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"Naïve"

Apropos Tikkun's Michael Lerner (Hillary's one-time guru): What happened in Obama's first year is that most of those who had...

Hijacking Words: Richard Dawkins Saw the Light

One of the enduring themes of my own life, and thus Random Observations is the battle between what I think...

"Discrimination"

America sleeps as Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas Eve, poised between two possible futures, and being shown dreams — well, nightmares,...

"Allegedly"

Victor Davis Hanson: Adverbs Can Tell Us a A Lot When we do know for a fact that Mutallab tried...

"Taken Out of Context"

Obama's Pastor, reverend Wright, says quite a number of vitriolic inflammatory things his sermons. Wright and his defenders insist his...

Unpleasant Words: Candor verses Thuggery

Canada's David Warren raises an important distinction while defending Sarah Palin: Candour is when you tell a truth that is...

The British: Not as Bright as I'd Thought

Like most Americans, I'm a bit of an Anglophile. The "special relationship", James Bond, Monty Python, Yes Minister (and much...

Acronyms like "AIDS" and "ACORN"

An acronym is a word composed of abbreviations of other words. In the "old days", people used to include all...

"Feckless"

Best of the Web Today: ... the Obama administration's efforts to make nice with Tehran's lunatic regime do seem to...

Supreme Wordplay

My mind boggled when I heard Stevens' Heller dissent (bold added, of course): The Court would have us believe that...

Incoherent Sentence Award

This week, goes to Hope for Peace and Justice: Religious dialogue is so dominated by conservative churches, denominations and para-church...

Was Timothy McVeigh a Patriot?

Today's random question: If "patriotism" can merely consist of having good intentions, and wishing to do what's best for your...

"Socialized To"

I don't mind jargon. Jargon is a special set of terms which apply within one particular field or discipline. When...

One Man's Terrorist...

This kind of language, common in the press lately, shows gross hypocrisy: Madrid was put on high alert following the...

"Unconstitutional" and "Un-American"

Appropros the most recent Michael Newdow Attempt To Be An Important Person-In-The-Spotlight... When everyday people like you are told something...

Iraqnophobia

I've been dutifully sorting my bloggages into various categories, on the theory that sometime I'll learn Movable Type well enough...

Rant: PseudoAcronyms

Ladies and gentlemen, behold the United States of America. Now shorten it to an acronym, and we get "U.S.A.". Now,...

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