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Zombie begins to take seriously those who call for radical changes to our taxation system:  Why not let those who demand ever higher taxes, especially for themselves (Buffet, Trump, etc.), have the opportunity to do precisely that?  You should read Zombie’s entire post but, in the meantime, you can enjoy the revised Form 1040 that [...]

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At Hot Air, Karl asks “Does Obama’s personal favorability rating matter?”  He quotes from several MSM writers who claim that Obama’s falling performance ratings (as in “he’s doing a bad job”) are irrelevant, because people continue to award him high personal favorability numbers (as in, “I really like the man”).  Karl begs to differ.  He [...]

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We have hundreds of pictures of beautiful views, art work, and historic sites.  They are fairly generic, though, so I won’t bother sharing them here.  If you go to Flickr and type in Tower of London, for example, you’ll see exactly the same photos. There were some things, though, that did catch my eye, because [...]

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I fought my husband for years about taking the kids on vacation to England.  Despite growing up as a complete Anglophile (I can talk for hours, unaided, about British history) and despite having spent one of the happiest years of my life there, I have a lot of issues with modern day England. My primary [...]

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I hate folding laundry.  I don’t know why.  It’s not particularly difficult.  It’s a clean task.  It brings order from chaos.  I ought to like it.  But I don’t.  Still, it needs to be done, and one of the things I do to make it palatable is to listen to Terry Gross interview people about [...]

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I confess, I love movies. And every now and then, I come across a movie quote that transcends the times. We all remember movie quotes like that, of course. Casablanca was released in 1943 and is still widely quoted today. Recently I watched one of my favorite movies, a very hard-hitting sleeper from 2006: Lord [...]

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Back in June, I wrote a post about a notice I received from the town in which our high school is located.  It warned that we could expect major traffic jams because a federally funded project had to be done during peak commute season in order to protect a little bird.  My post focused on [...]

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Sometimes I feel like a conspiracy theorist.  Take climate change.  For many years, one was castigated as an unhinged to question the monolithic consensus that global warming is taking place, that it will end life on earth in a few decades, and that it’s all our fault.  To suggest that the sudden tidal wave of [...]

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Actually, The Bookworm Turns : A Secret Conservative in Liberal-Land, is not new and improved.  It’s the same blazing, original, intelligent, witty, thought-provoking e-book it was the last time I shilled for my own book.  Two things are different, however.  First, I revamped my cover, which now shows a rip-roaring serpent that harks back to [...]

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It turns out that one of San Francisco’s premier sexual harassment attorneys enjoys a little S&M fun on the side.  So much so that he likes to run Craig’s List ads seeking women who like it rough: His lawyer, Stuart Hanlon, said the women had all come to Hoffman’s Van Ness Avenue apartment to engage [...]

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This is just too funny.  I’d love to know who “anonymous” is.

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As the primary season heats up, here’s a good question to ask:  If we want to end the primary season with a viable political candidate to face off against Barack Obama, are there limits limits to the nature of the attacks that bloggers launch against the Republican candidates during this primary season? My take is [...]

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Another strong week at the Watcher’s Council (although I barely crept in at the bottom with one of my post-vacation entries).  Here are the winners for your enjoyment and edification: Council Winners *First place with 3 1/3 votes! The Razor–-Working for Free: The Economics of Being a Primary Care Physician Second place with 2 2/3 [...]

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Okay, I’ll admit it.  I like spontaneous gifts — and I got some today.  Almost a month ago, NavyOne sent me a thank you gift for helping him get started in the blogging world.  It was completely unnecessary, since it was my pleasure to help out a blog friend and a talented writer, but it [...]

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I’ve been mulling some of the comments left by our Leftwing alphabet soup posters in times gone bye-bye: the outright hostility of the Left to religion in the name of “science” (never mind that some of the world’s greatest scientists were religious people).   I am a scientist by training. I also consider myself a [...]

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Over the years, I’ve analogized parenting to an airplane flight.  Think of the children as being the passengers in the plane of life.  When they act out, or when the flight gets bumpy, they want to hear a confident voice from the cockpit reiterating the rules (“fasten your seat belts, stop running up and down [...]

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I’ve missed the Watcher’s Council while I’m away.  It really is a wonderful way to stay informed about the hot issues.  Here are this week’s submissions: Council Submissions The Colossus of Rhodey – Wrest of The West Simply Jews – Ron Paul 2012 and Paultards The Noisy Room – Reminds Me of What to Do [...]

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I’m reading vol. 1 of Churchill’s epic history of World War II.  In it, he quotes many of his speeches from the 1930s, during which he showed himself to be quite prescient (in very detailed terms) about the coming storm.  It turns out Churchill was equally prescient about socialism.  Conceding that he was imperfect in [...]

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As part of a larger rumination about religion, Barney Quick looked at the Christian notion of a woman’s submission within her marriage, since the media is going after Michele Bachmann on that point: The recent dust-up over Michelle Bachmann’s statements on record that she feels Biblically commanded to be submissive in her marriage is another [...]

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I’ve been focusing for years, almost to the point of obsession, on Obama’s nasty crack to Hillary during the Democratic primaries.  She said, with rather charming self-deprecation, “I think I’m likeable,” and he sneered in return, “You’re likeable enough, Hillary.”  It was that moment at which I said, “This is not a nice man.”  A [...]

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Yesterday, I wrote a post about the Ten Commandments.  Today, Dennis Prager published a long, deeply analytical, intelligent article about the Ten Commandments.  He’s right.  I’m right.  They are the Big Rules for a functioning society, and that is true whether you believe in God or not.  (That’s true even for the first rule, about [...]

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I commented earlier that the bus tour makes Obama look like a pathetic Palin wannabe.  Keith Jackson has a different take:  Obama’s gone from top-of-the-rock charts rocker god to pathetic comeback band. In Hollywood, the faded rock star’s small town-by-small town comeback tour always results in glittering success at the end.  Much as Hollywood would [...]

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Blame the parents…so says these very passionate Brits in this short video commenatry. Key takeaway, “the government took away our power to control our own children”. Right on! http://www.mrctv.org/videos/london-riot-reactions-and-debate-clapham (h/t No Pasaran) All fingers should be pointing at the Liberal /Left. They have a lot to answer for, not the least being the destruction of [...]

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Is it just me, or does the bus tour make Obama look like a Palin wannabe?  Also, do you think the visuals are going to be good when (if my predictions are accurate), he’s met by no crowds or small, angry crowds, as opposed to Sarah’s huge, enthusiastic crowds? Whoever came up with this idea [...]

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When he was 6, my son suddenly started stealing things from his classmates.  Market value wasn’t the object.  Like a magpie, he went for the sparkling, brightly colored stuff.  Naturally, he got caught.  The school imposed appropriate consequences, but it was left to me to explain to him that stealing is bad, not just because [...]

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