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True to his nature, Stewart attacks.  I can’t think of a more worthy target: The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c Clusterf#@k to the Poor House – The Stimulus Package Daily Show Full Episodes Important Things With Demetri Martin Funny Political News Joke of the Day UPDATE: Speaking of scorpions being [...]

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I was watching a delightful, but surprisingly little known. WWII movie called The More the Merrier, which puts a romantic spin on the housing shortage that plagued Washington, D.C., during the war.  In it, a young woman (Jean Arthur) who has her own apartment, decides to act patriotically and let a room in her apartment.  [...]

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Which is why I haven’t been writing today.  I’ve been scurrying around collecting papers for my accountant.  Still, mid-scurry, I caught this wonderful Kyle-Anne Shiver article, which I think you’ll enjoy.

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I have been trying my darndest to ignore Judith Warner’s sleazy New York Times piece detailing the sexual fantasies liberal women are having about Obama.  On the list of things I really don’t want to know, this ranks right up there with the nature of Bill Clinton’s underwear.  These are presidents, for goodness sakes — [...]

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Believe it or not, I have been trying to write the following two sentences for six hours now.  So goes my day. All I’ve been trying to say today is that Obama has spent time whining for a while now about the fact that nothing he’s dealing with his is fault — it’s all someone [...]

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Randall Hoven summarize the President’s actions during his first three weeks in office and sees some strong patterns emeging. J.R. Dunn is equally good at targeting the Obama pattern.

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First, put on your jaw guard.  Second, go to Cheat Seeking Missiles and read this post. The judge, interestingly, is a George Bush, Sr., appointment.  It’s impossible to tell with the information at hand if he went liberal on the bench (the Greenhouse effect, named after U.S. Sup. Ct. judges who start going liberal to [...]

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My 9 year old (4th grade) came up to me today and said “Obama is a really bad man.”  Striving for neutrality, I said asked “What makes you say that?”  His answer surprised me:  “We have free time to look at the internet and I found an article telling how all these people died in [...]

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It turns out that Don Quixote was less than pleased with my J’Accuse post because he thought I was heading into the anti-democratic territory of saying American people don’t deserve the vote.  I wasn’t saying that at all.  My core point is that Democrats, like wild animals, do what they do.  You can’t expect that, [...]

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As it is, this moment of glory for our Klutz in Chief will probably die a swift death, with media and comics alike respectfully leaving it alone. UPDATE:  Thanks for the proofreading, Deanna.  My skills in that area travel below the pathetic line.

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As you recall, Obama never ran a really contested election before his Presidential run.  Instead, in miraculous fashion, horrible stuff emerged about his opponents and they were forced to withdraw.  Obama clearly intends to keep those miracles coming now that he’s in the White House.

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Rowan Laxton is Middle East expert and a high ranking official in Britain’s Foreign Office.  He is also a hard-core anti-Semite with limited impulse control (two things that seem to go together, by the way): A high-ranking diplomat at the Foreign Office has been arrested after allegations that he launched a foul-mouthed anti-Semitic tirade. Middle [...]

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Jack Weaver, who blogs at Expreacherman, sent me this update about happenings today: Obama’s new Homeland Security executive order was signed today. Internet surfing as of Monday will be tracked by what the Obama-controlled FBI calls a ‘non-intrusive method.’ The president promises you will hardly notice anything different. For a demonstration, click on this link.

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Rick Steves is a charming and interesting travel writer, who also does hugely popular travel shows for NPR.  His most recent show is a one hour travel special about Iran.  My question for you:  Is it morally wrong for an American travel writer to promote Iran?  And is it morally wrong for a show promoting [...]

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A bit vulgar (quite a bit vulgar), but very funny for anyone familiar with facebook:

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This just in: Kristinn Taylor, political activist and media spokesman for Free Republic .com  just called to tell me that a protest will take place Monday at 10 a.m. at Room @ 711, (Arlen Specter’s office) Hart Senate Office Building, all day. Also on the agenda — visits to Maine Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan [...]

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Bruce Kesler put me wise to this article out of Israel (one pretty much ignored in the US press) about the way America (make that the State Department and the brain trust at the Ivy Leagues) spent twenty years consistently trying to undermine Israel.  And we wonder why the “peace talks” never worked.  Anyway, I [...]

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My kids have a “what’s in it for me attitude” as regards just about everything.  Right now, I’m trying to drill some manners into them.  They were unimpressed with the, “If you have manners, you can dine with kings” — which was a shtick that worked with my sister and me. I’ve had to chart [...]

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It looked like a joke, but it isn’t.  Obama used an executive order (read:  went below the radar) to open the borders to Gazans to immigrate to America.  These would be the children who feed their children a constant diet (and whose children are raised on this diet) of radical Islam and unending, murderous hatred [...]

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Mary Katharine Ham caught John Kerry finally admitting what Democrats fear most of all:  that people will take control over their own destinies, without the elite in government dictating how their hard earned money should be spent.  Perhaps if Kerry had ever held a real job and earned the money himself, he might have had [...]

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Once again, the Council has voted.  As happens every week, I’m willing to bet that my fellow Council members had as much difficulty as I did ranking the top posts.  It’s not a matter of separating wheat from chaff; it’s a matter of separating wheat from wheat.  I think the results are just right.  If [...]

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I’m not an economist and I don’t even play one on TV.  I am a one-time history major, though, and someone with the kind of knowledge-base that’s built up over years of being an autodidact, an employee and a small business owner.  While I don’t understand economics at a complex level (I’m a lousy investor), [...]

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You know that I almost never print other posts in their entirety here, because I think the author of a good post deserves the linky-love of people clicking over to check things out.  I’m breaking my rule here by reprinting in its entirety Matt Kibbe’s list of Top 10 Reasons to Oppose the Stimulus, which [...]

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Two quick, related links. First, Yuval Levin’s fantastic analysis of Sarah Palin and the American voter on both sides of the aisle. Second, the way in which Esquire’s interview with Palin carefully transcribes her “dialect,” something I don’t know that a major publication has ever before done with a Democratic politician.  Normally, you get some [...]

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A quick post before I head off to my own job.  A top story today is the fact that the U.S. jobless rate has climbed to a high 7.6%.  I don’t quarrel with the fact that that’s bad news.  Joblessness is not only a sign of an unhealthy economy, it’s also a recipe for a [...]

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