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Tweet There aren’t a whole lot of facts in Seymour Hersh’s interview with Spiegel online, but it becomes clear that, while he fears President Bush for being on a mission for God (Seymour’s opinion), Ahmadinejad’s pronouncements that he’s going to destroy Israel and have the bomb soon are totally copacetic. I’ve included some examples of [...]

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Tweet The Democrats and their fellow travelers have been terribly upset since its inception by the Patriot Act, which they see as an infringement of their civil liberties. In that context, one of their chief fears is that the federal government will impose a national ID requirement, which they believe will be used to target [...]

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Tweet It’s shamefaced confession time: I love ABBA, and always have. Back in the 1970s, in the vinyl era, I bought several of their records and had many hours of listening pleasure. And then vinyl went away and my ABBA records, along with the rest of my collection, went into boxes, never to be played [...]

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Tweet We’ve heard it before (’cause the NY Times says it’s so) that Al Qaeda has nothing to do with Iraq. Apparently someone forgot to tell either AP or Al Qaeda: U.S. and Iraqi forces killed more than 60 insurgent and militia fighters in intense battles over the weekend, with most of the casualties believed [...]

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Tweet Actions tomorrow will speak louder than words today, but something interesting came out of the mouth of a UN representative — namely, the admission that the UN is focusing a disproportionate amount of its attention on condemning Israel. You don’t believe me? It’s true: The UN Human Rights Council has failed to handle the [...]

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Tweet The world is currently a place of roiling international tensions. The British Navy recently distinguished itself for being undistinguished in a confrontation with Iran that turned into a national humiliation for England. Under those circumstances, there’s really only one thing to do, right? Yup, destroy your Navy: Ministers have drawn up confidential proposals to [...]

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Tweet Apparently the feds, after going through all the bureaucratic steps, are fence building like crazy along our Southern border. An even better thing is the fact that, where the fences have already gone up, the number of illegal immigrants has gone down: New barriers have had an effect in San Luis, once one of [...]

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Tweet The results are in at the Watcher’s Council and I have to admit to being pleased, since my post Cosmic Ironies came in first. This was the post in which I looked at my Dad’s family history in pre-WWII Germany and thought about the little twists of fate that saw some live, and some [...]

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Tweet The following is James Taranto’s entire take, at today’s Best of the Web, on Reuters’ most recent journalistic innovation: The Lone Reuter From Reuters: By Noor Mohammad Sherzai BATI KOT, Afghanistan (Reuters) – At least one U.S. soldier opened fire to scatter a crowd of civilians and police on Thursday after failed suicide bomb [...]

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Tweet Back in December 2004, I wrote a post over at my old blog site about how difficult life is in the 21st Century for June Cleaver. Since Blogger posts, after a certain period of time, lose all formatting, I’ll reprint it here, in an easy to read format: I’ve been looking around at friends’ [...]

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Tweet Yesterday I blogged about the fact that, in Israel, the military solution is working against the Intifadah. Today, Roy Robison points out that the same is true in the war against Al Qaeda. (He also notes that there is no truth to the anti-War charge that the Bush Administration is so busy in Iraq [...]

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Tweet I wrote a lengthy article about a week ago, and submitted it to the American Thinker. It got published today. In it, I opine at length about the disconnect between the new name liberals have given themselves — “Progressives” — and the actual regressive nature of so many of their views. It’s an okay [...]

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Tweet Obama is and, to date, always has been a small timer.  Although he’s aiming for the highest office in the land, which is pretty much the highest office in the world, his practical experience is minimal, and it keeps on showing.  His latest move, to support the DREAM act which will encourage in-state tuition [...]

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Tweet All religions, at all times, in all places, have one of two goals: to give meaning to life, something usually tied to morality, or to allay the fear of death. Some religions, of course, serve both goals. It is the second goal — defusing death — that I write about today. People who do [...]

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Tweet I would have missed this entirely if Patrick, my favorite Paragraph Farmer, hadn’t brought it to my attention.  It spells out good news for Israel and reveals an important lesson for Americans: The mantra “there is no military solution to terrorism” is so rarely challenged these days that it was shocking to see the [...]

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Tweet This is why, even when conservatives feel Ann’s crossed a line, as she has in the past, they still read her articles — she’s nailed the whole Columbia, “free speech,” Ahmadinejad thing.

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Tweet I am not conversant with the details of the Patriot Act, nor am I a Constitutional lawyer. I simply find it interesting that, more often than not, when a Federal District Court judge rules something about the Patriot Act unlawful, that judge is a Clinton appointee. The most recent case in point is a [...]

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Tweet I blogged yesterday about the terrorist threat against children. Today, I learned that, although it was almost certainly a prank, not a terrorist threat, our community takes seriously things that just don’t look right. Unbeknownst to me, the whole saga started early this morning a week ago in Mill Valley: Window-rattling explosions woke up [...]

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Tweet The New York Times has a long, sad story about children killed in Gaza. As the first few paragraphs are framed, not only should your heart be wrenched at the children’s death (which is always a tragedy), but you should also feel inflamed with rage that Israel would visit this destruction on innocents: The [...]

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Tweet I liked Genesis music a lot back in the 1980s, but had entirely forgotten about the song “Illegal Alien” which debuted on their 1983 eponymous album.  The song, which purports to be sung by an illegal alien hoping to head north to the US, is startlingly dated because, while ostensibly sympathetic, some of it [...]

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Tweet I have nothing to add.  Go here, to Michelle Malkin, and be sure to watch the video.

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Tweet I’m not a big reader of graphic novels.  In fact, I’ve never read a graphic novel.  The last things I read that had anything in common with graphic novels were the Archie cartoons or Ritchie Rich cartoons I used to read at the orthodontist’s office, back when I was a girl.  However, I might [...]

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Tweet Last month, when a Colorado school issued an edict banning tag because someone might get emotionally hurt, I did a long post about how I thought the long-term consequences of that decision were infinitely worse than the short term issue of kids having a playground conflict. In the last couple of paragraphs of that [...]

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Tweet Thomas Lifson has a good summary of the link up between the usual suspects at work with regard to the San Francisco Film Commission’s decision to deny the Marines the right to film in San Francisco, as well as the MSM’s curious lack of curiosity regarding the City’s conduct vis a vis our military. [...]

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Tweet If you haven’t been reading the Investor’s Business Daily series about George Soros, why the heck not?  It reveals a man without political principles, who is, instead, driven by a greed that recognizes that there is money to be made from chaos — so he creates the chaos.  He has a knack for gathering [...]

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