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This morning, I asked a question about the sexual innuendo behind the word “teabagging” (since other bloggers have noticed a sneering, locker room quality to MSM reports on the Tea Parties).  To date, there have been 94 comments on that post.  The first few dealt with the question itself.  Then, a liberal came to visit, [...]

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Iowahawk is always funny, but sometimes his brilliance is so extraordinary you almost feel like looking away.  This is humor that hurts.  (By the way, although it’s a bit long, be sure to read every word, since it just gets better and better as you work your way through it.)

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In response to my “I’m overloaded” post, Charles Martel suggested more of a collaborative effort here.  I would be delighted.  I’ve long wondered why some of my more prolific commenters haven’t used their knowledge, erudition and wit to start their own blogs, and have only been grateful that they haven’t decided to compete with me. [...]

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Can anyone explain to me in non-obscene terms what gays mean when they refer to “teabagging?”  At Power Line, Scott has noticed that more and more CNN and MSNBC employees and talking heads have been making chortling references to teabagging.  I knew about the chortling references, but thought they simply were snarky comments about how [...]

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When I was pregnant with my first child, I took the obligatory Lamaze class.  I mostly found the class creepy and New Age (proving, even then, that I was a nascent conservative).  Indeed, the only thing I took away from the class, and the only thing that’s still stuck in my brain was the core [...]

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All kids all the time on this, the last day of Spring Break.  My eyes are spinning around in my head.  I’m sneaking off now to get a much needed haircut, but am hoping to be back at my computer in a few hours, not just with time to write, but with something to say.

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No matter how the media tries to downplay or denigrate the tea parties, attendees were happy and inspired.  This report is from Gini David who, with her energy, enthusiasm and bone-deep friendliness, is an asset to any political movement: Dear Friends + PATRIOTS, The Tea Party Revolution has begun! And in San Francisco, of all [...]

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Click on this link, and you’ll see wonderful pictures of the San Francisco tea party.  To the extent that local media was reporting “a few dozen” or “300″ attendees, you can see that the media was being, at best, lazy, and at worst, duplicitous.  Our own Charles Martel, who actually worked in the media and [...]

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In just a few short months, Sally Selikovsky has traveled a long road, from stay-at-home Mom, to Marin County’s major conservative networker, to citizen journalist (at American Thinker), ending as the organizer of the first conservative protest in San Francisco in my lifetime.  She is not funded by or connected with any major (or even [...]

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And Mike has the pictures to prove it.

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If you’re interested in the very successful Santa Ana Tea Party, Laer has the story (and pictures).

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Quisp thought we wouldn’t care about one person’s views, because Sean Hannity broadcast from Atlanta, but I care a lot. The view from the podium (so to speak) is always going to be different from the view from the ground. Quisp observations are also a reminder that, contrary to the way in which the media [...]

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From suek: I went to one in Ventura. It seemed well attended, but I’ve never been to a protest before either…so who knows! In the designated area by the County Courthouse where they had a microphone and speakers, someone said that they had about 500 people. It didn’t look like that many to me, as [...]

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From Danny Lemieux: And, here’s the report from Chicago: I counted about 5,000 – 7,000 participants packed into the Federal Plaza. Everyone was very well behaved. It looked like a very diverse crowd – suits, jeans, black, white, Asian, old, young, very young (many people apparently took their kids out of school). I did see [...]

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Rockdalian attended the Joliet Tea Party and had this to say: Attended the local ( Joliet, Illinois ) Tea party at the courthouse. Arrived about 11:30am to find about 50 people already gathered. Event began around noon, by then the crowd swelled to more than 300. The event kicked off with a reading of the [...]

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Charles Martel just got back from the San Francisco Tea Party and filed this report: I just returned from the San Francisco tea party about 20 minutes ago. It went far better than I hoped. I’m an old newspaperman, so I learned long ago how to estimate a crowd size within 10 percent accuracy. I’d [...]

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Obama may not care about the tea parties (or even know about them), but a lot of people do care.  Here’s an excellent link with updates about the turnout at tea parties all over the nation. As for me, I’m working hard today to earn money to pay my taxes.

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The Onion picked the most extreme act it could think of — cold-blooded, point-blank murder — pretended Obama wa the culprit, and imagined how the press would respond.  As you might expect, the result is hilarious.  Mind you, this is not an attack on Obama.  It is a direct assault on the media’s inability simply [...]

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I love dogs, but I’ve found unsavory the media’s obsession with the First Family’s new dog.  I can’t help but suspect that the various media outlets are using the dog story as a way to fill space without actually having to report on real news.  For that reason, I pretty much avoided the dog stories [...]

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It’s a teeny story, but I found amusing that a building that once was a funeral home will now be a preschool.  A reminder, one that we sometimes need, that life goes on.

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No doubt you’ve heard — especially because it’s spread out on the top of Drudge — that the NHS issued a general warning against the domestic terrorism dangers of “right wing extremists” especially vets.  It didn’t identify any specific group, but just said extremists on the right can be dangerous. There is a wild, hot [...]

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When Barack Obama visited Iraq, the photo ops showed him surrounded by cheering, grabbing, hugging, loving military personnel.  I found this a bit peculiar, because (a) the military overwhelmingly supported the Republican ticket in the last election and (b) a bit of unscripted documentary evidence indicates that, as far as the military is concerned, Bush [...]

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I will blog today.  I promise.  I’ve got good stuff lined up, but just have to get some deadline work done first.

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As a fainter myself, this guy has my complete sympathy: I hope it wasn’t anything serious that caused him to pass out.

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Thanks to Ymarsakar for the link to this Blackfive article, which explains that, in all likelihood, Obama contributed little, if nothing, to the rescue scenario.  The SEALS and/or Marines, however, contributed a great deal.

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