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Tweet This post about Eric Holder’s thin skin, arrogance, and sense of entitlement seems like an appropriate companion piece.

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Tweet Here’s a Robert Samuelson article, “bye bye Keynes” that should give us all pause: the arguments he uses to write Keynes’ obituary are arguments that we all posited in our own excoriation of Keynes in years past, in response to a string of commentators, ranging from A to Z. I’ve been reviewing our last [...]

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Tweet These two posts have entirely different content, but both are distinguished by Leftist lies, whether the Leftist is spouting the lies to others or (and I’m being generous in my interpretation here) only telling them to herself: A Harvard Fairy Tale About Romney and Obama How Soon They Forget

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Maybe what we see today is a final struggle for America between those that want to be free and those that don’t.

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Tweet In the wake of the horrific child abuse scandal roiling Penn State, many have been trying to understand how Sandusky’s predatory behavior could have continued unchecked for so long.  The focal point of this “how could this happen” question is the fact that Mike McQueary actually witnessed an assault.  Rather than rearranging Sandusky’s face, [...]

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Tweet What the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protestors don’t realize (yet) is that they have been suckered into becoming the agents of their own enslavement. Orwell had it so right in defining the Left because he was a man of the Left. The term “Orwellian” now refers to the Left’s use of terms to mean [...]

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Tweet Paul Krugman, who has been cheering the occupying army within a short walk of his own office, somehow hasn’t managed to show up and support them in person.  A couple of days ago (and I don’t know how I could have missed this!) he explained why.  I’ve offered translations in square brackets, to help [...]

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Tweet FDR made hay out of the shanty towns that sprang up under Hoover’s administration as suddenly homeless Americans tried to cope.  Obama’s America is a bit different:  here, we have the voluntary homeless, people who happily embrace a homeless, and incredibly dirty, lifestyle to advance their savior’s political cause.  My question:  Is their encouragement [...]

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Tweet Item:  At the Occupy Wall Street protest, one of the 99% is spotted leaving his mark on a New York City police car: Item:  During the height of the Bush-era anti-war riots, one of the protesters was photographed as he proudly left his own personal offering to a smoldering American flag: Item:  The Atlantic’s [...]

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Tweet Two stories at the British Guardian caught my eye.  The first is the Guardian’s announcement that its readers think Private Bradley Manning deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.   You’re not imagining things.  Britain’s Left — at least that portion that answers unscientific online newspaper polls — thinks that the man who stole thousands of [...]

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Tweet Ed Morrissey discusses Roseanne Barr’s demand for the guillotine, and ends with just about the best statement I’ve ever seen about the difference between conservative and so-called liberal protests: Just remember that when conservatives organize into grassroots movements, it’s almost always about protecting their own property and individual liberty.  When leftists decide to start [...]

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Tweet From 2007 through August 2011, daring to question or criticize Obama meant you were a racist.  Now, though, liberals are suggesting that Obama is so toxic he should just walk away from the job.  Holding them to their own standards, aren’t they being racist?  I mean, really, really racist? Please don’t scold me for [...]

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Tweet The Obama administration is headed for a big showdown with judicial accountability next year. Let’s look at the dance list thus far: 1. The “Fast and Furious” gunwalker scandal, involving potential collusion from the top of our government to funnel automatic weapons and explosives to drug cartels operating within and actively undermining a friendly [...]

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Tweet There’s only one problem with this article challenging liberal myths about conservatives and about liberals’ own standing in the world:  the liberals aren’t going to read it.  For example, if Mr. Bookworm were to read it, he might appreciate that while I’ve moved marginally right (mostly challenging labels, more than belief systems), he has [...]

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Tweet I’m racing out the door, so cannot comment on this article about who really holds the moral high ground.  I can just urge you to read it.

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Tweet Mr. Bookworm is catching up with the Jon Stewart episodes he missed while we were away. One particular segment, which starts at the 2 minute mark, caught my eye. In it, Perry talks about love for country, clearly distinguishing himself from Obama, who hasn’t shown such love, either explicitly or implicitly. Take a look [...]

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Tweet We have an odd family friend. Fundamentally, she is a nice person and sports a very unconventional view of the world that occasionally emotes great insights into the human condition. She has a major flaw, however, one that she admits as a character flaw: she is an unabashed hater. Despite her husband, kids and [...]

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Tweet Earlier today, I urged you to read Peter Wehner’s post about the way in which Leftist ideology paves the way for massacres — massacres that the Left often refuses to ignore, because they don’t fit into the Leftist narrative.   I was thinking about this peculiar morality in connection with a comment I saw on [...]

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Tweet The discussion on my recent climate change post has one side saying “expert consensus” and the other side saying “facts.”  Let me state something very important here:  An expert consensus is not a fact.  Experts used to think the sun revolved around the earth (wrong), that bad air caused disease (wrong), that spicy food [...]

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Tweet At Rhymes with Right, Greg has written a moving post about the way in which he and his wife, both of whom deviate from politically correct norms, are often on the receiving end of rude and brutish behavior.  He ends by asking: And they have lead me to wonder — where are the manners? [...]

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Tweet What’s really funny is that the hecklers even thought that they could intimidate this seasoned combat veteran:

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Tweet “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use [...]

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Tweet A classic Seinfeld episode concerned George Costanza’s decision (at Kramer’s urging) to park in a handicapped zone.  This being George, things went drastically wrong.  What I remember from the episode, though, isn’t the cascading sequence of disasters; instead; it’s the opprobrium heaped upon George for parking in the blue.  His parking decision wasn’t treated [...]

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Tweet Last week, a story broke that received surprisingly little attention from the MSM:  a 14 year old Bangladeshi girl, after first being raped, was then accused of adultery and beaten to death.  I say “surprisingly” because, since the women’s lib era, the dominant trope on the Left when it comes to rape is “never [...]

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Tweet The other day, Mr. Bookworm asked me to tell him “what the right wing wackos were talking about.”  Among other things, I mentioned that people were interested in the fact that Hillary had recently announced that she would not return as Secretary of State for Obama’s second term, leading to speculation that she was [...]

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