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	<title>Right Wing News &#187; Bookworm</title>
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		<title>Tom Grace&#8217;s &#8220;The Liberty Intrigue&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/book-reviews/tom-graces-the-liberty-intrigue/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/book-reviews/tom-graces-the-liberty-intrigue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Liberty Intrigue]]></category>
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One of the nicest perks about having a slightly well-known blog is the fact that authors and publishers occasionally ask me to review a book. In this way, I get the opportunity to read books that I otherwise wouldn&#8217;t even know exist. My approach to book reviews is simple: If I enjoy the book, I&#8217;m happy to review it, because I want to share my good fortune with my friends. If I don&#8217;t enjoy a book, however, I don&#8217;t give it a bad review. Instead, I don&#8217;t review the book ...]]></description>
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		<title>Honoring our Sea Faring Services</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/military/honoring-our-sea-faring-services/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/military/honoring-our-sea-faring-services/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fleet Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marines]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy League]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of Fleet Week (which starts Saturday in San Francisco), I have three Navy/Marine related stories to relate and I want to promote a few of my favorite Navy related blogs.
Story 1:
My daughter has started a new school and is making new friends. The other day, I met the Mom of one of these new friends. (I&#8217;m happy to say that both mother and daughter are nice gals.)
&#8220;Is your daughter an only child?&#8221; I asked. (Go ahead, say it: I&#8217;m nosy.)
&#8220;No,&#8221; she said, &#8220;I have a son, too.&#8221; Then, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Peculiarly enough, a hypothetical third party for independents would look like Progressives on steroids</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/media/peculiarly-enough-a-hypothetical-third-party-for-independents-would-look-like-progressives-on-steroids/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/media/peculiarly-enough-a-hypothetical-third-party-for-independents-would-look-like-progressives-on-steroids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Bias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Third Parties]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I do love the way my liberal Facebook friends make me aware of things I wouldn&#8217;t otherwise notice. One of those things is a Matt Miller op-ed in the Washington Post, which imagines the perfect speech a dream independent candidate would give. As Miller describes it:
This is one columnist’s stab at what a candidate might sound like if he or she were trying to appeal to the majority of voters in the middle of the electorate who feel both parties are failing us.
This dream speech, the one Miller imagines appealing ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Nanny state makes it impossible to raise children &#8212; and then takes them away</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/misc/the-nanny-state-makes-it-impossible-to-raise-children-and-then-takes-them-away/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/misc/the-nanny-state-makes-it-impossible-to-raise-children-and-then-takes-them-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 18:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child Protective Services]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes the matched sets just write themselves.  Both of the articles I&#8217;m quoting here are from England.  The first in our set is an article saying that town councils across England are being told that they need to reinstate actual playgrounds.  The current versions, which are the kid equivalent of a padded room, are creating useless human beings:
Old-fashioned playground equipment like climbing frames, sand pits and paddling pools are set to be re-introduced after research found a degree of risk helps children to develop.
For years councils have ...]]></description>
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		<title>Reducing patriotism to a sleazy roll in the hay</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/war-on-terrorism/reducing-patriotism-to-a-sleazy-roll-in-the-hay/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/war-on-terrorism/reducing-patriotism-to-a-sleazy-roll-in-the-hay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[War On Terrorism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Bookworm is catching up with the Jon Stewart episodes he missed while we were away. One particular segment, which starts at the 2 minute mark, caught my eye. In it, Perry talks about love for country, clearly distinguishing himself from Obama, who hasn&#8217;t shown such love, either explicitly or implicitly. Take a look at what Stewart, a very bright, and periodically honest, dyed-in-the-wool Progressive, does with Perry&#8217;s simple statement of patriotism:



The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Mon &#8211; Thurs 11p / 10c


Indecision 2012 &#8211; Michele Bachmann Fever &#38; Rick Perry&#8217;s ...]]></description>
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		<title>Learning curves, intelligence and Rick Perry</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/republicans/learning-curves-intelligence-and-rick-perry/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/republicans/learning-curves-intelligence-and-rick-perry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Perry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although Obama&#8217;s grades are still a state secret, we know that the MSM is going to make hay of the fact that Rick Perry had a 2.22 GPA at Texas A&#38;M. There&#8217;s no escaping the fact that he wasn&#8217;t much of an academic. I have a few thoughts on that subject. They start with a picture making the rounds on the internet, showing a 22 year Perry and a 20 something Obama:

Ignore the Obama image. Aside from misstating his age, it&#8217;s old hat. We know, because he confessed, that when ...]]></description>
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		<title>The narcissistic delusions of Leftists</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/the-narcissistic-delusions-of-leftists/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/the-narcissistic-delusions-of-leftists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can I say that an entire political ideology is narcissistic? Because I&#8217;d really like to say that about Leftism, a political movement that sometimes seems like the textbook definition of narcissism. Although the DSM is a highly political book, it&#8217;s still the starting point for any diagnosis of narcissism:
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fourth edition, DSM IV-TR, a widely used manual for diagnosing mental disorders, defines narcissistic personality disorder (in Axis II Cluster B) as:[1]


A pervasive pattern of grandiosity(in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack ...]]></description>
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		<title>I love the environment; it&#8217;s the environmentalists I hate</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/environment/i-love-the-environment-its-the-environmentalists-i-hate/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/environment/i-love-the-environment-its-the-environmentalists-i-hate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a somewhat contrary person.  (Right now, those who know me well are probably off laughing hysterically somewhere at my understatement.)  Because the environmentalists are pushing so hard, from Al Gore on down, my instinct is to push right back.  Pushing back makes me sound as if I don&#8217;t care about the environment, but that&#8217;s untrue.  I like a healthy environment, whether it&#8217;s clean air, potable water, or abundant wildlife.  The environment matters to me.
Some environmentalist initiatives are fine.  Just as women&#8217;s hats were ...]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Entebbe</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/israel/remembering-entebbe/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/israel/remembering-entebbe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inspirational]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yid With Lid reminds us that July 4th marks more than just America&#8217;s independence day.  (H/t:  Sadie)  It&#8217;s also the anniversary of Israel&#8217;s spectacular rescue at Entebbe in 1976.  That was another place and time, when most in the world actually cared about Jewish lives.  I wrote about the rescue back in 2007 and reprint that narrative here.
For those of you too young to remember, here is a short-ish version  of the long and exciting story about the Entebbe raid. (I culled these  ...]]></description>
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		<title>Patriotism when you don&#8217;t love your country</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/liberals/patriotism-when-you-dont-love-your-country/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/liberals/patriotism-when-you-dont-love-your-country/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I do every year, I went with my family to our town&#8217;s Fourth of July Parade.  It&#8217;s a great parade, with all sorts of community groups participating, including the various chambers of commerce; Little League baseball teams; bagpipers (Marin is home to a thriving bagpipe community); an impressive selection of WWII vehicles from from the Garbarino Military Vehicle Museum, a private collection of lovingly restored military vehicles; marching bands; and the usual flotsam and jetsam of community organizations in a small town.
Thousands of people turn out to line ...]]></description>
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		<title>A problem with medicine that ObamaCare won&#8217;t solve</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/obamacare/a-problem-with-medicine-that-obamacare-wont-solve/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/obamacare/a-problem-with-medicine-that-obamacare-wont-solve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 17:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ObamaCare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I spent four hours at my Mom&#8217;s yesterday trying to organize her medicines.  I am more gray now than I was before.  My son, who was with me, kept saying &#8220;This is insane.  This is insane.&#8221;
The insanity operated at a lot of levels.  Some of the insanity comes about because my mother likes her medicines (my son calculated that she takes approximately 800 pills per month, or 9,600 pills per year), and because she takes them on a schedule of her own devising, entirely separate from ...]]></description>
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		<title>The psychology of war and warriors</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/military/the-psychology-of-war-and-warriors/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/military/the-psychology-of-war-and-warriors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Wehner writes about Obama&#8217;s decision to draw down troops in Afghanistan, something that (just coincidentally, of course) will take place right before Obama&#8217;s reelection bid.  Wehner is appalled, and he explains that this gross political calculation isn&#8217;t the way it needs to be:
I have the advantage of having served a president during wartime. And  whatever faults one might be tempted to lay at the feet of George W.  Bush, he never allowed politics of the Obama kind to infect his  decisions. I know of what ...]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not what you believe; it&#8217;s what you do with those beliefs that counts</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/religion/its-not-what-you-believe-its-what-you-do-with-those-beliefs-that-counts/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/religion/its-not-what-you-believe-its-what-you-do-with-those-beliefs-that-counts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Liberals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The discussion on my recent climate change post has one side saying &#8220;expert consensus&#8221; and the other side saying &#8220;facts.&#8221;  Let me state something very important here:  An expert consensus is not a fact.  Experts used to think the sun revolved around the earth (wrong), that bad air caused disease (wrong), that spicy food and stress caused ulcers (wrong), that autistic people are mentally retarded because their mothers didn&#8217;t love them (oh, so wrong), etc.  Experts are wrong, all the time.
This is a touchy subject for ...]]></description>
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		<title>Weiner did a bad thing and being pro-abortion doesn&#8217;t give him a pass</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/liberals/weiner-did-a-bad-thing-and-being-pro-abortion-doesnt-give-him-a-pass/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/liberals/weiner-did-a-bad-thing-and-being-pro-abortion-doesnt-give-him-a-pass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago a movie came out based on a premise that was, for me, an entirely new concept:  a Hall Pass or, license from ones spouse to have sex, once, outside of marriage.  (I understand that the movie, which I didn&#8217;t see, ultimately made the point that having an affair isn&#8217;t as easy or attractive as it seems.)
I thought of that movie when I read Amanda Marcotte&#8217;s outraged article about coverage of the wanking Weiner.  Unlike Kirsten Powers, who was mad at Weiner for lying ...]]></description>
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		<title>A sentimental service in a cynical society &#8212; our Navy</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/military/a-sentimental-service-in-a-cynical-society-our-navy/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/military/a-sentimental-service-in-a-cynical-society-our-navy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 05:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sentiment: &#8220;refined or tender emotion; manifestation of the higher or more refined feelings.&#8221;
Ours is a cynical age.  The traditional values that defined us as Americans (weirdly old-fashioned ideas such as the belief that we are a wholesome, good and honorable culture) seem to have been jettisoned.  Even though I believe the majority of Americans are indeed wholesome, good and honorable, the message of our popular culture is jaded and immoral.
Children pick up on that.  As they head towards adulthood, they strive to imitate the cynical malaise that ...]]></description>
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		<title>White House/Obama email information collection &#8212; it&#8217;s getting weird</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/white-houseobama-email-information-collection-its-getting-weird/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/white-houseobama-email-information-collection-its-getting-weird/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received something peculiar in my email yesterday:

A few things to note:
1.  The email informs me that someone left a comment on &#8220;bookwormroom.wordpress.com,&#8221; a blog that has lain dormant for four years.
2.  The Author&#8217;s name is an obvious nom de cyber &#8212; Trimegistus.
3.  The Author leaves as his email address &#8220;flag@whitehouse.gov&#8220;.
That email address is the interesting part.  I am not for a single minute claiming that Trimegistus is a White House employee.  However, &#8220;flag@whitehouse.gov&#8221; is an email address with a history.  The Obama administration ...]]></description>
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		<title>Finally &#8212; an Amazon product that has something for everyone</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/craaaaazy/finally-an-amazon-product-that-has-something-for-everyone/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/craaaaazy/finally-an-amazon-product-that-has-something-for-everyone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 05:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Craaaaazy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Obscenely overpriced product?  Check.
Ridiculous discount?  Check.
Product description riddled with grammatical errors and pretentious, unintelligible language?  Check.
Customer &#8220;reviews&#8221; that are worth their weight in gold?  You betcha.
I hereby present the Plodes RECH reDO Lawn Chair &#8211; Black Leather with White Stitching and Cherry Arms.  This isn&#8217;t just any old lawn chair.  This is a special lawn chair:
Restored tube/lawn chair, stitched leather, hardwood. reDO is a limited edition redefinition of a soon to be extinct icon [sic]. The infamous aluminum tube web chair that society has taken ...]]></description>
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		<title>The circumcision ban on the San Francisco ballot is driven by blatant antisemitism</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/the-circumcision-ban-on-the-san-francisco-ballot-is-driven-by-blatant-antisemitism/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/the-circumcision-ban-on-the-san-francisco-ballot-is-driven-by-blatant-antisemitism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 22:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often say I&#8217;m shocked by something that crosses my computer screen, but that&#8217;s not really true.  I mean, I probably sort of shocked insofar as I&#8217;m surprised that someone has behaved according to type, but in an extreme way, or that something I&#8217;ve long assumed would happen actually did happen (or, in a surprising way, didn&#8217;t happen).  But I&#8217;m very seldom shocked to the core of my being.  Today, though, I was shocked, shaken really, by an email Zombie sent me.
Zombie has gotten hold of some ...]]></description>
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		<title>California&#8217;s raunchy politicians</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/californias-raunchy-politicians/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/californias-raunchy-politicians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember the old Dean Martin comedy roasts?  The zingers were mean, sometimes mildly risqué, and usually funny.  Don Rickles was the acknowledged master of the genre.
The California Assembly has taken the roast to a whole new level.  At a benefit to raise money for programs involving young people and politics (&#8220;It&#8217;s for the children!&#8221;), the past and present assembly members gathered to roast Speaker John A. Pérez.  The tone of this affair, a public event comprised of elected politicians raising money for children, couldn&#8217;t ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/media/mene-mene-tekel-upharsin/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/media/mene-mene-tekel-upharsin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 02:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8217;ve often heard people use the expression &#8220;he saw the handwriting on the wall.&#8221;  I wonder, though, how many know that it originates in the Book of Daniel, which is a part of the Old Testament.  I&#8217;m reasonably sure that most of my readers are familiar with the story of Daniel, but for those who aren&#8217;t, here is the briefest summary possible:  Daniel lived in Babylon during the Jewish exile and became a high court official to King Nebuchadnezzar and, after him, to his son Belshazzar.  ...]]></description>
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		<title>The rhetorical clarity of moral clarity</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/israel/the-rhetorical-clarity-of-moral-clarity/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/israel/the-rhetorical-clarity-of-moral-clarity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 16:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t listened to Netanyahu&#8217;s speech to Congress, you must.  And I mean listen.  I&#8217;m usually a speech reader, because I read quickly, and seldom have the time or the patience to sit down and listen to someone give a 45 minute speech.
In addition, some speakers have so many rhetorical tics and twitches that I find myself unable to focus on the speech&#8217;s content.  For example, Obama, when speaking on teleprompter, has a wooden delivery; is artificially rhythmic, as his head swings back and forth from ...]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew Breitbart:  a true happy warrior who wants to inspire an Army of Davids</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/media/andrew-breitbart-a-true-happy-warrior-who-wants-to-inspire-an-army-of-davids/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/media/andrew-breitbart-a-true-happy-warrior-who-wants-to-inspire-an-army-of-davids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 15:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, after Andrew Breitbart had already left to catch his plane, a few of us hung around to chat and to try to answer one question:  what was the takeaway from Breitbart&#8217;s talk?  Eat their eyeballs?  Women&#8217;s dominance in the Tea Party means that men are eunuchs?  The fact that the Tea Party needs to sex up a bit (Breitbart suggested cleavage) to attract younger people?  Our responsibility to buy tickets to conservative movies even if we don&#8217;t attend, because brave Hollywood conservatives need ...]]></description>
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		<title>Is Herman Cain the &#8220;star personality&#8221; candidate Republicans have been waiting for?  And which GOPer do you like? *UPDATED*</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/republicans/is-herman-cain-the-star-personality-candidate-republicans-have-been-waiting-for-and-which-goper-do-you-like/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/republicans/is-herman-cain-the-star-personality-candidate-republicans-have-been-waiting-for-and-which-goper-do-you-like/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 15:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Election 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herman Cain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;m in California, which has always been a late primary state, and since California is now switching to open primaries anyway, it&#8217;s always hard for me to get very excited about primaries.  The fact is that I never feel I really have any say in them, since the front runners are already decided by the time the primaries get here.  I may like or dislike potential candidates, but I observe them rather passively, at least until the race&#8217;s outlines start to tighten up.
The current crop of candidates ...]]></description>
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		<title>In the mad, mad, mad world of PC, silly little jokes about Islamist terrorists have only a one minute shelf life</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/terrorism/in-the-mad-mad-mad-world-of-pc-silly-little-jokes-about-islamist-terrorists-have-only-a-one-minute-shelf-life/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/terrorism/in-the-mad-mad-mad-world-of-pc-silly-little-jokes-about-islamist-terrorists-have-only-a-one-minute-shelf-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 16:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political Correctness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, my friend Kim Priestap sent a group of us an email telling about the Yemeni man arrested for trying to yank open the cockpit door while hollering the standard &#8220;Allahu Akbar!&#8221;  Lee DeCovnik thinks we might have been seeing a dry run.  The man apparently raced from one end of the plane (the bathroom in the rear) all the way up to the front (the cockpit), and then tried to open the door:
There were a couple of disturbing items in this dry run. First, this was ...]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama&#8217;s 60 Minutes interview with Steve Kroft</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/media/president-obamas-60-minutes-interview-with-steve-kroft/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/media/president-obamas-60-minutes-interview-with-steve-kroft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 13:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My husband insisted last night that we watch BHO&#8217;s 60 Minutes interview with Steve Kroft &#8212; and then promptly fell asleep because, as he later said, &#8220;that was really dull.&#8221;  My husband was right.  I managed to stay awake, but it was an effort.  This was my takeaway from the great orator&#8217;s talk:
We, uh, I, uh, me, uh, my, uh, our guys,uh, the guys, uh, sending guys, uh, that guy, uh, no guys, uh, my guys, uh, we have &#8220;denigrated&#8221; the Taliban.
It was that last that woke ...]]></description>
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		<title>Talking with Jesse Kornbluth again, this time about whether Harvard grads get a free pass</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/education/talking-with-jesse-kornbluth-again-this-time-about-whether-harvard-grads-get-a-free-pass/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/education/talking-with-jesse-kornbluth-again-this-time-about-whether-harvard-grads-get-a-free-pass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 02:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesse Kornbluth was again good enough to visit my post commenting upon his article lauding Andrew Sullivan as a blogger amongst bloggers.  If I was a guy, and he and I had met in person, I would have slapped up on the back with a cheery &#8220;Hey, Jesse man, great to see you again.&#8221;  I&#8217;ve discovered that I disagree with Jesse on a whole lot of things, but I certainly appreciate his willingness to come back here and take his stand on the things in which he believes. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Men&#8217;s auto-emasculation &#8212; or, is feminism really entirely to blame?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/feminism/mens-auto-emasculation-or-is-feminism-really-entirely-to-blame/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/feminism/mens-auto-emasculation-or-is-feminism-really-entirely-to-blame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 06:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Several people, knowing my fondness for the Navy (think Navy League), sent me links to a Wall Street Journal article that Lt. Cmdr. Greitens, a Navy SEAL, wrote about what goes into making a Navy SEAL.  Of course, it&#8217;s not just the training; it&#8217;s the man behind the training.  No man who is afraid of ultimate responsibility, extreme hard work, painfully uncomfortable physical conditions, and pushing his own limits to their furthest boundaries will even think of becoming a SEAL.  When one considers the demands of being ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Obama Administration&#8217;s cloud of confusion explained *UPDATED*</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/war-on-terrorism/the-obama-administrations-cloud-of-confusion-explained/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/war-on-terrorism/the-obama-administrations-cloud-of-confusion-explained/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 20:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War On Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osama Bin Laden]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Usually when governments use misinformation, they use it to make themselves look good.  The Obama Administration gets points for originality, insofar as it&#8217;s been using disinformation and misinformation to make itself look arbitrary, unlawful, helpless and stupid.  Here&#8217;s jj&#8217;s great summary:
Okay, what do we have here:
1) There was a firefight.
2) There was no firefight.
3) Bin Laden was &#8220;resisting.&#8221;
4) Bin Laden wasn&#8217;t armed.  (Makes the concept of &#8220;resisting&#8221; interesting.)
[4.a)  And the newest one:  the SEALS thought bin Laden was reaching for a weapon.]
5) He used his ...]]></description>
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		<title>Rebutting Jesse Kornbluth&#8217;s rebuttal re his original Andrew Sullivan article</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/media/rebutting-jesse-kornbluths-rebuttal-re-his-original-andrew-sullivan-article/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/media/rebutting-jesse-kornbluths-rebuttal-re-his-original-andrew-sullivan-article/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 04:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogosphere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesse Kornbluth, whom I took to task for his Sullivan hagiography, has responded to my rebuttal to his defense of that same hagiography.  True to my lawyer&#8217;s credo, I&#8217;m trying here to have the last word, although I certainly don&#8217;t mean to preempt Kornbluth from doing the same, if he is so inclined.  As I did before, I&#8217;ll put Kornbluth&#8217;s entire response here (indented) along with my comments:
3,467 words. Whew! (Okay, that includes generous quotations from my  article and message board post.) If length mattered, Bookworm, you ...]]></description>
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		<title>A rebuttal to Jesse Kornbluth on the subject of Andrew Sullivan</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/media/a-rebuttal-to-jesse-kornbluth-on-the-subject-of-andrew-sullivan/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/media/a-rebuttal-to-jesse-kornbluth-on-the-subject-of-andrew-sullivan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 01:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogosphere]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a post taking Harvard grad Jesse Kornbluth (class of &#8217;68) to task for his carelessly flattering portrayal of &#8220;journalist&#8221; and blogger Andrew Sullivan.  It&#8217;s fine to like Sullivan, although I would question a person&#8217;s judgment in doing so.  What bothered me was that Kornbluth failed to discover that Sullivan has taken a fair amount of deserved flack for (a) obsessing about Trig Palin&#8217;s putative maternity and (b) launching a frothing, entirely ill-informed tirade against the Tea Party and Sarah Palin in the wake of the Tucson ...]]></description>
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		<title>Totalitarian revolutions always end up eating their own</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/media/totalitarian-revolutions-always-end-up-eating-their-own/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/media/totalitarian-revolutions-always-end-up-eating-their-own/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the hallmarks of the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Nazi Revolution (because, although the ballot was used in 1932, it was a revolution), the Hussein Iraq takeover (which was also a form of revolution), and other totalitarian takeovers is that the paranoid leadership style inherent in totalitarianism invariably means that the revolution starts to eat its own.  At a certain point, the person or cabal that scrabbles to power starts fearing the people who created that leadership position, and sets out to destroy them.
Sadie alerted me ...]]></description>
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		<title>Free speech, in all its glorious ugliness</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/freedom/free-speech-in-all-its-glorious-ugliness/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/freedom/free-speech-in-all-its-glorious-ugliness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Amendment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Barry Rubin sounds a tocsin at Pajamas Media about the way in which political correctness is slowly but steadily eroding free speech in America, leaving us to speech norms more commonly seen in repressive Middle Eastern countries.  As he explains, there&#8217;s a reason &#8220;the authors of the American Constitution forbade limits on  freedom of speech:  because once you start creating off-limit areas the  worst thing that happens is the empowerment of people who have a  self-interest in setting and misusing these limits. They can administer ...]]></description>
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		<title>Harvard Magazine and the Left&#8217;s Andrew Sullivan love affair</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/media/harvard-magazine-and-the-lefts-andrew-sullivan-love-affair/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/media/harvard-magazine-and-the-lefts-andrew-sullivan-love-affair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of Harvard, I just got a gander at Harvard Magazine, which has a smugly grinning Andrew Sullivan on the cover, as the exemplar of &#8220;The New Media.&#8221;  I thought the article would be about bloggers generally, but the table of contents tells me I&#8217;m wrong:  &#8220;World&#8217;s Best Blogger?&#8221; it asks.  It then explains that the article is about &#8220;Andrew Sullivan, fiscal conservative [huh?] and social liberal, navigates the changing media landscape.&#8221;  Turn to the article itself, and the caption says:  &#8220;World&#8217;s Best Blogger?  ...]]></description>
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		<title>Attending Harvard Law doesn&#8217;t make Obama a genius</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/attending-harvard-law-doesnt-make-obama-a-genius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Regular readers know that I have fussed for years about Obama&#8217;s much vaunted intelligence.  I&#8217;ve agreed that he has a feral, manipulative intelligence, but I&#8217;ve challenged the whole brilliant scholar thing.
It&#8217;s not just the missing grades (which one assumes are missing because they&#8217;re embarrassing).  It&#8217;s also the horrible way he expresses himself when he&#8217;s off of the teleprompter, the wooden writing when he doesn&#8217;t have Bill Ayers at his back, and the repeated gaffes when he reveals that he does not have a well-furnished mind.  Who can ...]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, a 3 inch lizard can collapse the Texas oil industry.</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/environment/yes-a-3-inch-lizard-can-collapse-the-texas-oil-industry/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/environment/yes-a-3-inch-lizard-can-collapse-the-texas-oil-industry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delta Smelt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a new bad guy in town in West Texas.  He&#8217;s called the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard.  He&#8217;s actually kind of cute, as lizards go.  He&#8217;s about three inches long, a nice tan color, and has a vaguely Winston Churchill-esque expression.  He seems harmless enough, but he comes packing a huge, powerful weapon:  the federal government.
It turns out that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is contemplating putting this little lizard on the endangered species list, not because he&#8217;s being hunted, but because his habitat might ...]]></description>
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		<title>What happens when government (state or federal) is pathologically hostile to business</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/unions/what-happens-when-government-state-or-federal-is-pathologically-hostile-to-business/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/unions/what-happens-when-government-state-or-federal-is-pathologically-hostile-to-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 05:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post tells the story of a case on which I worked.  It&#8217;s a true story.
Picture this: It’s 2001.  You live in California and you own a small business that consists of you and maybe three to five at-will employees.  Your profits are decent.
One morning, Jane, one of your employees, announces that she’s quitting, effective immediately, and stalks out.  You know &#8212; or think you know &#8212; your California law, which requires that, when an employee quits, you have her payment ready within three days of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama embraces scattershot lie tactic</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/media/obama-embraces-scattershot-lie-tactic/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/media/obama-embraces-scattershot-lie-tactic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a practicing lawyer for more than twenty years.  My legal briefs are pretty much like my blog writing:  I develop an argument, and support it with facts (or, in the case of a legal brief, legal cites) that are directly on point.  Often, to show my honesty to the court, I&#8217;ll make a summary factual or legal assertion, and then follow that with a quote from the original source confirming the truth of my summary.  In a long brief, the court learns that it ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s nastiness comes to the fore</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/obamas-nastiness-comes-to-the-fore/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/obamas-nastiness-comes-to-the-fore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve all seen the interview Obama had with the Texas reporter.  Obama was asked mildly hard questions, got defensive and, when he thought he was off mike, chastised the reporting for daring to do anything but grovel before him.  Daniel Henninger, in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal, looks as this episode and a few others and concludes that the charming pre-election Obama is gone, with a new Obama having taken his place.  I agree completely with Henninger that there is nothing charming about President Obama.  ...]]></description>
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		<title>Morality requires constant exercise &#8212; and Big Government leaves us morally flabby</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/misc-commentary/morality-requires-constant-exercise-and-big-government-leaves-us-morally-flabby/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/misc-commentary/morality-requires-constant-exercise-and-big-government-leaves-us-morally-flabby/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc. Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don Quixote and I got together for lunch today, and the conversation drifted to innate human goodness.  Neither of us believes in it.  We both noted that, if people are rich and powerful enough to do so, significant numbers of them readily abandon ordinary morality, with sexual debauchery usually heading the list of their moral collapses.
Monogamy (or even four wife polygamy) is good for the &#8220;little people,&#8221; but if you&#8217;re a president or a movie star or a ridiculously rich person, why limit yourself?  Unless you&#8217;re as ...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Social mobilism,&#8221; or the anti-Americanism of modern American art</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/social-mobilism-or-the-anti-americanism-of-modern-american-art/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/social-mobilism-or-the-anti-americanism-of-modern-american-art/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 01:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back in December, I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (&#8220;LACMA&#8221;) to see an exhibit entitled &#8220;Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915.&#8221;  Historic European and American fashion has always been something of a  hobby of mine, so I was excited when I first heard about the  exhibit.  I wasn&#8217;t disappointed.  The exhibit contained a very large, beautifully displayed, well-explained collection of European fashions from 1700-1915.  It was a lovely reminder of a time when clothes, at least clothes for the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Who can you trust?  Or how one Leftist may be breaking free of the Goebbels&#8217; school of Leftist lying</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/liberals/who-can-you-trust-or-how-one-leftist-may-be-breaking-free-of-the-goebbels-school-of-leftist-lying/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/liberals/who-can-you-trust-or-how-one-leftist-may-be-breaking-free-of-the-goebbels-school-of-leftist-lying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Liberals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you tell a lie big  enough and keep  repeating it, people will eventually come to believe  it. The lie can be  maintained only for such time as the State can  shield the people from  the political, economic and/or military  consequences of the lie. It thus  becomes vitally important for the  State to use all of its powers to  repress dissent, for the truth is the  mortal enemy of the lie, and thus  by extension, the truth is ...]]></description>
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		<title>Passover and the suffering necessary to end tyranny</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/religion/passover-and-the-suffering-necessary-to-end-tyranny/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/religion/passover-and-the-suffering-necessary-to-end-tyranny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight marks the first night of Passover, the ancient Jewish holiday celebrating the Jews&#8217; release from bondage and, I think, their reaffirmed commitment to God.
I wrote the following post last year for Passover, and republished it once more a few months ago.  It focuses on Iran, but I think you could easily substitute Syria, Gaza, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, or any other totalitarian regime, whether theistic or anti-theistic, and the article would be the same.
***
An antisemitic Jew I know, rather than seeing the Passover ceremony as the celebration of ...]]></description>
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		<title>San Francisco discovers free enterprise</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/economy/san-francisco-discovers-free-enterprise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[San Francisco is definitely up in the top five when it comes to &#8220;most Progressively governed cities in America.&#8221;  No surprise, then, that the city&#8217;s finances are in a shambles.  What is a surprise is the fact that, faced with a looming budget collapse, the City has suddenly discovered capitalist incentives:  it&#8217;s offering the big employers tax cuts to stay in the City.
This is a smart move on San Francisco&#8217;s part.  (And I can&#8217;t believe I wrote that sentence about the City that doesn&#8217;t know how.) ...]]></description>
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		<title>Yeah, I&#8217;m not thrilled about that J. Crew advertisement either</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/feminism/yeah-im-not-thrilled-about-that-j-crew-advertisement-either/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/feminism/yeah-im-not-thrilled-about-that-j-crew-advertisement-either/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The big &#8220;conservatives are evil&#8221; exhibit of the moment is conservative protests over at Fox about a J. Crew advertisement in which a mom happily paints her five year old son&#8217;s toenails pink.  I think it&#8217;s worth adding here that the boy clearly hasn&#8217;t had a haircut in a while.  In other words, if the ad didn&#8217;t identify him as a boy, he would be sexless &#8212; neither boy nor girl, just sexually content neutral.
The ad itself is pretty darn innocuous, but it is symptomatic of something much ...]]></description>
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		<title>Inbreeding and sadism &#8212; on a vast scale</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/health/inbreeding-and-sadism-on-a-vast-scale/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/health/inbreeding-and-sadism-on-a-vast-scale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading and enjoying Leslie Carroll&#8217;s Royal Pains: A Rogues&#8217; Gallery of Brats, Brutes, and Bad Seeds.  Focusing on Eastern and Western Europe from the 12th century onwards, it&#8217;s a brisk walk through royal excesses.
Having read about half the book now, I think that &#8220;bad seeds&#8221; is the operative phrase in the title.  One of the stand-out features of European royalty is the inbreeding, because the royals confined themselves to an extremely small pool of available matrimonial candidates.  This meant that cousin marriages were normative. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Putting the sexual identity cart before the accomplishment horse</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/education/putting-the-sexual-identity-cart-before-the-accomplishment-horse/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/education/putting-the-sexual-identity-cart-before-the-accomplishment-horse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I&#8217;ll admit that my post title is awkward, but it sums up what California State Senator Mark Leno is trying to do in California public schools:  namely, put a person&#8217;s sexuality front and center, with a tag-on coda about the person&#8217;s actual accomplishments.  This isn&#8217;t the first time a gay California legislator has tried this.
Here&#8217;s Leno&#8217;s press release:
Senator Mark Leno introduced legislation today that helps address the  nations bullying crisis by ensuring that historical contributions of  lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are accurately ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Bookworm Turns &#8212; an e-book with collected posts from the Bookworm Room</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/the-bookworm-turns-an-e-book-with-collected-posts-from-the-bookworm-room/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/the-bookworm-turns-an-e-book-with-collected-posts-from-the-bookworm-room/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 04:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started blogging in 2004, right before the election, and was hooked. After years of churning out legal briefs, it was an endless pleasure to write about politics, pop culture, education, social issues, national security, the media, and whatever else caught my attention. It was wonderful, too, to develop a new writing style, one that allowed me a type of word play and wit denied the legal writer.
My first year&#8217;s posts were not memorable. Over the years, though, after writing about 9,000 posts, ranging from minimalist (&#8220;Hey, check this out!&#8221;) ...]]></description>
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		<title>A post you should read at a blog you should visit</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/education/a-post-you-should-read-at-a-blog-you-should-visit/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/education/a-post-you-should-read-at-a-blog-you-should-visit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 20:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My son asked me &#8220;Is Princeton a good school?&#8221; I didn&#8217;t quite know how to answer that. It&#8217;s an old school. It&#8217;s a school with a great reputation. It&#8217;s expensive. It has its pick of the nation&#8217;s best students. It also employs Paul Krugman and Peter Singer.
What!? You don&#8217;t know who Peter Singer is, but you think he might be some old Leftist folk singer? (No, that&#8217;s Pete Seeger.) Peter Singer is a world renowned &#8220;ethicist,&#8221; and sits in an endowed chair at Princeton. I&#8217;ve blogged about him before:
Peter Singer, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Liberals &#8212; lording it over lesser beings</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/media/liberals-lording-it-over-lesser-beings/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/media/liberals-lording-it-over-lesser-beings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there is one defining characteristic of liberals, it is their sense that they are better than everyone else.  Nowhere was that more explicitly illustrated than in Ron Schiller&#8217;s comments:
In my personal opinion, liberals today might be more educated, fair and balanced than conservatives.
Schiller wasn&#8217;t unique, just unguarded.  The whole point of liberalism, after all, is to put government &#8212; controlled, of course, by liberals &#8212; in charge of everyone else&#8217;s lives.
This world view requires that liberals occupy the highest rungs in the world hierarchy.  Part of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Charlie Sheen and the bedlamite approach to insanity</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/media/charlie-sheen-and-the-bedlamite-approach-to-insanity/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/media/charlie-sheen-and-the-bedlamite-approach-to-insanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[England&#8217;s Bethlem Royal Hospital, founded in the 13th Century as part of a convent, eventually transformed itself into the world&#8217;s first facility dedicated to the mentally ill.  By the 16th Century, when it housed only the mentally ill, it was famous for the cruelty with which those patients were treated.  The word &#8220;bedlam,&#8221; which describes a situation that is completely out of control, is a bastardization of the hospital&#8217;s name.
For centuries, Bethlem Royal Hospital was also once of London&#8217;s most popular tourist attractions.  For a penny, people ...]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s entirely possible that, when it comes to gay marriage and the First Amendment, pluralism won&#8217;t work.</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/religion/its-entirely-possible-that-when-it-comes-to-gay-marriage-and-the-first-amendment-pluralism-wont-work/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/religion/its-entirely-possible-that-when-it-comes-to-gay-marriage-and-the-first-amendment-pluralism-wont-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rodney King got his 15 minutes of fame for (a) getting beaten up while resisting arrest; (b) having his name attached to some horrific riots; and (c) plaintively asking &#8220;Can we get along?&#8221;  The last is a great thought.  I&#8217;d like to get along with people better myself.  &#8220;Getting along,&#8221; though, presupposes that people have the same goals and values.  In our pluralist society, even when we have differences, we mostly limp along all right.  Elections shuttle different value systems in and out of power ...]]></description>
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		<title>Life in the nanny state</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/life-in-the-nanny-state/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/life-in-the-nanny-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading Rick Steves&#8217; Italy 2011 (the 2010) version, when I was surprised to learn this little fact on page 21:
Because Europeans are generally careful with energy use, you&#8217;ll find government-enforced limits on air-conditioning and heating.  There&#8217;s a one-month period each spring and fall when neither is allowed.
For those of us in Marin who have been fussing about PG&#38;E installing smart meters on their houses (something that happened to our house, will she nil she), that little paragraph is a stark harbinger of the future in the nanny ...]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative candidates are better looking</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/liberals/conservative-candidates-are-better-looking/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/liberals/conservative-candidates-are-better-looking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 03:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve long suspected it, but now we know it&#8217;s true:  objectively speaking, conservative political candidates are indeed better looking:
Rightwing candidates are better looking than their leftwing  counterparts, something they benefit from during elections, according to  a study conducted by Swedish and Finnish economists.
The economists who conducted the study figured this out by asking people to look at candidate pictures that did not indicate the party with which the candidate was affiliated.  Conservative candidates won this beauty contest.
I don&#8217;t quarrel with the study&#8217;s bottom-line conclusion.  We ...]]></description>
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		<title>Regressives</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/unions/regressives/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/unions/regressives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Progressives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Roger Simon, among others, has noted that the demonstrations in Madison demonstrate how old-fashioned the modern Left is, something that&#8217;s true despite the Left&#8217;s attempt to re-brand itself with the name &#8220;Progressive.&#8221;  It therefore seemed appropriate for me to run again an article I wrote for American Thinker back in September 2007.  My section on the unions (&#8220;Look for the union label&#8221;) seems prescient now.
***
Regressives
Language is anything  but static, something for which we must be grateful.  It&#8217;s the dynamism  of the English language that, at ...]]></description>
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		<title>More thoughts on Wisconsin</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/unions/more-thoughts-on-wisconsin/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/unions/more-thoughts-on-wisconsin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The average Wisconsin teacher has a better total compensation package than the average Wisconsin taxpayer.  After the proposed legislation goes through, the average Wisconsin teacher will still have a better total compensation package than the average Wisconsin taxpayer.  If this was 1789, events in Madison would be the equivalent of the French aristocrats taking to the streets, attired in satins, silks and jewels, and armed with pitchforks and pikes, to stridently demand even more from France&#8217;s starved and overworked peasantry.
Let&#8217;s get serious, though.  The issue, of course, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts about the Wisconsin teachers&#8217; union</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/unions/thoughts-about-the-wisconsin-teachers-union/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/unions/thoughts-about-the-wisconsin-teachers-union/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Walker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teachers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Updated to correct information about Wisconsin teacher salaries.]
As I understand it, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, faced with a $3.6 billion biennial budget deficit (for the years 2011-2013), had the choice of raising taxes in his financially beleaguered state or firing up to 6,000 state employees.  He chose a third route, proposing that Wisconsin&#8217;s public sector employees start carrying a small portion of their pension and benefit load.  The Heritage Foundation summarizes Walker&#8217;s proposal as follows:
Walker’s proposal would limit collective bargaining power and reform public employee  benefit plans. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Never underestimate hate from the Left, especially when it comes to conservative blacks</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/african-americans/never-underestimate-hate-from-the-left-especially-when-it-comes-to-conservative-blacks/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/african-americans/never-underestimate-hate-from-the-left-especially-when-it-comes-to-conservative-blacks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Americans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herman Cain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Progressives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, I read and enjoyed Jeannie DeAngelis&#8217; post about a potential Herman Cain candidacy.  From everything I&#8217;ve heard, including musings from our own Danny Lemieux, Cain is a person one would like to have in the White House.  He may not have a political track record, but he&#8217;s still got a lot more under his belt than our current president.  The latter had a few years voting &#8220;present&#8221; in regional and national senates, and a cushioned existence as a lecturer and activist.  Cain has lived ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama suffers an empathy failure when it comes to Israel</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/israel/obama-suffers-an-empathy-failure-when-it-comes-to-israel/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/israel/obama-suffers-an-empathy-failure-when-it-comes-to-israel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s think about Israel from the Israeli viewpoint for a minute, shall we?  It is, by any standards, an extremely small country.  Within its own borders, it is a sophisticated Western-style nation that leads the world in scientific innovation.  Its political system is a parliamentary style democratic republic.  Although its system isn&#8217;t perfect, no one questions the fact that it extends full civil rights to all citizens within its borders, regardless of race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, or country of national origin.
Another fact about Israel? ...]]></description>
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		<title>Friendships in a cyber age</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/friendships-in-a-cyber-age/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/friendships-in-a-cyber-age/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joshua Goldberg]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rightwingnews.com/?p=26529</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Joshua Goldberg&#8217;s sudden death, at age 43, has really saddened me.  I feel as if I&#8217;ve lost a friend &#8212; not a best friend, because we weren&#8217;t that close, but a friend nevertheless.  What&#8217;s funny, though, is that I never actually met Joshua.  I never talked to him on the phone.  I never even saw him across the room.  Instead, our friendship played out entirely over the internet.  We emailed each other.  When I needed help, he gave it.  When he had ...]]></description>
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		<title>I now pronounce the Archbishop of Canterbury officially insane</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/religion/i-now-pronounce-the-archbishop-of-canterbury-officially-insane/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/religion/i-now-pronounce-the-archbishop-of-canterbury-officially-insane/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Archbishop of Canterbury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rowan Williams]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Archbishopric of Canterbury used to be a pretty important job.  The guy who held that position, going back to the earliest Middle Ages, was the premier leader of the English church, whether that church gave allegiance to Rome or the British Monarch.  The current Archbishop, Rowan Williams is, as best as I can tell, insane.
A few years ago, he made a place for himself on the radar by supporting sharia law which is (a) anti-Christian and (b) antithetical to Western notions of human rights.  I don&#8217;t ...]]></description>
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		<title>Barack Obama&#8217;s &#8220;understanding&#8221; of all things Muslim</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/barack-obamas-understanding-of-all-things-muslim/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/barack-obamas-understanding-of-all-things-muslim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was six years old, within a few short months, I went from having perfect vision to being extremely nearsighted.  I was discussing that fact with a friend today, and noted that I have no memory of ever having seen well without help from glasses or contacts.
This comment made me realize how little of our childhood sticks with us.  As adults, we have few large and coherent memories of our first five years.  From the years between six and ten, our memories expand, but they&#8217;re still ...]]></description>
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		<title>It is (I hope) not futile to resist the Islamic Borg</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/europe/it-is-i-hope-not-futile-to-resist-the-islamic-borg/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/europe/it-is-i-hope-not-futile-to-resist-the-islamic-borg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 23:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jihad]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things the Leftist multiculturalists refuse to acknowledge is that Islam does not assimilate.  Individual practitioners of the faith may, periodically and superficially, espouse the culture in which they live, but the fact remains that Islam, by its nature, is the Borg.
Borg-like, the Islam collective&#8217;s motto is &#8220;Resistance is futile.  You will be assimilated.&#8221;  The Borg/Islam collective does not recognize the possibility that it might be the entity that assimilates.  As with the fictional Borg populating Star Trek : The Next Generation, when the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Defining our terms when we speak about Egypt</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/foreign-affairs/defining-our-terms-when-we-speak-about-egypt/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/foreign-affairs/defining-our-terms-when-we-speak-about-egypt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people keep talking about a desire for a &#8220;democratic&#8221; Egypt.  I hate to say it but, with the word &#8220;democratic&#8221; as the starting point, that&#8217;s not a very useful discussion.  The dictionary definition of a &#8220;democracy&#8221; is as follows:
government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
In other words, a democracy is one in which every citizen or, at least, every ...]]></description>
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		<title>Is global warming hysteria responsible for Egypt&#8217;s revolution?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/climate-change/is-global-warming-hysteria-responsible-for-egypts-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/climate-change/is-global-warming-hysteria-responsible-for-egypts-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Track me on this one:
1.  With help from Al Gore, Hollywood, and the entire Leftist panoply, global warming fears reach hysterical levels.
2.  As part of their apocalyptic battle against rising seas and dying polar bears, warmists declare ethanol is one of the answers (never mind that it turns out that it takes 1.5 gallons of fossil fuel to produce a gallon of ethanol).
3.  Did I mention that ethanol comes from corn?  In the old days, people used to eat corn.  Now they drive it.
4.  ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Egypt crisis; or, the Community Activist and foreign policy</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/the-egypt-crisis-or-the-community-activist-and-foreign-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/the-egypt-crisis-or-the-community-activist-and-foreign-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dictatorships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was going to open this post with a snarky line about whether anybody with even marginal intelligence expected a 40-something community activist to have the necessary chops to deal with an international crisis of the type currently unfolding in Egypt.  Indeed, I think I still will:  Does anybody with an IQ over the single digits seriously believe that a former community activist and part-time legal lecturer has the skills and knowledge to handle the revolutionary disarray unfolding on Egypt&#8217;s streets right now?  No.  I didn&#8217;t ...]]></description>
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		<title>Comparing apples and oranges &#8212; federal projects old and new</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/government-waste/comparing-apples-and-oranges-federal-projects-old-and-new/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/government-waste/comparing-apples-and-oranges-federal-projects-old-and-new/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 04:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government Waste]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rumor has it that the President is going to use the State of the Union address to call for more government spending.  Much more government spending:
President Barack Obama will call for new government spending on  infrastructure, education and research in his State of the Union address  Tuesday, sharpening his response to Republicans in Congress who are  demanding deep budget cuts, people familiar with the speech said.
Mr. Obama will argue that the U.S., even while trying to reduce its  budget deficit, must make targeted investments to ...]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas appreciation</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/religion/a-christmas-appreciation/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/religion/a-christmas-appreciation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christians]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Tis the season for the usual politically correct attacks on Christmas.  Ecumenical signs, disingenuously trimmed with Christmas holly and ornaments, urge a generic &#8220;Happy Holidays.&#8221;  Bank inspectors, perhaps seeking an easier task than examining a bank&#8217;s books, remove crosses.  Every December, Scrooge takes his steroids and is out in full force.
You&#8217;d think, of course, that I, a non-practicing Jew with a fairly loose sense of God, would be delighted by these rigorous efforts to protect innocent Americans from rampant Christmas celebrations.  But alas for the do-gooders ...]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting assumptions underlying a study about Fox viewers&#8217; ignorance</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/media/interesting-assumptions-underlying-a-study-about-fox-viewers-ignorance/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/media/interesting-assumptions-underlying-a-study-about-fox-viewers-ignorance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 06:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Bias]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times reported today on a study showing that the more one watchers Fox news, the less one knows:
In particular, they found that regular viewers of the Fox News  Channel, which tilts to the right in prime time, were significantly more  likely to believe untruths about the Democratic health care overhaul,  climate change and other subjects.
The study found other cases where greater exposure to media meant  greater misinformation on a subject. Regular viewers of MSNBC, which  tilts to  the left in prime ...]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans = slavery lovers (or so saith an article in the NYT)</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/constitution/republicans-slavery-lovers-or-so-saith-an-article-in-the-nyt/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/constitution/republicans-slavery-lovers-or-so-saith-an-article-in-the-nyt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 06:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[states rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every summer for the past several years, we&#8217;ve gone to a local (and wonderful) Civil War reenactment.  Without exception, the people who have chosen to reenact the Southern side will tell one, quite earnestly, that the Southern side was about states&#8217; rights, not about slavery.  Even 145 years after the war ended (or perhaps I should say, especially 145 years after the war ended) there is no other line to take to justify dressing up in the gray, even for the fun of playing with fake guns and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Challenging the notion that it&#8217;s beneficial to a society to have every citizen highly educated</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/education/challenging-the-notion-that-its-beneficial-to-a-society-to-have-every-citizen-highly-educated/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/education/challenging-the-notion-that-its-beneficial-to-a-society-to-have-every-citizen-highly-educated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a somewhat random post, since I&#8217;m mushing an idea around in my mind, and would love to have your input.
The start for this post is my upbringing.  I was raised in a European household (although that household was located in America).  Both my parents came from the educated class, but both were comfortable with the European notion of trade schools.  In Europe, of course, this notion had been tied to class.  The upper class got the &#8220;no calluses&#8221; education of reading, writing and &#8216;rithmetic; ...]]></description>
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		<title>Something very, very weird is going on in Washington</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/something-very-very-weird-is-going-on-in-washington/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/something-very-very-weird-is-going-on-in-washington/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Are the wheels coming off the bus, or are we witnessing the most brilliant, and dangerous, political theater in our life times?
Here&#8217;s what it looked like a few days ago:  the President caved on maintaining the current tax rate, leaving Republicans triumphant.  In exchange, it seemed as if the Republicans were extending unemployment benefits, which is fiscally offensive (and socially dangerous), but survivable.  The President foll0wed that cave-in by holding a bizarre press conference, in which he likened Republicans to terrorists and hostage takers, and scolded his ...]]></description>
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		<title>No air of verisimilitude to this otherwise unconvincing narrative</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/europe/no-air-of-verisimilitude-to-this-otherwise-unconvincing-narrative/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/europe/no-air-of-verisimilitude-to-this-otherwise-unconvincing-narrative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marxism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Geifman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cenotaph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Gilmour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dave Gilmour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pink Floyd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It turns out that the young man who hung on the Union Jack flag in order to climb a cenotaph dedicated to the dead of WWI, a cenotaph that has inscribed on it in large letters &#8220;the glorious dead,&#8221; has apologized, claiming he knew not what he did.
Hogwash.
First of all, any halfway civilized person knows that people will take umbrage if, during a violent protest, you use your nation&#8217;s flag as a rappelling rope.  Second, as noted, the Cenotaph doesn&#8217;t hide its identity as a war memorial.  It ...]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s no fun, being an illegal alien</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/legal/its-no-fun-being-an-illegal-alien/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/legal/its-no-fun-being-an-illegal-alien/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rightwingnews.com/?p=23307</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Life can be tough when you break the law.  The people who murdered Annie Mae Aquash discovered this fact when they were arrested and tried for murder 35 years after killing Aquash.  Sara Jane Olson, an SLA terrorist during the 1970s, discovered that when her quiet, suburban life in Minnesota was revealed and she spent several years in jail, despite the fact that she had three children.  My sister&#8217;s friend discovered this tough rule when he was hauled off to jail after unwittingly having had sex with ...]]></description>
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		<title>The morality of education and the DREAM Act</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/immigration/the-morality-of-education-and-the-dream-act/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/immigration/the-morality-of-education-and-the-dream-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t see Harry Reid having the political umph to pass the DREAM Act, but I also never imagined back in 2007 that Barack Obama would be President, so what do I know?
I do know that I have a problem with the DREAM Act, and that&#8217;s despite the fact that there are some very pragmatic reasons to pass it.  Michael Gerson articulates them well:
The legislation would create a path to citizenship for illegal  immigrants brought to the United States as children. Applicants must  have graduated from high ...]]></description>
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		<title>Liberal thinking in a cup of tea</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/liberals/liberal-thinking-in-a-cup-of-tea/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/liberals/liberal-thinking-in-a-cup-of-tea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Liberals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are a family of tea drinkers.  As dedicated tea drinkers, we like good tea, which usually means loose leaf tea.  Loose leaf tea, in turn, means special tea makers.  Our favorite is the Adagio Ingenuitea Teapot, which makes one perfect cup of tea at a time.  The only downside of the Ingenuitea maker is that, as you carry it from workspace to sink, a drop or two of tea will escape floorwards.  Since I take my tea black, this is not a problem.  ...]]></description>
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		<title>Israel, American Jews, American Christians and a whole bunch of other stuff too</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/israel/israel-american-jews-american-christians-and-a-whole-bunch-of-other-stuff-too/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/israel/israel-american-jews-american-christians-and-a-whole-bunch-of-other-stuff-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 02:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joel Mowbray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Jewish Coalition]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I struggled for a few minutes to find a clever title for this post that would convey the volume of information I&#8217;m about to download from my brain, but realized I couldn&#8217;t.  A laundry list description will just have to do.
You see, last night, I had the pleasure of attending a Hanukkah party that the NorCal chapter of the Republican Jewish Coalition hosted.  What wasn&#8217;t surprising was that conservative Jews attended the party.  What was surprising was that they came from all over the Bay Area. Apparently ...]]></description>
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		<title>Liam Neeson &#8212; great voice, little brain</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/religion/liam-neeson-great-voice-little-brain/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/religion/liam-neeson-great-voice-little-brain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 19:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aslan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C.S. Lewis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liam Neeson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Narnia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Liam Neeson, who does the voice of Aslan the Lion in the Narnia movies, has upset people by claiming that Aslan could as easily be Allah or Buddha as he could be Christ:
Ahead  of the release of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader next Thursday, Neeson  said: ‘Aslan symbolises a Christ-like figure but he also symbolises for  me Mohammed, Buddha and all the great spiritual leaders and prophets  over the centuries.
‘That’s who Aslan stands for as well as a mentor figure for kids – that’s what ...]]></description>
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		<title>Taxes, government dependency and happiness</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/economy/taxes-government-dependency-and-happiness/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/economy/taxes-government-dependency-and-happiness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denmark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sweden]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rightwingnews.com/?p=22486</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two interesting things rolled across my desk today, interesting because they address the same topic &#8212; dependence on Big Government &#8212; but reach diametrically opposite conclusions.  The first is a Dennis Prager column that examines why American conservatives are happier than American liberals.  This isn&#8217;t just Dennis&#8217; opinion, by the way.  Instead, several recent polls have shown that, on the whole, conservatives are happier people.
Dennis opines that the matter essentially boils down to a few key differences in outlook.  One is a sense of victimhood.  ...]]></description>
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		<title>American taxpayers officially on the hook for a 1.7 mile tunnel in SF</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/government-waste/american-taxpayers-officially-on-the-hook-for-a-1-7-mile-tunnel-in-sf/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/government-waste/american-taxpayers-officially-on-the-hook-for-a-1-7-mile-tunnel-in-sf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 01:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government Waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Subway]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rightwingnews.com/?p=22328</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I blogged earlier this week about the fact that San Francisco, which is broke, was trying to find $137 million so that the feds would provide it with almost $1 billion dollars in funds to build a 1.7 mile subway tunnel.  Federal money, of course, is your money.  This is not money belonging to beleaguered San Francisco taxpayers, who could move elsewhere if they no longer want to fund the madness.  This money &#8212; almost $1 billion &#8212; comes from you, the American taxpayer, no matter where ...]]></description>
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		<title>Another conversation with a liberal:  &#8220;You won&#8217;t like it, because I say no one else does&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/liberals/another-conversation-with-a-liberal-you-wont-like-it-because-i-say-no-one-else-does/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/liberals/another-conversation-with-a-liberal-you-wont-like-it-because-i-say-no-one-else-does/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Liberals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pizza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Round Table]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My liberal friend and I were talking about having pizza for dinner.  I suggested Round Table.  My friend was appalled.
Liberal Friend:  &#8220;Round Table is awful.&#8221;
Me:  &#8220;I like it.&#8221;
Liberal Friend:  &#8220;It&#8217;s awful.  Just go on Yelp.&#8221;
Me:  &#8220;Why should I go on Yelp?  That&#8217;s helpful if I haven&#8217;t been some place and am trying to get I feel for it.  I&#8217;ve already been to Round Table, and I know that I like it.&#8221;
Liberal Friend:  &#8220;It gets terrible reviews on Yelp.&#8221;  (This ...]]></description>
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		<title>Your PC, supportive IRS at work</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/taxes/your-pc-supportive-irs-at-work/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/taxes/your-pc-supportive-irs-at-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internal Revenue Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many of us view the IRS with a certain amount of suspicion.  Being fair-minded people, we know that all societies need some mechanism to collect revenue  to pay for basic government services (with the fault lying with Congress  if those revenue demands are excessive).  We also know that our family and friends may work for it, and that they do so in an honorable capacity.
Nevertheless, there&#8217;s no getting past the fact that the IRS is a huge government bureaucracy that can, and will, destroy you if ...]]></description>
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		<title>George Soros:  A missing moral compass</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/misc/george-soros-a-missing-moral-compass/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/misc/george-soros-a-missing-moral-compass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Soros]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rightwingnews.com/?p=22078</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my &#8220;real&#8221; facebook world, there&#8217;s been a lot of outrage over Glenn Beck&#8217;s excavation of George Soros&#8217; adolescent work for the Nazis, work Soros (a Jew) engaged in to stay alive while passing as a Christian in Nazi occupied territory.  Liberals howl &#8220;How dare Beck judge Soros? &#8221; But is that what Beck is doing or is Beck judging the person that helpless boy grew up to become?  I don&#8217;t know, because I don&#8217;t watch Beck, but here is the argument I would make if I had ...]]></description>
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		<title>Our de-aspirational society; or, a society aiming for victimization and tawdriness</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/education/our-de-aspirational-society-or-a-society-aiming-for-victimization-and-tawdriness/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/education/our-de-aspirational-society-or-a-society-aiming-for-victimization-and-tawdriness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Political Correctness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than a hundred years ago, writing in a deeply religious era, Robert Browning observed &#8220;Ah, but a man&#8217;s reach should exceed his grasp, or what&#8217;s a heaven for?&#8221;  Perhaps it&#8217;s no surprise that today, in a society with a pop and media culture dominated by secularists who have abandoned entirely the notion of heaven, our young people are encouraged, not to reach for the stars, but to engage in base behavior, bounded by the lowest possible common denominator of victim identification.
Any0ne over thirty (or, maybe, forty) will no ...]]></description>
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		<title>Changing reality, one word at a time</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/misc/changing-reality-one-word-at-a-time/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/misc/changing-reality-one-word-at-a-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is an absolutely true story:
The conversation at my Mom&#8217;s retirement home got around to the subject of dogs.  Someone mentioned the Belgian Sheepdog.
&#8220;Oh,&#8221; my Mom said.  &#8220;My own mother had one of those before WWI.  It was a beautiful dog.  It looked a little like a German shepherd, only it was black&#8211;&#8221;
One of the ladies in the conversation interrupted:  &#8220;Dear, we don&#8217;t use that word any more.&#8221;
My Mom, nonplussed, asked &#8220;What word?&#8221;
&#8220;Black, dear.  Now that Obama is president, we don&#8217;t use that word ...]]></description>
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		<title>In honor of Veteran&#8217;s Day &#8212; thoughts about redemption</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/military/in-honor-of-veterans-day-thoughts-about-redemption/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/military/in-honor-of-veterans-day-thoughts-about-redemption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marco Martinez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Veteran's Day]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rightwingnews.com/?p=21645</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I was a child, I&#8217;ve enjoyed a very specific type of book or movie, of the kind that I call the &#8220;Getting it Right&#8221; genre.  Getting it Right entertainment involves a protagonist who is making big mistakes, and who figures out how to &#8212; yes &#8212; get it right.  The moral trajectory of failure and redemption is one that that I have always found deeply satisfying.
The easiest example of this genre is, of course, Groundhog Day.  Bill Murray&#8217;s character, Phil, is loathsome in myriad petty ways. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Judge not lest ye be judged</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/legal/judge-not-lest-ye-be-judged/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/legal/judge-not-lest-ye-be-judged/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[People who know me in person also know that nothing is more likely to send my blood pressure spiking than talk about judges.  (To any of my readers who are in fact judges, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re the exception to anything nasty I might be about to say about judges.)  I dislike judges, something that is almost certainly a product of having practiced law in the San Francisco Bay Ara for the entire length of my career.
In the Bay Area, the vast majority of judges act as if they ...]]></description>
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		<title>Why I am a fascist (according to my liberal friend)</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/tea-parties/why-i-am-a-fascist-according-to-my-liberal-friend/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/tea-parties/why-i-am-a-fascist-according-to-my-liberal-friend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tea Parties]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve related in past posts, my liberal friend repeatedly calls me a  fascist or Nazi for supporting the Tea Party.  Aside from being really  rude, these appellations bewilder me.  The historical record is very  clear that both the Italian fascists and the Germany Nazis were socialists.  Socialism, by definition, means the concentration of political and economic power in the hands of a single government entity:
Any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of ...]]></description>
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		<title>NPR&#8217;s carefully crafted tales &#8212; and why I don&#8217;t listen any more</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/media/nprs-carefully-crafted-tales-and-why-i-dont-listen-any-more/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/media/nprs-carefully-crafted-tales-and-why-i-dont-listen-any-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Media Bias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NPR]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I left law school, a switch tripped in my brain.  Whereas before I&#8217;d listened only to top twenty music, I suddenly got bored with music and switched to news.  But not just any news.  NPR news.  Whenever I was in the car, I had my radio tuned to my local public radio station.  In those days, I spent a lot of time in the care, so I listened to a lot of the stories flowing from that station.  I considered myself extremely well-informed. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Those wacky, extreme, ill-informed, violent, dishonest Democrat politicians</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/those-wacky-extreme-ill-informed-violent-dishonest-democrat-politicians/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/those-wacky-extreme-ill-informed-violent-dishonest-democrat-politicians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My liberal friend &#8212; the same one who thinks that, politically, Tea Partiers are American Nazis &#8212; is also convinced that Tea Party candidates are nut jobs, more suited for an insane asylum or remedial education class, than for high office.  My friend&#8217;s belief is actually unsurprising, since that is the song the media is singing.  After all, Christine O&#8217;Donnell flirted with witchcraft when she was 16 &#8212; an age, as we know, when all Democrats were already wise beyond their years.
When I countered that the Democrat politicians ...]]></description>
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		<title>Californians:  Vote a straight Republican ticket</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/californians-vote-a-straight-republican-ticket/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/californians-vote-a-straight-republican-ticket/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2010]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Sally Zelikovsky says it in the clearest words possible:  Unless conservatives in California vote for the Republicans, we will have a Sacramento government made up entirely of San Francisco Democrats.  If that horrible outcome sounds painfully obvious to you, you don&#8217;t know California.
There are two dynamics in California that are a problem.  First, conservatives don&#8217;t like the Republican candidates.  (They&#8217;re right not to.  Fiorina is lovely &#8212; and may she get well soon &#8212; but the others are &#8220;eh&#8221; at best.)  This ...]]></description>
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		<title>Finding meaning in the dustpan &#8212; or how Little Women, housekeeping, socialism and capitalism are all related</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/capitalism/finding-meaning-in-the-dustpan-or-how-little-women-housekeeping-socialism-and-capitalism-are-all-related/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/capitalism/finding-meaning-in-the-dustpan-or-how-little-women-housekeeping-socialism-and-capitalism-are-all-related/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Little Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louisa May Alcott]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Believe it or not, in an act of near heroic intellectual prestidigitation, I&#8217;m going to explain to you how Little Women, housekeeping, socialism and capitalism are all related.  Or at least I&#8217;m going to try.  Here goes:
One of my all time least favorite movies is the 1994 version of Little Women.  It is a beautiful movie, and lovingly done, but it totally fails to &#8220;get&#8221; the message in Louisa May Alcott&#8217;s classic book.  In fact, it gets the message topsy-turvey, and that kind of thing irks ...]]></description>
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		<title>Why Tom Friedman is an idiot</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/media/why-tom-friedman-is-an-idiot/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/media/why-tom-friedman-is-an-idiot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tom Friedman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Despite being about the pompous and boring Tom Friedman, this is not an appropriate post for the under-18 crowd.]
I don&#8217;t think that there&#8217;s any doubt BUT that Tom Friedman is an idiot.  His worship for Communist China &#8212; which in typical Friedman fashion routinely takes the form of acknowledging its failings, yet nevertheless lusting after the same power that creates those failings &#8212; is manifest evidence of his idiocy.  He&#8217;s coy, but he can&#8217;t disguise his unwholesome passion for totalitarianism.
It&#8217;s not just his totalitarian yearnings, though, that make ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Left transforms Civil Rights, so that it&#8217;s no longer freedom FROM government, but total control BY government</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/civil-rights/the-left-transforms-civil-rights-so-that-its-no-longer-freedom-from-government-but-total-control-by-government/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/civil-rights/the-left-transforms-civil-rights-so-that-its-no-longer-freedom-from-government-but-total-control-by-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill of Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Civil rights are much discussed lately, primarily because Progressives with bully-pulpits are furious that Glenn Beck held a rally at the Lincoln Memorial on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King&#8217;s famous civil rights rally at that same location.  To hear them tell it, in the wake of the &#8220;Civil Rights Movement,&#8221; civil rights are entirely a black thing, and whites who parade around in the civil rights mantel are manifestly racists.
It says much about the Orwellian twists the Progressive mind takes that its spokespeople can, with a straight ...]]></description>
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		<title>Being forgiven for our past sins &#8212; or, maybe, O&#8217;Donnell has grown up</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/election-2010/being-forgiven-for-our-past-sins-or-maybe-odonnell-has-grown-up/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/election-2010/being-forgiven-for-our-past-sins-or-maybe-odonnell-has-grown-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christine O'Donnell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I know this will come as a surprise to all of you, but I was not born wise or well informed.  I blush to think of some of the behaviors in which I indulged, and the ideas that I held, when I was younger.
When I was a very little girl, I picked up from the secular people surrounding me the idea that there is no God.  Not only did I refuse to say the Pledge of Allegiance, although I was scared enough of the teacher that I still ...]]></description>
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		<title>I know a shallow intellect when I see it &#8212; or why Obama&#8217;s carpet and Jan Brewer&#8217;s brain freeze are two sides of the same coin</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/i-know-a-shallow-intellect-when-i-see-it-or-why-obamas-carpet-and-jan-brewers-brain-freeze-are-two-sides-of-the-same-coin/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/i-know-a-shallow-intellect-when-i-see-it-or-why-obamas-carpet-and-jan-brewers-brain-freeze-are-two-sides-of-the-same-coin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jan Brewer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in high school, I developed a trick to make myself look smarter.  I learned the beginning of a few key quotations, all tied into the classical literary or historic canon.  At appropriate moments in a conversation, I&#8217;d start the quote, and then quickly trail off, as if I didn&#8217;t want to bore the listener with the whole thing.  That left the listener with the impression, completely untrue, that I actually knew the whole work from which the quotation was drawn.
&#8220;Well, of course he&#8217;s lazy. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Helping American Jews learn to give Sarah Palin the love she deserves</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/sarah-palin/helping-american-jews-learn-to-give-sarah-palin-the-love-she-deserves/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/sarah-palin/helping-american-jews-learn-to-give-sarah-palin-the-love-she-deserves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Israel has no greater friend than Sarah Palin.  She has shown repeatedly that she has a deep and abiding respect for the Jewish state, and that she understands the existential stresses under which it survives.  Benyamin Korn gets this and, despite incredible derision from Jewish Democrats, has begun working to build a Jewish coalition recognizing Sarah&#8217;s myriad virtues vis a vis Israel.
As part of Korn&#8217;s effort, he has started a blog site called Jewish Americans for Sarah Palin.  The website needs a bit of polishing, especially since ...]]></description>
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		<title>New country discovered at the Marin County Fair</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/israel/new-country-discovered-at-the-marin-county-fair/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/israel/new-country-discovered-at-the-marin-county-fair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent yesterday at the Marin County Fair.  It was, for the most part, a very pleasant experience and could have been any county fair, anywhere in America.
The kids wanted to spend all their time on the midway, standing in long hot lines, spinning to the point of acute nausea, and being suspended upside down for considerable amounts of time.  The carnies hawked games guaranteed to lose you as much money as possible, as quickly as possible, in pursuit of elusive and always disappointing prizes.
Inside the fair buildings, ...]]></description>
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		<title>A Marxist indictment of capitalism &#8212; and why the indictment must be wrong</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/marxism/a-marxist-indictment-of-capitalism-and-why-the-indictment-must-be-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/marxism/a-marxist-indictment-of-capitalism-and-why-the-indictment-must-be-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marxism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Anchoress posted at her blog a semi-animated video by a self-avowed Marxist explaining why Marxism, not capitalism, will save the world.  I have to admit that I didn&#8217;t watch it.  It wasn&#8217;t the content that drove me away, it was the choppy visuals, which trigger migraines.  Having just beaten back a migraine, I wasn&#8217;t willing to go for round two.  If you want to watch it, though, please do so, here.
Without having seen the video, though, I can still tell you that anything it says ...]]></description>
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		<title>Memorial Day Post:  The Warriors Among Us</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/military/memorial-day-post-the-warriors-among-us/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/military/memorial-day-post-the-warriors-among-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 20:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, as part of a 9/11 commemoration, I wrote the following words in connection with a post I did about Lt. Brian Ahearn, one of the New York fire fighters who perished on that day:
My son, who is seven, is obsessed with superheroes.  His current  favorite is Superman.  After all, when you’re a little boy, battling  your way through the world, what could be more exciting than the  possibility of being “faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a  locomotive, able ...]]></description>
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		<title>Redefining the term racist so that it suits ME</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/african-americans/redefining-the-term-racist-so-that-it-suits-me/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/african-americans/redefining-the-term-racist-so-that-it-suits-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Americans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Horrified by the fact that the American people are not dancing in the streets now that Obama Care is the law of the land, the Left is doing what it does best:  tarring and feathering anyone who stands in its way.  The current libel is that people who oppose Obama Care are racist.  These foaming-at-the-mouth neo-Nazi KKK tea parties, say the Left, hate that Obama Care is the signature initiative of a black(ish) president, and they hate the fact that their money might be used to benefit ...]]></description>
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		<title>Did you know that the Tea Party Express is rolling?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/tea-parties/did-you-know-that-the-tea-party-express-is-rolling/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/tea-parties/did-you-know-that-the-tea-party-express-is-rolling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tea Parties]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although the Bay Area has a fierce core of conservatives, it is certainly not a bastion of the Tea Party movement.  Many of us, like butterflies newly released from a chrysalis, are for the first time delicately flapping the wings of our ideology.  We&#8217;re not out on the streets in vast numbers, although the success of prior Tea Party protests here has been impressive and invigorating.
I especially am not out on the streets, in large part because I don&#8217;t do well in crowds.  It might be that ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Welfare state, the American Revolution, and the end of the Ancien Regime</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/taxes/the-welfare-state-the-american-revolution-and-the-end-of-the-ancien-regime/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/taxes/the-welfare-state-the-american-revolution-and-the-end-of-the-ancien-regime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, Danny Lemieux, in a comment to this blog, asked a very important question:
If more than 50% of wage earners pay no income tax and can vote  themselves (i.e. parasitize) the labor and assets of the 20% of the  population that pays the large majority of income tax, are we still a  democracy?
A Progressive Democrat would say, &#8220;Of course we&#8217;re still a democracy because everyone gets to vote.&#8221;  (And, after Obama&#8217;s immigration &#8220;reform,&#8221; you can be assured that everyone, including illegal immigrants and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations to the Marines and their Afghan allies for the Marjah victory</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/military/congratulations-to-the-marines-and-their-afghan-allies-for-the-marjah-victory/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/military/congratulations-to-the-marines-and-their-afghan-allies-for-the-marjah-victory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I meant to post this yesterday, but time got away from me:  many, many, many congratulations to the Marines and their Afghan allies for the Marjah victory.  I never doubted that they would win, but I certainly understood that each Marine and Afghan soldier faced the risk that he would make the ultimate sacrifice for that victory.
Naturally, the Times, rather than celebrating a great military feat, is already trying to set up new (and in Times-land, almost certainly insurmountable) hurdles for our troops.  I have no doubt ...]]></description>
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		<title>The common bonds between Iranian Mullahs and the Democrats</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/the-common-bonds-between-iraniah-mullahs-and-the-democrats/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/the-common-bonds-between-iraniah-mullahs-and-the-democrats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, when Bush Derangement Syndrome was at its peak, I tackled the &#8220;he&#8217;s got his finger on the button and he&#8217;s going to blow up the world&#8221; meme that anti-war activists were so shrilly screaming.  I pointed out that there was no evidence whatsoever to indicate that George Bush was an apocalyptic person.  Indeed, every indication was that he was someone who fought reluctantly and defensively only &#8212; that is, he wanted to protect America from destruction at the hands of another.  That his information ...]]></description>
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		<title>Leftist tactics to scare the uninformed about America&#8217;s religious freedoms</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/religion/leftist-tactics-to-scare-the-uninformed-about-americas-religious-freedoms/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/religion/leftist-tactics-to-scare-the-uninformed-about-americas-religious-freedoms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Americans United for Separation of Church and State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Amendment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got a very hysterical form letter from Americans United for Separation of Church and State.  What&#8217;s impressive about it is that Barry Lynn, the Executive Director who purportedly authored this fevered screed, is totally uninformed about the nature of America&#8217;s Constitutional mandates regarding religion.  Here&#8217;s what the First Amendment says:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition ...]]></description>
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		<title>Does Obama trip to Massachusetts presage Coakley&#8217;s failure?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/does-obama-trip-to-massachusetts-presage-coakleys-failure/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/does-obama-trip-to-massachusetts-presage-coakleys-failure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martha Coakley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The last and best word on the subject is that Obama is going to Massachusetts to bring his prestige to bear on the upcoming Massachusetts Senatorial election.  You can hear Coakley confirm this, even as she makes the stunning statement &#8212; stunning considering that she&#8217;s hoping to represent Massachusetts in the United States Senate &#8212; that Curt Schilling, a former, and incredibly successful, Red Sox&#8217;s pitcher, is a Yankees fan:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmNpcMHwOa8[/youtube]
I&#8217;ve decided that it&#8217;s a great thing that Obama is going to Massachusetts, because his track record is a good ...]]></description>
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		<title>A perfect statement about the balance of power between government, citizens and business</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/freedom/a-perfect-statement-about-the-balance-of-power-between-government-citizens-and-business/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/freedom/a-perfect-statement-about-the-balance-of-power-between-government-citizens-and-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, almost without exception, my &#8220;real me&#8221; facebook friends are liberal.  This is true both for the friends I trace back to my school years and for the ones who are part of my daily life today.
Occasionally, I like to tweak my facebook friends a little, not with &#8220;in your face&#8221; confrontations, but simply by dropping into my updates news squiblets they might not know living, as they do, in their hermetically-sealed New York Times/NPR/New Yorker world.  Recently, I linked to a news item about ...]]></description>
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		<title>The paradoxical effect of my &#8220;liberal&#8221; education</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/education/the-paradoxical-effect-of-my-liberal-education/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/education/the-paradoxical-effect-of-my-liberal-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deconstructionism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m having a minor mid-life crisis.  I&#8217;ve been a practicing lawyer for almost 23 years now.  I&#8217;m quite good at what I do, but I hate it.  And lately, it&#8217;s been getting harder and harder to flog myself into getting the work done and meeting the deadlines.  (Although I should assure any current or potential clients reading this post that I do get my work done, and I&#8217;ve never missed a deadline in 22.5 years.  I may be bored, but I&#8217;m good at what I ...]]></description>
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		<title>Another revolting manifestation of Islam&#8217;s obsession with sex</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/afghanistan/another-revolting-manifestation-of-islams-obsession-with-sex/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/afghanistan/another-revolting-manifestation-of-islams-obsession-with-sex/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the defining features of Islam is its obsession with sex.  Every rule regarding women is based upon a driving need to control their sexuality.  They are married off as children, sequestered, dressed in clothes that rob them of any hint of femininity, deprived of any opportunities to function outside the reproductive sphere, and fearfully abused, with stonings, hangings, beheadings and beatings if they transgress in any way Islamic rules regarding their sexual or even merely feminine behavior.
A large part of the Islamic world&#8217;s hatred for America ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Princess and the Frog &#8212; Disney&#8217;s gift to American blacks</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/african-americans/the-princess-and-the-frog-disneys-gift-to-american-blacks/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/african-americans/the-princess-and-the-frog-disneys-gift-to-american-blacks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Americans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from seeing Disney&#8217;s latest release, The Princess and the Frog. Looked at purely from an entertainment standpoint, the movie is a delight.  The hand drawn animation is imaginative and, at times, exquisitely beautiful.  When the Bayou lights up at sunset with fireflies, every little girl in the audience emits a rapturous &#8220;oooooh.&#8221;  The music, which Randy Newman composed, is a high energy blend of New Orleans jazz, Cajun zydeco and friendly pop.  You won&#8217;t leave the movie theater being able to sing any ...]]></description>
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		<title>Reason to be grateful Obama appointed gay porn-purveyor Jennings as Safe Schools Czar</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/education/reason-to-be-grateful-obama-appointed-gay-porn-purveyor-jennings-as-safe-schools-czar/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/education/reason-to-be-grateful-obama-appointed-gay-porn-purveyor-jennings-as-safe-schools-czar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Jennings]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, my post title does not mean I&#8217;ve gone off my rocker and started supporting Kevin Jennings in his role as Safe Schools Czar.  Thanks to Terresa Monroe&#8217;s hard work, I&#8217;ve known for months exactly what kind of person Kevin Jennings, the &#8220;Safe School Czar&#8221; is.  He&#8217;s a career gay man who is devoted to ensuring that children as young as five or six are exposed to a steady stream of sexual information that may help them get in contact with their homosexual side.  Nor is this ...]]></description>
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		<title>Islam had everything to do with Fort Hood</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/islam-had-everything-to-do-with-fort-hood/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/islam-had-everything-to-do-with-fort-hood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insane people reflect the obsessions of their times.  In the old days, insane people heard messages from the Devil.  In the post-nuclear age, they were in contact with Martians.  And nowadays, if their Muslim, Islam gives the impetus to their urges.  Indeed, Islam is an all-purpose blank check for bad behavior.  As my cousin, the prison chaplain, says:
It is not a contradiction to be a Muslim and a murderer, even a mass murderer. That is one reason why criminals “convert” to Islam in prison. They ...]]></description>
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		<title>British Muslims approve of Muslim soldiers killing fellow troops</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/military/british-muslims-approve-of-muslim-soldiers-killing-fellow-troops/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/military/british-muslims-approve-of-muslim-soldiers-killing-fellow-troops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s very simple, according to some British Muslims.   You can be a soldier in your nation&#8217;s military as long as your military isn&#8217;t fighting against Muslims.  However, if your military is fighting against Muslims, your military has become the enemy, and you should use your resources and abilities to kill your fellow troops.  Have you got that (all emphasis mine):
Worshippers at one of Britain’s biggest mosques reacted to the Fort Hood shooting yesterday by saying Muslims who serve in the Armed Forces are complicit in killing ...]]></description>
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		<title>Watch the Democratic dominoes fall</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/watch-the-democratic-dominoes-fall/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/watch-the-democratic-dominoes-fall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a lot of talk about whether, looking ahead to the 2010 elections, we&#8217;re looking at 1980, or 1994, or 1932 or some other American political year that I can&#8217;t even think of right now.  I actually think we&#8217;re looking at a different year altogether:  1989.  As you may recall, 1989 was a big year.  While Obama can&#8217;t be bothered to get his sorry self over to Berlin, that was the year the Berlin Wall fell.  That was the year the former Soviet Union ...]]></description>
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		<title>Do they even listen to themselves?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/do-they-even-listen-to-themselves/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/do-they-even-listen-to-themselves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My husband attended a professional multi-day seminar at an Ivy League university.  One of the classes he attended touched directly upon the work he does day in and day out.  The teacher for this seminar is a professor at the Ivy League institution.  As one of the premier &#8220;experts&#8221; in his field, he is an advisor to President Obama.  His advice will ultimately affect all of us.
&#8220;He&#8217;s really brilliant,&#8221; said my husband, &#8220;but most of what he said was just BS.  That&#8217;s not the way things really work.&#8221;
When I asked, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Did the White House bribe ScuzzyFuzzy to support a Democrat?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/did-the-white-house-bribe-scuzzyfuzzy-to-support-a-democrat/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/did-the-white-house-bribe-scuzzyfuzzy-to-support-a-democrat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old joke:
At a very fancy ball, a man has been talking to a woman for a while, and they&#8217;re getting along well.  Eventually he asks her, &#8220;Would you sleep with me for $1 million?&#8221;
She bats her eyes at him:  &#8220;Oh, you romantic man!&#8221;  She then suggests that they rendezvous in a quiet hotel near the ballroom.
Rather than agreeing, he pulls her up short with another question:  &#8220;Would you sleep with me for $100?&#8221;
She draws herself up, completely affronted.  &#8220;What do you take me for?!  ...]]></description>
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		<title>Is America&#8217;s military the last bastion of public decency?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/military/is-americas-military-the-last-bastion-of-public-decency/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/military/is-americas-military-the-last-bastion-of-public-decency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sadly for those of us trying to raise children, we live in an era in which the boundaries for polite behavior seem to have vanished.  In no other era in modern times would popular culture be bombarded with this kind of stuff:

A presidential administration that is so foul-mouthed, its obscenities alone are newsworthy.
Newscasters on a major media outlet using crude sexual terminology to describe a purely political protest regarding taxes.
A 50-something female television personality coming on to a young man (which was funny in an embarrassing way, but also ...]]></description>
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		<title>Zombie decimates attempts to defend Kevin Jennings</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/education/zombie-decimates-attempts-to-defend-kevin-jennings/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/education/zombie-decimates-attempts-to-defend-kevin-jennings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part I:  Kevin Jennings, as you recall, is Obama&#8217;s Safe Schools Czar.  He&#8217;s the one who came under fire because (a) he boasts in his autobiography about giving a 15 year old gay boy safe sex advice regarding a sexual relationship with an adult man, as opposed to dealing with a statutory rape problem and possible child abuse, and (b) he is on the record as admiring Harry Hays, who was not just one of the first leader&#8217;s of the gay liberation movement, but was also deeply involved in ...]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s not to like about the Blue Angels?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/military/whats-not-to-like-about-the-blue-angels/</link>
		<comments>http://rightwingnews.com/military/whats-not-to-like-about-the-blue-angels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know it&#8217;s been a good evening when Mom, Dad, and the kids all leave a party ebullient.  The party in question was a fund-raising reception aboard the USS Hornet (and co-sponsored by the Bay Area TAILHOOK Ready Room), which is a floating museum.  The guests of honor were members of the Blue Angels team.  My husband was a bit dubious about the whole thing, but I bought the tickets, and bullied, and arranged, and fought my way through two hours of traffic to make it happen ...]]></description>
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		<title>Getting past the &#8220;idiot,&#8221; &#8220;nuts&#8221; and &#8220;wacko&#8221; factor so that liberals have their moment of cognitive dissonance</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/media/getting-past-the-idiot-nuts-and-wacko-factor-so-that-liberals-have-their-moment-of-cognitive-dissonance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about responses to my post regarding the gal who is running for town council, the one who donated to Obama, and who nevertheless seems to be a fiscal conservative.  I asked how she can live with the cognitive dissonance.  Several of you pointed out, in one form or another, that it&#8217;s not cognitive dissonance if you don&#8217;t know facts sufficient to create that dissonance.  In other words, if this gal lives in the traditional liberal world, watching CNN or MSNBC, listening to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Forcing all of us to pay for others&#8217; indulgent priorities</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/health/forcing-all-of-us-to-pay-for-others-indulgent-priorities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All of us have long known that poverty in America isn&#8217;t like poverty anywhere else in the world.  There really isn&#8217;t anything here comparable to the poverty in Haiti, or Calcutta, or large swathes of Africa.  Even poor people have televisions and phones.  And it&#8217;s apparent that a surprising number of people who are living on the thin edge economically still find money, not just for basic cell phones, but for fancy ones with lots of service; and are able to buy, not just basic clothes, but ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama keeps Hitler analogy in the public eye</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/obama-keeps-hitler-analogy-in-the-public-eye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Obama telling a true story or not?  I don&#8217;t know and with Obama&#8217;s credibility gap, it&#8217;s impossible to tell.  It doesn&#8217;t matter, though.  What does matter is that, by relaying this anecdote, Obama is keeping alive the Obama/Hitler analogy:
President Obama at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation dinner last night, discussing false claims made about the health care reform bill, told a little anecdote.
&#8220;I was up at the G20 &#8212; just a little aside &#8212; I was up at the G20, and some of you saw those ...]]></description>
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		<title>Strange visitor from another planet</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/strange-visitor-from-another-planet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 02:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I should have realized it, because the signs were all there.  There was, of course, this picture:

Others understood it too:

His identity couldn&#8217;t be more clear, as they knew when they did the old Superman show:
Yes, it&#8217;s Superman, strange visitor from another planet, with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men! Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel with his bare hands, and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice and the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Liberals are correct &#8212; I have a serious problem with Obama&#8217;s color</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I read the news, I’m being told that those who disagree with Obama do so based on his color.  Ordinary Americans simply can’t handle a black man in a power position and reflexively disagree with him and wish him ill.  It’s not even personal, we&#8217;re told.  It’s just that we’re bone-deep racists.
When Joe Wilson called Obama a liar for asserting in his big speech that no illegal aliens would be covered under the Democrats’ proposed health care plan, liberals were undeterred by the fact that Obama ...]]></description>
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		<title>Penguin Press elevates Obama to an oratorical pedestal he is ill-suited to occupy</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/penguin-press-elevates-obama-to-an-oratorical-pedestal-he-is-illsuited-to-occupy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Zhombre was at the bookstore perusing the shelves when he came across a Penguin Press book entitled &#8220;The Inaugural Address, 2009.&#8221;  That&#8217;s well and good.  I&#8217;m sure there are some in America who want to clutch this banal speech as tightly to their chest as Chinese citizens were forced to do with Mao&#8217;s Little Red Book.  The only problem for Penguin was that the Address on its own doesn&#8217;t even make an adequate pamphlet.  Clearly, more material is needed.  Penguin&#8217;s obvious choice would ...]]></description>
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		<title>An old Jewish joke and Kennedy&#8217;s Catholicism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The news lines are aflutter with the fact that the Vatican has kept mum about Kennedy&#8217;s death.  This is scarcely surprising given that Kennedy, although raised a Catholic, took (and sought to use his political power to impose on America) political positions that are anathema to the Church:
Edward Kennedy, it can be said, was not cut out for the priestly life. His first marriage to former model Virginia Joan Bennett, ended in divorce in 1982, with the marriage annulled by the Roman Rota more than a decade later. And ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ignore Obama&#8217;s eulogy.  Mark Steyn gives Teddy the eulogy he deserves</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/ignore-obamas-eulogy-mark-steyn-gives-teddy-the-eulogy-he-deserves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama spouted a maudlin mess about Kennedy today.  He didn&#8217;t even bother to mention by allusion to Kennedy&#8217;s &#8220;flaws&#8221; that little problem at Chappaquiddick:
Today we say goodbye to the youngest child of Rose and Joseph Kennedy. The world will long remember their son Edward as the heir to a weighty legacy; a champion for those who had none; the soul of the Democratic Party; and the lion of the U.S. Senate&#8211;a man whose name graces nearly one thousand laws, and who penned more than three hundred himself.
But those of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Why pay $10 for Julie &amp; Julia just to suffer gratuitous insults?</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/why-pay-10-for-julie-julia-just-to-suffer-gratuitous-insults-/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, I went with a friend to see Julie &#38; Julia, a movie that abruptly lost me exactly halfway through.  Although it&#8217;s a movie that has all the trappings of a good chick-flick, with enough beautifully photographed food to appeal to male foodies too, it contains some calculated insults that should drive all conservatives away from the theater without leaving any money behind.
The story line is an interesting one.  The Julia of the title is Julia Child, played with rambunctious energy by Meryl Streep, who must have ...]]></description>
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		<title>If it&#8217;s a case of follow the money, we&#8217;re all going to be Muslims soon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was living in England, all of my friends carried perpetual &#8220;overdrafts.&#8221;  If they wanted more money than their account had, they&#8217;d go to the bank and basically arrange an informal, short-term loan by which the bank allowed them to draw on money that wasn&#8217;t really (or, as my friends saw it, wasn&#8217;t yet) there.  They weren&#8217;t concerned about the fees that accompanied those overdrafts, since those fees were deferred too.  If the banks didn&#8217;t care, why should they?
I thought it was a peculiar situation, insofar ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s personality limned almost 200 years ago in a Jane Austen novel</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/obamas-personality-limned-almost-200-years-ago-in-a-jane-austen-novel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although I can&#8217;t track it down now, I vividly remember reading a New York Times story about Obama in which a colleague said that Obama had the knack, at meetings, of making everyone in the room think that he agreed with them, even if the meeting was divisive.  That is, he mouthed banalities with such conviction that each person ascribed to them a meaning that wasn&#8217;t there, and took that meaning as an endorsement of his or her own point of view.  It is a quality that makes ...]]></description>
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		<title>The last drive home</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I struggle to explain to my kids is that &#8220;the military,&#8221; in the abstract, is neither good nor bad.  Nor does size matter.  David and Goliath is an inspiring story, because we like to see the little guy win.  However, David also had right on his side.  As I&#8217;ve said time and again to my kids, there are bad underdogs.  Just because you&#8217;re a little organization, or country, or army, does not mean that you are morally right.
What matters, always, is ...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Let&#8217;s not, but let&#8217;s say that we did.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/lets-not-but-lets-say-that-we-did/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rusty Shackleford is spitting bullets about the fact that the Taliban have kidnapped Pvt. Bowe Bergdahl and are parading him for propaganda purposes.  Although it&#8217;s easy to get all tangled up about international law and whether the Geneva Convention should extend to these people, Dr. Shackleford gets to the core point, which is the fact that America&#8217;s enemies have an American &#8212; and we should do something about it, dammit!
As for me, I hope that the Obama administration doesn&#8217;t take its default position and fall back on words as ...]]></description>
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		<title>The world gobbles up blood libels against Israel (with update)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the world&#8217;s media members, if asked, would undoubtedly identify themselves as sophisticates, who are too cynical and world-weary to take anything at face value.  Their mental self-image almost certainly falls somewhere between wise-cracking Cary Grant (His Girl Friday) and idealistic Woodward and Bernstein.  They care deeply, but they&#8217;ve seen it all.  To which I would respond that it&#8217;s always a fascinating sociological and psychological moment when a single group suffers from such a profound mass delusion.
That the media has no healthy cynicism, objectivity, or even ...]]></description>
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		<title>Sterilizing our way to Paradise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you read Michelle Malkin, you already know about Zombie&#8217;s post exposing the unrepentant eugenicist past of John Holdren, Obama&#8217;s science czar.  Writing in the early 1970s, when the trendy concern was the population explosion (promising every a brutish Malthusian future), Holdren eagerly espoused a world order with forced abortions; mandatory sterliziation of those deemed unfit; birth-control chemicals running freely through our water and food; and a transnational global economy policed by a new world order.  Michelle Malkin has already commented on the fact that Holdren&#8217;s writing perfectly ...]]></description>
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		<title>All violence is equal, but some violence is more equal than others</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Movie review one:
The movie is a viscerally exciting, adrenaline-soaked tour de force of suspense and surprise, full of explosions and hectic scenes of combat, but it blows a hole in the condescending assumption that such effects are just empty spectacle or mindless noise.
[snip]
Ms. Bigelow, practicing a kind of hyperbolic realism, distills the psychological essence and moral complications of modern warfare into a series of brilliant, agonizing set pieces.
[snip]
It has intense, horrific violence and appropriately profane reactions to the prospect of same.
Let me sum that up:  This is an incredibly ...]]></description>
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		<title>An open letter to the people of Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People of Iran:
Traditionally, the president of the United States has been the spokesperson for the people of the United States &#8212; or, at least, for a majority of the people of the United States.  For the first time in modern history, however, we have a president who appears incapable of giving voice to the American people.  I therefore address this letter to you in the hope that, in the vacuum President Obama has created, you can hear our voices and know that we stand behind you in your ...]]></description>
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		<title>This is what a totalitarian state does to its own people</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please watch this only if you have a strong stomach and a true desire to see what life is like in a totalitarian regime.  
This is not about watching a snuff film (although it felt like it).  This is a reminder to Americans about the government Barack Obama is currently backing.  Obama may be a political pragmatist, but he&#8217;s also completely amoral (and immoral, if one can be both).
Cross-posted at Bookworm Room
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		<title>Am I missing something in this liberal ode to Iranian democracy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the article from an extremely Progressive San Francisco blog.  Here&#8217;s my distillation:
1.  Liberals truly care about freedom, because they protested their hearts out over the illegal U.S. war in Iraq.
2.  For all that screaming against the evil U.S. government, American liberals really weren&#8217;t risking anything because, unlike the Iranian people, they don&#8217;t need to fear their own government.
3.  Iranians are now fighting for freedom; American citizens are watching basketball (and running riot afterward).
4.  Both the Iranian candidates are equally bad, but it is impossible ...]]></description>
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		<title>Seasick warriors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seasickness.  It&#8217;s an utterly vile condition, worse, I think, than any other type of motion sickness.  When you&#8217;re seasick, your entire body is rebelling against you.  Worse, there&#8217;s no escape.  You&#8217;re trapped in the middle of an endless ocean, feeling about as bad as it&#8217;s possible for a human to feel.
Add something to that seasickness:  fear, anticipation, exhilaration, worry.  Imagine yourself loaded down with gear and weapons, packed like sardines with other men, many as sick as you are, and heaving your guts out. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Liberal ickiness watch, Doonesbury style</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 00:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not quite sure if it&#8217;s hypocrisy, or if it&#8217;s just another disgusting example of liberal opportunism, hence the wishy-washy name of this post.  Whatever it is, it sure left me feeling icky.
Oh, you&#8217;re wondering what the &#8220;it&#8221; I&#8217;m talking about is, right?  I&#8217;m talking about the magical way in which liberals have suddenly changed their observances of Memorial Day now that one of their own is finally in the White House &#8212; and it&#8217;s not a change for the better.  It&#8217;s a change that reveals that ...]]></description>
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		<title>Nazi Lies Linger</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 00:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ted Bromund is worried that Obama, by going to both Buchenwald and Dresden in the same trip is about to do something symbolically awful.  Buchenwald, of course, was one of the infamous Nazi labor camps located right in Germany itself.  It was not a death camp, and was not used specifically to exterminate Jews, but it had an appalling death rate.  Those who died were political prisoners and the &#8220;unfit&#8221;.  Pardon this lengthy Wikipedia quotation, but I think it&#8217;s important to put it here.  (You ...]]></description>
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		<title>Words and Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 20:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have an idea to throw out for you guys to chew on.  Laer, at Cheat-Seeking Missiles, in an email asked why Jindal&#8217;s speech, which looks great on paper, got such a bad reception.  The reception was bad on both the Left and the Right, so its being dissed wasn&#8217;t just a matter of media bias.  Here&#8217;s my response:
Maybe I&#8217;m hanging around my two little budding musicians too much, but I think a lot of it has to do with rhythm.  Did you know that, when ...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Don&#8217;t hate me because I&#8217;m beautiful&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 20:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re over thirty, you remember the shampoo commercials that had the tag line &#8220;Don&#8217;t hate me because I&#8217;m beautiful.&#8221;  If you&#8217;ve forgotten, you can refresh your memory here.
That slogan started repeating itself in my head with the attacks on Sarah Palin. I won&#8217;t repeat here (or link to) the startling savagery of the hatred heaped upon her, but I&#8217;ll remind you that it included denying that she was a woman at all, asserting that she was manifestly stupid, and calling her a traitor to her sex.
The same slogan ...]]></description>
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		<title>I prefer clarity to agreement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 21:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles, at LGF, is concerned that the &#8220;extreme right white supremacist&#8221; (his phrase) BNP party in England is gaining political ground.  If you check out the party&#8217;s blog, though, racial purity a la the Nazis or the KKK is not part of the party&#8217;s platform.  As far as I can tell, it wants to close Britain&#8217;s open borders, back off from European union control, and clamp down on out-of-control multiculturalism.  All of these seem like reasonable positions.  After all, under current British policies, traditional Britain is ...]]></description>
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		<title>Did blacks just call themselves stupid?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m misreading something here.  Help me out.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, husband and wife team Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom discuss a case coming up to the Supreme Court, Ricci v DeStefano.  The issue is a simple one:
The issue in Ricci was simply stated by Judge José Cabranes, dissenting from a cursory, unenlightening opinion by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. &#8220;At its core,&#8221; he wrote, &#8220;this case presents a straight-forward question: May a municipal employer disregard the results of a qualifying examination, which was ...]]></description>
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		<title>Torture, real and imagined</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Begala wrote an article at HuffPo contending that, following WWII, Americans executed Japanese as war criminals for water-boarding.  While I&#8217;m certainly willing to concede that water-based tortures numbered amongst the myriad tortures the Japanese used against POWs, it is absolutely ridiculous to believe that these Japanese soldiers were executed because of the water tortures.  In the grand scheme of things, that was nothing.
One of the Anchoress&#8216; readers forwarded to her a letter someone wrote (maybe as a comment to Begala&#8217;s own article) pointing out that actual historical ...]]></description>
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		<title>Honing our arguments</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 06:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, I asked a question about the sexual innuendo behind the word &#8220;teabagging&#8221; (since other bloggers have noticed a sneering, locker room quality to MSM reports on the Tea Parties).  To date, there have been 94 comments on that post.  The first few dealt with the question itself.  Then, a liberal came to visit, and the comments exploded as he cast nasturtiums at us for failing to recognize Obama&#8217;s greatness, and trotted out all the usual anti-Bush, anti-capitalism, anti-war, anti-etc. conclusions one finds at liberal websites. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Life imitates the Simpsons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano: &#8220;I referred to &#8220;man-caused&#8221; disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur.&#8221;
The Pentagon:  &#8220;This administration prefers to avoid using the term &#8216;Long War&#8217; or &#8216;Global War on Terror&#8217; [GWOT.] Please use &#8216;Overseas Contingency Operation.&#8217; &#8221;
Mr. Burns:  &#8220;Oh, meltdown. It&#8217;s one of those annoying buzzwords. We prefer to call it an &#8216;unrequested fission surplus.&#8217;&#8221;  (From The Simpsons, Season ...]]></description>
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		<title>Can it happen here?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier post, I directed your attention to the incredibly disturbing footage of Pakistani village authorities brutally whipping a teenage girl before a throng of men, because she violated Sharia norms by being seen in public with her father in law.  The footage is disturbing on many levels, not the least of which is the fact that the whole spectacle has a pornographic smell to it, one that makes clear how much of Sharia law is driven by Muslims&#8217; deep fear of female sexuality &#8212; but that&#8217;s a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Is Barack Obama evil?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While we were having lunch today, my dear friend Don Quixote asked &#8220;Do you think Barack Obama is evil?&#8221;
I hedged.  &#8220;That&#8217;s an interesting question.  Why do you ask?&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m getting the feeling,&#8221; he answered, &#8220;that conservatives are starting to define Obama as being evil.  At least, that&#8217;s the impression I get from the emails my father sends me.&#8221;
&#8220;Well,&#8221; I said, &#8220;I&#8217;m not comfortable with the word evil.  However, if you define evil as someone who has a personality disorder, who is a malignant narcissist, or even a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Speak up, before you lose the right</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drudge&#8217;s latest headline is to the effect that Obama wishes to exert ever tighter controls over American businesses by having the government establish limits on salaries.  (Now we know why he was whipping up AIG hysteria, don&#8217;t we?)
Obama is busy creating the slippery socialist slope and, unless we put the brakes on, we&#8217;ll slide down too far to stop.  April 15 is going to be a day of nationwide tax day tea parties.  Please check out this site to find out information about a tea party near ...]]></description>
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		<title>Out of the mouths of babes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My 9 year old son was looking at his book about fighter planes through history.  That triggered this question and answer session:
Son:  Why were the Germans so bad?
Me:  Humans have always fought.  It&#8217;s part of the human condition.  They&#8217;ve also always killed their enemies, including destroying whole villages, or cities, or even countries, and then enslaving and killing all the people.  The Germans, however, did this on a bigger scale than ever before.  Also, the Germans were the only people in history who ...]]></description>
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		<title>Growing the grassroots</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The gal who started the Marin conservative gatherings that I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of attending sent out a broadcast email reminding all conservatives, especially those trapped in blue communities, that it&#8217;s not enough to sit at home, read the blogs and complain.  We have to work towards a change in 2010.  If we wait to look, it may be too late to turn this ship of state.
For many of us, the work we do may begin just by having us reach out to each other.  For those ...]]></description>
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		<title>The codependent liberal party</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the old days, when someone was a substance abuser, the entire onus for the abuse lay with that person.  At a certain point, however, someone figured out that, in many relationships, the abuser&#8217;s partner was part of the dance of drug or alcohol dependency.  A new term entered the pop culture vocabulary:  &#8220;codependent.&#8221;
The theory behind codependency is that the codependent person, for his or her own psychological reasons, needs the abuser to continue abuse.  That&#8217;s why you see the abuser&#8217;s partner buying booze for the ...]]></description>
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		<title>American Jews are idiots *UPDATED*</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE:  Pardon the white heat in the title of this post, but I cannot tell you how many times, during the days and months leading to the election, liberal Jews assured me, both in the media and in personal conversations, that Obama would never do anything to hurt Israel.  Nor can I tell you how many times my liberal Jewish friends and family refused to hear about all the antisemitic or anti-Israel people in Obama&#8217;s closest circles.
Seventy-eight percent of American Jews voted for Obama.  They did so ...]]></description>
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		<title>Economic incest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not an economist and I don&#8217;t even play one on TV.  I am a one-time history major, though, and someone with the kind of knowledge-base that&#8217;s built up over years of being an autodidact, an employee and a small business owner.  While I don&#8217;t understand economics at a complex level (I&#8217;m a lousy investor), I have a very good understanding of how currency developed, how credit developed, what purpose taxes serve, etc.  I&#8217;m also good at explaining complex ideas in fairly simple terms.
So, in simple terms, ...]]></description>
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		<title>What a cigarette will tell you about a man</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you getting the feeling that Obama, contrary to the hope hype, is a very grim, depressed man?&#160;&#160; Since the precise moment of his inauguration, his every pronouncement has been redolent of hopelessness and anger.
My feeling is that, if Obama is going to style himself the second Roosevelt when it comes to American economics, he needs to focus not just on Roosevelt&#8217;s economic policies, but also on his style.&#160; After all, the economic policies were a disaster, and almost certainly extended the Great Depression by years.&#160; Rather than getting angered ...]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Leader</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The San Francisco Boys Chorus and the San Francisco Girls Chorus are heading to D.C. to sing at the inauguration.  I had the opportunity to hear them perform yesterday at San Francisco City Hall, and their singing is just beautiful.  They look lovely too, in their crisp uniforms &#8212; although it is funny the way in which the girls, who are older than the boys, tower over them.
I found their choice of songs a little dreary.  America the Beautiful is, of course, always lovely to hear, but ...]]></description>
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		<title>A Swiftian view of the death of Palestinian children</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hamas has been making much of its dead children.  It had a field day with photos of those children who died when the IDF shot shells into a &#8220;UN school.&#8221;  Most of the world (including, of course, a credulous and/or complicit media) managed to ignore the fact that it&#8217;s bizarre that, in the midst of war, people would congregate their children in one place; to ignore the fact that shots were fired from the school grounds; and to ignore the fact that the place was booby trapped internally ...]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Reagan&#8217;s name in vain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s WSJ, there&#8217;s an op-ed from Dianne Feinstein, urging Obama, when president, to shut down America&#8217;s nuclear arsenal.  To make her point, she opens with an anecdote about Ronald Reagan:
When Barack Obama becomes America&#8217;s 44th president on Jan. 20, he should embrace the vision of a predecessor who declared: &#8220;We seek the total elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.&#8221;
That president was Ronald Reagan, and he expressed this ambitious vision in his second inaugural address on Jan. 21, 1985. It was a remarkable ...]]></description>
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		<title>Predictions for 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given that I never would have predicted the biggest event of 2008 (namely, the media successfully anointing a socialist neophyte as our new president), the merits of my predictions are probably pretty small.  Nevertheless, I can&#8217;t resist the chance to get in my two cents (which is about all my predictions are worth).  Feel free to add your own:
1.  In 2007, the subprime markets collapsed.  In 2008, the money markets collapsed (hitting the really rich people who have the bulk of their wealth tied into the ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Pieta</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You all know the Pieta, Michelangelo&#8217;s exquisite rendition of a devastated Mary holding Jesus&#8217; body in her arms:

With that in mind, tell me what you think of this picture out of Gaza from the always even-handed New York Times?  (And for those of you who don&#8217;t know me, I&#8217;m being sarcastic about the Times.)

The rest of the pictures in that little photo essay are equally sympathetic to the Palestinians &#8212; that would be the same Palestinians who have rained thousands of bombs on Israel, regularly targeted (often successfully) Israel&#8217;s ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Plan to Jumpstart the Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama finally came out from hiding to talk a bit about the economy.  One of my liberal friends found this the most exciting aspect of his speech:
&#8220;We&#8217;ll be working out the details in the weeks ahead, but it will be a two-year, nationwide effort to jumpstart job creation in America and lay the foundation for a strong and growing economy,&#8221; Mr. Obama said. &#8220;We&#8217;ll put people back to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, modernizing schools that are failing our children, and building wind farms and solar panels, ...]]></description>
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		<title>A new direction for American conservatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to end the post mortem and get moving, the only problem being that &#8220;getting moving&#8221; is proving to be as rancorous amongst conservatives as was the political cycle itself.  One of the schisms I&#8217;m seeing in my own blog is between pro-Life and pro- (or, at least, not anti-) abortion types.  That got me thinking about a potential way out of that, which was something that Danny Lemieux raised in an email:  libertarianism.
I have to say that, when I was growing up, the term libertarian ...]]></description>
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		<title>Reasons to vote for McCain; reasons to vote against Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My reasons for voting, not just for McCain, but also against Obama, are almost all premised upon two basic belief systems I hold:  (1) As a general matter, that federal government is best which governs least; and (2) that country is safest which has a strong military and is willing to use it in its own defense.  With those principles in mind, here&#8217;s my laundry list of reasons for favoring McCain over Obama.
1.  National Security.  While Obama has run from the subject for a long time ...]]></description>
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		<title>Convincing people with ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I carpooled to a soccer game today.  The driver, who is someone I don&#8217;t know very well, is a very charming man who is quite obviously a potential Obama voter.  He wasn&#8217;t quite sure about me and, since he was a very civil individual, he never came out and either insulted McCain or lauded Obama.  He did say, though, that he thought it was the government&#8217;s responsibility to provide medical care.  He also characterized Vietnam as a complete disaster.  That gave me an interesting opportunity ...]]></description>
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		<title>Even crazy people can be factually correct</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, watch the video in this blog entry at American Thinker.  Then let&#8217;s talk.
Yes, I agree that Philip Berg sounds like a member of the tinfoil hat brigade.  And he&#8217;s got a rather questionable history, since he&#8217;s a Truther.  All in all, not a very reliable source.  Nevertheless, as I learned in law school, even a person with a monomania can be correct about certain facts.  There&#8217;s nothing too peculiar about Philip Berg&#8217;s current quest to force Obama to produce evidence showing that he is, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cleaning up the terminology</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This will be a quick post because, this weekend, soccer is my life.  Fortunately, I only want to make a quick point, and it&#8217;s one that I think needs to be made over and over and over again.  
As you may recall from Thursday&#8217;s debate, Biden kept saying that our current financial woes arose because of deregulation and that even John McCain now wants more regulation.  In other words, bad Republicans let Wall Street go wild, and now they&#8217;re cowed and are following the Democratic line.  ...]]></description>
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		<title>A new addition to the pantheon of memorable moments in debate history</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re like me, the second the debate ended, you got on your computer to check whether the consensus in the blogosphere jived with your own impressions of the first Presidential debate.  I discovered that the general consensus (from both liberal and conservative bloggers) was that McCain scored on points.  He held his own on the economy, and came into his own on foreign policy, an area in which Obama distinguished himself as a complete ignoramus.  To see him try to argue his way out of his ...]]></description>
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		<title>Life imitates art when it comes to the Palin candidacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago, courtesy of Turner Classic Movies (my favorite TV station), I watched The Farmer&#8217;s Daughter, a 1947 film starring Loretta Young and Joseph Cotten.  Over the years, I&#8217;ve carried a strong memory of liking the movie a great deal, and no memory at all of the plot.  So, when I saw that The Farmer&#8217;s Daughter was coming around again, I asked TiVo to catch it for me &#8212; and am I glad I did.
First of all, the movie is every bit as charming as I remember, ...]]></description>
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		<title>God and the presidency</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 03:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I caught a minute of Sean Hannity as I was driving home the other day.  He played and read for his audience numerous quotations from past American presidents (as well as Benjamin Franklin), each of whom acknowledged a beneficent Judeo-Christian God from whom our liberties flow.  I&#8217;ve assembled my own collection of such quotations, all from Presidents deeply revered by the Progressives:

George Washington:  &#8220;It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.&#8221;
John Adams:  &#8220;We have no government armed with power capable of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Do they realize how stupid they sound?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To me, the first good thing about the Palin nomination is that it highlights Obama&#8217;s inexperience.  You can just hear him going around the house muttering, &#8220;I know you are, but what am I?  I know you are, but what am I?  I know you are, but what am I?&#8221;
To date, Obama has written two self-serving books; been editor of the law review, a student job, during which time he wrote only one anonymous note; served 8 years in a state legislature, which is a collegial, not ...]]></description>
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		<title>The AP shows surprising honesty when it comes to Joe Biden</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something very peculiar is happening at the AP, so much so that I think someone might be sneaking something into the AP water supply.  Why do I say this?  Because of the almost bizarrely objective series of articles the AP published on the occasion of Obama&#8217;s announcement that Joe Biden was going to be the next President &#8212; er, Vice-President &#8212; of the United States.  I expected to see the same slavish enthusiasm that the rest of the MSM is already displaying.  Instead, I discovered this:
Analysis ...]]></description>
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		<title>McCainiacs thinking outside of the box</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1980 (and again in 1984), Ronald Reagan won in significant part because traditionally Democratic voters abandoned their party to vote for him. Those same &#8220;Reagan Democrats&#8221; have shown up frequently in the news today.  Indeed, McCain is specifically targeting those same people and demographics.  US News &#38; World Report explained back in May:
As the Democrats struggle to select their nominee, John McCain is quietly finalizing his fall strategy. One of his goals will be to attract white working-class and culturally conservative Democrats who supported Ronald Reagan and ...]]></description>
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