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Thanksgiving Day Ruminations on America, Its Defenders and Its Enemies
3 comments on Thanksgiving Day Ruminations on America, Its Defenders and Its EnemiesEnough 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…