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Tweet Best of the Web posts a 2004 interview with Cathleen Falsani of the Chicago Sun-Times in which Obama defines sin, not along traditional Christian or Muslim lines, but along self-referential lines: Falsani: Do you believe in sin? Obama: Yes. Falsani: What is sin? Obama: Being out of alignment with my values. The President, when [...]

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Tweet One of the most startling features of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, a book that examines the killing fields that Stalin and Hitler created in the lands between Germany and Russia proper, is the way in which these socialist leaders were so willing to kill people in the millions to make reality accord [...]

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Tweet Please let me know if you are noticing any difference in your RSS feed.  Thanks.

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Tweet Zombie has a new post about Occupy’s latest stunt:  The movement’s geniuses, inspired by Earth Day, [I]llegally took over an entire farm and transformed it into…a farm! So proud are they of this revolutionary act that they showed off the farm to the media yesterday, so naturally I had to check it out. Go [...]

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Tweet My Saturday was busy.  My Sunday will be even busier.  I can’t wait until Monday.  Tuesday — and I’m boasting here — I meet MacG for lunch. I was talking to my kids about market forces and came up with this one:  “The market is busy grappling with today’s problems, while the government is [...]

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Tweet I’m very glad I posted my little whine about the drop in readership, because I heard from a number of you about the RSS feed not working.  (Some of you had even told me before that post, but I needed a critical mass before I could start putting two and two together.) My readership [...]

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“The message from the man who controls the Justice Department (which can indict you), the SEC (which can fine you), and the IRS (which can audit you), is clear: You made a mistake donating that money”, writes Strassel.

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Tweet Newt Gingrich was pilloried for calling Obama the Food Stamp president.  “Racist!” cried the usual suspects.  Huh?  Yes, racist, because food stamps are a form of welfare, welfare is traditionally associated with blacks, so Newt was reminding people that Obama is white-black  (as if the MSM ever allows us to forget that), and that [...]

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Tweet Council Submissions The Colossus of Rhodey – “Progressive” liar set to return to comics Joshuapundit-Yom Hashoah – Reflections On The Holocaust The Political Commentator – Wall Street 101 For Progressives, Academics and Career Politicians! The Noisy Room – Iran + UN: The Incorrectly Included Datum The Independent Sentinel – Obama About to Cede Sovereignty [...]

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Tweet For the MSM, the George Zimmerman thing has turned out to be a bust.  With the exception of the fact that Trayvon Martin is still dead, everything the MSM first reported about the case has proven to be untrue.  Right about now, you’d think that the media would be engaged in some soul-searching and [...]

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Tweet To date, I haven’t been paying that much attention to the Obama administration’s Big Government effort to keep America’s young down on the farms, now that they’ve seen TV.  Or can see TV . . . or should see TV, since the Obama administration is barring farm kids from actually working on the farm: [...]

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Tweet A couple of days ago, I asked if the polls show a Bradley effect, with people deploring Obama’s performance, but still being too embarrassed to admit to pollsters that they don’t like America’s first white-black president.  Most of you disagreed with me, saying (as DQ did) that Leftists will support Obama no matter what, [...]

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Tweet I am so lying in the caption of this post.  Nevertheless, it’s precisely what I thought when I saw a story saying that Chinese activists, using a social network, were able to stop a shipment of hundreds of dogs destined for the cook pot: Dogs destined to be slaughtered and served up in China’s [...]

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Tweet “Facts are stubborn things.” I love that quotation.  John Adams said it back in 1774 when he took on the unpopular job of defending the British troops charged with the killings in the event now known as the Boston Massacre.  Arguing off those same stubborn facts, Adams was able to get those troops acquitted. [...]

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Tweet My purpose in writing this post is to reveal and challenge the Leftist thought bubble in which Barack Obama lives.  Before I get to that point, however, I want to give you a little look at the on-the-ground effects that bubble has on those who are exposed only to Leftist thought. At American Thinker, [...]

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Tweet The Drudge report is masterful at using news headlines to create mini-advocacy essays.  As I read this little trio from today’s Drudge Report, Matt Drudge is suggesting that law-abiding citizens would do well to arm themselves:

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Tweet If you’ve been following polls, you’ve probably noticed something interesting:  When people are asked about specifics, such as Obama’s performance on the economy, national security, immigration, etc., they give him very low scores.  However, when those same people are asked about Obama himself (“do you like him?”), they say they do.  He’s got very [...]

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Tweet Sometimes, as you all know, I have really good days in terms of hits.  There was the never-to-be-forgotten Rush mention; there are the occasional, and always appreciated, Instalanches; and the periodic nods from other big sites, all of which send lots of traffic my way. And then, peculiarly, after I have these big days, [...]

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Tweet Obama Double Speak is a new website that, in straightforward fashion, gives example after example of Obama saying two entirely different things on the same subject, depending upon his audience. Interestingly, while he’ll intermittently make statements that are pro-Israel, or pro-national security, or pro-fiscal austerity, his actions are always consistent with the other things [...]

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Tweet Even if you’re not a member of the Navy League, I thought you’d find interesting this email I received (emphasis mine): Dear Navy Leaguer: The sea services need our help. As you may be aware, The Budget Control Act of 2011 mandated $487 billion in security cuts over the next 10 years in order [...]

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Tweet Students, not normally a personally wealthy group, are all for redistributing other people’s money.  Apparently, though, they draw the line at redistributing the fruits of their own labors: The next step is to get the students to listen to Jon Lovitz’s F-Bomb laden rant and understand that, whether we’re talking grades or money, it [...]

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Tweet This election will be the first election since California voters decided, in 2010, to turn ours into an Open Primary state.  The practical effect of having done so is that the November election, rather than being head-to-head combat between the two parties, will be a run-off between the winners from the June election. The [...]

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Tweet The Left periodically floats the idea of reinstating the draft.  They dress it up in an “everyone should share the burden” argument, but it’s pretty clear that the goal is to create a Vietnam War dynamic, in which young people take to the streets to protest a war, not because they know anything about [...]

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Tweet This morning, at the American Thinker blog, Thomas Lifson posted an article saying that the National Enquirer is asserting that Michelle Obama came up with the idea to attack Ann Romney on the ground that she was a stay-at-home Mom.  Thomas Lifson says that this report is credible, given Michelle’s frequently expressed anger at [...]

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Tweet Several years ago — in 2007, to be precise — at one of the kid’s sporting events, I met a very nice man.  Since we were stuck out in the boondocks for the day, we talked.  I learned that he and his wife had just filed for divorce. Divorce is not an uncommon story, [...]

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