Month: May 2012
Watcher’s Council reading material
This is what I’m reading right now and will be voting upon soon. I’ll say what I always say when I read Watcher’s Council submissions: “It’s good stuff!” Council Submissions The Noisy Room – The Fiction of Barack Obama The Right Planet – Marx Is For Hippies Joshuapundit–What Does Peace
Continue readingRomney’s first day — part 2
Romney’s second ad touting his first day: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FExrZpvL2zs&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/youtube] I can’t decide if, by ad 2, this approach has an elegant simplicity or is just dull. What do you think?
Continue readingWhat does Dancing With The Stars have to do with the presidential elections? Glad you asked.
For several years, every Tuesday and Wednesday morning, my sister has regaled me with stories about Dancing With The Stars, which is not just her favorite television show, it’s actually the only show she watches. For those unfamiliar with DWTS, the premise is simple: every season, a group of TV
Continue readingPaul Fussell, RIP
One of the best history books ever written, bar none, is Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory, a book that elegantly and seamlessly manages to be a comprehensive overview of WWI from the English point of view and of British literature during WWI. My copy of the book,
Continue readingValerie Jarrett: The woman who fills Obama’s empty suit
If you read only one thing today, read Edward Klein’s answer to the question “Who is Valerie Jarrett?” (Edward Klein is the highly respected political writer and author of The Amateur.) Klein’s article can be broken down into two parts: Part One concerns Jarrett’s unfailingly bad political instincts; Part Two
Continue readingThe streets of San Francisco (or, this is Nancy Pelosi’s city)
Writing a couple of years ago about the streets of San Francisco, in a post I called “Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco,” I had this to say: Last week, I had occasion to make four separate trips to the City. Each was unpleasant. The first trip, I got a flat tire
Continue readingObama’s supporters do too believe in free enterprise *UPDATED*
Obama has been going after traditional American capitalism with a vengeance. He’s graduated far beyond his Joe the Plumber kerfuffle, and his vague murmurings about the fact that it’s possible for people to earn too much (excluding, of course, Obama himself and all his rich friends). With his attacks on
Continue readingFriday is Everybody Blog About #BrettKimberlin Day *UPDATED*
[I’ve added a newer post, with more links and more facts here.] Before today, I’d been aware of Brett Kimberlin in only the vaguest possible way, since his name suddenly seemed to be popping on various sites I visit. Since his name didn’t actually ring any bells, I didn’t stop
Continue readingAllen West: The politician who won’t pander
Most politicians would have pandered in response to the question a CAIR person posed in the video below. Not Allen West. As he said, near the end of his own answer to the question, “I’ve been on the battlefield….” Maybe we ought to make battlefield experience a prerequisite for honest
Continue readingI think my theory about the Bakke connection to Obama’s minority status might be gaining traction
A few days ago, I posited that Obama might have come up with the faux Kenyan identity because, in 1979, when he was graduating from high school, the Supreme Court’s 1978 decision Regents of the University of California v. Bakke had done away with affirmative action. (Universities eventually developed workarounds,
Continue readingHow dead people vote
I’m watching a Preston Sturges’ classic — The Great McGinty. The “get out the vote” scene early in the movie could be an ACORN handbook:
Continue readingGreece will be Greece; or why the Germans shouldn’t bother bailing out the Greeks
Yesterday, I wrote that, given the Arab propensity for warfare, it doesn’t seem as if peace in the Middle East is likely any time soon. Today, I looked over a post I wrote last summer while in Greece, and concluded that Germany would be foolish to throw good German money
Continue readingPat Condell nails the UN’s sick attitude towards Israel
I love Pat Condell. He states the truth with clarity and fervor:
Continue readingI’m getting ready for Memorial Day by reading Marcus Luttrell’s Service : A Navy Seal At War
I got myself a copy of Marcus Luttrell’s Service: A Navy SEAL at War, which I am very much looking forward to reading. I loved his Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10, even though it made me cry — which
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