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That war, of course, is the United States of America (and all the freedoms for which it stands) versus Sharia.  After you’ve read this Andrew McCarthy article summarizing Newt’s speech to the American Enterprise Institute, you may want to link to it at your own blog, tweet it, email it to friends, or use whatever [...]

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Nancy Pelosi may be mad at Robert Gibbs for admitting that the upcoming elections aren’t going to result in Democratic gains, but the fact is that she sounds pretty desperate herself in this email I got begging for funds: Midnight tonight is your last chance to contribute to the DCCC before one of the most [...]

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My book club group met the other night to discuss William Manchester’s book A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age. The title is something of a misnomer. It’s only a “portrait of an age” if you want to read a thousand years of medieval history crammed [...]

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I’m sorry I didn’t blog today.  I have a half finished post on my screen, but can’t seem to get it entirely finished.  Sometimes, when that happens, I just abandon the idea and move on to other things, but sometimes I just get mentally blocked up.  I seem to need to work this one out [...]

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This video needs no introduction: Hat tip:  The Razor

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Wonderful stuff: Council Submissions Wolf Howling – An Overdrawn Race Card The Provocateur – Saul Alinsky and Dr. Anna Chacko Rhymes With Right – Shirley Sherrod: Dissent Equals Racism And A Desire To Return To Slavery Right Truth – Conservative Republican Agenda The Razor – True Bigots Snapped Shot - The Happy Little Mosque… of Rage [...]

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All this family and socializing stuff has left me way behind on my news reading.  However, I do have some stuff that you might find interesting while I regroup (and my thanks to all who sent these links): The NEA urges its members to read Alinksy.  Are we really surprised? Several years ago, I spent [...]

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I love thrift shops.  I’m in a Goodwill three to four times a month looking for “dispose-a-books” — cheap novels that I can read like mental candy, and then turn around and donate right back to Goodwill again.  When my kids need Halloween costumes, I’m also at Goodwill, buying interesting used clothes that can be [...]

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You can always trust the Germans to have a word for complex, and negative, emotional feelings.  Today’s word is schadenfreude: “satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else’s misfortune.”  I can’t say that I’m immune to it, of course.  If the person suffering misfortune is an evil person, I certainly won’t weep for him.  However, I [...]

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It was all family, all day, leavened by a delightful visit from a friend.  I am dead on my feed, and will write tomorrow.

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For reasons best known to Comcast, my internet connection today has been either nonexistent or merely spotty.  I’m in a spot right now, so I’m just trying to write up a quick addendum to my earlier short post about the the fact that Shirley Sherrod is no saint.  The Gay Patriot agrees, adding all the [...]

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My blog friend Lorie Byrd is working for Renee Ellmers, who is opposing Bob “Who are you?” Etheridge.  Ellmers has put out a plea for campaign money, which you can give voluntarily.  This is an important point, because her video is a reminder of the way in which Washington abuses the money it forces out [...]

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You can take the girl out of the 70s, but you will never take the 70s out of the girl — at least not when it comes to music:

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Zombie explains.  This is what happens when the behemoth that is government allies itself with the moral emptiness that is political correctness.  It all adds up to a huge tax bill — for you.

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If you are a student of architecture, or if you have ever visited Marin County, or if you simply like Frank Lloyd Wright’s work, you may know that the Marin County Civic Center was Wright’s last commission — so last, in fact, that the ground breaking happened in 1960, after Wright had already died. Wright, [...]

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The big news in the world of conservative publishing today is Stanley Kurtz’s Radical-in-Chief. It’s not actually out yet — that will happen on October 19 — but you can pre-order at the link I provided.  According to the press release, the book proves completely that Obama, despite his denials, is in fact a socialist, [...]

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Honest to Gawd, I think summer vacation is making my brains evaporate.  It’s not just the endless small interruptions and tasks.  Those are fixtures in my life.  Nor is it the fact that the kids and their friends are around non-stop.  Indeed, having the friends around is a good thing, because they engage with each [...]

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You might have noticed here a paucity of posts about the Gulf Oil spill.  Except for its providing further evidence of Obama’s tin ear, I found it uninteresting.  Why?  Because the environmentalists were hysterical.  Experience has shown me that, unlike even a stopped clock, they are almost invariably wrong.  That meant that the only real [...]

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The Council has voted again, and I’m very flattered that my fellow Council members thought my post on burqas was good enough to take first place.  As it is, I didn’t think I’d rank anywhere near the top, since the other submissions were so good. Here are all the winners for last week: Council Winners [...]

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While the MSM would clearly like the whole Journolist discussion to vanish (as evidence by the fact that I haven’t found mention or, at least, prominent mention of it in any traditional print media), the fact  remains that it’s out there and it’s ugly.  The bits and pieces we’ve seen show major journalists and their [...]

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Normally, I open one of these posts by apologizing for not blogging because, honestly, I really meant to blog.  Not this time, though.  I’ve been letting my brain go fallow this weekend.  Aside from it being the dog days of summer, meaning that the politic scene is running stupid, but shallow, I simply need to [...]

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Those on the Left and the RINO “right” (Frum, Parker, etc.)  are defending JournoList vigorously by saying that there’s nothing wrong with them having opinions and talking amongst friends.  That’s absolutely true.  But that wasn’t what the JournoList people were doing.  IBD sums it up beautifully (emphasis mine): In essence, all these left-leaning journalists, an [...]

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Andrew McCarthy writes compellingly about the problems — the big problems — we in America should have with the proposed Ground Zero mosque.  What I like is his pithy summary of the reason Islam is different from all other religions, and this is primarily because, while it calls itself a religion, it isn’t really.  Instead, [...]

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By now, we’re all familiar with the Sherrod story.  Andrew Breitbart was sent an edited video that made it look as if Sherrod was boasting to an NAACP gathering about denying government aid to white farmers.  The audience laughed complicitly when Sherrod made that confession. Breitbart held onto that video clip until the NAACP announced [...]

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The parts I’ve highlighted make this sound like a very expensive proposition and, as I explain below, I’m worried that the bureaucratic rigidity that controls these types of things is part of what will make it so ridiculously expensive: Corte Madera must put a $3 million to $4 million revenue measure before voters by the [...]

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