All That Is Necessary…
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Can Obama Win Back Independents Without Further Alienating the Left?
One should always be wary of highly partisan people who make sweeping post-election predictions about future elections (cf. Carville, James, 40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation, copyright 2009.)
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Since Unemployment is Rising, Let’s Destroy More Jobs and Pay More People Not to Work!
Life is unpredictable, but businesses crave certainty. Higher, predictable costs are preferable to lower, volatile costs. How’s that whole quest-for-certainty thing working out for American businesses? Here’s a clue: The new year begins four weeks from today, and nobody knows what the tax rates will be for 2011.
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Jennifer Rubin Decamps from De Contentions
One of the two hardest-working, conservative, female bloggers (how’s that for a micro-niche?) packed up her pixels and migrated to a new cyber-home this week, where she’ll have a chance to build a much bigger audience. There are two group blogs that I visit every every day:Â “Contentions” at Commentary Magazine’s website, and “The Corner” […]
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Thanksgiving Day Ruminations on America, Its Defenders and Its Enemies
Enough about turkeys today. Let’s talk hawks and doves, taking as our text the work of two good writers with very different world views. Clifford May, who leads the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, starts his Thanksgiving Day column by giving thanks for the members of our nation’s armed forces. At this moment, such men […]
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Which Is the Lesser Evil: Airport “Porno Scanners” or Profiling?
From TSA website: Click to enlarge (you know you want to). Images more explicit than this may be faked. If you look up “droll” in the dictionary, there ought to be a picture of George Will.  Here’s the end of his current column, which kvetches about increased airport security: The average American has regular contact […]
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Obama Abandons an Afghanistan Deadline That Never Made Sense
Blogging is cool. It creates a written record to back you up when you say “I told you so.” Depending on who is telling the story, the Obama Administration has begun either “tweaking” or “publicly walking away from” the July 2011 date it set for beginning to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. “2014 Is the New […]
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Obama’s Health Care “Victory” Plants the Seeds for His 2012 Defeat
I can’t find it now, but before the election I recall reading a smug liberal comment that it was mathematically impossible for the Democrats to lose enough Senate seats to give the Republicans a veto-proof majority of 60 seats. Thus, the commenter said, Obamacare would be unrepealable even after the 2010 election. Until the 2012 […]
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Rachel Maddow’s Piety vs. the Magic of YouTube. Advantage: YouTube
Those of you who have not yet read my previous post about Keith Olbermann — I’m looking at you, Web Goddess — must read that first before watching this wonderful video. Hat tip: Jonah. .
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Conservatives Rally Behind Olbermann, Sort Of
Like the good Christian I aspire to be, I try to respect people with opposing points of view. Like the sinner I am, I make exceptions. One of those is Keith Olbermann, he of the permasmirk and the infantile nightly “Worse, Worser and Worst Person in the World”. With his smarmy delivery and sanctimonious preening […]
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If You Insist, I’ll Pontificate on the Election Results
A friend and former co-worker ("hi Father Tom!") teased me by phone today about being at my day job when I could be blogging about the election. I told him I didn’t think my dozens of daily readers are parked on my blog and repeatedly clicking the refresh button. But what if I’m wrong about that?
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