Mark Steyn has a good article out today letting us know that the recently oft repeated bromide attributed to Thomas Jefferson that "Dissent is the highest/greatest form of patriotism" is fake.  Its not true.  Its a silly statement anyway, and now we know it has the additional demerit of not being a real quote.  Here’s […]

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Robert Kagan has a piece in today’s Washington Post that along with his intended message also makes a few other useful observations.  Kagan points out the increasingly clear cooperation between the autocratic regimes in Russia and China to oppose the advancement of liberty because it is in their own self interests.  From Kagan’s article League […]

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>>Spoiler Alert!!  Immediately following is a detailed discussion of the movie United 93, if you don’t want to see anything detailed about the movie before you see it then stop reading NOW.

I just got back from seeing the movie United 93.  The movie is based on the events of Sept. 11th 2001 and focuses specifically […]

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Like Senator Ted Kennedy doesn’t get enough press, but had you heard about his most recent antics?  Sen. Ted "friend of the environment" Kennedy is moving behind the scenes in the Senate to kill a project to create a huge wind farm offshore in Nantucket Sound.  Some say it will be sight of his property […]

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Sometimes people say things don’t really mean to say, reveal truths they’d rather not because they don’t understand what it is they have also said besides what they intended.  People let things slip now and then.  Its those moments of candor that you have to grasp if you are to understand what someone is really […]

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The word is that Tony Snow of Fox News and his own radio show has accepted the position as the White House Press Secretary.  This is very good news for the Bush administration, which is badly in need of a skilled person to get the administrations word out and hopefully to get them to better […]

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So the CIA catches and fires a single leaker of secret information.  All well and good, or not.  Take your pick, have fun reading the lively debate shaping up out there in the blogoshpere.  Its just one case though and however important what was leaked or not or why or wherefore will quickly fade in […]

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Gas prices are spiking again and predictably all the politicians are getting nervous and starting to puff about "investigations " again.  Doesn’t that sound familiar to you?  I seem to remember "gas gouging investigations and hearings" being held not too long ago.  Last year in fact.
What happened with that?  Nothing of course, because they are […]

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Word is out today that the CIA has fired an employee after an investigation that resulted in said employee admitting to releasing operational secret information to reporters.  The CIA has been leaking so much lately that many have wondered if the Agency was so hopelessly politicized and compromised as to make its critical national security […]

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It is looking more and more like Rob Reiner’s activities on the First 5 Commission have hurt the chances of his Proposition 82 Universal Preschool Initiative being passed by voters.  The investigations into his use of State Government money to promote his private cause to pass Proposition 82 have raised voter awareness in a negative […]

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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa last night announced his plan to ask the California State Legislature to essentially grant himself as Mayor control over the L.A. Unified School District.  The LAUSD is a gigantic bureaucracy that proves everyday just about every folk saying about incompetent bureaucracies.  This may seem like a harsh statement but it […]

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The state of California and essentially all of the smaller governments inside like Counties and Cities are not ready for a flu crisis… and they never will be.  Today’s article in the LA Times goes into detail on all the reasons why we will never be "ready", ready meaning being able to give medical […]

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I hope everyone has a very happy Easter day with whatever friends and family they can gather together.  Don’t eat too much after you get back from church. 

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This cartoon is funny because its true.  From Cox and Forkum editorial cartoonists extraordinaire.  The fearful Pacifist sheep confuse the armed U.S. shepherd for the Iranian wolf.  The dynamic over Iran explained in one image. Kudos to Cox and Forkum .

Hat tip to OpFor for the link. 

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The political reality seems to be that we will never be able to muster the determination to protect the huge southern border, so instead why not annex Mexico?  Here’s Glenn Reynold’s points in favor:

So maybe we’ve been thinking about this the wrong way. Instead of worrying about Mexicans invading America, maybe what we […]

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Good reading over at MEMRI, go read it all but here’s the intro to tease you:

Dr. Ahmad Al-Baghdadi, a reformist Kuwaiti intellectual and political science lecturer at Kuwait University, argues that the Muslims themselves - not bin Laden - are responsible for the rising hatred against them around the world. He says that Muslims […]

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The reluctance of the Bush Administration to act more aggressively towards Iran has raised a lot of talk about why that is.  One of the possible answers has been that there have been various reports and rumors swirling around for a while that Iran already has nuclear warheads procured from another state like Pakistan or […]

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The U.N. was founded with hope and optimism in the wake of World War II with the intent that with this global institution gathering the attention and will of every nation that "Never Again" would another Genocide be allowed to happen.  There are other goals since taken on but this was the guiding light of […]

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The only immigration reform that will have any credibility is one that first and foremost reasserts our national sovereignty and control of who comes to our nation.  Any discussion of granting legal status to millions of lawbreakers that doesn’t first ensure that no more will come will only succeed in making the situation much worse.
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There’s timely news, and then there’s timely news, and … well this is both really… or either, take your pick.   I posted recently that it looked like the State Department was following procedure in giving the Taliban’s former PR man, Mr. Sayed Rhmatullah Hashemi, a number of visas to get into the U.S. […]

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Shortly after posting my question about how on earth Taliban Man, a.k.a. Sayed Rhmatullah Hashemi, got a visa so he could actually attend Yale I received an email from Clint Taylor of the Nail Yale Blog at Townhall with a few answers.  Not all of the answers mind you, because most of these […]

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The Bush Administration isn’t the only one raising the stakes and blustering to gain position for the ongoing struggle over Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and leverage over events in Iraq.  Iran is on a roll this past week with several announcements of testing new missiles and torpedoes leading to this current statement.  The message is a […]

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The nation has been awash with outrage for weeks about the Taliban’s front man being admitted to Yale of all places.  Now there is a 9/11 survivor trying to ask the Yale administration for an explanation , any explanation for their behavior.  That is an excellent question that deserves to be answered, though I’m not […]

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Its about time!  As usual the initial execution by the industry types just, in a word, sucks.  The increasing convergence of computer technology and consumer home electronics made this move to legally distribute downloadable movies inevitable.  The problem here is that Hollywood’s worries about piracy and cannibalizing existing business have made the initial legal movie […]

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One wouldn’t know it if like me you are living on one of the Coasts but over the last fifteen years or so a new movement has been sweeping across the nation:  laws requiring state officials to issue concealed weapons permits to any legal adult who meets certain very basic criteria.  Its gospel among the […]

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Attempting to define or prove Media Bias often end up being like trying to explain the color blue to someone born blind, its darn near impossible in an age where people seem to be immutably tied to their perspective and blind to all others.  The debate will rage all over and if one has a […]

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