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It is just a cöincidence that I am reading Harry Stein’s I can’t believe I’m sitting next to a Republican just a few weeks after the leftist MSM press tried to sell America the meme that the Tucson shootings are part of the liberal narrative of inevitable right-wing violence . . . and failed miserably. (See here, here, here, and here.) Liberals showed all their neighbors what they really think

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On a Rocochet podcast about the uprising in Egypt, a listener asked whether the popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen perhaps validate Bush’s view of the aspirations of the people in the Middle East. The answer is not necessarily Yes or No. Chris Matthews, of Hardball, who thinks the Panama Canal is in Egypt, says they show that overthrowing Saddam Hussein was unnecessary. Yes, and

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"If somebody wants to build a coal power plant they can, it's just that it will bankrupt them because they are going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted."&mdash Barack Obama, January 2008 "Electricity plus Soviets equals Socialism."&mdash Vladimir Lenin

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Allen West is a retired Army lieutenant-colonel running for Congress in Florida. He is also a black Republican. He recently blogged about Harry Reid’s supposedly racist comments about Barack Obama’s electability. West is a justly indignant about white liberal racism and desire to keep blacks on the liberal plantation, but he is wrong to describe Reid’s comments as “disgusting, despicable, and

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From the NYT: Biden Says U.S. Will Appeal Blackwater Case Dismissal By ANTHONY SHADID The vice president said the U.S. would appeal the dismissal of charges against five contractors involved in a 2007 shooting. All of a sudden the absolute necessity of repristinating the judicial system after any technical smudge by setting the accused scot-free isn’t so absolute. This is another instance

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Investors' Business Daily analyzes why the Washington Post has warned "that congressional Democrats, in trying to save their increasingly unpopular health reform bill, are sneakily making it more like European-style socialized medicine" and in the process are making it less and less palatable to the less Progressive factions of Congress and the public (Gallup finds 70% opposed). The reasons for

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Ann Coulter has a good column this week (Martha Coakley: Too Immoral For Teddy Kennedy's Seat) on the Dem nominee for Ted Kennedy's blessedly empty seat. Coakley was not the establishment candidate.  She did not try to run as the new Ted Kennedy.  However, after she won the primary, “John Kerry” sent out a fund-raising e-mail lauding her and blathering about breaking the glass ceiling for that

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At Thanksgiving dinner there was a brief discussion of odd verse forms, including the Clerihew and double dactyl. I could give examples of the Clerihew but not of a double dactyl. I was out walking later that night and the name “Martin Van Buren” popped into my head, and I soon had the following verse. The historical details are all from memory, so I haven’t bothered to verify them:

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At http://www.tedkennedy.org/ we are asked to share our memories of Ted Kennedy. Here is what I shared: Sen. Kennedy leaves behind a legacy of shame and irresponsibility, of always taking the easy, expedient way, from his cheating in college and his self-indulgence at Chappaquiddick to his abandonment of babes in the womb and his defaming and bullying of designated victims of his political

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Ever on the cutting edge of culture, today Logomachon notes that along with all the defects identified by cineastes and historians, including Tom Hanks’ haircut, no one has mentioned that the movie seems to have made Audrey Tautou look like Laura Bush. (Not that there is anything wrong with that.)Audrey before DVCWhich is Audrey, which Laura?

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There is a strain of thought, if that is the word I want, that in America is peculiar to liberalism. At any signal success by national security forces, they warn us solemnly that in fighting our enemies we are in danger of becoming infected by them or just becoming them. It seems to be there all the time, perhaps because liberals are pretty much opposed to the U.S.’ fighting our enemies.

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I haven’t seen anyone comment on the fact that US special ops troops had Zarqawi’s safe house surrounded before the F-16s were called in. They could have tried to take him alive and so preserve computers and other items of intelligence value. Instead they flattened the house and occupants, and this seems to have been the plan all along; they held off doing it until the collateral damage

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Arlen Specter is chairman of the Judiciary Committee. He’s all out of sorts because VP Cheney talked to Republican members of the committee without clearing it with him. MSNBC reported: "Specter complained that Cheney was lobbying other GOP Judiciary Committee members to oppose efforts to subpoena phone company executives."He wrote Cheney a letter: Specter said he was surprised that Cheney “

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An Aussie TV station recently got caught trying to make an interview in East Timor—and the general situation—look more dangerous that it is, and in the process demonstrated how the Western media have become the enemy of the West. Jessica Rowe of Channel 9’s morning Today show was interviewing the General commanding the Australian peacekeepers there.“I'm wondering how you feel about your safety

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An afternoon of carpentry listening to NPR yielded these blended gems:HIV discoverer Dr. Robert Gallo said “in those days we were working in unknown waters”.Not long afterward, the Rev. Thomas Sullivan said Enron “whistle blower” Sherron Watkins “paid the cost”, (Talk of the Nation). Surely it must be part of being culturally literate to be able to get clichés right.

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The Patriot Post reports that a U.S. District Judge has ordered the City of San Diego to cut down the Mt. Soledad War Memorial Cross. The city will face $5,000 per day fines if the Cross is not destroyed, or a settlement reached with the atheist plaintiff. The PP reports that the people of San Diego have voted several times to transfer the Cross as a war monument together with surrounding

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A few days ago, Jason Zengerle wrote in The New Republic’s blog that Last year I wrote an article slagging Conor Oberst, aka Bright Eyes, for his awful protest song "When the President Talks to God." . . . But recently, I've had a little change of heart about Oberst. In fact, if he's reading this, I'd like to extend a hand: Conor, all is forgiven. I now know what truly awful political music is

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The National Catholic Reporter reports that pro-abortion Democrats have finally come out of the closet: Tired of playing political punching bag to bishops and others who question their religious commitment, 55 House Democrats issued a “Catholic Statement of Principles” Feb. 28 that acknowledges the “church’s guidance and assistance” but also “the primacy of conscience.”The 500-word statement

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Maybe now Dick Cheney will give up on the firearms and go back to doing what he does best, catching the little birds with his bare hands and biting their heads off.

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One comparison we won't be hearing from the MSM and the Democrats.

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The Brussels Journal has been following the affair since the cartoons were published. Their latest is that the Danish imams who first demanded an apology, forced by the government, if necessary, have begun to try to sound a bit conciliatory.Meanwhile, today the Wall Street Journal Online provides more details [requires subscription] of how the Danish Muslims took the cartoons to the Middle East,

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I have to admit that I am slightly of two minds about the uproar over the Danish cartoons of figures representing Mohammed. Wouldn’t it be something if Western Christians showed a tenth of that indignation at the insults heaped upon Christianity in popular culture? Mobs with firebombs outside the offices of the Anti-Christian Litigation Unit and Americans for the Separation of Church and State?

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Once Judge Alito becomes Justice Alito, there's no turning back the Senate confirmation vote. We don't get to "take a mulligan" when choosing a Supreme Court Justice. . . . Will it matter if we speak up after the Supreme Court has granted the executive the right to use torture, or to eavesdrop without warrants? Will it matter if we speak up only after a woman's right to privacy has been taken

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I just saw film of the The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. It was a very satisfying cinematic experience. I say that as someone who is not a fan, neither of fantasy in general nor of Narnia in particular. I read the book in—well, I’m not sure when—high school, college, after the Army, sometime at least before grad school, and I didn’t remember much about it except that I didn’t like it.

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The liberal mind-smog is full of fulminations ignited by America's attempts to kill or catch terrorists before they commit their atrocites, and with steamy thurifications for Spielberg's Munich, which chides the Israelis for killing terrorists after they've piled up their victims.

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Senator Carl Levin: But the only way there's going to be any kind of a chance for a nationhood in Iraq is if the majority there, which are the Shiites and the Kurds together, are willing to make the political compromises that have not been made yet to put together changes in the constitution immediately following these elections in December so that they can bring on board the Sunni Arab

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A couple of weeks ago, my brother, Vincent, visited his East Coast relatives from North Dakota, and we took my son, Colin, down to the National Constitution Center.The center is in Old Town Philadelphia, just off Independence Mall, where Independence was Declared and the Constitution itself was drafted. The center’s architecture does not blend with the modest Georgian structures like the

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By coincidence, the week that all the press world was in a tizzy of self-congratulation at the revelation that FBI man Mark Felt was “Deep Throat”, I picked up John Buchan’s John McNabb from a pile of second-hand books.The argument of John McNabb is simple, as is its relevance to the mystery of Deep Throat. Three forty-something Englishmen, with good war records, at the tops of their

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A Web-based casino that likes to bid on weird stuff—like paying parents to name their baby after the company—was the (in retrospect, predictable) winner of a Langhorne woman's online auction to sell ad space on her newborn.So for the month of July, Michele Hutchison will clothe her second child, Devon ... in logoed baby togs provided by GoldenPalace.com.Hutchison said ... folks at the

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Harry Reid, Senate minority leader, was oozing on NPR on Monday about the coming filibuster showdown, in which Senate Republicans have threatened to use a simple parliamentary procedure to declare that “advise and consent” of judicial nominees does not include filibustering. Harry Reid didn’t want it to happen. [I don’t either. See below.] He’s looking for a few brave men, “six profiles in

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This is gorgeous.As my brother says, it's all right here, in Pope Benedict XVI's questionable qualifications, by Bill Berkowitz of Working For Change.Nothing like arguing with a strawman who agrees with you. As I understand it, two of the reforms the new Pope must implement are a modern understanding of homosexual love and greater autonomy for "national" churches after the centralization of

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In October 1979, my brother and sisters and I camped overnight on the Mall in Washington, D.C., to get front row places when John Paul II celebrated Mass. My Episcopalian fiancée joined us, saying John Paul was the only man for whom she would have endured the crowds. So said we all. Even then we had a sense that Karol Wojtyla was something special as Pope.Now, at the other end of Wojtyla’s

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OK. I don't watch much TV, and TV news only by accident, so I don't see what's on the screen about the latest sensational events around the country (Kobe who?). I get my TV information second hand, like this piece by Peggy Noonan of how Ashley Smith stopped Brian Nichols's killing spree. She got him to let her turn him in by reading to him from the Bible and a book of Biblical

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On the bus from Bethesda-Chevy Chase down to the Mall, a lady named Josepha passes around an ad in the Washington Times. It lists 92 Catholics in Congress with pro-abortion voting records, along with the names, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of their bishops (click for PDF poster. Donna offers to provide a list of the fax numbers of all the chanceries in the U.S. Then Donna and Josepha

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I'll be away from blogging for a couple of days, while I am at the Right to Life March in Washington, D.C.

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After one of the most ideological campaigns in memory, the Democrat current wisdom is somehow congealing into “the party had no message”. William Voegeli analyzes the party’s electoral problems in the Claremont Review of Books and concludes that the Democrats’ stumbling block is the empty core of liberalism (hat tip to Powerline). That emptiness has long been a target of conservatives.

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The comments to my post on sex-linked aptitude for math and academic achievement have some more information. Most complaints about unfair representation contain the unspoken premises that any two demographic segments should match on some arbitrary characteristic and not matching is a problem needing a remedy. Unfortunately, Laura Bush seems to have fallen into this easy but questionable

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Varifrank says “My absolute favorite thing about today’s political world is how the right has stolen the color red from the left.” He shows a purveyor of “count me blue” bracelets (she also sells “count me red” bracelets. I’m going to demur on a couple of counts. First, I’m not sure that this country needs any more of this in your face, I-can’t-let- the-election-go attitude. People took

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J'accuse Ass is an irregular department. It recognizes a public accusation, complaint, insinuation, alarm, or whining notable for its arrogance, irrelevance, spite, stridency, obtuseness, or mendacity. Harvard Chief Sends Roses to Fainting Female Prof by Scott Ott (2005-01-18) -- Harvard University President Lawrence Summers today sent a dozen roses to MIT biology professor Nancy Hopkins

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(Howling Ether News Service, Washington, D.C.) The National Conference of Catholic Bishops has filed suit in Federal District Court to force the government to abide by the First Amendment’s “freedom of religion” clause. The bishops' lawyer, Eustachian Hazmat, described the action as “an attempt to have the third most ignored clause in the Bill of Rights given the recognition it deserves”.

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Someone new to me (via The Anchoress) has a great idea for a counter-inaugural demonstration. Jim at The Sundries Shack proposes Hold Your Breath and Turn Blue Day!Here’s how it works. On the day of the inauguration, find the nearest person to you who voted for the President. Once you get their attention, start holding your breath until you turn blue and pass out. See, that’ll reinforce your “

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It’s everywhere. Yesterday the clerk at Ekerd’s asked me if I’d like to contribute to tsunami relief (via UNICEF). This morning at Mass there was a special collection for the Catholic Bishops Relief Fund (in addition to the regular annual collection next week). You’ll be glad to know that this huge, world-wide out-pouring of assistance is well in hand by the “UN Relief Council's coordinating

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J'accuse Ass is an irregular department. It recognizes a public accusation, complaint, insinuation, alarm, or whining notable for its arrogance, irrelevance, spite, stridency, obtuseness, or mendacity. The humorless scolds are on the march, braying as they come. Affordable-housing consultants and other true believers of all ages and “an encyclopedia of causes are expected to descend on

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No Oil for Pacifists passes this along. I can't resist quoting it, too. Enjoy hearing someone wise up one of those smug, benighted, enlightened know-it-alls who can’t see over the top of his prejudices. At the end of a meeting, one of Varifrank's Euro-weenie business associates opines "See, this is why George Bush is so dumb . . . There’s a disaster in the world and he sends an Aircraft Carrier

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Stanley Kurtz at NRO’s Corner has a couple of notes on the shape of media to come. It may surprise you that he sees the MSM being trapped in a vicious spiral toward greater liberal bias, because of the internal contradictions of capitalism. According to a Business Week cover story, Kurtz writes, the New York Times is in a financial downturn. There are a variety of factors at play, but the

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Over at Loose Canon on Beliefnet, Charlotte Hayes posted a long consideration of whether the US should ever use torture (“A Tortured Debate: Gonzales on the Spit”, 6Jan05). The vent tube (aka the comment sidebar) started throbbing, and an Australian with the handle of Fromoz recalled how he had loved things American since he was a child longing to visit the places mentioned in Beach Boys songs.

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One night as we were proofing page paste-ups of our college paper, another SEA vet and I were chatting about napalm. A rather wussy undergrad on the other side of the table said primly “Ya know, guys, that’s not the most pleasant topic of conversation”. To which we replied, “Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it.” Same for torture. Another story. There were a couple of engineering students,

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Iowahawk was kind enough to mention Logomachon and add me to his blog roll:For a dose of straight thinking from a Catholic perspective, you are also encouraged to pay a visit to Logomachon. I’m a little puzzled by the “Catholic perspective”, since I don’t try to emphasize it—and certainly don’t usually claim to speak for anyone but myself. On the other hand, I do think that a Catholic

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Michelle Malkin goes ballistic over lefty misrepresentations of her position on internment of Japanese in 1942 and Muslims in America today. The links will keep me reading all morning. She builds her post around attacks on Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes and left-wing charges that that he “has fond visions of rounding up Muslim Americans and putting them in concentration camps”. Pipes

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Office supply mart Staples advertises "Yeah . . . we got that!", but John Moore at Useful Fools knows something that they don't get (see "Staples to Learn about Blogs - The Hard Way".According to The Washington Post, Staples has cravenly given in to a radical left movement to silence dissenting opinion. In doing so, they have also shown a dangerous lack of understanding of the blogosphere and the

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J'accuse Ass is an irregular department. It recognizes a public accusation, complaint, insinuation, alarm, or whining notable for its arrogance, irrelevance, spite, stridency, obtuseness, or mendacity. President Bush announced yesterday a tenfold increase in emergency aid to stricken areas of Asia, bringing the federal government's commitment to $350 million, and he said the United States

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A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on--Charles Haddon SpurgeonA lie can be all over the Internet before the Truth has booted up its ISP.--LogomachonThe Vatican often takes an "even-handed" approach regarding Israel versus the Jordanian castoffs (aka, the Judean Arabs), but it seemed to have outdone itself when Catholic World News reported that the Vatican's newspaper

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Amid all the reports this Christmas holiday season of the excesses of extreme secularists, the deaths of 100,000 people by tsunamis have brought a heartening indication that spirituality is still strong among, of all people, the intelligentsia. Author Simon Winchester writes in the New York Times that This year just ending - which the all-too-seismically-aware Chinese will remind us has been

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Steven Vincent at In the Red Zone continues to offer new and fresh insights on developments in Iraq. Recent posts have discussed some unsettling indications that interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi’s campaign strategy may be to form a Shia-Sunni alliance aiming to bring back a “Saddam lite” authoritarian regime. Part of the motivation is to make Iraq strong enough to resist Iranian moves

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Whew! It looks like that asteroid won’t hit in 2029. Fortunately, new data were uncovered in old observations before some senator could start a Federal program centered in his state or hold hearings blaming Donald Rumsfeld. (h/t to Jerry Pournelle) Of course, since the probability of a collision was no more than 2.7% with the initial data, it’s no big improvement, so there is NO REASON TO

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Nine years ago, Colin was four and being fussy at Mass on the Sunday after Christmas, the Feast of the Holy Family. As the reading of the Epistle began, I sat him on my lap and tried to calm or distract him, only half listening to the passage from Colossians 3:18-21:18-Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 19-Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against

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In the Red Zone (ITRZ) publishes a confidential State Department memo, a proposal to give Iraqis a sitcom to “counter the effects of Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabia.” The idea is to use alternative media to reduce tensions between Shia and Sunnis. The set-up for "My Son the Shia," is that Abu Dulaimy, head imam of an ultra-orthodox Wahhabi mosque in Falluja, sends his son Ahmed off to engineering

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Yes, the election is over, but that doesn't mean we can't enjoy a bit of snarky gossip you can dine out on for the New Year. I have to protect my source, so I will just say he is a friend and a trustworthy eye-witness. The lacrosse squad at a major, academically top-hole East coast university has scouting reports going back to . . . oh, the Medes and the Persians. Before the election, the

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I recently cast a cold eye on Becca Hutchinson’s complaint that drivers in Newark, DE, don’t show proper consideration for her when she rides her bike to work. My impatience with her didn’t arise just from her bad writing and the fact that she sounds like a humorless scold who wants everyone else to change because she feels unhappy. Based on my own experience, I believe her problem is the

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A case study in thinking locally and acting globallyWhat do you think of when you get on a bike? That it is a ”noble form of transport” that makes you less selfish than motorists? Whatever you are thinking, you can’t be more lofty-minded than Becca Hutchinson, for whom cycling to work is a way “to save the world or improve myself” or ““to make a statement about saving the Alaskan wilds or

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Just when you thought that AIDS would be best story about Arafat's death--after the mere fact of it--the ever reliable Little Green Footballs places Rachel's parents at the head of the line of suspects: motive and opportunity; the means may always be a mystery. (hat tip to the Corner) Geo-politically, AIDS would be better. The Jordan would run white from the frothing mouths of the Judean

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Earlier, I noted the excerpts from Steven Vincent's In the Red Zone at NRO and repeated my belief that the US had missed an opportunity by not making the Iraqis take responsibility for Saddam, acknowledge that he had oppressed and humiliated them, and accept that America had rescued them when they could not help themselves. In a word, we should have “rubbed their faces in it”. The NRO series

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I just reread my previous post. It occurred to me that there are probably people who--if they were on those e-mail lists--would read about the generals serving chow and would scoff "Oh, that's nothing. One night! That's no big deal." They are right. It is no big deal. But can you think of any general in history (maybe U.S. Grant) who realized it is "nothing". Those senior officers and NCOs

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The media made a big fuss about SP4 Jery Wilson's asking Donald Rumsfeld why his Guard unit had to scrounge armor for their Humvees. "Speaking truth to power" was the immediate reporter's cliché. They seemed to think he had gotten away with something, and were also surprised that he had gotten away with it. I wasn't surprised on either count. MSM journalists and the class-conscious liberal

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Elizabeth came home from college for Thanksgiving using "shotgun" as a transitive verb: "I shotgun the last piece of cake". I'd like to shotgun that usage. “Dibs” was good enough for us in our day; kids got no respect. She and her friends do use "shotgun" in the standard slang way as a noun for the front passenger seat and as an--I don't know what, exclaimation?--to claim the seat: "SHOTGUN!

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The left’s LOL practice of referring to itself as a “reality-based community” went to ROFL after the election as it complained that a close (2.98%) loss was one more heartless abusive blow to their self-esteem and oh-by-the-way the end of the world. The Democrats think Kerry lost because they just somehow didn’t quite understand red states. But they are wrong. It isn't just one thing. If

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On 15 November I wrote The Iraqi attitudes that Americans find most incomprehensible--not to say idiotic--are the anger and blame that Iraqis direct against the US for invading their country. They're glad Saddam is gone. They acknowledge that his henchmen, or worse, will prevail if we leave. As though to confirm every suspicion we have had about Muslims' tenuous connection to reality, they say

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It is front page news that some reservists at a Q&A with defense secretary Rumsfeld told him that they were about to move into Iraq without proper armor both for their vehicles and themselves. It has also made headlines that the questions were set up by an imbedded reporter, who did not reveal his part in his own story of the Q&A. [Ed. But, but ... I thought it was going to be a GREAT day when

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…doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:Ask the individual to smile.Ask him or her to raise both arms. Ask the person to speak a simple sentence. If he or she has trouble with any of these tasks, call 9-1-1 immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher. There are some e-mails going about the Internet offering this advice. My first thought

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With Hegelian irony, the PC exclusion of religious references from a Christmas Holiday Parade of Lights may help the Boy Scouts defend themselves against the homosexual aggression. Michelle Malkin reports that her Operation Lump of Coal has had some success. However, sponsors of Denver's "Parade of Lights", i.e., Christmas parade, are still refusing to allow participation by church groups and

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How is it, I asked myself, that in all the terabytes burned about GWB in the last year, no one has thought of "Dubya-MD"? It was almost a relief to find that it did occur to a few people. Curiously, almost all the Google hits are in song parodies. Apparently, only liberals with extra high verbal aptitudes were able to tumble onto such an obvious pun. Given the problems liberals have with

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Heavenly Father, we thank You for all Your blessings this year, for our successes and for the strength to bear up under adversities. We thank You for our family, for our friends, for our community, and for our countrymen. Their service and sacrifice through the centuries have made Your loving promise a reality for us: to them we owe the bounteous comfort and opportunity that we enjoy as

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A paradigmatic moment occurred election night on NPR that shows that Republicans and Democrats don’t just check off different lines on the ballot. They live in different countries, if not in different universes. Scott Simon interviewed two women in Milwaukee, long-time friends, at their regular ladies’ bowling night. One had voted for George Bush. The other had not. The Bush voter said that

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The usually excellent Kerry Spot at NRO recommends this balderdash to us:I also think there is something to this assessment of Democratic leaders' cultural divide from red state voters:One veteran Democratic strategist, Clinton White House political director Doug Sosnik, sums up the answer in one word: Applebee’s. For Sosnik, the chain of modestly priced restaurants (more than 1,600 in 49

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Jay Tea at Wizbang writes “In praise of civilian casualties”. He doesn’t really lust for civilian deaths. His point is that over-sensitivity is counter-productive. His argument is that once the NGO jihadists find that we will grant them a zone of sanctuary if they hide among civilians, they will do it all the time, ultimately causing more American and civilian deaths. He points to what

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by Kerry's loss, but I think W drove this guy batty long ago. Anyway, he sent a letter to John Derbyshire at NRO's The Corner: GLOAT, and watch your pretend Teddy ride up the mound of civilian corpses he thinks of as San Fallujah Hill. Gloat, and see suicidal economic policies precipitate the worst economic dislocation in 75 years. Gloat and enjoy the spectacle of a faith that imagines

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Today, Veterans' Day, is also the feast day of St. Martin of Tours (316-397), who was a veteran of the Roman army. Wouldn't this further evidence of the great Christian Anti-Constitutional Jihad Conspiracy just curl Maureen Dowd's toes!In his early years, when his father, a military tribune, was transferred to Pavia in Italy, Martin accompanied him thither, and when he reached adolescence was,

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Fox News reportsIsraeli on Wednesday approved a Palestinian plan to bury Arafat at his sandbagged West Bank headquarters, known as the Muqata, in Ramallah. Palestinians want to turn it into a shrine, defusing a potential conflict with Israel by dropping a demand for a Jerusalem burial.Yeah. Israel said the only way Arafat's corpse would be allowed into Jerusalem was dragged behind a tank and

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Over at NRO and Free Republic ("Vietnam Vets--WE HAVE WON!!!"---(Welcome Home!!!)) they're getting a little high on the new même: Kerry's defeat is the homecoming parade the Vietnam vets never had. Well, second, Ronald Reagan shamed the country into having a bunch of shamed-faced welcome-home parades. First, Kerry's defeat is a good thing for the Republic. Thanks to the Swifties and everyone

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I think I have a clue in the hunt for Osama bin Laden. The sports equipment bag I've had on back order arrived yesterday from Pakistan. Inside was a bag of white powder and a Kerry-Edwards bumper sticker.

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Did you know John Kerry said this, as he attended Ronald Reagan’s interment in California?This moment in Simi Valley is a moment of truth. Not just for my campaign, but for the future of my party as well. For some of us, this may be our only chance to confirm the demise of the man who is solely responsible for turning the American people away from liberal philosophy. As Democrats, we need to

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Captain Ed has the links and the latest word about the 380 tons of of HMX and RDX supposedly looted from the Latifiyah Explosives and Ammunition Plant at al Qaqaa: not only did US forces investigate and secure the area, most of the material removed long before US troops arrived and the figure for the amount of HMX and RDX was probably off a bit, by a factor of 100. By January 2003 there were

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The other day upon the stair I saw a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t here again today. Gee, I wish he’d go away. John Kerry ran for President on the basis of a “tour in Vietnam”, but for two-thirds of the tour he wasn’t there . He got Purple Hearts for wounds that weren’t there. He got a medal for braving enemy fire that wasn’t there. He wrote after-action reports, but the civilians he killed

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The new Bush/Cheney ad that is getting so much buzz is playing on TV here in Pennsylvania. See Wolves at the Bush/Cheney Web site. My thought when I saw it was “I want more wolves” . I like wolves. Wolves are definitely free-market Republicans. They have strong family values, believe in competition and coöperation, and kill the weak to feed their young. I used to tell my kids that wolves

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From an e-mail: The Presbyterian Church USA has started a campaign to disinvest from companies that sell equipment used in the bulldozing, dynamitings, and other crimes committed by Sharon in the Israeli-occupied territories. . . . The leftie-sanctions lobby has finally got the nerve to put the Likud/Israel in the category of Apartheid South Africa. The money impact is irrelevant, but the

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The other day a friend told me of a bumper sticker he had seen: If You Can Read This, You’re Not My President.Kinda clever, but it doesn’t tell us much about George Bush. The Democrats say that about nearly all Republicans. And they believe it. Really. No matter what else they believe. No matter what else they say. Just about every Republican presidential candidate that I can remember—that

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Logomachon is starting to get some traffic, small but steady. I appreciate it. Please use the comments or an e-mail to let me know what you think, even if you are just agreeing with a post . . . even if you are a relative. Amplifications, disagreements, whatever, are always welcome. Thanks, Seán No oil for pacifists.

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This post is a bit personal. Maybe the parts don’t have any connection, except that they happened to me. Richard Kerry, John Kerry's father, was a disgruntled career State Department counsel. In 1990 he published his summa, The Star-Spangled Mirror. It has recently been republished with an extended subtitle: The Star-Spangled Mirror: A Father's Legacy Shapes John Kerry's Worldview. Here

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Useful Fools points out this nonsense, reported on Yahoo:NEW YORK (AFP) - Human Rights Watch listed the names of 11 senior Al-Qaeda suspects it said were held by the CIA in secret locations overseas, where some had reportedly been tortured. The suspects were detained with no notification to their families, no Red Cross access and, in some cases, no acknowledgement that they are even being held,

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Flip-flop John from Armentières, parlez vous Flip-flop John from Armentières, parlez vous Flip-flop John from Armentières, He ain?t been right in 30 years. Hinky-dinky, parlez vous. Ted Cruz at NRO fleshes out how wrong John "Band of Mongols" Kerry has been. He has:Met with the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese, then pushed their "peace proposal" and propaganda Carried Vietnamese Communists'

logomachonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248278895880152077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152431.post-1097172368752204632004-10-07T13:47:00.000-04:002004-10-07T14:06:08.753-04:00

Stanley Kurtz at NRO reports that "a climate of fear" is affecting Republicans around the country. Theyare afraid to put Bush-Cheney bumper stickers on their cars, or signs on their lawns, for fear of physical retaliation from angry liberals. The problem is not symmetrical . . . . Stickers and signs for Kerry are widespread in Republican neighborhoods. Yet even in their own communities,

logomachonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248278895880152077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152431.post-1096234053049783952004-09-26T17:26:00.000-04:002004-09-27T16:29:55.756-04:00

What does John F. Kerry’s middle initial stand for? Flip-flop? François? Why be consistent? Let’s use both in a song. A discussion on the American Dialect Society listserv of Mademoiselle from Amentières gave me the idea. Flip-flop John from Armentières! Think of the possibilities. For instance:Flip-flop John from Armentières, parlez vous Flip-flop John from Armentières, parlez vous

logomachonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248278895880152077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152431.post-1096228251840002582004-09-26T15:48:00.000-04:002004-09-26T18:08:14.293-04:00

From an e-mail:He throws away someone else's medals. He drives someone else's SUV. He marries someone else's wife and inherits someone else's money. And he always ends up advocating someone else's foreign policy. I think we should all vote for him to go be president of someone else's country.

logomachonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248278895880152077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152431.post-1095758221486410242004-09-21T10:02:00.000-04:002004-10-09T00:44:44.100-04:00

Logomachon booted from the rally, Makes young girl cry Washington, D.C. 12 September) The rally was in North Senate Park, on the North side of Independence Ave. as it goes up Capitol Hill, just opposite Union Station, where I got off the subway. I was four blocks from where I went to high school. As I walked into the rally, a man in a blazer (the only one I saw off the podium) came up and said

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"Bush's go-it-alone approach has cost billions of dollars that could have been spent on jobs, schools, and health care"--Kerry campaign. Wait a minute. Does this mean Kerry wants to increase transfer payments and the Federal take-over of the economy even more than Bush, to the tune of $200 billion? What about the deficit? How does spending money on "jobs, schools, and health care" run up the

logomachonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248278895880152077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152431.post-1095708266748827972004-09-20T15:22:00.000-04:002004-09-26T17:56:32.630-04:00

Don't try to improve on the delectable. From NRO’s Kerry spotAny Democrat could have done pretty well this year--and would be doing better than Kerry’s doing now--by arguing, “Mr. President, you bet the house on what seemed like a safe bet at the time, that we were going to find WMDs in Iraq. You made your bet, and you came up empty. Now our nation’s credibility is shot, and the buck stops with

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The Vietnam Veterans for the Truth has "A message from the children of Vietnam Vets about John Kerry". It's a video that hits just the right tone. At the Kerry Lied rally on 12 September, Dexter Lehtinen said that John Kerry stole our war, and now he is trying to turn his war into out war. But everyone gets the war he deserves. The video reminds us that John Kerry's lies stole from the

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