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I’m having a surprising amount of fun over at my new Facebook page, Conservative Travel.  If you haven’t yet checked it out, take a second to do so.  (And if you like it, please hit that “like” button.) I continue to be receptive to your amazing Americana travel suggestions (places, activities, food, etc.), which you [...]

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Is our President a EUrolander wannabee? Yes. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard my fellow Americans spout utter nonsense about EUroland. Hey, they may have visited there and after visiting all the tourist spots and wining and dining in the best tourist restaurants afforded by American salaries and sabbaticals, they come [...]

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I have a busy day today — legal stuff — so blogging will be minimal until much later.  I figure, though, that news about the earthquake (which I’ve been reading between making breakfast and kid lunches), should be more than enough to keep people’s brains busy. My thoughts are with those in the affected areas.  [...]

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Michelle Malkin’s family is still suffering the agony of looking for a lost, beloved child.  If you’re in the Seattle area, keep your eyes open for this vivacious and pretty young woman.

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(UPDATE:  Having now had the chance to read all the posts, I cannot tell you how good they are.  This was a stand-out week, and one of the most difficult for me in selecting my top two in each category.  If you have the time, give these posts a look-see.) This is what I’m reading [...]

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You have to read this Patterico post to believe it.  NPR’s ombudsman Alicia Shepard issues a flat-out erroneous statement.  Patterico confronts her on it.  She challenges him.  Fine.  Except…. She bases her fight entirely on the transcript, but never watches the video, which definitely proves that her tweet, which was widely republished, was false.  Nor [...]

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I find Ron Paul abhorrent, and I worry about Rand Paul, who seems like a slightly more polished version of Daddy.  Nevertheless, even creepy people can be right, as Rand Paul is about government spending. His point, basically, is that Republicans and Democrats are battling over bandage quality, rather than actually treating the wound.  The [...]

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At about 4:30 PST, two headlines just came down the pike, following the Wisconsin Senate votes: Wisconsin anti-union measure must pass Assembly before it can go to Gov. Walker for signature More on Wisconsin anti-union vote: No Democratic senators were present – AP I’d like to rephrase them: Wisconsin pro-taxpayer measure must pass Assembly before [...]

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Doesn’t get better than this, from 1936:

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[Between kids and phone calls, it took me way too long to write this post, although that proved useful at the end, as it was the AP's republished news report that contained the real gem. Rather than re-write this post, I'm simply highlighting the explosive little factoid hidden in the AP's execrably written article.] This [...]

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Thanks, Charles Martel:

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The New York Times hasn’t yet gotten around to reporting officially on Ron Schiller’s disgusting performance before a supposed front group for the Muslim Brotherhood.  Those of us who have watched the short video, and made inroads into the long video, saw him trashing in the most extreme terms Tea Partiers, conservatives, and Jews, as [...]

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Yesterday I posted about MSNBC talking head Cenk Uygur, who couldn’t accept that black separatists are a terrorism risk.  I’m sure he’d have equal problem acknowledging the risk posed by radical environmentalists. The irony with this latest report is that the environmental wacko sent his threat, using his own email address, either to DiFi or [...]

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Everyone is commenting on the travesty that sees countries such as the Sudan and Iran on the UN Commission on the Status of Women.  It makes perfect sense to me.  If the commission had been named “Commission for the Protection of Women,” or “Commission for the Liberation of Women,” things might have been different, but [...]

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Apparently a video of her employees gleefully cuddling up to the Muslim Brotherhood, all the while trashing conservatives, Tea Partiers, and Jews, was the infamous straw that broke the NPR camel’s back:  Vivian Schiller just got fired.  (Although NPR is already phrasing it as a resignation — a forced resignation, I assume.)  I doubt that [...]

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Today is the day for videos showing Progressives humiliating themselves in front of the American people.  Ron Schiller didn’t know he was on television, but Cenk Uygur, an MSNBC talking head, did — although he didn’t let that national audience stop him from making a bigoted fool of himself. The subject was Rep. Pete King’s [...]

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Michelle Malkin’s cousin is still missing.  The police are currently disinclined to call her disappearance foul play.  However, because she has been on anti-depressants, there seems to be a concern that she might have harmed — or be contemplating harm to — herself.  Merely taking anti-depressants doesn’t mean one has suicidal desires, but she may [...]

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I’m actually grateful to NPR.  It was its unbelievably biased Israel coverage that helped me make the break with my reflexive liberalism and take a long, hard look at my political beliefs and party affiliation.  Nevertheless, it irks me no end that my taxpayer money funds NPR, PBS and local affiliates.  There is no reason [...]

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Michelle Malkin’s cousin, who lives in Seattle, has vanished.  Michelle is asking for help locating her.  Please go here for specific information. Remember, all it takes is one person to make a difference. My prayers are with Michelle and her family.

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In America, each side of the political aisle routinely accuses the other of engaging in “scare” tactics.  Each side is right.  Doomsday scenarios are how you engage an increasingly distracted population.  My question for you is, when it comes to predicting doomsday scenarios to engage the population, which side is more accurate? I’ve got three [...]

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For months now, local charitable organizations have been sounding the drum:  if taxpayer money goes away, we vanish.  In other words, if evil Republicans get their hands on the budget, poor people will suffer. I’m already wise to this propaganda, having lived through 1994′s welfare reform.  We were told then that the poor would be [...]

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My sister, who is fairly non-political, thinks it’s a dreadful thing that so many Americans think Obama is a Muslim.  She was shocked when I suggested that Americans are not alone in this belief.  I started with a classic Jewish joke: Sammy gets rich and buys himself a yacht.  He shows up at his Mama’s [...]

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This instruction sheet on the “how-to” of a Thomas Friedman column is from 2004, but it’s as fresh, funny and accurate today as it was on the day it was published. Hat tip:  Ricochet

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