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Miss Ann Thrope is not very political.  She would, for instance, never let her conservatism get in the way of watching The West Wing, no matter how many times I razzed her about it.  She even once stupidly said it doesn’t even matter much who wins the Presidency.  (Don’t worry I never let her live [...]

I am still in a state of shock and dismay.  I think Robert Stacy McCain may be right  http://spectator.org/archives/2012/11/07/doomed-beyond-all-hope-of-rede , and Mark Steyn.  We chose decline with our eyes wide open.  My best friend, who usually avoids discussing politics at all costs, posted this on her facebook page.  I think it is a great summary:  hat [...]

Gov. Romney has flat out said the Palestinians do not want peace.   Since every “peace” agreement has led to more slaughter by the Palestinians you would think this would be an obvious statement.  But even the Republicans in DC have been running from this basic bit of truth for decades. http://www.jpost.com/USPresidentialrace/Article.aspx?id=285410 It took a [...]

The mess that Obama is always whining about is as to nothing compared to the mess Romney will inherit, if we are lucky enough to get rid of Obama. Reagan came with a reputation.  A reputation based mostly on the media’s lies and spins.  Ironically the media’s fabrication of the trigger happy cowboy worked in [...]

I have ranted and raved against the “fiscal conservative, social liberal” model many, many times in this blog already.  But the point of that model is that everyone in the country claims to be fiscal conservatives.  And as I have explained again and again, that’s not true.  Everyone wants to claim to be responsible with [...]

YAY!! We beat the Chinese in Olympic medals, something we never could do to the USSR. How exciting how thrilling! Course we drove the Soviet Union into a bankruptcy that ultimately toppled it. Now China owns trillions of dollars of our National Debt. How do you say “he who laughs last” in Chinese?

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 [...]

San Diego, CA.   Saturday July 7, 9:00 a.m.   A Tea Party to rally against Obamacare.    At the County Administration Center 1600 Pacific Coast Highway.   https://www.facebook.com/events/105755546234943/   Be there or be a serf.

Ann Althouse chooses to focus on what I can only see is a slap in the face from the Chief Justice:  http://althouse.blogspot.com/2012/06/it-is-not-our-job-to-protect-people.html  This quote from the opinion: “It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.” Well there you have it people.  John Roberts says if you vote for [...]

President Obama has many times said that the economy isn’t fixed because it was more broken then he knew.  http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/12/14/huge_see_i_told_you_so_obama_says_economy_was_worse_than_we_knew  He has repeatedly said that 3 years is not long enough for him to fix an economy that was damaged beyond his ken. In other words he was unprepared and unqualified to be President.  Well [...]

It is probably pointless to imagine the California voters will wake up and defeat Feinstein this November.  But the point of this blog is to support conservatives whever we find them, even the wasteland of  Greece-West known as California. Elizabeh Emken is conservative, committed to ending the waste in DC.  She is running for Senate, [...]

As much as I was in 1988 for Vice-President Bush when he achieved the presumptive Republican nomination. Of course, his being President Reagan’s v-p was a great help; Bush’s election was assumed Reagan’s third term. In this year of 2012, the presumptive nominee could have been any Republican since the President Obama is as competent [...]

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 [...]

This article is quite disturbing.  http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/292970/obama-casually-offers-israel-goodies-bomb-iran-iafteri-election-daniel-foster  The president……  has apparently offered Israel sweeteners for delaying any strike against Tehran’s nuclear facilities until after the election. FromThe New York Post: The President’s lack of concern for Israel is not disturbing, I take that for granted.  The President’s lack of concern for the USA also not disturbing. [...]

So the Left is doing what the Left does best, indeed the only thing the Left can do, they have changed the subject to focus on one of their “poor” victims.  http://www.jammiewf.com/2012/sandra-flukes-appearance-is-no-fluke/   If you think this entitled, spoiled, selfish brat is a victim, well let me take you to your local children’s shelter so you [...]

All day today I’ve been reading liberals and libertarians lie.   The most recent is at National Review (remember when NR was a conservative magazine?) http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/291628/we-re-already-europe-michael-tanner#comment-495035  In this article Cato’s Michael Tanner outright lies:  And Republicans? They are busy debating the pros and cons of birth control This is the same lie I heard from liberals [...]