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When I watch Obama in action, I become very worried that Yom Hashoah, instead of being only a remembrance of things past, will be joined by a Yom Hashoah II, the sequel.  But today, I won’t blog about that.  Instead, I urge you to read this story of a young British man, imprisoned in the [...]

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Apparently the god of inanimate objects is still angry at me, because my washing machine — filled with wet laundry, of course — gave up the ghost. I am therefore at the laundromat, an environment that precludes serious blogging, especially on an iPhone. Speaking of blogging, I won’t be able to blog for the next [...]

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Watcher’s Council results are in and, as is always the case when this happens, I’m tremendously flattered that my fellow council members thought well enough of my post to put me in first place.  If praise from Caesar is praise indeed, what is praise from many Caesars?  After all, I was overwhelmed by their submissions. [...]

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Over at Power Line, they call it clearing the spindle, a charmingly old-fashioned concept.  But that’s exactly what I’m going to do.  I’ve got a pile of posts from the last few days that I really want to share with you.  In no particular order: John Stossel has as good a definition of any I’ve [...]

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Israel is beleaguered right now.  If you want a good rundown, just read today’s Commentary Contentions posts, which cover everything from the ambush planned for Netanyahu, to the insanity of Obama’s nuclear plan (which hits Israel, which is not a nuclear treaty signatory, so it is a US target), to the university ban on researchers [...]

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I’ve been following Al Gore’s global warming hysteria with all the attention it deserves.  I’ve understood about the boiling frogs; the way he gets to fly around, live in mansions, and drive SUVS, while the rest of us don’t; and our responsibility to use only a single square of toilet paper regardless of circumstances.  I [...]

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I have absolutely no idea why I’m blogging about this one, but it just tweaked enough synapses in my lazy Friday morning brain to get me going.  Here’s the sad story out of Australia: Muslim woman strangled by her burkha in freak go-kart accident A young Muslim woman had died after her burkha became snagged [...]

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The beauty of a Tea Party in San Francisco is that this is home turf for Pelosi, Boxer and Feinstein.  It makes a real impact if their own home town makes a showing against the policies these three gals advance.  Here’s the latest news. SAN FRANCISCO TEA PARTY UPDATE 1.  VENUE The San Francisco Tea [...]

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I’m still agog at the quality of the Watcher’s submissions this week: Council Submissions The Colossus of Rhodey – “You have to trust your gut” Right Truth - Truths About the Democrat Health Care Bill Mere Rhetoric – Anti-Israel WH Officials Targeting American Jews With “Leaked” Dual Loyalty Smears Bookworm Room - Redefining the word racist so [...]

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One of those days. My Comcast died completely and won’t be fixed until tomorrow am. No reading; no writing. My iPhone also got hunky hinky and refused to work. Now is the first time I could even iBlog. I feel adrift. So, talk amongst yourselves. I’ll come back ad soon as I can. UPDATE:  I [...]

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Thursdays are my most frantic, least-favorite day of the week.  I’m running, and I’m not stopping.  Have fun here.

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A lot of you read the same things I do, so maybe one of you knows where I can find an excellent opinion piece I read the other day urging the Obama administration to stop providing nuclear educations for Iranian engineers.  Iran, after all, has committed itself to our imminent destruction. Joshapundit has now published [...]

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“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.”  — attr. to various generals at the Battle of Bunker Hill (although it has a longer pedigree than that). Liberals have been orgasmically excited by a video that Wikileak published showing a 2007 shootout in Baghdad, during which two Reuters stringers died.  Wikileaks contends that [...]

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Baseball is not a sport that works for me.  This play, however, impressed me greatly:

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Wolf Howling has put together just a stellar post about the ongoing attacks on the Catholic church (along with a very nice link to yours truly).  If this is a subject that interests you — and it should, whether or not you’re a Catholic, because it goes to attacks on a pillar of Western civilization [...]

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A few days ago, in the wake of a concerted (and almost certainly fraudulent) attack against the Tea Party by claiming its members are racist, I wrote a post in which I said that, if I’m going to be called a racist, I get to define the term to accord with my understanding of race. [...]

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We all know that Palestinians are victims, right?  That’s why they get a free pass for eating up billions of dollars in foreign aid without establishing viable communities, for launching tens of thousands of missiles aimed at Israeli civilians, and for periodically boarding Israeli buses or entering Israeli restaurants to get an up-close-and-personal approach to [...]

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Obama may have been making a fool of himself with baseball, whether throwing a ball badly, misspeaking the name of an American institution, or refusing to admit that no, he didn’t know the team line-up, but Jonah Goldberg , distinguishing himself from Obama, hit a home run today.  Admittedly, the home run didn’t actually have [...]

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Nothing’s going to break our stride or slow us down, right?  We’re going to keep on moving.  2010 and 2012 will be our years:

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You and I know the incredible peculiarities of the Leftist world, which sees feminists ignoring sharia’s worst outrages and gay activists who are out in full cry trying to establish a fully Muslim Middle East, a place in which the only good gay activist will be a dead gay activist.  As to the latter, there [...]

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You know the story:  Obama has informed the world that we won’t use our nuclear weapons unless some rogue regime strikes.  Aside from the fact that he’s now tacitly admitted that he’s not going to stop Iran from going nuclear, he’s also announced to every nuclear nation in the world that the U.S. is surrendering [...]

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As the Soviet Union showed, by the time medicine is fully nationalized, careers in medicine have been reduced to the lowest status level, somewhere around street cleaning.  Learning medicine and practicing medicine (including nursing, pharmacy, technical jobs, etc.), is incredibly time-consuming and, in a society that still has the gloss of being capitalist, costly.  The [...]

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Better late than never, especially when the winners were so very, very good.  Here: Winning Council Submissions First place with 3* points! -The Colossus of Rhodey – The inanity of the rest of the West Second place with 2 points – Mere Rhetoric – Liberal Anti-Tea Party Outrage Overflowing With Nuance, Amnesia Third place with [...]

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[Updated at 4:30 p.m. California time.] I’m on the move this morning, but wanted to share a few things with you: Hugh Hewitt, in a single seamless article, explains Obama’s falling poll numbers, his bad attitude, and the economic disaster awaiting us. John Stephenson looks at the larger implications of the relentless attacks against the [...]

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