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If you’re wondering how horror stories, hallowed rituals and Obama all fit beautifully into a single political opinion piece, you haven’t yet read Patrick O’Hannigan’s “The Anti-Ritualist,” over at The American Spectator.  And if you like Patrick’s writing style, be sure to check out his blog, The Paragraph Farmer. As I said to a friend [...]

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I wrote earlier this week that I was going to vote in person, rather than by mail, which is what I usually do.  There’s just too much risk that my absentee ballot will “accidentally” get lost in liberal Marin.  Meanwhile, at the polling place, they scan it instantly.  Better odds for a fair outcome. In [...]

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This must be the most awkward looking performance I’ve ever seen, but the music is . . . well, it’s pure Beach Boys magic:

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Two of my absolute favorite political writers, Peter Wehner and Jennifer Rubin, have chastised O’Donnell for her recently reported constitutional error.  I think that, perhaps, they’re being unfair.  It’s clear from reading the news reports that the Constitutional portion of the debate was intended to be a pile-up on O’Donnell: Also during the debate, O’Donnell [...]

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I have to admit to being a little suspicious of an AP report that has O’Donnell appropriately saying that there’s nothing in the constitution about separation of church and state (that, as you know, comes from a letter Jefferson wrote), but then states that she does not know that the 1st Amendment says that Congress [...]

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In my liberal corner of the world, I periodically have people tell me, quite earnestly, that the military preys on the poor and ill-educated.  I’ve countered these fact-free statements with the study from the Heritage Foundation study demonstrating the higher than average social-economic status one sees in the military.  I can now add Mark Seavey’s [...]

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UPDATE: By way of contrast (’cause she’s not a witch), here’s our “demonic” president.  And yes, “demonic” may be going too far, but that is one angry man, which is what I’ve been saying all along.  He’s a narcissist, and narcissists are always angry, because they always feel as if people are failing to give [...]

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What do you do if you’re a reasonably honest thinker, forced to quarrel with your own political party — you start weaseling, that’s what you do.  Rick Oltman has been forced to confront the fact that Meg Whitman did absolutely nothing wrong with regard to her housekeeper.  I commend Oltman for his honesty.  However, he [...]

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All our weapons — free speech, reason, forbearance — are for dealing with people who are sort of like us.  The existential crisis comes when we find ourselves dealing with people who are in no way like us.  Do we oppose them by being even more like ourself than before (more speech, more reason, more [...]

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Much of what I write at this blog is my opinion.  When I have the facts and the time, I’ll hyperlink to support my argument, but sometimes I just talk.  As part of a larger article attacking the truly execrable Paul Krugman (whose inchoate, mean-spirited, inane opinion-writing helped speed me down the path from liberal [...]

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Put aside the fact that Bawney Fwank sent his boyfwiend out to heck his opp0nent.  What I like about this video clip is Sean Bielat‘s poise and humor in handling said boyfwiend’s heckling: Bielat seems to have mastered many of the US Marine’s Leadership Traits which is, in itself, a recommendation for a leadership role [...]

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In my life, if I’m running at a deficit, I cannot demand more money from my boss.  The only thing I can do is cut my spending.  In the world of government, which is running at a deficit, the fed demands more money from its boss (that would be, collectively, the taxpayers who are constrained [...]

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I received the following in an email, and pass it on to you.  Subject to the two points I discuss below, the rest of the statements are true.  For those that are one issue statements (“Obama was enrolled as a Muslim child in school”), I’ve added hyperlinks that were not in the original email.  I [...]

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I’m working on a post right now, but have to head out for about an hour before I can sit down and complete the post.  Until then, happy Monday!

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Civil rights are much discussed lately, primarily because Progressives with bully-pulpits are furious that Glenn Beck held a rally at the Lincoln Memorial on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s famous civil rights rally at that same location.  To hear them tell it, in the wake of the “Civil Rights Movement,” civil rights are [...]

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I mentioned the blessings of my blog the other day.  One of those blessings is that I ended up being part of an email circle composed of some of the smartest bloggers in the conservative universe.  Several of them have been busy this weekend, and I wanted to pass on their links to you, since [...]

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I had a corgi back in the days when people were so unfamiliar with the breed, they routinely asked me if I had a large rabbit on my leash.  If you like corgis, or just happen to like foolish dogs, this video is charming:

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Clifford May wrote a very interesting article pointing out that modern liberalism means giving a complete pass to utterly offensive behavior — provided that the behavior is practiced by non-Western people: What do you think about the niqab — sometimes also called a burqa — the veil that leaves only the eyes of a woman [...]

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Just two posts I really wanted to bring to your attention, written by two bloggers whose intelligence and good sense I admire: First, Elizabeth Scalia (the Anchoress), with a lovely, polite savagery, gives NOW the pounding it deserves. Second, Bruce Kesler reports on a speech that Barry Rubin gave (Rubin blogs here, by the way), [...]

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Don’t listen to what Chris Coons says, pay attention to what he does, and to the people who support the fruits of his labors. And if you’re a voter in Delaware, remember that the media has a vested interest in doing anything possible to destroy a Republican candidate with a past while, at the same [...]

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When I’m in a strange down, I frequently rely on Yelp to help me find a decent eatery.  Turns out I shouldn’t.  Turns out I should delete Yelp from my iPhone entirely.  It’s not a peer review forum, it’s a shakedown operation.

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If you subscribe to the WSJ, I urge you to read Liberalism and Public Works, which uses Chris Christie’s decision to shut down the tunnel project as a springboard to explain that liberal entitlement programs have destroyed public works programs: To govern is to choose, or ought to be. And the reason New Jersey and [...]

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Doesn’t get better than this:

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I agree completely with the winning votes at this week’s Watcher’s Council: Council Submissions First place with 3 1/3 votes! – Joshuapundit – US DOJ Inserts Itself Into Tennessee Mosque Controversy Second place with 1 2/3 votes – Right Truth – Mosques and Islamic Centers Across the U.S. and Those Who Object Third place with [...]

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I’ve been an absentee ballot voter for years.  This election, however, I’m personally handing in my absentee ballot.  Fellow conservatives and I have already talked about the risk that our ballots, if mailed, may never be counted.  At my polling place, however, it will be instantly scanned — with me watching. I suggest that those [...]

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