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Yesterday, I noted two sterling examples of physical bravery in the battlefield.  I’d like, today, to pay homage to moral bravery in the face of both verbal and physical attacks.  Despite withering fire from her school and the community, and despite threat physical confrontations, knife threats and property attacks, conservative student Kristen Campbell has stood [...]

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The other day, the Daily Mail ran an article about the exponential increase in stranger attacks in England, a byproduct of the public drunkenness that is increasing at an even faster rate than the violence.  I still remember when England was a remarkably safe, clean little country, except in the worst neighborhoods of the biggest [...]

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Reality is intruding on my yen to blog.  I will necessarily be incommunicado for a while when it comes to writing here.  However, I leave you urging that you read Rich Lowry’s downright impressive article explaining just how much Obama’s refusal to go to Berlin symbolizes about the man and his presidency. Also, please consider [...]

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I was trolling NewsFifty for headlines from across the United States, when I came across a link for something called the Tenth Amendment Center.  This is a website dedicated to explaining and protecting the States’ rights established under the 10th Amendment.  Since I think the 10th Amendment is going to be a very big deal [...]

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Yes, that is a mean post caption, but I wanted to capture your attention.  First, I truly believe that Barack Obama is a clinical narcissist.  This is something I’ve been saying for over a year, and more and more people are starting to chime in.  I know narcissists first hand, so I know one when [...]

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My husband is a man of many and varied virtues, but he has a significant flaw:  he doesn’t like to dance.  I do.  I love to dance.  And songs like this make me really, really want to dance: This too:

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Make a difference this year:  Vote for Joshua Goldberg.  I’ve corresponded with him a few times.  He’s a good guy and he’ll be good for New York.  So if you live in New York City and you’re a registered voter, make your voice count in this off year election by casting a vote for him [...]

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I’ve always wondered what I’d do if I ever found myself in a dire emergency.  I haven’t been tested, so my guesses range from total collapsing to being somewhat useful.  Gunnery Sgt. Ralph Scott doesn’t have to guess.  In Fallujah, he proved that, when he is under fire, he acts with the highest degree of [...]

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After my first couple of years blogging, I stopped tracking rankings too much.  It took too much emotional energy, since I never ascended as quickly as I would have wanted.  I also was unable to get my current blog registered in the Truth Laid Bear ecosystem (the fault being a counter problem I couldn’t overcome), [...]

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In 1993, Clinton tried to raise taxes.  Bad idea.  In 1995, Gingrich tried to cut Medicare.  Bad idea.  Both of those moves set up a resounding rebuff from voters.  As Kristol explains, Pelosi is setting herself up as a classic overachiever and trying to do both, plus a little bit more: Politicians aren’t altogether stupid. [...]

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When I was a little girl, thanks to a wealthy grandmother, we’d spend every summer in the mountains, a situation that lasted from 1964 to 1974.  This song provided a perpetual backdrop to those lovely days: This song too, from the Kingston Trio:

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It’s like standing in line at the check out counter:  You find yourself peering into the cart in front of you to see what people are eating. The obviously overweight person in front of you has filled his cart with junk food, sugary cereals, ice cream, no vegetables, lots of frozen pizza, no fruit, lots [...]

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Every blog listed on my blog roll is there because I genuinely like the contents of that blog.  Time constraints and habit mean that I don’t visit those blogs as often as I should.  Sometimes, though, I have a Sunday afternoon when I do get the chance.  The following is a list of just some [...]

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Old joke: At a very fancy ball, a man has been talking to a woman for a while, and they’re getting along well.  Eventually he asks her, “Would you sleep with me for $1 million?” She bats her eyes at him:  “Oh, you romantic man!”  She then suggests that they rendezvous in a quiet hotel [...]

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