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As Kate over at smalldeadanimals likes to say, now is the time when we juxtapose: First, a video (you need to watch this to the very end, but *** Caution***graphic imagery may be disturbing to some): (h/t smalldeadanimals.com) Then, compare this to the self-serving bloviations of a hard-Left legislator regarding the killing of predatory birds [...]

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Has the U.S. ever been so clueless as  it is today with respect to events going on in Egypt? CIA Director Panetta just admitted that he gets his information on Egyptian events from the media, rather than from his own agency. National Intelligence Director Jim Clapper, meanwhile, pontificates about how the Muslim Brotherhood is a [...]

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I am deeply suspicious of studies showing that America’s veterans are in worse shape — more drug addicted, more alcoholic, more insane, suicidal, more homeless — than the rest of the population.  I was sold that bill of goods in the post-Vietnam era and it was a lie, meant to malign the military establishment and [...]

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Here is an incomplete, semi-edited linked list of all the books you guys recommended: P.J. O’Rourke’s Eat the Rich Ward Moore’s Bring the Jubilee C.S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, Book 3) Gertrude Himmbelfarb’s The De-moralization Of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values John O’Sullivan’s The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: [...]

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Will Democrats once again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory? Here’s a very encouraging report about the latest NATO (mostly American forces) offensive in Helmand province, one of the last redoubts of the Taliban. I don’t know how much play this will get in the Mass Media, as they generally don’t like to talk [...]

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Good stuff.  Really good stuff: Council Submissions Joshuapundit -Is Egypt The Next Iran? The Noisy Room – Obama’s Pal George Soros and the Fall of Egypt Rhymes With Right – A Message To The CPAC Boycotters Simply Jews – Gideon Levy, the baron of deceit industry, strikes again VA Right – Republican Victory in November [...]

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I belong to a lovely book club.  We’re all conservatives, so it’s a comfortable environment to speak freely.  The time has come for me to make my three proposals, but my mind is a blank.  Do you have any ideas?  The books can be fiction or non-fiction.  Our last few books have, sadly, ended up [...]

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We hear about a lot of firsts.  Kennedy was our first Catholic president.  Reagan our first actor president.  Obama our first black president. But did you know that, long ago, we almost certainly had our first gay president?  Yup.  I’ve now read in two scholarly, sourced books that James Buchanan was considered by his contemporaries [...]

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But he’s right — for a man his age, he does look pretty good shirtless.  Let me repeat, however:  WHAT AN IDIOT.

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Mr. Bookworm is not a hearts and flowers kind of guy, so he’s not thrilled to see his very hard-earned money go to such frivolities.  On the other hand, my mother is 88, and such frivolities bring a little light to the old-age she’s reluctantly coping with.  I decided, therefore, that this year I would [...]

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The Archbishopric of Canterbury used to be a pretty important job.  The guy who held that position, going back to the earliest Middle Ages, was the premier leader of the English church, whether that church gave allegiance to Rome or the British Monarch.  The current Archbishop, Rowan Williams is, as best as I can tell, [...]

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My mind is slowly waking from the stupor that gripped it yesterday, and I actually found bunches of fascinating things in today’s reading.  I may blog on some of them at greater length today, but I didn’t want to sit on them all day without sharing them with you.  So here goes the sharing: *** [...]

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My well is dry today, as you’ve probably noticed, but I can highly recommend this article about Rep. Eric Cantor. Hat tip:  Soccer Dad, who isn’t blogging right now, but who is still paying attention.  (Once a political junkie, always a political junkie.)

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Three people (and thank you to them!) have sent me a link to John Tierney’s article in the New York Times, about the almost complete absence of conservatives from the psychology field: It [this imbalance] was identified by Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia who studies the intuitive foundations of morality [...]

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From whence does the viciousness in the Leftwing soul emanate? I know that most if not all of us in the Bookworm circle have seen this horrific video below. I post it because we need to see this again and again. We need to look into their eyes to recognize what this is. I view [...]

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When I was six years old, within a few short months, I went from having perfect vision to being extremely nearsighted.  I was discussing that fact with a friend today, and noted that I have no memory of ever having seen well without help from glasses or contacts. This comment made me realize how little [...]

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First, what happened was just plain sad.  Second, I’m sure it wasn’t the fault of Kaiser Health Care, ’cause there’s a difference between a corporate entity sponsoring an event and actually having doctors lining the road. Having gotten that out of the way, it strikes me as ironic that, when a man collapsed at a [...]

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Johnny Carson was a delight because his ego was in check.  Leno is decent at that.  Letterman . . . well, the less said the better. Toodle on over here if you want some vintage Johnny, willing to let someone (something?) else do the entertaining.

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Gary Sinese showed up for Reagan’s 100th birthday celebration in Simi Valley.  No surprise there.  He’s been open about his conservativism.  What did surprise me was that the Beach Boys performed.  That either means that they’re conservative or they’re open-minded, both of which work for me. In their honor, here are the Beach Boys hanging [...]

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Are we entering the next ice age? One of the foundations of scientific inquiry is skepticism. Contrary to what some believe, science is not about consensus but about leaving all doors of inquiry open to all possibilities. It takes only one point of evidence to disprove an entire theory. Progress in science has occurred largely [...]

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Post game comments, anyone?

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One of the things the Leftist multiculturalists refuse to acknowledge is that Islam does not assimilate.  Individual practitioners of the faith may, periodically and superficially, espouse the culture in which they live, but the fact remains that Islam, by its nature, is the Borg. Borg-like, the Islam collective’s motto is “Resistance is futile.  You will [...]

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A lot of the humor that makes the rounds makes me smile, but it doesn’t make me laugh.  And even less of that humor makes me laugh at myself.  This gem of a list, which iOwnTheWorld got in an email and, thankfully, elected to publish, is right on the money.  I especially like the second [...]

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Hat tip:  Sadie

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Nelson Eddy, as a Canadian Mountie, enthusiastically sings about capturing criminals dead or alive:

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