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In the past, I’ve tried to explain that the Nazis were not right wingers and that the nomenclature of “left” versus “right” is pretty meaningless in today’s political world.  Matthew Burden takes on the same issue in his Cavuto interview, explaining that American conservatives are not the same as white supremacists and that, more specifically, [...]

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The Democrats, corrupted by power, are now seeking absolute power.  Here’s the story from the horse’s mouth, the horse in this case being Minority Whip, Eric Cantor: In a completely unprecedented fashion, House Democrats have used their power as the majority party to shut out floor amendments from the minority party on spending legislation. Right at the [...]

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Well, actually, the Council spoke last week, and I’ve just been a little slow recording the vote here.  I actually would have voted for different winners in the non-Council category, but the overall quality of everything is so high, I’m just quibbling, not making any sort of protest: Council Submissions First place with 2 1/3 [...]

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Ronald Reagan, speaking to Evangelicals about the Soviet Union, in 1983: Yes, let us pray for the salvation of all of those who live in that totalitarian darkness — pray they will discover the joy of knowing God. But until they do, let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the state, [...]

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Obama’s thinking:  The last time the American people got exercised enough to rebel and overthrow a government was more than two hundred thirty years ago.  Slight dip in the economy notwithstanding, they’re fat and happy, they like me, and they’re going to sit idly by as I effect the complete destruction of the American system.  [...]

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Drudge announced today that ABC news is going to use its June 24, 2009 broadcast to shill for Obama’s attempt to nationalize health care: On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care [...]

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I’m showing my age, but I just had to listen to the Bee Gees, and I think this is one of their best: UPDATE:  Ask and you shall receive: And yes, I agree, this was one of the greatest songs the disco era produced, although I would be remiss to ignore The Village People’s YMCA, [...]

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In one paragraph, Richard Baehr says so much: Voters can be fooled, but they can tell the difference between a friend and a bully. Obama made the decision to bully Israel over settlements, and make it the focus of his Middle East strategy. The events in Iran over the weekend show the stupidity of the [...]

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“Hey, Mom!  I know what I want to be when I grow up.  I want to be a terrorist.  Because if you do it right, the US Government will pay for you to live in a tropical paradise, all courtesy of the US taxpayer.  Woo-hoo!”

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Many have commented on the myriad factual errors Obama made his Cairo speech.  These mistakes must have been deliberate, because they are the only way that he could justify his conclusions.  That is, the facts do not support Obama’s conclusions.  One sees this most clearly when contrasting Obama’s speech to Netanyahu’s.  As I noted yesterday, [...]

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It’s the first day of summer, so I’ve got slumber party guests and I’m rushing around preparing for the bimonthly cleaning lady visit.  (And yes, I do clean my house for the cleaning ladies.  It’s a division of labor.  They don’t know where to put away all the messy things left lying about, and I [...]

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At some point today, I passed the 1,000,000 reader mark!  That’s very cool. I know, though, that most of those hits are of the hit-and-run variety, from people who check something out and never return.  They’re good for the numbers, but not good for my soul. What’s good for my soul is my regular readers [...]

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I commented on and graded Obama’s much heralded speech to the Muslim world, so I think it only fair to grade Bibi’s speech, which is directed to much the same audience (plus the western world, too).  As I did with Obama’s speech, I’m making me comments in real time, without having read ahead, so every [...]

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WHO excitedly announced a few days ago that swine flu was a pandemic.  To my old-fashioned mind, pandemic means a deadly disease running riot around the world, threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands, if not millions.  Swine flu is definitely traveling, and it’s out of season, but so far (thank God), deaths have been [...]

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I doubt many Americans even remember Flag Day anymore.  I had forgotten, but that’s only because I’ve lost track numerically of the days.  I knew this was the Sunday after school ended and before the kids’ vacation started but that’s pretty much where I left off.  Had I said to myself, “This is June 14,” [...]

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Sometimes, you have to be poised on the edge of the volcano to realize the threat you face.  Until you get there, you might just think you’re climbing a beautiful mountainside.  Bruce Bawer, a gay man living in Europe, reached the edge of the volcano and wrote While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying [...]

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I’m too ill-informed to opine intelligently on what’s going on in Iran right now.  I know the election was not a free election, because the Mad Mullah’s hand-selected four candidates.  I know Obama was either naive or evil to suggest otherwise.  I know that the outcome was almost certainly a foregone conclusion (the Mullahs wanted [...]

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How very Soviet of Obama: The government looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint, one of the poorest US cities, which involves razing entire districts and returning the land to nature. Local politicians believe the city must contract by as much as 40 per cent, concentrating the dwindling population and local services into a [...]

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Off to the races (swimming), so I won’t be near a computer for hours.  Have fun here (within the bounds of civility, of course), while I’m away.

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My husband just proved that technology can touch us in the smallest ways.  Tonigh, he brought backseat driving to a whole new level.  He and I were in separate cars and he called me to complain about my driving!

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As far as blogs go, you heard it here first (or nearly first), but it’s a bigger story than my little blog.  Michelle Malkin has the round-up.  My only hope is that the MSM will part the curtain long enough to allow the American people to realize just how big this scandal really is.

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One of the things that baffled me as a child was the way in which the Jews passively walked into the gas chambers.  My parents explained to me that Jews were not warriors.  Outside of Israel, Jews still aren’t warriors.  Jeffrey Goldberg thinks that’s stupid: You can’t fight a rifle or a shotgun with a [...]

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I’m actually going to do paying work today, following a three week hiatus caused by both the decision and a miserable series of viruses.  As is so often the case, though, there’s lots of good stuff out there that I will recommend, and I’m always happy when you add to that in the comments. I’ll [...]

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This could be sour grapes or it could be something much more serious. Amusingly, the NAACP hopes the charges are true, even if that means the State and Feds acted illegally: An association of contractors accused Caltrans in a lawsuit Thursday of colluding with the Obama administration to flout California’s ban on race and sex [...]

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If you’re a fan of the Anchoress, you may have noted that she’s been a bit hard to find lately.  Rather than having an independent blog, as she once did, she now blogs at First Things, which I see as the Catholic equivalent to Commentary Magazine. One is a conservative publication with a Jewish twist; [...]

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