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The Shoe is on the Other Foot

Fouad Ajami has a piece in the WSJ about how forward and righteous it was to have protestors during the Bush Administration but now…..Obama’s Summer of Discontent The politics of charisma is so Third World. Americans were never going to … Continue reading

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Another Outrage Discovered

Where Did the American Flag Go? by Kathryn Jean Lopez The United States Mission to the United Nations has a new look online. If you check out the redesigned site, you see it’s decked out in United Nations blue, with … Continue reading

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Eugenics? Yes or No?

A Wall Street Journal article (27 August) reviewed the President’s health adviser (commonly called czars) Emanuel’s recent publication in the Lancet on health care needs. A graph showed where the relative amount of health care by age should be allocated. … Continue reading

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Senator Dodd on Obama

I didn’t see this on television, I read it on Politico.Dodd says Obama needs to ‘step up’ Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) says President Barack Obama needs to “step up” and give Congress more of a framework to work with on … Continue reading

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A Very Interesting Take on the President and his People

Neo-Neocon a very interesting blogger in her own right, has titled her post todayLamaze class and Obama: the morning after . This is what she says: Whatever could the connection be between Lamaze class and President Obama? When I was … Continue reading

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On Kennedy, From the National Review Online

Champagne Socialism Senator Edward Kennedy was, and will remain, an outstanding example of a champagne socialist. Sociologically speaking, the type has been well recognized for quite some time. Indeed, in Turgenev’s great novel, Fathers and Sons, the hero Bazarov asks … Continue reading

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Sometimes there is Good News

From the LA Times blogs there is this article by Tony Perry:Marines will not seek to reinstate charges against top officer in Haditha killings The Marine Corps has decided not to seek to reinstate criminal charges against a former battalion … Continue reading

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Let’s Not turn Loose of this Katrina crutch

I don’t want to appear less than compassionate, but….I lived in Louisiana for 30 years, I know the infrastructure there and how very political the happenings of Katrina were. And they just can’t let it go. It was Bad Boosh’s … Continue reading

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Who are The Protesters?

Obama supporters, not health care protesters, are real mobBy: Roger Abbott and Iain Murray Special to The Examiner This is run as an op-ed in the San Francisco Examiner: President Barack Obama’s supporters have marginalized upstart protesters by referring to … Continue reading

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Daschle’s Dealings

From the New York Times:Daschle Has Ear of White House and Industryby David D. Kirkpatrick Six months have passed since the morning when Tom Daschle, the former Senate Democratic leader, under fire for not paying certain taxes, called President Obama … Continue reading

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