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I find it amusing that, one day after my long rumination about the different parenting styles my liberal husband and I have, with both our styles accurately reflecting our politics, the blogosphere is awash in stories about the way in which Barack Obama, eschewing having the whole federal government act in loco parentis, tries himself [...]

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The American intelligentsia has a love affair with Communism that will not die.  The dead Soviets, the dead Hungarians, Czechs, Albanians, Poles, Bulgarians, etc., the dead Chinese, the dead Koreans, the dead Africans, the dead Cambodians, the dead Vietnamese, the dead Cubans, and the dead Latin Americans are all irrelevant.  Those are just mistakes from [...]

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I commented earlier that Focus on the Family handled the whole Tebow ad brilliantly, by letting the Left get hysterical in advance, only to be confronted by a completely innocuous ad in which Pam Tebow talks about times when she worried about Tim’s life.  With its preemptive frothing, the Left managed to show anyone who [...]

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Congratulations to jlibson, who was the only one to pick the Saints in the Bookwormroom poll.  No prize, but a years worth of bragging rights to put to use at any time.  And congratuations to the Saints, for a storybook ending to a feel-good story.

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I think that Focus on the Family took a page out of Andrew Breitbart’s book.  They dangled a little information in front of the liberals, and then let them self-immolate.  In response to the notion that Tebow and his mom were going to make a pro-Life commercial, the Left went completely unhinged, with obscene aged [...]

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As you have probably guessed from my blog silence this weekend, I have been heavily engaged in various family activities, many of which seemed to involve soccer balls or (this weekend) footballs.  I haven’t had lots of time to think about current events (which must, in any event, take a back seat to the Superbowl), [...]

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A living room full of former hippie gals, all in their 60s,  put together a short and vulgar expression of their disdain for, in their words, CBS having no respect for “women’s choice”: Just so that you’re clear on what they’re saying, here’s the way in which the person who posted the video describes what’s [...]

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Let’s see who can come closest to predicting the winner and final score of the Super Bowl.  The winner gets . . . well, actually nothing except the title of the Bookwormroom’s top prognosticator and a whole year’s worth of bragging rights.  I’ll start by saying Indy wins by a score of 34-24.  What’s your [...]

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Much is being made lately of the fact that Rahm Emanuel is being exposed as somewhat who berates people in meetings by calling them “retards.”  I don’t expect any better of Rahm Emanuel who is, by all accounts, an extraordinary boor and bully.  He’s also yet another example of the fact that the Left, by [...]

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This is not a post in which I opine.  Instead, I’m seeking your opinions about a question that’s been bedeviling me for some time.  What made it pop into my mind is a mass of statistics that Randall Hoven assembled regarding the percentage of gays in the American population.  As always with Hoven’s data, there’s [...]

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Here’s a riddle for you:  When do you read a Krauthammer column that’s not good?  When you read one that’s brilliant.  What I like so much about this most recent column is the way in which Krauthammer zeroes in on the whole liberal mindset:  the ordinary people are idiots and avowed liberals conservatives are evil.  [...]

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The gal’s life is sad, but the news story, at least in the first three paragraphs, is still funny: A Mill Valley lawyer was charged Thursday with breaking into a hotel refrigerator to steal yogurt, authorities said.Patience Nooney Van Zandt, 43, was booked into the county jail early Thursday morning after an incident at the [...]

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We spend a lot of time on this blog critizing Hollywood for it’s one-sided view of things, even in fiction (see Bookworm’s post on Avatar for a recent example).  So I must give credit where credit is due.  CSI Miami this week started with a guy about to face the electric chair, when he’s given a short [...]

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How does the Council manage to get better every week?  Perhaps we’re getting to be better writers and thinkers with practice.  Perhaps the current political scene gives us lots of material to work with.  I don’t know.  I just know that I like what I’m reading: Council Submissions Mere Rhetoric – Yahoo Wipes “Ariel, Israel” [...]

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What do you get when you cross a Bratz doll with a Smurf?  A Na’vi. Yup, folks, I finally caught up with my pop culture and went to see Avatar last night.  Seeing it made me realize why I so seldom bother to catch up with pop culture.  The movie was a snoozer.  The first [...]

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I’m working on a post, but thought you all would find this interesting in the meantime: From AJ Strata, something that’s not just interesting, but is also terrifying:  the terrorists are out there and, having gotten the measure of our new president and his administration, they are massing for war. If you needed a reminder [...]

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As regular readers know, I like bumper stickers and talk about them regularly.  But every now and then one will bring me up short.  Like today in the parking lot — “Senior for Peace”  For the life of me I couldn’t imagine the thought process behind spending good money to buy this sticker and put [...]

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I’ve had a few thoughts swirling around my brain today, so I thought I’d toss them in the mix. Thought one:  Rahm Emanuel’s been getting heat for insulting the mentally disabled by using “retarded” as an insult.  The focus has been on the hurt feelings of the mentally disabled, and I think that’s valid.  More [...]

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This is an entirely  hypothetical scenario, because my daughter is only 12, and I’m not planning on her dating for at least another fifteen or twenty years, if not more.  However, the sad fact is that, contrary to my entirely reasonable wishes, the dating scene is going to start in three or four years — [...]

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My deepest apologies for my blog silence today.  (And thank goodness DQ stepped in with one of his great observations.)  The fact is that I’ve been in perpetual motion today.  I’ve added a few gray hairs, but that’s about all I have to show for the day. I will be back much later tonight or, [...]

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I don’t have a lot to say about the “retarded” comment by Rahm Emanuel or Sarah Palin’s response, although she certainly has every right to be especially offended.  My question is, if a Republican made the comment, would he keep his job, and if a Republican made the comment would Palin and other Republicans be [...]

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You can read my favorite opinion/news story of the day, while I get down to work I really don’t want to do. After you read the story, here’s the interview that’s referenced in the story, with Tim Tebow showing remarkable composure as the media giggles nervously in the face of his religiously based integrity: I’m [...]

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I didn’t watch the Grammys.  Haven’t in years.  But one news report caught my eye.  Apparently, they were pairing up new acts with old and all went well until they got to the rappers.  By the time the censors got done with their act, it was, so the story said, unintelligible.  This brought to mind [...]

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I had a most fascinating (and surprisingly polite) discussion with a liberal the other day regarding illegal immigrants. My friend kept arguing that we owe the illegal immigrants in our country citizenship, welfare, health care, education, etc., because they’re here and we can’t humanely deny them access to those benefits. I argued that, if we [...]

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First, this is what my background and has shaped my thinking, my starting point.  I am a hard line conservative.  I have been ever since gaining my maturity.  I am well educated, two master’s degrees, one in Strategic Intelligence.  I was born on the left coast, I am a practicing Christian, I live in Virginia, [...]

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