Lying, that is. The man who made Monica a household word and openly sold pardons at the end of his second term ought to be more humble. He isn’t.
“With President Clinton wagging his finger at the Tea Party movement and claiming that the movement is inciting violence, it is worthwhile to remember the role the Clinton administration [played] in perpetrating and covering up numerous violent and other crimes at Waco.”
Yeah, Bad Bill, tell us about all the good you did in Waco. For the children.
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Tagged Bad Bill, Bill Clinton, coverup, inciting violence, Slick Willie, Tea Party, Waco
I’ve been a student of the Civil War all my life. Hence the new book. You can’t grow up the descendant of Confederates on both sides of your family and avoid knowing instantly what someone is referring to when they say “the war.” Yankees can ignore it. They won. The defeated never forget. But, much as I’ve enjoyed reading (and writing) about the war and its personalities, I’ve never been a fan of board games for re-fighting the battles. Which is probably why I never imagined that one of them could cost eighty dollars. Gasp.
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Tagged board games, Civil War, Stonewall Jackson's Way
It was back when they first developed SWAT teams and started dressing military style and carrying auto rifles and driving tanks. Like this one. You might think all that armor and extra firepower made them more formidable. They thought so. Some of them still do. What it really did was make them contemptible, just like the fascist police in the dictatorships. It is, as rare reader jdallen says, the mark of a government that is afraid of its citizens. And they return the favor by distrusting the government. As they should.
Via Mouth of the Brazos.
UPDATE: Waco was the most obvious and public manifestation of this problem: “One of the most significant trends of federal law enforcement in the last fifteen years has been its militarization…and similar trends at the state and local level.”
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Tagged cops with tanks, fascists, SWAT
“You too can generate energy with your solar system at night, all you need is an 850 million candlepower WWII era searchlight, now available for rent.”
Via Watts Up With That.
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Tagged green scams, solar power scam, world war II searchlight
Morally bankrupt? Sure, you could argument that. Some have for many years. But a new Treasury Department report (just in time for federal income tax due day), interpreted here by a University of Texas accounting professor, shows fiscal bankruptcy before 2080. Fortunately, that’s almost geologic time, in political terms. Except that our current crop of politicians hasn’t the guts to do anything about it.
Via Instapundit.
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Tagged bankrupt federal government, treasury department report, University of Texas accounting professor Michael Granof
Just in time for the decline of Christianity. Maybe even helping it along. This is one Barbie doll whose exaggerated bust, waist and hips will not draw feminist bombast. They aren’t visible. So can The Rev. Barbie (of Malibu, you know) save the Episcopal Church? The folks who joke they are “the frozen people”? The jury is out.
Via Instapundit.
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“Do they, like, hand out a memo on your first day of your MFA program telling you that writing about alcoholic working-class men who cannot communicate with their sons/fathers/wives is the only way to convey Authenticity? Well, take it from the assistant: we never want to see another god*** book about an alcoholic working-class man who cannot communicate with his son/father/wife ever, ever again, particularly if that story is written by a 22-year-old white kid from Westchester County.”
Oh, happy day, the MFAers have to do some real work for a change. Heh.
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Tagged fiction writing, MFA, publishing
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