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April 21, 2021
St. Vincent Island needs your helpAs many of you might have read, the tiny nation of St. Vincent & the Grenadines is suffering from the effects of volcanic action in the north part of the island of St. Vincent — about 1/5 of its inhabitants (20...
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January 29, 2021
Thanks, President Trump and Governor DeSantisWell, I got me a COVID-19 shot yesterday courtesy of two strong men, President Donald John Trump and Governor Ronald Dion DeSantis. It was easy; painless; and, in a word, miraculous. Think of it: just eight months after...
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July 15, 2020
Cancel Culture is a Mighty Tool of Fascism's AdvanceThose of us of a certain age remember those grainy, black-and-white films we were shown in school of a spreading ink stain or the tentacles of a giant octopus that represented Communism spreading over Europe and heading our way. Today the advancin...
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July 1, 2020
Black civil rights attorney Leo Terrell announces his support for the re-election of Donald TrumpUpdate: See Civil Rights attorney Leo Terrell is being ostracized for supporting Trump This is a big deal. Many of us who have listened to or watched Fox News over the years are familiar with civil rights attorney Leo Terrell. I alwa...
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January 11, 2020
Can Bloomberg buy a brokered Democrat convention?The days of smoke-filled rooms populated by horse-trading pols picking a party's presidential nominee lie generations in the past, but an analogue (absent smoke, of course) is likely to occur when Democrats conv...
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November 27, 2019
Impeachment ain't happening. Look at the mathAmidst the hue and cry and clutter surrounding the impeachment fiasco, one clear obstacle stands out: time. There just isn't enough time — as in congressional working days — on the calendar to get the job done before the ca...
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November 7, 2019
The Democrats’ Nomination is Hillary's to LoseBe afraid, be very afraid. Barring some serious event in her life, Hillary Clinton likely will be nominated for President of the United States by the Democrat party in mid-July next year. “Ridiculous,” you say. “Why, ...
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October 4, 2019
Hillary's going to get inIt is no longer a matter of if, but of when. All doubts about Hillary's 2020 plans should have been erased by her appearances this week promoting the book that she and her daughter "wrote," to say nothing about her mien!...
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September 16, 2019
What have the Houthis wrought?The weekend attack on the Saudi oil refinery may well be looked back at as a true hinge moment in history, for it represents the first time a world power, Iran, through its agents in Yemen*, struck another world power with large numbers of drones in ...
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September 2, 2019
Red Flag Laws: Caveat EmptorIt's September, and that means Congress soon will return, bringing with it the grandstanding, posturing, and pontificating on such matters as who is dangerous, who is at risk for being mass casualty shooters, and on the procurement, possession, a...
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August 21, 2019
Trump's Wrong about the Mental Health SituationMuch as it pains me to say it, President Trump is dead wrong about the issue of mental illness in the wake of mass shootings, stating that long-stay psychiatric hospitals, which are necessary for those with intents to harm themselves or others,...
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August 16, 2019
Did Israeli F-35s overfly Iran?In listening to an interview given by Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, I was surprised to hear him casually say (at 5:10): "Israel flew F-35...
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July 2, 2019
Trump as Alexander the GreatIt has been averred that "throughout his military career, Alexander won every battle that he personally commanded." Donald J. Trump, on the other hand, has made billions; lost and owed billions; made more billions; won ...
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November 24, 2017
I echo BellocJoseph Claire Pierre René Belloc, an Anglo-French writer and historian, wrote tellingly and presciently in 1938 about the then-quiescent Islamic Movement (hat tip: Blazing Cat Fur): Millions of modern people of the white civiliz...
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November 13, 2017
Stuff and nonsense: Clarity on Judge Roy MooreAs has often been the case, our friends at Powerline have again separated the wheat from the chaff in the fantastical Judge Moore tale created last week by the same publication that destroyed George Allen's presidential dreams...
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August 31, 2017
Houston's 'Cajun Navy,' brilliantly profiledThe most remarkable fact about the horrible events in Texas was the minimal loss of life and of storm-related injuries. Much credit goes to the long advance warning, early and near total evacuations of "Ground Zero" residents, other p...
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July 16, 2017
Our Significant Insignificance: The Universe and UsWhat is man, that thou art mindful of him? - Psalm 8:4 Every once in a while an article comes along that reminds us of our insignificance in the grand scope of the Universe and that at the same time prompts us to think of the significance of o...
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April 23, 2017
Lord Palmerston, Assad, and Others: Time to Get RealI am becoming increasingly frustrated by the idiocy of the obsession by seemingly everyone with Russia and Putin and with Syria and Assad. It's nutty (to put it in intellectual terms). There ar bigger, and more dangerous, fish to fr...
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December 28, 2016
Time for a new treaty with IsraelThe perfidy of President Obama's actions thru the United Nations last week admits of a deed that would foreclose the possibility of such actions ever being repeated: an Israel-America Relations Treaty. With the exception of the “FRIENDSH...
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December 13, 2016
Lt. Colonel West and General MattisFrom the day it broke some thirteen years ago, I have had a real problem coming to grips with with the Allen West story. I mean, how does it happen that a battalion commander would decide, with criminal intent aforethought, to interpose himself...
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October 25, 2016
Hillary, Trump and PutinDonald Trump gets Valdimir Putin in a way that neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton does. Syria is Assad's, and it will remain Assad's so long as Putin (and his successors) will it to be Assad's. Putin will allow neither ISIS nor t...
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September 24, 2016
Trump should raise the bet with Hillary and callI see Team Hillary is giving attention-hog Mark Cuban a front row seat at the debate to "troll" Obama's likely successor. When Donald Trump takes the stage on Monday night's prime-time presidential debate, one of the few faces ...
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September 18, 2016
Hillary’s [photshopped] body doubleI wrote recently about the possibility that Hillary Clinton has a "Body Double." I should not have so written, for I was misled by photo-shopped images, and I, in turn, misled readers of these pages and others. Therefore, I extend a d...
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September 15, 2016
Hillary’s body double: Am I nuts, or what?I remember that old saw: "just because you're paranoid that don't mean they're not out to getcha." Well, just because it's an internet meme, that don't mean Hillary ain't got a body double. I viewed the video a...
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May 5, 2016
Leaping lemmings!Paraphrasing Abba Eban, the GOP seemingly never misses an opportunity to inflict harm on itself. Or, as Golda Meir might have put it, “the GOP will never find success until it loves its base as much as it hates the true leaders of that ba...
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April 19, 2016
Churchill and TrumpNotwithstanding the saving of much if its army during the evacuation of Dunkirk and its surviving the Battle of Britain the previous year, in late June of 1941, the United Kingdom was without a major ally in its fight against Nazi aggression. T...
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April 16, 2016
Trump’s The OneThis year’s singularly perverse presidential race -- on both sides -- perfectly illustrates Mr. Dooley’s observation that “Politics ain’t beanbag.” In fact, in almost makes action in the Roman Coliseum seem gentle ...
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April 14, 2015
GOP Should Boycott <em>Face the Nation</em>Ed Driscoll at PJ Media has put up a disturbing if not unsurprising piece about the replacement for the doddering old fool presently presiding over some obscure and almost unwatched Sunday Show: John Dickerson, replacing Bob Schieffer as the new h...
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March 11, 2015
The voice from the riverFrom their testimony, four people heard a voice asking for help that compelled them to search an overturned, half-submerged vehicle in search of the source of that voice, and when they searched the vehicle, they found the voiceless, dead body of a yo...
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February 22, 2015
God Save Us From The ChurchesWhilst I no longer confess the faith of my younger days, I’m certain that I’m not smart enough to be, or to call myself, either an atheist or an agnostic. But I am also certain that I am smart enough to have lost all faith in the Chris...
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January 26, 2015
Kerry the parodistMr. Obama’s (and our) secretary of state (who, by the way, served in Vietnam), has declared that the Administration is managing numerous, simultaneous crises “far more effectively – Ukraine, other things – than people are pron...
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December 20, 2014
About Obama's SonStephen Miller has an incomparably funny piece at Ricochet on the little feller what lives between them Big Ears: In an... interview…. Barack reached into the upstairs White House bedroom of his mind and called upon his famous imaginary s...
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November 29, 2014
About Them There Four HoursThe St. Louis (Mo.) grand jury rightly refused to indict Officer Darren Wilson of any criminal charges in the death of Mr. Mike Brown, but the Department of Justice and the family’s lawyers might pursue civil charges à la the O.J. Simpso...
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October 10, 2014
Ebola and Hazmat Suits: Do the NumbersMany news reports predict that there will be more than a million people infected with Ebola in West Africa alone by year’s end. Joel Achenbach, Lena H. Sun and Brady Dennis report in the Washington Post: The number of Ebo...
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September 27, 2014
Courage and Honor in the Benghazi BattlesIf you’re looking for a compelling read you need look no further than the tale told by the “Shooters” of their fights to rescue, defend, and evacuate the survivors of the 2012 Benghazi assaults. It is an extraordinary and excitin...
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July 30, 2014
Other Perspectives on GazaIf you think you understand what’s going on in Gaza, think again. At least, that’s what I had to do after listening to a week’s worth of podcasts of the John Batchelor Show. Batchelor aired for several days from Jerusalem, ...
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July 30, 2014
Obama's Shameless SupportersIt would be, indeed, meet to ask "Have you no shame?" of the fawners (sometimes secretly) assembled to listen and donate to the inappropriately-jocular Clown-of-the-United-States (COTUS). Mr. Obama’s appalling joke-telling immediat...
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July 27, 2014
Begging for Some Enlightenment for Our Questionable PresidentThere I was, listening to the radio whilst happily working in my shop, when the voice of the "the smartest president ever" abruptly interrupted my felicitude. "The separatists," it said, “are removing evidence from the...
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February 2, 2014
Not so fast, there, Meryl StreepDid you know that that Uncle Walt Disney was a misogynistic Jew-hater? I didn't either until Meryl Streep informed me and the rest of the world of those purported facts the other day at one of those gatherings where the glitterati touch eac...
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January 4, 2014
Did Susan Rice Really Lie?Maybe that Mohammed video did, in fact, play a part in last year's attack on the Special Mission Compound in Benghazi after all. Most of the detractors of the serving of tripe dished out by the Times over last weekend believe that its author, Davi...
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November 27, 2013
A Shot across Hillary's BowRecently I wrote about some of the consequences arising from the airing of the 60 Minutes piece of fiction on Benghazi that starred Lara Logan and Dylan Davies (AKA Morgan Jones.). Since that was published, Lara Logan and producer Max McClellan...
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November 26, 2013
Dizzying Benghazigate DevelopmentsWhen one walks through the woods and picks up a dead log, two things usually happen -- myriad strange creatures scatter about, and, often, the log crumbles. A similar thing occurred a few weeks ago when the 60 Minutes piece of fiction on Benghazi ...
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November 16, 2013
How Best to Help the PhilippinesSuper typhoon Yolanda was the strongest storm in recorded history, and the devastation it wrought in the Visayan Islands is almost beyond comprehension. However, the entire Republic of the Philippines has been hard hit, economically, by the ...
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September 22, 2013
No Benghazigate Answers HereOne would think that a book that claims to tell "The Untold "Story of the Attack in Benghazi" would factually tell that story. Well, as is often said, "One would be wrong." The book reads like a novel, and that may be because the authors, Fr...
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September 4, 2013
An Obama Fairytale for Our TimeIn the manner that the late Andy Rooney often introduced his commentary on maters great and small, permit me to say, "I don't know about you, but this story about the 'Walk on the White House Grounds' seems to be a pretty implausible one." The myt...
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August 16, 2013
Chasing SquirrelsWe may never know what was going on in Benghazi before last year's event there, but despite the much-hyped interview given yesterday by Joe DiGenova, the CIA almost certainly was not shipping U. S. SAMs or SAMs of any kind to Syria: [DiGenova is] a...
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August 7, 2013
CNN Answers No QuestionsI wrote recently about the peek CNN's Jake Tapper took into that dark room wherein the Obama Administration and its allies in the MSM have consigned the Benghazigate Scandal, and CNN followed that up Tuesday with a one-hour special. The re-run of ...
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August 6, 2013
Raising More Benghazigate QuestionsJake Tapper peeked recently into that dark room wherein the Obama Administration and its allies in the MSM have consigned the Benghazigate Scandal. Tapper's was the first and only major report to appear in the MSM, and CNN will air a special on...
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August 4, 2013
Tapper Peeks into BenghazigateCNN's Jake Tapper peeked over the transom of that dark room into which the MSM has swept the Benghazigate scandal, but that peek was just a small blessing for which we should just give small thanks. His report was not an investigation, and m...
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July 14, 2013
Quote of the night after Zimmerman verdictOne moment spoke louder than others when prosecution and defense legal teams faced the media and responded to questions. Defense lawyer O'Mara was asked if he thought Judge Nelson was fair, and West rolled his eyes and looked away. A reporter not...
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June 9, 2013
Calming Views of SpygateThe conservative blogosphere is aflame about PRISM, data-mining, and every aspect of NSA's surveillance, and, perhaps, it should be. However, two of the most intelligent, powerful, impeccably-qualified, and level-headed voices of the Right are tell...
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June 7, 2013
President Photoshop?Two puzzling photos that do not bear close scrutiny were published in 2010 on the mybarackobama.com campaign website, adding further mystery to the man who left surprisingly few documented footprints in the sands of time as he came to adulthood. Re...
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June 4, 2013
Dumb and DumberOf all of George W. Bush's many accomplishments, the greatest is that he got reelected in 2004 saving us from a John Kerry presidency. Kerry may not be the dumbest senator and/or presidential candidate ever, but I can't think of anyone of either clas...
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June 3, 2013
Dr. Grijalva Explains it all for YouEvery now and again Democrats do something so dumb that we are given hope that the "Stupid Party" crown will finally relocate itself to its proper place. Well, Arizona Democrat Rep. Raul Grijalva has done such a thing now with the production of a vi...
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April 20, 2013
His Father's SonLike many, I was disappointed when Chris Wallace was chosen to succeed the late Tony Snow as moderator of Fox News Sunday. Boy, was I wrong! Not only did Wallace prove to be extremely competent, but he also was not the liberal shill I feared ...
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April 20, 2013
His Father's SonLike many, I was disappointed when Chris Wallace was chosen to succeed the late Tony Snow as moderator of Fox News Sunday. Boy, was I wrong! Not only did he prove to be extremely competent, but he also was not the liberal shill I feared he woul...
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April 18, 2013
A 'Rag Tag Bunch' Strikes GoldFrequent AT contributor Jack Cashill has produced a great piece at WND about the Martin/Zimmerman fiasco and the work that the "Rag Tag Bunch of Conservative Misfits" at The Conservative Treehouse has done to uncover the truth about "Trayvon." ...
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April 8, 2013
Off CourseAs ex-Speaker Pelosi inelegantly forecast, now that Obamacare is law, we are learning what is in it, including substantial opportunities for identity theft. Our eyes and sensibilities are being burned regularly as the many layers of that odious ...
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January 24, 2013
Hillary vs. Rand PaulI was unavailable to watch most of the farcical testimony given today by Mrs. Clinton, but I did catch the exchange with Sen. Rand Paul near the end, and it is fascinating, not only for the content of the exchange, but primarily for the look on her f...
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January 13, 2013
Urgent: Disable Java on Your ComputerIf you have not yet seen or acted upon Homeland Security's warning, I urge you to do so immediately: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is advising people to temporarily disable the Java software on their computers to avoid potential hacking...
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January 9, 2013
Benghazigate: The Cover-Up ContinuesFrom the start, almost everything that we were originally and "officially" told by the Obama Administration about the Benghazigate "event" was false (i.e., a lie) or misleading or inadequate. And now that the sole suspect held in the attack has been ...
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December 29, 2012
Why We Fight - Why We Must FightThe inimitable Barry Rubin has done it again. He has taken a very sharp scalpel and exquisitely and painfully flayed the skin off of the world's worst purveyor of conventional faux wisdom, the annoying and boring Thomas L. Friedman (as our frie...
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December 29, 2012
Once Again Into the BreachSo, The One has summoned the leaders of Congress again. To what end? Mitch McConnell like many others thinks that the Democrats are delaying things unnecessarily---The Washington Times has the video here. In one of the most egregious ...
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December 20, 2012
Free Jon Hammar...by All MeansI use "By All Means" in its idiomatic sense, "Without Fail," and it its literal sense, "By Use of All Available Methods." For the incarceration of former Marine Sergeant Jon Hammar is an outrage to America and to all Americans that must not be ...
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December 4, 2012
Amanpour's Israel Special: What Could Go Wrong?The liberal media bastion, ABC, has announced that its zealously-impartial controversial global affairs anchor, Christiane Amanpour, will host a series on the history of Israel. What next, Charles Manson to host a series on Hollywood starlets? Breit...
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November 30, 2012
A Firm Voice and a Strong ArgumentThe voice of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is one of the Senate's firmest, particularly on matters judicial and fiscal, and one of the sharpest thorns pricking the sides of the Senate's Democrats. And that is doubtless intentional, for he is in t...
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November 29, 2012
Benghazigate: A Few Questions RemainTeam Obama and its allies in the media are quite happy to see the debate on the events in Benghazi focus on Ambassador Susan Rice, because the real questions at issue are thereby obscured and, hence, remain unasked and unanswered. The basic journalis...
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November 23, 2012
Middle East omelette makingHaving found themselves faced with a basket of broken eggs, Bibi Netanyahu, Barack Obama, and Mohammed Morsi decided, to paraphrase Anthony Eden, to make the best omelet each could from their individual shares. That seems to be the conclusion reached...
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November 21, 2012
Where's the Outrage (Gaza Atrocity Edition)Hamas savages execute six "collaborators" and drag the body of one through the streets of Gaza, and the world press is indignant mostly silent. Bob Dole cried out about that same press in 1996: Bob Dole implored his audiences today to ''rise up'' ag...
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November 17, 2012
Rahmbo: Modern day 'Sun King'We all remember learning that Louis XIV thought very highly of himself, (although, there appears to be some doubt that he ever said, "L'État, c'est moi"). However, it looks like Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel fancies his own self as a modern-day Su...
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November 17, 2012
More Liberal IntoleranceOur friends at Powerline have a couple of great pieces up today. The first, by John Hinderaker, is about Kim Kardashian. Kim Kardashian!? If you know who Kim Kardashian is, you probably don't have a very high opinion of her. I know more th...
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November 14, 2012
Obama PokerThis week, GOPers will again be sitting down to another game of "Obama Poker." This is not the kind of poker with which we are all familiar -- you know, the one wherein the person being "called" must show his hand first. In Obama Poker, the bet...
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November 11, 2012
A Whale of a TaleProject Orca, Team Romney's whale-sized plan to get out the vote, was a whale-sized failure, and it casts a whale-sized shadow on Mr. Romney's reputation as an effective manager. This scheme required the campaign to put all of its votes, as it were, ...
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November 8, 2012
Romney's Loss and GeopoliticsAfter Midway, Japan's fate was sealed, as was Germany's after Stalingrad. Will Romney's defeat seal America's fate? Benghazigate provides a clue that provides a possible answer, in a troubling fashion, to that question, and to a number of other...
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November 5, 2012
The Benghazi Story: Mass Grave of ReputationsMaybe the anonymous "senior U.S. intelligence officials" who gave out a "detailed timeline" about the Benghazi fiasco on Thursday never heard of Healy's Law: "If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging." That is because the hole in which they found...
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November 2, 2012
Benghazi: Cui Bono?In attempting to understand the attackers in Benghazi, one might, as the Romans taught us to do in such situations, seek to answer a simple question: Cui Bono---"as a benefit to whom?" They attacked a "...half-baked operation...not a consulate....a '...
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November 1, 2012
About That 'Facility'As was noted on AT recently, a retired State Department Foreign Service Officer said: "Our Benghazi facility was a half-baked operation. It was not a consulate. It was a 'facility' with an ambiguous purpose, at least as far as the unclassified world ...
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October 30, 2012
Voices From the LabyrinthsAs has been noted on AT before, "...this blog by a retired State Department Foreign Service Officer seems a daily must read." His latest post reveals, firstly, that is now becoming clear that the Benghazi Scandal begins with the so-called "consulate"...
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October 1, 2012
Bibi's Bomb, Another Takeeditor's note: this blog wqas written by Bill Schanefelt, not William Sullivan, as accidentally first posted. Our apologies to both gentlemen. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's dramatic show-and-tell at the U. N. certainly caught everyone's attenti...
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September 16, 2012
Wyle E. Obama and His Acme AdministrationThe ineptitude and craven blathering coming out of the White House and Foggy Bottom would be funny were it not about such a deadly situation. Picture it as it might appear on Newsbusted or on one of The Onion's broadcasts: "The latest exciting ...
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September 2, 2012
Mark Shields Gets Mitch SlappedUnseen by almost everyone, mild-mannered Mitch McConnell stepped out of the phone booth the other evening as SuperMitch and delivered the most succulent and exquisite thrashing of a media hack yet delivered this election season. Leader McConnell usua...
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August 28, 2012
Barry Rubin Goes ThereTo be told that Sunni Islamism is about death---and killing---will not surprise the readers of AT or most people with above-room-temperature IQs. Sunni Islamism is about killing Joooos. It is about killing Christians. It is about...
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August 1, 2012
History you never heard of, from MSNBCAt the very end of an otherwise excellent piece on the Blitz, the insufferably smarmy Brian Williams imparted this nugget of history: "...just today, just this afternoon, not too far from here, outside one of the new Olympic venues, we happened to l...
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July 23, 2012
Costas' Brave Defiance of Olympics' PresidentI'd planned on joining Rob Miller in boycotting the Olympics in its entirety, but I'll be taping the Opening Ceremony just so I'll have a record of what happens when Bob Costas pauses for a moment of silence during the Games' opening ceremony to hono...
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July 22, 2012
The Lamps Are Going Out All Over the Islamic World.As we watch, a large chunk of humanity is slipping backward, toward something very ominous for them, and for us, too. Paul Simon's lyrics set the stage: Slip slidin' away, slip slidin' away, You know the nearer your destination, the more you'r...
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July 17, 2012
The Latent Function of Welfare Un-ReformThere has been much gnashing of teeth over the fact that the Obama Administration's recent decree on welfare reform means that practicing yoga or bed rest would count as work for purposes of admitting people to welfare rolls, but there well may be...
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July 7, 2012
Pre-Existing ConfusionIt is stunning to watch Republicans being put on the defensive time and time again by the "Pre-Existing Conditions" argument. Every word has meaning and power: The inherent power of (a) word is a phenomenon that has been both omnipresent and essenti...
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July 1, 2012
Colorado Springs Burns: Three QuestionsAs the tragedy in Colorado Springs unfolds, it is reasonable to wonder why some of the best coverage seems to come from abroad, whether or not it is wise to have a presidential visit to such on-going disasters, and if the fires are the result of arso...
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June 18, 2012
October Surprises, Pollard EditionIt is only mid-June, and we have already had many "October Surprises." First came Contraception/Abortion Edition. Sure, the Catholic bishops and conservatives were upset, but "How many divisions does the Pope have"? Hence, "Feminist...
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June 9, 2012
How Times Have ChangedMany of us remember a time in school when a girl's desk suddenly went empty. But, thanks to the left, those desks no longer are abandoned. From Wikipedia: In the common law of negligence, the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur (Latin for "the thing...
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May 31, 2012
The Bain Saga ContinuesThere will probably be no end to the Bain attacks on Romney until President Obama, admits to himself that they are not only failing but backfiring. And, if experience teaches, that is an unlikely eventuality given the arrogance and self-absorption he...
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May 30, 2012
To Bain or Not to Bain?Media pundits and advisors in both camps are unsuccessfully flailing about trying to provide an answer that will satisfy anyone. The flailer-in-chief is of course, the spokesboy-in-chief. John Hinderaker has fun with him: Earlier today, White House ...
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May 29, 2012
Factoids, Facts, and DemocratsThe droll Arkansas wit of Wesley Pruden, editor emeritus of The Washington Times, often gets one's Tuesday or Friday morning off to a good start. His amusing take on both Fauxahontas and President Obama begins: Who would have guessed that Bara...
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May 25, 2012
Obama's flummery"Phui. That is flummery." That's what Rex Stout once had Nero Wolfe interject. Well, now Marc Thiesen has so said to the Obama Camp regarding its campaign against "Private Equity" and Governor Romney in his excellent Washington Post...
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December 10, 2011
A Profile in Courage, Determination, and DedicationIt is unlikely that more than a handful of AT's readers share the opinions or politics of Christopher Hitchens. He is militantly atheistic, and two of his most notable bêtes noires are Henry Kissinger and Mother Theresa, quite a pair to draw to...
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December 8, 2011
Our troops in Afghanistan now are hostagesTo believe that the war in Afghanistan will have anything but a disastrous end is to believe in the Tooth Fairy. Or, at least, that appears to be the almost inescapable conclusion that can be drawn from a careful reading of a very thoughtful column b...
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December 5, 2011
A Government in SubmissionSubmission is the essence if not the translation of Islam. It now appears that the entire federal government is in a state of submission. John Batchelor recently interviewed Sebastian Gorka of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies on his WABC rad...
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July 7, 2011
Smartest president ever gets lost in the weedsI caught this howler of a statement from the president on a clip on Fox last night. So I did some research. "And so that mitigates against this danger that you're suggesting that our main goal is going to be to kill these individuals as ...