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Everyone makes mistakes.  Some are unforgivable.  But what also makes mistakes unforgivable, whether they are mighty or minor, is the actor’s refusal to issue a real apology.  Today, Perry smartly issued a mea culpa for mandating HPV vaccinations in Texas.  This was smart both because it spoke to those who were actually offended by the [...]

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The Left is very, very, very worried about Rick Perry.  At Mother Jones, Kevin Drum has assembled a long list of alleged problems Perry has, all of which explain (in Drum’s mind) why Perry can’t possibly win.  Aside from the fact that the list is jaw-droppingly amusing (I’ll explain more below), Drum precedes it with [...]

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For those on the Left who are worried about Obama’s seeming passivity — fear no more.  Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne assures us that Obama is packed so tight into a corner, he’s finally ready to fight.  Finally.  Really.  Yup, the old fighter’s still there.  Honest. For Obama’s lieutenants, his comeback from the ’07 summer [...]

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Stephen Hayward advances a solid argument that Romney has the lock on the nomination.  As I read it, the core of is argument is that Romney is the seasoned Republican campaigner, whose weaknesses have already been thoroughly exposed by a hostile media.  Perry still has ahead, as Hayward says, a comprehensive and public proctological exam.  [...]

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My post about banning Zachriel garnered over 61 comments, all very thoughtful, including Zachriel’s own defense.  After a great deal of rather painful internal debate, I’ve decided to ban Zachriel.  Indigo Red, discussing a Zachriel-type commenter named Mudkitty, best sums up my thoughts on the subject: Some of my best posts and best comments involved [...]

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The MSM is already going after Rick Perry, so I thought you’d like an alternative source of information about the man.  Back in July, Pesky Truth put together a detailed analysis of all the non-religious accusations being thrown against Perry.  It is well worth reading.  Armed with all the information, you can draw your own [...]

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Damn!  The guy is photogenic.  (Oh, and it’s a good campaign video.)

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I’d heard about this video while I was abroad, but didn’t have the chance to see it.  Having seen it now, I must share it:

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I predict that, unless some totally unexpected dirt emerges, Perry will win in November 2012.

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Bookworm Room is not a democracy.  It’s my forum or, you might say, my intellectual living room.  I can invite people in and, through the power of WordPress software, ask them to leave.  As all of you know, I am loath to exercise that last power and have only done so once in all the [...]

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Please watch this and send it to your friends:

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The Mellow Jihadi took a look at Google Translates’ abilities by feeding in a joke and asking for the Arabic version.  Apparently Google performed fairly well.  I left a comment there explaining why I found this particular post so charming and interesting.

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Don Quixote is reading Ben Shapiro’s Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV, which led us into an interesting lunch time conversation about covert versus overt propaganda.  The overt propaganda shows we discussed were All In The Family and Family Ties. In both, week after week, year after [...]

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My one regret about not watching TV (except for the occasional TCM oldie) is that I can’t boycott what I don’t watch — or,in the case of Showtime, what I don’t even pay for.

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(Thanks to Sadie for sending me to American Digest, where I found the above video)

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These covers are really, really good: (Hat tip for the above video to The New Editor) (Thanks to a facebook friend for the second video)

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Having done a flying visit through the Mediterranean, I’m scarcely in any position to make far reaching comments about the towns or countries I visited.  Nevertheless, I do feel competent to offer two very specific comments, one about Greece and one about Italy. Throughout our visit to Greece, there was a nationwide taxi strike taking [...]

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There is a story that Josef Stalin, hearing mention of the Pope, asked dismissively ““How many divisions does the Pope have?”  The quotation, if true, is compelling, because it perfectly illustrates the Leftist viewpoint that the only power is that which comes at the point of a gun.  The notion of moral behavior and moral [...]

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Very early on in the Obama’s trajectory to the presidency, I identified him as a narcissist, and warned against the disastrous results that ensue from placing power in a narcissist’s hands.  (I was not the only one to do so, incidentally.) While some may debate the diagnosis I gave our president, there is now some [...]

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Romney, when he said “corporations are people” was correct in two ways:  (1) As a matter of law, corporations are considered people, an approach that justifies taxing them.  (2) Corporations are agglomerations of people:  they are owned by people, run by people and provide goods benefiting people.  It’s a Marxist delusion to pretend that something [...]

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Even though I’ve been out of the loop, the Watcher’s Council hasn’t stopped keeping an eye on weasels and generally analyzing news around the world.  Here are this week’s winners: Council Winners First place with 4 1/3 votes! Right Truth–-John Bolton: ” Why I May Run For President” and Why We May Need Him Second [...]

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My favorite entry from Power Line People’s Choice awards: You should check them all out.

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Dear Bookworm Room readers: Can we talk?  More specifically, can we talk about Zachriel?  (Zachriel, you don’t have to cover your ears here.  I’m not going to say anything mean about you, although I will offer some politely stated critiques that you’ve heard before.) I have noticed that, in my absence, Zachriel’s comments have sparked [...]

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Kidkaroo, in a comment to my earlier post about the federal requirement that I racially classify my children, explains that, in today’s South Africa, racism is still alive and well — it just runs in the opposite direction from the old days: Down here in the “new” South Africa, we have something similar; I have [...]

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Riffing of off Newsweek’s now infamous Michele Bachmann cover, Michelle Malkin has an excellent photoessay illustrating the ways in which major media publications routinely demonize images of famed conservatives, something she contrasts with the hagiography reserved for Obama.

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