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Serving Up Hot Link Must Reads

Last updated on: March 10, 2017 at 4:09 pm by Elizabeth Scalia

Serving Up Hot Link Must Reads 2017-03-10T16:09:38+00:00 Elizabeth Scalia

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In no particular order, let’s take a random look at what has my tab bar all cluttered up:

Sir Elton John: is actually a brave knight willing to dare the dangerous Swamp of Political Incorrectness. First the Limbaugh wedding, now a concert in Israel, where other artists are too cowardly (and too well-trained by the collective) to go.

“Ain’t gonna stop me from coming here, baby,” he told the cheering crowd in Tel Aviv, saying he believed music should spread peace and bring people together: “That is what we do. We do not cherry-pick our consciences, OK?” he added, in an apparent swipe at the artists who have canceled concerts in Israel . . . “I have always believed that music inhabits a world set apart from politics, religious differences or prejudice of any kind,” [John] said in a statement before coming to Tel Aviv.

A renegade to the end, bless him. “Building bridges” used to be what liberalism was all about.

Mark Steyn, meanwhile, looks at a Jewish Cemetery in Tunisia

Churchill would have recognized this gathering storm. Check out what he said 70 years ago today

And the rain falls on the just and the unjust, too: Michael Gerson on Mitch Daniels:

“If there were a WMD attack, death would come to straights and gays, pro-life and pro-choice,” he told me. “If the country goes broke, it would ruin the American dream for everyone. We are in this together. Whatever our honest disagreements on other questions, might we set them aside long enough to do some very difficult things without which we will be a different, lesser country?”

Insty get yer gun: Instapundit reveals at what point he will haul out his guns. I happen to agree with him about the “signal” and what it would mean. And I say get your guns while you can.

Of course, with stuff like this going on, there may be other reasons to keep the arms nearby. Why do we not have pictures of these men? I mean, pictures of the AWOL Afghanis strikes me as a little more urgent a matter than asking General Petraeus if we have renewable energy in our Afghan bases. Un. Real.

Bobby Jindal: Getting really and righteously pissed off. Who is giving odds that the Louisiana Governor will go rogue!

If so perhaps this chef-turned-seminarian will make him some gumbo, as a reward! There is another great vocation story here.

Theodore Dalrymple on the psychobabble that surrounds us

BP & the “transparent” Obama government: are thwarting press access into the Gulf. You’ll note there are few new images coming out of the area. And somehow, the press just sits down and doesn’t go to court over it.

Jay Rosen: a very smart look at the clowns and jokers of the press, who really don’t have to worry about losing their freedoms via Obama. They’ll just surrender them, themselves.

Sally Quinn, sounding insipid:

Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden should switch jobs. Really. It makes sense for the Democrats, actually. Clinton has done an incredible job as secretary of state. First of all, she has worked harder than anyone should ever be expected to.

This column is right up there with NY Times’ Gail Collins inane post-election column of 2008, wherein–having no understanding or appreciation for the gift of a transitioning period she wondered why President Bush wasn’t simply resigning his presidency to make room for Obama two months early:

Putting Barack Obama in charge immediately isn’t impossible. Dick Cheney, obviously, would have to quit as well as Bush. In fact, just to be on the safe side, the vice president ought to turn in his resignation first. (We’re desperate, but not crazy.) Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would become president until Jan. 20. Obviously, she’d defer to her party’s incoming chief executive, and Barack Obama could begin governing.

These two women, Quinn and Collins, are thought of as credible, smart women; they live in rarefied air and wield a measure of real power. And they really are this asinine. They make me ashamed of my sex and my Irish tribe, all at once. These are exactly the sorts of people who think that those of us who do not appreciate Obama’s speeches are simply not smart enough.

Some are smart enough to wonder who told “the smartest president evah” that oil drilling is ‘absolutely safe’? Hmmm, I bet neither Quinn nor Collins thought to ask.

Oh, let Chris Matthews put up his propaganda, and don’t be afraid of it. Half his audience if on the right, monitoring him, and the far-left other half will never believe anything less than the worst. Why waste the energy?

Hope and Change, assault and battery, whatevs.

Of course it’s a tax; it was always a tax

But wait, I thought it was all about “the children.” Isn’t that what we read yesterday? That internet porn would necessitate the big switch? I am so confused.

Ross Douthat: A very insightful look at Hitchens.

Melissa Clouthier gets to chatting about blogging, the internets and Obama’s reaction to the Gulf with some other blogger who gets loud when she gets worked up.

Andrew Malcolm: Hopey Changey fading in Europe, too

“Do we have Ray Nagin in the White House?” Ouch.

Jules Crittenden: A great piece on Waterloo. Print it out and read it to the kids over supper! And then follow up by reading this remarkable story with dessert!

Stay liquid, for as long as you can. A Green Economy means red, and in more than just bottom lines.

Well, thing certainly look lousy; perhaps that is why I am seeing a sudden increase in purchases of canning equipment and books on preserving over at Amazon. (And btw, thanks for your Amazon orders!)

May we finally get to learn who Obama is?

Is Soros instigating a coup? In present tense? And why is something so obvious as a case of voter intimidation taking such a long time to identify?

“Let them clean the bathrooms!”: Hey, if they use rubber gloves and have supervision I’m all for it. I bet they won’t misbehave again!

When it comes to our kids, we are very neurotic as well as screwed up.

A Bookworm and a Paragraph Farmer find common munchings

Goldman Sachs helping out the Dems…

No Pork sausages and wine at a Paris festival. It offends the people with the swords.

Joseph Bottum: An unnecessary execution

Baseball: somehow does not end its season in riots. Another reason why it is the best game.

Muslims and Catholics: fighting over the use of a Cathedral

Protestants and Catholics, and the neverending story also, learning the Latin for Adoration and Benediction

Coptic Christians and Egyptians: Guess who is suppressing whom?

David Mills: A Common Catholic Voice

It takes a very good musician to do this intentionally.

The pianist at my husband’s parish does it unintentionally, all the time, though. (H/T)

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