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September 2009

Roman Polanski

I hate that I am writing about this. This is pure venting on my part. But most the world seems...

Trends in Child "Care"

I know many Democrats admire and want to emulate Europe, but I had no idea Michigan was already part of...

WaPo: Besides, Less Health Care is More!

Sometimes it's hard for us "right wingers" to keep track of the myriad ways in which we're supposed to be...

Calibrating the Tolerance-O-Meter

Via Instapundit, another mall vendor selling anti-Obama items has been evicted: Marsha Hammond, the mall's marketing director, has a different...

Gateway Pundit: Obama Spoke to US Afghan Commander *Once*

... and that was via videoconference! The military general credited for capturing Saddam Hussein and killing the leader of al-Qaeda...

An Obama Foreign Policy Rorschach Test

Look closely at this and tell me what you see (bold added): [In Monday's Telegraph] was a report "that the...

Obama and Freedom: Watch the Hips, not the Head

If that's a bit vague, it's a reference to sports like soccer, where a player can use his head, which...

UK's War Against Christians

Christian hotel owners hauled before court after defending their beliefs in discussion with Muslim guest: A Christian couple have been...

Woman gets pregnant -- while pregnant

MSNBC: Arkansas couple Todd and Julia Grovenburg found out that they were having a baby and then discovered they were...

Spanking Lowers IQ?

Time has jumped on the idea. But look a bit down in the article, and you might notice: Still, it's...

The Dog Ate My Global Warming

After years of refusing to let researchers see the temperature records on which the UN's IPCC based its assertions of...

Indoctrinating Children

BigGovernment links to a disturbing video of schoolchildren being taught to praise Barack Obama, specifically, by name. Lyrics, approximately: Mmm,...

Taxes: Who Gives? Who Gets?

Really interesting note sent to John Derbyshire (bold added): [A friend running for office in Illinois] notes... that the average...

Honduras: Zelaya: Jews Are Out to Get Me!

Via La Gringa, unhinged ravings from the guy Obama desperately wants to install as President of Honduras: TEGUCIGALPA -- It's...

Honduras: Ashamed of My Country

I love my country, but that doesn't mean I always think we do the right thing. For example, I was...

"The New Republic" is Dead

Unemployment is up. And so are Barack Obama's disapproval ratings. What should he do to halt this downward spiral? The...

PBS KBDI: 9/11 Blueprint for Truth !!1!1!

I'm watching my local PBS station late at night, and they're running a 9/11 "truther" video presentation. (Partially on the...

Abiotic Oil News

From ScienceDaily, potentially good news for human beings, and thus potentially bad news for "environmentalists" and other fans of powerful,...

Jimmy Carter: Seeing Colors

When Carter's latest statement hit the news, I vaguely recalled allegations that Carter had been somewhat racist in his early...

ACORN Name Change

Some claim that Progressives Liberals The Reality-Based Community Progressives change their name (and color, red blue) frequently — and hide...

Democrats to Cut Medicare

Dr. Arie Szatkowski, a cardiologist, via Instapundit: If enacted as scheduled on Jan. 1, 2010, policy changes recommended by the...

NPR: Joe Wilson, Massive Protests in DC -- It's All Racism!

Talk of the Nation, heard around the nation today around lunchtime: Mr. DALLEK: ... I think there's a lot of...

Nationalized Healthcare + Open Borders = Increased Demand

Steyn: The minute a first-world country has "free" health care, it becomes the provider of choice to anyone who can...

Protestors: Not Two Million

FiveThirtyEight: [Y]esterday, someone told a real whopper. ABC News, citing the DC fire department, reported that between 60,000 and 70,000...

Truman Capote's In Cold Blood

For those unfamiliar with it, Truman Capote's In Cold Blood documents the brutal 1959 slaying of the Clutter family, a...

Tom Degan's Rant: Facts Don't Matter?

Is it important to embrace policies which help, rather than harm people? Is it at all important to tell the...

Democrats Turning from Afghanistan

Jeff Jacoby has a nice piece up describing the Obama / GOP alliance for Afghanistan. I find the spectacle sad...

Children as Hostages

United Kingdom: PARENTS are being threatened with having their children taken into care after questioning doctors' diagnoses or objecting to...

Toronto Film Festival: Antizionism isn't Antisemitism?

Increasingly hard to believe... Breitbart: THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - A group of actors, authors, musicians and activists is circulating...

Bush Went AWOL?

More than five years after the 2004 election, I still stumble across people in "the reality-based community" saying that "Bush...

UK: Socialism and Surveillance

On one hand, we have this report from the BBC: Only one crime was solved by each 1,000 CCTV cameras...

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