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Tweet Many people are asserting that, in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, the end is near.  I see that in op-eds, in blog posts, and in my email box.  America’s constitutional experiment is over, they say.  They might be right.  Or not. But here’s the deal:  if we give in to despair now, [...]

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Tweet [UPDATE:  Since I wrote this post, there is now reason to believe that Roberts issue his opinion for the wrong reasons, not the right ones.  If I were to rewrite this post today, I would be less charitable to the man.  Nevertheless, putting aside Roberts' motives, I stand by the substance of my post, [...]

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Tweet I was driving along in the car and, suddenly, the phrase “Roe v. Wade” popped into my head.  In 1973, the Supreme Court waded into what should have been a state-by-state legislative matter, and created the most vicious 39 year fight in America since the Civil War.  One side found the decision completely invalid, [...]

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Tweet I’ve now had the chance to digest myriad analyses of the Roberts decision on ObamaCare.  I think I can sum up the various conclusions that liberal and conservative pundits have reached.  Here goes: The decision is a victory for Obama and the Democrats because it keeps ObamaCare on the books.  However, it’s a victory [...]

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Tweet This came from the Romney campaign: Friend, Today, the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare. But regardless of what the Court said about the constitutionality of the law, Obamacare is bad medicine, it is bad policy, and when I’m President, the bad news of Obamacare will be over. It was always a liberal pipedream that a [...]

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Tweet The Supreme Court opinion on ObamaCare runs to 193 pages.  It is the size of a book, only more boring than any book anyone would ever want to read — and that is true despite the fact that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the worst writer on the court, didn’t write it.  I’ve been making a [...]

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Tweet I haven’t yet finished Jonah Goldberg’s The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas, which is unusual for me, given that I’ve had it since Friday. It’s the kind of book one gobbles up — but that assumes time to gobble. Since I bought the book and Jonah signed it [...]

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Tweet The Council has spoken, and it is good.  However, before you check out that goodness, link over to the WoW Forum question to see what the Watchers of Weasels have to say about Obama’s decision to use Executive Privilege to protect Eric Holder. You’ve done that?  Great.  Here are last week’s winners: Council Winners [...]

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Tweet Victor Davis Hanson has written one of his best columns ever, in large part because he lucidly sets out Obama’s flip-flops.  Actually, “flip-flop” isn’t the right word, because it lacks the energy of the violent volte faces that Obama routinely makes.  There’s no nuance to his changes.  John Kerry, even though he inarticulately said [...]

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Tweet The White House and the lapdog media have an unusually depressed, belligerent tone when it comes to the upcoming opinion on Obama Care.  They’re even more depressed than they should be given the pathetic showing their case (not their lawyer, but their case) made during oral argument.  Put another way, it’s hard to believe [...]

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Tweet I’m finally back, but will not blog today.  I’m tired and have nothing to say. Blogging will resume tomorrow.

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Tweet Still a ways to go on I-5. Enjoy yourself in the meantime.

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Tweet I’ve noticed something interesting over the last week or so: the absence of Obama bumper stickers. (And I’ve been in some very fierce Obama strongholds over the last few days, ranging from San Francisco to Los Angeles.) I’d actually noticed this absence before, but I figured that Democrats were sitting tight, waiting for the [...]

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Tweet Let’s see….  Today is Sunday, right?  I ask because being out-of-town for the weekend (which I am) always skews my perception of time. It now seems like a lifetime, ather than something less than two days since I heard Jonah Goldberg talk about his new book, The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in [...]

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Tweet Yes, I am quoting Daffy Duck in my post caption. That’s because the Duckster seems to capture perfectly the quality of the “war” currently going on between the Navy and the Marines.  I’m not saying that this war is ugly. I’m saying that it’s very, very silly — and both “combatants” are fully aware [...]

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Tweet I took a road trip yesterday, so I missed the “moment” of the Sandusky verdict. Based on the testimony, it seemed like the jury nailed it. Someone emailed me an interesting question:  Why did Sandusky’s attorney sound so darn happy after his client was found guilty on almost all counts?  I suggested facetiously that [...]

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Tweet Dan Savage made a name for himself as the face of the “anti-bullying” campaign sweeping America’s schools.  He’s gotten lots of money, lots of media face-time, and lots of access within the Obama administration because of his “peaceable” message.  Savage’s own behavior, though, makes clear that his anti-bullying message is just another Leftist scam, [...]

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Tweet We’re planning yet another summer trip, so I did what I always do when I’m trying to learn about (what is to me) a foreign locale:  I got one of those DK Eyewitness travel guides.  They’re fairly familiar to everyone now, but once upon a time — say, about twenty years ago — they [...]

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Tweet If you’re old enough to remember the Soviet Union, you’re also old enough to remember that, when the American news reported that voter turnout was 50 or 60% for a given election, the Soviets would boast that they had 100% turnout for all elections.  Even I, a child, realized that there was a connection [...]

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Tweet Have we reached a tipping point when the White House press laughs at Jay Carney when he asserts that Obama’s assertion of “executive privilege” is a principled move? Hat tip: Earl

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Tweet If you enjoy women who are smart, principled, and beautiful, John Hawkins has assembled the list you want to see:  this year’s 20 Hottest Conservative Women.  I am not on the list, since my image is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.  I can assure you, though, that, if you like [...]

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Tweet We knew Occupy was a turfed up protest.  We knew that Occupy quickly degenerated into drug-fueled, dangerous debauchery.  We knew that Occupy is ugly.  But I don’t think any of us realized in the beginning quite how ugly Occupy would prove to be. It turns out that it’s so ugly that it supports child [...]

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Tweet See, here, ya got your greenies on one side, right?  And ya got your government boondoggles on the other side, right? So you’re with me so far, right? When ya combine the two, like, you know, throwing boondoggle money at greenie ideas, ya know what you got? Ya got stupid, expensive studies that look [...]

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Tweet Obama is so bad, the Clinton era starts to look good.  And Obama’s crude use of his children is so bad (dragged out when they’re presence is useful, off-limits when it’s not), that one really has to appreciate how zealously and effectively Bill and Hillary shielded Chelsea from the public.  I wish that Bill [...]

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Tweet If you sent me a personal message in the last few weeks, do not despair if you haven’t heard back from me.  I let my email box get out of control, and am now sorting my way through over 1,000 emails.  Many are chaff, but I have to clear the chaff out before I [...]

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