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Tweet I attended the Marin GroupaPalooza, and did a tongue in cheek blog post here, imagining how a Progressive would have perceived the event.  John Yoo has just published his take on the event, which is straightforward and clear — and nicely rebuts Obama’s (and the rest of the Left’s) paranoid fantasies about the event.  [...]

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Tweet Earlier today, I blogged about the problem of sourcing material:  information is only as good as the publisher’s knowledge and honesty.  It appears that Elizabeth Warren, whom Obama unilaterally (that is, without Congressional oversight) appointed to meddle in consumer financing, is guilty of letting ideology corrupt research.  I wouldn’t doubt it.  As you all [...]

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Tweet I’ve heard from various people that, once the midterm elections are over, with the only real questions being (1) whether the Republicans also take the Senate and (2) by how much they take the House, Obama will change his tune.  After all, Bill Clinton did, and he emerged from the debacle strong enough to [...]

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Tweet Barry Rubin thinks he knows.  I would say “what a sad, pathetic little man,” except for the fact that his “sad, pathetic little man” is one of the richest people in the world, and is using his personal pathologies to destroy a nation and its people.

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Tweet I think science supports my disbelief in man-made global warming (aka, AGW).  I won’t go into the details now, but that’s the conclusion I’ve reached after reading a lot of the literature (including Brian Sussman’s Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam). I didn’t reach that conclusion based on science in the [...]

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Tweet HBO has recently premiered Boardwalk Empire, a lavish new series that seeks to recreate Atlantic City chicanery during the Prohibition era.  HBO really went to town on this one.  Not only did it get Martin Scorcese to direct (leading me to ask my husband, disingenuously, “didn’t he used to direct real movies?”), it’s obvious [...]

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Tweet Did you know that the last Sunday in September is Gold Star Mother’s Day, which is a day meant for Americans to honor mothers who have lost a son or daughter who was serving in the United States Armed Forces? It won’t surprise you, I’m sure, to learn that, on Saturday, George and Laura [...]

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Tweet One of the routine accusations leveled against socialism is that it seeks to usurp the role of the adult in society.  If the government provides cradle to grave care, the people don’t have to.  They don’t have to raise their children, they don’t have to feed their families, they don’t have to plan for [...]

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Tweet This is an open apology — I fell behind on my email, and started sorting like mad, to preserve the wheat, while archiving the chaff.  Unfortunately, in my frenzy, I seem to have archived a bunch of substantive emails to you, my friends.  So if you wrote me and I didn’t respond, that’s why.  [...]

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Tweet When I was studying for the State Bar exam, a long, long time ago, my mom suggested that I get myself a massage, to help me with the tension.  It seemed like a good suggestion, I so dutifully took myself to a highly recommended masseuse. The masseuse began working on my neck, and I [...]

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Tweet I’m heading off to a client, so I don’t have time to blog.  Here’s all you need to know: Rep. Alan Grayson is despicable, even by the low standards of despicable-ness currently emanating from the Democratic party.  His Republican opponent, Daniel Webster (and isn’t that a great American name) is currently being slandered and [...]

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Tweet A little imp made me tell my Progressive friend that I would be attending the Bay Area Patriots‘ GroupaPalooza, which is, essentially, a convention for the small but robust number of conservatives in the Bay Area.  I’ve mentioned this friend before.  He’s the one who assured me that the Tea Party is a direct [...]

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Tweet Mistakes happen, but this was such a stupid mistake, from an organization tasked with knowing how to do these things correctly.

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Tweet When President Obama actually said bad things about Ahmadinejad’s remark (“hateful,” “disgusting,” etc.), I ought to have been delighted.  But I wasn’t.  And J.E. Dyer perfectly articulates why Obama’s little moment of outrage about A-jad’s speech left me cold. Basically, we’re having government by a teenager.  His speech was the 13 year old equivalent [...]

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Tweet The same friend who sent me the video below commented that, for conservatives, part of Christie’s enormous appeal is that he is a grown up:  he makes tough decisions, he’s honest, he won’t let the people around him behave like teenagers (and that’s exactly how Leftists behave), he doesn’t care about being popular, and, [...]

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Tweet The other Council members and I are in remarkable harmony for the past few weeks:  whatever I think is top stuff, so do they, so my first choices keep being the winning choices.  As always, the stuffy you’re about to read (and I assume some of you will take the opportunity to read these [...]

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Tweet At Rhymes with Right, Greg tells about a peculiar interaction he had at a Democratic-themed blog, where his argument in favor of free speech earned an attack against him based upon his Jewishness.  Although Greg was flattered, he isn’t actually Jewish.   He concluded, that the claim that he is Jewish was meant to be [...]

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Tweet Over at Michelle Malkin’s site, Doug Powers reports that the New York Times is trying to dig up dirt on Boehner — specifically, sexual dirt.  In a post entitled “Had An Affair With John Boehner? Please Call 1-866-NYT-DEMS,” Powers links to a New York Post story that has the Times desperately hunting for sex [...]

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Tweet BTW, Ben Howe, who created this video, is brother to Caleb Howe, who blogs at Red State.  Their momma and daddy raised those boys right.

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Tweet I was amusing myself imagining a dream candidate, one that would attract a lot of crossover votes.  I came up with this political personality: And this physical image: I would so vote for this man.  Of course, because I’m not quite that shallow, I would vote in a second for Christie even if he [...]

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Tweet To appreciate how the headline gave me the information I needed, you have to be familiar with Sherlock Holme’s concept of “the dog that didn’t bark.”  In other words, sometimes the absence of evidence is all the evidence you need.  In this case, the AP headline was a lean, mean “Kings County Supervisor accused [...]

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Tweet If you’re looking for posts providing substantive information about problems with myriad Democratic candidates in the upcoming election, this list, which a friend sent me, is a wonderful start.  As you can see, it’s organized by candidate name, but each link will lead you to a full length post about problems with that candidate.  [...]

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Tweet I didn’t say that Ellison has a challenger who can win.  I’m not sure the voters in Minnesota’s 5th CD have enough sechel to make the smart choice.  But Joel Demos is a substantive challenger, because he understands the real issues facing Americans — and, as this video shows, their children: Hat tip:  Hot [...]

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Tweet Forgive my long opening discourse. I need to set the stage. Most Americans don’t know much about Belgium and Flanders. It’s a shame. For a quick summary, Flanders is the region that stretches from Belgium’s northern border with the Netherlands, west to the  English Channel and into northern France (including Dunkirk). It is home [...]

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Tweet The Palestinians have for years threatened Israel with a population bomb — except recent accurate counts showed that their numbers are grossly inflated.  For years, America has been chastised for its high infant mortality rate — except it turns out that other nations report lower numbers because they don’t count babies who are fragile [...]

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