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A matched set:  The first about the beasts at the top of the Nazi hierarchy, the second about the beasts at the bottom.

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Paying work places its demands on me, but I thought you’d like to see and think about (and perhaps comment upon) an article that tries to imagine what it would be like if the newly discovered gospels reveal that Jesus was an openly gay man.  I find it a bit peculiar insofar as it seems [...]

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Israel as the next Saudia Arabia?   According to this article in the Wall Street Journal, Israel’s unusually large and high-quality shale oil reserves may yield as much oil as all of Saudi Arabia’s proven oil reserves. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703806304576242420737584278.html   These discoveries are in addition to of Israel’s recently diclosed gas reserves, also anticipated to be [...]

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One of my all-time favorite economic historians is Harvard’s Niall Ferguson, who does a very good job dissecting the transatlantic political and economic cultures with characteristic British clarity in erudition. He’s not perfect, however: witness his bad judgment in affixing his name to a worn-out political rag like Newsweek. But, I digress… In this nonetheless excellent [...]

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For those of you who have wandered over from other sites that have promoted my book, welcome!  If you troll around here, you’ll get a sense of my writing style and world view.  If you’re interested in the book, there are a few ways to get it. First, there’s Amazon.  Even if you don’t have [...]

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A classic Seinfeld episode concerned George Costanza’s decision (at Kramer’s urging) to park in a handicapped zone.  This being George, things went drastically wrong.  What I remember from the episode, though, isn’t the cascading sequence of disasters; instead; it’s the opprobrium heaped upon George for parking in the blue.  His parking decision wasn’t treated as [...]

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You’ve got to see this.  It’s too funny.

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Last week, a story broke that received surprisingly little attention from the MSM:  a 14 year old Bangladeshi girl, after first being raped, was then accused of adultery and beaten to death.  I say “surprisingly” because, since the women’s lib era, the dominant trope on the Left when it comes to rape is “never blame [...]

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Many of you have said that you don’t have Kindles, something I certainly understand.  It’s an expensive luxury (altho’ it is something of a necessity for the compulsive readers among us, the ones who will read cereal boxes rather than read nothing at all).  If you have a smart phone, a PC or a Mac, [...]

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At the risk of sounding repetitive, let me say that the virtue of crisis is that it certainly brings out the best in political writers.  This week’s Watcher’s Council votes show that the ferment at home and abroad have triggered some wonderful writing: Council Winners *First place with 3 2/3 votes! New Zeal–-“Responsibility to Protect” [...]

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News out of the Ivory Coast is that death and chaos are rising quickly.  The Obama Administration is, as always, “deeply concerned.”  (Has it occurred to anybody that the administration’s real strength might be writing sentiments for condolence cards?  They’re very good at empathetic, and occasionally bathetic, pabulum.) Every time I read a story such [...]

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I told my son the same thing today (and he got it), but I sorely lacked Steyn’s wit: According to the New York Times, “Members of the NATO alliance have sternly warned the rebels in Libya not to attack civilians as they push against the regime of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.” We dropped bombs on Qaddafi’s [...]

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I was riding down on the elevator towards the lobby today, when the elevator stopped and let on an elderly lady.  We smiled a greeting at each other, and then were silent.  When the elevator got to the lobby, I held back, she got off, then I got off.  It was all very easy. It [...]

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My question earlier this week about military happiness with the Libya mission was directed at the rank of file heading to Libya.  What we do know now is that leadership is unhappy.

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Yup, I finally did it.  After muttering about it for years, and then after months of slogging through all of my old posts, followed by hours and hours and hours of proofreading and formatting, I uploaded my book a few days ago.  Today, I got word from Amazon that my book is now available for [...]

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Last week, I urged you to read Michael Yon’s article about the shabby, sleazy, vicious reporting Rolling Stone did on the 5/2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team.  Rolling Stone basically characterized the entire outfit as a band of uncontrolled, blood-thirsty renegades. Yon is still out for blood, and would like to diminish Rolling Stone’s income to [...]

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Obama has indicated that he will run again in 2012.  The National Republican Senatorial Committee is there to help:

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Okay, the welcome day was actually March 30, but that doesn’t change the sentiment. Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day from Dave Perkins on Vimeo. Hat tip:  W.H.”B”.S.

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