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Tweet To be honest, I have my doubts about how happy 2013 is going to be. (You can see my new year prediction, along with the more thoughtful ones from some of my fellow Watcher’s Council members, here.) Still, planning for the worst (even if only emotionally), doesn’t mean we can’t hope for the best. [...]

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Tweet One of my high school friends is black, pro-union, devoutly Christian and (to my surprise, given her San Francisco upbringing) apparently pro-Second Amendment.  She passed this along from one of her Facebook friends (who is a big numbers conservative Christian Facebooker): San Antonio Theater Shooting On Sunday December 17, 2012, 2 days after the [...]

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Tweet A friend send me a link to to this poster:

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Tweet I am really becoming a fan of Kevin Williamson, over at National Review.  Today, he goes beyond Progressives’ superficial characteristics (wealth reallocation, gun fear, etc.), and digs deep into their values and their psyches.  It’s fascinating reading on its own terms.  It’s also extremely useful because, as Williamson himself says, you have to understand [...]

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Tweet My post title says President Obama has been tactless of late.  That’s not true.  He’s always been tactless.  Remember him denigrating handicapped people on the Jay Leno show? Lately, though, the President has upped his game.  Last week, shortly before the Sandy Hook shooting that saw myriad children die, Obama “jokingly” told Barbara Walters [...]

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Tweet As far as the New York Times and the rest of American Progressives are concerned, those Americans who insist that they want to exercise their Second Amendment rights for self-protection are delusional and, quite possibly, nascent psychopathic killers.  Guns are bad.  Really, really bad.  The evidence is irrelevant because . . . yes, guns [...]

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Tweet The Council has spoken, wrapping up the year in grand Council style: Council Winners *First place with 3 1/3 votes! Joshuapundit –A Game Change In Syria Second place with 2 votes – Bookworm Room- The Leftist delusion of a world without danger Third place with 1 1/3 votes – VA Right!-Virulent ‘Pro-Choice’ Rhetoric, ADHD [...]

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Tweet It’s winter break, and I’m coming to terms with the fact that, for the time being, my life is not my own.  It belongs to husband, children, mother, children’s friends, neighbors, etc.  I never even looked at the news yesterday, which left me feeling both bereft and relieved.  Bereft because I am a high [...]

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Tweet National Review Online is running hot today, because it’s got two great articles on gun control, both of which clearly express what I was trying to tell those Marin-ites around me who are absolutely certain that (a) gun control saves lives and (b) the Second Amendment is stupid or misunderstood. Rich Lowry, armed with [...]

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Tweet I wasn’t kidding when I said family is keeping me on the guy — family and work on a new project that has the potential to be at least somewhat remunerative.  The new project requires that I master PowerPoint, a program with which I have only the most glancing acquaintance.  Fortunately, there’s a wealth [...]

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Tweet This is it — the last Watcher’s Council submissions for 2012.  Looking back, it’s been a good year for opinionated bloggers, although I wish I could say the same for everyone else.  I’m not sure that I’m looking forward to 2013.  Nevertheless, the Watcher’s Council is always good.  BTW, I hope that, when you [...]

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Tweet As I’m sure has been the case for you, my life over the last few days has been all family, all of the time.  This is the way it should be over the holidays. Indeed, when I do glance at the headlines, I’m almost glad that this is the way things are.  The headlines [...]

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Tweet Yes, I like Tim Tebow.  I like his eclectic playing style, I like his deep commitment to his non-hate-filled religious principles, and I like that he’s been raking in money and basking in fame for a few years without being involved in a sordid scandal.  The same things that I like, of course, drive [...]

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Tweet Every year, the inestimable and inimitable Doug Ross compiles votes to come up with the Fabulous 50 Blog Awards.  And this year, as in years past, he has anointed the Watcher’s Council (and all of its bloggers) as the Best Blog Ring.  I am honored, although this is a reflection more on my fellow [...]

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Tweet Because this is Marin and I am not a hermit, I frequently find myself in conversation with Democrats.  It was to be expected, therefore, that conversation over the Christmas holiday would end up revolving around gun control.  These conversations were disheartening on all sides.  My friends concluded that I support wild-eyed mass murderers, since [...]

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Tweet To all my friends, I wish you a very Merry Christmas.  I extend this wish to Christians and non-Christians alike.  I feel so blessed to live in a country that shares this lovely holiday with everyone.

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Tweet Thomas Hobbs, who was born into the waning years of the 16th Century and lived three-quarters of the way through the 17th Century, in his great work, Leviathan, characterized man’s life as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” He was not an optimist. Hobbs may have been a pessimist, but he was also quite [...]

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Tweet Some lessons seem almost impossible to learn in the abstract.  Even if we know the hard truth, until it has an impact upon our own lives, we go merrily along, assuming that the worst will never happen and that, if it does, we’ll muddle through somehow. I’ve known a couple of people who awoke [...]

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Tweet This is an Open Thread.  I’ve been on the go since yesterday morning, and things won’t slow down for another couple of hours.  Then, I blog!  Until then, please feel free to let us know what you’re thinking.

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Tweet One of the things that makes it very difficult to write a conservative-oriented thriller is that you cannot simply assume that your audience will understand your references.  In a standard pot-boiler, written for an American market brought up in public schools and addicted to Hollywood movies and television shows, there are so many shortcuts [...]

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Tweet I’d be surprised if you haven’t already read the post advocating against the imposition of Democrat-style gun control.  The author is Larry Correia and, as a nice Jewish grandmother would say, he knows from guns.  In other word, he’s writing from a position of factual strength. Correia’s post is a long one, but well [...]

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Tweet November 4 was disappointing, but we have got to shake it off.  To help with your post-election blues, let me direct you to the Gay Patriot’s Grand Conservative Blogress Diva 2012/13 Official Ballot. If you look closely, you will see that yours truly is one of the candidates.  I would, of course, appreciate your [...]

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Tweet Nothing keeps a good weasel watcher down, not even the end of the world.  The votes are counted and we have winners: Council Winners *First place with 4 votes! The Right Planet–Talking Past Each Other Second place with 3 votes – Joshuapundit-The Newtown School Shooting And What It Should Tell Us Third place *t* [...]

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Tweet Wayne LaPierre, the NRA’s executive VP, says that our violent culture is to blame for gun violence and that, as long as the culture is what it is, school children should have police protection.  Despite the fact that the majority of Americans agree with him, the drive-by media is excoriating as if he had [...]

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Tweet Chuck Hagel apologized for making a fairly nasty gay slur more than a decade ago.  The execrable Andrew Sullivan is proud of Hagel, especially because Hagel’s mea culpa wasn’t accompanied by a companion mea culpa to the Jews and the State of Israel, as to both of which Hagel has directed a boatload of [...]

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