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I found an interesting FDR quote while perusing NewsRealBlog. From Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning.Excerpted from the chapter on FDR: “But the New Deal was a product of the impulses and ideas of its era. And those ideas and impulses are impossible…

Michael Barone has written the political obituary of Newt Gingrich, and considering Barone’s status as a political analyst, I think that makes it official. Gingrich is out! Considering my opinion of the man, I should be happy. So why am I not rejoicing? I guess it’s because I am less than thrilled by the prospect…

A friend emailed me a link to a fascinating article by Salim Mansur which succinctly argues that the reason for the absence of democracy among Arabs is cultural: The Arab League consists of 21 states and the Palestinian Authority. There is not one single democracy in this collection of Arab states, and the predominant reason…

I have been so busy with my backyard landscaping project that I have not had time to blog. After digging out the hole and putting in perforated pipe, next came six yards of egg rock (moved by hand in 97 degree heat!): Then soil and more soil: As you can see, it was only thanks…

It just keeps coming up. It came up again in a Hot Air thread. A commenter said: I can’t think of a person who identifies as a social Conservative who isn’t automatically a fiscal Conservative I can think of one. The former leader of that gang, Mike Huckabee. Compare and contrast his record with that…

In case you haven’t heard of it by now, a bunch of Sarah Palin e-mails that were available by a Freedom of Information Request have been released. The big deal with the e-mails? There was no big deal. WaPo’s also chasing a hot lead that Palin really is Trig’s mother. Matt Welch of Reason surfed…

The first mate and I were trying out a digital camera she had after getting a larger memory card for it. She wanted to try something a little risque – which is unusual for her. I usually have to use Jewish foreplay on her for things like that. I got her to tone it down…

  I am, of course, for progress. Progress, understood as what makes human life easier or even more pleasant. I have some doubts, though, about to what extent the place where I grew up has progressed or just become more unpleasant. I cannot remember this place – not from growing up here. Things have changed…

Margaret Keane It’s A Beautiful Day Cross Posted at Power and Control

Not much to say today as I have been digging in the yard. But I see that Huma Abedin — who became famous and I discussed repeatedly when she was Hillary Clinton’s “body person” — is in the news again. The news that Anthony Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, is pregnant had been known and agonized…

This is sort of an interesting article: Nylon was first introduced around 1939 and was rapidly in extremely high demand in the US, with up to 4 million pairs of stockings bought in one day. The riots occurred between August 1945 and March 1946, when Du Pont shifted its manufacturing from wartime material to nylon…

The producers of the Palin Campaign (not yet) bio film “The Undefeated,” plan to release an X-rated version. The director of “The Undefeated,” a glowing new film about Sarah Palin, said he plans to release an “X-rated” version of the film to better convey “vile” comments about her from sources including celebrities and obscure Twitter…

  It is well known I have a fear of flying, which I’m doing today – though the rest of week is “canned” posts from Portugal, since I’m not getting home till Saturday (my husband and I having decided we need a little time before I must deal with house and cats.) What I’ve probably…

As if we needed more evidence that the federal government nanny state is completely out of control, the EPA is poised to ban most rat poison. If upheld, the EPA action would pull from the shelves some commonly sold products for controlling rodents. The EPA said the move would prevent thousands of children from being…

I have complained about SWAT team raids in countless posts, but now that they’re using them to enforce warrants issued by the Department of Education over defaulted student loans, I thought yet another post was in order. The U.S. Department of Education issued the search and called in the S.W.A.T for his wife’s defaulted student…

A description of what the Israeli Prime Minister did to our beloved Resident. …getting your backside bored .060″ over by Netanyahu the other day… And No. I’m not going to do a translation. Ask a gear head.

Breitbart’s opinion of his news conference. Big Journalism – Revenge of The Nerds: ‘Big’ Blogs Scoop the MSM Yet Again Big Government – Breitbart on TODAY: Big Gov’t Publisher Tells the Incredible Story Behind the Weiner Presser Cross Posted at Power and Control

My printer (Canon MP160 all in one) has been out of wack for the last few months due to lack of ink. I had a cartridge refill kit available but I hadn’t used it because the refill requirements seemed so stringent. I was way overestimating the difficulty. I used the single version of the following…

Actually she resigned on 3 July 2009. So let me see if I can figure this out. This coming 4th of July will be two years AND one day from that date. How interesting. What some folks were thinking back then is also interesting. …Palin also hinted at continuing political ambitions when she repeated a…

I don’t know whether any birdwatchers frequent this blog, but I recently attached a bird house to my garage, and it didn’t take long for a commotion to develop, following which construction began. I just photographed the builder in action, entering the house with twig in beak: Cute, no? I have not yet identified the…