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Tweet I was thinking about government care today, not in terms of dollars and cents, but in terms of the human factor.  Government health care imagines that all people will respond to situations in the same way, both physically and emotionally.  But that’s not how people are. The medicine that makes one person feel wonderful [...]

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Tweet I’m still doing paying work (woo-hoo!), so won’t be blogging this morning.  However, there’s so much to read out there, what with the Kagan hearings (and did you hear how she changed scientific information to make it comport with her political beliefs?); Obama’s 70th day decision to allow foreign aid in the Gulf (although [...]

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Tweet There are two storm warnings I want to give you, one of which requires action on your part, the other of which, depending on where you live, falls into the “sit, watch, and thank God you’re far away” category. First warning:  Drastic cuts to the military, courtesy of Bawney Fwank, that noted military expert.  [...]

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Tweet Stand With Us is an extraordinarily important organization.  I cannot emphasize that enough.  Its goal is to counter the calumnies that an unholy union of Leftists and Islamists spread against Israel, especially on college campuses. The Stand With Us founders realized something that American Jews and other friends of Israel had missed completely:  while [...]

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Tweet [Note from Bookworm:  As of now, the video embed of Pete Stark you'll see in the post below has only 97 hits.  It should have a million hits.  Pete Stark is, and always has been, an exceptionally nasty piece of work.  However, Democratic acts in Washington make it clear that what he says is [...]

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Tweet Last week, Townhall Magazine came out with a fun list of the 100 Americans it believes the Left hates most.  You’ll recognize almost every name, as each person mentioned is a prominent conservative. David Swindle, who manages David Horowitz’s News Real Blog, realized something, however:  Townhall‘s algorithm seemed to be based a bit more [...]

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Tweet The American Prospect has written a little guide for its readers explaining why Republican attacks will fall off Kagan like eggs off Teflon.  You and I know that they won’t matter because of the Democratic majority, and maybe the American Prospect knows that too, because its defense is lazy.  One aspect of the defense, [...]

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Tweet I already mentioned how impressed I was by Ronald Reagan’s 1964 speech, which I posted here, and listed to in its entirety while folding laundry.  Listening to Reagan made that task go much faster.  It’s a fabulous speech, with each idea — most of which are as relevant today re government spending, individual freedom, [...]

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Tweet My daughter, who is not in camp this week, is listening to her bubblegum pop music in the background as she organizes her closet.  I am reminded of one of my pet peeves with modern music:  the lyrics are utterly lacking.  They lack imagination, they lack charm, they lack wit, they lack wisdom, they [...]

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Tweet The recession has been a mixed blessing for me.  On the one hand, I’ve had almost no work.  And on the other hand, I’ve had almost no work.  You see, while I miss the income, it’s been an incredible relief to have some time.  My family keeps me plenty busy, and I was just [...]

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Tweet In a market economy, the marketplace drives the availability of goods and services.  If there’s a big demand, the market will create a big supply; if the demand dries up, so does supply, as the market sends its resources elsewhere. Supply and demand, however, have no place in government controlled sectors of the economy.  [...]

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Tweet The feds may be planning on suing Arizona for having the temerity to try to comply with federal law, but Jan Brewer isn’t taking things lying down: Hat tip:  American Digest

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Tweet In 1989, when it became clear that the former Soviet Union could no longer stop the spread of Democracy in the Eastern Bloc countries, many of us naively assumed that a new dawn of peace and harmony was about to arrive.  We envisioned lions and lambs frolicking together, all bedecked in dewy flowers.  What [...]

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Tweet As an actor, Kevin Costner has never floated my boat.  I just don’t get him.  That’s okay.  Where it really counts, he’s a mensch.  Wish there were more like him.

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Tweet This is Ronald Reagan’s 1964 “Time for Choosing” speech.  What’s fascinating about it is that, while some of the details are dated, the overarching principles are as fresh today as they were almost 50 years ago.  That’s because freedom is an ageless concept, and that’s what Ronald Reagan is articulating.  As we watch our [...]

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Tweet Last night, I had a dream in which I walked up to Obama and, a la a 19th Southern gentleman, slapped him across the face and called him an “unprincipled scoundrel.”  If it was only that easy. Think about it:  In 1994, American voters, fed up with Clinton’s and Congress’ pull to the Left [...]

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Tweet About a month ago, our local newspaper ran an admiring article about a retired Marine who is training young people who want to enlist in the military (plus a video).  It turns out that, for some time, the gym has been in the cross-hairs of the usual Marin anti-military crowd, and there is an [...]

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Tweet Yet another swim meet, so I’ll be incommunicado blog-wise for a while.  Hope you all are enjoying a great Saturday. Meanwhile, I’ll leave you with something from an age of sophisticated lyrics:

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Tweet A couple of years ago, I switched my lifelong party affiliation from Democrat to Independent.  The fact is that I’m more closely aligned with Republicans than Independents, despite having some serious reservations about Republican Party management, but I just couldn’t make myself put that “R” by my name.  Today, however, I switched once again, [...]

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Tweet Can you think of a more apt metaphor for Obama’s America? The only problem is that those of us issuing this cry are speaking into a void.  I don’t see anyone racing to the rescue. Hat tip:  Sadie

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Tweet I think I’ve posted this once before as a “just because” video, but today I’m feeling nostalgic for the optimism of my youth, so I’m posting it again.  I’m getting older, and the world does not seem to be getting better:

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Tweet Richard Baehr has tipped me off to a promising newcomer on the conservative political satire blog scene:  Pacific Intelligencer.  The mind behind it is Greg Collins, a West Point grad, Iraq War combat veteran, American Thinker contributor and, now, Seattle resident.  It’s a visually pleasing site, and I like the humor.  Here’s a sample: [...]

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Tweet I have to admit that this was a good week for me at the Watcher’s Council.  Not only did my own post take first place (and many thanks to my fellow Council members for that honor), but my non-Council submission, Zombie’s photoessay about the scary and idiotic confluence of labor and antisemitism, took first [...]

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Tweet You recognize that quotation, right?  It’s one of Golda Meir’s most repeated sayings.  However, if you’ve been paying attention to the blogosphere lately, you’ll see that the Palestinians, with a lot of help from the Jordanians, are still raising their children to be cannon fodder.  Rick, at Brutally Honest, has my favorite post on [...]

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