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As many of you discovered yesterday, my server was down for some time.  I thought I’d lapse into a deep funk, but I was actually somewhat grateful.  The news about the economy and Israel was so deeply depressing, I needed a break from thinking about it. To be honest with myself, “needed” isn’t the right [...]

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I am crazy abut this politician: We have some spectacular young guns in the conservative party.  The problem is timing.  I don’t know if any will be ready by 2012, and it may be too late by 2016.

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No surprise here — winners were heavily focused on the flotilla.  The winners are superb (and so are the ones that didn’t win): Council Winners First place with 3 votes! – Mere Rhetoric – Israel Publishes Gaza Travel Guidebook For Pro-Hamas Freedom Flotilla Second place with 2 1/3 votes – Wolf Howling – Obama, Turkey [...]

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Helen Thomas is a staggeringly ugly woman — not outside, where it’s obvious, but inside, something that explodes outward in a cloud of venomous verbal pus every time she opens her mouth: By the way, Helen, the Palestinians are the occupiers.  Jews have been in the land, without cessation, since around 2000 B.C.E.  Let’s get [...]

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I meant to blog, really I did.  But the day didn’t go quite as planned.  I worked out, which was great.  Then I had a bowl of ice cream, which was great.  Then I sat next to the dog for a minute, which was great.  And then I fell asleep for three hours, which was [...]

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I’ve written about the warriors among us.  By that, I do not mean people who are simply willing to kill.  That’s easy, if you have the right mind set.  Instead, I mean people armed with an overwhelming sense of justice and morality, who will push themselves far above and beyond ordinary people in order to [...]

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Yesterday, White House officials were telling Jake Tapper that Obama would support Israel.  Any minute moments of hope I cherished that the administration actually meant what it said were swiftly dashed.  This is Obama’s version of support: The Obama administration considers Israel’s blockade of Gaza to be untenable and plans to press for another approach [...]

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I have to boast just a little bit.  Despite driving for more than thirty years, I’ve never had a moving violation.  I have heard, however, that if the highway patrol pulls you over for speeding, it’s no defense to point to the traffic passing you and the officer by, while exclaiming, “But everybody is speeding.”  [...]

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Please, please, please, please, spread this video:

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Here is what I am reading even as we speak.  Good stuff, all of it: Council Submissions Mere Rhetoric - Israel Publishes Gaza Travel Guidebook For Pro-Hamas Freedom Flotilla Bookworm Room - Memorial Day Post : The Warriors Among Us The Colossus of Rhodey – The White House and Joe Sestak — so what? The Razor – [...]

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I like Bibi.  I have always liked Bibi.  The world might have been a different place if his arrogance hadn’t knocked him out of the running for a while there.  Here, in its entirety, is his post-flotilla statement.  The statement also includes video embeds, so I urge you to follow the link and view the [...]

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Israel made a tactical error in defending a direct assault on her legal blockade.  The blockade, incidentally, does nothing to prevent Gaza from importing food, fuel, and all the other necessities and luxuries of ordinary, non-terrorist life.  Instead, the blockade’s purpose is to prevent Gaza from importing massive amounts of weapons from Syria and Iran, [...]

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The news has been so unrelievedly grim lately, I’m badly in need of a little escapism.  Today, for some reason, my brain took a vacation to a movie I’ve always thought of as a bad movie with some good scenes — Thoroughly Modern Millie.  I’ve always been especially fond of the opening credits: As a [...]

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[Italicized text corrects a misstatement in my original publication, which implied that the Obama team planned the paint balls.] Peter Ferrera has speculated that Obama may be forced to resign before the end of his term.  My email group rolled the idea around a little bit and then decided that it wasn’t likely.  News today, [...]

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I first ran this YouTube video three years ago, when Barack Obama, our nation’s first anti-American president, was still a theory, not a fact.  It bears watching now, as we witness Obama’s efforts to bring about a world without America:

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Here are last week’s winners at the Watcher’s Council.  As always, don’t let the fact that only some were able to win deter you from reading them all.  You will be delighted with the little happy sparks flying through your brain after reading these submissions: Council Submissions First place with 2 1/3 votes – Bookworm [...]

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My friend Laer, who started blogging at Cheat-Seeking Missiles (which is now on hiatus), has created a new website devoted to the insanity that is California.  It is called, appropriately enough Crazifornia, and is part of his ongoing project to document (ultimately, in best-selling book form) what happened in California.  This matters, not just because [...]

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News travels at breakneck cyberspeed. Click and consume. The blur of bad news whizzes across my eyes:  I am a famed race car driver without a seat belt watching history. The curves are coming, my reflexes are challenged with each lap. After the first 20 or 30 laps, the course gives me a foolish sense [...]

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Thanks to a reader for bringing this video to my attention.  It explains how Boston’s Islamic Cultural Center has deep jihadist ties — and how Massachusett’s governor Deval Patrick has allied himself with this organization:

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This is the public outreach YouTube site for the Israel Defense Forces.  Bookmark it, send it to your friends, check it often. Here is the latest IDF real time video from the ship boarding, showing the “peace” activists in full fury: The West is being played — although perhaps that’s the wrong thing to say.  [...]

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Is this really the Gene Simmons of KISS fame?  Having read his bio, I think it is.  (By the way, it’s a surprisingly interesting and impressive bio.  Who knew?)

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According to Jake Tapper, Obama will side with Israel on this one.  Assuming that’s true, the next question is whether it will be a full defense of Israel (properly identifying the terrorists arrayed against her, and honoring her restraint) or whether it will be a lukewarm “I guess she sort of had the right to [...]

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A friend emailed to me a statement from the Israeli Consulate.  Sadly, I doubt any Leftists or media types (but I repeat myself) will read it: The Gaza Flotilla and the Maritime Blockade of Gaza Israel regrets all loss of human life and injuries which came as result of the unfortunate events aboard the vessel [...]

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Word got out that ANSWER, a Communist front group, is planning a protest at the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco today (June 1), so Stand With Us in San Francisco is trying to gather for a counter-protest.  So, the email you see below is from a group friendly to Israel, giving information about ANSWER’s protest, [...]

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