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When visual memes collide, it’s usually worth a good laugh.

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In the preceding post, I gave you Geert Wilders’ entire speech about the threat Islam poses to the West.  I now offer you living evidence of the threat he describes.

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I hope this gets wide play:

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Everyone should read this speech. Everyone. While the media swooned about Obama’s Cairo speech (in which he lauded veiling women and ignored thousands of years of Jewish ties to Israel), and Obama’s race speech (in which he insulted white people), and Obama’s recent immigration speech (in which he demonized people who fear the risks to [...]

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Jonah Goldberg explains perfectly how the Obama Administration understands the true meaning of bin Laden’s death: After hearing the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed, who among us didn’t joyfully shout, “Yes! This is a huge triumph for wind and solar energy!” Or “Wahoo! Now we can get immigration reform passed!” Personally, I [...]

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The following isn’t my normal musical choice, but I’m highlighting Deep Purple today in honor of the band’s integrity: Here’s the back story.  Deep Purple, the 70s hard rock band, is heading back to Israel for the third time.  Unlike other bands, Deep Purple will not pressured to back off of a booking: Ahead of [...]

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Join with me in reading the following very, super-duper, excellently good stuff: Council Submissions The Colossus of Rhodey – File under: “You have GOT to be kidding me” Joshuapundit-Yom Hazikaron -The Living Bones Simply Jews – Bibi: Not anyone’s Darling Anymore New Zeal – “Lula” And Barack’s Common Marxist Ties The Noisy Room – Senate [...]

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Incidentally, on June 4, I’ll be attending the Annual Midway Night in San Francisco, celebrating the U.S. Navy’s spectacular victory at Midway.  I mention that fact here because Whittle discusses Midway in his video.  If you’d like a sense of what this wonderful evening is like, here is my post from last year.

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Some are snickering about the fact that a Connecticut company has produced an Obama SEAL action doll.  I cry shame on them.  It’s not nice to pick on a Commander in Chief who, after 8 months and 16 hours; plus a lot of pushing from his advisers to enable him to stand up against Valerie [...]

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Ideas and ideals are lovely.  I deeply respect principled people who have overarching values that don’t bend in every breeze.  Having said that, we live in the real world, not a fantasy land in which everything plays out as the theorists imagine it will.  The adherence to theory in the face of reality is one [...]

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Since I’m in California, which has always been a late primary state, and since California is now switching to open primaries anyway, it’s always hard for me to get very excited about primaries.  The fact is that I never feel I really have any say in them, since the front runners are already decided by [...]

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Jack Davis put himself on the ballot in the New York-26 special election as the Tea Party election.  If you are in that district, please beware the he is a fraud.  He is either trying to capitalize on Tea Party popularity, or he is an imposter deliberately trying to destroy the Tea Party brand.  As [...]

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If you cast your eyes to the right, you’ll see that I’ve started a facebook page for my book.  If you feel so inclined, click on the badge (or here) and then, when it takes you to that page, feel free to “like” the page.  No pressure; just a suggestion/request.

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In the wake of President Obama’s 60 Minutes interview, I noted that he said that we had “denigrated” either the Taliban or Al Qaeda (I forget which).  Lord alone knows what he really meant, but I’m sure he didn’t mean that we verbally put them down or insulted them. President Malaprop is at it again: [...]

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By now you’ve probably heard the uproar about Michelle’s decision to invite the rapper Lonnie Rashid Lynn, aka, “Common”, to the White House.  The Daily Caller has an example of one of Common’s raps.  I won’t sully my blog by quoting from it, although I can tell you that it calls for President George W. [...]

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There is much breast-beating amongst the usual suspects about the fact that an Orthodox Jewish newspaper deleted all female images from the Situation Room picture the White House issued after bin Laden’s death.  Hillary was one of those deleted. The deletion was technically a violation of federal policy, but given the way in which people [...]

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Given this blog’s recent flogging of the China versus U.S. (“us”) question, here is  a primary example of how China may surpass the U.S. by becoming more business friendly as it decentralizes while the U.S. risks having to learn the lessons of socialist history all over again as our over-regulated economy grinds down to a [...]

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This morning, my friend Kim Priestap sent a group of us an email telling about the Yemeni man arrested for trying to yank open the cockpit door while hollering the standard “Allahu Akbar!”  Lee DeCovnik thinks we might have been seeing a dry run.  The man apparently raced from one end of the plane (the [...]

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When I was growing up, handwriting analysis was a big deal.  Did your writing lean forward?  Then you were an extrovert.  Backwards?  Well, obviously an introvert.  Big loops?  Generous.  Small loops?  Mean and selfish.  I cultivated a forward-slanting handwriting with generous (but not insanely so) loops. I now have serious doubts about handwriting’s ability to [...]

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My son is extremely bright, but reluctant to push himself.  He’s averse to challenges, and would infinitely prefer to have things fall into his lap.  Since he’s a natural athlete and mathematician, many things do fall into his lap.  Unfortunately for him, writing is not one of those things.  Combine his naturally execrable writing skills [...]

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I didn’t forget to post these.  I was just moving very, very slowly: Council Winners *First place with 3 1/3 votes! Joshuapundit–-Pakistan, A Bridge too Far Second place with 2 votes – Right Truth-The Celebrations: What You Don’t See Third place *t* with 1 2/3 votes – Bookworm Room-A rebuttal to Jesse Kornbluth on the [...]

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The GOP has recognized that, as much as anything, the next election starts on the new media.  In order to get House GOP members on board with new media, they’ve instituted a contest by which GOP representatives compete for the most YouTube links, twitter friends, etc.  In other words, to win the contest, GOP reps [...]

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My husband insisted last night that we watch BHO’s 60 Minutes interview with Steve Kroft — and then promptly fell asleep because, as he later said, “that was really dull.”  My husband was right.  I managed to stay awake, but it was an effort.  This was my takeaway from the great orator’s talk: We, uh, [...]

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Jesse Kornbluth was again good enough to visit my post commenting upon his article lauding Andrew Sullivan as a blogger amongst bloggers.  If I was a guy, and he and I had met in person, I would have slapped up on the back with a cheery “Hey, Jesse man, great to see you again.”  I’ve [...]

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I just have to share this one with you, because it’s too delicious to keep from myself.  One doesn’t often see such naked pathology oozing out of a single email. Here’s the background:  My children’s school district gives the children laptop computers, which are an integral part of their curriculum.  (I hate the computers, because [...]

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