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Tweet I don’t think that there’s any doubt that Democrats are twitching with almost unseemly delight in Larry Craig’s humiliating fall from grace. Here is a man who stood for family values and was hostile to all things gay, and yet he was caught tapping his foot in a men’s room. As for me, I’d [...]

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Tweet In an inspired Wall Street Journal article, Kimberley Strassel points out that Republican candidates, at their peril, are ignoring women, while Democratic candidates, knowing that women voters are the statistical difference for them between success and failure, are wooing them aggressively. This wooing needed go well.  Strassel explains that the Democrats are locked in [...]

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Tweet Why isn’t anyone in Hollywood making movies about the abuses the terrorists within Iraq perpetrate against Americans and Iraqis? How honest is it to take one incident involving Americans and then to build a Riefenstahl-esque propaganda film about it, when you have hundreds, perhaps thousands, of incidents in which Islamists have engaged in mass [...]

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Tweet My blog, lately, has hosted a really interesting discussion about both Israel’s legal rights in the disputed territories and the Palestinians’ lack of legal rights. Those two statements (Israel’s rights vs. Palestinian non-rights) are not mirror-like redundancies. It’s entirely possible to argue (although I wouldn’t), that while Israel has no right to the disputed [...]

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Tweet There’s no doubt but that the Larry Craig incident is ripe for parody and a guy named Doug Clark parodied it in a very funny song called “Tap Three Times.”  I’m hoping the link works.  Give it a try for a laugh. Hat tip:  Rocket’s Brain, who blogs at Rocket’s Brain Trust

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Tweet Since DQ asked in a comment how we can tell if the surge is working, I’ve been collecting links to blogs and articles that discuss that point.  The Captain has a lucid summary of an article in The Australian in which General Petraeus gives the heads-up about his probable report to Congress.  It all [...]

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Tweet The anticipation was killing, but the Watcher’s Council results are finally in and I can say, with some confidence, that they are good. On the Council side first place (again!) went to Big Lizards, this time for a stellar article pointing out that, at the NYT: Analogies Are Meaningless (Unless They Favor the Left). [...]

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Tweet I know you all caught the story about the school in Colorado that banned tag. The school’s primary stated reason for having instituted this ban was to shelter kids they perceived as emotionally delicate: An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed or chased against their [...]

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Tweet Spurred by Amanpour’s CNN series on religion, DQ, who is a very astute analyst and a thinker who is truly open minded to new information and ideas, wrote his impressions of the show, which led to a lively and very fact intense discussion about Amanpour’s errors, both explicit and implied, regarding Israel’s borders. Regular [...]

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Tweet Despite the fact that we live in a vaccine age, Britain is facing an outbreak of measles, a disease can cause life long damage to its victims: Parents were urged today to give their children the MMR jab before they returned to school after figures showed measles cases have more than trebled in the [...]

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Tweet NPR did a little eulogy for Richard Jewell: Lets take a moment to remember a man who really was not a terrorist. Richard Jewell died yesterday.  He might have saved lives at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.  He was a security guard.  He’s the man who discovered a green knapsack.  He’s the man who [...]

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Tweet If you haven’t already caught this at LGF, it’s still not too late.  Catch it here at the source site.

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Tweet If you read one thing this week, this month, or even this year, read this: “The Big Picture,” which Karl assembled at Protein Wisdom.  It carefully analyzes the way in which the media is reporting the war, and explains why the Scott Beauchamp story is a problem, not because it is anomalous, but because [...]

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Tweet DQ again.  Thank you all very much for taking the time and effort to educate me on Israel’s rights to the occupied territories.   Having only a vague notion that Israel’s borders were larger in the first proposals for its creation, I had (and still have) much to learn.  But, perhaps not surprisingly, the explanations raise [...]

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Tweet Israel, which has been the victim of endless and destructive rocket attacks originating in Gaza, successfully stopped one before it happened. Taking facts directly from the BBC, this is how I would have reported the Israeli Army’s successful action: Israel destroys several rocket launchers in Gaza The Israeli Army reports that it surveillance into [...]

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Tweet Okay, it’s not really an exclusive behind the scenes look, it’s just a great parody of the Washington Post’s craven decision, a week after happily insulting Christians, to refrain from seeing any Muslims get emotional. Hat tip:  LGF

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Tweet Jeff Emanuel, a former special operations veteran and a current embedded journalist, has some cautiously optimistic words about the Surge, both in terms of how it’s working right now, and in terms of the possible benefits we can see from it.  Bottom line:  people who give up on the Surge in the short term [...]

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Tweet The San Francisco Chronicle has a front page story today about the record number of uninsured people in California: A record 6.8 million Californians, nearly 1 in 5 of the state’s residents, went without health insurance at some time during 2006, according to figures released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. Nationally, a record [...]

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Tweet Chris Muir, of Day by Day cartoon fame, hits another wonderful home run:  

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Tweet Does it strike any of you as funny that a Presidential candidate, who is one of the richer men in America, and who just built himself a mansion that checks in at just under 30,000 square feet, is telling Americans to drive smaller cars? I’d be more agreeable to these messages if the preacher [...]

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Tweet In response to my discussion of the “God’s Jewish Warriors” special, Oceanguy said he was quite disheartened that I could be taken in by the propaganda he saw in that show.  His particular concern centered around the following statement by Ms. Amanpour, ““Intifada, in Arabic, it means ‘shaking off.’ And beginning in September 2000, Palestinians [...]

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Tweet Al Jazeera claims to have in its possession an Israeli government paper detailing the basic requirements Israel sees preconditions for any peace negotiations with the Palestinians.  I haven’t thought at all in depth about what these conditions are alleged to be, so I won’t comment on them here.  Instead, I wanted to blog briefly [...]

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Tweet Hey, everyone.  I wanted to let you know that you can stop calling Orkin now about CNN’s “God’s Warriors” series, since Orkin has been helpful, honest and responsive regarding this show.  Here’s their representative’s latest missive: Just want to circle back to give the final update from Orkin. We had purchased advertising that was [...]

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Tweet Last night I watched a wonderful movie.  It’s called Street Fight, and it follows the unsuccessful 2002 mayoral campaign political neophyte Cory Booker ran against long-time Newark, New Jersey incumbent Sharpe James.  Both are Democrats and African Americans, with the former being a light skinned Rhodes Scholar, and the latter being a dark-skinned “man [...]

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Tweet Mr. Bookworm and I watched Obsession, the Movie Tonight, something that ought to be required viewing for all Democrats and, especially, for all members of the MSM (assuming any difference between the two groups). At the end, Mr. Bookworm acknowledged that, of course, radical Islam is a threat, but that my “beloved President Bush” [...]

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