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Tweet [I'll keep this at the top through Memorial Day.  Scroll down for lots of new posts.] Several years ago, as part of a 9/11 commemoration, I wrote the following words as part of a post I did about Lt. Brian Ahearn, one of the New York fire fighters who perished on that day: My [...]

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Tweet This morning, I was emailing back and forth with my friend Kim Priestap, who blogs at the wonderful and charming Up North Mommy.  We were discussing Jews who view Israel, not as a victim, but as a predator. Never mind the fact that Israel lays claim to a tiny patch of land in the [...]

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Tweet For once, Israel is trying swiftly to retain some semblance of control over the message.  Using facebook, the Navy is disseminating videos of the incident.  I’ll show them here, followed by the IDF’s narrative, which the IDF included with the YouTube footage.  This video narrative begins yesterday, when the IDF carefully warned the flotilla [...]

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Tweet As I’ve mentioned just a few times, I just read, and was very moved by, Marcus Luttrell’s Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10.  A liberal I know flipped through the book’s first few pages and had a very different reaction.  The following passages bugged [...]

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Tweet Mr. Bookworm called to me today:  “Israel did it again.”  I can’t fault him for his viewpoint.  This is what happens to people who read only the New York Times.  To them, it is always Israel’s fault, because that’s what they’re told to think.  The possibility that there might be more going on is [...]

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Tweet On the right side of the blogosphere, we have often discussed the fact that, during the Bush years, the Left indulged in gory fantasies of George Bush being shot or beheaded.  In the interest of fairness, it behooves me to point out that some on the Left indulge in similar fantasies when it comes [...]

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Tweet I did a very little post about Obama’s meaningless rhetoric and, with a nod to Lerner and Lowe, I titled it “Words, words, words.  I’m so sick of Obama’s words.”  Tonestaple, in the comment section, came back with something much better: With deepest apologies to Lerner & Lowe: Words, words, words I’m so sick [...]

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Tweet American Jews supported Barack Obama in numbers second only to American Blacks.  They still support Obama.  This is because the soft life in America has sucked out their brains.  How else can one explain that they continue to support him despite things like this: Washington’s unprecedented backing for a UN resolution for a nuclear-free [...]

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Tweet We’ve talked before about the horrible racism of liberals.  They typecast everyone, and then convince each person so typecast that he (or she) is a victim of an all powerful white male cabal.  Here is a perfect example, courtesy of Bill Maher. I’d like you to imagine the uproar — up to an including [...]

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Tweet I love kid logic.   I was telling my pre-teen daughter about the Navy SEALS (having just finished Lone Survivor), and I mentioned the incredible physical strength and mental stamina the men had.  “And the women….” she prompted me.  “Nope,” I said.  “No women.”  She stared at me.  “But don’t the men get lonely?”  That’s [...]

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Tweet How could I have missed this one?

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Tweet For someone who is supposedly the most adept president at speechifying since FDR, Obama is a bombastic blowhard, whose occasional forays into real speech reveal ugly things about his thinking.  Mark Steyn describes Obama’s linguistic approach: Like those of many great “thinkers,” words for Barack Obama and his coterie seem to exist mostly in [...]

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Tweet Effective ad: I’m not a Peggy Noonan fan, since I haven’t forgiven her for drinking the Obama Kool-Aid simply because he fit her class structure rubric (Ivy League professional), but I think her WSJ piece should be read as a companion to this video.

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Tweet [Broken video link fixed.] I’ve known Dan Noyes for years, as our children have attended the same schools.  This is not to say I know him well and, indeed, he knows me even less well.  Every time we run into each other at school functions, you can see him try to figure out who [...]

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Tweet With increasing frequency, we hear reports about the Left’s growing disaffection with Obama.  The media, for example, is hostile to the fact that Obama doesn’t even bother to hide his disdain for them.  This is not just media pique resulting from unreasonably high expectations.  Obama is quite explicit about his unwillingness to have anything [...]

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Tweet Yeah, I know it’s not quite Memorial Day yet, but sometimes things come my way that I can’t wait to pass on.  This morning, it’s two posts from Greyhawk, at the Mudville Gazette.  The first one is both a memorial to the dead, and a bit of background to the second one, which honors [...]

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Tweet A few days ago, I mentioned Robin of Berkeley’s American Thinker piece about the two different types of Jews in America:  the kind who are reflexively liberal and reflexively pro-Israel, and the kind who are reflexively Leftist and reflexively hostile to Israel.  Robin’s point was that the former do not understand that they have [...]

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Tweet I have been suffering greatly this morning, preparing carpooling charts for various end of school year events.  I hate doing the charts, but I hate even more not having carpools. While I’m getting non-chart stuff done this morning (the process really burned up my time), here are a few links that I found interesting [...]

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Tweet I know Los Angeles has threatened to boycott Arizona.  Aside from all sorts of Constitutional implications if a government entity in one state boycotts another state, I have a simple proposal:  Boycott Los Angeles.  Don’t visit it; don’t go to the movies; and don’t buy products on TV shows emanating from Los Angeles.  Let [...]

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Tweet I love the days when a perfectly formed essay springs into my mind, one that really tackles a single issue (or a fusion of a few issues).  Those days, however, happen only when I prime the pump, and that pump priming occurs only if I read tens or even hundreds of articles.  I’m in [...]

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Tweet I thought you’d like to see the face of some of Barack Obama’s most ardent supporters, shown here in San Francisco on the occasion of Obama’s visit to raise funds for Boxer (a visit clearly more important than visiting the beleaguered Gulf Coast, with that “damn hole“): For more on what Bay Area Tea [...]

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Tweet For the past two days, I’ve been gathering links that I’ve meant to use in stand-alone posts.  That’s clearly not going to happen, though, so let me pass the links onto you, in the hope that you find them as interesting as I did. Here’s something of a public service announcement:  if you post [...]

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Tweet When I was in law school, one of my classmates was a lovely man who had decided to go to law school after several years as a police officer in Oklahoma.  I forget the context of our conversation, but he once told me that, in law enforcement, you never shoot to wound.  Shooting is [...]

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Tweet Oh, how I wish I could vote in Alabama.  First Dale Peterson, and now Rick Barber, whose campaign video you must watch.  And then watch again.  And then send to your friends: It will not surprise you, I think, to learn that Barber is a Marine Corps veteran. Hat tip:  American Thinker

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Tweet Hyperlinks defeat me on my iPhone, so here’s just a raw link: http://politics.upnorthmommy.com/2010/05/private-sector-pay-shrinks-to-the-lowest-in-us-history/

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