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The latest on what’s happening in Hardin, Montana: State Attorney General Steve Bullock has launched a probe into the jail deal with American Police Force and its shady founder:
Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock launched an investigation Thursday into American Police Force, the California company founded by a Serbian immigrant with a lengthy criminal history that [...]

Tons of readers are asking about the American Police Force jail contract in Hardin, Montana.
Neil Katz at CBS News reported:
This is the strange story of how American Police Force, a little known company which claims to specialize in training military and security forces overseas, has seemingly taken control of a $27 million, never-used jail, and [...]

Laura Ingraham has launched a “10 for 10″ initiative for an empowerment agenda in 2010.
Check it out and lend your support.
Bonus: Freedom Czar gear.

I’ve been under the weather most of the day. Up late last night with feverish son. Hope you all are feeling better than we are! Talk amongst yourselves.

Glad to be home after a long week of travel. Had a fantastic time at the lakefront Tea Party in Milwaukee.
Talk amongst yourselves.

The Weekly Standard reports that conservative scholar, author, and Commentary magazine founder Irving Kristol has died.
R.I.P.

It never had a chance.

This is what an environmental hero really looks like.

I’m traveling this afternoon, so blogger extraordinaire Doug Powers will be pitching in the rest of the day. Give him a warm welcome and behave yourselves while I’m gone!

A simple question for Democrat Obamacare supporters: How are you going to pay?
Three snort-inducing responses caught on tape (via hourglass1941, h/t the Jawa Report):
1) Walk away.
2) Babble.
3) Wellness programs.
Watch it. No question the politicians consider the citizen questioner a rude, unruly mobster/Talibani/right-wing terrorist. How dare she challenge authority!

Talk amongst yourselves.

A New York Times headline yesterday read: “Obama’s Team Is Lacking Most of Its Top Players.”
Yes, so much for the Greatest Transition in World History (a point expounded on in the introduction to Culture of Corruption, where I note that for all the hype about Obama’s brilliant, efficient, amazingly genius transition team, Obama failed [...]

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What a disaster.
A disaster from which Washington will learn absolutely nothing:
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood assured car dealers Wednesday that they will be reimbursed for sales made under the cash-for-clunkers program and said the department would soon offer plans to wind down the popular car incentives.
LaHood said the department will announce by Friday how it [...]

My syndicated column today spotlights the pay czar’s power grab and the cover it provides both the White House and Congress for supporting, enabling, and rewarding the failures of the TARP bailout recipients in the first place.
Team Obama has provisionally approved the AIG CEO’s $7 million compensation package. Here’s Feinberg’s verdict on Weil, Gotshal & [...]

Conservative journalist, author, and Washington institution Robert Novak has died.
R.I.P.
He will be deeply missed.
From the WaPo:
Bruised feelings, Mr. Novak wrote in his memoir, were often soothed over many cocktails. He added that his healthy ego was useful in handling inevitable complaints from powerful people.
When he printed an accurate tip that Alexander M. Haig Jr., President [...]

Headed to Pittsburgh for the RightOnline conference. Our wonderful guest-blogger Doug Powers will be visiting again. Give him a warm welcome!

Doing chores and decompressing!
FYI: Here’s the official NYTimes best-seller list, WSJ list, and Publisher’s Weekly list. But, you know, we’re just “fringe!”
Talk amongst yourselves.

Talk amongst yourselves. I’m grabbing a little rest today and gearing up for Week 2 of the Culture of Corruption book tour. Tomorrow, I’m scheduled to appear on the panel of This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Yes, really.
You can watch yesterday’s Washington Journal appearance here and my encounter with Matt Lauer here.
Reader Maxwell writes that [...]

Headed over to C-SPAN studios to do Washington Journal at 8am Eastern. Watch here.
At 9am Eastern, I’ll be on KHOW talk radio with Peter Boyles.
At 11:15am, I’ll be stopping by in studio to chat with Laura Ingraham.
At 2pm, I’ll be speaking with students at a Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute event here in D.C.

Recovery & Reinvestment?

Erin Andrews is an ESPN reporter. Some sick person planted hidden cameras in her hotel room and splashed video of her while she was dressing all over the Internet.
Andrews happens to be young, beautiful, and a stylish dresser — prompting USA Today columnist Christine Brennan to write on Twitter that Andrews is essentially to blame [...]

Diana West tells you the way it really was.

Sez Harry Reid now in his announcement that there will be no health care takeover bill until after the August recess:
“It’s better to have a product based on quality and thoughtfulness rather than try to jam something through.”
Gee, if only they had that attitude before they jammed through all the bailouts, the porkulus, [...]

Sorry for the down time. Hot Air and mm.com had some database server issues. We’re back!

I’m on a weekend getaway unplugged with family in the Rocky Mountain National Park. It’s gorgeous.
Talk amongst yourselves.

Please take a moment to read about and watch the story of Irena Marie Peitz, daughter of reader Brian. Baby Irena was born on July 6, 2009 and passed away on July 10, 2009. Life is precious. Never forget:

Untitled from Kateri Reyes on Vimeo.

Cable TV reporting shots fired/police chase near the Senate building in Washington, D.C.
Fox News: Started at Union Station, Mercedes chased through streets.

To the cronies go the spoils. So it was during the Bush administration. So it is during the Age of Hope and Change:
Goldman Sachs Group Inc said quarterly earnings surged 33 percent on blowout trading results, trouncing expectations and putting the bank on pace for windfall bonuses that could draw more unwanted public scrutiny.
The [...]