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Ella Fitzgerald, singing Cole Porter’s “From this Moment On,” which he wrote for Kiss Me Kate:

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Who are Jon and Kate and why should I care about them?

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Yesterday I wrote a long post about the fact that the abortion debate, at least on the pro-choice side, ignores social and medical advances that should make it a very different debate from the one that led to Roe v. Wade.  I think this is an important conversation, because of the fact that ObamaCare would [...]

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I dreamed last night about the first ultrasound I had when I was pregnant with my daughter.  I was sixteen weeks pregnant, and had been throwing up non-stop for 15 1/2 of those sixteen weeks.  I was not happy.  I resented the parasite within me.  And then I saw the sonogram image and discovered that [...]

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First, here is Scott Brown’s latest ad: Second, not only should conservatives and independents in Massachusetts vote for him, but so should progressives.  After all, the latter hate the proposed health care bill as much as the former do.  Conservatives and independents hate the bill because it vests power in the government; progressives hate it [...]

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California AB 118 will be going to committee on Monday, January 11, 2010. AB118 would repeal AB 32, CA’s job-killing global warming bill. We need patriots to call their Assemblymember or, if possible, attend this committee hearing in SacTo. You have the right to go up to the microphone and announce your SUPPORT to AB118. [...]

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By now, all people, young and old, know better than to give their credit card information out over the phone.  The thieves, knowing that this well has gone dry, have a new approach, which has them conning you into giving out the card security number.  Although this approach has been around for at least seven [...]

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Making breakfast this morning I was reading the label of my syrup.  Bottle contains 12 ounces.  Serving size: 1/4 cup.  Servings per bottle approximately 6.  Am I missing something here?  Why not just say serving size 2 ounces?  Is there some kind of obscure federal regulation requiring label makers to be obtuse? There is a [...]

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I’ve been harping for years now about the fact that Obama’s emotional connection isn’t to America, but to something else.  I’ve thought it was to Leftism.  Rabbi Spero makes the very good argument that Barack Hussein Obama’s emotional affiliation is to Islam.  He doesn’t say that Obama is a religious Muslim.  He just notes that [...]

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One of the most basic principles of Anglo-Saxon common law is a homeowner’s right to defend himself against intruders.  Oh, wait!  That’s not quite true anymore.  In England, which practically gave its name to the notion that “a man’s home is his castle,” homeowner self-defense is against the law (emphasis mine): Myleene Klass, the broadcaster [...]

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For anyone struggling to understand what has happened in the Middle East since the Oslo “Peace” Accord, I cannot recommend anything more highly than Evelyn Gordon’s Commentary magazine article, The Deadly Price of Pursuing Peace.  The so-called peace process, by destroying Israel’s long-standing legal rights, caused her to lose focus and room to negotiate.  The [...]

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One of the things that DQ and I speak about with a fair degree of frequency is the fact that our generation does not have an optimistic vision of the future.  Yeah, sure, we’re all interested in the next generation of technology, but that’s really as far as it goes.  Indeed, I suspect that most [...]

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It’s palette cleanser time.  This time I’m not whining about the political scene.  Instead, I’m leading to the stories of two brave people.  I’ll start with the more recent, less complicated story first.  Once upon a time there was a very pretty young lady who worked at a little coffee kiosk.  And once upon a [...]

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Life without keeping score is pointless flailing about as well.  Keeping score need not be numeric.  You can keep score with anything that’s important to you — money, friends, good deeds, morally upright behavior, devotion to your God — whatever is important to you personally.  But do keep score.

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I’ve got a matched set of posts for you today.  The first is an American Thinker article by John Gaski, in which he advances the argument that the Democrats are tuning out the American voters, not because they are blinded by ideology, but because they have a well-advanced system in place for permanent one party [...]

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Just in case he actually runs for office, the Leftist media is already planning one line of attack against Glenn Beck.  They’re thinking that they can nail him on taxes, just as he went after so many Democrats who were found, wittingly or not, to have underpaid their taxes: No one has been less forgiving [...]

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I will be blogging this afternoon, but my morning has been taken up with family stuff, including the exciting one of reinstating TiVo in our lives.  We had TiVo for many years, but when we got an HD TV, we tried switching to the Comcast DVR, because it was cheaper than upgrading to HD TiVo.  [...]

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Domino’s Pizza has just come had with one of the most brilliant ads I’ve ever seen — and, even better, the ad seems to riff off of an even more brilliant corporate decision.  In essence, Domino’s realized its pizza stank, determined to change that fact, and then let the public know exactly where it erred [...]

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Devastating advertisement from Keep America Safe:

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I used to keep score for my son’s Little League team.  No matter what the score, it could be 12-3, the kids would come running up to me between innings and ask what the score was.  We are born to compete.  We need to compete.  The score matters, even to 8-year-olds.  Sports without keeping score is [...]

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It’s the rare week when I have an easy time voting at the Watcher’s Council, because I’m usually impressed across the board by the submissions.  This week, I was impressed at an even higher level than usual.  The posts that Council members submitted, whether their own or someone else’s work, were stellar even by our [...]

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One of the defining features of Islam is its obsession with sex.  Every rule regarding women is based upon a driving need to control their sexuality.  They are married off as children, sequestered, dressed in clothes that rob them of any hint of femininity, deprived of any opportunities to function outside the reproductive sphere, and [...]

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I’m having a minor mid-life crisis.  I’ve been a practicing lawyer for almost 23 years now.  I’m quite good at what I do, but I hate it.  And lately, it’s been getting harder and harder to flog myself into getting the work done and meeting the deadlines.  (Although I should assure any current or potential [...]

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Years ago, when I first became aware of the blogosphere, I noticed a single huge dividing line between Progressive and conservative political writers:  the former have dirty mouths.  Their blogs are filled with references to human waste and human sexual acts, all spelled out in the crudest terms.  Interestingly enough, I see that at home [...]

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