Perhaps I misconstrue the words "Commander-in-Chief", but I swear before Jesus that English is my native tongue, and the whole title is only three words long.

As I am sure you all know, the suprisingly hard-charging junior Senator from New York, Kirsten Gillibrand, recently hit a stone wall in the Senate, blocking a really rather modest attempt to attack a loathsome set of practices that besets members (mostly female) of the armed forces of the United States.

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Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree [Read more]

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nope by Auden

A shilling life will give you all the facts:

How Father beat him ,how he ran away,

What were the struggles of his youth, what acts

Made him the greatest figure of his day:

Of how he fought, fished, hunted,worked all night,

Though giddy, climbed new mountains; named a sea:

Some of the last researchers even write

Love made him weep his pints like you and me.

With all his honours on, he sighed for one

Who,say astonished critics,lived at home ; 

Did little jobs about the house with skill

And nothing else; could whistle ;would sit still

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Granting that it’s “a radical idea,” Buchanan writes, “Suppose we repealed the civil rights laws and fired all the bureaucrats enforcing these laws.”

Does anyone think hotels, motels and restaurants across Dixie, from D.C. to Texas, would stop serving black customers?” he continues. “Does anyone think there would again be signs sprouting up reading ‘whites’ and ‘colored’ on drinking foundations and restrooms?"

Well suppose that someone finally exiled Ole Pat to some stud farm; forever freeing us from his communiques?

Before I get to the real purpose of this post (involving another famous revisionist) I wish to take a short historical look at our nation's racist roots. [Read more]

It is commonplace to respond to the fear of gun confiscation, (virtually universally voiced by anti-registration zealots) with a soothing tut-tut, coupled with strenuous oaths forswearing the passage of any law which might reach into the extant stash of any armed citizen in order once and for all to rid society of a manifest source of misery.

One need look no further than Australia to see that it is by no means outside the bounds of imagination that a  people might make a reasoned decision to live unarmed, and in so doing require the surrender of those weapons currently abroad.

We might, after all, amend the Constitution to remove the Second Amendment.  Hard cheese, gun nuts, but there you are.

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Color coded revolutions right and left, so to speak. So many different points of view. So many reasons to guess one way or the other at what is happening and why. [Read more]

Widow-Stepmother: Even though he is gone, you can certainly refer to me as Mom!

Stepdaughter: Are you kidding me? You sat behind me in 8^th grade French!

(L&O last night, I think?)

GEORGE WASHINGTON

JOHN AVLON [Read more]

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree [Read more]

ONE SPACE [Read more]

This will be of minimal interest in this  venue so I’ll keep it short.

The laws against “insider trading”  are as unenforceable as prohibition and should suffer the same fate.There’s nothing wrong  per se with an investment advisor learning as much as possible about a target. That’s his job.

She can do it by trying to worm the information from an inside source. Or going to the favorite bar of any insider and just listening .  In fact D&B (I think) used to have a service called Key Reports-perhaps still do- where their investigator did just that. [Read more]