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Swim meet season has begun, and I don’t own my Saturday’s anymore — the team does. You guys, go to it!  (And have fun.)

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Identity politics turns people into one dimensional characters, who must act out a set script.  If you’re black or Hispanic, you must be a Democrat, even if you oppose abortion, take a jaundiced view of gay marriage, and want school choice.  If you’re a woman, you must support equal pay for comparable work, even if [...]

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Since you guys have been a little slow in offering your much desired as guest bloggers, I’m going to take advantage of some of the gems you leave in the comments section.  Today’s gem is from Charles Martel, which he wrote as a response to my “Good deal all around” post: I think socialism may [...]

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Drat that brilliant, insightful, incredibly well-informed Wolf Howling, with his almost uncanny ability to synthesize complex facts and present them in a lucid manner.  If it weren’t for his almost unearthly skills, I could have had complete domination at the Watcher’s Council.  (Cue maniacal laughter, ending with a choked off scream.)  As it is, I [...]

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On April 30, Daniel Henninger wrote a very good column about one of Obama’s pre-election gifts — his ability to prevaricate so smoothly that everyone listening ended up believing that Obama was agreeing with his or her point of view: Early in the campaign, in January 2007, a New York Times reporter wrote a story [...]

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I frequently read that the White House is dancing the to the various unions’ tunes because, as the saying goes, you “dance with them what brung you.”  In other words, it was union money that helped (in a large way) to pay for Obama’s victory, and now the White House is returning the favor.  The [...]

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Just out of idle curiosity, is Madison Avenue still the advertising heart of America? Well, whether or not it is, someone in the advertising industry has been paying attention to what’s going on, and came up with a truly brilliant ad: Hat tip:  Brutally Honest

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Before I begin a new cycle of reviewing material recommended this week by the highly trained Weasel Watchers at Watcher of Weasels, I should bring you up to date on last week’s winners: Winning Council Submissions First place with 2 1/3 points! – Wolf Howling – Words Have Meaning Rick Second place with 1 2/3 [...]

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I’m neutral about Julia Roberts, neither liking her particularly nor disliking her particularly as a movie star.  I do approve, however, of the fact that she hasn’t nipped and tucked herself.  As these photos show, she has the kind of tummy (a little round, a little crepe-y) that a real mother of three real children [...]

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The MSM and the State Department were in an instant froth of American self-abasement when news hit that Americans had committed mass slaughter against Afghani civilians.  Except that, as Jules Crittenden points out, reading past both headlines and Hillary’s knee-jerk apologies, it appears that these tragic deaths might have been a Taliban propaganda moment, not [...]

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You really have to wonder what the hell is wrong with Sinise that he’s a talented artist, a good human being and a patriotic American.  I thought that combination of attributes was illegal in Obama’s America.  Still, notwithstanding the pressure on anyone affiliated with Hollywood to buckle down and toe the Leftist party line (some [...]

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I’ll comment just briefly on this story about a Belgian production of Saint-Saëns’s “Samson et Dalila,” which casts modern Jews as the Philistines, Palestinians as the Hebrews and Samson as a suicide bomber.  My comment:  this is the typical “artistic” crap that emantes from the Left (whether non-Jewish or self-loathing Jewish) in an effort to [...]

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Unlike many people, I was not shocked to learn that the LA Unified School District is paying teachers not to teach, although the $10 million price tag strikes me as just a tad unreasonable.  In the early 1970s, one of my teachers was a scary guy (not to mention a bad teacher).  Because of his [...]

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Those of us who were paying attention knew that Obama was lying during the campaign season when he claimed that he was Israel’s best friend.  The words sounded pretty, but we knew about (a) his nonexistent track record supporting Israel in the Senate and (b) his affiliations with people (Wright, Powers, etc.) who demonize Israel [...]

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Although Bush did not mess directly with the CIA, it nevertheless turned on him, either because his Iraq War humiliated the CIA by showing how poor its intelligence gathering was or because the CIA is a heavily Democratic institution.  If the CIA turns on Obama, though, it will be personal: The CIA’s war against President [...]

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Let me open this post by stating my biases honestly:  I hate Colin Powell.  I think he is in significant part responsible for the Second Gulf War, because he was one of the loudest voices telling Bush Sr. to abandon the First Gulf War without pressing onto Baghdad itself.  And, incidentally, that also made him [...]

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Just a couple of days ago, it sounded like a great joke when Charles Martel imagined the Senate confirmation hearings for the first black lesbian Supreme Court justice.  The joke is now on us, as the gay lobby (responding appropriately to the administration’s obsession with quotas and identity politics) is pushing for the first lesbian [...]

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In two days, the Marin County Sheriff’s department had the most extreme kind of good luck and the most extreme kind of bad luck.  I truly cannot imagine the play of emotions in that office.

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Power Line explains.

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Mike didn’t actually submit this as a guest post.  He submitted it as a comment, but it’s so good, it deserved room of it’s own.  Here’s the set-up:  I blogged about different predator and prey styles, and noted that Obama is relying on the least successful strategy, because it depends on your predator being nice, [...]

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You can bet your bottom dollar that 100% of it’s management and probably 90% of its customers (make that 100% for the San Francisco store) are hardcore Obama supporters. The Whole Food managers are also some damn fine capitalists. I went reeling out of the store empty-handed, abandoning my idea of a prepared dinner, when [...]

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I have to admit that, when I’m in Whole Foods, as I am now, I take a certain perverse pleasure in ignoring their FOUR obsessive-compulsive recycling bins (complete with complicated, illustrated directions for the unintiated) and just throwing everything in the trash. I don’t like being dictated to garbage-wise.

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I’ve been plowing laboriously through my inboxes — both email and paper — which has depleted a ridiculous amount of my time and energy. Still, even if I didn’t have time to blog, I did have time to think and I ended up with a question for you. Why is Obama such an angry man? [...]

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One of the things I love about satellite radio is the 40s station, and one of the things I love about 40s radio is how clever the lyrics are.  Here are just three examples of ordinary songs from that era, mostly forgotten now, with just wonderful lyrics.  And as you listen to them, ask yourself, [...]

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Most people think that the title of this post is the entire saying.  You know, “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch,” “A stitch in time saves nine,” and, oh yes, “Power corrupts.”  In fact, what Lord Acton said was much more important than merely noting that an aggregation of power tends to bring with [...]

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