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  • Some midweek links

    :redstar: The massive spending bill known as "TARP" didn't prevent the economy from going into the toilet. The massive spending bill known as the "stimulus" didn't pull the economy out of the toilet. What, then, is Obama now proposing for the economy? Another massive spending bill. :redstar: Meanwhile, ... [...]
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    Fetched: December 10, 2009, 8:07am EST

  • December 7th, 1941

    Sixty-eight years ago, the Japanese navy launched a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in the territory of Hawaii. Soon after learning of the attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan, calling that day "a date which will live in ..." [...]
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    Fetched: December 08, 2009, 2:04am EST

  • I feel betrayed

    Read this first. Reaction?? Some things speak for themselves: First: President Obama is becoming a great disappointment, as the Democrats slowly dismantle Medicare and Medicaid. ...then: And I am disappointed, hurt, worried, and depressed that the Democrats were the ones who got the cuts passed. I feel sure they wouldn't have done so if Teddy' [...]
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    Fetched: December 08, 2009, 2:04am EST

  • EPA to America: All 300+ million of us are a public danger

    Damn the science: full speed ahead According to a Fox News story today, the EPA is set as soon as tomorrow to "officially declare carbon dioxide a public danger, a trigger that could mean regulation for emitters across the economy". And since every living being is an emission source for CO2, [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 8:08pm EST

  • End of an Era (dadgummit!)

    Bobby Bowden, the head football coach at Florida State University since 1976, has announced his retirement, effective after the Seminoles play their upcoming bowl game. As head coach, his career includes 4 years at Samford College (his alma mater, then named Howard College), 6 years at West Virginia, and ... [...]
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    Fetched: December 03, 2009, 11:04pm EST

  • STUPID! STUPID! STUPID!

    Un. Freakin'. Real. "The 30,000 additional troops that I am announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010 ... so that they can target the insurgency and secure key population centers," Obama will say, according to excerpts from his speech at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New' [...]
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    Fetched: December 01, 2009, 8:03pm EST

  • Pemaquid Light

    The name “Pemaquid” is said to have had its origins in an Abenaki Indian word for “situated far out.” Immigrants from Bristol, England, established a settlement at Pemaquid in 1631. The village had as many as 200 people by the 1670s, but Abenaki Indians burned it during King Philip’s War. The [...]
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    Fetched: November 30, 2009, 8:06am EST

  • Never Fear, Health Care Reform is Here

    Ha! After I read this article I came up with some of my own answers. Understanding the pros and cons of health overhaul Q: How many people would be covered? A: The Senate bill would cover 94 percent of eligible Americans under age 65; under the House bill, it's 96 percent. That's a major [...]
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    Fetched: November 30, 2009, 5:05am EST

  • Sunday Morning News and Links

    So here we are, almost the end of the year 2009, and life is good. Up in my neck of the woods, New Hampshire, we're just getting cold and winter is knocking on our door. It's been a good fall with lots of warm days and nice evenings. The political' [...]
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    Fetched: November 29, 2009, 5:02pm EST

  • Links and Thanksgiving

    Pretty soon I'll be running down to Virginia to celebrate Thanksgiving with family. As usual, this will involve lots of eating and watching football, the latter featuring the annual Commonwealth Cup between my alma mater Virginia Tech and Thomas Jefferson's creation, the University of Virginia. Thanksgiving was first ...' [...]
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    Fetched: November 24, 2009, 11:06pm EST

  • Torrey Pines

    In northern San Diego, south of Delmar and on a hill tucked in between historic U.S. Highway 101 and the Pacific Ocean is Torrey Pines State Reserve. It is also immediately north of the golf course with the same name. The name comes from a rare type of ... [...]
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    Fetched: November 21, 2009, 8:06pm EST

  • Where did those “stimulus” jobs go?

    According to ABC News, the Obama administration's stimulus-tracking web site has reported 30 jobs saved in Arizona's 15 congressional district. Is that the area where Sheriff Joe Arpaio tries to keep law and order? Or one of the Hopi, Navajo or Hualapai reservations? Or maybe a national ... [...]
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    Fetched: November 17, 2009, 8:07pm EST

  • Palm Springs Air Museum

    During my recent trip to California, I went up to Palm Springs, where I had stayed on two separate trips during the 1990's. My first time out there, I was shocked to find Rush Limbaugh's TV program on at 6 PM, instead of 1 AM, its timeslot on one ...' [...]
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    Fetched: November 13, 2009, 8:07pm EST

  • Veteran’s Day 2009

    I remember our Veterans, who serve and have served. In particular, I want to thank my grandfather, who served in the Pacific on the USS Storm King during WWII, and my Uncle Martin, who went ashore on D+1 with the 2nd Infantry Division and was wounded four times liberating France [...]
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    Fetched: November 11, 2009, 2:09pm EST

  • Happy Dance in Virginia

    John Muhammad, mastermind of the "beltway sniper" attacks that left 10 people dead in Maryland and Virginia in 2002, was executed at 9:00 PM Tuesday night, by lethal injection. He was convicted and sentenced to death in Virginia for the murder of Dean Harold Meyers, who was shot at ... [...]
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    Fetched: November 11, 2009, 5:07am EST

  • It’s raining?

    As Pelosi and Co. have since spewed for their abomination dressed up in the rags of liberty and freedom, I'd thought I'd link to a story that shows what it looks like with the rose-colored glasses of Hope and Change™ removed. Stare into the loving, gentle embrace of universal insurance guaranteed [...]
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    Fetched: November 10, 2009, 5:06am EST

  • When the Wall came tumblin’ down

    Twenty years ago today, the Berlin Wall came down. It was torn down, not by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, as famously urged by American president Ronald Reagan, but by ordinary Germans. The destruction of the wall led to the reunification of Germany, and eventually to the end of ... [...]
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    Fetched: November 10, 2009, 5:06am EST

  • Republicans win governor’s races in VA and NJ

    According to Yahoo and Fox News, Republicans have won the odd-year gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey. In Virginia, where governors are limited to a single 4-year term, Bob McDonnell has defeated Democrat Creigh Deeds by 59% to 41%. Republicans also won the races for Lieutenant Governor and Attorney ... [...]
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    Fetched: November 04, 2009, 2:03am EST

  • Monday Evening Links

    I now interrupt my travelogue to bring you some news about what's going on out there in the world. A staffer for the House Ethics Committee has been fired for revealing the names of seven congresscritters under investigation. Now that RINO Dede Scozzafava has withdrawn from the special election in the 23rd [...]
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    Fetched: November 02, 2009, 11:03pm EST

  • San Luis Rey Mission

    Founded in 1798 and located in Oceanside, California just off state highway 76, the San Luis Rey de Francia mission is the largest of the California missions, and is a National Historic Landmark. The mission includes a church, a cemetery, a garden and a museum, of which this is ... [...]
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    Fetched: November 01, 2009, 11:06am EST

  • Dos Misiones Pequeñas

    While exploring the mountainous region east of San Diego, I came across these two small missions (to translate the post's title). About a mile north of Santa Ysabel is the town's namesake, the Mission of Santa Ysabel Asistencia. Founded in 1818 by Catholic missionaries intending to minister to ... [...]
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    Fetched: October 27, 2009, 11:07pm EDT

  • Back from the Left Coast

    I spent last week on vacation in a state where the sun is warm, the beaches are gorgeous, Mexican food is abundant, and the governor is a Kennedy in-law. (Oh well, three out of four ain't bad.) Since some have suggested that it might slide off into the ...' [...]
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    Fetched: October 27, 2009, 2:02am EDT

  • A Father’s Anguish

    Somer Thompson Florida police have tentatively identified a child's body found in a landfill as that of a missing 7-year-old girl who vanished while walking home from school on Monday. Sheriff Rick Beseler said that the identification was based on clothing on the body and a birthmark that matched an "odd-shaped" [...]
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    Fetched: October 22, 2009, 11:36am EDT

  • Requiescat in pace Capt. Giglio

    Capt. Nick Giglio Sumter (WLTX) - Officials at Shaw Air Force Base say they believe a pilot whose plane collided with another jet died on impact, and they are now looking to recover his body. Officials announced their findings at a 10 p.m. Saturday night news conference concerning the disappearance of Captain [...]
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    Fetched: October 18, 2009, 11:06am EDT

  • Belated Happy Dance Time!

    Three scum-sucking pus-bags who murdered innocents in the last 4 months have breathed their last. In Texas, if you kill someone... we kill you right back.... Christopher Bernard Coleman, 37, was executed by lethal injection on 22 September 2009 in Huntsville, Texas for the drug-related murder for hire of three people. At [...]
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    Fetched: October 17, 2009, 2:07pm EDT

  • Irony Meter Pegged

    England's Children's Minister wants a review of the case of two police officers told they were breaking the law, caring for each other's children. Ofsted said the arrangement contravened the Childcare Act because it lasted for longer than two hours a day, and constituted receiving "a reward". It said the women would [...]
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    Fetched: October 17, 2009, 2:07pm EDT

  • Halloween Costume isn’t PC… Roswell Aliens protest…

    I can't believe Target bended and gave.... LOS ANGELES — A Southern California immigrant rights group on Friday asked the Target store chain and a costume company to stop selling an "illegal alien" Halloween costume it said is offensive to immigrants. The costume features the mask of an alien with a ...' [...]
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    Fetched: October 17, 2009, 11:07am EDT

  • Um. Dude. It’s a little early for a refill….

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    Fetched: October 17, 2009, 11:07am EDT

  • Some Advice

    Remember, fellow conservatives, we all have the right to disagree with President Obama, but let's be careful about getting too bent out of shape. After all, ill-chosen words can sometimes inspire political violence, you know. And while we're at it, we might want to avoid comparing Obama to Hitler and leave ...' [...]
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    Fetched: October 14, 2009, 8:38pm EDT

  • Peace Prizes and Pink Slips

    Shorter Joe Trippi, on Obama: "He got a Nobel Prize. What did you get? A pink slip." [...]
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    Fetched: October 11, 2009, 5:39pm EDT

  • First Failed “State”?

    I'm beginning to think so. California Budget Is Already in the Red 10 Weeks After Passage Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will know within a month whether a $1.1 billion drop in revenue collections is part of a growing budget shortfall or an isolated event, his budget' [...]
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    Fetched: October 10, 2009, 11:06pm EDT

  • Obligatory “Obama wins Peace Prize” Post

    Obama wins the Noble Peace Prize???? You got to be kidding me! I wonder if he'll be nominated for the Heisman or an Oscar?!? He'll probably win them both too. Ya know, had the President actually brokered peace, somewhere in the world, then this would have actually been a shoe in [...]
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    Fetched: October 09, 2009, 11:43am EDT

  • More on FOB Keating

    “most people back home dont even know, no one gives a s---" - excerpt from an email from a deployed soldier. We "beat back" the insurgents, so we won that battle. But the fact that they, more or less, kicked us out of the base, to the point that our guys" [...]
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    Fetched: October 08, 2009, 5:40pm EDT

  • Michael Yon – Weekend firefight in Afghanistan

    Here is a link from independent war correspondent Michael Yon talking about the increased fighting in Afghanistan, and more troubling, the destruction of a forward operating base: We need more gear and more forces now. We can outfight these enemies and we can win the war, but at this rate ... [...]
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    Fetched: October 05, 2009, 8:08pm EDT

  • ‘2012′ Scenes – The End of California

    This HAS to be the perfect allegory to this story: I don't think it was what they had in mind when they released it however...' [...]
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    Fetched: October 04, 2009, 2:34pm EDT

  • Some Thursday Links

    Before I go running off to North Carolina to watch a football game, here are a few things I've run across over the last day or two: :redstar: Some lenders are modifying mortgages by lowering the due principal. :redstar: As the time for selecting the host city for the 2016 Olympics draws' [...]
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    Fetched: October 01, 2009, 11:07pm EDT

  • “Deliver us, Obama”?

    Barry worship or bad acoustics? Are these members of the Gamaliel Foundation, in a meeting back in December 2008, saying "Obama", or "oh, God", after "deliver us"? I've seen this on several blogs, but I'll give the H/T to Pink Elephant Pundit, where I first found a YouTube ... [...]
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    Fetched: September 30, 2009, 8:03pm EDT

  • Netanyahu at the U.N.

    Here's a man who knows how to stand up for his country. Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: One personal note. I, too, have seen copies of the plans for Auschwitz and Birkenau - when I visited there. I've seen the gas chambers, the ovens used to cremate the dead, the crowded ...' [...]
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    Fetched: September 27, 2009, 11:05pm EDT

  • Ohiopyle

    Tucked into the hills of southwestern Pennsylvania, next to a waterfall on a bend in the Youghiogheny River, is the small town of Ohiopyle, the center of a state park of the same name. A bike trail, converted from an old rail line, runs along the river and is ... [...]
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    Fetched: September 21, 2009, 11:06pm EDT

  • The what czar?

    Jim Treacher has the details, about a woman who showed up at the 9/12 tea party in DC. As it turns out, she even turned up in one of my pics. [...]
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    Fetched: September 20, 2009, 11:06am EDT

  • Saturday Video

    Yes, they're apparently French pilots. And yes, I'm sure that they're bored as they have no bad guys to go up against. But this is still a cool video. I wish I had cool theme music playing when I was flying... ' [...]
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    Fetched: September 19, 2009, 11:05am EDT

  • Victor Davis Hansen on Dr. Barack and Mr. Obama

    via NRO: No one imagined that Barack Obama, during his first nine months in office, would be falling in the polls even faster than George W. Bush did prior to 9/11. We all knew what Obama’s weaknesses were as he came into office — a lack of experience in foreign affairs, [...]
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    Fetched: September 19, 2009, 11:05am EDT

  • Constitution Day and other links

    :redstar: On September 17, 1787 thirty-nine men from the very young United States of America, having gathered in Philadelphia, finished writing a Constitution, a proposed replacement for the country's governing document, the Articles of Confederation. :redstar: In much more recent political news, the Speaker is concerned about the potential for "political" [...]
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    Fetched: September 17, 2009, 11:03pm EDT

  • Bigfoot marches on Washington

    On Saturday 9/12/09, I went down to DC to join the Tea Party protest. Around 8:30 AM, I arrived at Shady Grove, a station on the Washington Metro subway, just north of Rockville, MD. As I got out of my car, I noticed license plates from Pennsylvania, Ohio ... [...]
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    Fetched: September 16, 2009, 8:34pm EDT

  • Obamateurism of the Day

    Courtesy of Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air: Sheesh. [...]
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    Fetched: September 16, 2009, 11:34am EDT

  • Post 9/11 Motivational Video

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    Fetched: September 12, 2009, 5:07pm EDT

  • 9/12 – The mother of all tea parties

    Tomorrow, I will be in Washington, DC, attending a huge rally against some of Barry's policies. By some estimates, several hundred thousand people may show up, some from halfway across the country. By falling on the day after the anniversary of 9/11/01, the 9/12 rally will remind us ... [...]
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    Fetched: September 12, 2009, 5:07pm EDT

  • 9/11/01 – Never Forget

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    Fetched: September 11, 2009, 5:06pm EDT

  • Iowahawk knocks another one out of the park!

    Based on Tom Friedman's article, the one talking about the virtues of China's one party rule, this is apparently the first draft before revisions! Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party [...]
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    Fetched: September 10, 2009, 8:07pm EDT

  • Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Results

    I heard this wonderful little snippet that I had to rewind and hear about twenty times just to make sure I heard it come out of the President's speech tonight: A belief that in this country, hard work and responsibility should be rewarded by some measure of security and fair play. [...]
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    Fetched: September 09, 2009, 11:07pm EDT

  • Florida ACORN workers charged with voter fraud

    Arrest warrants have been issued for 11 workers hired by ACORN, for voter registration fraud in Homestead, Florida. According to Florida state attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle, 11 workers hired to register voters by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- or ACORN -- submitted 888 fraudulent names. She ... [...]
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    Fetched: September 09, 2009, 8:06pm EDT

  • Health Choices Administration??

    Oh hell no: [...]
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    Fetched: September 08, 2009, 2:10pm EDT

  • Employee Free Choice Act Ain’t Dead Yet

    Unemployment has risen to 9.7%...and it will probably get worse before it gets better. One way to make sure that number climbs is to bring forth the so called Card Check law. As Labor Day approaches, union bosses must put workers first by giving up their quest to pass the job-killing [...]
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    Fetched: September 08, 2009, 2:10pm EDT

  • Presidential school speeches, past and present

    Tomorrow, Obama will give his speech to the nation's schoolchildren. Some have been critical of his planned speaking appearance, and others have said, "What's the big deal? Reagan and/or (GHW) Bush also spoke to kids in school." Still others have argued that Barry's upcoming speech is different ... [...]
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    Fetched: September 08, 2009, 8:06am EDT

  • The Terrorists Have a Voice

    Heh...Duncan notes how many of the Founding Fathers were part of the original "terrorist" organization. Well I'll be damned. That blends well with this article I just read. Book sales ... blog visits ... tea parties ... town halls ... a national poll ... There is increasing evidence of a shift' [...]
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    Fetched: September 06, 2009, 11:06am EDT

  • Sons of Liberty – 1st American Terrorist Organization??

    According to its Wikipedia entry, it can be "considered" that: The Sons of Liberty was a secret organization of American patriots which originated in the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolution. British authorities and their supporters, known as Loyalists, considered the Sons of Liberty as seditious rebels, referring to them as [...]
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    Fetched: September 06, 2009, 11:06am EDT

  • Health Care Reform for All, Including Obambi and Congress

    What's the answer to this question? [...]
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    Fetched: September 05, 2009, 5:06pm EDT

  • Helloo!

    Obama was going to ask the children to find ways to serve him. He still thinks it's all about him - that hasn't changed one bit. Good grief! No surprise to see his performance ratings are tanking. Good thing people see him for what he really is- a naive, inexperienced' [...]
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    Fetched: September 05, 2009, 2:06pm EDT

  • Be afraid, again

    Taxachusetts is getting prepared for the swine flu - by crafting a bill that if passed, would give state and local agencies a broad set of powers, in the event of an emergency. Some of these would would be: to require the owner or occupier of premises to permit entry ... [...]
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    Fetched: September 02, 2009, 11:05pm EDT

  • Be afraid, be very afraid…

    ...if more of this sort of thing happens. If a cop making up law as he goes along isn't scary, I don't know what is. (via HotAir) I wonder, if this protestor needs help defending his right to free speech, will the ACLU come to his aid? Or ... [...]
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    Fetched: August 31, 2009, 2:05am EDT

  • Some Stories and Links

    Today's top story would have to be the death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, at age 77, from the brain cancer that he had been fighting for over a year. Kennedy was known as the Lion of the Senate, by the knickname "Ted", and also by a few things ... [...]
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    Fetched: August 27, 2009, 2:03pm EDT

  • Sotomayor – Pretty Much Like I Thought She’d Be….

    Atleast she doesn't shift the court further to the left..... WASHINGTON — Ohio prison authorities confirmed Tuesday the execution of Jason Getsy, 33, who was convicted of the 1995 murder of a 66-year-old woman he shot while trying to carry out a contract killing. Getsy was pronounced dead at 10:29 am (1429' [...]
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    Fetched: August 20, 2009, 8:06pm EDT

  • So it looks like Romero was right…

    Using models developed to calculate the effects of more plausible pandemics, the team from the University of Ottawa have discovered that unless man struck back quickly and aggressively then they would be doomed. The scientific paper, which is published in a book “Infectious Diseases Modelling Research Progress”, looks at an attack [...]
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    Fetched: August 20, 2009, 8:06pm EDT

  • Mixed emotions…and a milestone

    After being released from prison, and being conditionally reinstated by the NFL, former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick has been signed by the Philadephia Eagles. Vick be vying for the job of backing up veteran QB Donovan McNabb, or perhaps trying to learn another position. There is no doubt that ... [...]
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    Fetched: August 15, 2009, 2:04am EDT

  • Doctor? I don’t need to be no steenking doctor!

    When Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) held a town meeting in Houston this past Tuesday, a woman named Roxana Mayer, identifying herself as a physician, expressed her support for the pending health care reform legislation. Only one problem - she's not a licensed physican. She's not even involved ... [...]
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    Fetched: August 14, 2009, 11:04pm EDT

  • Astroturf, anyone?

    Just a couple of things I ran across earlier today. Of course, when you run across Astroturf, you have to be careful, because it's different from grass. And below a thin layer of rubberized padding, there's a substrate made of solid concrete. Caleb Howe at Red State has some ... [...]
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    Fetched: August 12, 2009, 8:04am EDT

  • Shoe on the other foot

    During most of the Bush presidency, various Democrats told us that people had a right to voice their dissent, without their patriotism being questioned. Some even pulled out the quote, "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism", often attributed Thomas Jefferson (although there is no evidence that he ever ... [...]
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    Fetched: August 06, 2009, 11:03pm EDT

  • Did Michael Jackson really die?

    ...Or did he time-travel back to ancient Egypt, and pose for this sculpture? The Jacko-resembling bust, on display since 1988 in the Field Museum in Chicago, even includes a disfigured nose, possibly the result of anti-idolatry by early Christians or early Muslims. [...]
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    Fetched: August 06, 2009, 11:03pm EDT

  • Shameless effort to reinvigorate blog traffic…

    by including this picture of Raven* at the beach... (* Note: Not sure if this is Raven.) Not so sure about her choice of beach companion however... That's right! Sexy time! [...]
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    Fetched: August 06, 2009, 11:03pm EDT

  • HCAN Playbook For Thwarting Town Hall Protesters

    Via the Talking Points Memo we get this gem: Unreal. "Our ability to put the extremists into perspective helps us frame our narrative". Because anybody who stands up to Obama and his plans for this country is an extremist and gets in the way of the party "narrative". And we all know [...]
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    Fetched: August 06, 2009, 11:03pm EDT

  • I’m getting increasingly tired of this…

    Would someone please explain to me how Congress has the power to pass this law that can prohibit this behavior? Rachel Merrill, mother of three, was holding innocuous-seeming contraband in her hand at an Arlington Goodwill store earlier this month: a 1971 edition of "Little House on the Prairie." This copy [...]
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    Fetched: August 06, 2009, 11:03pm EDT

  • Beer Summits for All My Friends

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    Fetched: August 06, 2009, 11:03pm EDT

  • Hmph. I guess I’ve been AWOL…

    and the blog-mistress will be unhappy with me. Better get back to work around here before she notices I was gone... A few links from around the 'sphere: It looks like we're running out of oil quicker than anticipated. Ofcourse, I'm sure there is no "green" agenda tied with this report. (/sarcasm)' [...]
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    Fetched: August 03, 2009, 5:05pm EDT

  • Some Midweek Links

    Things have been pretty slow around here at ARS, but the news cycle never stops. Here are a few items I've spotted during the last few days. :redstar: Dozens of illegal aliens, convicted of serious crimes, have been released back into the US after serving their sentences, because of ...' [...]
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    Fetched: July 30, 2009, 5:04am EDT

  • Getting Even

    (via e-mail) One December day a married couple found an old straggly cat at their door. She was a sorry sight. Starving, dirty, smelled terrible, skinny, and hair all matted down. The husband didn't feel like taking in a cat, but he and his wife both still felt ...' [...]
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    Fetched: July 27, 2009, 8:03pm EDT

  • Adios, Perro de Taco Bell

    Deaths of famous people seem to have been quite frequent during the past few weeks. As the LA Times puts it, It seems that every time we turn around, another beloved celebrity is passing away. Today, it is with heavy heart that we report yet another celebrity death. This time, ... [...]
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    Fetched: July 23, 2009, 2:06pm EDT

  • Tranquity Base here, the Eagle has landed.

    Forty years ago, on July 20, 1969, a spacecraft from Earth, just one small part of a large rocket that had lifted off from Florida four days earlier, touched down on the moon in a region called the Sea of Tranquity. Officially designated the Lunar Excursion Module, or LEM, ... [...]
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    Fetched: July 20, 2009, 8:04am EDT

  • Russia’s Got Talent – An attempt to keep the homefires a-burning

    Seems like a slow summer around ARS right now. No posts for almost a week... Ruh-roh! So my contribution will be this gem from "Russia's Got Talent". [...]
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    Fetched: July 17, 2009, 8:03am EDT

  • Some Friday Evening Links

    :redstar: Big Ben turns 150. To celebrate, children will get to climb the belfry and see the inner workings in action. :redstar: Charles Krauthammer gives his opinion of the U.S.-Russia "Joint Understanding." :redstar: At the G-8 conference, Russian President Dmitry Medvedov proposes a global currency, and unveils a sample coin. :redstar: From ... [...]
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    Fetched: July 11, 2009, 2:07am EDT

  • A Hero’s Salute

    From Theo Spark: Killed in action the week before, the body of Sergeant First Class John C. Beale was returned to Falcon Field in Peachtree City , Georgia , just south of Atlanta , on June 11, 2009 . The Henry County Police Department escorted the procession to the funeral home [...]
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    Fetched: July 10, 2009, 8:04pm EDT

  • Zion National Park, Part 3 – Kolob Canyons

    Kolob Canyons is an area in Zion National Park located about 20 miles northwest of Zion Canyon (shown in parts 1 and 2). There are no roads within Zion connecting Kolob to the rest of the park. Instead, Kolob has its own entrance and visitors center, just off ... [...]
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  • from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage

    Read this statement: A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from ... [...]
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    Fetched: July 10, 2009, 2:04pm EDT

  • Obama added to Mt. Rushmore (sort of)

    A few months back, I posted two videos from The Nose On Your Face, that humorously depicted Teh OneTM carved onto Mt. Rushmore, talking with Honest Abe, Teddy the Rough Rider, Tom of the Declaration, and the Original George W. Yesterday morning, life imitated art, as activists connected with ... [...]
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    Fetched: July 10, 2009, 2:04pm EDT

  • Why I don’t trust Versailles on the Potomac any longer…

    because of crap like this: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday that the health-care reform bill now pending in Congress would garner very few votes if lawmakers actually had to read the entire bill before voting on it. “If every member pledged to not vote for it if they hadn’t [...]
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    Fetched: July 10, 2009, 2:04pm EDT

  • Quote of the Day

    "Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy." [...]
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    Fetched: July 10, 2009, 2:04pm EDT

  • Bryce Canyon, Part 2

    For my second hike in Bryce Canyon National Park, I decided to find the Tower Bridge, so named because it reminded people of an artificial bridge in London. The trailhead was about 100 yards to the north of the trail to Queen's Garden. This trail would be longer, ... [...]
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    Fetched: July 07, 2009, 2:05pm EDT

  • “..we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”

    We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies [...]
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    Fetched: July 04, 2009, 5:04pm EDT

  • Happy 4th of July

    There's nothing quite like an electric violin, made from that all-American icon, the baseball bat. And for Raven, some more American icons: Ooooo-rah! [...]
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    Fetched: July 04, 2009, 5:04pm EDT

  • July 4, 1776: The Die is Cast for Independence

    A dramatization of the representatives of the 13 colonies voting on a resolution to approve a declaration of independence from the British Crown Excerpts from a letter from John Adams to his wife dated July 3, 1776, the evening before that fateful vote: Had a declaration of independence been made seven months [...]
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    Fetched: July 04, 2009, 5:04pm EDT

  • Two Mexican Midget Wrestlers Killed by Fake Prostitutes

    I wish I had something clever and snarky to say.... but the headline just steals my thunder... MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities say two professional wrestlers found dead in a low-rent hotel in the capital may have been drugged to death by female robbers. Autopsies are being performed on the two ... [...]
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    Fetched: July 03, 2009, 2:05pm EDT

  • Bryce Canyon, Part 1

    Bryce Canyon National Park is located in southern Utah, about 40 miles east of Zion National Park, and about 30 miles north of the border with Arizona, as the crow flies. The driving distances, as you might expect, are another matter. Unlike Zion, where the main road follows ... [...]
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    Fetched: July 02, 2009, 11:04pm EDT

  • Too bad they didn’t take the self-serve pump with ‘em

    KIRKWOOD, NY -- State police in New York say two Pennsylvania men robbed a gas station and might have gotten away if they had also fueled up. Troopers said they caught 29-year-old Lonnie Meckwood, of Carbondale, and 51-year-old Phillip Weeks, of Tunkhannock, after their getaway car ran out of gas while [...]
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    Fetched: July 02, 2009, 5:04pm EDT

  • Zion National Park, Part 2

    As noted in Part 1, a seven-mile-long road extends northward into Zion Canyon from a visitor's center near the southern entrance to the park. At the north end of the road is a place called the Temple of Sinawava, named for the coyote god of the Paiute Indians. ... [...]
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    Fetched: June 29, 2009, 11:03pm EDT

  • Zion National Park, Part 1

    Located in southwestern Utah, Zion is the state's oldest National Park. The south entrance and visitor's center are just northeast of the town of Springdale, on Utah state route 9. From the center, shuttle buses run up and down a seven-mile road extending into Zion Canyon, taking visitors ... [...]
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    Fetched: June 27, 2009, 11:03pm EDT

  • An excellent question…

    I am sure the answer would go something like this: "Um. Well. Um. Er. um. That's above my paygrade...." [...]
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    Fetched: June 27, 2009, 8:04pm EDT

  • “An exercise in democracy…”

    Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made clear that Russia was not prepared to sign up to a G8 statement condemning Iran's handling of the election. "No one is willing to condemn the election process, because it's an exercise in democracy," Lavrov told reporters. Later, while answering a question about crime in various [...]
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    Fetched: June 26, 2009, 2:04am EDT

  • On the Lookout for Aliens

    Not the kind that illegally cross our border with Mexico, but the kind that allegedly crashed near Roswell, NM, and whose technology is thought by some to have been exploited by the US government in a place known as Area 51. Whether or not these aliens exist and have ... [...]
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    Fetched: June 26, 2009, 2:04am EDT

  • A Different 9/11 Memorial

    On September 11, innocent Americans were murdered by violent members of a polygamy-encouraging religion, who had no reservations about attacking civilians. Today, a memorial to that senseless massacre sits in an open field, as we assure ourselves that the vast majority of that religion's adherents want nothing to do ... [...]
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    Fetched: June 25, 2009, 5:05am EDT

  • Turnaround is fair?

    Comparing Barack and President Sarkozy in their response to the Iran election fraud and subsequent coup d'état, were I the French parliament, I would pass a bill taking this: and renaming it: Fromage de la Liberté How far we have fallen...' [...]
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    Fetched: June 25, 2009, 5:05am EDT

  • Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse

    From 1881 to 1899 a breakwater was built from the northern shore of Rockland Harbor to protect the harbor from Nor'easters. The Bodwell Granite Company used around 700,000 tons of granite for the project, which cost more than three quarters of a million dollars. As the work progressed, a small' [...]
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    Fetched: June 25, 2009, 5:05am EDT
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