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I took my boys out to lunch yesterday at Ruby’s Diner in Costa Mesa. We visited the restaurant at South Coast Plaza‘s Crystal Court. It was mid-afternoon, about 2:30pm or so, and uncrowded: This is my oldest son’s bacon cheeseburger (I had BLT&A): Full photo-essay at the link.

I think Pres. Obama’s speech last night is best summed up by my 13 year old (who truly has a heart of gold). He said, “I feel sorry for Obama.” I asked why. He said, “Because he can’t seem to do anything right.” That’s not only the feeling for this speech, but it seems to […]

It was dreadful. NYT‘s has its report, “In Oval Office Speech, Obama Presses BP on Compensation,” and also Politico, “President Obama: ‘We will make BP pay’.” WSJ‘s got the text of the speech via Memeorandum, and this should be leading by the end of the evening. I’ll have more later, but the president was dishonest […]

Patrick Frey and Matt Welch are just hammering useful tool Eric Boehlert of Media Mutters for America. We’re talkin’ utter devastation — total Maximus Decimus Meridius takedown territory for the useful clown at MMFA. Matt’s piece is especially killer, “Don’t You Go Calling Obama an ‘ex-state senator, ‘Hater!’.” Turns out Boehlert can’t get out from […]

Okay, NYT‘s got what’s apparently a big deal, “U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan.” I’m just now checking Memeorandum, and boy folks are excited. The Times‘ story is sensational. The mineral find is estimated at $1 trillion, and “Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the […]

Get this. BP (British Petroleum) has bought search terms related to the gulf oil spill on Google, Yahoo, and Bing. So if you are googling “Gulf oil disaster” or “oil spill,” you will get an ad at the top of the results that directs you to a BP site that provides information on BP’s clean […]

There is an update to the story about the miles of boom that the feds failed to use to protect our coast after the oil spill. Jake Tapper of ABC news (one of the few journalists out there with true journalistic integrity), followed up on the story. First he actually asked Coast Guard Adm. Thad […]

A few of the stories that caught my eye over the past week, whether I blogged them or not: Link Link And finally: Link Yeah, this one’s a little shorter than usual, but stay tuned. You never know when the Automotivating bug will hit here at TrogloPundit. Previously: This Week in Automotivators, May 31-June 6 […]

There’s a finite amount of stuff, see, so somehow, someway, we have to distribute it among all the people who want it. Some people believe that having the government do that job will lead to fairness — a highly educated, expert bureaucrat can decide what goes where and when (and, possibly, why) more efficiently than […]

Stogie left a nice compliment yesterday, suggesting that my “posts lately are substance on steroids!” I’m flattered. It’s kinda funny, though, since all I’m really doing sometimes is just putting down what’s on my mind instead of posting what others have written. Anyway, I was thinking of that “steroids” remark just now while reading the […]

A short time ago The Blog That Nobody Reads put up a list of one hundred things that do not make you a better person. We perceived then, and still maintain today, that the need for the list was present, intense and palpable. People nowadays seem to be grasping at straws, trying to find ways […]

Some of my blog budds have started a new effort: Save Mosab Yousef: Help Him Stay In The U.S. More at Bob Belvedere’s, “HELP SAVE MOSAB YOUSEF FROM CERTAIN DEATH,” and Steven Givler, “Please Support Mosab Hassan Yousef.” Background at Maggie’s Notebook, “Mosab Hassan Yousef Homeland Security: Homeland Security to Deport Mosab Hassan Yousef,” and […]

For FREE audio and video highlights from the week in conservative talk radio, check out my new Talk Radio Watch column at WND! Includes insider stuff about Rush’s wedding from guests Sean Hannity and Mark Levin, Glenn Beck’s announcement that he’d discourage his children from joining the U.S. military and more. PLUS: Mark Levin calls […]

The year: 2006. The State of the Union Address. President Bush began to scold congressional Democrats for refusing to consider changes to a badly unbalanced Social Security program. He said: “Congress did not act last year on my proposal to save Social Security…” And the Democrats interrupted…with cheers! They leaped from their seats, applauding the […]

Susan Estrich thinks the crop of Republican women winning primaries is problematic because they don’t have enough political experience: Some years ago, the late New York Times and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist William Safire wrote a great column comparing politicians to plumbers. It was during one of those periods when (like now) experience had become a […]

Timing couldn’t be worse on this one, and frankly, we are broke.:  Via the NYT: President Obama promised a $400 million aid package for the West Bank and Gaza on Wednesday, as the United States scrambled to come up with a way out of the stalemate in the Middle East exacerbated by the Gaza flotilla […]

One of the great California punk anthems of all time, The Dead Kennedys, “California Ãœber Alles.” (Lyrics here.) The hippies won’t come back you say Mellow out or you will pay … The obvious reference is to former Governor Jerry Brown’s nomination last night as the Democratic Party’s candidate for governor in 2010. Commenting on […]

Remember when Gov. Jindal begged for more boom on May 2nd to protect the coast a week after the oil spill? Seems this guy was ready. But as usual, red tape screws up everything. I think we need an answer to the question, why didn’t we use this boom? John Lapoint of Packgen in Auburn, […]

Arizona Senate candidate J.D. Hayworth held a fundraising barbeque on June 5th at the Arizona State Capitol. The event followed the “Phoenix Rising” rally. Folks were just starting to check in as I was heading out. Hayworth is the author of Whatever It Takes: Illegal Immigration, Border Security and the War on Terror (a timely […]

I guess for radical leftists context is supposed to inoculate Helen Thomas from her own anti-Semitic vitriol. See John Cole, “You Got Played“: Clearly, this woman is evil beyond words. The way she smiled at those Jewish kids while giving them friendly advice to enter careers in journalism so they can have fulfilling lives of […]

This looks fantastic. “The Lottery.” Truth will win. via Examiner.com: An upsetting new documentary explores the indignities that inner-city blacks and Latinos must endure to get even a distant chance at quality education for their children in a perversely corrupt system as teachers’ unions rape, pillage and plunder failing public schools for Democrat power. It’s […]

If only Bush had listened to rightwing pundits the way Obama listens to leftwing pundits. Then maybe he wouldn’t have spent our money like a drunken Democrat, or tried so hard to compromise with Democrats who had no interest in compromise. First the pundits assail Obama for not coming to the region being hit the […]

Both the Left and Right are outraged at the latest broken campaign promise from Barack Obama is his support to lift the 26-year ban on commercial whaling that was put in place by, wait for it, Ronald Reagan. : From the HuffPo piece: The IWC proposal would actually reward the whaling abuses of Japan, Norway, and […]

: :  Tomorrow, Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) along with Young Americas Foundation and other conservative political organizations will be joining together to contact their Senators against Obama’s current Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagen. : : : : : : : :  Citing factors such as her actions against the military’s right to be on campuses, her Princeton thesis lamenting the decline of […]

If you are a political blog reader, you couldn’t have missed veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas’ remarks about Jews and Israel. A rabbi video taped Helen saying that Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine” and ‘ go home” to Germany and Poland. On Friday Helen apologized for her remarks. She didn’t show […]

TigerHawk compares Helen Thomas to Al Campanis, suggesting the former’s comments were even more odious. But like Campanis after Ted Koppel’s interview, she’s on the way out now, “Veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas retires following controversial remarks.” Check also Ed Morrissey, “White House blasts absent Thomas in today’s briefing?.” Ed’s got some of the […]