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Tweet Before I get to my special and exciting announcement, here are the winning entries in the Watcher’s Council vote for this week. On the Council side, first place went to Soccer Dad for Hating israel more than loving palestinians. On the Non-Council side, first place was a two way tie between Jay Cost for [...]

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Tweet IBD has another superb editorial, this one about Obama’s plan to force young people to work in the new age Greenie trenches of his socialist imagination: Obama says that as president he will “set a goal for all American middle and high school students to perform 50 hours of service a year, and for [...]

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Tweet I’m an old-ish fogey, and modern music videos usually bore me or (think Ludacris) disgust me.  This one, though, brought tears to my eyes. H/t to Lorie Byrd, who learned about it from Bob Hamer.

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Tweet I’ve never been a David Letterman fan — his humor and mine have few points of intersection.  Nevertheless, I think he (and his writers) hit the nail on the head with the Top 10 list of signs Obama is becoming over-confident.  As you watch this, don’t just listen to the jokes.  Pay attention to [...]

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Tweet I think most of us watched Randy Pausch’s last lecture, delivered when he was retiring due to terminal cancer.  Although the cancer finally claimed Pausch, the messages about getting the most out of life, about living with joy and immediacy, linger on.  Charles Lipson, himself a teacher, concludes that Pausch not only taught life [...]

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Tweet If you’re old enough, you remember the famous cough syrup advertisement, in which a soap opera actor announced, “I’m not a doctor.  I just play one on TV.”  Miguel Guanipa explains how Obama, who came of age along with that TV commercial, has opted to use the same approach to convince the American public [...]

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Tweet Forget Exxon’s “greedy” shareholders.  The New Editor reminds us (which is something the MSM overlooked), that when Exxon does well, we all do well.

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Tweet If you haven’t laughed yet today, this will change that sad situation.

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Tweet IBD does an enjoyably neat job of cutting Nancy Pelosi down to size: When challenged in an interview with Politico.com about her bullheaded refusal to let Republicans submit energy policies for approval, Pelosi resorted to risible hyperbole to justify her iron-fisted rule of the House parliamentary process. “I’m trying to save the planet; I’m [...]

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Tweet Before today, I hadn’t heard of Frank Turek.  After today, I’m going to keep an eye out for his articles.  He’s written a really splendid article explaining how deeply, terribly wrong Obama’s every position is regarding Iraq.  Frankly, for those who are well-informed, there’s nothing in this article you haven’t seen before.  I’m just [...]

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Tweet I just received this press release: Alec Rawls and Tom Burnett Sr. (father of Flight 93 hero Tom Burnett Jr.) are traveling to Somerset PA to condemn the crescent/broken-circle memorial at the Memorial Project’s public meeting this Saturday, August 2nd. The meeting will run from 10-am to 1pm at the Somerset County Courthouse. Immediately [...]

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Tweet Obama was caught during his speech to minority journalists making noises that sounded remarkably like reparations talk: “I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged,” the Democratic presidential hopeful said. “I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it’s Native Americans or African-American issues [...]

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Tweet At long last, not a moment too soon, and probably way too late, horrible Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is stepping down: Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced on Wednesday he would step down in September after a party leadership vote, announcing the end of a premiership dogged by graft investigations. “After the election [...]

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Tweet I’ve tried to be mellow about the Saudis.  My all-American training in moral relativism has allowed me to find excuses for the misogyny that makes women 54th class citizens, and for the antisemitism that makes it illegal for Jews to travel to Saudi Arabia, and for the censorship that makes possession of a Bible [...]

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Tweet This week, I have the great honor of hosting the Watcher’s Council vote — although I can hint at the fact that our gypsy status won’t last much longer.   I know that you will find each of the submitted articles extremely interesting: Council: 1. The Razor: Here’s my response to Jack Markell’s commercial 2. [...]

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Tweet Hi, this is DQ, and I have a question that I know Bookworm’s readers will have an answer to.  I read a story today that said that next year’s federal deficit will hit a new record.  Now, conservatives (with Bookworm leading the charge) always say that the answer to closing the deficit is to reduce [...]

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Tweet Okay, I admit, that’s an incredibly awkwardly phrased post title (I’m making a habit of those), but I wanted to ask you all a question.  What I noticed some weeks ago was that, the moment Bush lifted the executive ban on offshore drilling, oil prices dropped.  My view was that the mere expectation of [...]

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Tweet I was out this morning getting my oil changed — and learning that it will cost almost $2,000 to fix my car from its recent run-in with a low post.  When I got home, I found an interesting message on my answering machine. It’s the recorded voice of Dennis Kucinich begging me to “Press [...]

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Tweet In Marin,  9 out of 10 bumperstickers one sees are liberal in context.  Make that 9.9 out of 10. There’s the “Endless This War” sticker; and the still popular “Somewhere in Texas a village is missing its idiot” sticker; and the saccharine, unrealistic and facile “Coexist,” with the symbols of various religions used in [...]

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Tweet I’ve noticed an interesting trend in the comments to my Barack Obama posts lately whenever liberals wander by.  I’ll put up a post pointing out something very specific we’ve learned about Obama, despite his rather thin resume.  I might blog about his relationship with Rezko and the peculiar coincidences of his real estate purchase; [...]

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Tweet The release of a Tyrone Power DVD collection reminded me of a story my parents told.  To appreciate the story, you have to appreciate that Tyrone Power was so handsome that he was almost too handsome.  He just skated along the edges of pretty.  (He definitely lacked the assured virility Clark Gable projected.) Back [...]

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Tweet Yesterday, I blogged about the fact that the British media is not only noting the John Edwards paternity scandal, but is pointing to double-standards in the American media.  (Say it ain’t so, Joe!)  Today, Deceiver.com has a splendid rundown of the scandal’s history, from the first moment Rielle Hunter appeared on the world’s radar.  [...]

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Tweet I can’t stand Stephen Sondheim, but I’ve always found rather amusing one of his songs from Into the Woods, the one that tells the boring and pathetic tales purportedly behind the fairy tales).  The song is called “Your Fault,” and sees each of the lead characters passing the buck, disclaiming any responsibility for all [...]

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Tweet Sorry about the mostly silent blog day today, something I’ll try to change tonight.  Part of it was due to the fact that I’m working on a long post for the benefit of the local Marin for McCain organization (I hope to run that post next week).  Part of it was paying work.  Part [...]

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Tweet This post is not about politics.  It’s about ants. . . and trees. As you all know, I’ve been plagued with ants lately.  I could just say that this is bad luck, because my house got on their radar, and it takes a lot of work to wipe it off.  However, I’m choosing to [...]

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