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I recently read SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance, which, sadly, was not as good as the original book by the same authors. One thing that did stick with me, though, from this slightly silly, banal book, is the author’s claim that, in the Muslim world there is [...]

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Bookworm recently asked, “is Europe trying to save itself?” To that question, I can only offer anecdotal evidence from family and business visits made to France and Belgium this summer, shortly after the Greece-precipitated financial crisis. Europe (witness the EU) is an uber-bureacracy. For centuries, Europe’s forms of governance have devolved into top-down, centralized governments [...]

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The British government has proposed stealth communism:  all paychecks go to the government first, which then doles out to the wage earner whatever amount the government feels is the wage earner’s due.  Think about it.  As Pat Sajak wrote yesterday, withholding is bad enough, because it deprives the worker of a sense of ownership over [...]

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Pat Sajak posts periodically at Ricochet.  I always look for his posts there because they’re not just right, they’re often very witty.  For example, check out his post regarding the fact that LA County managed to use $111 million stimulus dollars to save or create 55 jobs.  Even when he’s not just plain funny, Sajak’s [...]

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I don’t have a link yet (it was tweeted), but it appears that the Swedes elected a center-right government.  I see this as a good thing, although I haven’t lost sight of two facts:  (1) Europe is so far Left that, as we know from England, even center-right is Left; and (2) the cancer of [...]

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I admit it — I didn’t read the whole thing, because the obscene relativism permeating Nicholas Kristof’s first couple of paragraphs so disgusted me, my brain shut down.  Anyway, because of fair use concerns, I don’t want to quote more than the first two paragraphs, which more than adequately make my point: Many Americans have [...]

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I know this will come as a surprise to all of you, but I was not born wise or well informed.  I blush to think of some of the behaviors in which I indulged, and the ideas that I held, when I was younger. When I was a very little girl, I picked up from [...]

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Three more weeks to my favorite week of the year — Fleet Week.  Yay!  Up until a few years ago, Fleet Week was fun.  Now, thanks to the Navy League, Fleet Week stands out as a time when I get to visit a world that is not only completely different from mind, but is also [...]

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A deeply disappointed New York Times reports that the Democrats are not able to rely upon the union stalwarts in the upcoming election: Labor leaders, alarmed at a possible Republican takeover of one or both Houses of Congress, promise to devote a record amount of money and manpower to helping Democrats stave off disaster. But [...]

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You’ve all heard by now about the group of Massachusetts school children taken to a mosque where they were taught utterly fallacious history about Islam and America, and then led in prayer: A mosque spokesperson is seen teaching the children that in Mohammed’s 7th century Arabia women were allowed to vote, while in America women [...]

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Much as I adore blogging, it takes a lot of effort to write up posts all the time.  I also get ideas sometimes when I’m not near my computer, and would love to be able to go with the energy of that particular moment. The long and the short of it is that I’m thinking [...]

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Calif. State Sen. Roderick Wright was indicted on eight felony counts related directly to his term in office.  If I tell you that this allegedly corrupt politician’s party affiliation wasn’t mentioned until eight paragraphs into the AP article reporting on that same indictment, does that give you an adequate hint as to his political party?

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Listening to this man is such a powerful rush, it’s like crack for the conservative brain: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com

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Every week, they just seem to get better over at the Watcher’s Council.  This week is no exception, especially because of two new things happening there.  First, with each post listing submissions or naming winners, the Watcher will be including one of the best political ads.  Second, of much greater import, is the fact that [...]

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I was much struck by how earnest and concerned Meredith Vieira was when she interviewed Ines Sainz about the sexual harassment the latter allegedly experienced in the New York Jets locker room: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Vieira wasn’t quite so restrained last year, with a handsome young [...]

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One of my favorite bloggers is AJ Strata, who blogs at the Strata-Sphere.  Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, he’s flickering in and out today.  Don’t give up, though, ’cause he’s working on it.  If you can’t get to him today, try again tomorrow.

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On my personal Facebook account, I linked to a report about the cartoonist who suggested “Everyone Draw Mohammed” day.  It turns out that this little moment of satire occasioned death threats so serious that she has now been forced into a life of hiding: An American cartoonist whose satirical work inspired the controversial “Everybody Draw [...]

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People who sneak into this country with impunity are not only not arrested, they are protected.  Someone who has the impunity to speak out against this flagrant illegal activity — is arrested.  Life in Orwell’s America.

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José María Aznar.  It’s not a name that meant much to me in the past, since Spain’s internal politics weren’t of overriding interesting to me.  It’s a name that interests me a great deal now, because it is the name of a man of extraordinary integrity, of true righteousness.  It is he who started an [...]

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My mother has announced her voting position this November, and it can be summarized as “a plague on both their houses.”  A Democrat since she came to this country, she is disgusted by the Obamites, and cannot in good conscience vote the Democratic ticket.  However, she told me that she believes that Republicans are virtually [...]

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Obama’s getting ready to publish another book, this one purporting to be a letter to his daughters.  Its content? “Of Thee I Sing,” which President Obama finished writing in 2008, describes thirteen “groundbreaking Americans and the ideals that have shaped our nation—from the artistry of Georgia O’Keeffe, to the courage of Jackie Robinson, to the [...]

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While I was away, Don Quixote did a post at this site about the way in which clients, witnesses and attorneys will happily commit perjury to advance their case.  In conversation with him yesterday, I opined that part of the problem is the oath people take in American courtrooms.  In the old days, people would [...]

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Have you ever been in a debate with a Liberal/Lefty and been so overwhelmed with either the vapidity of their arguments or the absolute volume of misstatement, sloganeering or fact-twisting that you are left open-mouthed and unable to respond. After the interchange, you kick yourself by thinking, “I should have said….”. Happens to me all [...]

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Iowahawk is tweeting select passages from Meghan McCain’s new book.  It’s hysterical.  If you want a more substantive look at how dreadful McCain’s morals and thinking are, check this review out.

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No matter how irritating the world around me gets, there is always one small center of sanity, week after week.  That would be, of course, the Watcher’s Council.  Every week, I get to read and vote upon posts that are thought-provoking, informative, interesting and, as with this week’s non-council winner, amusing.  Ladies and Gentlemen, may [...]

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