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We’ve had discussions in the comments section of this blog about the change in tone at Little Green Footballs.  From being a stalwart defender in the War Against Terrorism and an effective warrior in the battle for a free and honest press, Charles Johnson has turned his entire focus (or so it seems) on the [...]

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The Queen and Prince Phillip were born in the 1920s.  They are, I gather, inherently conservative people.  While moving in the British upper classes has no doubt exposed them to a great many gays and lesbians (and I’m sure their manners allow them to take those interactions in stride), I’m not sure that the elderly [...]

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Yes, they have guns, and yes, they come from an apocalyptic culture that believes it would be a good thing to see the world enveloped in flames.  But otherwise, these Iranian soldiers look pretty damn silly: Of course, it’s probably good camo if you’re trying to infiltrate this: Otherwise, it’s hard to see the disguise’s [...]

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Except for the ridiculous costume and the equally ridiculous sexual references, this video aptly describes my state of mind.  In lieu of the line about “slept with thousands of men,” substitute “dealt with thousands of carpools/play dates/elderly parent health crises,” and you’ve got the things in my life that leave me just loving this song: [...]

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Who needs to go looking for conspiracies when the funny stuff is staring you right in the face?  Ace noticed that the same PR firm that did incredibly sleazy YouTube attacks on Sarah Palin during the election cycle was an invited attendee at the now-infamous NEA phone call.  Ace has all the right information and [...]

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The media repeatedly assures us that there is no question — and cannot be any question — about climate change.  That particular bit of science is settled, with all the data collected, a position the media holds to strenuously despite significant amounts of data that contradict the claim that humans (particularly American humans) are solely [...]

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My belief, getting stronger by the minute, is that Obama’s sole Afghanistan policy was to be the un-Bush.  Bush’s critics claimed Iraq was the bad war and Afghanistan the good war.  So Obama immediately stated that he’d focus on Afghanistan.  Obama, though, true Leftist that he is, and with his deep affinity for totalitarian rulers [...]

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I’m in the process of writing a complaint, which I need to finish by the end of business today, so I thought I’d just list everything I found interesting in this morning’s reading, and leave it at that: The New Republic’s Marty Peretz is worried about amateur hour in the White House and the State [...]

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The American and world media go into a screaming frenzy whenever American or Israeli troops injure or kill a child.  They do this despite the fact that such incidents are rare and, more significantly, they are aberrant:  both the American and the Israeli military go out of their way to avoid injuring civilians, even if [...]

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There’s talk of the economy recovering, which is a good thing.  Yes, Obama will take credit for it, despite the fact that his massive spending bill has barely touched the economy, but that’s small potatoes.  What matters is that we’re not hovering anymore at the brink of economic collapse. Still, I observed something interesting the [...]

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I pretty much have no words for how much I hated UC Berkeley.  And I see from Steve Crowder’s visit there that little has changed:

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I like Kristin Chenoweth and I suffer from migraines, so this story caught my eye.  And then the bad grammar in the second paragraph made my eyes roll: Meghan Prophet says Chenoweth felt a migraine coming on after winning an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a comedy series and doing press interviews. Prophet says [...]

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My mind is full of Fleet Week events.  As in the past two years, it promises to be a very exciting week for me and my family.  I know I’m going to be on a Coast Guard boat on the Bay when the Blue Angels fly, I know I’m going to a reception to meet [...]

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I gave the post the above title because, in England, even a woman who is a convicted sexual predator gets to keep up her relationship with the victim: A public school music teacher was today jailed for lesbian sex with a 15-year-old pupil – but was given an astonishing green light to continue the ‘affair’ [...]

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Patterico explains: Why This Story Is Important It would be a mistake to dismiss this story as unimportant because there is no jaw-dropping angle like ACORN staffers’ apparent complicity in trafficking in under-age children for prostitution. Consider what is happening: the NEA is encouraging artists to create propaganda for a president’s policy initiatives. This is [...]

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It’s actually hard to find old patriotic songs from WWII era Hollywood because not many are loaded onto YouTube.  Here’s a short one, though, from Hollywood Canteen:

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Here’s a classic joke from the height of the Cold War: Man 1:  Come the revolution, we’ll all be driving Rolls Royces. Man 2:  But I don’t want to drive a Rolls Royce. Man 1:  Come the revolution, you’ll have to. And here’s the bottom line on ObamaCare, which Ed Morrissey neatly summarizes: Not only [...]

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I thought I’d assemble for you in one place the key points in the NEA phone call, showing that the White House itself directed the call’s organizers to use the National Endowment for the Arts (a publicly funded government organization) as a means to fund like-minded artists to create political propaganda for the benefit of [...]

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Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government started it this morning with a post describing the now infamous NEA conference call that used tax payer funds to get NEA supported artists to prepare Obama propaganda. That is not the end of the story.  To give you background, the Media Mythbusters wiki has a whole page set up regarding [...]

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All of us have been worried that the Obama Administration, working in tandem with a wildly Democratic Congress, wants to clamp down on freedom of speech.  Heck, in true Orwellian fashion, the House of Representatives has already taken myriad terms off the table for fear that they might be used against their Fearless (albeit whiny) [...]

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Yesterday, while in San Francisco, I nearly got run over by a cyclist who ran a red light.  There was nothing new about this, except that I was a more vulnerable than usual position, being on foot.  Normally, I’m a driver, desperately trying to avoid bicyclists who run red lights, ignore stop signs, shoot across [...]

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We’re getting near the tail-end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month that requires dawn to dusk fasting.  Now, I’m a gal who enjoys noshing during the day, so I’m not thrilled about abstaining from food and drink for 10 hours.  I’d be especially unhappy if it was a hot day, ’cause any type of drink [...]

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