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Okay, folks, I’m going to admit to racism here, by which I mean that I’m advancing a position based on racial considerations.  I just learned through The Corner that there is an online conservative journal on the scene called Freedom’s Journal Magazine. Aside from the fact that it has one of the coolest online interfaces [...]

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Howard Fineman was going along all right in a column admitting that the health care bill was politically dangerous for the Democrats and that Americans really don’t like it.  Then he got stupid — and it’s the kind of stupid that either proves he has minimal gray matter in his cranial cage, or that he’s [...]

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I had lunch today with Don Quixote and his wife.  We were talking about the fact that we all feel a little down, a combination of work pressures, the economy, political news, etc.  Looking at all these factors, I said I was suffering from the “Malaise of 2010.”  DQ and his wife laughed, and I [...]

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Actually, there are only three reasons here why public sector employment is killing the economy.  I’m sure that, all of us working together, could think of many more reasons:

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Many of my facebook friends have been posting stories (from the NYT, the WaPo, NPR, etc.), about the incredibly violent, dangerous, racist, and homophobic tea partiers.  I countered this morning with a very neutral post to the effect that, in a two party system, citizens will always challenge the president, and that there will always [...]

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Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.  And when you have two pictures you can compare, the meaning multiples exponentially.  First, from the White House’s own Flickr site, here’s Obama greeting the troops: Let me reiterate that this is the image the White House itself chose to represent the relationship between the Commander in [...]

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Conservatives are rightly irked by the fact that the short form for the census seeks to divide people into racial classifications, a la apartheid South Africa.  I don’t even know what the long form seeks, but I’m sure it’s intrusive. Nevertheless, please don’t lose sight of the fact that the counting is a Constitutional thing [...]

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Wouldn’t it be delightful if the authors of disaster were also the only ones who suffered from their creation?  Sadly, that’s seldom how it works.  The power players get roll their balls, and the ordinary people suddenly find themselves as the innocent nine pins, hoping that the ball hits the gutter or, at the very [...]

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I’ve been thinking a lot about crazy people, which is an interesting thing to do because it’s very hard to get a handle on what constitutes a crazy person.  I know for pretty darn certain that the guy who used to stand on a corner in downtown San Francisco all day longer talking gibberish to [...]

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I did my duty as a citizen today, when I left bright and early and headed up to the local courthouse.  Although it was a profoundly boring day, it was also an interesting experience.  You see, despite many years of lawyering, I’ve never sat on a jury, nor have I ever been part of selecting [...]

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An antisemitic Jew I know, rather than seeing the Passover ceremony as the celebration of freedom (the world’s first and for a long time only successful slave revolt), and of justice and morality (the Ten Commandments), derides the whole ceremony as the unconscionable and immoral celebration of the genocide of the Egyptian people.  What troubles [...]

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Andrew Klavan goes back and forth between being quite brilliant and being very brilliant.  I’ll let you decide where this one falls. I will add only that my mother, who voted for Obama, told me that she’s very resentful of the way she was duped.  I wanted to tell her that she didn’t have to [...]

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A few days ago, Danny Lemieux, in a comment to this blog, asked a very important question: If more than 50% of wage earners pay no income tax and can vote themselves (i.e. parasitize) the labor and assets of the 20% of the population that pays the large majority of income tax, are we still [...]

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I’m not quite sure of the language one uses for Palm Sunday:  “I wish you a happy Palm Sunday?”   “I wish you a peaceful Palm Sunday?”  “I wish you a joyous Palm Sunday?”  “I wish you a meaningful Palm Sunday?” Whatever the correct wish is, for those of my friends who observe this day, that [...]

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I had another fascinating conversation with a liberal who offered this take on the situation with Israel: Because everyone hates Israel, it’s a brilliant strategy for Obama to attack it to raise his standing in the world.  Israel wants this too.  I bet you $100 that we’ll learn that this whole ‘fight” was carefully scripted [...]

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Organizing For America (the Obamabot organization) has set up a handy-dandy web page so that the Obamatrons can easily write to local newspapers to crow about the wonders of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Obama Care. The goal, of course, is to get published, and make people feel as if they’re in a community that [...]

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I think Andrew Brietbart is an incredibly important figure in today’s conservative movement.  More than anyone else, he’s shown that he understands how to take conservative ideas and hurl them over the fence that the MSM keeps trying to throw up to insulate regular people from those views.  I’ve now discovered, however, that there is [...]

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History is written by the victors.  We know that.  But I’m apparently not the only one who considers it unconscionable to make up history out of whole cloth. You see, Germany has a Holocaust memorial commemorating the thousands of homosexuals who suffered terrible persecution (imprisonment, torture and death) at Nazi hands.  The memorial was supposed [...]

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So many brilliant people have written about Obama’s full frontal attack on Israel.  Each has said something important, and all are very worrisome.  Peter Wehner, however, has most neatly nailed the moral component, the personality issue, behind Obama’s disgraceful behavior (behavior so disgraceful even the London Times caught on).  Here’s Wehner: The entire theory on [...]

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The previous post was a collection of links organized around a single topic — sudden Liberal claims of conservative violence.  This post is more loosely organized, since it simply has links of things I found interesting.  Here goes: National Review/Michael Fumento:  The People Speak, which holds up the truth to Obama’s lie that Obama Care [...]

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Okay, I’m not really saying that those on the Left are quivering, whining cowards.  They are, however, working hard to present themselves in that light — or, rather, in the light of helpless victims — in the hope that they can convince ordinary Americans that conservatives, libertarians, Tea Partiers, etc., are unhinged neo-nazis who are [...]

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I meant to post yesterday the Watcher’s Council submissions, so that you could see what we were voting on last night, but the day just slipped away from me.  I can, however, let you know today how the vote turned out.  I’m quite flattered that my fellow Council members thought that my post about Tom [...]

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I have to admit that my political memory isn’t that long.  The first president I remember is Johnson, and I have only the vaguest recollection of him.  I know now that he was a sharp political operator, a vicious enemy and a complete fruit loop in his day to day conduct.  I start having more [...]

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There was another anti-war rally in San Francisco, but the gloss of all Americanism with which the movement covered itself during the early years of the Iraq War is gone.  With that gloss ripped away, the truth comes out: The glory days of the 21st-century anti-war movement were in 2003 and 2004, when tens of [...]

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My Internet is dead this morning, so blogging will temporarily be limited to this iPhone generated open thread. Have at it! I’ll be back as soon as I can — probably in a couple of hours.

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