1984
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“…go to Europe and America and get a good education.”
Progressives pounce on hipocrasy as a cardinal sin. They should have a field day with this guy. Tip from Via Meadia Read more
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Inside a Death Panel
This is how it happens, with some faceless bureaucrat hoping people will knuckle under to their inhuman policies. But some folks fight back. Tip from the Instapundit. Read more
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You too, Time Magazine
Hey, TSA! Kelly Cogan’s Silver Spoon Bakery is laughing AT you, not with you. Cupcakes. Tip from the Instapundit, who strikes me as more of an apple-pie-and-ice-cream sort of guy. Read more
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Blowin’ in the wind
The cheap veneer seems to be gradually peeling off the whole wind energy enterprise. The Dutch are finding it to be financially demanding, Californians in the Tehatchipi area are incensed at the idea, The Duke of Edinburgh calls them a disgrace, and over 14,000 windmills have been flat abandoned here in the US. In spite Read more
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Congressional Reform Act?
The folks in my larger social circle have become disenchanted with our current national leadership. Check out this chain email I received recently: The only way this will work is if all of the people you send this to are registered voters and actually vote! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Read more
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9-11 Memorials
I’m ducking most of them. Ten years on, that dreadful day is still burned in my memory, the greatest shock since the assassination of President Kennedy. We owe a lifetime of thanks for the lost heroes of that day, a lifetime of tears for the victims, and a lifetime of burning hatred for the perverted Read more
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Terrorizing ourselves
“The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.” Read Lynne Kiesling’s take on the legacy of 9/11: “Be indomitable. Refuse to be terrorized.” Update (10 September). Richard Fernandez thinks we should go on the offense: “We have no right to forgive. We have no right to forget.” Read more
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Forgiveness => Punish
IBD explains that “debt forgiveness” is a code phrase for “screw the responsible creditor.” Tip from the Instapundit. Read more
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Guns don’t kill people, recycling bins kill people
I thought my brother-in-law was an alarmist when he told me about people falling into their new city-mandated large-capacity trash bins. It turns out they’re lethal. The Precautionary Principle, so beloved of environmentalists and social engineers, would seem to suggest an immediate Bin Ban. Read more
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