her in a big way. TMZ

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• Thou Shalt Cover

  As I said on Twitter, the Obama’s administration’s ridiculous fight against the ministerial exemption — a fight they lost 9-0 in the Supreme Court — suddenly make sense:

  The Obama administration announced today it will wait for a year (coincidentally until after the elections) before requiring religious organizations to comply with an Obamacare mandate that they provide coverage for contraception — including controversial drugs that can abort an early pregnancy.

  This started with a

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• The Year in TSA

  Hmmm. The TSA blog had a proud post up about their successes in 2011. Let’s go through the list and see how many involve terrorists, shall we?

  #10 was live animals caught in MIA and LAX. These were, um, not even weapons. And the smugglers were not terrorists.

  #9 was a science project that looked like an explosive. So, um, not weapons. And not a terrorist.

  #8 was a metallic martial arms spike. It was … Read more

• Yes, Minister

  SCOTUS is issuing rulings left, right and center. And today it issued an important one that was also a defeat for the Obama Administration:

  In what may be its most significant religious liberty decision in two decades, the Supreme Court on Wednesday for the first time recognized a “ministerial exception” to employment discrimination laws, saying that churches and other religious groups must be free to choose and dismiss their leaders without government interference.

  “The interest

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• Recess Time

  Barack Obama has just made a recess appointment to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He’a also about to make appointments to the National Labor Relations Board. It’s fairly standard for Presidents to make recess appointments. And under Bush, it became standard when the Democrats obstructed appointments to open positions. There’s only one problem: the Senate is not in recess.

  Congressional Republicans were furious Wednesday after President Obama’s recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head

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• FM and FM Reloaded

  A couple off weeks ago, the SEC indicted a number of executives from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for fraud. A detailed look at the indictment is here. Money quote is a long one, but I think you have to read it:

  The SEC’s complaint against the former Fannie Mae executives alleges that, when Fannie Mae began reporting its exposure to subprime loans in 2007, it broadly described the loans as those “made to

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• A Criminal Nation

  There is a disturbing trend in America wrt our bureaucratic overloads trying to solve every problem and correct every mistake by enacting new and more onerous laws. I wish I could blame this all on Obama, it is more convenient and tidy that way, but this has been going on for about 30 years now. Yes, he has quickened the pace and gone nuts in the process, but he was passed the baton and did … Read more

• Hey, Anyone See My Missing Drone?

  Having sophisticated (expensive) super secret spy shit is nice to have, keeps you one step ahead of your enemies, unless, of course, you are so careless as to not keep track of your new toys:

  Iran’s Press TV on Thursday broadcast an extended video tour of the U.S. spy drone that went down in the country late last week–and it indeed looks to be intact.

  American officials have acknowledged that an unmanned U.S. reconnaissance

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• Long Live Mumia

  Hollywood’s favorite cop killer got some closure in his life and avoided that long walk to the gallows:

  Prosecutors on Wednesday abandoned their 30-year pursuit of the execution of convicted police killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther whose claim that he was the victim of a racist legal system made him an international cause celebre.

  Abu-Jamal, 58, will instead spend the rest of his life in prison. His writings and radio broadcasts from

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• Supercommittee Fail

  It’s official. The supercommittee has failed.

  It wasn’t a bad idea really. The amount that the supercommittee was tasked with cutting — $1.2 trillion — was chosen quite specifically. It’s small enough to be doable. But big enough that you can’t do it with one policy. You can’t get $1.2 trillion just by raising taxes on the rich. You can’t get $1.2 trillion without hitting entitlements. You can’t get $1.2 trillion from cutting “waste”. … Read more