A Debate About the Mosque Debate

There have been a lot of knee jerk reactions to the Ground Zero Mosque/Cultural Center. I’ve had my own, which was troubling as I generally don’t care about others’ religion except in the general sense of wanting everyone to go to Heaven. Why we’ve had such visceral reactions is not easy to put into words [...]

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Earth to Microsoft, We Already Pay Taxes.

I believe what you mean is we should raise taxes, rather than add a new one.
Speaking at a security conference in San Francisco, Microsoft Vice President for Trustworthy Computing Scott Charney pitched the Web usage fee as one way to subsidize efforts to combat emerging cyber threats — a costly venture, he said, but one [...]

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Obama’s Own Support the Troops, Not the Mission Moment?

The European Union is no longer charmed, it seems.
“We want to see a strong and united Europe, speaking with one voice. In the best of all possible worlds, that one voice will be saying what we want to hear,” Mr. Gordon said, according to the Web site of Britain’s Economist magazine. “If it is not [...]

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He Who Is Perfect May Criticize

Castro and Chavez say the United States is occupying Haiti. Yet their own responses to Haiti leave a lot to be desired.
In my mind, one reason the military is best to send into disaster situations is so tin-pot dictators can’t do what they’re accusing of us doing. We have a history of doing what we [...]

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Opposite Land (Random Thoughts)

It’s one of the stupider comments coming from the media to congratulate Americans for now owning car companies. We don’t and won’t. The government owns them which is, and has been for awhile now, a totally separate entity from the people it’s supposed to be serving. If there is money made, which is doubtful, it [...]

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Sorry, I Just Love This Guy

I watch every one of his videos as soon as I hear about them.

Open Thread.

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U.S. Today

Thomas Sowell has a great article this morning over at Townhall. But then, Thomas Sowell almost always has great articles. I suggest you read the entire thing without conservative or liberal ideological blinders on.
Fifth paragraph in:
We seem to be moving steadily in the direction of a society where no one is responsible for what he [...]

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