Off to the Capitol - The American Spectator

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Off to the Capitol

by Philip Klein

January 20, 2009, 12:21 PM

I’m heading over to the inaugural procedings now. Given the security and the fact that it’s about 20 degrees, I don’t plan on bringing my laptop to blog live and am assuming the world can wait a few hours to hear what I have to say. But I’ll bring binoculars and let you know if Obama swears-in using an Indonesian Koran.

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