davidl on January 20th, 2010

The democrats lost a Senate seat in the bluest of states, Massachusetts, because they were blind to concerns the ordinary American voter, from  Mark Katherine Ham, Weekly Standard:

Democrats fooled themselves into believing the town-hall/Tea Party caricature and ignored the

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davidl on January 14th, 2010

The Obama administration has confirmed one of  the most controversial assertions of The Bell Curve.   Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray published TBC in 1994.   From a summary of TBC, by Brian Beatty et al:

Raising Cognitive Ability

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davidl on December 5th, 2009

G. D. Maxwell, Pique:

Now, now, let’s not get too uppity here. We need to be understanding. We need to be unified. We need to be supportive. We need to be patient. We need to pretend everything’s hunky-dory. We

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davidl on November 12th, 2009

Radicial Islam has been waging war on the United State at least since 1993.

Yet the dim one, b/k/a President Barack Obama continues to find attacks against in and against our country to be “incomprehensible.”    Claudia  Rosett, Forbes, try

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davidl on November 8th, 2009

C.J. Burch, a Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit,  coins what I will call the Obama doctrine:

“Ah, but those middle class protesters are a threat to politicians’ power.  Terrorists are just a threat to their constituents’ lives. See the difference?”

The

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Eric Florack on November 4th, 2009

Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

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davidl on October 29th, 2009

George Will, Washington Post,  October 5:

Presidents often come to be characterized by particular adjectives: “honest” Abe Lincoln, “Grover the Good” Cleveland, “energetic” Theodore Roosevelt, “idealistic” Woodrow Wilson, “Silent Cal” Coolidge, “confident” FDR, “likable” Ike Eisenhower. Less happily, there

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Eric Florack on October 29th, 2009

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  • CASH FOR CLUNKERS WAS A CLINKER: Not that we expected otherwise, but the waste involved with the thing is staggering. The Christian

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Eric Florack on October 15th, 2009

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  • THE GOVERNMENT AND MUSLIMS: Well, folks, it went down as I said it would. Some government mucty-mucks have decided to send this

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Eric Florack on October 5th, 2009

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davidl on October 2nd, 2009

Nobody does it better.

Rukhaana Kausar

Hat tip photo:  Telegraph(UK)

The Gunny, b/k/a R. Lee Ermey, is doing a show on edged weapons tonight.   Somehow I think the Gunny will miss ths one,  from an clearly impressed Boingboing:

A quick-thinking

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davidl on September 20th, 2009

Andrew Breitbart, Big Government,  has released what five ACORN videos.   Let me see, Baltimore, DC, Brooklyn,  San Bernadino and San Diego.    So I find it hard to accept this line from the one at face value, from this Weak

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Eric Florack on August 18th, 2009

Back when President Obama was merely candidate Obama, we were told how his presidency would bring America together.  As Glenn Reynolds keeps telling us, “they were right”.

Arguably, the most significant change that the President and his party in 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 21st, 2009

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This is the Early Days Edition

  • The Public is losing trust in Obama: The Politico says:

    Trust in President Barack Obama and

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