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Tweet Yesterday, I received this email query from one of my world’s smartest readers: I assume you have seen the pictures of Hillary Clinton testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Cmte.  Her glasses look odd.  I’m wondering if her illness/head injury was not more serious or other than what was disclosed. Hmmm.  That’s interesting. So [...]

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Tweet Yesterday, I directed your attention to Ritely, which aims to be the conservative answer to Reddit.  Ritely is easy to use:  posting articles takes seconds and it’s got a clear format for finding other people’s posted articles.  Today, I get to tell you about Helen’s Page, a conservative information clearinghouse that Glenn Reynold’s wife [...]

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Tweet An old friend of mine, a person distinguished by an open, intelligent mind, a large fund of knowledge, and wonderful writing skills, has just started a blog:  To Put It Bluntly.  As I expected, the early posts are smart and enjoyable. What’s also nice is that it’s a beautifully designed site that’s easy on [...]

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Tweet Those of you who were lucky enough to have started using the internet a few years ago probably remember Laer Pearce, who blogged at Cheat-Seeking Missiles.  Laer was one of my first blog friends, meaning that we corresponded by email and, eventually, we met.  He is precisely what you’d imagine him to be from [...]

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Tweet Megan Fox is a frequent contributor to PJ Media:  She’s a great, thoughtful writer who brings (dare I say it?) a domestic touch to conservative blogging.  That is, her interests aren’t just political, but also revolve around family and even crafts.  I have the pleasure of being on an email list with her and [...]

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Tweet I have long been singularly fortunate in that Barry Rubin periodically corresponds with me.  He is a light in the blogosphere:  informed, brilliant, objective, open-minded, decent, and kind.  Read any one of his posts about the Middle East, and you will learn more than you will learn in a year of reading the New [...]

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Tweet Sergeant Major Michael Burke, who blogs at Castra Praetoria, is now stationed back in the U.S.  He’s also become a radio personality.  I’m happy (and not surprised) to say that Mike did a great interview.  As I told him, he’s either got a great job or a great personality — or both.  He sounds [...]

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Tweet The blogger known as Neptunus Lex was one of the joys of the blogosphere.  Informed, witty, often incredibly funny, fiercely intelligent — everything that makes one fall into the intellectual embrace of a person one knows only through his words. And now he’s gone. Here’s more. I am deeply, deeply saddened.  My thoughts are [...]

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Tweet We here at Bookworm Room have known Navy One for a long time.  He starting commenting here even before he branched off on his own to start a blog called The Mellow Jihadi.  He’s also a fellow member of the Watcher’s Council. I can confidently say that Navy One ranks very high, not just [...]

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Tweet My blog has enriched my life in so many ways.  At the most obvious level, of course, it’s allowed me to engage in all the political discourse that would be inappropriate in my normal, suburban mom life.  Aside from the fact that I live in a liberal enclave, which makes political discussions very fraught, [...]

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