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  • Yet many bone-head Republicans blame Obama for it.

    CNN Poll: Democrats lose edge on economy 2010

  • Even when one is out in the boonies, one will look around to see if anyone saw the bone-head act one just pulled.

    Flying Ramrods and Broken Noses 2009

  • Even when one is out in the boonies, one will look around to see if anyone saw the bone-head act one just pulled.

    Flying Ramrods and Broken Noses 2009

  • Yet many bone-head Republicans blame Obama for it.

    CNN Poll: Democrats lose edge on economy 2010

  • He improved department morale, especially among black and Hispanic cops, and eased racial tensions, exacerbated by the police killing of Amadou Diallo and the sodomy of Abner Louima during the tenure of Kerik's bone-head predecessor, Howard Safir.

    Len Levitt: Bernie Kerik: Victim, Victim, Victim 2010

  • Also, I question the fiscal responsibility of a person who would keep piling on the dept when even a bone-head math flake can do the arithmatic.

    Schneider: It's the economy 2008

  • You took out a lot of cars there with that bone-head move some time back.

    Carl Edwards Got Out Of Control at Atlanta 2010

  • His partition plan for Iraq seems like a rather bone-head means of ensuring that we will be right back in there in another five years to put an end to the violence and disruption that such an approach would certainly engender.

    RNC Attacked Obama, Not Hillary, During The Debate 2009

  • Even a bad review is better than no review; and bone-head reviews are less damaging than negative reviews from professional critics -- because with the bone-heads, everyone (or at least most everyone) reading the reviews will figure out they're written by bone-heads and react to them accordingly.

    MIND MELD: How Have Online Book Reviews Affected the Publishing World? 2007

  • I witnessed the birth of this term: how people in the New Left would joke that a particularly dogmatic activist was “politically correct,” meaning that his doctrinaire political outlook would blind him to the material world and he would be a bone-head.

    Some Words That Bug Me 2008

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