Separated at birth?
Calvin Coolidge: and Barack Obama (in another hagiographic AP piece)?
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Laugh for the day
From Thailand, a sensible solution to the global warming problem: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9zolXd1QzE[/youtube] Hat tip: Danny Lemieux
Continue readingNot that France ever had free speech as we understand it….
. . . but this is sad: Brigitte Bardot was convicted Tuesday of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying France. A Paris court also handed down a $23,325 fine against the former screen siren and animal rights campaigner. The court also ordered Bardot to pay
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From Yahoo’s most viewed news stories at 10:09 P.S.T.: Clinton set to concede delegate race to Obama AP – 4 minutes ago WASHINGTON – Hillary Rodham Clinton will concede Tuesday night that Barack Obama has the delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, campaign officials said, effectively ending her bid to
Continue readingBennett on the Dems’ decision-making
I think Bill Bennett sums Obama up about as well as anything I’ve seen. After discussing the end of the Clinton era, he says this: And thus the Democratic party is about to nominate a far left candidate in the tradition of George McGovern, albeit without McGovern’s military and political
Continue readingStomach-churning, important reading
Read here John McCain’s 1973 account of his plane crash and his 5 1/2 years at the mercy of the North Vietnamese. It may not tell you whether he’ll be a good president, but it certainly tells you something about the man, all of it good.
Continue readingA new Jack Reacher book (and some other stuff)
A few years ago, quite by accident, I found myself reading The Killing Floor, Lee Child’s first book about ex-military MP Jack Reacher. Reacher is a huge loner who travels around America violently righting even more violent wrongs. Child has since written eleven more books with one, Nothing to Lose,
Continue readingR.I.P. Army Private First Class Ross McGinnis
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the
Continue readingThrow Michelle from the train? *UPDATED*
Obama has a pattern when a person or institution proves problematic: First, loyally, he tries to defend the troublemaker. Second, when his poll numbers show that the defense is futile, he ruthlessly jettisons the troublemaker, whether it’s Samantha Power, Jeremiah Wright or Trinity Church. But what about this troublemaker (assuming,
Continue readingBrave? Yes. Unique? No.
If you stop at the first paragraph of this AP article, you might think that Teddy Kennedy is the only person on earth who has ever faced a cancer surgery as daunting as the one he underwent (emphasis mine): Bravery in the face of cancer? Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has
Continue readingA cautionary tale if Hillary becomes health tzar
There’s talk of Obama giving Hillary the green light to socialize American medicine if she’ll walk away from the primaries. Melanie Phillips gives us a good example of why the renewed specter of socialized medicine should worry us: To the Labour Party, the National Health Service is the talismanic proof
Continue readingLaugh for the day
It’s an old joke, but with a nice fresh twist: [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=U33Xg91HAlo[/youtube] Do you think it’s a coincidence that I got it from someone with his heart in the Air Force? Hat tip: W”B”S
Continue readingA liberal view of the Clinton-Obama faceoff
I was speaking with a liberal this weekend who opined that McCain will win, something he found inconceivable in a match between Obama and McCain. “Why,” I asked? “Because McCain’s never done anything,” he replied. Rather than defend McCain’s record, I asked a different question: “What’s Obama done?” A millisecond
Continue readingI’m shocked, shocked!
Only Claude Raines, of course, could infuse the word “shocked” with the perfect sarcastic inflection, indicating that he wasn’t shocked at all, but you’ll still know exactly what I mean when you read the following: Iran warned Sunday it may limit cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog, expressing disappointment over
Continue readingObama’s tangled web of advisers
There’s something about Obama’s friends…. Gateway Pundit has a post that posts that one of Obama’s current advisers might also be one of Iran’s more active friends. Even though, without further information, I’d acquit Obama of intentionally dealing with an Iranian agent or agitator, there’s absolutely no doubt that Obama
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