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During the period while a Obama regime consolidates, they will seek to extend their writ into agencies – such as the military, security services, and local police – where their influence has been resisted heretofore. There will be carrots – grants, promotions, preferred placement, etc those inclined or willing to toe the party line. Others [...]

The time to Fight FOCA is now. With Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in charge of Congress, we can expect a fight over FOCA to begin as soon as the next Congress begins.

@meichx tweeted that we must “Stop calling him “Barack,” unless your name is Michelle. He is President-Elect Obama, or, at least, Mr. Obama.” Sigh! Eight years of childish disrespect for the office of the President, but their guy holds that office then it is do-as-I-say-not-as-I-done. I guess BO is right out.

Like the Willie Horton case in the 1988 campaign only worse. It goes to the heart of who and what all-too-many among the left-wing of the Democratic Pary really are. I was hoping that this would become a major issue in this campaign. Perhaps it’s not too late – if enough people will join in [...]

A trophy kid of the Millennial generation wants me to do his homework. His research and his memo-writing! This kid is a third-year law student, and his course is international study. His assignment that he wished to cheat off from me: Hello, I need the following memo drawn up. Could you help me and if [...]

if we were to think of the economic crisis the way commentators on the left usually do…it would be hard to escape the conclusion that – they themselves, along with Islamists and anti-Semites, were foremost among those to whom “credit” is due for the…meltdown affecting America and the rest of the world. “Follow the money [...]

Ah, I missed the global peace rally. Flying kites for peace is the latest craze and forty some miles west of me in Fitchburg, WI they joined the fun. Source: Madison Captiol Times, flying kites in Fitchburg, WI (a southern surburb of Madison). Around the world, in Germany and Hungary and Thailand and Africa and [...]

taqiyya Barack Hussein Obama: On this fundamental issue [of "choice"] I will not yield… It is time to turn the page. We want a new day here in America. We are tired of arguing about the same old stuff… The first thing I would do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act [a [...]

Much of the substance of this election comes down to this question: “do we want people with values like those held by the leadership of the American Library Association – in general – and Judith Flint and Amy Grasmick – in particular – to be in control of this country and guiding its children? Full [...]

what you want may not be what you get The quote “Change is not reform” has repeatedly come to mind over the past year every time I see Senator B. Obama (D. Ill.) proclaiming his campaigns slogan of “Change we can believe in.” Russel Kirk wrote a biography of the son of Edmund Randolph who [...]

Czech President Vaclav Klaus articulated his skepticism of global warming at the National Press Club. I found the reaction of the journalists to be most instructive, their expressions were grim. It pained them to hear a global warming skeptic. I happen to agree with Klaus that AGW is a pernicious ideology similar to communist totalitarianism. [...]

Fr. Pfleger had a chance to take the high road when speaking to a Protestant faith tradition (it is a part of the United Church of Christ) that Obama is presumedly a member (I have my doubt he actually attended regularly; I mean he can’t hang out night with the Daily Machine on Saturday night [...]

I just read this on powerlineblog.com. Obama gave a Memorial Day speech, and began: On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong. My first reaction was “just how many [...]

In 1852 Charles MacKay published in London his Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. MacKay began his preface: “In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find [...]

This week my European-Mexican friend sent to me Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. It’s a bootleg copy. I ask several other friends which was worse: bootlegging or wasting a good DVD? Two of my friends from Townhall replied,rwwood:”The main thing is to avoid lining Algore’s pockets with a legit sale of the DVD.”laur: “tough call, [...]

A good friend, who is thirty-something and a multi-passported foreigner, told me yesterday history and geography are boring. The former would be better served by watching hollywood movies and, the. latter one should travel independently in order to learn about others. Last night, he said his Netfix movie for viewing was the 2005 “Good Night [...]