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Political Commentary

Bill Clinton’s War Crimes

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…at Waco. We should make him regret dredging this stuff up. It’s like he’s vying with Jimmy Carter for worst ex-president ever.

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Damn Tim McVeigh to perdition. He’s managed to take this anniversary and turn it into mediafest about a sociopath murdering government workers, instead of the one about the government murdering children two years earlier. And the irony, of course, is that both occurred on the same date as the first shots to win our independence from a tyrannical government.

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What Bill Clinton has in common with King Edward Longshanks:

…powerful people in government have been making that argument literally for centuries.

Take England’s King Edward I, aka “the Longshanks” of “Braveheart” cinematic fame. It wasn’t just William Wallace and the Scots who made Longshanks uncomfortable; he also took very unkindly to criticism from his own subjects. So much so, in fact, that he manipulated what in 1275 passed for the English Parliament to approve Westminster I, a re-codification of basic English law.

Westminster I made it a crime to sow “tales whereby discord or occasion of discord or slander may grow between the king and his people or the great men of the realm.” That law put a stop to criticism of Longshanks and his best buddies among the nobles.

The Dems must really hate that pesky First Amendment.

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The nonviolence of the tea parties is driving the Democrats nuts. Well, actually, there has been some violence. But only by leftist and union thugs.

Political Commentary, Weird

Physician, Heal Thyself

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John Conyers says that the “tea baggers” have an anger problem. And a rationality one:

“We are here now to understand the frustration of the tea baggers and the people who are angry,” said Conyers. “Many times when you’re angry, your rational abilities are compromised.”

Well, Rep. Conyers must have spent his entire life in a state of rage, then. Apparently his wife is the brains in that family. And that’s no compliment to her.

Education, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

Shakespeare And Nazis

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Thoughts on Nazis being “right wing” or “conservative.” It’s nonsense, of course. They were revolutionaries who wanted to, and briefly did, utterly remake society.

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This seems related, somehow: the fairy tale of the “Progressives”‘ own history. Jonah Goldberg has some thoughts as well. And there’s a fascinating and convoluted discussion in comments at the initial link above.

Political Commentary, War Commentary

Figuring Out Who The Rubes Were

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Barack Obama’s reelect numbers are down to 42% among Jews.

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Is the US still an ally of Israel?

The hard Left’s multiculturalist furor at Israel has made enormous inroads into the Democratic party, as we see with the current “reset” policy of the Obama administration, while the old blue-blood, country-club Republicans who tsk-tsked Israel have almost vanished. Over the last 20 years the Left has reconstructed Israel from a bastion of the traditional liberal Jewish tradition into a Western, capitalist hegemonic oppressor, all of which shows the power of campus multculturalism when a tiny democratic country of 7 million can be reconfigured into a colonial power.

And that hard Left is running the country now. At least until January.

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Why Barack Obama is making Rashid Khalidi happy. Funny thing, the LA Times never has released the video of the birthday party. I wonder if it even exists any more?