Month: October 2010
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my preliminary estimation of mysterious satellite activities
As I kept reading about “preliminary satellite estimates” of the crowd at the lefty Ed Schultz rally yesterday, I wanted to know what the term meant. It is repeated verbatim at countless left wing blogs, but it seems to have originated with a statement from a person named Nicole Belle at Crooks and Liars: Preliminary…
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Gratuitous advice to the Republican leadership that isn’t there
(from a political nobody who doesn’t follow them anyway…)A Republican Party insider I am not. Well, in August I was elected as a precinct delegate, and at the County Convention I was elected as a delegate to the Republican State Convention, where I finally voted, but as a Tea Party supporter and recent Michigan transplant, I don’t expect my opinions to count much…
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“fast and loose with the facts”?
Like most people, I have opinions, and I naturally tend to be biased in favor of my own. I know I am partisan, but I do try to admit my biases as honestly as I can, and where it comes to facts, I try to be as accurate as possible. When I am clearly wrong…
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Forward To Liberty
From time to time my friend Eric gets a good pixel lashing for not discussing what some commenter thinks he should cover. So let me discuss the more profound event. The things not asked for or discussed. Because that which is empty is as pregnant with meaning as that which is full. What is not…
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A Song For This Season
This Peggy Noonan piece matches the music most excellently. Cross Posted at Power and Control
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Good Advice
You won’t believe this but every once in a while Peggy Noonan gets it. “Congressman Smith cheated on his wife.” That’s her problem. Cut my taxes. It is one of the reasons I’m supporting Christine O’Donnell in DE. I don’t care about her private views on anything. In fact I find them endearing. She’s not…
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You Want What??????????????
You want to put the government in charge of my daughter’s reproductive organs not to mention my mate’s? Are You Fucking Nuts? Cross Posted at Power and Control
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There is not enough, because there is never enough
One of my ongoing arguments with the blogosphere in general (and this applies to left and right) is this idea that what you don’t write about is not only significant, but that your “omissions” are somehow damning. Not writing about something is taken by self appointed scolds as evidence that you don’t care, or even…
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Bill Whittle Has Moved
He is going to be doing a lot of things. The best one is he will be on YouTube for free. And you know what you have to do. Subscribe Cross Posted at Power and Control