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It Has Run Its Course

2008-11-04T16:00:06Z

So this is farewell, of a sort. I've chosen to stop posting here regularly. It's not because of any person or persons, nothing so trite. It's just time for a change, to paraphrase the likely new president. It's been nearly 23 months, and in ...

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Peggy Noonan on Conservatism

2008-11-03T15:28:06Z

Lopez: What is a conservative? Noonan: Thank you for asking. I think this is something we should talk about more, and something I would urge NR to address with a greater force or breadth. Bill Buckley and his hardy band — James Burnham, Jeffre...

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Happy Halloween

2008-10-31T17:52:14Z

Tonight I'll be dressed as Jack the Ripper, and I'll be ripping into some party snacks at a friend's house. I may upload pictures if I don't look too ridiculous. Last year I went as a zombie, and put together an intense gore-fest of a costume. ...

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Happy Halloween

2008-10-31T17:52:06Z

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My Final Thoughts on This Election

2008-10-28T16:32:48Z

I'm rapidly running out of ways to criticize Barack Obama. Over the past two years, I've been lamenting at various times (and in no particular order): Obama's inexperience, questionable associations, stated policy goals, inept assessments of wor...

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I Must Acquire Fable II

2008-10-24T15:51:52Z

I like to think of myself as fairly grown-up. I can easily turn down the childish pleasures in which many of my contemporaries (or, less grandly, my "age-group") seem to lose themselves so readily. But there are certain things that I find I mu...

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This Day in Potentially Damning Yet Utterly Ignored Obama News

2008-10-23T21:01:53Z

So, today the big focus is on how you can make fake donations to the Obama site that still take money from your account. As in: So I went to the Obama website this afternoon and clicked on the "Donate" button. I used my real MasterCard number...

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Piracy Report 10/08

2008-10-23T20:25:44Z

Some of you may have seen the news recently that Blackwater is putting together a crew to act as escort for ships in the Gulf of Aden. This is an encouraging development, as efforts by regional and US forces to counter the pirates have been only...

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Greens and Red Ink

2008-10-23T16:12:59Z

So this little Greenie shop closed in my city, and it somehow made the news. I am consumed with spite for the Greens, not much of it undeserved. I trace this spite to the incident in which I, refusing to give my unqualified support to the idea ...

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Obama and Tax Cuts

2008-10-21T17:56:42Z

Since the topic has been coming up lately, I submit to you this piece. I found it reinforces my own views. Since I am not interested in making a substantial post of my own, you must subsist on my regurgitations. How's that for imagery? Obama’...

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