nobody’s opinions

Apologies for the dearth of posts here recently; I have been swamped with work.
I’ve worked on three websites and several print ads this week, and “haven’t had time to wind my watch or run to the outhouse,” as my friend from Coventryville would say.
Yes, I know I am supposed to be “retired,” and I am, in […]

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Michael Ledeen over at National Review Online points out an astounding symmetry exhibited by the Democratic Party’s candidates!

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William F. Buckley, Jr., one of the great intellects of our time died today, at the age of 82, while working in his study.
Buckley, founder of the National Review, shaped modern conservative thought.
In the first issue of National Review, November 19, 1955, Buckley famously said of the fledgling magazine that:
It stands athwart history, yelling Stop, […]

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Although I have already seen enough of Mr. Obama to know I don’t like or trust him, we will be seeing much, much more of him, at least best until November, unless something unlikely happens in Texas and Ohio next week.
Matthew Archbold, over at Creative Minority Report, has a very funny post which highlights the […]

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I frankly do not believe that Obama is presidential material. However, my doubts about his character are more troubling than my (substantial) doubts about his ability to lead.
And while I know that his wife, Michelle, is not running for office, I find her public pronouncements troubling as well.
“Spengler,” a Columbia Anthropologist from Australia who has long lived […]

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I was awakened today by a metaphorical tumult of hosannas from the rooftops of the surrounded-by-reality city of Ithaca.
Ralph Nader has thrown his head hat into the ring! (I’ll be kind and not mention Harold Stassen… Oops!)
Ithaca ♥ Ralph, and while it is untrue that Mr. “I’m not a spoiler!” outpolled Dubya in Ithaca in ’04, […]

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This is puzzling. I mean, really puzzling.
Michelle Obama, Harvard lawyer, wife of Barack Obama, Harvard lawyer, tells us:
I have to say that my life now is not really that much different from many of yours. I wake up every morning wondering how on earth I am going to pull off that next minor miracle to […]

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