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Lovely story, this.  And here’s a little sample of his skills: (By the way, that piece he’s playing after hearing only once is Yerushalayim Shel Zahav (Jerusalem of Gold).)

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Seasickness.  It’s an utterly vile condition, worse, I think, than any other type of motion sickness.  When you’re seasick, your entire body is rebelling against you.  Worse, there’s no escape.  You’re trapped in the middle of an endless ocean, feeling about as bad as it’s possible for a human to feel. Add something to that [...]

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You can read what I wrote about the speech here.  Others have been writing too. The Anchoress, in addition to her must-read Ich bin ein Muslimer takedown of the speech, has a list of blogs thinking about what he said, which I’ll just copy wholesale: Andy McCarthy: Koranic text Obama left out Andrew Bolt: Islam, [...]

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This is the substantive part of Obama’s speech (introductory language omitted), with my comments.  Overall, I’d give the speech a C.  He made some obvious points, he made some good points, and he made some idiotic and offensive points. It would be nice if his speech was effective in bringing about the positive things he [...]

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I’m getting the kids off to school, and haven’t heard or read the speech.  Bob Owens did: In rhetoric that bared a broad range of thought, from empathy and denial, to wishful thinking and sophomoric ideological fantasy, Barack Obama alarmed allies and confirmed for the nation’s enemies that he will do for democracy and the [...]

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For your morning amusement (in a negative kind of way), check this out.

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I’ve always loved that quintessential little kid excuse:  “But, Mommy, he hit me back first….”  Even kids understand, although they don’t always appreciate, the notion of a preemptive strike.  Lately, there’s more and more talk about Israel engaging in a preemptive strike against Iran (cheered by friends, feared by foes).  George Bush painted our attack [...]

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That would be NBC’s Brian Williams you see making his graceful little homage to the King . . . er, the President: During the feudal era, the structure was king, high nobles, knights, everyone else.  Obeisance was expected from the person in the lower position to the person in the higher position.  In this new [...]

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It’s been two days since our Commander in Chief lost one of his own in an attack on American soil — and his silence is deafening.  When an abortionist died, our CIC instantly issued a public statement and used federal marshals to beef up security at abortion clinics.  When one of his own men died [...]

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I wrote a few days ago about the terrible tragedy here in Marin County, when a drunk motorcyclist sped through a cross-walk, killing a child and maiming her father.  You can get a little more insight into that drunken lowlife here, both in pictures and words.  The real shocker is that it appears that, despite [...]

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Bedtime Stories, which came out a few months ago, is not a very good movie.  It gets kudos from me, however, for one little throwaway line I doubt many movie goers (especially the kids) even noticed. In the movie, Adam Sandler plays Skeeter Bronson, a hamburger and pizza eating hotel handyman who is called upon [...]

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In an interview timed to coincide with his book, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, having come out in paperback, Jonah Goldberg makes this very interesting point about modern fascism and Obama’s world view: You know, when I first started pondering the book, I thought [...]

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It’s been months since the election, but something still bugs me.  I live in, and have lived in, multiple communities:  Elementary school, junior high school, high school, college, law school, year in England, my legal career (and friendships), my neighborhood, and my community from a parenting perspective.  I’m a gregarious type, so lots of people [...]

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The Left is tremendously excited about what they see as the hypocrisy behind the pro-Life movement because one of their own murdered George Tiller, a late-term abortion provider.  Their excitement isn’t surprising, since they seem incapable of separating a crazed individual from the vast majority of pro-Lifers, all of whom routinely condemn violence generally and [...]

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My daughter is home sick, but still working compulsively on a science project — with my help.  I’ll be back.

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Here are the results from last week’s Watcher’s Council vote: Winning Council Submissions First place with 3 points! – Bookworm Room – Does Brown v. Board of Education constitute the Supreme Court’s one free pass? Second place with 1 points – (T*) – Right Truth – Home grown terrorism and the media Second place with [...]

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I do not have any reason to believe that the two events are related.  Nevertheless, yesterday’s murder of George Tiller, and today’s shooting at a Navy recruiting center are starck reminders that there are crazy people out there, and that crazy people have political and ideological beliefs and allegiances, the same as everyone else. In [...]

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Reviewing the facts and law is so passe.   The New Editor explains how it will be done in the Sotomayor era.

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