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  • Open Letter to Senator John McCain

    Dear Senator McCain:I am writing you today to encourage you to oppose ANY health care reform package that comes to the floor of the U.S. Senate.Why am I, a resident of Colorado, writing to you, the senior Senator from Arizona? For two reasons: one, as the most recent nominee of [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 12:09am EST

  • This Is SOOO Great!

    President Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I really think this is important . . . because the world can't possibly do more to express its value of style and intent over actual accomplishment. It could be transformational.Think about all the Hope this award gives to people all' [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2009, 11:29pm EDT

  • Just What Do I Mean By "Systems"?

    When I use the word "system," as I have in several recent posts, I mean an organizational or philosophical structure that cannot be easily undone by one election, or two elections--no matter how "revolutionary" they may be (see "Republican Revolution, 1994").To illustrate, National Review's The Corner had three consecutive posts [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 10:35pm EDT

  • It's the Systems, People!

    Having divorced myself from the day-to-day snark that is so prevalent in the 'sphere, I try to keep an eye on patterns and the big picture.(Like how I make that sound like it was part of some plan? Really, that's all I can do because I'm just too tired to [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2009, 1:09am EDT

  • Ever Get The Feeling Somebody's Feeding Us More Rope?

    There's an axiom of war, either military or political: when your enemy is destroying itself, stay out of the way. There's a corrolary of that that goes "give him enough rope to hang himself."If I were America's enemies, I think I might be inclined, at this moment, to just stay [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 11:06pm EDT

  • Obama as an Abusive Husband

    NO, I am not saying he's an abusive husband.Besides, have you seen Michelle's arms? Did you see him throw out the first pitch? My guess is she could kick his ass.No, I'm talking about the relationship between President Obama and the American people.Patience--slipping into "metaphor mode" here.The campaign was like' [...]
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    Posted: September 05, 2009, 12:45pm EDT

  • Not Ready For Prime Time, Or . . .

    So, as amusing as its been the last couple days to watch the various schools I'm involved with try to figure out a way to do what they really want to do, but to do it in a way that doesn't completely tick off the community, I think there's a [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 12:34am EDT

  • Watch Your Flank

    Up to now, the decided advantage in the health care debate has gone to the side that DOES NOT want Barack Obama's appointed panel of "experts" to decide behind closed doors who gets treatment and who does not.There. I think I framed that fairly balanced. Almost as good as a [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2009, 1:13am EDT

  • Watch the Dichotomy

    First, before you watch any other coverage of today's town hall in Grand Junction, read this page of the Grand Junction Sentinel. Note not a single--not ONE--story about counterprotests or supporters of the President or anything remotely complimentary to the health care reform--excuse me. . . health insurance reform . [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2009, 2:30pm EDT

  • When You Can't Control the Battlefield . . .

    Sun Tzu wrote about the importance of picking where you want to fight, if you have to. The Left has learned that lesson well.Learning that they have no control over town hall-style meetings (even when it's not intended as a town hall but a series of one-on-ones, as Reps. Perlmutter [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2009, 11:24pm EDT

  • A Question for My Representative

    Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) is holding a town hall meeting tomorrow at 8 am at a grocery store in Brighton. I cannot attend, but if somebody out there is planning on going, could you please try to slip in this question:The last bill that was rushed through so fast that the [...]
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    Posted: August 08, 2009, 1:13am EDT

  • The Left is BATHING Itself in Glory

    Before I dive into the meat of this post, do a little thought experiment for yourself. What would the reaction have been if, in 2002, the Bush administration had asked American citizens to log on to a White House website to report any activity by anybody appearing Muslim that seemed [...]
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    Posted: August 08, 2009, 12:05am EDT

  • The Audacity of Audacity

    I watched the President's press conference last night. Color me unimpressed.First, and most troubling, is that the President does not actually have a plan. He doesn't. He has some ideas, and he has a few guidelines (won't raise the deficit, will reduce costs . . . ) but none of [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2009, 7:44am EDT

  • More Thoughts From the Slow Climb Out Of Hiatal Fog

    (not, I suppose, to be confused with hiatal hernia. If, that is, "hiatal" is even a word.)Much of the commentary I've heard and read from my last post is along the lines of preferring to re-make or rescue the GOP, rather than outright kill it. And I respect that: there' [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2009, 10:53pm EDT

  • Back From Hiatus

    . . . and the landscape is a little grimmer.It's not just that the Republican brand is damaged. The Republican brand may be SO damaged as to be unrecoverable. And it's not just the Bush/Cheney/Iraq angle, like I think too many GOPers are comforting themselves with. It's that from top [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2009, 1:03am EDT

  • Just So You Don't Get Fooled . . .

    The President says he will keep his campaign promise and close down Gitmo.Congressional Democrats balk, and refuse to fund the move until there's a "plan" for the terrorists there.The President gets to look "progressive," and like he's keeping his promises no matter how goofy, while a Congress that has looked [...]
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    Posted: May 22, 2009, 1:38am EDT

  • Just So You Don't Get Fooled . . .

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    Posted: May 22, 2009, 1:38am EDT

  • By Any Other Name . . .

    "If I may be so bold, it was a mistake for you to accept promotion. Commanding a starship is your first, best destiny. Anything else is a waste of material." --Spock, Star Trek II: The Wrath of KhanWhat a brilliant sentiment, from a movie series not really famous for its [...]
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    Posted: May 16, 2009, 1:33am EDT

  • Please Tell Me You Weren't Actually Surprised . . .

    at the news that more Americans are pro-Life than are pro-abortion. This is one of those dirty little lies that the Left has relied on for years and years to manipulate the political debate. The tiny little facoid that only 22 percent think abortion should be completely unrestricted flies in [...]
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    Posted: May 16, 2009, 1:16am EDT

  • Please Tell Me You Weren't Actually Surprised . . .

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    Posted: May 16, 2009, 1:16am EDT

  • To Be A Liberal Means . . .

    to have no need for internal consistencies.Otherwise applying the same formula as "Once more, with no sense of irony."Obama: "We need to resist the temptation to fall back on the same bitter partisanship of the past; we need to avoid the same immature extreme partisan responses . . . " [...]
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    Posted: May 12, 2009, 12:26am EDT

  • You Make The Comparison

    Aristotle: The Law is reason, free from passion.Obama: I will seek someone who understands that justice isn't about some abstract legal theory or footnote in a case book. It is also about how our laws affect the daily realities of people's lives. I view that quality of empathy, of understanding' [...]
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    Posted: May 04, 2009, 10:24pm EDT

  • Obama's 100 Days

    Yeah, so it's two days late. What of it?I normally don't put a lot of stock in "benchmark" moments like 100 days. But the President himself is making a big deal out of it by stealing another $20 million from his entertainment/propoganda operation in Hollywood (that, according to estimates from' [...]
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    Posted: May 02, 2009, 1:30am EDT

  • This Guy's Gonna Lose His Credentials

    I wonder if the glow--or is it the afterglow--is starting to come off of the press adulation of the President.I only ask because I read this article a few minutes ago, and was stunned by the naked skepticism dripping from the page. Just a sample:His assertion that his proposed budget [...]
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    Posted: April 29, 2009, 5:11pm EDT

  • To Clarify . . .

    No, don't cry me a river.Last night's post should BY NO MEANS be construed to be a pity party or anything like it. This is the life I made for myself, and it's generally pretty good. Besides, as my friend the Captain is fond of pointing out, this is what' [...]
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    Posted: April 24, 2009, 1:49pm EDT

  • Every Once In A While . . .

    life has a way of intruding.I would like to say that I've taken the last couple weeks off from blogging because I was stepping back to survey the big board. Or that I was doing some pressing investigation that would bear fruit in this space in the near future.That would' [...]
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    Posted: April 24, 2009, 2:01am EDT

  • Wondering . . .But Not Really

    Huh. I wonder why I didn't see this story in the A-block of the news.A Bee examination of regulatory records shows that Buffett, the world's second-wealthiest person, also quietly has become a top beneficiary of the banking bailout he so vigorously advocated. . . Buffett's holding company, Berkshire Hathaway Inc.,' [...]
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    Posted: April 07, 2009, 1:30am EDT

  • One More Thing About the Apology Tour

    When Americans hear that the President and his underlings tell that world that something is "our fault" or that we've been "arrogant," I think we tend to hear that "the other guy" or that "Bush" has been arrogant or wrong. and, thus, we tend to assume that the rest of' [...]
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    Posted: April 06, 2009, 12:13am EDT

  • Best Week Of The Year

    Monday: Opening Day for baseball.Monday: the culmination of the NCAA basketball tournament, the greatest sports tournament out there.Thursday-Sunday: The MastersAnd, for all intents and purposes, the NBA season comes to a close this week and the playoff spots are all but decided already. A lot of fun for guys who [...]
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    Posted: April 06, 2009, 10:57pm EDT

  • In Preparation for Opening Day

    And, finally, the movie that in my opinion romanticizes the mythology of baseball, that drifts happily between cold reality ("You're a pacifist!" "Sh!#") and wild fantasy ("If you build it, he will come"), and that gives every boy hope that they can somehow undo some of the stupid things they' [...]
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    Posted: April 06, 2009, 10:48pm EDT

  • In Preparation for Opening Day

    The top two are really completely interchangeable in my mind. It just depends on what sort of a mood you're in. Tonight, I'm more in the mood for the sort of innocent, pure vision of an American pasttime that has the power to overcome corruption and heal old wounds. More [...]
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    Posted: April 05, 2009, 11:55pm EDT

  • Getting Tired of This

    And, the Great Apology Tour continues.Biden: "The time when America talks and does not listen is over . . ."Hillary: "America is 50% to blame for Mexico's drug violence . . . "Obama: "America has been arrogant . . . "The top three people in the American government have spent [...]
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    Posted: April 04, 2009, 7:46am EDT

  • In Preparation for Opening Day

    And we're finally into the top three movies on my baseball list. I know there are going to be those out there that disagree with one or more of them, but . . .so what. It's my list.This next one is for every middle-aged person who loved the game but' [...]
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    Posted: April 04, 2009, 7:36am EDT

  • The Junior Varsity Strikes Again

    Let's see . . . what did the administration do at the summit?:There was Michelle Obama inexplicably not being told to avoid initiating physical contact with the Queen during their meeting--HELLO? State Department?: There was Tim Geithner being trotted out to present to the G-20 the American position and plan [...]
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    Posted: April 03, 2009, 2:37am EDT

  • In Preparation for Opening Day

    Because I am assuming (forgive me) that most of my readers are men, and I also assume that most of them have significant others, and I also assume that said significant others are not quite as happy to sit through a baseball movie marathon as their men are, I provide [...]
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    Posted: April 03, 2009, 2:31am EDT

  • In Preparation for Opening Day

    Today's offering is the most adult of the offerings--not necessarily appropriate for children. However, it does have some of the funniest stuff of all the baseball movies, and Kevin Costner looks the part very well. Of course, I'm talking about "Bull Durham."Favorite line: "From what I hear, you couldn't hit" [...]
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    Posted: April 02, 2009, 1:12am EDT

  • Myths of the Left

    (courtesy Powerline)Spain, it turns out, has had a "Green" economy for a few years now. Here are a few of the things they have learned::Only 1 in 10 of the jobs actually created through green investment is permanent.:Since 2000, Spain has spent €571,138 ($753,778) to create each "green job," including [...]
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    Posted: April 01, 2009, 2:08am EDT

  • In Preparation for Opening Day

    Tonight's suggestion is from the lighter side of the ledger.Major League. No, the baseball isn't great. And, no the story line is only slightly better than average. But the cast is outstanding--Wesley Snipes, Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Corbin Bernsen and Renee Russo--and, in 1989 when this movie was made, the' [...]
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    Posted: April 01, 2009, 2:01am EDT

  • Signs of The End of America As We Know It

    Several stories from the past week jump out at me tonight.1. The White House has fired the head of a private U.S. company. Sure, GM was a bit less "private" after taking $16 billion from the federal government back in September, but this is still remarkably dangerous precedent to set. [...]
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    Posted: March 31, 2009, 1:01am EDT

  • In Preparation for Opening Day

    A viewing recommendation.Yeah, sure, Opening Day is seven days away--for some reason I just can't credit the Sunday night game--so what better time to start to psyche up for the season than by watching the best baseball movies ever made?Start with the HBO production of 61*. If you haven't seen [...]
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    Posted: March 31, 2009, 12:47am EDT

  • How's Your Bracket?

    Mine's looking good right now. I have 15 of my 16 "Sweet 16s" in the round, and the missing one is not supposed to get past the 16, so I'm looking pretty good.That will probably all change tomorrow, but I wanted to make a note of it while it still' [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2009, 1:48am EDT

  • How's Your Bracket?

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    Posted: March 26, 2009, 1:48am EDT

  • Story Within a Story

    The lead is interesting enough:The president of the European Union on Wednesday ripped the Obama administration's economic policies, calling its deficit spending and bank bailouts "a road to hell." That's a little--no, it's a LOT--like having Jake Cutler criticize you for a public relations screw-up based on your own arrogance [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2009, 1:34am EDT

  • Two Quick Hits

    First, a study in contrasts. Follow this link to see one of the funnier videos I've seen in a while.And second, be sure to catch the guys talking all things social/political/cultural, with a few references thrown in (I'm just guessing here) to the hapless Detroit Tigers' prospects for this season' [...]
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    Posted: March 24, 2009, 5:31pm EDT

  • The Truly Great Ones Retain Their Relevance

    I am a huge fan of C.S. Lewis', as long-time readers of this blog know. Not only did he possess an amazing gift for story-telling, but his wit and wisdom in defense of Christianity are remarkable tools that every serious Christian should familiarize themselves with.In 1941 Lewis wrote a book' [...]
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    Posted: March 24, 2009, 12:41am EDT

  • Just a Question

    Persident Obama made the decision last week to go out and shill for his new $1-trillion-in-new-debt budget by flying to California, holding a few town halls, and going on television. All with full access to Air Force One and its crew, a full Secret Service detail, much advance work by [...]
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    Posted: March 23, 2009, 2:05am EDT

  • The Audacity of Doubt

    When a media person finally crosses over and expresses some doubt about The One, it really comes across as shocking; all the more so because of how really outlandish the question formulation is to begin with:His remarks came in a “60 Minutes” interview in which he was pressed by an [...]
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    Posted: March 23, 2009, 1:58am EDT

  • Talking Point

    I have written before about how conservatives have, for all intents and purposes, ceded the moral high ground vis-a-vis charitable behavior to the Democrats. My argument is that the Conservatives have to be able to make the case that government HAS A ROLE in chiritable acts, but that role is [...]
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    Posted: March 20, 2009, 1:32am EDT

  • Governance by Celebrity: A Gordean Knot of Contradictions

    So the President is going on Leno tonight to try to sell his budget. Not Larry King, not CNN, not (God forbid!) a slightly hostile news source like FOX. No, he goes on Leno.Oy.And this just a couple days after the White House press secretary mocked the former Vice President [...]
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    Posted: March 19, 2009, 1:31am EDT

  • We Might Have To Demote These Guys

    The Junior Varsity might be a bit too ambitious for members of this administration.Tonight's contibutions, though they didn't actually happen today:But Cowen was 20 seconds into his second address when it dawned on him that he was giving word for word the speech that Obama had just read from the' [...]
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    Posted: March 19, 2009, 1:01am EDT
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