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  • Added Krauthammer, “Obama has now decided that the man he simply could not banish because he had become part of Obama himself is, mirabile dictu, surgically excised.”

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  • Added Krauthammer, “Obama has now decided that the man he simply could not banish because he had become part of Obama himself is, mirabile dictu, surgically excised.”

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  • After steadfastly and guiltily ignoring it for about three years, I have finally made a small update to my website: added my 2008 LJ post ‘The Taste for Magic’, which has (mirabile dictu!) attracted new comments in the last day or so.

    superversive: Update?! superversive 2010

  • After steadfastly and guiltily ignoring it for about three years, I have finally made a small update to my website: added my 2008 LJ post ‘The Taste for Magic’, which has (mirabile dictu!) attracted new comments in the last day or so.

    Update?! superversive 2010

  • The patently anti-semitic ones that MaryG serves up, which Orin Kerr and others (including, mirabile dictu, non-Jews like eplubibus) have called out and you seem to endorse, or at least to allow as plausible, e.g., the citation scam.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews? 2010

  • Will there be — mirabile dictu! — an actual bipartisan vote in favor of financial reform?

    Thank you, Goldman Sachs 2010

  • If you don't think too much about that statement, it sounds as if the oil is, mirabile dictu, pretty much taken care of.

    Rachel Ben-Avi: Now You See It, Now You Don't 2010

  • The members of the rock band AC/DC — who, mirabile dictu, actually are Australian — decided to leave their castles in Europe and are doing something called "The Black Ice Tour."

    'I Am Big in Australia' Robert Skeffington 2010

  • So a week ago, 60 interested citizens sat in the spacious ninth-floor conference room of the new soaring glass tower at Baruch College to watch the commission, mirabile dictu, openly deliberate difficult issues at its last public session.

    Mark Green: Changing the NYC City Charter. Again? 2010

  • So a week ago, 60 interested citizens sat in the spacious ninth-floor conference room of the new soaring glass tower at Baruch College to watch the commission, mirabile dictu, openly deliberate difficult issues at its last public session.

    Mark Green: Changing the NYC City Charter. Again? 2010

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