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We’re looking at a potential financial meltdown, and the lame duck Congress manages to find the time to send Obama a bill to mute the volume on TV commercials.  Is it any surprise that Americans are absolutely and completely disgusted with Washington?

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I think Nancy’s new motto should be “La, la, la!  I caaan’t hear you!”

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Since warnings labels seem to be dominating the news (that cigarette thing), Doug Ross has some suggestions for political warning labels.

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Apropos my apparent fascism, one neocon, an former Communist, and also an Italian Jew, suggests that supporting Israel may be enough to earn that appellation from the Left.  (H/t Soccer Dad) Speaking of Soccer Dad, at his blog we have another reminder that Ataturk‘s western nation is vanishing, to be replaced by a hardline Islamic [...]

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American Digest is getting lots of hits for this list, and deservedly so.  It surely explains what’s happening in California, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, etc. UPDATE:  And if you want something that will make you laugh, this will.  I need to laugh.  I’m bummed, although not surprised, about California. UPDATE II:  SGT Dave said [...]

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I was very flattered that neo-neocon used one of my posts to examine how she, when still a liberal, thought about Republicans.  Her primary point is that, because she is just a few years older than I, she still remembers a Republican era in America that wasn’t bad.  She has Eisenhower memories, while my Republican [...]

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One after another, our intellectual betters on the Democrat/Progressive side of the political spectrum have assured us that the American people are simply too stupid to appreciate Obama’s greatness, let alone the Democrat Congress’ greatness.  They may have a point about American stupidity.  And if the Democrats/Progressives are the elite of America, that clearly means [...]

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UPDATE from Bookworm: Poor Enrico’s. Because its name features prominently on the building, people are assuming it posted the sign. It did not. From Enrico’s facebook page: You may have received an email about a sign that says “FU (spelled out) Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina” asking you to call Enrico’s Restaurant to complain. Enrico’s [...]

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[Re updates, I'm just slotting them in the appropriate categories, or creating new categories, as they come my way, without special fanfare.] My liberal friend — the same one who thinks that, politically, Tea Partiers are American Nazis — is also convinced that Tea Party candidates are nut jobs, more suited for an insane asylum [...]

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One of the points my liberal friend has made in the last few talks we’ve had is that the Tea Party candidates are dangerous nuts (witness Christine O’Donnell’s flirtation with witchcraft when she was 16).  He claims that the Democrat candidates and politicians are models of normalcy.  I was wondering if you could help me [...]

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My friend Sally Zelikovsky says it in the clearest words possible:  Unless conservatives in California vote for the Republicans, we will have a Sacramento government made up entirely of San Francisco Democrats.  If that horrible outcome sounds painfully obvious to you, you don’t know California. There are two dynamics in California that are a problem.  [...]

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Mike Pence asked me for money today. He seems like a good guy. I hope he wins. Life, liberty and limited government, he wrote, these are the cherished ideals of our nation, and they are ideals from which we must never stray. Indeed they are. Truly American ideals. As David Mamet, writes, as American as [...]

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Put aside the fact that Bawney Fwank sent his boyfwiend out to heck his opp0nent.  What I like about this video clip is Sean Bielat‘s poise and humor in handling said boyfwiend’s heckling: Bielat seems to have mastered many of the US Marine’s Leadership Traits which is, in itself, a recommendation for a leadership role [...]

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Don’t listen to what Chris Coons says, pay attention to what he does, and to the people who support the fruits of his labors. And if you’re a voter in Delaware, remember that the media has a vested interest in doing anything possible to destroy a Republican candidate with a past while, at the same [...]

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This is how it works if you’re a Democrat:  They’ve got your back, fighting against our nation’s mortal enemies (so you don’t have to), and you respond by stabbing them in their collective back, by denying them their constitutional right to have a say in our government.

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I told my friend Don Quixote about the way in which liberals were boasting that the crowds at One Union exceeded those at Restoring Honor, despite the fact that the pictorial evidence showed the opposite to be true.  Don Quixote, a lifelong conservative, responded by asking “Do liberals really believe what they say?” I came [...]

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One of the routine accusations leveled against socialism is that it seeks to usurp the role of the adult in society.  If the government provides cradle to grave care, the people don’t have to.  They don’t have to raise their children, they don’t have to feed their families, they don’t have to plan for their [...]

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When I was studying for the State Bar exam, a long, long time ago, my mom suggested that I get myself a massage, to help me with the tension.  It seemed like a good suggestion, I so dutifully took myself to a highly recommended masseuse. The masseuse began working on my neck, and I hit [...]

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I’m heading off to a client, so I don’t have time to blog.  Here’s all you need to know: Rep. Alan Grayson is despicable, even by the low standards of despicable-ness currently emanating from the Democratic party.  His Republican opponent, Daniel Webster (and isn’t that a great American name) is currently being slandered and libeled [...]

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If you’re looking for posts providing substantive information about problems with myriad Democratic candidates in the upcoming election, this list, which a friend sent me, is a wonderful start.  As you can see, it’s organized by candidate name, but each link will lead you to a full length post about problems with that candidate.  If [...]

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Loretta Sanchez (D – Cal.) was caught bad mouthing both Vietnamese and Republicans: What’s so funny about the video is the part when Sanchez attacks Van Tran, a Republican, as “anti-immigrant.”  Sanchez was born in California; Tran was born in Vietnam, and immigrated to this country in 1975.  For you young’uns, that was the year [...]

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Although I grew up without money (we lived a very marginal existence, to say the least), my mother came from old, old money.  On both parents’ side, the family wealth went back to the late Middle Ages.  There was nothing nouveau riche about my mom’s approach to wealth, and she passed the whole notion of [...]

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You’ve probably seen the headlines saying that Alabama Rep. Bobby Wright “joked” that Pelosi might get sick and die before  he’s called upon to vote for her next year as the House leader.  I think that the “joke” is in exceptionally bad taste, but that’s not the issue.  What makes the little squiblet newsworthy is [...]

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Great video: (ht:  American Thinker) One of the big regrets in my life is that I didn’t appreciate Reagan while he was president.  I was still an unthinking liberal, and accepted without analysis or suspicion the MSM’s repeated assurances that he was a dangerous and evil buffoon.

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My brilliant brother-in-law put together a chart showing the correlation between a state’s debt load and it’s government (Democratic or Republican).  The chart’s statistics won’t come as a surprise to conservatives, but I bet they’d come as a big surprise to a whole lot of liberals: I wish there was a simple, pithy way to [...]

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