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When I lived in England many, many moons ago, I met an English student who had spent the previous summer working, very, very hard, at the local zoo.  The highlight of his work day was driving around the little kiddy train, and even that wasn’t much fun.  He spent the rest of the time mucking [...]

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If you’d like to be depressed, read Krauthammer’s latest.  Sadly, it sounds accurate in every respect.  Honest to God, I don’t know if America can recover from this, or if we’re going to l0ok like England 20 years from now.  If that’s the case, I want a rock to crawl under.  England’s very ugly.  Didn’t [...]

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If you have a strong stomach, read this horrific report about two women in Iran who were convicted of adultery and sentenced to death by stoning.  This is entirely in keeping with the point I made in my article at AT that totalitarian states view sex, not as a private matter, but as a matter [...]

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I’ve written several times at this blog about the need to take back popular culture and make it more consistent with American values.  (Indeed, I think every conservative blogger has written the same thing.)  This Englishman, speaking of the disaster of British multiculturalism, perfectly articulates why a country must celebrate its own values: For Murray, [...]

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[Since I'm repeatedly updating this post, I'm going to keep it at the top of the blog, at least for a while.  There are other, newer posts below.] What a morning for interesting reading (and, in my next post, I’ll put up the Watcher’s Council submissions, which are also great).  Some of these links will [...]

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I know it’s supposed to be a love song (or ex-love song), but honest-to-God, I sometimes think it’s what all parents think when they look at their teens and tweens, the ones who want the money but don’t think there’s a housekeeping quid pro quo:

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Another great batch to expand your mind, from the Watcher’s Council: Council Submissions Wolf Howling – Obama & Keynes, Hayek & Laffer Snapped Shot – Speechless The Colossus of Rhodey – Foundation’s Triumph review and the fate of human destiny The Razor - Life in a Vise Rhymes With Right - An Interesting Question On Obama’s Citizenship [...]

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It might work, if Obama looked and sounded as good as this guy:

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Don Quixote sent me an email this morning.  It seemed like a great thing to post, especially while I’m digesting all the stuff in today’s news: Subject: The Fence………. Which side of the fence? If you ever wondered which side of the fence you sit on, this is a great test! If a Republican doesn’t [...]

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This sounds rather fun: If you are skilled with a pistol, rifle or any other firearm, you could win $100,000 in prizes on season 2 of History Channel’s hit competition show TOP SHOT. Producers are looking for anyone with mind-blowing shooting skills and a big personality to take on exciting physical challenges with multiple guns [...]

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Several years ago, my family and I visited Pompeii, which is one of the most wondrous tourist destinations in the world.  To maximize our experience, we hired a highly recommended guide who walked us over the grounds, explaining everything before us.  This guide’s particular passion was plumbing.  He had no words for the wonders of [...]

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There’s still time to stop a mosque from being built at Ground Zero.  People who pay attention to Islam understand that Islam always builds mosques at the site of military victories.  This ad gets it.  The media, some branches of which are refusing to run this ad, and the PC crowd in New York do [...]

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D.E. Stevenson, born in Edinburgh in 1892, wrote 42 novels in the years between 1923 and 1970.  Most are out of print, so I’ve had the pleasure of reading only the small handful I’ve stumbled across in local libraries over the years.  She writes about the British and Scottish middle class, always with a loving, [...]

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I am, as always, assiduously reading political news.  Every morning, compulsively, I check out mainstream papers (The Chron; the Times, both LA & NY; my local Marin IJ, etc.), as well as a ton of political blogs.  Most are conservative, some neutral (Jake Tapper) or ostensibly so (Politico). Despite (or, perhaps, because of) all this [...]

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Because it’s summer, the family, rather than being at school and work, is still home.  That certainly changes blogging dynamics.  Really, really changes blogging dynamics.  Really. But….  I still read stuff and, even though my thinking cap seems to have been misplaced, I still have information I want to pass along to you. To begin [...]

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Every time I read one Iowahawk’s satires, I think to myself, “This is it.  He cannot get better than this.”  And every time I am wrong, as Iowahawk, over and over, publishes something new that is even funnier than his last outing.  But honestly, it’s hard to imagine anyone topping this delicate 18th Century-style publication [...]

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Ack!  Having the family perpetually underfoot has left me several days behind in my blogging — including my responsibility (which is also a pleasure) to post the winners over at the Watcher’s Council.  Last week’s winners are: Council Winners First place with 2 2/3 votes! – Wolf Howling – Obama’s Lawsuit Against Arizona (Updated) Second [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, I did a very short post bringing to your attention some peculiarities of sexuality when it comes to the far Left.  Thinking about that — and thinking about the wonderful comments you all left — led me to create a much longer post about Sex and the State.  American Thinker [...]

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One of the brightest lights in the conservative blogosphere is now, and has for many years been, Chris Muir, who creates the Day by Day Cartoon.  He is running his annual fundraiser, and I urge you to visit and drop some money in the jar.  Using the money many of you have so kindly given [...]

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Once again, no one around me is leaving, whether for work or school, so both my brain and my blog lie dormant.  I thought you’d like to know about a couple of interesting internet sites to visit. The first is a new blog called “So the Blond Says.”  Lorie Byrd, who is friends with the [...]

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I saw the headline:  Student driver hits 6 pedestrians in crosswalk That’s an awful tragedy, I thought to myself. I remembered incidents from my own family’s driving history.  My grandmother, who didn’t learn to drive until she was 60, once backed into someone’s living room.  She drove another 27 years, never using her reverse gear.  [...]

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It hasn’t been a bad weekend.  It has been a very, very long weekend, and I’m still gearing up for another 5-8 hours of family activities and work.  Tomorrow will be a great day!  Also, I’m excited by the fact that something I’ve been working on will be published sometime this week.  I’m pretty pleased [...]

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I hate a whole row of tabs lined up in Firefox, with wonderful links I wanted to share with you.  Then, the system crashed — and they all vanished.  I think, though, that I can reconstruct at least some of them. The Left, our president included, is desperate to make Americans believe that, if Israel [...]

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I have had an absolutely lovely couple of days — and I will tell you more about them when I have time — but I have been up to my whatsis doing things both lovely and ordinary.  This state of perpetual motion will continue through Sunday night.  I may be able to slip in now [...]

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Sometimes it really pains me that I can vote for only two Watcher’s Council nominations in each category (Council and non-Council).  This week’s nominations are a perfect example of that frustration.  On both the Council and the non-Council side, the quality of the work submitted is extraordinary.  When voting, I refused to play eeny-meeny-miney-mo to [...]

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