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Do I think all American Muslims are terrorists?  No.  Do I think the American military should bar Muslims?  No.  Do I think the American military should stop actively recruiting them and providing them with radical Imams?  Oh, yes (emphasis mine). The Fort Hood terrorist is being portrayed as an “anomaly,” an “aberration,” a “lone wolf.” [...]

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I’m rather enjoying Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, who is proving himself to be an idiot without any savant attached.  When questioned about the tea party protests, Gibbs logically focused on the handful of signs that liked the current administration to a Nazi regime (logical because he is trying to discredit tea partiers).  He then voiced [...]

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It wasn’t just 13 “soldiers” who died at Fort Hood yesterday.  It was 13 people.  Here are some of their stories.

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No doubt about it — when the news gets depressing, I retreat to the music of my youth.  And while the lyrics are not apposite, the title and chorus — Tragedy – seem right, whether I’m thinking about the Fort Hood massacre or the ongoing White House debacle:

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Aside from being unconstitutional, I somehow doubt that the following is a winning formula as far as the American voter is concerned: PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail JCT Confirms Failure to Comply with Democrats’ Mandate Can Lead to 5 Years in Jail Friday, November 06, 2009 Today, Ranking Member of the [...]

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Nope, I wasn’t at the rally, but Lorie Byrd was.  She’s posted a wonderful photo essay over at Wizbang, and I strongly urge you to read it.  Congress is trying desperately to ignore a riled middle class, but a few more rallies such as this one (peaceful, impassioned, committed, and informed) may change that world [...]

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The following video purports to prove that Obama is a Muslim. I actually think the video does not make its case.  Here’s why: I believe Obama fears Islam’s wrath, not at a God level, but at a practical level.  Muslims can hurt people.  He thinks if he makes nice with them (praising them beyond reason, [...]

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Had Europe been able to vote last November’s presidential elections, Obama would have swept into office with a vote above 95%.  Over there, they loved him.  He was the antithesis of the ugly American who rode into town and imposed law.  This was a guy who would be kind and gentle, and extremely deferential to [...]

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Please pay special attention to the first photo at Blackfive.  Then read this, at Hot Air.

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An NBC Chicago blog report that is making the rounds remarks upon Obama’s frightening insensitivity several hours after the attack on Ft. Hood: After news broke out of the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, the nation watched in horror as the toll of dead and injured climbed. The White House was [...]

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Wander over to Maggie’s Farm and watch a truly excellent not-commercial. UPDATE:  I corrected the title.  In my defense, though, for once the mistake wasn’t mine.  Something’s been wrong with my site today and, when it published, it corrupted “real commercial” to “recommercial.”  Go figure.

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With the events at Fort Hood still before our eyes and occupying space in our brain, this seems like a good time to remind you to support Project Valour IT.  Go Navy!

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The lyrics are incoherent, but I still like the song’s feel:

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My brain is tingling as I gear up to read the following excellent submissions from the Watcher’s Council.  (And let me remind you that, if you’d like your blog to be part of the Watcher’s Council, we currently have a couple of openings.  Come on over and try it out.)

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Being the mildly obsessive compulsive person that I am, I can’t do this week’s vote, unless I clear my plate and tell you about last week’s winners:

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I just heard about the Fort Hood shooting, and have nothing of my own to say.  The New Editor, however, is watching closely and updating constantly. Ed Driscoll also has running updates, as does Hot Air. What I learned from a military friend is that, even though it’s a military base, the troops are not [...]

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Good ideas, thankfully, don’t just squirm away and die.  The best of them take on a life of their own.  This year’s good idea, one that has been in vogue for a while, but that is taking on heightened importance now, is the core nature of being an American.  My focus is on freedom, brought [...]

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As far as I can tell, this is a real commercial for a real program at a real community college in Salt Lake City.  I especially enjoyed the pricing system, which allows customers to choose between the regular price of $2 per cut or the “special” price of two cuts for $4.

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I somehow managed to miss it when it started, but the annual Valour-IT fundraiser is still going on (until November 11).  This fundraiser raises the monies that help to “provide voice-controlled/adaptive laptop computers and other technology to support Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines recovering from hand wounds and other severe injuries.” It is, as Martha [...]

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There’s an emerging pattern in the administration, which is the willful refusal to acknowledge realities they don’t like, especially their mistakes.  This goes for the whole administration: the White House and both sets of Congressional leaders.  Examples of this are the refusal to acknowledge the tea parties, the refusal to acknowledge that the fall of [...]

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I like how clearly Karl Rove sums up the economic pain the Democrats’ proposed health care plan will impose on the economy as a whole and on individual Americans: For starters, the bill is a lot more expensive than advertised. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) pegs its cost at $1.055 trillion over 10 years, not [...]

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One of my favorite books, and one I highly recommend, is Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism. The title is self-explanatory, so I won’t belabor what you’ll find when you read it. I mention it here because I believe it was in that book that I read that, from the 1950s through [...]

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Too rushed for links, but you’ve read the same headlines I have.  Here are two: Obama refuses to go to Berlin to celebrate the end of Communism. Obama refuses to watch election results last night.

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I’m running, but there’s no reason you can’t kvell about the victories in Virginia and New Jersey.  They are a big deal.  Also, Michelle Malkin takes a sanguine view of Hoffman’s narrow defeat in New York’s 23rd District.  While I worry that the Republican Party will take it as a sign that RINO me-too-ism is [...]

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Last week, I commented on Thomas Frank’s weird defense of Obama’s attack on the media.  Basically, Frank’s whole defense was that Nixon was worse. I don’t know about you, but to say “my guy isn’t as bad as the guy I, a liberal, consider the worst, most paranoid president ever,” doesn’t strike me as a [...]

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