SkepticalObservor

• This May Be The Point ...

  at which reasonable men take up arms.
  
  Yesterday, the imperial Federal government --- specifically, the Environmental Protection Agency --- declared that CO2 is a pollutant that it is entitled to regulate.
  
  But every human being and animal emits CO2, when it exhales. The question then becomes, what [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 3:53pm EST
  

• School Board Member Julie Lucas Resigns

  Just got a note from the News & Messenger (former known as The Pot. News) that long-time Prince William County School Board member Julie Lucas has resigned her post, effective 31 December.
  
  That is a pity. Notwithstanding my opposition to her ambitions two years ago, she was [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 10:49am EST
  

• The Schizoid Chris Matthews

  Sometimes, Chris Matthews can be utterly brilliant. I vividly remember, from either 2000 or 2004, an interview he did with Ralph Nader. In it, he utterly nailed Nader for his radicalism, asking him if he would try to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, long on the wish list of [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 1:15pm EST
  

• White House Still Believes In Man-Caused Climate Change

  At least, according to spokesman Robert Gibbs.
  
  In related news, President Barry will be staying up late to welcome Santa Claus to the White House.
  
  H/T to Drudge. [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:15pm EST
  

• The Fraud Of Global Warming

  The evidence is in, and this is truly incontrovertible. [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:52pm EST
  

• Good Year In Division III Football

  Well, how about that!
  
  Not only did Hampden-Sydney College complete a perfect season to capture the Old Dominion Athletic Conference crown, with a 34-27 victory over arch-rival Randolph-Macon College, but my mother's alma mater, Susquehanna University, also made the playoffs!
  
  Next week, Hampden-Sydney [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 11:46pm EST
  

• Unbelievable

  In the wake of a rare demonstration of congressional common sense, it seems that the neo-Marxists at ACORN are suing, alleging that Congress' discretionary determination to cut off unconstitutional funding is, itself, unconstitutional.
  
  Give 'em credit for chutzpah: only in the era of Obama could a group unconstitutionally [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 10:04pm EST
  

• An Overdue Honor

  As a lifelong Steelers fan, it's a pleasure to see that "Mean" Joe Greene, Hall-of-Fame lineman from the glory days of the Pittsburgh Steelers, will be honored for his role in a 1980 Coca Cola commercial before Sunday's game in Pittsburgh. Fierce on the field, it captures the humanity [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 9:54pm EST
  

• REPOST: A New Democrat Mantra

  A couple of days ago, I posted this:
  I'm old enough to remember when Conservatives criticized the Democrat Party as "the party of abortion, acid, and amnesty."
  
  Well, it's a new century, and the "three A's" have yielded to the "three S's":
  
  Surrender; Sodomy; and Sycophancy.
  [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:46pm EST
  

• Profiles In Perfidy

  Imagine, if you will, an hagiographic front-page Washington Post article on a Democrat who, when attacked by the mainstream of his party, which supports a Marxist in the race for public office, drops out of the race and endorses a Republican.
  
  Yeah. My imagination isn't that good, either. More' [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:28am EST
  

• A New Democrat Mantra

  I'm old enough to remember when Conservatives criticized the Democrat Party as "the party of abortion, acid, and amnesty."
  
  Well, it's a new century, and the "three A's" have yielded to the "three S's":
  
  Surrender; Sodomy; and Sycophancy.
  
  There's Democrat "progress" for you!' [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 1:08pm EST
  

• Finally! An Accomplishment

  It's no secret that I hold President Barry in contempt. After all, he's a man of no apparent accomplishment who was able to con a majority of voters into casting ballots for him with pretty words and vague promises.
  
  Of course, now we know --- by deeds --- he's' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:13am EST
  

• Who "Cares"

  It seems that Liberals have succeeded in getting Whole Foods to cease carrying live lobsters in its stores, out of some concerns for "cruelty" to the oceanic equivalent of cockroaches.
  
  Chris Plante observed on WMAL this morning that it demonstrates that Liberals are more concerned about crustaceans at [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:17am EST
  

• Silliest Ad Of The Campaign Season

  And the award goes to ... Steve Shannon, Democrat nominee for Attorney General, for a television ad I've already seen at least twice on tonight (no link available; Shannon may have been too embarrassed to put it up on his website).
  
  Republican Ken Cuccinelli has a "personal political agenda"?!?!' [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 9:59pm EST
  

• Hampden-Sydney Now Master Of Its Own Destiny...

  ... for the 2009 ODAC football championship.
  
  Well, almost. Current standings have the Tigers standing alone at the top of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference, with only a single conference game to play. With Randolph-Macon College's 20-13 loss today to 1-6 Guilford (the Tigers were idle), R-MC has' [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 9:01pm EDT
  

• A Notable Day

  Sadly, I sit here on the edge of Los Angeles, satisfying professional responsibilities, on the anniversary of my marriage to the lovely and gracious Mrs. Young, which occurred twenty years ago this afternoon at a tiny little Lutheran church in College Park, Georgia.
  
  It is a measure of her [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 4:31pm EDT
  

• Welcome to BarryCare!

  Well, it's nearly November, and already we're enjoying a preview of the joys of life under government-run health care, which will, if passed, be known as ObamaCare. Giving due regard for the current occupant of the Oval Office, it should be known as BarryCare.
  
  Witness the current swine flu [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 2:59am EDT
  

• Hampden-Sydney Looks Unbeatable for ODAC Championship...

  and a playoff bid.
  
  It does my heart good to note the success of the alma mater, Hampden-Sydney College, in football this season. With eight victories, and no losses, the team finally broke into the d3football.com Top 25 this week (No. 25). It has appeared in the [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 10:24pm EDT
  

• Imagine The Hue And Cry...

  if this had happened at a co-educational institution? Or at an institution which was not historically Black? Say Wabash College? Or the finest remaining all-male institution, Hampden-Sydney College?
  
  Of course, the Morehouse College administration is exactly right. They are to be applauded. [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2009, 6:17pm EDT
  

• Big Government Values v. Boy Scout Values

  As I've probably noted previously, I'm an Eagle Scout. My namesake uncle was our family's first Eagle Scout; my oldest nephew is also an Eagle Scout. My grandfather lived long enough to see three generations of his progeny earn and wear the Eagle Scout badge (and pinned it on two' [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 10:29am EDT
  

• My Nobel Application

  So the Nobel Committee has awarded President Barry the Nobel Peace Prize, apparently because of his stated goal of a world without nuclear weapons.
  
  With this award, President Barry joins other notable prior recipients as Aristide Briand (1925; part-originator [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 9:23am EDT
  

• Who Woulda Thunk It?

  Turns out the International Olympic Committee is racist!?!??
  
  At least, by Jimmy Carter's standards.
  
  Actually, this is entirely predictable. Chicago vs. Rio de Janeiro: which would you choose?' [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2009, 12:10pm EDT
  

• Legal Ethics

  I rarely talk about judges or courts on this blog
  
  Here is why. [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 2:21pm EDT
  

• Football Doldrums

  What a depressing weekend.
  
  Penn State loses to Iowa. Again.
  
  The Steelers lose. Again. To Cincinnati (the Mrs. did a little victory dance around the living room over that one).
  
  The Redskins lose. To Detroit, breaking a 19-game losing streak.
  
  The only bright [...]
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  Posted: September 27, 2009, 10:23pm EDT
  

• Neo-Con Pioneer Passes

  Irving Kristol, former Trotskyite, American columnist, journalist, and writer who was dubbed the "godfather of neoconservativism," founder, editor, and contributor to various magazines, has passed away today in Arlington at age 89. He is widely credited with the observation that a neoconservative is "a liberal who has been mugged" [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 10:05pm EDT
  

• There Goes The Neighborhood

  
  As I was driving in this morning, WMAL reported that the United Mine Workers Union had just signed a twelve-year lease to move its International headquarters to Triangle, in Prince William County, about five miles from my house, and that of another Right to Work [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 9:42am EDT
  

• Moonbats For Deeds Enlist Dishonest Attacks Upon AG McDonnell's Legal Ethics

  Mike@Blueweeds has favored us with a "scholarly" discussion of Attorney General Robert McDonnell's actions in In re: Multi-Circuit Episcopal Church Property Litigation, Civil Case Nos. CL-2007-0248724 et al., the dispute heard in Fairfax Circuit Court over church property in the wake of the Episcopal Church's decision to endorse sin [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 11:02pm EDT
  

• Iconography And The Cult Of Personality

  An excellent discussion on the power of iconography, one which recognizes President Barry's effort to create a cult of personality:
  
  ' [...]
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  Posted: September 14, 2009, 11:09am EDT
  

• WaPo Spike Watch: Day Two

  Well, it only took two days for the Washington Post to mention Deeds position.
  
  But let's make sure we understand this: the Post "uncovers" a twenty-year-old master's thesis by McDonnell, and it's front-page, above-the-fold, three-day story. A ten-year-old Deeds campaign position which would be characterized as "anti-gay" by' [...]
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  Posted: September 12, 2009, 8:16pm EDT
  

• WaPo Spike Watch: Day One

  Last night, VA Blogger at TC broke the blogosphere story of Creigh Deeds' "homophobic" remarks in a campaign flyer of only ten years' vintage. I wrote about it shortly later. The Weekly Standard had a post about it late yesterday afternoon.
  
  And yet, the Washington Post [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 8:07am EDT
  

• Creigh Deeds Is A "Homophobe"!

  Yeah, yeah. I know. Nobody who uses the word "homophobe" should be taken too seriously. It is, after all, usually just a term to belittle those who oppose the radical homosexual agenda.
  
  But that's what the far Left would call someone who made a statement such as this.[...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2009, 11:05pm EDT
  

• Is This The "Hopey-Changey" For Which You Voted?

  So President Barry says that the "time for bickering is over" on health care.
  
  Another sanctimonious boob dismisses serious policy differences by belittling them.
  
  This is "bipartisanship"? This is "reasonable discussion"?
  
  No. This is typical far-Left arrogance.
  
  The problem for President Barry is not that [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2009, 10:49pm EDT
  

• Moonbatosphere Moron ... But I Repeat Myself

  With today's WaPo attack piece on Bob McDonnell --- surprise! The WaPo is taking the pro-homo side in the culture war --- Virginia's moonbats are engaged in an "Amen!" chorus. Or is it the other way around?
  
  I found one particularly interesting. Now, I suppose there are plenty [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2009, 8:05am EDT
  

• Dan Snyder Is Pond-Scum

  Give the guy credit, though: in a league in which Al Davis and Jerry Jones are both owners, Dan Snyder still manages to be the most hated owner in the league, and by his team's own fans. It's not that the Redskins have stunk up the place under his ownership, [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 7:04pm EDT
  

• Does It Have Twice The Nuts?

  Pathologically far-Left Ben & Jerry's has a new flavor to celebrate the legalization of homosexual "marriage" in its native Vermont: "Hubby Hubby."
  
  I suppose it rolls off the tongue more easily than "Fraudulent Poseurs." [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 12:45am EDT
  

• Interesting Description

  According to the New York Daily News, the State Department is investigating private guards at the Kabul, Afghanistan, embassy for frat-house activities and other "deviant behavior."
  
  I put the last in quotation marks because, well, that's apparently the phrase the State Department is using.
  
  Interesting phrase. In [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 11:08pm EDT
  

• Brilliant!

  Every freedom-loving blogger should embed this one:
  
  
  
  H/T to Greg L [...]
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  Posted: September 01, 2009, 12:20pm EDT
  

• Catharsis!

  Moonbat Cindy Sheehan admits what should have been obvious to everyone, but probably won't be admitted by others on the far Left: that "the 'antiwar movement' wasn't so much antiwar as anti-Bush." [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2009, 10:28am EDT
  

• Another Death Penalty Offense?

  There are some cases other than premeditated murder for which the death penalty may well be an appropriate penalty.
  
  Those who perpetrated this crime --- the kidnapping, holding, and serial child rape of Jaycee Lee Dugard --- should be eligible for the ultimate penalty. Particularly heinous is the [...]
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  Posted: August 28, 2009, 11:56am EDT
  

• Enlisting The Government Schools To Violate The Constitution

  Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed.U.S. Const., amend. XIV
  The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, [...]
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  Posted: August 27, 2009, 9:29pm EDT
  

• She's At It Again

  Moonbat Cindy Sheehan, that is. Now, she's dogging President Barry on his vacation.
  
  Of course, you probably read it here first, since the media won't be giving her favorable coverage with President Barry in office.
  
  H/T to Drudge.' [...]
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  Posted: August 27, 2009, 7:40pm EDT
  

• The Return of Political Ambulance Chasers

  So Ted Kennedy has died. I associate myself with the comment of a Facebook friend, who observed that "it's fair to say his suffering, and ours, is lessened today, and for that, all can be thankful." Except that the suffering of many whose lives were ruined by the Liberal welfare' [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 4:20pm EDT
  

• Robert Novak, RIP

  Since we're on vacation, I'm not posting much, but I couldn't let the passing of Robert Novak go by without notation.
  
  Some view it as an opportunity to take one last cheap shot, from a far-Left propagandist who applies that label to Novak in an exercise which is' [...]
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  Posted: August 19, 2009, 12:35pm EDT
  

• I Wonder ....?

  
  It seems that police have interviewed a "suspect" in the case of the posting of posters caricaturing President Barry as the Joker in The Dark Knight.
  
  "Suspected of what?" you might ask. Well, you'll have to read the article to find out, and' [...]
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  Posted: August 14, 2009, 10:18am EDT
  

• Yeah, But What Were You Saying A Few Years Ago?

  It seems that the Washington Post has published Michael Gerson's comments indicating that he is mightily perturbed at the casual use of the imagery of Nazism, describing it (rightly) as a "lazy shortcut to secure an emotional response." He goes on to condemn it when "Michael Moore compared the" [...]
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  Posted: August 14, 2009, 9:47am EDT
  

• Empty Complaints About Health "Reform" Protestors

  It's become quite a mantra with those who are complaining about the protests at various townhall meetings. Even the sometimes sensible have gotten in on the attack on what they call "poisonous rhetoric."
  
  I'm a little confused by their complaints, though. Are they objectively disgusted by the behavior' [...]
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  Posted: August 12, 2009, 1:33pm EDT
  

• Propagandistic Buzzword Of The Day

  Turned on C-SPAN's Washington Journal for a few minutes this morning, and there was former ABC infobabe ... er, propagandist ... er, "journalist" Linda Douglass, in her new role as White House Minister of Propaganda for Health Care, with the talking point of the day.
  
  After months on the [...]
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  Posted: August 11, 2009, 11:41am EDT
  

• Wow

  A few days ago, I noted the passing of John Hughes.
  
  Here, you can read a tribute by a young lady who became his pen pal. If you're not left with a tear in your eye after reading it, you have no heart.
  
  Having had a' [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 2:17pm EDT
  

• An Interesting If Not Unexpected Source

  After years of hearing dovish Democrats making false claims that the Bush Administration and/or Conservatives had accused them of being "unAmerican," it is nevertheless unsurprising that the first politicians whom I have heard using that word to describe their political opponents are House Speak Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and House [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 11:43am EDT
  

• Perhaps It's Your Policies Which Are The Problem

  Apparently, a Washington Democrat Congress-critter so fears his constituents that he's decided to phone it in. He also compares opponents of socialized medicine to Nazis, though --- of course --- the premises and rhetorical tactics of proponents for Obamacare --- demonizing insurance companies and their executives (read: "Jews"); taking' [...]
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  Posted: August 07, 2009, 4:48pm EDT