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MC doesn't wish unemployment on anyone; we know too many people who are un or under-employed. Still, it's remarkable that the fatuous "paper of record" has come to the sorry state it has. Blame hubris, liberal ideology and contempt for its readers. Yes, the internets play' [...] 
MC would be remiss not to observe this day for that which it has become: one that lives in infamy. Click on the image above to enlarge (the USS Shaw explodes during the Japanese attack). Despite MC's best internets research, we could find no example after [...] 
The farce of the century opens today in Copenhagen and will be with us for two long, painful weeks, the second of which will include an appearance by President Obama. MC isn't sure it can bear both his acceptance of the laughable Nobel Peace Prize and' [...] 
No, we could not have predicted this. Anyone who says they could or did isn't being honest. Click on the title of this post for more information from Pollster.com.
Climategate is all the rage and well deserves to be. Scientific fraud on a scale unseen in our lifetimes. MC hasn't posted on it because of wall to wall coverage on other blogs and some media. Sunspots, however, receive less coverage but ought not to. True,' [...] 
Not to worry: Obama has already said it won't actually create, you know, jobs! Click on the image above to enlarge his house of cards.' [...] 
Tevye seems to be the dominant analytical prism through which most conservative commentators viewed President Obama's strange, in Krauthammer's word, speech last night at West Point announcing deployment of another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. On the one hand, most agreed, he was defensive, uninspiring, graceless and [...] Enjoy this short clip of Ronald Reagan. And enjoy this holiday however you like to celebrate it. MC is thankful for liberty and the men and women in uniform who safeguard it for us. MC is also thankful for the Gang of Five and others over the last 18 months [...]
Probably not in any numbers and at the end of the day MC knows liberals go down with the ship because there is nowhere else for them to go. Still, Roger Cohen, in an article titled "Obama In His Labyrinth" (cutesy headline taking off from Garcia [...] 
MC didn't expect Der Spiegel to have a clear-eyed assessment of Obama's manifest failure on the world stage but here it is. Click on the title of this post to read it. What MC found interesting is that nothing in Obama's background or experience should have' [...] 
The European Union has elected Herman Van Rompuy of Belgium (above left) as first president of the European Council and Baroness Ashton of Upholland (from the United Kingdom) (above right) as its first foreign minister. The commentariat in Europe, at least in "Old Europe" as Donald [...] 
MC would like to swear. It will in private but not on this blog. Eat it, you Palin haters. Just eat it.
Has MC told you what we think of "call me" Senator Barbara Boxer? No, we haven't because we have a strict policy against swearing on this blog. Enjoy the clip.
Hat tip: Drudge Report
So says the British Spectator:
'The Afghan issue has made clear the astonishing disregard with which Mr Obama treats Britain . As he decides how many more troops to send to Afghanistan – a decision which will fundamentally affect the scope of the' [...]
And not much left domestically, MC might add. We were struck by the always readable if sometimes predictable Leon Wieseltier's "Washington Diarist" back page ruminations in the most recent issue of The New Republic.
Yes, MC knows, calling someone a fool is hardly elevated discourse, incisive analysis or shrewd observation. It's akin to "Shut up," he explained. Still, MC goes with fool and so will you when you read about the Attorney General's appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. [...] 
Have you noticed that increasingly in the "age of Obama" Americans have to turn to other English language news outlets to read the truth about our own country? MC has and is none too pleased about it although grateful the internet hasn't been taken over by' [...] 
We noticed, heh. Click on the title of this post to read the article in The Guardian (UK).
President Obama vs. The Rest of the World Greeting The Emperor of Japan (Photos)
Watch the video and then click on the title of this post to read the article by the same name. You'll be glad you did both.
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MC realizes that the photo above is from when the Berlin Wall wasn't really a proper wall. And certainly there are hundreds of images to choose from this day twenty years ago when the DDR mistakenly opened its borders. We like this photo best, however, because' [...] 
Click on the image above to enlarge and be utterly baffled. Is this really happening? [...] 
Count on Team Obama to say that this is something they inherited and that they are doing their best. Which, of course, is completely untrue.
Unexpected good news from Russia: President Dmitri Medvedev warned that Russians have lost their sense of horror over the unspeakable crimes of Joseph Stalin. In a video post to the Kremlin website, Medvedev urged the construction of museums and memorial centers devoted to the manifest slaughters [...] 
"Ayn Rand and the World She Made" by Anne C. Heller is reviewed in this Sunday's New York Times' Book Review by Adam Kirsch. Click on the title of this post to read it. [...] 
New York's congressional district 23 special election is shaping up to be a fascinating exercise in hope and despair within the GOP. Local and national bigs picked Dede Scozzafava to be the republican in the race but one would be hard put to identify her as' [...] 
MC isn't the gambling type but we wish we would have placed bets with our doe-eyed liberal friends who cooed, to mix metaphors, about what progress Obama represented when it comes to Iran. Recall that by shamefully staying silent for more than a week in the' [...] 
Click on the above-graphic to see the startling details for yourself. As one wag put it: Good night, sweet prints.
We know it isn't Halloween yet but we liked this cover so much we posted it now. MC is still under the weather and this is about as much as we can manage at the moment.' [...] 
Some things are seminal and some are not. Some things are hyped with no substance and some are with it. The Talking Heads concert film by director Jonathan Demme admits of no other conclusion than substance and then some which endures. Happy 25th.
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