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A few month ago, I posted a letter my wife (who works for the IRS) received.  I was upset at the political tone of the letter, which seems to place of the blame for budget problems on the Republicans and pictured Obama as fighting night and day to do the best he could for the [...]

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Aack!  I almost forgot to post the winners of last week’s Watcher’s Council vote.  Here they are, below the fold:

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I’m a somewhat contrary person.  (Right now, those who know me well are probably off laughing hysterically somewhere at my understatement.)  Because the environmentalists are pushing so hard, from Al Gore on down, my instinct is to push right back.  Pushing back makes me sound as if I don’t care about the environment, but that’s [...]

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As she explains in this post, Phyllis Chesler has long been a prophet, telling the world at large about Islam’s true nature, whether in its conflict with Jews, women, or the West in general.  Often, she was a lone voice in the wilderness.  She needs financial help now.  She’s looking for one big donor (or [...]

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Yid With Lid reminds us that July 4th marks more than just America’s independence day.  (H/t:  Sadie)  It’s also the anniversary of Israel’s spectacular rescue at Entebbe in 1976.  That was another place and time, when most in the world actually cared about Jewish lives.  I wrote about the rescue back in 2007 and reprint [...]

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It says a great deal about my maturity (or lack thereof), that I found this picture, culled from my local garbage company’s website, very amusing:

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From October 2010, this Andrew Klavan video nicely sums up the weirdness of unpatriotic “patriots” that I touched upon in an earlier post:

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For July only, my book, The Bookworm Turns: A Secret Conservative in Liberal Land, is free at Smashwords.  (My apologies to those who spent hard-earned cash on the book before Smashwords made this sale a possibility.)  If you like the book, leave a review at Smashwords or Amazon, or just help spread the word through [...]

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As I do every year, I went with my family to our town’s Fourth of July Parade.  It’s a great parade, with all sorts of community groups participating, including the various chambers of commerce; Little League baseball teams; bagpipers (Marin is home to a thriving bagpipe community); an impressive selection of WWII vehicles from from [...]

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Every July 4th, I feel it’s incumbent upon me, as a freedom-loving blogger, to write something meaningful.  And every July 4th, I fail to do.  Somehow, instead of golden prose about our nation, I invariably end up posting a picture of a waving flag and wishing everyone a “Happy July 4th.”  It’s not the magnitude [...]

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They fought for us, and we get a small chance to help them out, by donating money that gets used to buy specially fitted computers for troops disabled, permanently or temporarily, in the existential war now raging. Donate to Soldier’s Angels Project Valour-IT

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“Blue” sent me an email today, asking if he could post an older American Thinker article of mine at a new conservative forum.  I said yes, and very much appreciated his courtesy in asking before posting.  Here is the site — Conservative Talk Forums — and here is the page with my old article.

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An engaging member of the alphabet cohort, a fine product of the American education system, proposes a wickedly simple cure for Mother Gaia’s fever complaint: [h/t Captain Capitalism]

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Random stuff: First the celebrations, now the reality:  how does gay marriage affect the business of life in New York state?  I know I’m what my husband calls a “hen” (i.e., a worrier), but I would have thought about these things before passing the legislation.  Legislate in haste, repent in leisure. I think it’s now [...]

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Fourth of July, the national celebration of combustion, presents an opportunity for atonement. Are you thinking? Have you figured it out yet? Do you know why you should atone on America’s Independence Day? You may have a hard time believing this one, from the NYT: FOOD is responsible for 10 to 30 percent of global [...]

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Boy, have times changed. By the way, Critical Past, which hosts the above link, is another amazingly wonderful, awesome historic website.

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Since I signed up for the “Dinner with the Doofus” . . . er, I mean “Dinner with Obama” raffle (although I did not pay $5), I’m on the Barack Obama mailing list.  It’s been an enlightening experience.  This email was apparently so important to the Obama machinery that I got it not once but [...]

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Amazing video.  The narrative is clear, and the images are brilliant:

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Jeremy Fordham wrote me and asked if I would consider publishing a guest post. I said that, provided I got to be judge, jury and execution (meaning I could accept or reject a submission at will), I would be interested. Jeremy was willing to live with those terms, and submitted the following post, which I [...]

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I presented my daughter with the following scenario: Imagine that the president you elected has been in the White House for one term.  During that time, everything that indicates the health of the country is worse than when your man came into office.  Whether one looks at the economy, national security, relations with other countries, [...]

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This website tries to make old images feel fresh and new, as if the viewer is stepping into a time machine.  It is a perfect example of what can be done with computers and shared through the internet.  Check it out and glory in it’s wonders.

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