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There is a debate going on about the content of the “Your Life/Your Choices” book the VA prepared for vets.  It’s main goal is to encourage vets to draft living wills.  Some consider it a death book; some consider it a useful tool for helping people make end of life decisions.  I think the issue [...]

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Sadie referenced this song in a comment to this post and I had to share the whole thing with you:

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Pity poor Frank Rich, former theater critic and current political opinion purveyor, since he’s very, very scared that Americans who hold beliefs different from his are daring to protest.  Than read Katherine Kersten, who reminds us of two things:  the Lefts’ former love for protest, as long as they were the ones protesting, and the [...]

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I think I’m in love.

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Randall Hoven caught a priceless moment of cognitive dissonance — or outright stupidity, if you want to be blunt — from an Ivy League educated fan of Obama-Keynesian spending.  I’m not going to quote here, because Hoven’s whole article deserves to be read in full.  But I just want you to appreciate the completely lack [...]

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Last night, I went with a friend to see Julie & Julia, a movie that abruptly lost me exactly halfway through.  Although it’s a movie that has all the trappings of a good chick-flick, with enough beautifully photographed food to appeal to male foodies too, it contains some calculated insults that should drive all conservatives [...]

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At the Absurd Report, you can read a brief synopsis of the entire 1000+ page health care bill focusing, not on the extraneous minutiae, but on the core provisions.  And, as you have already realized, it is the few core provisions scattered throughout the bill that ensure that our national health care system is socialized [...]

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I don’t have the time today to do a big scan of all the blogs on by blog roll — a list I take very seriously — but I did get to visit some, and I thought you’d find their posts interesting.  In no particular order, I’ll just list the titles and, if the title [...]

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If you live in the Bay Area, and you want to have a better Fleet Week experience this October than the guy next door to you, I strongly urge you to join the Navy League.  With the NL at your back, Fleet Week suddenly goes from being a spectator sport to becoming a participatory activity. [...]

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Early this year I blogged about the bizarre experience of running into four conservatives in Marin in the aisle of the local craft store.  Well, I did it again today, this time with four conservatives in the dojo parking lot.  I discovered through Facebook that one of my martial arts friends is, in fact, a [...]

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Here’s Mark Steyn on Obama’s “brilliant” plan and American fear: It’s a good thing he’s the smartest president of all time and the greatest orator since Socrates because otherwise one might easily confuse him with some birdbrained Bush type. But, if we take him at his word, then a trillion-dollar public expenditure that “controls costs” [...]

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The Washington Post has an excellent op-ed regarding the fact that, this time regarding health care, the Obama administration is once again trampling blithely over the Constitution.   After you’ve read the op-ed, you might also want to read Ed Morrissey’s further comments.  I particularly like Morrissey’s point about the reason health insurance differs from car [...]

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When I was living in England, all of my friends carried perpetual “overdrafts.”  If they wanted more money than their account had, they’d go to the bank and basically arrange an informal, short-term loan by which the bank allowed them to draw on money that wasn’t really (or, as my friends saw it, wasn’t yet) [...]

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From 1942′s Me And My Gal, Gene Kelly’s first movie after his huge success in Pal Joey, on Broadway: It’s so obvious watching it that Gene and Judy delighted in performing with each other.  Lovely music, lovely performers, lovely clip.

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In an earlier post regarding hints that the government would like to (and will eventually) stop treating people who are terminally ill or badly injured, I pointed out that even those who think, in the cold, clinical light of good health that they’d want to pull the plug if they found themselves in extremis don’t [...]

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I guess for the next three and a half years, I’ll keep having to trot out this joke when I link to articles containing ridiculous claims of racism made to cover for incompetence and other personal failings.  First, the joke (which you’ve heard before and I can guarantee you’ll hear again): Two men met on [...]

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I guess it serves me right for going away and leaving you guys for a week, but, honest to God, I’m blogging my little heart out here and you’re not talking to me any more.  I miss you.  Send comments.  Please….

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Go.  Enjoy.

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If you’re sorry you voted for Obama, you can get anonymously voice your shame or sadness at the “Official I Am Sorry I Voted For Obama” website.  If you didn’t vote for Obama, you should still check out this priceless website.  It’s so nice when we’re not forced to say “I told you so,” but [...]

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Hawaiian Statehood and the President are about the same age and both come with a checkered historical past. Did Obama transfer the mantle and memory of Queen Liliuokalani to himself? We all know where he spent his first ten years. Were the next ten tinged with demonstrations and the legitimacy of Hawaiian statehood?  As it [...]

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One of the brightest lines in America, a line that goes back to our Founders and the Constititution, is the imperative rule that the American government stay out of religion.  That does not mean that people in politics cannot be religious or that their values cannot be informed by religion.  It does mean, though, that [...]

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You all know about the Scottish government’s insane decision to free the mass murdering Lockerbie bomber on “compassion” grounds.  You also all know about the government-sponsored rapturous, hero’s welcome this same mass murderer received upon his arrival in Libya.  That’s yesterday’s news.  Steve Schippert, who blogs at ThreatsWatch, finds the ultimate cruel irony, though.  Click [...]

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I was thinking about the fact that, despite the disastrous start the Clinton administration had (“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”; Hillary Care), Clinton nevertheless managed to pull out a two term presidency.  That thought, inevitably, led to me asking myself whether Obama can do the same.  I don’t think so, for two specific reasons. First, Clinton’s [...]

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Although I can’t track it down now, I vividly remember reading a New York Times story about Obama in which a colleague said that Obama had the knack, at meetings, of making everyone in the room think that he agreed with them, even if the meeting was divisive. That is, he mouthed banalities with such [...]

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I’d never heard of Schmidt before I saw this video (h/t Theo Spark), but I really like her style.  Wouldn’t you enjoy sitting down for a cup of tea and some cookies with this gal?

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