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I was thinking of government care when I bought my son a new, much needed bike.  My son is just a boy.  He bikes in the neighborhood.  A three speed bike would be more than adequate.  But they don’t sell three speed bikes anymore.  The only bikes out there are 21 speed bikes, even for [...]

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This flashed across my BNO news update: The United States has terminated all assistance and other measures affecting Honduras after a coup d’etat on June 28. BULLETIN — UNITED STATES SUSPENDS ALL AID TO HONDURAS IN COUP AFTERMATH. Do I understand this correctly?  The Hondurans kicked out a leader who was unconstitutionally trying to make [...]

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Would it be too tacky for me too say that I anxiously await comparable technological breakthroughs from the 250,000,000 Muslims surrounding tiny Israel? Researchers in Israel say they have developed a computer program that can decipher previously unreadable ancient texts and possibly lead the way to a Google-like search engine for historical documents. The program [...]

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I belong to a wonderful — indeed, scintillating — email group.  Today, the group has been having a healthy debate about comparing Obama’s latest decision to talk directly to children (no parents necessary) to Hitler’s deliberate plan to wean a generation away from its parents and into the Nazi party.  My current position is that [...]

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Thanks to Sadie for putting me on to the latest Obama/media stunt, this time the conscious decision to mimic a famous series of en famille JFK pictures in the oval office.  I guess when your numbers are tanking, imitating a dead president is one way to try to shore yourself up.

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First, a joke, one I’ve told before: In long ago Japan or China (or amongst the Eskimos, or something else), a young boy came across his father carry a large basket on his back. In the basket was the boy’s grandfather. He asked, “Father, where are you taking grandfather?” “Shh,” said the father. “Grandfather is [...]

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I am not at all pleased that Obama is going to descend upon an impressionable and captive audience on September 8.  While I don’t expect him to do much more than mouth “lame” platitudes about education and service (meaning, of course, service to liberal causes not, God forbid, military service), I’m offended on principle to [...]

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We knew this, but C. Edmund Wright sums it up as pithily as anything I’ve ever seen.  In explaining why Democrats have been winning  since 2006, despite the fact that America is a conservative country, Wright points out that Democrats agree with their representatives, while conservatives consistently find Republican politicians too liberal.  The result? There [...]

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So often, there are what I call “matched sets” of stories in newspapers.  This happens when one article makes a point, and another article perfectly illustrates that point.  Today, Spiegel provided the perfect pairing of the way in which the modern Western (that is, Leftist) world refuses to learn lessons, but insists on repeating the [...]

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Before their cultural implosion, the English had a reputation for bravery and sangfroid.  Although they are taking a beating in Afghanistan (in large part because the morally bankrupt Labour government refuses to give them necessary support), the troops on the ground are still fighting, dying and showing extraordinary bravery under terrible circumstances: An heroic army [...]

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I bet you didn’t know that, if you oppose the government takeover of our American medical system, you’re a Right Wing domestic terrorist.  Lucky for you, Obama’s campaign organization, “Organizing for America,” explains who you are, and encourages Obama-bots to fight you on 9/11.  The site’s been scrubbed, but everything lives on in cache in [...]

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I’m noticing an interesting pattern in Obama’s Muslim speeches.  He thinks it’s a very good thing for women to cover up.  In his Cairo speech, he made that point, not once, not twice, but three times.  As I caught in the post I wrote at the time, he said: Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible [...]

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My children, despite having one liberal parent and one conservative one, have come down firmly and absolutely on the side of conservatism.  They loath Obama.  Thank God, too, because Obama is going to use the power of the federal government to speak directly to America’s children, bypassing their parents as gatekeepers and intermediaries.  It’s not [...]

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Today is the 70th anniversary of Germany’s bombing campaign against Poland, the official start of World War II.  I thought, therefore, that this song from 1941′s Babes on Broadway was just right.  It is an explicit tribute to beleaguered Britain, which was, at the only time, not only the sole nation fighting the Nazis, but [...]

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One could suspect that, not only does increased government spending not create morality, it may cause morality to decay at ever quickening speeds: British children are more likely to develop drink problems and fall pregnant despite billions of pounds spent by Labour on education and welfare, a leading economic think tank has found. A third [...]

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The Marin IJ reports that almost $3,000,000 in stimulus money Americans will help the public school district in Ross, California: Ross School has won the federal stimulus fund lottery. School officials learned Friday they would receive a $2.85 million school construction bond tax credit as part of the federal stimulus bill – a credit Superintendent [...]

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