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This is an important story that’s getting almost no play in the American press:  the Indian government believes that an American Muslim who was arrested in connection with a plan to attack the Jyllands-Posten paper, was not only behind the horrific Mumbai massacre, but was also plotting attacks against Indian nuclear power plants.  The Jawa [...]

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As Barack Obama seems poised to turn Afghanistan into another Vietnam, it’s no surprise that troops in Afghanistan are increasingly demoralized.  It turns out that Xerox is doing something to help that situation.  If you go here, you can create a thank-you card for the troops, which Xerox will then send out for you — [...]

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The cleaning ladies come today, so I’ve been putting the finishing touches on tidying the house, so that they can do the heavy-lifting part of cleaning.  The house l0oks very nice, albeit fuzzy, crumby and dusty.  When the gals leave, I will have, for one brief, shining moment, a clean house.  I love that moment. [...]

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The race is on to see whether the Motrin kicks in first or my back goes out first.  No sitting at the computer for me right now, at least for several hours.  I’m alternating between flat on my back and moving around to ease the spasms.  I’m betting on the Motrin, of course, but am [...]

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When I’m at an ATM, I try to pay attention to what’s going on around me.  I don’t like surprises.  Today, though, I got a surprise.  As I was waiting for the machine to spit out my cash and receipt, I noticed that, on my right, next to the bank’s front door, was a guy [...]

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In a field rich with excellent conservative writers, I always think Mark Steyn is the best.  The joyful days, though, are the days when he outdoes even himself.  In this week’s column about the fluffy multiculturalism that reared its head both before and after Hasan’s deadly terrorist attack at Fort Hood, Steyn outdoes himself.  Here [...]

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In the wake of the 2008 election, Republicans and conservatives were paralyzed.  They’d been trounced, not so much by sweeper percentages (that is, the elections were all just over the slightly 50% mark), but by huge numbers of elections in which Democrats edged out Republicans by those few percentage marks.  If there are 100 races, [...]

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The Emperor of Japan is not a totalitarian dictator, thank goodness.  Indeed, he seems like a very sweet little man.  But what in heaven’s name is up with our president going around the world bowing? We’re Americans!  We show respect, but we don’t bow.  And there’s something really weird, too, about the most arrogant person [...]

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I’ve now received five emails bringing to my attention a post at Hillbuzz, a blog that (as best as I can tell) is written by two gay Hillary supporters.  (And thanks to all of you who did bring it to my attention.)  What makes the post at Hillbuzz so unusual is that it’s a frank [...]

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As always, it was a good week at the Watcher’s Council.  Indeed, I’d say it was a better week than usual, because we’ve traveled back to our roots and made an effort to nominate blog posts, rather than syndicated articles, in the non-Council category.  It made for much more varied reading.  Anyway, here are this [...]

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You know how you never drink a toast to yourself?  Well, in Obama’s world, it’s all about him.  As he made clear at the Berlin Wall ceremony, history has culminated in him.  He transcends all things and is now, at least in his own mind, the living embodiment of America.  And as Lucianne discovered with [...]

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Look on the lower left right side of the screen capture to see a very interesting the poll from the Marin Independent Journal, the local Marin newspaper: The poll, of course, can be totally slanted because of a couple of emails to conservatives living in Marin.  What makes the poll more interesting than the scientifically [...]

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The following are this week’s Watcher’s Council submissions.  I’ll explain the two extra links below, because it may be of interest to you: Council Submissions Mere Rhetoric – Agitprop-Funding NEA Chief: “Barack Obama Is The Most Powerful Writer Since Julius Caesar The Glittering Eye – Triage Rhymes With Right – Just A Reminder – Hasan [...]

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Obama has known for more than 12 months that he was going to become CIC, with responsibility for Afghanistan.  This means 12 months of presidential advisers able to give this neophyte help in figuring out the best strategy for the war that he declared, during the campaign, was the essential, central battlefield in the war [...]

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That Nancy Pelosi is a pistol.  Here she is, a terrible public speaker, but still arguing strongly that it’s absolutely unconscionable for Congress to sneak bills through committee, to vote on things they haven’t read and don’t know, to vote on bills that the American public hasn’t had to read, to have bills in the [...]

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I couldn’t find the absolutely exquisite Dorothy Lamour/Jimmy Dorsey version from the film The Fleet’s In (starring a ridiculously young Bill Holden), but I enjoyed this Slim Whitman kind-of-funky version of one of the most beautiful love songs ever written: Incidentally, Mark Steyn is paying tribute to Johnny Mercer this month.  You can read about [...]

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American Thinker is a site I check regularly, at least twice a day.  It’s not just that the editors are kind enough to publish my work occasionally.  It’s because the articles that appear there routinely range from really good to out-of-the-park stupendous. Today, there are two that fall in the latter category.  These are the [...]

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On October 22, 2008, I wrote this: The MSM has been remarkably cavalier about Joe Biden’s bizarre statement regarding the “fact” that America will be attacked six months into a Barack Obama presidency and that people will be shocked and disappointed by Obama’s response (meaning that he’ll either collapse in a sobbing heap, thereby horrifying [...]

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If it wasn’t in a news story, I’d actually think that this was an O. Henry story, because the ending is such a twist.  You see, it all started when a young man, walking down a dark street at night was mugged and robbed at gunpoint: A Milwaukee Army reservist’s military identification earned him some [...]

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In a month or so, I will be eating at a restaurant that boasts “biodynamic vegetables.” I don’t know what the heck that means, but it makes me think of this:

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The big buzz is about James Cameron’s Avatar, which is supposed to be to modern movies what The Jazz Singer was to the silent film:  It will remake movies. I don’t know about that, but having seen the preview a few days ago when I took some boys to the movies, I can tell  you [...]

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Not a big story, not an American story, but still a story perfectly illustrative of the cultural insanity that elevates perpetrator rights over the rights of ordinary citizens: A teenage sex attacker kidnapped and raped a five-year-old boy eight days after a judge spared him custody for another rape, it has emerged. The 16-year-old, who [...]

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I remain absolutely convinced that Obama, the boy genius of the left, is a product of affirmative action who is hiding his academic record because it is dismal.  If it weren’t dismal, he’d be showing it off.  Frankly, though, after thirty years of affirmative action, we expected nothing more from our academic institutions.  That’s a [...]

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