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Charles Johnson, at Little Green Footballs, has been urging less heat on the Obama bow matter because, as he and Newt both point out, Bush bowed too.  I agree with Johnson that hysteria on the subject is badly placed — although I think hysteria on any subject is badly placed.  Still, I do think the [...]

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I found this squiblet in the Chron: Judge John Dearman, 78, has announced his retirement after 32 years on the bench. Dearman is the law partner of former Mayor Willie Brown and known as the Dean of the Court. But Presiding Judge James McBride said he’s better known in the legal community as “nicest person [...]

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From Thomas Sowell:  “I am so old that I can remember when music was musical.” Feel free to read the rest of the article about Obama’s impulse to repeat the worst of the 1930s, since it’s as good as anything Sowell writes.  But do linger a minute on that first sentence, just to enjoy it.

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There are a raft of articles and posts today about Obama’s spectacular timing in calling for nuclear disarmament at almost the precise moment the Norks launched their missile.  Obama’s contention that he’s not naive reminded me of Nixon’s claim that he was not a crook.  Whether they’re delusional or dishonest, their words and their acts [...]

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I was a lousy blogger yesterday, but I have a good excuse:  a bonanza of good books from the library.  When my work day ended, I simply couldn’t tear myself away from the books.  Since I believe in keeping an open book in most every room in which I do more than just pass through, [...]

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Even my kids have figured out that the best negotiation is one in which you negotiate in good will from a position of strength.  Barack Obama probably agrees with this principle, but it’s becoming obvious that he’s misidentified the source of America’s strength in any negotiation.  When presidents from prior administrations (excepting Carter, of course) [...]

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When I was growing up, my father was a teacher with a lousy salary and lousy benefits.  The only good thing he had was his dental plan.  It was a wonderful dental plan.  Provided that we got our teeth cleaned and checked twice a year, it would pay the total cost of any dental work [...]

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As in, I hope the CIA and God-knows-what-other-relevant-government-acronym-organizations are keeping an eye on the same things that Rusty Shackleford is watching. Free speech?  Yes.  Free press?  Yes.  Vigilance against those who use our freedoms to destroy us?  Yes.

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If you’re a Seinfeld fan, you’ll recognize the above quotation as Bapu’s condemnation of Jerry, after Jerry’s well-intentioned bungling destroys his business and (in a later episode) causes Bapu to be deported.  In both cases, we, the viewer, know that Jerry acted without malice. Sometimes, though, bad men do act with malice, and Kim Priestap [...]

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What’s weird about this opening sketch from Saturday Night Live isn’t that it takes pot shots at Barack Obama’s attempts to micromanage American businesses. Nor is it weird that the dude doing the Obama impression isn’t very good. And, given that this is SNL, it’s certainly not weird that it’s not clever or funny. What’s [...]

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But when Obama says something so ignorantly stupid even my children wouldn’t sink so low, a American media says absolutely nothing at all.

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The other day, I asked “can it happen here?“  The Radio Patriot reminded me that it is already happening there, in France.  Mark Steyn talked about the demographic destruction of Europe in his book America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It.  But he didn’t include maps.  The most striking thing in [...]

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There’s a row in England over the fact that a kids’ cartoon magazine, published by the Who Cares? Trust, which receives a great deal of public funding, shows a boy wearing a large cross being an Islamophobe, while a hijab clad girl is an articulate, brave defender of human rights.  What struck me about this [...]

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Didn’t Biden say Obama would be tested within months of taking office? The State Department says that North Korea has launched a rocket, following through on its promise of a launch despite international criticism. State Department spokesman Fred Lash confirmed the launch, saying it occurred at 10:30 p.m. EDT Saturday. “We look on this as [...]

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. . . this might help answer your question.  It’s almost insulting to know that the tax payers are getting screwed without even getting the pleasure of being made drunk (on fine wine yet) first.  We pay, they play.

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Obama to the French:  “Al Qaeda is still a threat,” Obama reminded the audience. “We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.”  (And I thought it was racist/religionist to use his middle name.)

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The Oakland police force suffered a shattering loss last week when four of its officers were killed in a single day.  Not only did the shooting highlight the risks police officers take every day, it also highlighted that the Oakland Police force is singularly understaffed.  Oakland is also going broke, so much so that it’s [...]

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In an earlier post, I directed your attention to the incredibly disturbing footage of Pakistani village authorities brutally whipping a teenage girl before a throng of men, because she violated Sharia norms by being seen in public with her father in law.  The footage is disturbing on many levels, not the least of which is [...]

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Obama bowed deeply to the King of Saudi Arabia.  It’s worth remembering that this King supports exactly the same type of “justice” you see meted out here to a teenage girl in Pakistan who committed the heinous Sharia crime of leaving the house with her father in law.

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TOTUS goes to the bathroom for one minute and look what happens Is it just me not liking the guy, or was this response unfocused blather?  Britain’s lefty Guardian paper, of all places, votes for unfocused blather. In case you need a reminder, this is how you give a focused political statement: Obama, by the [...]

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You can parse still pictures as much as you want, but a video is much better at telling the whole story.  Here’s the whole story of Obama’s embarrassing grovel to the Saudi monarch, who heads a kingdom repressive even by medieval standards:

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I wasn’t there to hear the evidence, and I don’t know the law, so I can’t say definitively that the jury did the wrong thing.  Nevertheless, the verdict makes me very, very queasy.

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The grammar is a little shakey, but the sentiments from Michael Phelps at his facebook page (yes, I’m a fan/friend) are just right: Hey everyone…i’m back in Baltimore after two weeks out on the west coast for a training camp w/ the national team. Gotta get ready for Nationals and Worlds this summer. It’s been [...]

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I suspect Obama did this because he’s a yahoo who is out of his league, but there is no doubt but that this is a weirdly symbolic picture of Obama’s foreign policy. And let’s not even get into the weird marital ramifications behind the fact that, while Obama grovels to kings, his wife hugs queens.

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Through Facebook, today, I learned that friends of mine are extremely worried about their child’s health.  I should be more explicit:  through the “real me” Facebook I learned this.  That’s an important point, because this whole post would be different if I’d learned it through my Bookworm Facebook account. In the Bookworm Facebook account, as [...]

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