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Tweet I love Richard Rogers’ music. Slaughter on 10th Avenue comes from the musical On Your Toes, which opened in 1936, starring Ray Bolger and Tamara Geva.  Slaughter is a show within the show, telling the tale of a dance hall girl, a hoofer, and a fatal love triangle.  Gene Kelly and Vera Ellen did [...]

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Tweet After noting Pelosi’s assurance that millions for STD treatment will help stimulate the economy (or, I might add, at least stimulate some libidos), Mark Steyn has this to say: The more interviews Speaker Pelosi gives explaining how vital the STD industry is to restarting the U.S. economy, the more I find myself hearing “syphilis” [...]

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Tweet Are you getting the feeling that Obama, contrary to the hope hype, is a very grim, depressed man?   Since the precise moment of his inauguration, his every pronouncement has been redolent of hopelessness and anger. My feeling is that, if Obama is going to style himself the second Roosevelt when it comes to American [...]

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Tweet I never thought I’d find myself in agreement with the Iranian government, but pigs are flying, and wisdom emanates from Tehran: US President Barack Obama’s offer to talk to Iran shows that America’s policy of “domination” has failed, the government spokesman said on Saturday. “This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist [...]

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Tweet First, read the Paragraph Farmer’s marvelous American Spectator essay about the way in which Obama, a lawyer and law professor, skillfully mangles the law to suit his political ideology. Second, read Eric Cantor’s fact-filled statement about his no-vote on the power grab laboring under the name of a “stimulus bill.” Third, think about getting [...]

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Tweet James Taranto had a great deal of fun last year with Obama’s promise to do away with cynicism, even as he engaged in one of the most cynical campaigns ever.  But he was right in one way.  Cynicism is dead on the left, especially in the media.  Herewith a couple of rather striking examples. [...]

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Tweet After I found myself howling with laughter over this photo gallery, I realized I had to check out the blog site that started it all:  Cake Wrecks.  Who knew you could get the equivalent of a sugar high without even having to eat the darn thing?

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Tweet It’s lovely to find that there are still stories about American self-sufficiency.  The following story comes from a community in the Sierra foothills, one that is becoming a bit more gentrified, but that is still solid America, especially if you hang out at Hog shops: A Placer County inmate is back in custody after [...]

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Tweet I still remember back in the 1970s when the news was filled with stories about a $50,000 study to prove the breast milk was good for babies.  For those of you too young to remember, back in those days, $50,000 was a lot of money.  Also, back in those days, there remained a few [...]

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Tweet The comment Lulu1 left here is too good to be buried.  It deserves a post all its own, and this is that post.  Herewith, Lulu’s wonderful investigative research: Through painstaking research I have managed to obtain a copy of Pres. Obama’s letter to Mahmoud. Dear Mr. Ahmadinijad, or may I call you Mahmoud?, I [...]

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Tweet Last week, I blogged briefly about how cold I am all the time now that I’ve (finally) substituted muscle for some of the post-baby weight that was insulating me.  I’m also cold because I keep my house at 65 or below.  That’s not because I’m green crazy — you know I’m not — but [...]

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Tweet Ironically enough, on the same day that I’m doing heavy duty statute of limitations research, Barack Obama signed his first law, one that changes in nightmarish ways the statute of limitations governing suits that women and minorities can bring against their employers for claimed inequities in pay. This issue actually isn’t unfamiliar to readers [...]

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Tweet My husband rented Generation Kill, an HBO production about the Iraq War based upon articles in Rolling Stones magazine.  I watched the first ten minutes and learned the following:  US Marines are exceptionally foul-mouthed (which I actually believe, ’cause they’re young and male).  They’re homophobes with subliminal homoerotic instincts.  They’re extremely racist, but in [...]

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Tweet A couple of days ago, Obama was on rabidly Islamist, anti-American, antisemitic Al-Arabiya television tacitly conceding that it’s all America’s fault.  (And if you’re asking what is all America’s fault, the answer is everything.)  Is it any surprise, therefore, that Ahmadinejad instantly demanded that America apologize for various unspecified “crimes”?  Vultures are quick to [...]

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Tweet Today, the mandatory to-do list (no flexibility) include[d]s:  getting my kids out of thehouse, legal work, getting my teeth cleaned, getting the house cleaned preparatory to the cleaning ladies’ arrival, picking my daughter up from school to get her to her carpool, bringing my son to his rehearsal, grocery shopping, getting my son from [...]

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Tweet Mark Steyn writes the ultimate piece about Barack Obama’s boring inauguration and that ephemeral charm that only his followers can love.  If you haven’t read Steyn this morning, YOU MUST!

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Tweet Here’s a sickening AP story blaming Israel for the “trauma” inflicted on Gazan children.  The story’s only acknowledgment that Hamas itself placed the children in the line of fire is the following paragraph, one that is carefully crafted to make it seem as if it was Israel’s fault that the poor Hamas fighters had [...]

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Tweet My mother always used to tell me stories about how incredibly charming her father was.  She couldn’t summon up any specific examples of that charm, however.  Instead, the factual stories she told me were replete with instances of his compulsive womanizing, his spendthrift habits, his thoughtlessness, and the way in which he used her [...]

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Tweet Before children, I was very skinny — and cold a lot of the time.  Post children, I gained a few pounds, something I found hard to reconcile with my lifelong self image, but I did enjoy the unexpected benefit of being warm for the first time. Now I’ve got the worst of both worlds.  [...]

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Tweet The votes are in and counted over at the Watcher’s Council, and we thought everything submitted was so good that the Watcher was faced with a four way tie (not to mention myriad other ties).  Still, things sorted themselves out and the results are good. Council Submissions First place with 2 1/3 points! – [...]

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Tweet Civil disobedience, San Francisco style:  The police are in on it too.  No surprise, of course.  Many of these are the same police who voluntarily, or under orders, turn a blind eye to the public nudity, sexual activity, and urination that accompanies, not only fetish festivals such as Up Your Alley or the Folsom [...]

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Tweet Obama made much of the fact that his father was an African immigrant from a small village with goats (or something like that).  Few people have made anything of the flip side of that little bit of bio, which is the fact that the first black president has no connection to America’s slave culture.  [...]

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Tweet Sorry for the blog silence this morning.  The day got off to a horrific start when I received a politely-phrased “What the Hell happened?” email from a client.  What happened was partially my fault (big time) and partially not my fault at all.  Fortunately, the client (who happens to be an extreme liberal politically) [...]

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