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Remember the hoo-ha about the Bush administration’s decision to fire a handful of US attorneys (as opposed to the noncontroversial Clinton decision to fire almost all the US attorneys)?  Well, Obama’s in a firing mood now, too. I wonder if Republicans will have the cojones to check out whether the following is a legitimate firing, [...]

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Conservatives have spent years railing at the liberal propensity to by-pass the legislative process and head straight for the courts.  It turns out, though, that there are situations in which liberals prefer to avoid the court all together — and will take legislative action to try to avoid it.  Those situations arise when a decades [...]

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Did you know that British WWII songbird Vera Lynn is still alive?  She celebrated her 92nd birthday on March 20, 2009.   Here are two different videos, both putting pictures to my favorite of her songs, “We’ll meet again.” Memories of World War II: And memories from this war: The good songs go to the heart [...]

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It’s a duty — because, as a member of the Watcher’s Council, I have to vote — but it’s also a great, great pleasure to read the weekly submissions at the Watcher’s Council site.  Today, I get to read and vote upon the following: Council Submissions The Provocateur – ACORN’s Past Due Taxes Bookworm Room [...]

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Slow but steady, that’s my motto.  I get around to everything eventually.  Even as I sit down to read (and truly enjoy) this week’s nominations at the Watcher’s Council, let me bring you last week’s winners (and it was another week where the winners swept the board): Council Submissions: First place with 3 points! – [...]

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Britain, which has shown a certain lack of spine when it comes to the Islamists on its shores, nevertheless stood up to Al Qaeda representative Abu Qatata.  Britain, however, is no longer a sovereign nation.  It handed over its sovereignty to the EU, which gets the final say in matters.  And the EU thinks it [...]

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Men are showing good sense — they like real women, not air brushed sticks.  If only women could learn to appreciate that fact and not be intimidated by plasticized media figures.

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Before I get to the news, I just wanted to throw in a little aside about birds’ nests.  They are one of nature’s small miracles and, today, I’m in a position to know.  A hopeful family has planted itself outside our front door on top of our porch light.  From afar, the nest appears generic, [...]

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My Manchurian candidate post is getting a lot of readership, and I can’t even figure out what the sources are.  It’s just kind of dribbling around the internet.  That post focused on something very specific about Obama, which is the disconnect between his much trumpeted innate qualities.  We are told that he is brilliant, informed, [...]

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Hitting on many of the same points I did in my analysis of Obama’s Cairo speech, Frank Gaffney makes the compelling argument that, whether Obama is a believing Muslim or just an ideologue, he has aligned himself in significant ways with the Muslim world, and clearly hopes to drag America in the sharia direction.  Even [...]

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I got an email poll from my representative Lynn Woolsey.  I was willing to take the poll, even though it would mean newsletters from her, until I actually read the poll.  It’s a dishonest one, and makes intelligent responses impossible. Here’s the whole email, with my comments in red: As you may know, Congress is [...]

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And this good news comes from Pakistan, of all places. Does it strike any of you as strange that, just as the rest of the world decides to become more economically conservative and take terrorism more seriously — because their Leftist economics and laissez faire attitude towards terrorism weren’t working — our “progressive” President, the [...]

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Michelle mwas only 21 or so when she wrote her Princeton thesis, so I’m certainly willing to give her a pass on a fair amount of stuff.  After all, few of us are polished people at that age.  As a college student, I wrote a lot of good stuff and a lot of garbage.  I [...]

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Okay, it’s actually called the Kennedy bill, but it’s the realization of Obama’s insistence on the federal government forcing and funding mandatory health insurance.  Keith Hennessey, in addition to giving links for you to read the bill yourself, explains the substantive parts of the bill, as well as the probable practical and economic effects the [...]

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This is supposed to be a “news” story about the Obama family trip to Paris.  It strikes me as coming much closer to a bad bodice ripper, with scary Messianic overtones: People gawked and cameras clicked as the Obamas cut a wide figure through the French capital even while confined to a presidential motorcade. It [...]

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Wright crawled out from under the bus to give a “sermon” at Glide Memorial in SF, a “church” more famous for its activism, than its religion.  Wright’s “sermon” was in keeping with the “church’s” mission, which is political, not religious: In a half-hour, high-energy sermon, sprinkled with spontaneous songs, jokes and impersonations, Wright admonished the [...]

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For many years, the bête noire of Marin County driving was the jam, both North and South, in the 101 corridor at San Rafael.  If you headed south in the morning, that bottleneck could back you up for miles, almost up to Novato.  And if you headed north in the afternoon, it was even worse, [...]

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This is seriously good news:  despite unprecedented Iranian funding for Hezbollah in the Lebanese elections, Lebanese voters rejected Hezbollah resoundingly. And Obama must be mulling the fact that right of center parties won all across Europe.  Now, admittedly, even Europe’s right is often to the left of America’s Left, but it still shows a resounding [...]

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Something very weird is going on when a woman has worked 25 plus years as a lawyer (in both the private and public sector), but has only about $1,000 in savings, and less than $1,000,000 in equity. Financial records may show that (a) she gave everything to charity; (b) she gave everything to poor relatives; [...]

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It’s not that she’s a woman, and it’s not that she’s almost certainly going to be shot as a spy for allegedly helping Israel.  It’s the reason she began spying in the first place.

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An excellent article about the history of the settlements, and how the Obama administration is turning against Israel in every particular when it comes to these settlements. Ralph Peters harshes on the myriad misconceptions and outright falsehoods peppering Obama’s Cairo speech. Torture:  Maybe wrong, but definitely legal.  Apropos torture, that’s become my Mom’s pivot to [...]

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I love the liberal’s ability to attack issues head-on with incisive argument.  (That was sarcasm.)  The conversation below started when I mentioned a product I’d heard about on the radio. Liberal:  Don’t tell me — you were listening to talk radio?! Me:  Yes. Liberal:  I can’t believe you were listening to talk radio.  [With real [...]

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Given that Evan Thomas recently referred to Obama as a God (and he did so with a straight face), you must read the Anchoress’s take on the media’s sick relationship with Obama.  You’ve got to admire prose that opens with this paragraph: Evan Thomas, that bellweather of media obsequiousness, who once (accurately) predicted that the [...]

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My calendar for Saturday scares me.  I’m going from 6:15 a.m. until 10:30 p.m. without pause.  This is an open thread for (I hope) your enjoyment and delight.

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Many, even on the Right (this, for example), are applauding Obama for striking the correct tone with his Cairo/Muslim audience.  I agree that one cannot simultaneously insult people and then expect them to listen, so it was appropriate for Obama to put a positive spin on as many things as possible.  Nevertheless, as Andrew McCarthy [...]

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