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The country’s changed

Posted on September 24, 2010 | Comments Off on The country’s changed

University of Chicago lawprof Todd Henderson [is] desolated that people don’t sympathize with how hard it is to get by in Chicago on $250,000 a year.

Radicals have threatened him and his wife at their jobs for his daring to blog about it in a manner they disagreed with. How dare he think this is a free country where he could do such a thing?

How dare he imagine that his money is his own to decide how to spend? That the government has no right to step in and demand confiscatory taxes for its latest schemes and lies? That he is not just another cow to be milked by the likes of Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi?

The country has changed.

Via Instapundit.

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Eat More Possum

Posted on September 22, 2010 | Comments Off on Eat More Possum

That’s Brooklyn’s only reliable solution to its opossum infestation. Greasy, gamey meat, though, I’ve got to say, and like the old song lyric tells it  (“Turn that possum round, boys, turn that possum round”) it takes a lot of stirring of the carcass in boiling water to get all the hair off. Howsomeever, this is ancestral stuff, y’all. Genuine survival food, like chitlins and okra. Goes great with taters, too. In a time of economic, uh, troubles, don’t you know?

UPDATE:  Old joke: What is the only Irish marsupial? The o’possum, of course.

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NeoCon Love

Posted on September 21, 2010 | Comments Off on NeoCon Love

I(Heart)NeoConsHey, Iraq, after all, was their finest hour. Afghanistan, not so much.

Via A Commonplace Blog.

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Fighting ObamaCare: San Antonio docs

Posted on September 21, 2010 | Comments Off on Fighting ObamaCare: San Antonio docs

“Doctors at a health care network in the San Antonio area — HealthTexas Medical Group — have gone on the offensive with an open letter to their patients. The letter is signed by 16 of the group’s physicians, and it lays out a strong case for why ObamaCare is a disaster in the making.”

It also urges November voters to take down three area Democrat congressmen (Ciro Rodriguez, Henry Cuellar, and Charlie Gonzalez) who:

“voted with President Obama in this rushed plan to pass a Healthcare bill, against the wishes of 70 percent of seniors.”

It’s this party-line voting, appeasing the party’s establishment, against the wishes of a majority of their own constituents (and the Republicans have done it before, too), that brought the rise of the Tea Party—despite legacy-media types like MSNBC’s Eugene Robinson maligning the TP for leading a mere “temper tantrum.”

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The Caged Bridge

Posted on September 20, 2010 | Comments Off on The Caged Bridge

La Linda used to be a fairly decent-sized Mexican mining town of about 5,000 people, shipping its fluorspar north across the border on a bridge built by Dow Chemical in 1964.

(Fluorspar is used in plastics, refrigerants, stainless steel and electroplating.)

The traffic stopped in 1997 when the bridge, which was also being used by smugglers, acquired an impassable cage preventing passage in either direction.

“The distance between Del Rio, TX and Presidio, TX is now the longest stretch on the border with no crossings. [385] miles as a matter of fact.  Overnight, La Linda died.”

Course the illegals and the drug smugglers can still cross the Rio Grande below the bridge, and they almost certainly do. It’s just not as easy as it was before. AndyJ at My Old RV has the rest of the story in Eerie Silence – The Ghost Village of La Linda.

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Red State in Austin

Posted on September 18, 2010 | Comments Off on Red State in Austin

Gov. Rick Perry is supposed to speak to a conference in town this morning run by the RedState blog. Blogs run conferences? I didn’t know that. My inside source tells me both the daily and Associated Press had trouble finding anyone to cover it but one supposedly is going to blog it. If they do I’ll update this with whatever they come up with. (No, I won’t make any snide remark about how they’d have no trouble if it was, say, some prominent Dem. Uh, uh. Not me.)

UPDATE: Perry, according to the daily, told RedState’s conferencing conservative bloggers: “Austin is a very safe city, but there’s some legacy-type media wandering around. And they blame you for the decline of the industry.”

And checkout the usual liberal/Left ranting comments at the bottom of the daily’s blog entry on the story.

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Throw the bums out

Posted on September 16, 2010 | Comments Off on Throw the bums out

Here’s another elitist pol so crooked and so arrogant that she records herself begging a lobbyist for money. Because, you see, she’s in a position to do favors. I hope she’s up for re-election. But, then, she’s a black D.C. Dem pol and they tend not to be overthrown very often. They’re so entitled, you know. To steal.

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