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9/11 Ten Years Later: Never Forgive, Never Forget

One of the interesting things about blogging in the long term is you have a time machine. As I looked over my my blog posts from 09/11/2001 I was struck with how much it brought me back to that morning. In the end, some of my fears were justified, and others were not. We never [...]

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Abe Lincoln According to Obama

In his most recent “jobs” speech Obama made a comment that Abe Lincoln was the “founder of the Republican party“. Obviously, this is incorrect. That Obama made an error when he accidentally said something that wasn’t on his teleprompter is not surprising but it is funny how little play this gets in the media. Imagine, [...]

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Flight of the Cuckoo: Hugo and Spermgate

Hyper feminist and male apologist Hugo Schwyzer recently let the blogosphere know that he had been party to a potential fraud involving the paternity of a child. The story goes like this… Jill and Hugo are banging Jill and Ted are banging Jill gets pregnant with Alastair Jill and Hugo decide not to tell Ted [...]

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Collective Bargaining 101

A fantastic primer on what collective bargaining is, and why it is a problem for Public Sector unions to have it. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyxuUjgHkgs&w=640&h=390]

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Trigger Warning: This Discussion of Trigger Warnings Might Trigger You.

Cat fight! Susannah Breslin over at True/Slant put up a post stating the obvious about the recent upswing in “trigger warning” silliness. Namely that 99% of the time the purpose of using a “trigger warning” is to make sure the readers of a particular blog who are drawn to stuff that annoys them* don’t miss [...]

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False accusations and faux outrage – the old tricks aren’t working this time…

The old tricks aren’t working any more but they are trying all of them. Most recently they are dragging out the faux horror and outrage of the scared victim. Things have become to mean they say. Some of them have even begun questioning whether the first amendment covers saying bad things about our Dear Leader and his cohorts. With one hand on their foreheads they manage to ask us to consider that all this anger is dangerous right before they faint into a self-righteous heap.

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Taking your kid to Hooters is a problem? Get a grip.

As I was looking over some bookmarks I had stashed away for Herdwatching posts I realized most of them are simply not timely any more. However this one stands out as being worth a chuckle. You can almost hear the screams of horror, the OMFG, the hands slapping to foreheads as heart palpitations bring the [...]

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Herdwatcher Thoughts… Stand Up, Speak Up, Fight Back

It’s been a while since I posted here. Frankly I have been busy with other things and as this little corner of the web is far from a national platform I haven’t really felt like the fight hinged on these posts. There are a lot of awesome people doing fantastic work so I have had [...]

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Ronal Reagan at the Berlin Wall - Courtesy Ronald Reagan Library

Tear Down This Wall

Somewhere around 20 years ago the Soviet Union finally had the good sense to realize it had failed. This realization was not inevitable, the the underlying failure was. When the wall finally fell, I was a trained tank crewman in the US military who had spend the previous 3 years under the realization that war [...]

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The ugly face of racism.

I don’t think it is possible to deny that racism exists in America. What seems to be in contention is how much of it, and in what form. Of course how to lessen it’s impact and what sort of societal attitudes are useful to do that are also a point of argument. Recently Keith Bardwell, [...]

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