Quick Mentions
Snippets of interest
It’s the jobs, stupid
10.0% unemployment is never a good thing.
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Thomas Friedman on The Narrative
My opinion of TF as one of the great writers holds. He penned an OpEd in the NYT that uses Fort Hood to assail (rightly) the Muslim Mein Kampf named “The Narrative”.
The Narrative is the cocktail of half-truths, propaganda and outright lies about America that have taken hold in the Arab-Muslim world since 9/11....
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They said the same thing after the Tet Offensive
Today’s American military leaders are experiencing, in a smaller dose, what many of their forerunners went through after the Tet Offensive. A remote American outpost in Afghanistan was abandoned after being successfully defended against attacks by Taliban forces. In the wake of the attack, and as part of General McChrystal’s strategy shift, the base...
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Bullshit Bob (Ainsworth), of Her Majesty’s Ministry of Defence
Michael Yon writes up more on the British Ministry of Defence & Bullshit Bob. What the hell is wrong with Her Majesty’s higher-ups?
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RNC Chairman on racism
Well said, Mr. Steele. I only wish Jimmy Carter and Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., were in the studio to hear this:
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Hannan on cries of racism re: Obama
But if conservatives should accept that some of the attacks on the forty-fourth president are discreditable, Lefties ought, by the same token, to concede that the overwhelming majority of the president’s opponents are not motivated by personal dislike.
via Jimmy Carter accuses Barack Obama’s critics of racism – Telegraph Blogs.
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Fighting Capitalism With Capitalism
The Mogambo Guru writes an amusing scornful look at Michael Moore’s latest bit of celluoid crap, “Capitalism: A Love Story.”
As one more bit of proof that the education system of the United States is a dysfunctional piece of liberal crap, how else to explain the fact the far-leftist moron Michael Moore actually got funding,...
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What can future GOP leaders learn from Margaret Thatcher?
Don’t hem yourself in with too much detail, i.e. avoid the spewing-at-the-mouth disease that plagues our current President. MEP Daniel Hannan is writing with regard to UK Tory leader David Cameron, but the advice is applicable to US GOP candidates.
Those who clamour for more detail from David Cameron would do well to look at...
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More ‘Bad Behavior’ from the arts community
Patrick Courrielche has more on the NEA/White House attempt at propaganda over at Big Hollwood. He’s got audio of the NEA contradicting itself, too. Oops. Courrielche’s concluding thoughts mirror my own in an earlier GOP post: the NEA is handing its critics fresh, valid points of criticism to use against the group.
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The Anti-Republican
Bruce Bartlett talks about why, as an Independent, he considers himself an anti-Republican. If the GOP wants to regain strength, it needs to heed some of Bartlett’s advice: stop pandering to birth certificate crazies (birthers, or nirthers, if you will), extremists and creationists – groups who refuse to budge from entrenched positions. Embrace the...
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A couple of immigration notes
From the Houston Chronicle comes two different stories on immigration, illegal or otherwise. The first notes how more and more people are being caught with fraudulent documents:
The number of people caught at the nation’s ports of entry with fraudulent, stolen or purchased documents grew from about 23,500 in 2006 to more than 28,000 in...
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Its the personal liberty, stupid
Jennifer Rubin pens a look at one of our core beliefs- that advocating strongly for personal liberties should be core to the Republican partys strategy for winning future elections.
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