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George Bush is such an easy target for the media that it often seems like just a waste of time to go for factual accuracy. Take the Kyto Protocol. A recent AP article makes the casual assertion that “The United States is no longer bound by Kyoto, which the Bush administration rejected after taking office [...]

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Here are the facts — undisputed facts — as the Defense Department reports them: All active-duty components made their recruiting goals in November, Defense Department officials said today. The Army made 105 percent of goal, the Navy 100 percent, the Marine Corps 104 percent, and the Air Force 100 percent. In raw numbers, the Army [...]

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Jules Crittenden, writing at the Boston Herald, has this to say. I’ve added some less than sanguine comments at the end: When a company defrauds its customers, or delivers shoddy goods, the customers sooner or later are going to take their business elsewhere. But if that company has a virtual monopoly, and offers something its [...]

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The movement is afoot — despite Pelosi’s claim that impeachment is not on the agenda, the rank and file is beginning to call for Bush’s impeachment (posts about this trend are here and here). It’s easy enough to lay the blame on Bush Derangement Syndrome, but I think the problem goes much deeper than that. [...]

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Mark Steyn pithily reminds us why the anyone-but-Bush and the anyone-but-the-Republicans and the I-want-to-punish-the-Republicans crowds are all wrong: But if it really is, as Democrats say, ”all about the future of our children,” then our children will want to know why our generation saw what was happening and didn’t do anything about it. They will [...]

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A bomb went off in Tel Afar yesterday, but that’s not the news. From the SF Chronicle, which is reprinting a short article from the Washington Post, the lede and the first paragraph make sure we understand the real story: 2nd bombing in city Bush had touted as safe A suicide car bomb slammed into [...]

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I’ve mentioned before the silly stuff that passes for art and entertainment amongst the anti-Bush, anti-War people. Sometimes, their passions go so far that even those who believe in them can’t follow: There was a “What is this?” expression on the faces of many in the packed house at San Francisco’s Magic Theatre when the [...]

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This had me rolling on the floor laughing — NOT! This kind of “humor” is so puerile and obvious, not to mention being divorced from reality and completely illogical, that it staggers me that its creator not only gets paid to write this stuff, but that he has a prominent national forum.

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Now that the uproar over Chavez’s speech has ended, those who were at first a little embarrassed to see someone say at the UN what they’ve been saying everywhere else, have regrouped, and started agreeing with and echoing Chavez. The latest hit piece I read struck me as amusing, because, in a heavily joking fashion, [...]

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I admire restraint, up to a point. When you reach that point, though, if you continue with restraint, you begin to look weak, foolish and doubtful about your own position. I was therefore delighted to see that the Bush Administration, through Condi Rice, is taking on Clinton’s hysterical attack last week. I have to say [...]

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I have just witnessed a single change in local voter demographics. My mother, who has always voted Democratic, says that she does not intend to vote for the Democrats any more. She is “disgusted” with them, since they seem ineffectual and have absolutely no plan about any of the woes affecting the U.S. She continues [...]

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I’ve never liked Kevin Costner the actor, but today I respect Kevin Costner the man: KEVIN COSTNER has waded into the debate about controversial new movie DEATH OF A PRESIDENT, insisting British director GABRIEL RANGE failed to consider how GEORGE W BUSH’s family would react to scenes of the US President being assassinated. The DANCES [...]

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I can be sarcastic or disdainful of the Left, and I’ll speak slightingly of the views that emanate from that side of the political spectrum, but I don’t believe I’ve ever called a liberal individual deranged, disgusting, perverted and sociopathic. All that is about to change. At Flopping Aces, Curt has a video, posted on [...]

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In a peculiar way, I’m becoming very fond of David Denby, one of The New Yorker‘s resident movie reviewers. It’s clear that he aspires to be another Frank Rich — Rich, of course, being the former New York Times‘ theater critic who made the leap to ultra liberal political op-ed columnist. In the short time [...]

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Before the Nazis killed the Jews, they executed those they deemed unfit because of physical or mental handicaps. My goyish uncle, who was institutionalized because he was “crazy” (we now think he might have been homosexual), was one of the first the Nazis executed in their drive to purify the Aryan nation. In yet another [...]

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I heard bits and pieces of Mike Wallace’s creepy interview with Sean Hannity regarding the Ahmadinijad interview 60 Minutes scored. I knew how Wallace praised Ahmadinijad’s shoes and admired how well-spoken he was.  I knew that these superficial attributes so impressed the superficial Wallace that he was unable to see that these attributes don’t negate [...]

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I always assumed that the Left’s hostility to any efforts in the war against terrorists (“can’t we all get along?”) was a byproduct of Bush Derangement Syndrome, a la Groucho Marx’s “Whatever you’re for, I’m against it.” Ann Coulter, however, sees Ned Lamont’s election as proof of the opposite: As some of us have been [...]

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Today, in my mail, I found our local free paper, the Pacific Sun. This week’s cover story is on the cover as “A Farewell to Arms : Iraq war veterans reject their mission– and now may have to fight for their own freedom.” In the body of the magazine, it gets the title “Why We [...]

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I started a series of posts aimed at examining what the Left side of the blogosphere had to say about what I think is one of the biggest stories of our day: Israel’s major military initiative against Hezbollah. What I discovered, and why I’ve sort of dried up on checking out those blogs, is that [...]

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This is part of a longer post at American Thinker, which I think nails an issue about the current war being waged all over the world — the Leftist’s self-defeating alignment with the Islamists: Islam was founded as a religion that is the state, where the state is the religion. The ultimate theocracy. There is [...]

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Gateway Pundit did a snarky little post about the suffering, the terrible suffering, Plame and Wilson have undergone since they rocketed to MSM fame.  Only those who have to live through it can understand the agony of the jet-set lifestyle, complete with designer magazine covers.  No wonder they had to sue. I commented at the [...]

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One of today’s most emailed NPR stories discusses a book by Robert Jensen, a professor of media ethics and journalism at the University of Texas at Austin.  In his book, Jensen purports to explain why all white people are in fact racists. I haven’t listened to the story, nor have I read the book (although [...]

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I'm actually being a bit generous using the world "science" here, and I only use it because the newspaper article I'm going to savage uses the word — in the title of the article, no less. In fact, this is pseudo science being bent to make a political point: Bush Iraq misadventure proved by science [...]

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I mentioned attending a graduation on Friday.  One of the speakers gave a beautiful speech about his hope that the children leaving the school would become leaders, not necessarily by becoming famous, but by doing the right thing.  His point was that those who act morally are inevitably leaders.  I thought it was a good [...]

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When Tina Brown took over The New Yorker, it got hip, edgy and, to me, boring. We continue to subscribe, though, in large part because Mr. Bookworm has always subscribed. And I still read it because it's there, which is how I got to read two movie reviews that give away entirely the new political [...]

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