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Healthcare...Conservatives...Facebook

Many years ago various blogs requested readers to open Facebook pages and “like” the blogs.  I did this and otherwise rarely visit it.  On occasion however, I’ve learned to my chagrin that much...

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Horses, bayonets, throw weights, ad naus.

Whatever the benefits of Woodrow Wilson’s Navy, comparisons should be especially nuanced as the President attempted to illustrate by reference to aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines of which there...

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After glow...or sterner stuff

Another PulicanT pundit just wrote feeling her way in the dark, "We are a center right country...and (the election was) to some degree a rejection." The answer to her anguished "WHY???!!!" is to be...

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There is NO RIGHT to vote??? “Entitlement???”

Over the years especially recently and only a few days ago here, I’ve heard, seen and paid no attention to the declaration that the Constitution nowhere explicitly creates a right to vote.  Enough!THE...

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World's end nigh with replies

As with everybody else who breathes, I receive a super abundance of financial solicitations advising that the fate of the world will be determined by whether I kick into some org or other some sum or...

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"My Little Gun"

Sometime during First Raygun Nancy said that himself had gifted her with “my little gun.” The remark always amused me and seems especially appropriate for a title.

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Warplane video for Memorial Day

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An Illness and Reflections on Health Care, the ACA

Having read here and elsewhere of several people suffering chronic pain and illnesses that they are unable to have treated due to lack of health insurance, it seemed appropriate to comment...

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Herring wins Va. state AG race

Mark Herring just e-mailed that the court has declared him the winner of the state AG race by 900 some votes and that Obenshain has called to congratulate him.  It's over!  The Dems took all three races!

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Can a woman fly an airliner??!—Doocy

With apologies, there really is far too much of significance for this to be sticking in my craw, and I never watch or care what Steve Doocy does or says except when it’s posted here for ridicule....

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Torture, admission, a fantasy…

So the Prez has admitted the reality that we done “tortured some folks.” As one writer makes clear, “torture” is a word of real legal implication.  Worse, this acknowledgement is stronger than his...

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The StoneKettle take on the House Benghazi report

While the House report already has been worked over, nobody has done it nearly so well as Jim Wright (Stonekettle Station).  Here's the link, but should it not work go to www.stonekettle.com for a...

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The view of (Ferguson) from Stonekettle

Or he can see Ferguson from his house...This perspective of the outrage in Ferguson, Mo. is as enjoyably provocative as it is excoriating and deserves to be shared:http://www.stonekettle.com/....

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Greetings from Canada where they know not of snark…

So while reading da kos today and attempting to follow the link to The Daily Show the following message came up:SORRY, BUT THIS VIDEO IS UNAVAILABLE FROM YOUR LOCATION.  IN CASE YOU CAN’T GIVE UP YOUR...

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One Pissed Off (and very depressed) Liberal

With apologies to the one whose delightful screen name “One Pissed Off Liberal” I have usurped, I am tired and disgusted at the entreaties for money that come literally by the hundreds every week.  As...

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Cong. Duckworth deserves...?

The short answer is that I don’t know but that from what I have seen, neither does anyone else.  For clarity, she is among the candidates to whom we have provided financial support.In case anyone does...

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A reasoned, measured response to an anti-Muslim screed.

Yesterday I was gifted with a hateful piece by a patriotic Murican explaining shortly why Muslims were beneath contempt; it was titled:  Muslims My Ass...Excellent!  Despite my resolve neither to fly...

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Unhappiness with two Congressmen of whom I expected better

On learning of the support of my own and another Congressman (Don Beyer) whom I’d supported for gutting the Dodd-Frank Act, I called their offices to express my dismay.  Then I wrote two friends who’d...

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The evolution of gutless irresponsibility on MSN

Shortly before four o'clock this morning MSN carried a headline for a story not in the top heads.  It had to do with Sen. Paul's sacrifice of professional integrity in the cause of reckless pandering...

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Legitimacy of Calgary Cruz

In this morning’s Abbreviated Pundit Roundup, Dr. Dworkin has included a tiny portion of a law professor’s WaPo op-ed column stating that Sen. Cruz is not eligible to be president.  Because he...

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