How About Some Facts About the Ferguson Situation

It seems to me that the majority of media and bloggers have been operating from a position of immediately jumping to conclusions, based on inaccurate and biased information.  The standard narrative has been "a white cop shot and killed an unarmed black teenager".  Unspoken are the assumptions: That the cop shot the teenager without provocation …

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Let’s Talk Anti-Semitism

This story is posted on Ricochet, by a new member who is a Swedish Jew.  It tells the sorry tale of her and her children's systematic persecution by others in her (formerly) civilized country.  Remember when Sweden's society was emulated as an example of a country where all were treated equally and fairly, the standard of …

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I’m Going to Wade Right in: Why do we Need BlogHer?

If you pay attention to the Daily Post on WordPress, you saw a couple of posts regarding BlogHer, the convention/meeting for women bloggers.  Now, there's absolutely nothing wrong with a bunch of women who are bloggers getting together to trade tips, techniques, and stories, but I fail to see why there is a crying need …

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This is Positively Eerie

Right now, I am reading a wonderful book by Daniel Silva, one of my favorite authors.  It's a thriller starring his Israeli spy, Gabriel Allon, and involves the theft of one painting, in the service of finding another famous painting by an Italian Old Master painter.  One of the villains is the terrorist dictator of …

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Why I am not on Facebook (or Twitter)

I often have friends ask me why I am not on Facebook, since they all are.  They are constantly updating their profiles, and commenting on their news feeds.  They also complain a lot about other users violently disagreeing with them on Facebook, and doing so using nasty language. Well, I am a 67-year-old woman, and …

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Cutting Off Their Noses to Spite Their Faces (Liberals hurting the groups they claim to support)

Always and everywhere, Liberals and groups like Acorn, claim that they support and work for the little guys, the downtrodden, the discriminated-against, the oppressed, the have-nots of society.  But when it comes right down to it, in the crunch, they favor themselves, and their white liberal cronies in big labor unions and politics, and their …

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The Real View from Israel

Here is the link to an essay by Ricochet Contributor Judith Levy.  She is in Israel, where rockets rain down on her family and friends daily.  If you can read this without weeping, you have no heart.  And if you can read this without getting very, very angry, you have no soul.  I am sitting …

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OBAMA FAVORS EVIL

Read this, from today's Jerusalem Post.  You may be shocked, but I'm not.  Author Caroline Glick tells it like it is. Here are the salient points: OTL supports Hamas in its crusade to obliterate the state of Israel from the face of the Earth. Kerry's "truce" proposal would have given Hamas everything it wants.  The …

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The Natural Order of Things

My hero, Rush Limbaugh, likes to point out that, through much of human history, the natural order of things in our world has been tyranny and misery.  Since humans  started to live in groups, the vast majority of people have led lives that were "nasty, brutish, and short".  Until very recently, human life-expectancy has been …

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