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Ann Coulter wrote an absolutely lovely obituary about Ron Silver.  What an admirable man.  I hope one day to be as brave as he was.  I’m still a work in progress.  He was clearly the finished product.

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If you were wondering what Obama and the maniacal Democrats were doing, James Lewis finally puts a name to it.  It’s the Great Leap Forward: Even the Europeans are resisting hyper-deficits, because Europe always has that memory of the 1920s and 30s: hyperinflation, unemployment, crushing poverty and despair, followed by Hitler and Stalin. They are [...]

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I don’t watch much TV, so I’d never heard of Shep Smith before I saw the following video.  Having seen the following video, though, I appreciate the clarity of his views: Hat tip:  American Digest, Don Surber, Small Dead Animals (it’s complicated)

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Hey, I know it sounds paranoid, but how else are you supposed to take the fact that Atty Gen’l Eric Holder has announced that the Obama administration, having decided to close Gitmo and only then discovering that no one wants its “tenants,” is now contemplating releasing some former Gitmo residents into the US?  Melissa Clouthier [...]

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. . .  and it is in England, where fewer and fewer people work, yet government workers have earnings that exceed the inflation rate.  It’s a Ponzi scheme and it can’t last forever.  Once all the taxpayers are destroyed, who is going to pay these government workers?  And this is precisely what’s happening here, as [...]

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Pardon me for harping on the Natasha Richardson death, but do newspapers even bother anymore to read what they write?  This is from the AP: The statement did not give details on the cause of death for Richardson, who suffered a head injury when she fell on a beginner’s trail during a private ski lesson [...]

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You guys know that I don’t go in for cute photographs, but this one charmed me.  It’s the expression on the little guy’s face.

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This is a matched set.  First, a veteran speaks about what he and others have given to the country and what the country, under the new administration, is now refusing to give back. And you know it’s bad when even Jon Stewart is upset. The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c [...]

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I grew up in San Francisco in the 1960s and 1970s.  I have vivid memories of the brief, highly middle class era right before the hippies came (when houses and people looked liked sets and actors from the Dick Van Dyke Show); of the be-ins in Golden Gate Park; of the incredible human degradation that [...]

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The census is mandated by the United States Constitution as a way to ensure that the House of Representatives has a proper, proportional representation to the citizens of each state.  For more than two centuries, American people have assumed that, while all systems are flawed, the government nevertheless carried out the census honestly.  All that [...]

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As you know, Natasha Richardson, who is the mother of two young children, is in critical condition.  The story is that, because of a fall on the bunny slope at a ski resort, she suffered a brain injury and is now near death’s door.  Reading the various reports, however, which have witnesses describe a little [...]

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For three years, a single British hospital that was obsessed with following government health care mandates to the letter, succeeded only in killing 1,200 patients unnecessarily: Twelve NHS trusts are being investigated following a damning report which today slammed ‘appalling’ care at a single hospital. Hundreds of patients may have died after bosses at Staffordshire [...]

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As always, even if my own votes differed slightly, I am in complete accord with the outcome in the weekly Watcher’s Council votes.  The only area in which I’d differ is that, as is often the case, I’d put them all in first place — they’re that good. Winning Council Submissions First place with 3 [...]

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A friend sent me an email entitled “I thought this might interest you,” along with a link to this article: Last year, Israeli Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi had no problem setting up meetings with top officials in the U.S. government. On his current trip to Washington, Ashkenazi sought to meet the administration [...]

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Almost since he first appeared on the scene, I’ve hammered relentlessly away on Obama’s narcissism, a personality disorder that places him at the center of his own universe, with everyone person and nation ranked by whether he, she or it makes him look good or makes him look bad.  (Which is why the friend of [...]

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This is subtle and wickedly funny.

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A young British woman, raised in the North of England, escaped her abusive Muslim father and converted to Christianity, a fact that saw her father lead an axe wielding mob clamoring for her death.  She wrote a book about her experience.  When the Times interviewer asked why she didn’t seek help from the authorities, the [...]

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Today’s news stories help to clarify Obama’s and the Democrats’ priorities: Money for parties?  Check. Assistance for politically friendly papers that the American public refuses to read?  Check. Money for soldiers wounded in the service of their country?  What!  Are you kidding, dude?  No way! The leader of the nation’s largest veterans organization says he [...]

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More amazing than Vincent Fumo’s appalling abuse of office and general corruption is the fact that the AP article identifies his party affiliation the third paragraph!  It’s not quite identifying it in the headline, but it’s still pretty darn good for an AP story.

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I was doing some research for a post I’m planning, and came upon an articled entitled “The optimal design of Ponzi schemes in finite economies” which Utpal Bhattacharya wrote in 2001 and published in 2002.  The summary reads as follows: As no rational agent would be willing to take part in the last round in [...]

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When I was a little girl, growing up in the 1960s and early 1970s, I loved fairy tale books.  I especially loved the illustrated ones, with the painstakingly limned pictures of beautiful fairy princesses.  Indeed, I still own my favorite (which has been reissued), The Golden Book of Fairy Tales (Golden Classics). Adrienne Segur’s lavish, [...]

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Well, I read the papers this morning, and visited my favorite blogs — and left them all uninspired.  I can’t blame the papers or the blogs.  It’s just that nothing I read triggered anything in my brain. One of the things I like to do when I blog is see patterns.  Here, the pattern is [...]

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Cannibalism stories crop up in the news every one or two years.  The stories are always sordid but, for reasons unclear to me, I found this headline’s calm understatement amusing: “Russian woman held for eating friend.”  Must be my cold addling my brain.

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I’m perusing the news even as I type this, so this is a place holder — an Open Thread until I have something to say (assuming I do).

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