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Tweet Ned Rice has taken it upon himself to fact-check Clint Eastwood’s RNC presentation.  This may well be the best and most honest fact-check every done.  Here’s just a sample, but you will be denying yourself one of life’s great pleasures if you don’t read the whole thing: “You’re getting as bad as Biden. Of [...]

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Tweet A liberal friend sent me the editorial that the New York Times published practically within seconds of Mitt ending his speech, and asked me to try to defend Mitt from the editorial’s charges.  Nothing easier, says I.  Here’s a nice little Fisking of the New York Times’ alternate reality: Mitt Romney wrapped the most [...]

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Tweet You all have probably noticed what I’ve noticed:  while the Democrat party gets support from young voters, it doesn’t have many young politicians.  (And maybe the young voters would like to think about that one for a while.)  Obama, at 51, is one of the youngest of the Democrat leaders.  This may help explain [...]

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Tweet Here they are: Council Winners *First place with 3 votes! Bookworm Room –Democrat gaffes, nastiness, and sheer ignorance – just a few highlights from the Democrat side of the aisle Second place with 2 1/3 votes – The Razor – The Democratic Party’s War on Children Third place *t* with 2 votes – Simply [...]

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Tweet Paul Ryan: College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.

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Tweet The political slow season is ending and the Watcher’s Council is keeping a close eye on escalating events around the world.  I’ve included this week’s submissions, below, and I suggest that you pair reading these posts with reading the newest Watcher’s Council forum, in which Council members discuss whether our political system has become [...]

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Tweet I liked this speech: I’ve also enjoyed the frenzied reaction amongst my liberal Facebook friends, who swear that Ryan lied every time he opened his mouth. The biggest alleged lie was about the GM plan in Janesville, but facts show that the only ones who are lying about this are the desperate Dems. My [...]

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Tweet Yesterday, I did a post in which I said that, while the HuffPo was crowing about an alleged Paul Ryan, I caught David Axelrod red-handed in a repeatedly disproved lie.  I had my doubts about whether Ryan had lied — it’s not his style — but that’s not where I was going with my [...]

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Tweet Given that the media is working overtime to portray Obama as Mr. Nice Guy and Romney as Mr. Heartless, Capitalist Bully, a friend suggested that I start a running post tracking the times when Obama is a jerk. I’ll start with some past history of jerkiness, and then just keep updating and reposting this [...]

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Tweet HuffPo asserts that Paul Ryan lied in his speech.  I haven’t listened to the speech, nor have I read the HuffPo piece.  I just found the HuffPo claim amusing because a few minutes before reading that headline, I had just read David Axelrod’s email begging me, yet again, to donate $3 to the Obama/Biden [...]

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Tweet My family needed me today. All of them. Every last one of them. I feel very needed. Separating need from want, while I wanted to read stuff on the internet and write things, and needed to take care of them. And I did. Tonight, I think I want chocolate ice cream. However, since I’d [...]

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Tweet Bonnie Tyler bemoaning a Total Eclipse of the Heart:

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Tweet The Left is excited:  two people were allegedly ejected from the RNC because they threw peanuts at a black CNN camera operator and said “this is how we feed the animals.”  Put aside the fact that this happened with two people out of thousands in attendance, and put aside the fact that they were [...]

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Tweet I remember in 1992, when I was a silly young-ish Democrat, the excitement of hearing people at the DNC chanting “It’s time for them to go” — a reference to twelve years of Republican governance.  Now, after only four years of Obama, a clever, bouncy ad tells the Obama-niks to “Get Out”: Hat tip: [...]

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Tweet James Taranto writes from Tampa about the Leftist protest and its sponsor (emphasis mine): “Really hard to notice the RNC protesters if you’re not running around trying to find them,” Slate’s Dave Weigeltweeted early yesterday afternoon. “V far from convention, other events.” The convention’s start was delayed a day, and so was the late-afternoon [...]

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Tweet This one didn’t make the original post, because the malfeasor isn’t a politician, she’s a journalist.  Nevertheless, Elspeth Reeve deserves to be called out for her lies. UPDATE:  Welcome, Ace of Spades readers!  As you’ve probably figured out, Maetenloch gave more meat to the story than I did.  The only thing I did was [...]

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Tweet My sister asked me “What do you think about Prince Harry?” For starters, I don’t think about Prince Harry too much, but right now, the front page coverage is making one forcibly aware of him.  Frankly, this is how I think of Prince Harry:  He’s an Australian sheep dog, and perhaps with the same [...]

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Tweet Todd Akin’s ill-informed remarks opened the floodgates for the usual smears about the fact that all conservatives are ignorant, racist, sexist, theocratic, misogynistic tyrants.  The one that got the greatest play amongst my liberal Facebook friends was Timothy Egan’s New York Times‘ column claiming that Akin isn’t the only Republican crackpot in Congress.  He [...]

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Tweet Sometimes real life is a pain in the whatsit.  Exercise was good, but I wasn’t thrilled that paying work (yes, real paying work), plus a doctor’s appointment for my Mom not only dragged me away from blogging, but dragged me away from thinking about blogging.  Feh! Tomorrow should be a bit more peaceful and, [...]

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Tweet I’ve been moping around this morning, but I cheered up a lot when I saw this one. I’m going off to exercise now, which should elevate my mood, but it precludes blogging.  Consider this a Monday Morning Open Thread.

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Tweet Identity politics worked very well for the Democrats for a long time, provided that they played the various little groups off against “white men.”  Barring some in-fighting in academia amongst various “victim” subgroups — a spectacle that Christina Hoff Sommers described to hilarious effect in Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women — [...]

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Tweet The Democrats are kvelling about Todd Akin.  Indeed, at the New York Times, one enterprising writer has put together a list of a handful of Republicans who hold views that are outside of the mainstream (or who articulate arguably valid views in invalid ways).  A cartoonist has also put together a crude cartoon that [...]

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Tweet Last week, I wrote a post about relationship porn, in which I argued that the sex in romance novels is the least interesting part for romance readers.  The most interesting part, I said, is that the heroes like, respect, and support the heroines.  I also said that there are few writers who even try [...]

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Tweet I got another Obama campaign solicitation in this morning’s email.  I get them every day and have for months.  In the beginning, they were rather jaunty.  “Hey, we’re going to win.  Pitch in.”  Then they got commercial.  “Want a chance to sit in the backroom of an Obama event?  Pitch in.”  Now, they are [...]

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