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Clearing the Browser Tabs — Look Out Midwest Monday Edition Posted: 31 Jan 2011 03:10 AM PST So I see that a big chunk of the country, which will include St. Louis and Chicago, is about to get slammed by yet another humongous winter storm. I have friends in Chi-town and Saint Looie and to them I extend my most sincere best wishes. My friends, may you not run out of milk, bread, toilet paper and, most importantly, hard liquor. Also, may your satellite not conk out and your internet access remain strong. And now, links! I think of the left-wing reaction to any mention of Ronald Reagan more like a drunken parrot, but this analogy works pretty well, too. Doug Powers, at Michelle Malkin’s place, writes, “When the Devil is in the details, simply ignore the details.” I suspect that’s engraved above the office door of Barack Obama’s head speechwriter. It takes a certain amount of chutzpah for government officials to go to their wealthiest residents and ask them to take on the whole city as a charity case after they botched their jobs so badly. As left-wing attacks on right-wing ideological icons go, this one is very, very weak. Ed Driscoll on the Global Warming Recursion. The wit is delicious. Moe Lane is glad the President will reportedly crusade for more gun control. I can’t argue with his reasoning. Pat Austin thinks the end of books is nearly upon us. I’m not so sure. I love my Kindle, but I’m nowhere close to ready to forswear books altogether.

Boehner’s New Motto: Wanna Back Up Offa Me? Posted: 30 Jan 2011 08:44 PM PST I have had my differences with Speaker John Boehner and I’m sure I will have them aplenty in the future, but today, I am a fan. He appeared on the Fox News Sunday show with Chris Wallace and Wallace attempted a bit of levity. I don’t think Boehner caught all the humor of the situation. House Speaker John Boehner joked Sunday that people need to stop bugging him about his well-known smoking habit. “It’s a bad habit, but I have it. It’s a legal product. I choose to smoke,” Boehner said on Fox News Sunday before gigging host Chris Wallace: “Leave me alone.” I’m a smoker and I can relate. For reasons entirely unknown to me, complete strangers regularly feel the need to tell me that smoking is a bad habit, as if I were a time traveler who just plunked down from the 1930s. I usually make a bit of a joke about it, like Boehner did, but deep down inside I want to go all Agent J on them and tell them to ease up off my back about it. I wonder, though, if we can adopt the Speaker’s quote, or at least part of it, as the official motto of the New Republican Majority. I think a platform of “Leave Me Alone” has one heck of a ring to it and would work very nicely as the foundation for a rollback of all the ridiculous, intrusive, unnecessary, annoying laws and regulations the Democrats have foisted upon us the past four years.

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