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VIDEO Beto O'Rourke last week uploaded yet another livestream video. This time he was in Flint, Michigan cooking spaghetti and boring the hell out of everybody with empty platitudes tossed out only for the purpose of advancing his horribly failed presidential campaign. Amidst all the banalities, one bit of inadvertent comedy gold did emerge which can serve as the metaphor for Beto O'Rourke and his campaign.

A former Obama administration official who worked on foreign policy said that the president is causing the U.S. to act as if it is “totally impotent” in the face of Vladimir Putin’s military intervention in Syria. “The optics are that we’re backing off. It’s not like we can’t exert pressure on these guys, but we act like we’re totally impotent,” the former administration official said, according to Politico. Indeed, multiple current and former players in the Obama administration have expressed opposition to the president’s reluctance to respond to the Syrian civil war or Moscow’s military buildup there that has worked...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have seized more than a tonne of fake drugs for impotence, bird flu and malaria, including at least 18,000 fake Viagra tablets, state media reported Wednesday. The Ministry of Public Security, which launched the national crackdown on counterfeit goods in 2005, announced 10 of its top cases ranging from fake drugs to fake toothpaste Tuesday, the Xinhua news agency said on its Web site. More than 30 people were detained on suspicion of either making or selling the drugs. Police in the eastern province of Zhejiang raided a gang making counterfeit Viagra and selling the...

February 13, 2007 Giuliani Expects Key Mass. GOP Endorsements Massachusetts Republicans may spoil Mitt Romney’s party this week. Ex-NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani is set to score a coup with endorsements from 2 and perhaps a third of the 5 Bay State Republican state senators. Credit for the Giuliani coup goes to former governor Paul Cellucci, who’s been working to snag members of the tiny Republican caucus. Sources said that Senate minority leader Richard Tesei to endorse Giuliani. Tesei, a Wakefield Republican, is in his first term as leader. Insiders think the only way to increase their numbers (or avoid obliteration)...

Orwellian euphemism is nothing new in the realm of contemporary American political discourse. Choice, translated by the left, refers to the chopping up of unborn children. Peaceful patriotism permits the trashing of our troops. Just now in a shocking scandal for adjectives everywhere, verbal authorities have booked articulate for bearing concealed racial overtones. We shouldn't, but we do get acclimated to this kind of rank pseudo-intellectualism after a while. What is jarring is to hear linguistic engineering of mind-bending magnitude coming not from the left, but from conservative commentators themselves. Monday night on Hannity and Colmes, RINO Rudi announced his...