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Tweet I looked through Jonah Goldberg’s latest, trying to find a single paragraph to quote here.  The column is so perfect, though, it was likely ripping an arm off Michaelangelo’s David — it would just ruin the purity of the whole thing.  So, instead, all I can urge you to do is go and read [...]

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Tweet James Lewis nails what’s driving the Birther issue, and gives a very good reason why we should abandon the birth certificate, but nevertheless focus on the other records: The birth debate about Obama is real enough, but it is legally complicated, as analyzed by legal beagle Andrew McCarthy at National Review. No judge is [...]

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Tweet I noted in my post yesterday that James Crowley has behaved impeccably from start to finish when it came to this whole sordid affair.  Yes, he may have let an obstreperous Gates press his buttons on that night in Cambridge, but since then he has epitomized grace under fire.  As if we need more [...]

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Tweet You may feel that the White House is fairly hostile to your interests as an American, but there’s no doubt but that select groups of people are feeling pretty darn good about what Obama has to offer.  Here’s a case in point.

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Tweet For about ten minutes, there was a post here with a bullet point list of provisions from the health care bill.  I just got an email, though, saying that the list may contain significant inaccuracies.  I’ve therefore pulled that post pending further information.  In the meantime, here’s a solid link to list of provisions [...]

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Tweet What is it with these California political women?  In the morning, Pelosi calls insurance companies villain’s as if she’s in some Victorian melodrama.  And this afternoon, Dianne Feinstein arranges from the arrest of a bunch of senior citizens who were trying to speak with her. It’s a little unclear just exactly what side of [...]

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Tweet Here’s a guy who was thrust, quite unexpectedly and in a very painful way, into the national limelight.  Throughout, he’s comported himself with completely dignity, something that continues to be clear in this post-beer statement and Q&A session: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Crowley’s dignity and graciousness [...]

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Tweet The U.S. Consulate is in “Jerusalem,” not “Israel,” the sovereign nation in which Jerusalem happens to be located.  Nor is that a petty little detail.  It’s pretty clear that the State Department, more in sync with Obama than anyone realized, doesn’t recognize Israel’s existence anyway.  Every single item on its home page is about [...]

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Tweet I was talking with Don Quixote about the AARP’s seemingly bizarre support for ObamaCare (“seemingly bizarre” only if you don’t know who is now behind the AARP), and I finally figured out what health care for the elderly will look like.  If your statistical life expectancy is too low, bye-bye care. UPDATE:  My point [...]

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Tweet What he said. It’s not about the citizenship, it’s about the endless stream of lies emanating from the man: If Obama wants to strike a connection with graduating students in Moscow, he makes up a story about meeting his “future wife . . . in class” (Barack and Michelle Obama met at work). If [...]

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Tweet The Return of Scipio says: I have no doubt that when all of this Obama madness has run its course, that finding someone who will admit to voting for Obama in 2008 will be as difficult as finding a German who will admit to voting Nazi in 1933.

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Tweet Here’s the story: “It’s almost immoral what they are doing,” Pelosi said to reporters, referring to insurance companies. “Of course they’ve been immoral all along in how they have treated the people that they insure,” she said, adding, “They are the villains. They have been part of the problem in a major way. They [...]

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Tweet I want to recommend two interesting things to read as a prelude to my core post.  The first read comes from a reliably good source:  Rusty Shackleford.  Over at The Jawa Report, he looks at the banality that exists side by side with the evil that is North Carolina’s recently arrested home grown jihadists.  [...]

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Tweet Victor Davis Hanson, after describing the disconnect between America’s most heated critics and their own lifestyles, sums up the reason at least a few Americans are tuning out the grievance mongers: In the old days, critics for the most part of what we called the “system” were at least blue-collar workers, underpaid teachers, or [...]

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Tweet Karl Rove nicely articulates the bottom line facts driving Obama’s fear-mongering game to force through immediate and irrevocable changes to America’s health care system: Mr. Obama’s problem is that nine out of 10 Americans would likely get worse health care if ObamaCare goes through. Of those who do not have insurance—and who therefore might [...]

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Tweet I’m about to emark on reading the submissions for this week over at the Watcher’s Council, so it behooves me to bring you up to date on the winners from last week: Winning Council Submissions First place with 2 2/3 points! – The Provocateur – Note to the Conservative Media…Here’s How You Bring Down [...]

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Tweet More than three years ago now (and where in Heaven does the time go?!), I wrote an article for the American Thinker regarding the essential moral conservatism in the Harry Potter books.  I was (and am) inspired to believe that children raised on those books are better situated than they would be reading the [...]

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Tweet In the post-feudal era, England, at its height, was a nation build on property rights.  Up into the 19th Century, theft was a capital crime.  The 21st Century, however, is characterized by a more “collectivist” attitude that is peculiarly feudal in nature. In the 14th Century, the King was the technical owner of all [...]

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Tweet I would have thought the earth would reverse its rotation before I’d find common ground with Andrew Sullivan.  Apparently nothing so extreme had to happen.  All Sullivan had to do was advocate precisely the same point I’ve been making forever which is that Obama needs to stop being so secretive.  Here’s Sullivan: So many [...]

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Tweet Some people destroy constitutions, some defend them.  This young soldier knows exactly where he falls in that constitutional divide: Hat tip:  Hot Air

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Tweet During the 1970s, there was a post-Yom Kippur War joke that was very popular in Jewish circles: Arab soldiers realized that at least half the Israeli troops they were fighting were named David.  They decided to use this information to deal with situations in whch they were facing Israeli fighters who were hidden from [...]

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Tweet Funny how things work out.  When health care was on the front burner, it was so manifestly awful, people were outraged and the Dems made noises about holding off.  Once they made those noises, people (that means citizens — ordinary voters) took the pressure off.  I just got word that the Dems are using [...]

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Tweet When I was in high school, we spent a great deal of time studying Tammany Hall, not just because the school wanted us to understand that government is inherently corrupt, but because of the charming George Washington Plunkitt and his wonderful autobiography, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall.  In it, with almost child-like innocence, he freely [...]

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Tweet A consensus seems to be growing that the ObamaCare bill does not bode well for seniors.  Aside from the mandatory “counseling” for all seniors, counseling that’s only worth doing if it’s meant to steer seniors away from obtaining treatment, simple common sense dictates that the health care cannot work without rationing — and rationing [...]

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