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Sometimes, one just needs some easy listening 70s love songs.  Or maybe, someone, like me, who came of age in the late 70s, needs some easy listening 70s love songs.  This qualifies:

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In a time of economic uncertainty, which is not helped by runaway government spending, you might be surprised (happily or otherwise) to learn where your Senator or House member stands when it comes to pro-growth policies.  I was not at all surprised to learn that my representatives — Woolsey, Boxer and Feinstein — are busy [...]

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You heard about Jumanah Imad Albahri, the Muslim young woman who found unexpected fame when she stated to David Horowitz that she was for Hezbollah’s genocidal policy against all Jews.  Uncomfortable in the spotlight, Albahri has now written a response explaining how she was tricked and misunderstood.  (H/t:  Brutally Honest.)  I was going to fisk [...]

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“Logic! Why don’t they teach logic at these schools?” — C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Neither Data nor Mr. Spock, two relentlessly logical creations, could ever be liberals or Democrats or Progressives, or whatever the Hell else they’re calling themselves nowadays.  (For convenience, I’ll just lump them all together under the [...]

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England’s National Health Service is failing.  Yes, everyone gets treatment, but it’s lousy treatment, so its women die faster than women in just about any other European country.  Because the government is the only game in town, efficiency is nonexistent (no competition to stiffen bureaucratic spines) and women die. The headlines about vanishing species are [...]

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I’ve never been able to last more than a couple of minutes watching Family Guy.  It is, quite simply, way too crude for my tastes.  It takes vulgar, and puts it into hyperdrive.  I’m also out of sync with its liberal sensibilities, but that goes for 99% of what’s on TV nowadays, so that fact [...]

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I got an email from a friend about Ed Freeman, a Medal of Honor winner due to his courageous and inspiring service during the Vietnam War.  The email implies that Freeman died recently, which isn’t true — he died in August 2008.  Nevertheless, having learned of his service history, I would be remiss if I [...]

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You and I have seen Howling Mobs, although, if we’re lucky, not up close and personal. This is a Howling Mob (in Fallujah, with murdered contractors hanging in the background): This is a Howling Mob (in London, a part of the Danish cartoon riots): This is a Howling Mob (with thanks to Zombie, from a [...]

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I have been very remiss in posting the Watcher’s Council winners for the past two weeks.  No excuses; just my apologies — and the winners, of course. From two weeks ago: Council Winners First Place with 2 1/3 votes! – The Razor -Dumb Luck Highlights Failure of the Obama Administration Second Place with 1 2/3 [...]

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I’ve got a post in the works, but it’s not finished yet.  Until then, it’s open thread time!  Yay!

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This guy joins Gov. Christie as someone who doesn’t pull his punches.  Alabama voters are going to have some fun at the polls:

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I like to dance.  I’m not trained.  I just like to get out there and wiggle around.  So it was awfully nice this weekend, when I was dancing, to have someone tell me “You are a wonderful dancer.  You’re so good, you’re the reason other people don’t have the courage to get out on the [...]

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At HonestReporting.com there is a story I thought was a prank, but isn’t.  It turns out that the same network that collapsed utterly at there mere specter of Palestinian outrage over a South Park cartoon suggesting that freedom of speech trumps Islam, is running an online computer game that would fit on the official Palestinian [...]

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I was talking with someone the other day who is actually worried about the changes being wrought in the American health care system.  However, his touchstone, his security blanket regarding the socialization of American medicine is France.  France, he told me, has a great health care system that is the envy of the world.  Sweden [...]

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Numbers can lie, but the numbers here are consistent with the same numbers I’ve seen in dozens of other places, and the numbers are consistently drawn directly from government sources. If you want to know one reason why California has gone from the most extraordinary state in the Union (something I vaguely remember from my [...]

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Turns out that Hispanics, who are probably as misinformed as Eric Holder about the actual contents of the Arizona immigration law, are opposed to it in vast numbers.  I don’t get it.  When the illegal immigrants pour into American communities, bringing with them all their pathologies (gangs, drugs, alcoholism, violence, and poverty), they’re not coming [...]

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The language is blue, but don’t let that stop you.  Read it.  Read it all. My favorite line, incidentally, is this one: Despite her underprivileged background Professor Kagan rose to the challenge and graduated magna cum laude, an honor reserved for the top 89% of Harvard Law alumni. Right there is one of the dirty [...]

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It’s not Memorial Day yet, but it’s time to start thinking about it, and this beautiful video, by wordsmith at Flopping Aces, is a good place to start.  Be prepared with a hankie, though, ’cause you’ll need it. I just want to add one thing now that you’ve spent a few minutes thinking about the [...]

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The enemy of my enemy is my friend, so when the New York Times disses a movie based upon its politics, that may just be enough to mobilize me and move me to a theater.  Here’s the NYT on Robin Hood: You may have heard that Robin Hood stole from the rich and gave to [...]

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I met Mickey Kaus a few years ago at a blogger’s gathering.  He is precisely as Jonah Goldberg describes him:  middle aged, a little disheveled (albeit quite attractive), and hostile to BS.  I don’t agree with his political views, but he is smart, honest with himself and others, and he’s not an axe-grinder.  Democrats, Californians [...]

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I read E.J. Dionne’s fatuous defense of Kagan in The New Republic, and started formulating a response to his superficial argument comparing Kagan to Roberts.  (It was so superficial it almost, but not quite, devolved into “and they’re both homo sapiens.”)  Fortunately, I was spared that effort when I read both Paul Mirengoff’s and Ed [...]

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Gov. Christie of New Jersey takes on the media, and those of us with Blue State governments, jealous: Gov Christie calls S-L columnist thin-skinned for inquiring about his ‘confrontational tone’

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My husband and I have a tacit agreement — I don’t give our money to conservative causes and he doesn’t give it to liberal ones.  The only way in which we do spend our money semi-politically is that he subscribes to The New Yorker, and I subscribe to Commentary. However, there are often conservative writers [...]

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Presidents get photographed hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of time.  Each photograph captures a mere moment.  Some are flattering; some less so.  Many, however, go on to become iconic. My generation, the 1970s generation, is deeply imprinted with this photo of Richard Nixon flashing the victory sign: Then there is this 1932 photograph of FDR, [...]

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