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The internet is alive with the sound of conservatives patting themselves on the back.  Aha!  they are shouting.  We are all neo-cons now!  Obama’s Libyan adventure has conservatives gloating “this proves Bush was right all along”. Oft-quoted is the remark by candidate Obama in 2007 that it is illegal for the President to go to [...]

Miss Ann Thrope thinks I am hysterical and need to be slapped.  I just never expected to laugh so much at the end of the world.  I mean come on now, it’s called Operation Odyssey Dawn.  Odyssey?  A 10 year mission in which everyone but the Captain went down with the ship.  How can that [...]

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 [...]