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June 2014

June 21, 2014

Sailing. . .

This is the sort of day where I'd do an Ann Althouse-ian photo blog post,...

June 20, 2014

Someone debunk this, please

Now floating around on the internet is an RFI (request for information -- part of...

June 20, 2014

Someone debunk this, please

Now floating around on the internet is an RFI (request for information -- part of...

June 20, 2014

Now on Drudge: “They Can’t Stay” . . . with a wink (with updates)

The link goes to a Washington Times article, with very little in the way of...

June 19, 2014

Update on Dad, plus — what do you know about CCRCs?

You know how the expression goes:  "I need that like I need a hole in...

June 18, 2014

Michelle Obama “didn’t know how to adequately feed her kids”?

This, from a Breitbart story (yes, from Drudge):“Before coming to the White House, I struggled,...

June 17, 2014

Parking a link: religious freedom in Denmark?

According to this article in the Telegraph (a link from a link from a Drudge...

June 16, 2014

Who’s watching the World Cup?

I am by no means a sports fan of any kind.  Sports-watching happens when my...

June 16, 2014

Parking a link: common sense out the window?

This, from the New York Times, as linked to by Drudge:  the federal government wants...

June 16, 2014

Bonus immigration suggestion

I'm not a big fan of guest-worker programs, and I think that tech firms pressing...

June 15, 2014

Things about which I am not blogging

A more dreary set of news reports I haven't seen in a while:1.  We're replaying...

June 15, 2014

What a true amnesty for illegal immigrants would look like

(This comes out of comments to another post, but I wanted to separate this into...

June 11, 2014

From the library: How Could This Happen, Explaining the Holocaust, by Dan McMillan

(This is a sort of post that I haven't written in a while, in which...

June 11, 2014

How soon before we truly have de facto open borders? (update)

Here's Drudge this morning:And here's one of those links:  "Obama 'committed to escalating lawlessness'" --...

June 11, 2014

Why did Cantor lose, and Graham won?

So I'm as impressed by Dave Brat's win as anyone else, and I'm not pleased...

June 08, 2014

Mystery Demographics?

Here's an article from the Washington Examiner (as linked to by Drudge):  "Women are having...

June 07, 2014

The New Manchurian Candidate? (with bonus commentary)

I'm afraid the anti-Bergdahl crowd may have jumped the shark.  Current claims are that (a)...

June 06, 2014

Putting in a good word for the French (my contribution to D-Day blogging)

So, in commemoration of D-Day, I can't really tell you stories about my family's experiences...

June 05, 2014

About that video. . .

From what I'm reading, the justification for the Bergdahl swap without Congressional notification has been...

June 04, 2014

What was the point of the Paris Peace Accords?

Thinking about the Bowe Bergdahl case, and the fact that the administration is so eager...

June 03, 2014

I admit: I don’t know what to make of the Bergdahl swap

I don't have anything to offer in terms of insights into the Bowe Bergdahl swap....

June 03, 2014

What do you think about POWs?

(This is where it would be really helpful to have more readers, say, by an...

June 03, 2014

Brave New World?

"The Other McCain" linked today to an article in The Atlantic with five predictions about...

June 02, 2014

Economic growth, vs. plain ol’ spending

So the other day I connected an article claiming that same-sex marriage would be a...

June 02, 2014

More on “Secularizing” Catholic Schools

So I was thinking about the "morals clause" issue some more.One of the schools whose...

June 02, 2014

“You wouldn’t want to be a . . .”, small-business owner edition

For those of you who don't recognize the reference, that's a series of kids' books,...

June 01, 2014

Serves me right for reading CNN: their reporting on a Catholic “morals clause” (with additions)

The reporting at CNN on a revised "morals clause" for the teachers at Catholic schools...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

Fake War on Women update, Illinois edition

In Illinois, the voters have a very limited ability to place legislation on the ballot...

May 30, 2014

Parking a link: Detroit Ruin Porn

Here you go:  GooBing Detroit

May 30, 2014

My dad is a car guy

(Trying my hand at something different tonight.)No, he's not the kind of car guy that...

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