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I attended a Tea Party this weekend. It was rainy, it was the afternoon of the Fourth of July, and most of the speakers were long winded. The best speakers were two young men–they rambled a bit but kept things short, to the point, and relevant. Around three hundred people showed up, despite the timing… Continue reading

Via Bookworm Room: A woman was pulled from the Des Moines river below a dam by a construction worker hooked to a crane. A quote from the rescuer, Jason Oglesbee: “They just harnessed me up and dipped me down in the water and I grabbed her and the crane drug her to the boat and… Continue reading

Bookworm has an interesting piece on Real Men and the Babyish Guys of Hollywood Movies. I agree with her but think that the attitude is far more pervasive and iterative than she realizes. In the comments section I point her to Kim du Toit’s essay on the Pussification of the Western Male. Segueing into other… Continue reading

Okay, this almost seems like a Monty Python skit but it’s real…. The government of Great Britain (not so great, I’m thinking) is deciding that taking the points off of knives is going to keep people from getting stabbed to death. One of the tragic things is that this is only one step off of… Continue reading

From High Plains Drifter (1973): “Well it’s what people know about themselves inside that makes ’em afraid.” Continue reading

I’m just prefacing this with the fact that I am pro-gay marriage due to the fact that the act and deed of marriage (which is a religious act–the joining of two souls into one) has become inextricably intertwined with the civil contract that is the joining of households/goods/insurance, etc. into one by our government and… Continue reading

Bookworm is trying to start a “Boycott ABC” meme over at her place. This is in response to ABC taking their place as a state-run propaganda organization on June 24. We don’t watch ABC very often anyway and once the IPOD came into our lives, we don’t watch TV nearly as often either–good music and… Continue reading

From American Thinker, Pamela Geller writes about her quest to honor the victim of an ‘honor’ killing in Canada. She talks about the obstacles that she encountered trying to find a way to remember Aqsa Parvez, a girl whose family didn’t want her remembered because she had ‘dishonored’ them by not wearing a piece of… Continue reading

Via Chas Clifton at Hardscrabble Creek. You HAVE to watch this! The 1939 vision of the future but with a tweak. Continue reading

There is talk of sending ALGORE to North Korea to negotiate for the release of the two reporters who ‘accidentally’ crossed the border and got caught. I know people who have been to South Korea and there is no ‘accidental’ crossing into North Korea–the border is pretty well marked. The machine guns, walls, fences, military… Continue reading