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The National Republican Senatorial Committee puts out this timely public service announcement: I’ll echo Laer, at Cheat-Seeking Missiles (which gets the hat tip for this video):  “Yeah, I know the GOP is hardly perfect and has a ton of lessons to learn, but I have to say, this message motivates me to open my wallet.”

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I just finished reading a very bad book, although I owe it thanks for leading me down some interesting intellectual paths.  The book is Derek Wilson’s Charlemagne, which came my way through my book club (and it’s because of the book club that I actually finished a book I normally would swiftly have abandoned).  The [...]

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The Anchoress is right.  You’ll LOVE this video.

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In the wake of President Sarkozy’s suggestion that France ban the burqa, here are three goodies: Seraphic Secret Mona Charen Pat Condell: UPDATE:  Abe Greenwald notes that women are not as excited about the burqa as Obama was in his Cairo speech (an excitement I pointed out too).

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England has the highest teen pregnancy rate in Europe.  The British government, faced with this problem, decided to act.  Now, it might have acted by pushing abstinence and seeking ways to encourage intact families.  Concerned, though, that this would have been just too Victorian and moralistic, the British government opted for a different approach:  it [...]

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One of the most prescient books that I ever remember reading as a teenager has to be Alvin Toffler’s 1970 classic Future Shock.  To recap its theme, Toffler predicted that the pace of new information was increasing at such a rapid rate that it would overcome peoples’ capacities to absorb that information. The resulting effect [...]

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I’m sitting in a Kaiser waiting room (seem appointment for the almost-teen at my side), and can’t help but notice that, with the exception of the AAA’s travel mag, every single magazine has a cover that directly or indirectly lauds the wonders of Obama.

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This is the story of how my mother and father raised me to be a sissy. In the 1950s when I was a grade-school kid, my father was a heavy equipment mechanic with lots of hair on his chest and a blue-collar fondness for spending much of his time out in the garage. I remember [...]

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By now you’ve heard about Obama’s 1983 nuclear disarmament op-ed in the student newspaper at Columbia.  Because it’s a turgid piece of Leftist collegiate writing, Tom Elia has gone through and excerpted some of the more telling passages. What’s so horrifying is that in the 26 years since he wrote that piece, Obama seems to [...]

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My husband was shocked when he learned that, for my birthday, I wanted, not to go on a nature hike, but to have help folding the laundry.  He rejected that request, stating that, while he will never help me with the laundry, he will pay for a wash and fold service. I did not consider [...]

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Robert Avrech blogs at the delightful, interesting, moving and literate Seraphic Secret, one of my favorite places to visit on the internet.  As a long-time Hollywood screenwriter, who has made a career despite being a politically conservative orthodox Jew in Hollywood, he also writes for Big Hollywood. Robert’s most recent offering there, in honor of [...]

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I’ve predicted in this blog that, if America continues to coddle Iran, Saudi Arabia will give Israel access to its air space, although it may well lie about that fact later.  Iran’s bluster was fine with the Arab Muslim nations as long as they thought the U.S. would ultimately slap down any Iranian pretensions to [...]

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I was meant to post this video because, just today, it came to me in three separate emails and Sadie linked to it in a comment.  I knew some of these facts, but only a small portion.  The sheer volume of charmingly presented information will amaze you:

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In medieval times, the king’s fool was often the only one who could speak the truth, but that in the guise of a joke.  Joe Biden is a little bit different.  Obama didn’t mean him to be the truth-speaking fool but, apparently, the guy can’t help himself.  AJ Strata caught him on TV today admitting [...]

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A thrilling surprise awaits you here: Hat tip:  Radio Patriot

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Family stuff.  Will try to write later.

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On July 4, 1776, American citizens made their Declaration of Independence known to the world.  Although the bulk of the document is a catalog of very specific grievances against George III, the document is remembered for its stirring beginning, describing “unalienable” rights inherent in all human beings, as well as describing a government’s role in [...]

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Toothpaste art on passed-out people:

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Another chapter in the “lies, damn lies and statistics” is the repeated claim from proponents of European-style socialized medicine that the US has the highest infant mortality rate of any first world country.  This is a scathing indictment, implicating American poverty, racism, prenatal and post-natal care.  The only problem is that it’s completely false, and [...]

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I have been remiss in bringing you up to date on the winning Watcher’s Council posts last week, so I’ll fold them into this week’s post.  Since it makes for a long list, I’ll put the winners under the fold here.

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One of the things I like about Neo’s posts is that she develops them so meticulously.  In one her latest posts, she takes on the growing disenchantment with Obama, not just from conservatives, who were primed to be disenchanted, but from liberals who nevertheless were not prepared for someone as extreme as he has proven [...]

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You all know by now that Palin is abruptly quitting her job as Alaska’s governor.  Speculation is rife as to her motives.  Many see her as planning for her next political office.  I don’t believe that.  Nobody’s going to want a quitter in the White House.  There’s got to be something more going on here. [...]

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For all the hue and cry surrounding the 8 years of Bush/Cheney and the absence of WMD’s, the real WMD story broke this week: WMD’s FOUND in D.C. The heretofore unknown weapon’s grade is Weymouth, Medicine, Democrats/Denial Katherine Weymouth, owner of the Washington Post, denied promoting the immediate destruction of the USA by selling access [...]

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I posted a Bee Gees video here a couple of weeks ago, as the beginning of my ongoing tribute to singing siblings.  It turns out that the Bee Gees are useful for more than just rockin’ out.  They can keep you alive: Debra Bader was taking a walk in the woods with her 53-year-old husband [...]

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A US soldier (or Marine) was captured in Afghanistan.  We know what that means, and it’s not the Geneva convention.  I don’t know whether thoughts and prayers and wishes can help, but I do know that they can’t hurt.

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