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Thursday, November 27, 2008

A Malignant Outrage

A couple of weeks back, Michael Goldfarb had this to say about the Democratic-left's outrage at Joe Lieberman's continuing tenure a...

Picture of the Day, 11-27-08

Family members wait to recover the dead, Mumbai, India. For more information, see Amit Varma , Richard Fernandez , and Ultrabrown . See also...

If I Saw You in Heaven...?

Thanksgiving is a time for being with loved ones. I thought of a song I could share, as a poignant reminder of why we give thanks for our bl...

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

"A Day of Public Thanksgiving to God"

Nothing better illustrates the polarization we see in society today than how the respective political factions commemorate our most sacred n...

Thinking Clearly About Global Terrorism

UPDATE : Hot Air has got an excellent running thread of updates, including this comment: There have been six separate explosions at the Hot...

Atheist Nihilism

Readers may enjoy FrontPageMagazine's interview the Jonas Alexis. Alexis is the author of the book, " In the Name of Knowledge and...

Feminists for Stay-Home Moms

Here's Duncan Black on Ruth Marcus' commentary on Michelle Obama's decision to be "Mother-in-Chief": It's pretty...

Judge Admits Heckling Attorney General as "Tyrant"

Here's another example that Bush derangement has gone mainstream. Richard Sanders, a justice of the Washington State Supreme Court, has...

Gay Abandonment of the Traditional American Family

Jeanne Carstensen claims she's got the universal answer for the conservative pushback on gay marriage: While conservative churches are ...

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Picture of the Day, 11-25-08

Via the New York Times : Sgt. Joseph Crandell, saw his 7-month-old daughter, Lena, for the first time as he was welcomed back to Germany by ...

Obama's Tidal Wave of Death

Jill Stanek sounds the warning on Barack Obama's administrative appointments, " The Tidal Wave of Death ": I haven't writt...

Repudiation of the Dark Side?

Here's this, from the letter on behalf of 200 psychologists requesting that President-Elect Obama renounce rumors of John Brennan's...

Colombian Guerillas Enjoy Safe Haven Inside Venezuela

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez regime is providing the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia safe refuge in the southwest terrority of the cou...

Progressives and the Defense Budget

Yesterday I noted that Chris Bowers was acting rational. Today I'm not so sure. He's got a post up today that endorses an extremis...

Inside the Minds of Islamic Militants

Farhad Khosrokhavar, a preeminent research scholar in France, and a Shiite Muslim who speaks Arabic, is interviewed at today's Los Angel...

Kindergarten Thanksgiving Costumes Banned as "Dehumanizing"

Multicultural activists have succeeded in getting a Thanksgiving costume tradition banned from kindergarten classes in Claremont, California...

A Passive-Aggressive Socialist State

Here's Abe Greenwald on creeping socialism in the United States: A passive-aggressive socialist state — that’s the change we’ve been wa...

Obama Honeymoon Off to Early Start

Gallup reports that the "honeymoon" in public opinion afforded a new president has already begun for Barack Obama, with a new pol...

Monday, November 24, 2008

The Secret Theory of Progressivism?

The most interesting, and frankly heartening, political development lately is Barack Obama's tilt to " pragmatism " following ...

It Started With a Kiss, Now We're Up to Bat...

I was blown away when I first saw this video of Michelle Branch with Carlos Santana on guitar . I was just getting ready for work one morn...

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