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• Speaking of Barnum's Law,

  ...check out this little bit by Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, who has evidently forgotten exactly which political party actually DID support slavery in the 19th Century. Hint; Harry, it wasn't the Republicans.' [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 1:16pm EST
  

• In honor of Barnum's Law

  ...as modified by Scott Adams; never underestimate the power of stupidity. This thought came to me while I was considering why people would conspire--breathe together--to get socialized medicine to the United States (and its long lines for basic care), to cut payments to oncologists (while smoking up a storm in [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:21pm EST
  

• Ewwww......

  Michelle Malkin links to a Gateway Pundit report on Comrade Obama's "Safe Schools Czar," Kevin Jennings. Apparently, he's got an extensive history with the GLSEN, the "Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network," and that group has put forth a reading list of recommended books for youth of various ages. [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 1:00pm EST
  

• Fill up the whole card!

  Fraters Libertas tells us that if you want to fill up your card quickly with "Buzzword Bingo" (thanks Scott Adams), you could do little better than to use this speech by our President.
  
  Just make sure the little ones aren't listening when you stand up and shout....um..."Bingo."' [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 6:21pm EST
  

• Scooped the Muckraker!

  Another 10 year old child tased by the police, this time in Pueblo, Colorado. Now in their defense, the child was wielding a pipe and was wreaking havoc in the house, but are we seriously to believe that police could not handle a ten year old, even a large [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 3:33pm EST
  

• Now this is classic

  Apparently, Senatrix Boxer (D-CA) is saying that any probe of the leaked "Climategate" emails ought to involve a criminal probe. She is apparently slow enough on the uptake to forget that Congress, and United States justice in general, does not have jurisdiction over emails stolen in England by people [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 1:18pm EST
  

• A good column from John Lott

  Here. In it, he points out that the Obama administration's measure of "jobs created or saved" more or less means that if a dollar is spent to employ someone, it is a "job created or saved"--whether or not the person's employment depended on that program.
  
  Of course, the [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 12:15pm EST
  

• More for the Trivium

  The difficulties that Mike Huckabee is currently having answering why he commuted the sentence of a burglar after having served a typical sentence for burglary seems to indicate to me how badly rhetoric has fallon on hard times, as well as how badly our nation's capability for understanding has fallen. [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 1:06pm EST
  

• Conservatives are not exactly looking smart here....

  ....by attacking Mike Huckabee for commuting the sentence of Maurice Clemmons, murderer of four Washington police officers. Why?
  
  He had been convicted to up to 108 years in prison for aggravated robbery, burglary, robbery and two counts of theft of property--crimes committed when he was 17. Now [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 11:23am EST
  

• I hear Gerry Faust is available...

  ....Notre Dame has fired their head coach. [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:55pm EST
  

• Now this is scary

  Vox Day illustrates something that should scare the dickens out of us; overall debt levels in our country exceed levels seen at the peak of the Great Depression. Scarier; consumer spending didn't recover until over a decade after that peak of debt. Scariest; the only part of debt that' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:25am EST
  

• More to be thankful for

  It's been a rough year with losing my mom, but there was a comfort this weekend as my family met relatives of my wife's we never knew existed. Apparently, her grandmother had had a child out of wedlock, allowed her to be adopted, and she'd grown up and come to' [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 9:35pm EST
  

• Now this is different

  A pop-up screen showed me this new book from Zondervan; The Dude Abides, the Gospel According to the Coen Brothers. I guess that says something about our lives when a most powerful cultural connection to the Good News is a documentary like "Fargo," but I hesitate to speculate on [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 4:25pm EST
  

• Reasons for thankfulness

  It hasn't been an easy year for me--for that matter for a lot of people--but it still pays to be thankful.
  
  I'm personally thankful that we get to worry about diseases of overeating instead of starvation.
  
  I'm glad that I get to worry about cancer instead of cholera.[...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 2:45pm EST
  

• The cost of immorality

  Or, at least a little part of it, specifically a little procedure that women love to hate. I'm referring to the "pap smear," and this gynecologist indicates that the primary reason for that procedure is STD infection, specifically HPV. Evidently, about half of sexually active teens and young' [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 3:38pm EST
  

• After seeing this,

  I want to fly to Greenland or Murmansk and buy my dear sweet wife a coat made of polar bear fur. Right after I enjoy a large piece of meat for dinner while wearing leather shoes and praising God for the good things we have because of animal testing.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:22pm EST
  

• A perfect picture of government health care....

  .....is the recent "study" that purported to provide evidence against routine mammographies and self-examinations. Now apart from the scientific evidence, which appears to be unequivocally on the OTHER side of the argument, there is a very interesting fact; no oncologists were included on the panel.
  
  You read that right; [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:01am EST
  

• Now this is interesting

  Apparently a hacker has released a number of emails from the University of East Anglia's Climactic Research Centre--emails which seem to indicate that scientists there are actively manipulating data to make it seem as if the theory were valid when....real data actually would not indicate this. If you want' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:52pm EST
  

• A Puritan medication for depression....

  ....is a Biblical view of work, according to this article in the Wall Street Journal. Here's the author's weblog if you'd like to see more of her work. H/T Cold Fusion Guy, and I'm off to get some remunerative antidepressants! [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:31am EST
  

• Why the government schools don't teach logic,

  part MMMCXVII, courtesy of the IAAF, which claims that sex tests on runner Caster Semenya will be "kept secret."
  
  Apparently, they expect us to believe that they wouldn't have been trumpeting the results--and decrying the need for a test--had the tests found Semenya was a girl. We will' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:34am EST
  

• Time for some good news

  OK, no sense being relentlessly negative all day. Here are a couple of pieces of good news, as well as something quite absurd.
  
  First of all, a Somali pirate attack on a Maersk container ship was repelled by armed guards. The only downside, IMO, is that they didn't' [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:36pm EST
  

• More enemies in the mirror

  I've been thinking about (H/T a lot of people like Mitch and ColdFusion Guy) the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Neuvo York, and the following thoughts come to mind.
  
  1. Whose brilliant idea was it to try a POW in civilian courts, directly against the rules of the' [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:15am EST
  

• We have met the enemy,

  and he is us. Older readers may recognize the reference; it's how Pogo would signal his disgust with the world. These days, it's more appropriate than ever.
  
  Start with my alma mater's basketball team, which nearly blew a home game against unranked Gonzaga last night. How'd they do it?' [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:03am EST
  

• Good news for the Wolverines!

  Word has it that American Standard has issued the University of Michigan a bowl invitation for the second straight year....and if the Spartans aren't careful vs. Penn State this weekend, they might have a rematch with the Wolverines this winter.' [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 4:59pm EST
  

• Priceless

  H/T Say Anything Blog. Evidently, Newsweak has come out with a cover story portraying Sarah Palin as a problem for the GOP and the country. Now apart from whether Palin is the next Reagan or the next Carter (my opinion; neither), and apart from the fact that Newsweak [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:40pm EST
  

• Here's a thought

  Helmets might be the reason that there are so many head injuries in football. Counter-intuitive, to be sure, but think about it; if you didn't have an inch of foam around your head, would you bang it against another player?
  
  I always thought that real men played rugby' [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 5:57pm EST
  

• A possible cure for depression...

  ....at least according to my wife, is knitting. Of course, when you give blood, you'll have to answer "yes" to this question:
  
  Have you ever taken drugs by needle not prescribed by your doctor?
  
  Any MDs out there willing to start prescribing this instead of this?' [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 1:02pm EST
  

• If you suffer from depression....

  .....you might want to take a look at this article from Dr. Mercola. Yes, I know the man and his views are controversial, but in this case, I think he has a point. I've got several people in my extended family and among my friends who have been on' [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 10:26am EST
  

• Say What?

  Evidently, the Kasota police deputy who shot and killed an unarmed man after pursuing him in an unmarked vehicle and fighting with him in plain clothes has been cleared by a grand jury.
  
  Call me puzzled; you have 19 witnesses who say unequivocally that the officer did not [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 2:18pm EST
  

• About those "abstinence doesn't work" studies

  Apparently, at least two people working for the CDC have raised an alarm that CDC studies of the effectiveness of abstinence based sex education were deliberately, and politically, manipulated to undermine data demonstrating statistically significant reductions in sexual experimentation after abstinence based sex education.
  
  No surprise to me; [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:41am EST
  

• Thoughts on carbon emissions

  Old home: 2x4 walls and R30 ceilings, good windows, heating bill of $60 last month without pulling much through the water heater.
  
  New home: 2x6 walls and R50 ceiling, good windows, heating bill of $30 last month while using a LOT of hot water.
  
  Conclusion; if you want [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 5:53pm EST
  

• Watch out, global warming deniers?

  Dear Leader is apparently going to "get you" somehow for being evil and standing in the way of the progress he desires.
  
  But don't worry too much. Due to the actual climate change we've had (just the opposite of what the IPCC has predicted), his brownshirts are [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 3:51pm EST
  

• The Senate moves to prolong the recession

  ....by voting 98-0 to extend unemployment benefits for the nation's jobless. Now having participated in the Pelosi/Reid recession myself, I understand fully how comforting it is to have a safety net when you can't find work. On the other hand, studies have documented how many people "magically" seem to [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:26am EST
  

• The importance of architecture

  My family has recently moved, and one thing we're noticing in our "new to us" home is that it's really important how the home is designed. With fewer rooms to go to, we're spending more time together. Musical instruments long left alone are coming out.
  
  Having a tough' [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:45am EST
  

• Setting the stage for the next recession

  Froma Harrop writes about something I've suspected for a long time; federal subsidies to prospective homebuyers with poor credit are likely setting the stage for the next round of foreclosures, and transitively the next recession--not that I'm anticipating getting out of this one any time soon.
  
  If I [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:28am EST
  

• Rhetorical jujitsu in the Bible

  Take a quick look--or a slow one if you like--at Acts 23, and consider what Paul was doing before the Sanhedrin. Ask yourself:
  
  Is there any chance that Paul failed to recognize (vs. 3-5) the garments worn by the high priest after decades in rabbinical school? Doubtful; what Paul [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 9:45am EST
  

• Your tax dollars at work

  Part of the "spend-u-more" plan passed by the Democrats included $300,000 to map radioactive rabbit feces in Washington state. No, I am not making this.....stuff.....up. [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 11:17am EDT
  

• Democratic thinking

  First Fox, then The Wall Street Journal, then the AP, now it's Edmunds' turn to fall into the crosshairs of Dear Leader. (first the 2nd, then the 13th, now it's the 1st Amendment under attack by Obama...I'll be waiting for him to send soldiers to live at my house [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 9:28am EDT
  

• Loving my high cholesterol!

  Why? Well, not only do statins have some hope of reducing the risk of colon and skin cancer, they also appear to hold some hope of preventing influenza mortality. Praise the Lord, and pass the Zocor! [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 9:11am EDT
  

• Government competence

  My family recently received a request from the Census Bureau to participate in a medical survey, and of course I told the survey taker that I was not going to participate because it was not part of the Constitutional charter of the Census Bureau.
  
  The next day, I got [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 4:14pm EDT
  

• Awesome!

  President Obama is now picking a fight with the AP. Hopefully journalistic types take the hint and start writing about the kind of man he really is.
  
  (keep going, Barack, if you want to make it a very, very long four years!) [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 10:21am EDT
  

• Now that we've banned incandescent bulbs....

  .....can we stop the madness of Daylight Savings Time, please? Studies have demonstrated that the extra air conditioning cost of people coming home earlier in the summer exceeds the savings of lighting during the evening. [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 10:07am EDT
  

• What do do with a windfall

  King's post about what people have done with stimulus checks (2008 and prior) brings up the question of responsibility in finances. When citizens get a windfall (say the 2001 or 2008 "stimulus" checks), they overwhelmingly saved it--or at least used it to pay down debt. When government gets a' [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 2:21pm EDT
  

• More thoughts on education

  I picked up my clarinet (originally my Mom's) for the first time in years yesterday, and much to my surprise, I was able to remember the fingerings and play pretty well despite the fact that I'd rarely picked it up for the past 25 years or so. Credit memory and [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 10:24am EDT
  

• You can't make this stuff up....

  In the October 19th issue of Time Magazine, the cover article is about why it's supposedly time to get rid of the 401K, and they (incredibly) make the argument that somehow we need to move back to pensions and such for retirement because the 401k option is too exposed to' [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 4:16pm EDT
  

• Jackbooted thug of the day...

  ....or, rather, drunken cop who "neglected" to disarm before going to the haunted house is Mr. Eric Janik of Baltimore County, who is accused of pulling his service weapon on a character in a haunted house who wielded a chainsaw.
  
  Thankfully, no one was hurt, but hopefully Sgt. [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 7:05pm EDT
  

• A touch of irony

  In the effort to prevent mass swine (H1N1, or "hiney") flu infections, my employer is working to prevent viral infection by putting a antibacterial hand cleanser on each desk.
  
  OK, it'll probably reduce the chances of getting swine flu and "something bacterial" at the same time....but I still find' [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 12:19pm EDT
  

• More thoughts on Geithner cutting executive pay

  If tax cheat Tim Geithner can cut executive pay for costing the Treasury tens of billions of dollars, shouldn't we do the same for the people whose actions have cost the people trillions of dollars?
  
  Just sayin'.
  
  (ramen; it's what should be for dinner in executive and legislative' [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 9:01am EDT
  

• It'll be a good time to be a hiring manager

  ...for executives at Toyota, Honda, Ford, and banks not participating in the TRAP ('oops,' TARP) program. Why?
  
  The Treasury Department, headed by admitted tax cheat Tim Geithner, is deciding to cut the pay of top executives at GM, Chrysler, and banks which have taken TARP money by about [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 5:32pm EDT
  

• More from Comrade Zero

  It appears that the health care "bill", despite being 1502 pages or so, is slated to be substantially rewritten in conference after it is passed. In similar news, Dear Leader is excoriating financial industry workers for standing against a yet-unwritten plan for "reform" (read "deform") of financial industry regulations.
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 10:04am EDT
  

• Almost as dumb...

  as picking a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel is picking one with the people who run the nation's grocery stores, factories, and such. Evidently, having an Ivy League education is no insurance against such brilliance, however.
  
  Barack Hussein Blagojevich Jackson Wright Pfleger Ayers [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 6:29pm EDT
  

• Missing the point of modesty

  Evidently, Islamists in Somalia have taken to whipping women who wear a bra, and then force them to give their femininity a robust shake in front of men who are not their husband to prove their Sharia modesty.
  
  To quote Dave Barry, no, I am not making this [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 12:40pm EDT
  

• Proverbs not learned in the Ivy League

  ....include "never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel", apparently. I'm not always a fan of Fox News, but to pick a fight with a news organization--and demonstrably getting most of your facts wrong--is not behavior worthy of the office of the President.
  
  Now that' [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 9:25am EDT
  

• Those efficient buses and trains?

  Not really. Notice here that the Bureau of Transportation Statistics reveals that airline, bus, and automobile transportation all use about the same energy per passenger-mile as the passenger car. Interestingly, 3500btu/mile corresponds to about 30mpg, or a passenger sedan with slightly more than one passenger. Add the second passenger [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 3:13pm EDT
  

• Say What?

  Michelle Malkin notes an article which tries mightily to make the case that Comrade Obama's Presidency somehow makes interracial marriage socially acceptable.
  
  Now, given that there is one human race, inter-"racial" marriage is absolutely acceptable, but I'm having trouble seeing how Obama's example changes anything. He's not' [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 6:14pm EDT
  

• Another title for Comrade Obama

  Having a very real Messiah, I hesitate to commit the blasphemy of referring to Dear Leader by that name, and of course, given Obama's socialist tendencies, "Dear Leader" and "Comrade" make perfect sense.
  
  I heard a new one last night, courtesy of my new pastor, who cited the work [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 11:37am EDT
  

• Yet another reason to homeschool

  Apparently, the superintendent of a school district that assigned "young skulls full of mush" to sing a nauseating song of praise to Dear Leader is claiming that it didn't indoctrinate. Here's the original video: to claim that this isn't worthy of a campaign ad, and thus indoctrination, is [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 10:38am EDT
  

• In praise of paternalism

  I've been thinking some lately about the way the word "paternalism" is used today, and how it's apparently a negative thing to act like a father. How strange; Jesus told us to pray to "Our Father." He spoke lovingly of His Father, and how He wanted to do His will.' [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 5:43pm EDT
  

• If you doubted....

  .....that climatologists associated with the IPCC and elsewhere have completely forgotten basic scientific concepts, take a look at this description of recent work by the IPCC and its German affiliate, WBGU. Apparently, they're saying that in the next eleven years, the United States "needs" to cut its carbon emissions' [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 9:06am EDT
  

• Why we homeschool, part 1,325,342,337

  Six year old is about to be sent to reform school because he carried a Cub Scout eating kit to school. H/T just about everybody. Get your kid a Victorinox in honor of this insanity.
  
  And here is another. Eagle Scout banned from school for 20 days [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 2:04pm EDT
  

• Ole, Lena, and Sven are hitting the aquavit again

  Nobel Prize committee tells the world that Obama's peace prize was about what he did, when the nomination came less than two weeks after his inauguration, long before he'd done anything of note diplomatically. I'll concede that this one was better than Arafat, or Le Duc Tho, or a [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 12:30pm EDT
  

• Action movies save lives!

  ....or at least probably did in this instance, where at least 17 rounds were fired without apparently hitting anyone. Thank you, John Woo and others, for your tireless efforts to tell the gangbangers of the world that it really doesn't matter how you hold your firearm.' [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 10:06am EDT
  

• Why the Nobel Peace Prize doesn't matter

  ...or, rather, why it so consistently chooses the person who promotes war in the long run over the person who actually promotes peace; Nobel specifically wanted the prize to go to a person who would work to reduce and abolish standing armies and have peace congresses.
  
  Now compare that [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 3:12pm EDT
  

• On the Nobel Peace Prize

  I had something of a shocking wake up this morning, as WCCO informed me that, despite having no major peace related accomplishments to his name, President Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize.
  
  And then I got to thinking that maybe this was something of an improvement, as [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 10:26am EDT
  

• Why praise songs to Obama ought to give us the creeps

  Try this one on for size: to "O Store Gud" is the approximate tune. ("How Great Thou Art")
  
  The flag high! The ranks tightly closed!
  Obama marches with a calm, firm pace.
  Comrades whom the GOP and reactionaries exposed
  March in spirit within our ranks.
  
  Clear the streets [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 4:10pm EDT
  

• You knew it, but now it's official

  I am a grumpy old man. First a MOBster, now this. Life is good, and I just had a cup of coffee and a raspberry donut. I want Matlock!
  
  Kids these days.... [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 11:02am EDT
  

• A word to us all

  This article here is written with the Jewish community in mind, but his point is well taken for all of us. We can have organization, but do we have something to be passionate about? [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 10:10am EDT
  

• Say what?

  Regulatory czar suggests that Americans may be "too racist" for socialism. I guess that would explain why all the socialist unions in the U.S. excluded blacks and Jews until the GOP got the votes together for civil rights legislation in the 1960s. It might also explain why socialist Robert [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 9:44am EDT
  

• A song of tribute to the President

  With all the kids being forced to sing songs of tribute to Dear Leader, I figure that I ought to get in the fun as well. One stanza didn't have to be changed at all--brownie points to the person who figures out which one it was.
  
  Just sit right' [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 4:17pm EDT
  

• The real cost of socialized medicine

  Take a look at the chart presented (H/T Gary Gross) by SCSU Scholars of the average wait times for a number of conditions. Notice that each procedure notes something pretty debilitating--you're not going to work if you need hip or knee replacement surgery, for example--at least not very comfortably.' [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 5:31pm EDT
  

• Yet again, on financial accountability

  It appears that the blackmailer of David Letterman was deeply in debt. As pastors have told me for a long time, if you want a picture of a man's heart, look at his checkbook. Voting for a person for office, or considering someone to run your company? It might [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 1:31pm EDT
  

• No Chicago Olympics

  The Northern Muckraker tells me that Chicago has (thankfully) been removed as a contender for hosting the 2016 Olympic Games, despite 100% turnout in favor of the proposal from the Burr Oak, Graceland, Rosehill, Oak Woods, Saint Boniface, and other fine Chicago neighborhoods.
  
  And yes, "thankfully," as Hizzoner [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 12:12pm EDT
  

• Regarding "You Lie"

  The best justification I can figure out for prohibiting Congressmen from shouting "you lie" to an obviously lying President giving a speech is that if they did that consistently, it could shut down Washington, DC.
  
  Sounds like a good idea to me. :^)
  
  Let's be serious here; one [...]
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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 11:20am EDT
  

• Lessee if I got this one straight

  Joe Wilson says something obviously true, if gauche, about the President during Obama's speech last night, and Democrats are calling for a censure. On the other hand, House member Charles Rangel gets brother in law pricing on mortgages he's supposed to be regulating, fails to disclose hundreds of thousands [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 4:36pm EDT
  

• How to really fix health insurance

  If you want an analysis of Obama's speech, go here. Suffice it to say that it was not a speech directed at thinking people who understand some of the realities of health insurance, and had I been there, it would have required mighty restraint not to shout a quaint [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 9:28am EDT
  

• The new NIV? Think NTNIV, or "NNGV"

  Dr. Veith links a this article, and this article, that make it appear that the revised NIV will be a new "New Gelded Version," sad to say. I'll be glad to be wrong, but signs are pointing that way.' [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2009, 2:21pm EDT
  

• How not to give a speech

  No, I didn't listen to the whole speech Pres. Obama gave to the young skulls full of mush, but I did hear excerpts and read it, and it relates to something I've noticed about politicians speaking in the past few years. Specifically, Obama was giving a stern lecture--in some places [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2009, 8:46am EDT
  

• I'm seeing a pattern here

  Appointment of Communist Van Jones to position of "czar" in White House. Rejection of Honduras' application of its own Constitution and threatened non-recognition of new government after legitimate election--a position shared with (Marxist) Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Casual acceptance of Marxist book from Mr. Chavez with no complaint or mockery.' [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 9:01am EDT
  

• Book review: Reforming Marriage

  At the advice of some of my readers, I took a look (three times through actually ) at Douglas Wilson's "Reforming Marriage," and...the long and short of it is that it's well worth twenty bucks (or fifty, or one hundred) to get it on your doorstep. Why so?
  
  Wilson [...]
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  Posted: September 07, 2009, 9:52pm EDT
  

• Fatness Friday: State Fair on a Budget

  This time of year, many of us would love to go to the "Great Minnesota Get Together," but for sad reasons like "I live 1000 miles away" or "I've been hit hard by the Pelosi/Reid/Obama recession," not all of us can make it. So here's a way to have a' [...]
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  Posted: September 04, 2009, 8:46pm EDT
  

• It.Boggles.The.Mind.

  Apparently, the agency that would do the most to operate health care reform regulations would be none other than the Internal Revenue Service, according to the Washington Examiner's review of H.R. 3200. Yes, the most rogue agency outside of the BATFE--and probably the most feared--would be handling a great [...]
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  Posted: September 04, 2009, 12:19pm EDT
  

• President who?

  Apparently, one in five construction jobs attributable to the "Spend-U-More" plan is in Illinois, although Illinois (with about twelve million subjects) has only about 4% of the nation's population, and is not nearly the worst affected in the current recession. Looks like President Daley is being true to his [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 11:20am EDT
  

• Yet another reason to homeschool

  Comrade Obama has apparently decided that he has the right to give a speech to all the kids in government schools around the whole country, and has had Arne Duncan prepare "lesson plans" about the virtues of Dear leader. Now apart from the reality that this differs little in [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 11:15am EDT
  

• Updates coming to the NIV

  Apparently, the TNIV (or more accurately, "New Gelded Version" or "NGV") will also be removed from publication when the new NIV comes out. Count me as nervous; are they really removing the "NGV" because of poor sales, or because they're going to "nudge" the "real" NIV towards where the' [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 8:50am EDT
  

• Chutzpah defined!

  Democrats are saying that the best way to honor the late Ted Kennedy is through a civil debate.
  
  Yeah, like we don't remember what that guy did to Bork and Alito. Yeesh.' [...]
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  Posted: September 01, 2009, 10:25am EDT
  

• Why "The Wealth of Nations" isn't required reading in schools

  Evidently, one of the key points made by Adam Smith, according to National Review, is that the wealth of nations has something to do with the institution of marriage and how many children are born. Obviously, we can't be promoting real marriage and real family over the imitations--at least' [...]
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  Posted: September 01, 2009, 9:22am EDT
  

• Brilliant picture of Obama thinking

  Press Secretary Gibbs accuses former Vice President Dick Cheney of misrepresenting the facts, but does not challenge a single statement specifically. Now he had the press conference exactly why?
  
  That's right; he knew, sad to say, that most of the press was either unable or unwilling to [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2009, 3:20pm EDT
  

• If the world starts to run out of rare earth elements,

  ....it could very likely be significantly due to the Toyota Prius. Once again, if you want to destroy the planet we inhabit, you can do little better than to listen to so-called environmentalists. Your dad's 'Cuda couldn't drain the earth of oil, but the motor and batteries of the [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2009, 1:34pm EDT
  

• Good news!

  It looks like they're going to bring Oldsmobile back--something that means a lot to my family, as my father-in-law built Oldsmobiles for over 30 years. His specialty was checking the springs in the seats to make sure they had that cushy Oldsmobile feel long after they left Lansing.
  
  Now' [...]
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  Posted: August 28, 2009, 9:53am EDT
  

• One of Great Britain's worst polluters...

  ...is apparently the supercomputer they're using to model global warming. Even better; the computer predicted a roasting summer this year.
  
  Here's my plan for combating climate change; de-fund the "researchers" who manage to throw billions after this chimera. They're polluting almost as much as Al Gore.[...]
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  Posted: August 28, 2009, 9:44am EDT
  

• Yet another reason to get out of the United Nations

  Here. Can we please stop pretending that it's just a place for diplomacy?
  
  It's not certain whether the proposed program teaches about the proper way to make a waitress sandwich, or how to stay in office and avoid excommunication after innumerable moral offenses. [...]
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  Posted: August 27, 2009, 9:34am EDT
  

• How not to discourage drunk driving

  Put out a bunch of radio ads with threatening sounds of jail cells clanging shut, and promising that all drunk drivers will be caught, as they're doing. Of course, anyone who has ever spent significant time in a bar has talked with someone who tells stories of driving drunk X' [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 10:36am EDT
  

• One big reason unemployment is so high in Michigan

  Apparently, the state's Democrats are trying to add an additional 26 weeks of unemployment benefits to the 79 weeks (!!!) already provided to the state's pool of jobless men and women. More or less, they're already paying people not to go on with their lives for a year and' [...]
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  Posted: August 25, 2009, 3:45pm EDT
  

• Talk about hot--another way to love your spouse

  Some people--and regrettably many books on "how to improve your marriage"--will discuss "standard" things to do to improve your marriage. Dates, lingerie, vacations, and such all come to mind. That noted, Mrs. Bubba did something recently that puts all that to shame--she got out the weed-eater and spent some quality [...]
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  Posted: August 25, 2009, 10:48am EDT
  

• Quick advice for young people in love

  Here is a great way to propose to your intended. This is almost as good as KingDavid's story about how he proposed to Mocha Momma, and I bet Ben wishes he could have proposed this way to Faith. :^)
  
  Or maybe not. [...]
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  Posted: August 25, 2009, 9:58am EDT
  

• Now this is interesting....

  Apparently, our Dear Leader (thanks Muckraker and others) is setting up a special interrogation team that will report directly to the White House. Apparently, the White House does not quite "get" why our nation has historically separated these functions from direct control by executive power, as this is a [...]
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  Posted: August 24, 2009, 9:27am EDT
  

• Some people are getting it,

  and they're not even people I usually tend to agree with. First off, John Mackey of Whole Foods(which does not sell aragula in Iowa) gives a list of decent ideas for reforming the way we do healthcare. Next, Nat Hentoff (who probably voted for Pres. Blago) notes that this' [...]
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  Posted: August 19, 2009, 9:26am EDT
  

• I'm seeing this more and more

  Economists report that the drop in wholesale goods prices is three times that which was expected. Now apart from the wonderful news that prices are dropping (this is the first deflation our nation has had since 1955 or so), there is the interesting reality that more and more often, [...]
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  Posted: August 18, 2009, 9:24am EDT
  

• Want to do some global warming research?

  Good luck, at least if you're not an officially sanctioned minion of the IPCC. Why so? Apparently, the world's preeminent database of climate data has refused to share it for several years, and has even destroyed some of it. (this on top of the fact that apparently [...]
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  Posted: August 17, 2009, 3:56pm EDT
  

• Breathtaking lie from President Blago

  ....that the unsolicited SPAM emails he's been sending out are the fault of the "third parties" who reported others to the facts@whitehouse.gov email.
  
  Uh-huh. Now wasn't the very POINT of this to, ahem, collect email addresses and other information so that his goons could better direct' [...]
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  Posted: August 17, 2009, 9:11am EDT