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Tweet In an earlier post, I ranted about the nasty vapidity that characterizes the “posters” my liberal friends put up on Facebook whenever an election draws near.  I also mentioned that my conservative friends consistently post more substantive articles and images.  This one, from my brother-in-law, manages to be both pithy and substantive.  It packs [...]

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Tweet I’m going back and forth whether Roberts was a typical judge (i.e., stupid and unworthy of respect), a brilliant thinker, a chess player, a pawn, etc.  Each of you who has commented here has made an excellent point.  I agree with all of you, even when you disagree with each other.  In other words, [...]

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Tweet Albert Einstein allegedly defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Austin O’Malley looked at the process of insanity: “A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.” And Guy de Maupassant examined that peculiar phenomenon [...]

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Tweet Keith Koffler has assembled some of Obama’s finest “passing the buck” moments. Put another way, Obama has freely admitted that he lacks leadership skills, since he is utterly incapable of dealing with the ordinary cycle of domestic and foreign politics that are part-and-parcel of being the chief executive of what used to be the [...]

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Tweet (With apologies to Winston Churchill.) The current state of rumor and innuendo about a president who has no past other than that which he grudgingly doles out, creating a tabula rasa on which we can write our own impressions, leads me to this conclusion:  Barack Obama is a bisexual riddle wrapped in a Muslim [...]

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Tweet I came across the following story about Winston Churchill when I was reading The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes: In the summer of 1941 Sergeant James Allen Ward was awarded the Victoria Cross for climbing out onto the wing of his Wellington bomber, 13,000 feet above the Zuider Zee, to extinguish a fire in [...]

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Tweet My kids — indeed all the kids I know — are enthralled by a show called “Deadliest Warrior.”  In every episode, the show takes two types of warriors (Israeli Commandos v. Navy SEALS; Al Capone v. Jesse James; etc.), and compares their weapons and techniques to determine which will be that episode’s deadliest warrior.  [...]

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Tweet Question for all of you: A friend thinks that we shouldn’t get our hopes up over November and beyond. He thinks that, aside from the concern political junkies are exhibiting, most Americans actually don’t care enough about the political scene to vote for politicians who would put a stop to this. They got their [...]

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Tweet Winston Churchill wrote the following in a book published in 1899 about the Sudan.  It is remarkably prophetic (emphasis mine): How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The [...]

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Tweet You may recall that, only last week, I reviewed one of McCain’s victory speeches and concluded that it bore some remarkable similarities to Churchill’s “finest hour” speech.  It turns out I’m not the only one to see that McCain’s . . . perhaps not his rhetoric but his world outlook is similar to Churchill’s [...]

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Tweet Writing at American Thinker today, Steven Warshawsky gave a very good review to John McCain’s victory speech the other night. Warshawsky praises McCain for taking the high road and promising to focus on the issues, which should help middle class voters get past possible guilt about not voting for the woman or the black [...]

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