President Bush had the usual laundry list of items to discuss, and it was all pretty standard State of the Union stuff.  He mentioned the key points regarding fighting the war and national security, and was solid doing so.  The only new thing I heard of interest to me was the dedication to ‘ending our […]

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The EU and the Palestinians are a perfect match for each other, a true meeting of needs, interests, and common traits.  They are an unlikely match it is true, but that is common enough is it not?  And they fight and bicker a lot, but in the end they always come together with the EU […]

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There is lots of coverage of the much anticipated moment all the way around as the Democrat’s attempt to filibuster the nomination to the Supreme Court of Samuel Alito ended with a really loud flop, in a 75 - 25 vote in favor of ending debate and therefor the attempted filibuster.  Sadly, my suggestion of […]

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So, Sen. Hillary Clinton has joined the effort to filibuster the Alito vote.  Seems like the Democratic party wants to take this opportunity to ’send a message’ to the President (and the far left base of the Democratic party).  As if he didn’t know where they stand, as if we all don’t know where they […]

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Courts in France have fined an elected Minister of Parliament for saying things they define as ‘hateful’, which is to say for saying things they don’t agree with.  The cold hard authoritarian hand of the police state which will not allow other political viewpoints to be expressed is tightening its grip on the nation, and […]

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The Palestinians have elected Hamas to lead them, a bonafide and genuine terrorist group who have also killed Americans.  For further reflection on what it means and what we ought to do about it, go read the post at Captain’s Quarters.  A key paragraph:
The first item on our list should be an absolute end to […]

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In encounters with and thinking about feminists and their often ourtrageous conduct I have had this sneaking feeling I’m missing an important observation.  That there was something about their behavior that I couldn’t quite put a finger on, but ought to be able to.  Mike Adams over at Townhall has written an article that among […]

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Joes Stein of the LA Times, our local newspaper that is the reliable beacon of the Left, has an opinion piece published today that represents the much more honest and open truth about how the Left feels about ’supporting the troops’.  Lets be serious about this, does it really make sense to support troops who […]

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Congratulations to our friends to the North!  After years of increasingly nasty relations with our Northern neighboors it will be nice to have friends on at least one border again.  Good luck to the CPC in forming a new government and hopefully cleaning up the fraud that was perpetrated on the Canadian people by the […]

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Cass R. Sunstein writes in an article over on the New Republic Online of the worry that the Republicans have managed to return the discussion over Supreme Court appointments to presuming that the Constitution be upheld as the Law of the Land, that the Constitution and other acts of Law enacted by Congress be treated […]

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The so called ‘Fourth Estate’, the professional media now including both print and broadcast, have had an important place in the fabric of our nation from its inception.   Our Founding Fathers understood that if this experiment in Representative Democracy were to succeed there would have to be free, open, and widely publicized debate so that […]

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One time ‘calypso singer’ Harry Belafonte, now 78 years old, has apparently decided in his later years to voice anything that pops into his head.  One presumes he has had similarly extreme thoughts for most of his life but stopped himself from expressing them to protect his his image as an entertainer.  Left wing radicals […]

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Discussion continues over the efforts to illuminate campus bias that I covered a few days ago.  Glenn Reynolds over on Instapundit has a bone to pick with the effort:
At best, the alumni seem to have two things confused. If they’re concerned about a lack of ideological diversity on the campus, then listing all the left-wing […]

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There’s a post over on the Brussels Journal by Hjörtur Guðmundsson laying claim to Iceland as a European nation.  At a minimum he says that it is geographically in Europe, and so therefor of course is European.  Apparently there are some trying to make the case that a nation must join the European Union to […]

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Those of us on the Right who have attended any sort of University or College in the last four decades or so had a shared experience almost regardless of the specific institution:  Leftist indoctrination from the vast majority of our professors.  Its an old saw at this point.  The Right says education is a totally […]

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The old saying goes that ‘the rising tide lifts all boats’.  Today the December vote in Iraq for their first permanent Pariliament was certified as being 99% valid:
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq’s electoral commission ruled Monday that more than 99 percent of the ballots from the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections are valid, opening the way for […]

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There’s been more coverage of the Alito nomination to the Supreme Court than you can shake a stick at and I have no interest in rehashing all that here.  But there are a few things that seem to have been resolved from the whole thing, three in fact, and they all show in a recent […]

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Down through the centuries there has always been a significant tradeoff to wearing more and more armor:  eventually you just can’t move and you’re enemies just push you over and kill you later at their leisure.  For the few most recent centuries the science of firearms outpaced armor and there was just no point to […]

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This is not saying that the Bird Flu pandemic has begun.  A story from the Daily Mail is reporting however that the virus is mutating and becoming more dangerous to humans:

Bird flu has mutated into a more dangerous form which could breed in humans, according to scientists.
The Vietnamese research has shown the bug is adapting […]

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On his blog Michael Barone has discovered a seeming inconsistency in the logic of the MSM Left in a post discussing the recent James Risen piece:
So that is the New York Times’s idea, or at least this New York Times reporter’s idea, of how democratic representative government should work. Unelected bureaucrats should rule. If the […]

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You may or may not have heard of the case, but in Vermont a judge just sentenced a pedophile who raped a little girl for 4 years to just 60 days in jail.  I’ll say that again, this is no joke, 60 days in jail for raping a girl as often as possible starting at […]

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After Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Commission, recently announced to the world that Iran would have nuclear weapons in months not years the clock is ticking and very active discussion about what should or is going to happen.  There is a good post and even better dialog in the comments over at […]

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The Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes has done the heavy lifting to get access to some of the data translated from documents in Iraq captured during the invasion.  The documents put to rest the whole ‘innocent Saddam’ meme and show than he in fact was deeply involved in training terrorists, mostly from North African groups.  From […]

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The ‘Religion of Peace’ is hard at work all over the globe, and certainly in England where a man was shot and killed in June 2004 because he refused to convert to Islam:
"Adrian was told on the Sunday prior to his death that he would be killed if he did not become a Muslim by […]

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Seriously folks, Pat Robertson no longer seems to understand the idea of thinking first about saying whatever pops into his head.  He needs to retire before he says even more that will destroy the remaining bits of the public’s respect for him.  If you haven’t heard about it already, go read the story at CNN […]

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Is the right to live, and the freedoms required to ensure it.  No government can guarantee protection in all times and all places from criminals, and certainly not from the government turning hostile itself.  History shows that in time all governments die, and often kill quite a few of their own citizens in the process.  […]

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The OpinionJournal published today a Mark Steyn article It’s the Demography, Stupid that is a must read for anyone who cares about the future of our imperilled civilization.  Please go read it all.  Hugh Hewitt strongly recommends the piece and has a list of those writing posts on it here.  Short of the physical annihilation […]

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