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People are arguing past themselves on the healthcare issue because words have come to mean very different things to different people. More specifically, there is great confusion over what is meant by a “right” (as in “Bill of…). Tell me if you agree. I have been listening to video and audio clips of the various [...]

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The San Francisco Chronicle, although the major newspaper in the San Francisco Bay Area, is basically fish wrap.  Today’s front page story about the protests at town hall meetings, in just the first few paragraphs, reports as true proven lies: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent her chamber home for the summer recess with a list [...]

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With his typical clarity, Karl Rove explains that it is impossible for President Obama to stick to his “no new taxes” promises if he continues on this ruinous path of government spending: The campaign team is intent upon protecting a pledge driven by its 2008 campaign polls: Mr. Obama promised never to raise taxes on [...]

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The debate on Obama Care has tended to focus on money and on vague accusations of probable racism.  Zane Pollard, an opthamologist, spells out precisely what that rationing will look like.  And no matter how the Dems dress it up, for the vast majority of Americans, it will look much worse than what they have [...]

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Robin, a neo-con who has been writing about her transformation from left to right, has an article at American Thinker today about the speed and completeness of her political transformation.  Once she saw the light, her turnaround was complete. Although some of our details are different (I’m not a therapist, my parents didn’t die in [...]

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I finally figured out what the “Obama in whiteface is racist” charge made me think of: The Sarah Silverman Program Makeup Artist www.comedycentral.com Joke of the Day Stand-Up Comedy Free Online Games Claiming that Sarah Silverman’s ridiculous attempt at blackface was racist is as foolish as complaining that Obama’s remake as the Joker, a character [...]

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Nancy Pelosi has announced to the world that those people opposed to Obama Care wear swastikas.  In other words, she’s saying that rank and file Americans who are exercising their right to listen and speak at their representatives’ town halls are Nazis.  Aside from the stupidity of that, since Nazis would have wholeheartedly backed a [...]

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Tomorrow is the 64th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, and you can expect the usual breast-beating about how unutterably evil we were to target Japan’s civilian population.  Here in Marin, a “Hiroshima survivor” is going to read poems and speak about her experiences. I freely acknowledge that this survivor went through a horrific experience [...]

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An important message from Steve Schippert: Leftists and terrorists have one thing in common: You can scream at ‘em, you can argue with ‘em, you can chase ‘em and you can even shoot ‘em. But for God’s sake, just don’t laugh at ‘em. Well, considering the White House’s brazen request for American citizens to “flag” [...]

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In the play Julius Caesar, Shakespeare puts into Marc Antony’s mouth one of the most famous speeches in history.  You know that speech.  It was the one that begins: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good [...]

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I have no words.  No words at all. Hat tip:  The Anchoress

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We do not live in a genuine democracy, which would see people vote on every single issue.  Instead, we have a representative democracy — we get to vote on which individuals we’d like to see represent us in government. People who want to hold those jobs (that is, the candidates) have to convince the majority [...]

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One of my main bases for hostility to teacher’s unions is that increasingly have nothing to do with their original goal, which was ensuring a living wage and decent working conditions for teachers.  (Not that they were always that effective at serving their original union mandate.  My father was a teacher and he did belong [...]

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Here’s a bad, almost cruel, joke, but nevertheless a pointed and important one: Two men met on the street.  One looked very angry. “What’s the problem?” asked the first man of his friend. “I’m r-r-really a-a-ngry,” he stuttered.  “I app-ap-applied for a j-j-job as an an-an-announcer at the-the-the r-r-r-radio s-s-station and they t-t-turned me-me-me d-d-d-own.” [...]

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A few days ago, I wrote a post examining why I believe Islam is not a religion like other religions, so that pluralist societies should view it with a distrust they do not extend to other religions.  Daniel Pipes also tackles that issue.  I’ll give you the first and last paragraphs of his article.  You [...]

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From the Wall Street Journal: Democrats already plan to repeal the Bush tax cuts, but that won’t raise enough money. So they’re proposing an income tax surcharge on “the wealthy,” but that won’t raise enough either. Democrats have no choice but to soak the middle class because only they have enough money to finance the [...]

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You’ve already read that the Big O (an increasingly empty hole if there ever was one) is now set to give the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Mary Robinson, the Irish woman who has cheerfully led the UN into ever deeper antisemitic, anti-American depravity.  Jennifer Rubin sums up beautifully the only two possibilities that could [...]

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At first, only people in L.A. saw it.  Now we’ve all seen it: Predictably, liberals are already crying “racism.” As for me, maybe I’m just out of touch with pop culture, but the Joker character never ranked up there in my mind with Uncle Tom or Sambo or any other stereotypical character created by racist [...]

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On the same day I heard a friend tell about her father’s stroke, which was initially misdiagnosed and therefore not treated, I got the following in an email.  It’s a no brainer to pass it on to you: STROKE IDENTIFICATION It only takes a minute to read this… A neurologist says that if he can [...]

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If you are a young lawyer, struggling to learn what a non-responsive answer really looks like, you can’t do better than this question-and-answer session between Jake Tapper and Presidential press secretary Robert Gibbs.  If Gibbs were any slicker, he’d just ooze right out of the room: TAPPER:  Robert, in terms of what Geithner and Summers [...]

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On July 31, right after Beergate, the White House posted official photos of the event.  Thomas Lifson, of American Thinker, saw one and was immediately struck by it.  Here’s the photo: You see what I see: the cop who was flung into unwanted prominence because an esteemed professor and the American president accused him of [...]

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Michelle Malkin went into the lions’ den — and took a bite out of the lions.  If you’d like to see it happen, go here.

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I found this very effective, especially because it’s the same slogan that popped into my mind when I heard Obama waffling about different colored pills and tonsils: Hat tip:  Weekly Standard Blog

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Whether you are for or against gay marriage, Robert George issues a sound warning about the dangers that flow from letting the Supreme Court get its hands on the issue: It would be disastrous for the justices to do so [rule against California's Prop. 8 and, by extension, make gay marriage the law of the [...]

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No words necessary from me.  It’s all here:

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