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Powerline has an excellent look at Gov. Romney’s tour through Isreal and his speech there.  http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/07/our-enduring-alliance.php   If there is anything purely about principle in American politics today it is Republican support of Israel.  Now I am both a Republican and Jewish; so I can tell you it is a very lonely description. No Republican [...]

I loved Sally Kimball.  Yes I know the books were called Encyclopedia Brown.  But I was in it for Sally, the tough, tomboy taking on the neighborhood bullies, so her brainy friend could solve his cases in peace.   I especially loved it when Sally would solve the crimes herself, brains and brawn you had [...]

Victor Davis Hanson drags conservatives away from their ridiculous calling-defeat-a-victory party and throws them into a cold shower.  It is the erudite Professor at his very best: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/304411/not-so-good-news-victor-davis-hanson As for me: after 2008 I will never again underestimate the American voters taste for other people’s money.

Instapundit has been linking to a lot of stories about prejudice against Mormons:  http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/144097/ I must say though, I can actually understand having negative feelings about Mormons.  After all a Mormon murdered Robert Kennedy because of his support for Israel.   The Olympic games became an armed camp because of the Momons who killed the [...]

If you aren’t reading Caroline Glick, the internet is wasted on you.  http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0412/glick042012.php3

So the Brit at NR http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/296004/derb-and-discourse-john-osullivan  has joined the Canadian at NR http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/295591/re-derb-mark-steyn in condemming the firing of John Derbyshire. That’s not surprising.  Canada and Great Britain have jettisoned free speech for Political Correctness.  Mark Steyn was actually prosecuted for committing the heinous offense of writing his opinions in public.    Of course they would take threats to free excerisice of speech more seriously; [...]

Many are shocked to discover that a black President has made race relations worse in this country.  http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/140594/  I predicted this four years ago.  It is not the color of the President’s skin that matters it is the content of his politics.  Liberals have been dividing this country up for so long I can’t imagine [...]

Instapundit linked to a story about the green jobs boondogle in Newsweek  http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/10/16/obama-s-green-energy-agenda-flop.html  The article does it’s cheery liberal best to call the boondoggle a worthy experiement.  But the best part is the closting quote by my very own Senator Barbara brainless Boxer “There’s always a risk when you fund innovation, but if we abandoned [...]

From Barnes & Nobles, I downloaded the sample of Mark Steyn’s newest book, After America: Get Ready for the Armageddon, It is a nasty remembrance of the mess humankind keeps getting itself into constantly throughout its history. Some quotes from it: “There is the moral of all human tales; ‘tis but the same rehersal of [...]

“I keep thinking that insanity is a state where a person can’t tell what’s real.  Well what’s real now is insane and if I accepted it as real, I’d have to lose my mind wouldn’t I?”  Eddie Willers in Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Yes I admit it I succumbed to peer pressure; I read [...]

Liberals are so maddening, so utterly removed from reality sometimes I think they are deliberately trying to Gaslight us.  If they just keep saying crazy things sooner or later we will all just lose our minds.  Today’s mind boggling liberal upside down craziness comes in the form of an absurd column at Pajamas Media about [...]

I had no idea just how many friends I have who are Japanese, or have family in Japan, until yesterday when I started anxiously watching twitter and facebook to make sure they and their loved ones were okay.   Besides the many Japanese skaters I know personally there are a host of others whose careers I [...]

The conservative civil war over Obama’s intentions is as I said before perfectly ridiculous http://marlettsmith.com/blog/index.php/2011/02/23/by-his-deeds/ But now that Obama himself has said he would prefer being a communist dictator  http://weaselzippers.us/2011/03/11/obama-it-would-be-so-much-easier-to-be-the-president-of-china/  will Medved and Ferguson and the rest of the wimps please shut up already. He likes Marxism, he likes dictatorial power, he hates being accountable [...]

This post by IowaHawk comparing Texas schools and Wisconsin schools is so well done I think we may have to require Iowahawk to be serious at least once a week.  http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2011/03/longhorns-17-badgers-1.html

If you are wondering what deep thoughts I have about the revolutions in the Arab world, rent Lawrence of Arabia.  When you get to the point where someone says “you are a little people barbarous and cruel,”  I’m done.  That’s as deep as my thoughts go. It amazes me how many people are convinced the [...]

The conservative civil war continues I see.  Being a conservative war it is fought only with words of course.  But Professor Sowell’s brilliant take down of Michael Medved this morning is as if the US Marines had attacked a boy scout troop.  ( Yes I know Marines would never do that.)  http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/260399/voices-moderation-thomas-sowell The question I [...]

Prof. Reynolds seems awfully upset that women can make babies without telling a man that is their intention http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/115043/ Cry me a river!  For the well being of the poor put upon men forced to financially support their unplanned progeny I have this one little bit of advice. It is a foolproof method that ensures [...]