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• On a lighter note . . .

  It is amazing to me that a man the size of Shaq is able to dance like this:
  
  
  
  As a friend has told me in the past, it is very difficult to fully appreciate the agility of NBA players without watching a game in person.[...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 2:37pm EST
  

• Yeah, Congress'll figure out the best way . . .

  Kind of like the incredibly pointed question asked of Dallas Cowboys coach Wade Phillips after the Giants loss, why in the world would we entrust design of a sports championship to Congress? House panel takes step to force college football playoff - USATODAY.com:WASHINGTON (AP) — A House subcommittee [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 1:39pm EST
  

• Circling the global warming wagons

  This report linked at National Review's The Corner blog--about Global Warming wagon circling, is hilarious: "The Perils of Groupthink, Cont'd" - Jonah Goldberg. [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:16pm EST
  

• An Inconvenient Peer Review, cont'd

  Findings - Fracas Over Hacked Climate E-Mail Shows Peril of Spinning Science - NYTimes.com: "In fact, one skeptic raised [a concern about drawing conclusions from two sets of data grafted together] in a comment posted in 2004 on RealClimate, the blog operated by climate scientists. The comment, which questioned" [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 9:46am EST
  

• Jim Treacher's friendly chat with the global warming evangelist who lives in his head

  Jim Treacher has scripted what reminds me of most any on-line "debate" with a global warming alarmist. Here's an excerpt: "Do you really think you know more than scientists? They're scientists.
  
  Yes, and science is a wonderful thing. It's improved our lives in countless ways. It also has'" [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:09am EST
  

• ClimateGate criminal?

  Robert Tracinski at RealClearPolitics discusses another aspect to the Climategate scandal: ("ClimateGate: The Fix is In"): This is an enormous case of organized scientific fraud, but it is not just scientific fraud. It is also a criminal act. Suborned by billions of taxpayer dollars devoted to climate research, [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:04am EST
  

• Aunt B oughta llike this report . . .

  Most Aggressive Dog Breeds - Photos - WFTV Orlando [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 11:32pm EST
  

• Covering their tracks on global "warming"

  I guess this report should come as no surprise given that leading global warming alarmists had always blown off FOI (UK, US: FOIA) requests ("Climate change data dumped" - Times Online): Roger Pielke, professor of environmental studies at Colorado University, discovered data had been lost when he asked for [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 4:59pm EST
  

• More Climategate reactions from "scientists"

  From the WSJ:A more thoughtful response to the emails comes from Mike Hulme, another climate scientist at the University of East Anglia, as reported by a New York Times blogger:
  
  "This event might signal a crack that allows for processes of re-structuring scientific knowledge about climate change. It" [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 10:56pm EST
  

• Climategate in sum

  Climategate is despicable on a host of levels . . . institutional censorship of opposing views, defamation, deception. Here's an excerpt from a great essay at Pajamas Media, "Climategate: The Skeptical Scientist's View":As readers are now aware, the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, the [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 1:26pm EST
  

• Wow, Arianna Huffington thinks we need to use more plastic . . .

  Arianna Huffington has a post at her place entitled, "Will The Unemployment Disaster Be Obama's Katrina?". My first response (in my head, not audibly) was, "Of course not, Bush didn't cause Hurricane Katrina," but I figured that Huffington wouldn't share my perspective. As I read the essay, though, I [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:16am EST
  

• Yep . . . "locked in" battle with the Left

  Sorry, but I have to bring up I didn't notice or hear the phrase "locked in syndrome" the other day when reading about the guy who had been uncommunicative for 23 years. ("Paralyzed Belgium Man Was Awake for 23 Years" - ABC News).A paralyzed Belgian man who spent the' [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:25pm EST
  

• Good thing this is an anomaly

  My Way News - Pa. university students upset about fitness class:A Pennsylvania university's requirement that overweight undergraduates take a fitness course to receive their degrees has raised the hackles of students and the eyebrows of health and legal experts.Well, at least we don't have to worry about the gov't [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 11:43am EST
  

• ". . . it's only because of all the fact-checkers' copies"

  My Way News - "Going Rogue" is going big:Publisher HarperCollins said Friday that Sarah Palin's memoir sold 300,000 copies its first day, among the best openings ever for a nonfiction book. In 2004, Bill Clinton's 'My Life' debuted with sales of 400,000 copies. The year before, Hillary Rodham Clinton's' [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 11:35am EST
  

• TN gun ruling: whose Constitutional right is at stake?

  Reuters is reporting . . . Tennessee judge blocks law allowing guns in bars | U.S. | Reuters Nashville Judge Claudia Bonnyman said the law was 'fraught with ambiguity' and ruled in favor of a suit brought by restaurant owners who argued gun owners would not be able to [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:49pm EST
  

• Bureaucratic boobs

  Sister Toldjah nails the mammogram story ("Obama admin starts its health care 'cost cutting' measures")which probably could not come at a worse time for Obama and the Democrats as they prepare to foist government-run (aka "single-payer," "universal," "socialized," "public" etc.) healthcare on Americans. Nonetheless, the story reminded me [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:41pm EST
  

• So-called scientists

  Here's a great article in the WSJ about emerging evidence of deception by so-called scientists working on global warming. Hacked Emails Show Climate Science Ridden with Rancor - WSJ.com. From the article: In several of the emails, climate researchers discussed how to arrange for favorable reviewers for papers [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 4:33pm EST
  

• Yep . . .

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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 1:33pm EST
  

• Higher education crisis . . .

  The cost of higher ed is rising faster than the cost of health insurance . . . let's pull an all-nighter to solve the problem!
  
  
  
  It is interesting to note that Democrats are in the process of "disadvantaging" non-governmental education loan companies . . . sounds a' [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 2:38pm EST
  

• Back to the drawing board on same-sex "marriage"?

  Yesterday, Maine voters became the 31st state body politic to reject same-sex "marriage," but Maine is unique in that the defeat at the polls came after a majority of the Maine legislature had approved of the concept.
  
  Thus, the results of yesterday's referendum in Maine have national significance inasmuch' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:02pm EST
  

• He invented climate-alarmism profiteering

  Gore’s Dual Role - Advocate and Investor - NYTimes.com From the article:Mr. Gore says that he is simply putting his money where his mouth is.
  
  “Do you think there is something wrong with being active in business in this country?” Mr. Gore said. “I am proud of it. [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 11:14am EST
  

• The audacity of spendthriftiness

  Wow.
  Obama team makes it official: Budget deficit hits record. By a lot. - The Oval: Tracking the Obama presidency:The deficit for fiscal year 2009, which ended Sept. 30, came in at a record $1.42 trillion, more than triple the record set just last year.
  
  In addition, [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 10:17am EDT
  

• Waging Obama's non-war

  BBC NEWS--"US warned on deadly drone attacks":The US has been warned that its use of drones to target suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan may violate international law.
  
  UN human rights investigator Philip Alston said the US should explain the legal basis for attacking individuals with the remote-controlled [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 11:00am EDT
  

• Sloppy policy thinking

  I came across a great post (and seemingly great blog) via Post Politics this morning.
  
  The writer is pointing out that some women resist Feminism because of its Big Gov't baggage more than its presumed stances on "social issues." From the article (The Libertarian Side of' [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 12:53pm EDT
  

• The Pup tent Dems

  Interesting email from my inclusive friends at Democrats.com:
  Dear Ned,
  After months of debate, an overwhelming majority of Americans support a "robust public option" similar to Medicare.
  And thanks to the heroic efforts of progressive activists, we have almost enough votes in the Senate and House to pass it.
  The [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 12:13pm EDT
  

• Under moral seige

  Somer Thompson Body Found: Sheriff Matches Birthmark, Clothing - ABC News:As investigators examined a child's body found in a Georgia landfill, they hoped they wouldn't find what they were looking for. But a birthmark and clothing told them that they had, indeed, found 7-year-old Somer Thompson, who disappeared Monday [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 11:29am EDT
  

• Bad actors on several levels

  Frankly, after watching a couple youtube clips of the infamous Heenes, there is certainly one element of their story that is rather incredible: the parents, Richard and Mayumi, have received acting instruction. From a CNN story ("Authorities: 'Balloon boy' incident was a hoax" - CNN.com): The parents, Richard and [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 11:41am EDT
  

• Thanks, AP, for giving us the expert's "qualifications"

  This AZ sheriff has always fascinated me--especially the pink prison boxers and tents for inmates, so I was curious to hear about a dust up he is having with the Obama Administration. In the AP's report (here) of the controversy, they are careful to "qualify" the opinion of one' [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2009, 3:26pm EDT
  

• Ramming through healthcare "reform"

  Yesterday while leaving the post office, I was targeted for a scam by two conmen (I'll share more about that in another post), and one thing that I realized as I interacted with these guys is how valuable a perception of haste is scamming a "mark."
  
  I've been ruminating [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 3:19pm EDT
  

• Al of Freddy's Fashion Mart fame speaks out on Limbaugh and NFL

  From the master of division and incendiary-ness ("Group Cuts Ties With Limbaugh to Buy NFL Team" - FOXNews.com): [Al] Sharpton added in a telephone interview that major sports leagues shouldn't welcome owners who are "divisive and incendiary."' [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 8:40am EDT
  

• Way to go TNRtL

  It is intriguing to read Tennessee's Left (and Squishy Right) decry the TNDP's (a) failure to appreciate that "the Man" is more important than the party ("Why didn't they recruit a better $?%&@# Candidate?!?!?) and (b) failure to choose a candidate who was strong on their (Democratic) Principles while simultaneously'" [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 4:14pm EDT
  

• Obama lets handlers handle this one

  The question of where, if at all, the Obamas would attend church in D.C. had not even crossed my mind until I heard today that they were still church hunting. But I thought the following paragraph on the subject was ironic, given Obama's history of apparently indiscriminate pew-filling "Washington'" [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 10:58am EDT
  

• Obama's Nobel [Ap]Pea[s]e Prize?

  The whole "story" about Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is fascinating to me. Sour grapes (here) might explain some of my feelings upon hearing the news, but really it is more of plain ol' disbelief. I think even honest Liberals would admit they couldn't believe the news when they' [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 1:05pm EDT
  

• Because Norwegians don't get to vote in American elections . . .

  This paragraph provides all the necessary context for the Nobel Peace Prize Committee's controversial pick of simply-successful-presidential-candidate Barack Obama ("Nobel Committee Courts Controversy Over Obama Peace Prize Decision" - WSJ.com):The committee has also been criticized for political bias, especially after it awarded the Nobel to Jimmy Carter in 2002' [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 10:23am EDT
  

• Amazing software not-too-crudely "automates" graphic design

  

  PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage from tao chen on Vimeo.

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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 4:37pm EDT
  

• Unhealthy healthcare

  Deroy Murdock shares some salient data on how unhealthy government-run healthcare is ("Government Medicine Kills"):The Senate Finance Committee should sink Obama-Baucuscare and instead craft a patient-friendly, pro-market, limited-government approach to health-care reform. Perhaps some senators cannot fathom the Hippocratic Oath’s key insight: First, do no harm. If that’s Greek [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 3:16pm EDT
  

• Iron[ies] of ironies

  While reading about Ahmadinejad's Jewish heritage, I happened upon a photo album on the Telegraph's (UK) website. The album's introductory copy reads:When Lennart Nilsson's pictures of developing embryos were published in Life magazine in 1965, they caused a sensation. Within days, the entire print run of eight million had [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 11:51am EDT
  

• The Olympics whiff

  A couple of finger-pointing references in articles over at Drudge got me to thinking about what would have motivated the Obama to go to such lengths on behalf of getting the 2016 Olympics bid. Which led me to this intriguing article about the person--Valerie Jarrett, who led Obama [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 11:53am EDT
  

• Polanski case as litmus test

  Jonah Goldberg of National Review nicely states the litmus test-y nature of the Roman Polanski matter ("Polanski Controversy Shouldn’t Be Controversial") From the op/ed: It all boils down to the fact that Polanski is famous and talented and an Olympian artist, living above the world of mortals. Indeed, if [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 9:25am EDT
  

• The American Infant Mortality Myth

  Speaking of (ahem) lies in the healthcare debate Ann Coulter e_v_i_s_c_e_r_a_t_e_s the we-need-socialized-medicine-because-of-infant-mortality-rates myth* here.
  
  
  
  
  
  *here, here, here . . . [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 9:17am EDT
  

• Yarbro--now THAT'S progressive!

  In announcing a District 21 primary challenge against "Dean of the Senate" Douglas Henry (D-Nashville) Jeff Yarbro offers this critique of Henry: Too often, our elected representatives have spent more time playing partisan politics than supporting our schools, creating jobs, fighting crime, and improving our health. The Tennessee General [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2009, 9:19am EDT
  

• The Whoopi cushion speaks . . . on "rape-rape"

  Roman Polanski: backlash as Whoopi Goldberg says director didn't commit 'rape-rape' - Telegraph:Whoopi Goldberg is facing a fierce backlash after saying that film director Roman Polanski didn't commit 'rape-rape' when he had unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.And her flatulent ignorance on the facts of the case are astonishing.[...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 5:23pm EDT
  

• Whose pro-life priorities?

  Adam Kleinheider pronounces Tennessee Right to Life unwise in endorsing the more pro-life candidate (Post Politics: Right to Life makes wrong choice endorsing Democrat): So why, on the cusp of victory for the political party that carries it's legislative portfolio, would the premier pro-life organization in Tennessee endorse the [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 10:54pm EDT
  

• At least the sex predators are safe . . .

  Washington Times - EDITORIAL: At the president's pleasureA teacher was told by a 15-year-old high school sophomore that he was having homosexual sex with an "older man." At the very least, statutory rape occurred. Fox News reported that the teacher violated a state law requiring that he report the [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 9:41pm EDT
  

• McCarthyism motivates the Hondurans!

  The AP (here)nicely slants this story against those supporting Rule of Law in Honduras with this nice characterization of what happened there . . . they were skeered of them Commies!!! In June, the country's Congress and courts, alarmed by Zelaya's political shift into a close alliance with leftist [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2009, 11:24pm EDT
  

• Vols make us proud

  I liked this sentence from CBS' Dennis Dodd (While Vols stand tall, Gators at a loss after win):Oh, you haven't heard? Tennessee defeated Florida 13-23. [...]
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  Posted: September 19, 2009, 11:35pm EDT
  

• A legal but perverse stimulant

  I've always heard (and believed, for the most part) that aggressive tax-avoidance measures (aka "availing oneself of tax benefits") were justified because we were doing what the government wanted us to do. Well, it was interesting to find that exact line of reasoning in this blog post about how' [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 2:17pm EDT
  

• Racism behind every tree

  I was disturbed by the headline on Drudge that mentioned the race of a victim in a "beat[ing]": "WHITE STUDENT BEATEN ON SCHOOL BUS; CROWD CHEERS." I am bothered by racism, wishing that we could somehow move beyond or through our country's (and our world's) troubled history on the [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 12:43pm EDT
  

• Joe Wilson and there's safety in numbers

  This op/ed from Mike Lupica, "whoever he is," inspired me (way to go Mike Lupica!!) to revisit the subject of Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC). ("Shrill shouters betray post-9/11 promises to be best we can be")
  
  While I do not condone what Wilson did, I also didn't condone' [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 10:21am EDT
  

• Marriage should be honored by all

  Here's a great op/ed from NR's K-Lo on the state of marriage (and adultery) in America. [...]
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  Posted: September 14, 2009, 10:46pm EDT
  

• Wilson was rude, but "precedented"

  I posted earlier this week (here) about Joe Wilson's outburst during the Obama's healthcare homile, in sum, I thought his heckling was not cool even if his assertion was correct. But it appears that he may have gotten the wrong idea about how to conduct oneself during a presidential [...]
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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 6:20pm EDT
  

• Franken party trick

  This is impressive. Al Franken freehands a surprisingly accurate map of the U.S.
  
  
  
  I'm kind of interested to hear the audio of his running commentary . . . (UPDATE: here's an example of it--not flattering to Franken, candidly).
  
  
  UPDATE II: While I still think [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 10:24am EDT
  

• Re. healthcare reform lies and distortions . . .

  You've likely heard the Dems' focus-grouped talking points about "lies and distortions" from opponents of socializing medical insurance. Well, in this week's column, Ann Coulter addresses the following Liberal lies about (Liberal) healthcare reform proposals: (Liberal Lies About National Healthcare: Fourth in a Series)(12) Only national health care can [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 8:58am EDT
  

• Republican Joe Wilson's heckling not cool

  The outburst by Joe Wilson (Wilson the congressman, not the one who outed his CIA agent wife) during Obama's umpteenth national address last night was not cool. ("Obama heckled by GOP during speech: 'You lie!'" It was a breach of decorum and it was unprofessional.
  
  That being [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 1:39am EDT
  

• Obama's speech: loco parents or in loco parentis?

  One last thing (maybe) about Obama's homeroom assembly for public school kids K-12. The Left's response to criticism about the speech and accompanying lesson plans has been intriguing. Sure, some of the outrage was from people who see a socialist plot behind every Obama-era tree. But a lot of the [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 11:39am EDT
  

• Re. Van Jones: "lies"? "distortions"?

  Of course Van Jones would shamelessly would flat-out deceive about his critics, but what is Dr. Dean, M.D.'s excuse?Van Jones decries 'lies and distortions,'quits as Obama's environmental advisor -- latimes.com: The only person Sunday to offer a defense of Jones was former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, who [...]
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  Posted: September 06, 2009, 6:54pm EDT
  

• Elementary principles of Obama's cookie jarred hand

  Well, Liberals and Obama supporters are mocking concerns about plans by the Obama administration to speak directly to every school-aged child in America. But even though Democrats are flooding the media with fresh claims that the message was "to be about the need to work hard and stay in" [...]
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  Posted: September 04, 2009, 10:51am EDT
  

• Pendulum Parenting in Bellevue

  Lindsay Ferrier waxes nostalgic about the heyday of divorce and career-obsessed parents in today's City Paper. (Suburban Turmoil: "Blame Bellevue’s zombies," Nashville City Paper). Speaking about how children of That 70s Single Mom are screwing up, Ferrier writes:Now, their children quietly go about the business of undoing all their' [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 12:09pm EDT
  

• Classless and stupid

  Not only is the statement--by Obama czar Van Jones, that "Republicans are a**holes," offensive, the premise of it is laughable: that Republicans were able to ram through unpopular legislation while "bi-partisan" Obama and the Democrats have been stymied these past eight months:
  
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 9:44am EDT
  

• Ouch, that's gonna leave a mark

  "Republicans are the ones really pulling the plug on grandma."
  
  Lefty partisan hackery (from Jacob Weisberg writing in Slate) takes one on the glass chin: Weisberg Unplugs the Logic Machine - Ramesh Ponnuru - The Corner on National Review Online. Hopefully Weisberg is embarrassed, but hey, [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 10:54pm EDT
  

• Following the science indeed . . . on "global warming"

  "Global Warming and the Sun" by Jonah Goldberg. From the op/ed:I applaud [Climatologist Gerald] Meehl’s reluctance to go beyond where the science takes him. For all I know, he’s right. But such humility and skepticism seem to manifest themselves only when the data point to something other than the [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 11:42am EDT
  

• A different kind of Kennedy

  Ross Douthat writing in the NYTimes . . . "A Different Kind of Liberal": Only 13 days separated the passing of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the founder of the Special Olympics, from the death of her brother Ted last week. But amid the wall-to-wall coverage and the stream of retrospectives [...]
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  Posted: September 01, 2009, 11:32pm EDT
  

• Lockerbie perp's release: "justice" or "compassion"?

  The AP headline reads, "Scotland: Lockerbie decision based on 'justice.'" I'm assuming that Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's deputy first minister was referring to capital J Justice (as in the Ministry of Justice) in this statement (here:)"What I do know, and what I can state categorically ... is that these deals'" [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2009, 9:54am EDT
  

• "Nothing personal" . . . re. Ted Kennedy's passing

  Here's an insightful op/ed from Mona Charen on the difficulty of separating the partisan/political from the personal.
  
  And here's an op/ed that pretty closely articulates my perspective (even the spiritual aspect) on Kennedy's death. [...]
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  Posted: August 28, 2009, 10:43am EDT
  

• Lies or just stupidity on healthcare?

  As they say, the truth hurts, and--in all candor, truth delivered by Ann Coulter hurts even more. But this op/ed is a must read on the issue of Democrats' proposed "reforms" to healthcare delivery. Here's an excerpt:Apparently, promising to cut costs by having a panel of Washington bureaucrats (for' [...]
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  Posted: August 27, 2009, 3:00pm EDT
  

• Love advice from, of all people, Ann Heche . . .

  Heche let 'er rip on ex-husband, and father of one of her children, Coley Laffoon while appearing on David Letterman last evening . . . view the video here.' [...]
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  Posted: August 27, 2009, 9:59am EDT
  

• MA Dems show their principle after Kennedy's death

  Well, Sen. Ted Kennedy has passed away, and his loved ones deserve our condolences, but his passing has exposed some of those deep-seated democratic principles of Mass. Democrats clawing to keep control of his Senate seat:Last week, Kennedy asked Massachusetts leaders to change state law to give Patrick the [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 10:56pm EDT
  

• Less oversight, over interrogation practices

  This story, announcing the intention of the Obama administration to bring interrogation of certain detainees under the White House's direct authority, is interesting as the KOSsacks are surely foaming at the mouth to try anyone (ANYone!!) from the Bush administration for a war crime.
  
  Though I think it [...]
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  Posted: August 24, 2009, 10:12am EDT
  

• Where will Canadians go for healthcare?

  You can hardly fault a Canadian guy with a $38k medical bill for feeling indebted to--heck, even shilling for, Canada's healthcare system, but this story demonstrates the "kernel of truth" behind the joke, "where will Canadians go for healthcare if America adopts socialized medicine?" From the article:Michael Vujovich, 61, [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 10:09am EDT
  

• Where will Canadians go for healthcare?

  You can hardly fault a Canadian guy with a $38k medical bill for feeling indebted to--heck, even shilling for, Canada's healthcare system, but this story demonstrates the "kernel of truth" behind the joke, "where will Canadians go for healthcare if America adopts socialized medicine?" From the article:Michael Vujovich, 61, [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 10:09am EDT
  

• On "fishy" White House email controversy

  I have not been as concerned as others about sinister motives of "fishy information" gathering by comrades in the White House (here), but I thought their response to the controversy was kind of ironic:"Despite reports by some bloggers and others in the media that have invoked a variety of" [...]
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  Posted: August 18, 2009, 10:23am EDT
  

• About "democracy" and town halls

  For the record, I do not subscribe to the idea that legislators in a republic have a duty to care what polls from their constituents or phone calls from their constituents are saying about a given issue. Of course, it is seemingly more difficult to be re-elected if you ignore [...]
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  Posted: August 12, 2009, 10:39pm EDT
  

• Rove and US Atty firings: where's the injustice?

  The first line of this story is tantalizing, but where's the beef? Where's the injustice? From the story:White House e-mails and transcripts of closed-door interviews with former Bush aides Karl Rove and Harriet Miers reveal involvement as early as May 2005 by Rove's office in the 2006 firings of [...]
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  Posted: August 12, 2009, 10:17am EDT
  

• Stossel on healthcare reform

  I encourage you to listen to John Stossel's latest piece on healthcare reform (here), and here's one his salient assertions in this Obama age of steamrolled schemes like "cash for clunkers" and "cap and trade":When politicians interfere with free markets, unintended consequences harm everyone, except the companies that lobby [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 2:47pm EDT
  

• Newt Gingrich expounds on Obamacare

  I just wish that Newt could have kept his wedding band in mind over the years . . . watch this video of his appearance on ABC "This Week" on Healthcare reform and the debate over the debate about Healthcare reform . . . or, as Democrats are [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 11:58am EDT
  

• Whatever happened to "dissent isn't un-American"?

  Is Pelosi really so stupid as to put these words in writing?
  "However, it is now evident that an ugly campaign is underway not merely to misrepresent the health insurance reform legislation, but to disrupt public meetings and prevent members of Congress and constituents from conducting a civil dialogue,''" [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 10:16am EDT
  

• They're just not that in to Paul Abdul

  I don't watch American Idol, and though I've always marveled at how (dumb) lucky Paula Abdul was to be on the show, I haven't been following the subject of her future with the show at all. Accordingly, I was curious to read that she was leaving the show and' [...]
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  Posted: August 05, 2009, 9:50am EDT
  

• On Obama's healthcare agenda . . . survey says?!?

  Interesting CNN Poll (here) about public's views on the Obama (and Democrats') healthcare agenda. At first I was impressed (depressed?) by the favor/oppose numbers, then I was impressed by the whats-in-it-for-me numbers . . . but this "revelation" from the poll kind of undermines the credibility of the opinions [...]
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  Posted: August 05, 2009, 9:23am EDT
  

• On healthcare, how stupid . . .

  . . . do they think we are?
  
  Linda Douglass, of the Obama Administration, has responded via youtube (sure to go viral!!! Not.) to evidence (see here) that the Obama Administration and Democrats may be using their health insurance proposal as a trojan horse for socialized medicine. [...]
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  Posted: August 04, 2009, 2:03pm EDT
  

• On healthcare, how stupid . . .

  . . . do they think we are?
  
  Linda Douglass, of the Obama Administration, has responded via youtube (sure to go viral!!! Not.) to evidence (see here) that the Obama Administration and Democrats may be using their health insurance proposal as a trojan horse for socialized medicine. [...]
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  Posted: August 04, 2009, 2:03pm EDT
  

• Healthcare debate bombshell

  With one exception (see below) this compilation of video clips is bound to hugely impact the debate about Obama's (and the Democrats') proposed healthcare reforms.
  
  
  
  What is the exception? I think that one can fairly conclude that Obama wants to do away with "[the system of] employer-provided'" [...]
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  Posted: August 03, 2009, 11:46am EDT
  

• Yelling at cops and stuff

  I hate to keep revisiting the Gates arrest story, because it will lead some people to assert or conclude that I'm piling on or that I'm a racist, but I think--like Gates purports to believe, that this is a teachable moment on this issue of race in America.
  
  Here's' [...]
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  Posted: July 29, 2009, 12:30pm EDT
  

• Not so fast, Professor Gates

  In the wake of reports (here) that Cambridge police were contemplating the release of audio surrounding his arrest for disorderly conduct, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he's "ready to move on . . ." From the AP:In an e-mail to the Boston Globe late Friday, [Gates] [...]
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  Posted: July 26, 2009, 11:47am EDT
  

• The Left's mortal sin: hypocrisy

  AC Kleinheider has linked to a Memphis TV story about past allegations about Paul Stanley.
  
  As I stated in response to the comments (mostly from Left-of-Center internet personalities across TN) beneath ACK's post:I love Dems and Libs telling me/Evangelicals that I/we need to get all judgmental and moralistic [...]
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  Posted: July 25, 2009, 1:56pm EDT
  

• If their lips are moving . . .

  Today I heard a political commentator (okay, it was a local talk radio guy) repeatedly using the word "lie" in relation to Obama's presser this week on health insurance. It kind of got on my nerves, because I hesitate to use that word, and always bristled at the cavalier accusations [...]
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  Posted: July 24, 2009, 2:06pm EDT
  

• Tough vote on Sotomayor

  As announcements trickle out regarding GOP senators' intended votes on the Sotomayor nomination, I can't help but feel (a teeny bit of) sympathy for them. Why? Because the Sotomayor who testified on Capitol Hill last week is different than the Sotomayor who has judged and seminared and opined over [...]
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  Posted: July 23, 2009, 11:17am EDT
  

• Thank you Cathy McBroom

  This story about the sexual and ethical misconduct (I don't separate the two, actually) of Federal Judge Samuel B. Kent is very troubling--on a variety of levels, but apparently the story will have a somewhat satisfying ending because of the courage of Cathy McBroom in risking her job to' [...]
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  Posted: July 22, 2009, 1:23pm EDT
  

• Slow down, Big O

  Rich Lowry's got it right ("Like the Stimulus, ObamaCare is Reckless"): When Barack Obama pilfered Martin Luther King Jr.'s line about the 'fierce urgency of now,' he wasn't kidding. The line has come to define his presidency. His legislative strategy moves in two gears - heedlessly fast and recklessly' [...]
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  Posted: July 22, 2009, 9:31am EDT
  

• Record lows in Mr. Hot Air's hometown

  Via the Drudge Report, Coolest July 21 recorded in Nashville as cool wave continues in Tenn. - WHNT.
  
  Which is a good reason to link to An Inconvenient Truth's beat down, The Great Global Warming Swindle, watch the first episode here. [...]
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  Posted: July 21, 2009, 11:44pm EDT
  

• Go viral young man--"Just Tax" video

  Below is the "Just Tax" parody of the Lady Gaga hit "Just Dance." The video was shown to House Republicans in a GOP conference meeting Tuesday morning. I suspect Peter Cowman may be busy in the coming year.
  
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  Posted: July 21, 2009, 1:34pm EDT
  

• No license to rant

  I am committed to racial reconciliation, and I'm always hesitant to touch the true third rail of politics--race, but a couple of stories of late have motivated me to point out that the color of your skin does not give you a license to rant (more than anyone else, at' [...]
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  Posted: July 21, 2009, 10:04am EDT
  

• Virginia harbinger

  Reeling from the relative Obama landslide in '08, the GOP could make a splash in governor's races across the U.S. in the next two non-presidential election cycles--and 38 states will hold elections for governor this year or next year.
  
  And here's a bomb shell from Virginia which is' [...]
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  Posted: July 20, 2009, 5:26pm EDT
  

• Kathleen Parker's identity politics sinkhole

  Kathleen Parker has an off-target essay up today about the Sotomayor hearings. In particular, Parker misinterprets legitimate questions about Sotomayor's wise-latina-makes-better-judge views as sexist/chauvinistic/racist. From the article:Kathleen Parker - The GOP's Sotomayor Sinkhole - washingtonpost.com: But those who picked the wrong battles during her confirmation, reminding Americans that they [...]
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  Posted: July 19, 2009, 5:06pm EDT
  

• Healthcare reform on the bottom shelf . . .

  The Democrats' Legislative Anschluss continues with a rushed vote on socializing health insurance. And fast action requires fast talk.
  
  VP Joe Biden was speakin' to the "folks" over at AARP yesterday; speakin' down to them, might be more accurate (here):Biden told the group that the Obama health' [...]
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  Posted: July 17, 2009, 11:49am EDT
  

• Easy on Labor . . .

  I'd like to hear some from the Left (Obama supports it!) explain why "card check" (or "majority sign-up," as Labor is calling it) is good or even "moral." From the NYTimes (here):A half-dozen senators friendly to labor have decided to drop a central provision of a bill that would' [...]
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  Posted: July 17, 2009, 11:11am EDT
  

• Coburn pickin' a fight?

  I agree with Sonia Sotomayor's handling (at least in the context of this video) of this poorly framed question from Sen. Coburn on "personal self defense."
  
  I think he's driving at the 2nd Amendment, but that is a distinct question from "personal self defense." I also sympathize [...]
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  Posted: July 15, 2009, 4:14pm EDT
  

• Who the grown-ups are (on foreign policy)

  Andy McCarthy has a great op/ed about Congressional Dems' immature politics (Another Phony Scandal).
  
  From the essay:That is, while Democrats politicize “torture,” “domestic spying,” the Patriot Act, and now the CIA’s efforts to defeat al-Qaeda, Republicans are generally supporting Obama’s Pakistan policy for the greater good of' [...]
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  Posted: July 14, 2009, 1:58pm EDT
  

• Who the grown-ups are (on foreign policy)

  Andy McCarthy has a great op/ed about Congressional Dems' immature politics (Another Phony Scandal).
  
  From the essay:That is, while Democrats politicize “torture,” “domestic spying,” the Patriot Act, and now the CIA’s efforts to defeat al-Qaeda, Republicans are generally supporting Obama’s Pakistan policy for the greater good of' [...]
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  Posted: July 14, 2009, 1:58pm EDT
  

• French healthcare scandal

  Interesting "scandal" regarding France's socialized healthcare system.
  
  Note: story translated from here with www.translate.google.com . [...]
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  Posted: July 13, 2009, 3:59pm EDT
  

• About Cheney's "secret" program . . .

  One story about the recently-revealed "secret program" (that "Cheney lied about" and Panetta (heroically!) reported and terminated) ominously states that the program was related to "assassinations." Well:According to the Wall Street Journal, the program which Democrats were so angry about turns out to be an effort “to carry out [...]
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  Posted: July 13, 2009, 2:46pm EDT