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This is an amazing snippet of a homeless man — who must be sorely tempted by the welfare state — recognizing that the only way to relieve him from the burden of economic disaster is to get the government out of the economy: For those liberal trolls who have found this website, let me explain [...]

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In the days leading up to Fleet Week, it’s very usual to see military jets swoop across the sky.  If I’m lucky, standing at the bus stop can be a perfect location to view some nice formation flying.  It’s June, however, and we’re a long way from Fleet Week — which is why it was [...]

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So many of my past political beliefs embarrass me.  One of the ones that I find most humiliating is the way in which I so totally bought into the whole notion of gun control.  My thinking was so simplistic:  Guns kill people, therefore guns are bad and should be outlawed.  I never could wrap my [...]

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It is always a pleasure to read Victor Davis Hanson.  Today, I think, it is a must to read him, as he looks at the extraordinary (and impossible) standards to which Israel is held.  He believes, as I have long believed myself, that if you’re “damned if you do and damned if you don’t” — [...]

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Before the 1970s (give or take a decade) the vast majority of Americans viewed socialism as a profoundly anti-American phenomenon.  Red scares started in the immediate wake of the 1917 Russian Revolution, and America’s dislike for socialism, especially under the guise of communism, continued unabated through the first two thirds of the Vietnam War. The [...]

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While Obama’s team slobbered all over itself to join up with the UN crowd to investigate Israel’s blockade against a hostile country and its efforts to enforce that blockade, the Jewish Community Relations Council is seeking signatures on a petition asking for a somewhat more useful investigation:  one into the affiliations (and, I’m sure, terrorist [...]

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I got an email from a Marine.  As part of his signature, he included the Marine motto:  Semper fidelis.  I don’t know, but I just think that’s kind of a nice motto to have attached to your life’s work.  It bespeaks, in two Latin words, an ethos of honor and commitment. I suspect that if [...]

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Are you aware that Iran was caught smuggling weapons into Gaza? Do you think Israelis have any legitimate reason to be concerned that Hamas may try to receive weapons via boat? Did you know that Hamas activists have shot about 4000 rockets into southern Israel since Israel withdrew form Gaza? Does that trouble you? Do [...]

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This is genius (and you can dance to it too):

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I’ve got a lot of inchoate thoughts wandering around in my brain this morning, so I thought I’d share with you the links that fascinate me — and you shouldn’t be surprised if some of them morph into full blown posts later. Many, many years ago, when Holland had just legalized euthanasia and there was [...]

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Follow the Fleet (1936) is one of my favorite Fred and Ginger movies.  Since I belong to the Navy League, and often post about the wonders of the U.S. Navy, I thought that this wonderfully clever Irving Berlin song might be a fun homage to the sailors:

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Sorry for the silence today, but I had to cancel a vacation.  And nope, it’s not a cause for sorrow.  I was never deeply committed to this trip, so when business matters forced our hands, I was very okay about the whole thing. It turns out that canceling a vacation is very hard work.  This [...]

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The Watcher’s Council website appears to be have been hacked, but I can still give you a list of all the wonderful stuff that we’re going to be reading and voting upon.  This is also an opportunity for me to welcome Brian Ledbetter, of Snapped Shot, the newest member of the Watcher’s Council. Council Submissions [...]

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h/t:  Mike Devx

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If you are a Wizbang reader, you may be familiar with posts by Hugh S, whose real name was Hugh Slatery.  I use the past tense with sadness and deliberation, as Hugh died very unexpectedly on Sunday.  You can read about Hugh’s passing here.  I know his family and friends would appreciate your condolences.

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In my post about Helen Thomas, I focused on her incredible stupidity in saying that Jews are the interlopers and “Palestinians” the indigenous people.  In fact, the opposite is true.  Jews have lived in Israel non-stop since about 1800 B.C.  The “Palestinians” — a name I put in scare quotes because there really aren’t such [...]

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I am not a person given to vulgarity.  I swear under two circumstances:  when something genuinely and completely frightens me or when . . . well, there is no other circumstance.  Frankly, I consider myself smart enough, and my vocabulary rich enough, to eschew swear words entirely.  I have better things to say. Not so [...]

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No kidding.  Really.  It’s true. Now, having clicked over to the link, I bet you’re not at all surprised.

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Barry Rubin takes on the world’s warped perceptions of Israel and of the Islamic killers — and rips those perceptions to shreds by looking through the eyes of the jihadists themselves.  The same post reveals the startling inhumanity that is radical Islam.  It says much about the navel gazers on the Left that is Islam [...]

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The following, from 2006, is a perfect video.  First, it shows what a horrible person Helen Thomas has always been.  Second, it highlights the Bush White House attitudes towards Israel as well as the late, great Tony Snow’s intelligence, wit and charm.  That’s as good a contrast as you can get to the anti-Israel White [...]

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Before hearing this on the radio today, I honestly think the last time I heard it was around 1972.  It sure snapped me back on a quick journey through the decades:

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Charles Johnson is masterful when it comes to exposing media fraud, whether it was Rathergate in 2004, or Reutersgate in 2006 (when Reuters messed with photos of the Israeli/Hezbollah War).  Proving that he wasn’t just lucky back then, but in fact has a genuine knack, Charles has done it again, this time exposing Reutersgate II, [...]

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I attended a very large pro-Israel rally at the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles today. Numerus blocks were closed off. First thing, whatever the media reports, there were more people there than they claim. To my untrained eye, there appeared to be many thousands. The crowd was tightly packed for blocks. There were so many people we [...]

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I spoke with a fellow parishioner today about our children. This well-meaning, socially aware good fellow (an attorney) was extolling how well his son was progressing in his Ivy League undergraduate education. And, I asked, what was he studying? Environmental sciences. Ah, I said…that’s an interesting and certainly timely field of study: had he been [...]

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This past weekend’s sunny Saturday morning was a quintessential suburban spring day.  I gathered with hundreds of other families at a local high school for our children’s swim meet.  We traveled there in our comfortable cars, air conditioners blowing, driving over clean safe streets.  We all met up at the large, inviting pool, where we [...]

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