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I won’t be blogging tomorrow (Sunday), because I’ll be at a Civil War reenactment.  It’s wonderful fun and has become a summer tradition for us. Consider this an open thread.

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I grew up watching Walter Cronkite.  He was a fixture on the TV in my household and, in our little world, had a great deal of credibility.  Had he died 20 years ago, I would have mourned him sincerely as the passing of a childhood icon.  I know better now, though. While I send my [...]

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Stumbling On Truth has an amusing and devastating deconstruction of the myths fueling the Democratic side of the health care debate.  (Hat tip:  gpc31)  Here’s just a small sample of this longer article: Myth #1 Health Care Costs are Soaring No, they are not. The amount we spend on health care has indeed risen, in [...]

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With the news being unrelentingly depressing (especially news, not of things as they are, but as the Dems plan them to be), I thought this would be a good joke: Four little old Jewish ladies are sitting around the table. “Oy,” sighs the first. “Oy, vey,” moans the second. “Oy, vey ist mir,” wails the [...]

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I really like this article from the Anchoress about the need to hold ourselves to high standards (a need, surprisingly that Obama articulated to the NAACP), and Babs Boxer’s grotesque demonstration of what happens when we hold certain segments of our society to low standards.  The Anchoress also has a great laundry list of inexcusable [...]

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Here, at home, it’s barely news.  In England, it’s a true epidemic, with the current spread and death rate hinting at up to 65,000 deaths as the disease runs its course. Are we in the U.S. hit less hard?  Are we hearing less about how hard we’re hit? I’m asking, but I’m sure not answering, [...]

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The GOP did a great job with this one (although, frankly, they had a lot of good material at hand): I wrote to all my Congress women today telling them that, if they vote for the health care bill, they can count on a no vote from me next time their elections roll around.  Since [...]

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It was a foregone conclusion, but it’s still irksome that the RINOs piled on for Sotomayor.  It’s not just that she’s a judicial activist who dislikes self-defense, lies about her record, and shilled for a radical Puerto Rican group.  It’s that the hearings showed something very, very specific about her:  she’s a complete mediocrity.  The [...]

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I can just hear the wild screams of laughter, and the front page coverage, if a Republican president had said something this stupid (at about 45 seconds): Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Hey, I’d like to make a change to change, too. Hat tip:  Tom Elia at the [...]

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My home page is BNO News on Twitter, which is a headline aggregator.  This morning, I was greeted with this series of headlines: AP: Obama adviser says US has come substantial distance back from the abyss of economic disaster.about 1 hour ago from BNO Headquarters Michigan’s unemployment rate in June rose to more than 15 [...]

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I’m away from my computer for a few hours and return to find the headlines filled with stories of a terrible bombing at two luxury hotels in Jakarta.  I’m going to guess that Catholics are not behind the bombing.  I’m also going to guess that Hindus, Jews, Protestants, animists, Wiccans, Sun worshippers, and atheists are [...]

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I say that every week, but this time I really mean it.  Usually, I open up all the submissions in tabs and read them one after the other.  If an article doesn’t take my fancy, I close the tab immediately.  I consider only the open tabs when casting my vote.  Usually, I have two, maybe [...]

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This clip of today’s Sotomayor hearings may just have hit upon the most important constitutional question that faces us all as we confront our devolution into the Obamatopian State. In this segment, Senator Tom Coburn (R., OK) asks Judge Sotomayor whether she agrees that Americans have a basic right to self defense. The ensuing silence [...]

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Obama’s lying again, which is always fascinating, because his lies fall into the “who are you going to believe — me or your lying eyes?” category.  That is, it’s not as if he has a guilty little secret, and is lying.  Nor is it a simple he said/she said scenary, in which you know one [...]

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I have no idea who he is, I have no idea what this is about, but I sure do love seeing someone exposing in Barbara Boxer the condescending racism that is a global characteristic of liberal whites:

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Most of the world’s media members, if asked, would undoubtedly identify themselves as sophisticates, who are too cynical and world-weary to take anything at face value.  Their mental self-image almost certainly falls somewhere between wise-cracking Cary Grant (His Girl Friday) and idealistic Woodward and Bernstein.  They care deeply, but they’ve seen it all.  To which [...]

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At NoisyRoom, Terresa has a list of all of the czars that Obama has appointed — so far.  You should definitely check that list out.  It is, as is the case with so many Obama initiatives, unnerving. What’s really fascinating is that Terresa has commenters as wonderful (and informed) as mine.  One of them left [...]

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This morning, the headlines were filled with the House’s plans to fund health care, plans that include significant taxes on the well-to-do (whose numbers will shrink despite increasing demands for their wealth to fund the program), and financially onerous burdens on small businesses. This afternoon, Congress has figured out a better way to fund health [...]

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I like alliteration so much, I was tempted to pull an Elmer Fudd and title this post “Wast Week’s Watcher’s Winners,” but I restrained myself.  I’ll just give you the winners, sans alliteration: Winning Council Submissions First place with 2 1/3 points! – The Provacateur – How Bonds Work (and How Current Policy Will Wreck [...]

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Do you sometimes get the urge to listen to one of the best singers ever?  I do.  So here’s some Ella:

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Tom Elia links to an utterly fatuous statement from a 25 year old Obama supporter (who nevertheless gets a bully pulpit in a WaPo blog), saying that killing the profit motive will have no effect whatsoever on pharmaceutical innovation.  In the face of such stupidity, I have to drag out my family history once again. [...]

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Barack Obama’s science czar turns out to be a long-time, committed eugenicist.  In other words, his 1971 publication calling for mass sterilization was not simply a youthful fling with a bad idea.  As Michelle Malkin details, he still clings to those ideas and only recently cited as his intellectual mentor one of the most extreme [...]

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With California getting perilously close to bankruptcy, you’d think that the government might want to trim or cut a few extraneous budget items.  What’s insane is that, despite an endless list of possibilities, our government claims that everything on the budget is absolutely necessary and cannot be cut.  People — we get the government we [...]

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You know that I don’t like judges.  I’ve certainly made no secret of that fact, and it’s no doubt a by-product of practicing law in a region crawling with activist judges.  Listening to Sotomayor struggle to articulate things — and to avoid her own footprint — in response to Sen. Lindsay Graham’s questioning is painful.  [...]

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Steve Crowder looks at the Canadian health care system.  Some of his experiences are similar to those in any busy city emergency room, such as a long, long wait for a low level problem.  Others, most notably statements by nurses, make your eyes bug:  Three years to get an appointment with a personal physician?  The [...]

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