davidl on July 29th, 2009
Eric Holder
Eric Holder

The reprobate who is attorney general,  Eric Holder has called for a national conversation on race.   Holder throws this piece of fat into the fire,  from the Associated Press:

WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder says he

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davidl on July 29th, 2009

Glenn Beck has causes a minor tremor by opining the Barack Obama is a racist, video:

Hat tip video:  TVNewser.

No shat Sherlock!    Obama sat through twenty years of the Reverend Jerimiah Wright’s sermons.   Who’d have thunk:  video:

One

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Eric Florack on July 29th, 2009

I’ve been pretty much silent on this berth are controversy since its beginning, making only an occasional comment, preferring instead to let DavidL take the lead.  In any event I am pretty much in agreement with what he has been

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davidl on July 27th, 2009

While the one, a/k/a Barack Obama may claim to have both a undergraduate degree from Columbia and a law degree from Havard, Clarice Feldman, the Sharp Tack, makes the case that Obama is an under educated man, from the American

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davidl on July 24th, 2009

Professor Ann Althouse plays Sigmound Freud.   The professor carter-peanut parses Barack Obama with a very fine toothed  comb and offers an interesting suggestion, Ann Althouse:

Obama’s use of the word is a little off. I think “jigger into” is unidiomatic

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davidl on July 23rd, 2009

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The president is “not familiar” with the bill. No one can explain how it will work yet, as Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., told a contentious town meeting. There are various plans, and negotiations are still in the early stages.

But

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davidl on July 23rd, 2009

I commented on the saga of  poor oppressed Henry Gates, earlier.   What happened to Professor Gates wasn’t “racial profiling” then and it isn’t now.   Even if the accusation comes from the chief law enforcement officer of the nation, the

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davidl on July 22nd, 2009

My first  president was Harry S.  Truman, not that I actually remember Harry as President.   However what I  like and admire about  Harry is that he  knew the difference between Harry the haberdasher from Missouri and the 33rd President of

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Eric Florack on July 22nd, 2009

Noted in passing, a note from NRO’s Nina Owcharenko, in which we find:

This weekend President Obama dedicated his weekly address to defending Congress’s plans for an overhaul of the nation’s health-care system.

He argued, “Once you’ve seen

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Eric Florack on July 19th, 2009

A disturbing report from the Jerusalem Post‘s Sabrina Amidi:

In a shocking and unprecedented interview, directly exposing the inhumanity of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s religious regime in Iran, a serving member of the paramilitary Basiji militia has told this

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davidl on July 10th, 2009

A single picture can be worth more than a NGO  produced 2:47 video.  First the video:

Hat tip video:  News Junkie

Now for the picture:

Barack Obama the Gaze

Hat tip photo:   Darleen Click, Protein Wisdom.

Suffice to say, the chicklette is part

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davidl on July 6th, 2009

Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit, opines:

SO, TECHNICALLY, IT WOULD BE WRONG TO CALL THE PLAN “SOPHOMORIC:” “In the depths of the cold war, in 1983, a senior at Columbia University wrote in a campus newsmagazine, Sundial, about the vision of

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Eric Florack on July 6th, 2009

A great piece from Mary Grabar at Pajamas Media today. Here’s a bit of it:

But those streets, once havens for displaced persons, soon were destroyed by the utopian plans of collectivists and their agitators who urged the

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Eric Florack on July 1st, 2009

I warned earlier today that the damage to our country from the Democrats would be downright staggering. Robert Zubrin, writing in Roll Call today, makes the point there, amply:

The United States emits about 9 billion tons of CO2

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Eric Florack on July 1st, 2009

As goes Energy, so goes the country.
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“The worse, the better,” Vladimir Lenin is said to have observed. What Lenin meant was that the worse social conditions became in Russia, the more likely he and the Bolsheviks could foment a

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