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It tells you how quickly the world is moving that José María Aznar was prime minister in Spain as recently as 2004.  It’s impossible today to imagine any current world leader, including our own President, writing this about Israel. I’ve posted Aznar’s message on both of my facebook sites, emailed it to all my friends, [...]

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When I was a young lawyer, I worked for an attorney who liked me to sit in the room and just listen to him dictate his briefs into his little hand-held Dictaphone.  When I expressed concern that I was wasting client time, he assured me I was not.  I was, he said, keeping him honest. [...]

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Whatever else happens today, I know I’ll have interesting stuff to read, from the Watcher’s Council: Council Submissions The Colossus of Rhodey -The Pledge of Allegiance … in Spanish? The Provocateur – Glenn Beck’s Conspiracy Theories Bookworm Room -The banality of perversion The Razor – If I Could Speak as Natalie’s Mother… Mere Rhetoric – [...]

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Reading the news today about, among other things, the Gulf oil spill, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Euro collapse, Iran, Israel, Turkey, the economy, the border, and illegal immigration, I’ve had two phrases that stuck in my brain and refuse to leave.  The first is Janet Napolitano’s near-deathless bit of bureaucratese, “man-caused disasters,” one that she and [...]

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Long before Obama appeared on the scene, we’ve all commented here (and I’ve written at some length) about the amazing parallelism between the Harry Potter world and the real world when it comes to the Western world’s approach to Islamic terrorism.  There was almost an artistic perfection to the fact that, when Obama became president, [...]

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This one should go viral: Incidentally, we know now that this meeting, when it finally took place, was scheduled to last only 20 minutes and that, while it ran longer, Obama had left the building.  And yes, I know that the White House managed to squeeze cash out of BP, but that’s still not actually [...]

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I posted earlier today about Great Men, and how they look at the waves heading their way and decide to leap athwart those waves and drive them in certain directions.  Chris Christie is one of those men.  He truly has the capacity for greatness: Please note his sense, his morality, his decency, his coherence, his [...]

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According to David McCullough, in his wonderful biography of Truman, Truman’s favorite book as a child was one called, if I remember correctly, Lives of Great Men.  That book title perfectly exemplifies what I call “the great man” theory of history. This is history as it used to be taught, with a focus on rulers [...]

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There are three House candidates I want to put on your radar.  The first is Renee Ellmers, in North Carolina, who is running against the abnormally aggressive Bob Etheridge.  You can get a sense of Ellmer’s calm good sense in this video, in which she discusses Etheridge’s insane behavior, and offers herself as a reasonable [...]

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I’ve been writing a long post for a while but, since I’ve been interrupted every 5 or so minutes, I am not making the progress I would like.  I’m going to work out now, clear my head, and (I hope) come back refreshed and able to wrap up the looonnng post.  Until then, this space [...]

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The fact that American Jews overwhelmingly support Obama tells us something:  American Jews no longer support Israel.  It’s that simple.

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This is a miracle of modern science that will make you smile: Hat tip:  Hit & Run (Reason Magazine)

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If you read one thing today, read this non-homophobic, non-sexist article explaining why it’s a terrible mistake to allow women, and “out” gays to serve in combat units.

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Sadie got word to me that PayPal has retreated from its attempt to shut down Pamela Gellar’s websites, each of which is aimed at exposing Islamic (and other) totalitarianism.  As Gellar says, though, conservatives cannot get complacent: The little money that my organization Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) and the Freedom Defense Initiative (FDI), as [...]

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[Content warning for the under 18 crowd. Have your parents read this one first, and let them decide if you can too.] The Anchoress has a post today about a Hyundai commercial that, while doing nothing to make you want to buy the car, does succeed in being offensive to Catholics.  Not “big” offensive, a [...]

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I’ve got to get some papers to court today, so blogging won’t happen this morning.  Until I’m back:  Happy Flag Day!

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Last week, the Watcher’s Council website was savagely attacked by hackers.  We’ve all taken it as a sort of perverse compliment, since we know the baddies (Leftists, Islamists, general idiots), prefer destruction to debate when it comes to scary ideas of freedom, morality and general human decency. Terry Trippany, the Watcher’s Council webmaster (and my [...]

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Michael Yon has been for many years a truly admirable blogger.  On his own dime, he’s inserted himself into Iraq and Afghanistan, creating beautiful, powerful photo essays about our two-front war.  He’s not beholden to any publishing company, so he’s operated with a freedom that you can’t get from even the most honestly run MSM. [...]

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I’m really not quite sure what to make of this comedy video.  It’s from England, yet it’s fact-filled and pro-Israel.  I wonder how long before these two people are banned from YouTube:

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Atlas Shrugs, Pamela Geller’s website, is ordinarily a phenomenal place, and it’s “shame on me” that I don’t link to it more often.  Today, however, there are two posts there that mandate links from all bloggers.  The first because it’s a fascinating link and the second because it’s an important link for every blogger who [...]

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On May 7, 2009, when Obama’s anti-Israel animus was first making itself very apparent, I wrote about Saudi cooperation with Israel: It will be interesting to see if Israel can withstand Obama’s pressure.  I’m reasonably optimistic that, with Netanyahu at the helm, Israel understands what Obama is doing and understands what will happen if he [...]

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Today is a perpetual motion day.  For those of you who have more time than I do, fill up the empty spaces in the comment boxes!

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Obama has now gone from blaming people for things they actually did (whether or not what they did was wrong under normal people standards), to blaming people for things they might hypothetically have done (emphasis mine): President Barack Obama said Friday that some members of Congress should share the blame for the Gulf of Mexico [...]

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Charles Johnson is an iconoclast.  A liberal who found himself in conservative territory because of his fierce and principled stances against Islamism and corrupt media, he had a parting of ways with conservatives because of his equally fierce stances regarding groups in Europe that are pushing back against Islamism (groups that Charles perceives, correctly or [...]

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