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If you haven’t watched it already, please see Bibi’s remarks, which very, very politely explain to Obama that his speech yesterday was horse poop.

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I’m heading off to the dojo to work out some of my anger at Obama.  Meanwhile, feel free to use this post as an Obama’s speech open thread.  (Or an anything else you want open thread.)

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I’m reading Gordon Prange’s Miracle at Midway, as preparation for the Battle of Midway Celebration I’m attending in less than two weeks.  Last year, when I went to the celebration, I knew the vague outlines of Midway (turning point in war, yada, yada, yada); this year, I wanted to know more.  It’s out of print, [...]

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I’m reading — and completing enjoying and learning from — Andrew Breitbart’s Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World!.  A point that Breitbart makes is that Saul Alinsky was right about the methods he used to integrate a specific political worldview into popular culture while simultaneously destroying political opponents.  (The problem, of course, [...]

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Obama is supposed to be hot stuff when it comes to communicating.  I’ve long had my doubts, but his reference in today’s speech to Israel’s 1967 borders should put to rest forever the media created canard that this is a guy who can get his points across.  You know why?  Because he committed the heinous [...]

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This is what I’m reading right now: Council Submissions The Colossus of Rhodey – Why we don’t revere our intellectuals New Zeal – Rapping for the Rev’lution: ‘Pac Was a Teenaged Communist The Noisy Room – A Kinder, Gentler Hatchet Job Joshuapundit-Historical Resonance, Barack Obama And The Coming Election Simply Jews – Lviv, Ecclesiastes and [...]

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I haven’t been blogging about far Left judicial activist Goodwin Liu, but if you’ve been following the story on your own, you’ll be happy to know that the Senate Republicans successfully filibustered his nomination — a reminder, as if we need one, that the filibuster is an important tool for allowing the minority in Congress [...]

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I like to consider myself a true and patriotic American, but I have a confession to make:  I hate baseball.  Yes, I know it’s the quintessential American sport, right up there in Americana with Mom and apple pie.  But I still hate it.  I find it boring and surprisingly non-athletic.  It’s such a static game.  [...]

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Does any of this surprise you?  It doesn’t surprise me.  Given bin Laden’s fanaticism, his sadism, his isolation, his personal and religious misogyny, all of this comes across across as totally believable.  It also puts me strongly in mind of this story, from several years ago, tell about the way in which Taliban warlords used [...]

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At it’s most basic level, the War Powers Act of 1973 gives a president sixty days of latitude to start a war.  At that point, he has thirty days to obtain Congressional permission to continue the war.  For purposes of this post, I’m going to assume (correctly, I think) that the United States’ involvement in [...]

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Get a room full of conservatives together, and one of the things that they’ll talk about is potential Republican candidates.  I can tell you that, last night, many were enthused about the thought of Rick Perry jumping in.  Others dreamed of a Jeb Bush candidacy.  The current “frontrunners” — Mitt, Mitch, Tim, etc. — did [...]

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Last night, after Andrew Breitbart had already left to catch his plane, a few of us hung around to chat and to try to answer one question:  what was the takeaway from Breitbart’s talk?  Eat their eyeballs?  Women’s dominance in the Tea Party means that men are eunuchs?  The fact that the Tea Party needs [...]

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Ted Rall, who is to the left of Left, reveals today’s dirty little secret: It feels a little weird to write this, like I’m telling tales out of school and ratting out the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy. But it’s true: there’s less room for a leftie during the Age of Obama than there was under Bush. [...]

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Socialism is the disease, “perpetual adolescence” is what NRO deputy-managing editor Kevin Williamson diagnoses as the infectious agent. Watch the whole thing as a perfect encapsulation of the debates that have raged at this blog.

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I admire my blog friends.  They are people I know only through their writing, but their writing has convinced me that they are intelligent, thoughtful, informed, and that I admire and often share their moral principles.  I am always happy to recommend their work. Sometimes, though, my blog friends, who always write and think well, [...]

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As I’ve noted before, although merely (and gratefully) comfortable myself, I live in an affluent community.  I am a Marin resident, after all.  In response to this affluence, the local middle and high schools, both public and private, have all jumped on the bandwagon to require “community service” as a prerequisite for grade promotion and [...]

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Sadly, there are still many, too many of those naive enough to believe that ObamaCare really, really was about reforming the health care system. The news in the Daily Caller today that 20% of ObamaCare waivers went to Nancy Pelosi’s district lays out in stark detail the workings of the “Chicago Way”. The first clue [...]

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Roger Simon uses the Strauss-Kahn affair to say something very profound about a society that condones cheating: I won’t get into the sad details, but some time ago I had an affair with a married French woman — I was single then — that went on for a couple of years. I’m not proud of [...]

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Oooh!  Oooh!  This is so exciting:  Andrew Breitbart will be speaking in Marin tomorrow night.  I’m going to be there.  Are you?

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I just toodled over to Hot Air blog, as I do on a daily basis.  My focus, as always, was on content, although my eye, as always, drifted to the advertising along the right side of the screen.  This Gap ad caught my eye: Can anyone explain to me what the heck that picture is [...]

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I mentioned last week that House Republicans, in an effort to use social networking better, are running a competition that sees members compete to optimize various social networking media.  My long-time blogfriend Lorie Byrd worked to help Renee Ellmers, a true Tea Partier, get elected, is now working to help her in this contest. I [...]

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Many (most?) of us, like Bookworm, began our life journey somewhere on the left of the political spectrum and subsequently moved right(eously) toward conservatism and libertarianism. When others make the same journey, at whatever point in life, we revel in their stories, much like Christians witnessing the coming-to-faith of others. I, for one, once proudly [...]

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Randall Hoven is a numbers guy.  He’s not a “lies, damn lies and statistics” person, but an honest numbers broker.  In an article today he points out that the numbers favor Obama.  Not just the polling numbers (which always have him hovering around 50%), but the economic data numbers and the war numbers.  Those numbers [...]

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A weekend of uninterrupted domesticity (read:  youth activities, cleaning and shopping) left me with neither time nor energy to blog.  I’m still rocking and rolling with family stuff, but anticipate that I’ll be back at my computer tonight. I did read something very enjoyable this past week, though, that I’ll share with the Irving Berlin [...]

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When I was a little girl, I found incredibly satisfying the blend of anarchy and cheerful melody in this song:

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