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Or well we could.   What the Obama administration likes to call news, is Dim Won, b/k/a President Barack Obama reading a written statement, having so-called reporters sit there like potted plants and taking no questions.    We could do that.  Can

As most of you know, I spent a fair amount of time in New York City. On that basis I’ve heard an awful lot of discussion lately about Mayor Bloomberg and his intention to ban “sugary drinks” in excess of

Jennifer Marshall discovers that some groups do not like the idea of the traditional family. That is children living with both their biological mother and biological father. In no case can any non-traditional family provide both a biological mother and

The nation’s citizen suffer under the Obama economy.    So rather than deal with the problem, the Obama administration resorts to pandering.   Dana Milbanks, Washington Post,  went looking for substance in Barack Obama’s  economic plan and found none, via Neo-NeoCon

Martha Payne is the blog’s Woman of the Day. Nine years old Martha has proven herself be a royal Payne to her school disttrict, from Peter Walker, Guardian(UK)

A nine-year-old Scottish girl who attracted two million readers to a

Tonight, we’ll go a little country. This is Royce and Jeanie Kendall from St Louis, with a tune called “The Heart of the Matter”… a song which was a minor hit for them.  I don’t recall exactly where but it

The difference between, Barack Obama, a/k/a Dim Won, a/k/a Dumbo and Edward Smith, Captain of the RMS Titanic, is that at least Smith was smart enough to realize that he had hit an iceberg. Ae for Dombo, he still in

Let’s run back to 1962. This is Sounds Orchestral, with the Vince Guaraldi written “Cast Your Fate to the Wind”.   Guaraldi, of course is perhaps best known for his “Linus and Lucy” for the “Peanuts” TV shows.

A one, two punch to the political jaw of one Jeb Bush.

First up, Anne Sorock,  Legal Insurrection:

Jeb Bush’s definition of Reagan’s brand as one of “finding accommodation” and “common ground” is akin to summing up the Founding

If you want people to believe you are proud, you can not act like  you are ashamed.    And to think they call it a pride event, but evidently they lack any pride in their chosen life style:

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO/AP

OK, this one’s a bit of a guilty pleasure. David Cassiddy always struck me as someone who wanted to be more than his handlers were willing to let him be.  Funny thing, my early perception turned out to be correct. 

Stan Greenberg, Erica Seifert and James Carville have a message for Dim Won, a/k/a dumbo, b/k/a Barack Obama, from Alexander Burns, Politico:

“These voters are not convinced that we are headed in the right direction. They are living in

Call it what you will, this is tyranny and not freedom.   Giving the police the unilateral power to punish free speech is not freedom:

MIDDLEBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) – Residents in Middleborough have voted to make the foul-mouthed pay fines

Job Market Gets Even Worse For Law Grads. “This leaves us with 33.75% of all 2011 ABA law school graduates in real legal jobs nine months after graduation. This is, in my view, a conservative estimate of the scope of

This is without question one of my all-time favorite tracks, off of one of my all-time favorite disks… one called The Dreams of Children. Thi is Shadowfax in it’s prime.  The piece is, for lack of a better description a