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If you’re new here and like what you read, subscribe to my RSS feed. Thank you for visiting!Howard Dean only thinks war experience matters if you’re a Democrat. And if you’re a POW? Irrelevant and insufficient. Consider Dean’s latest remarks: 
“John McCain can try to reintroduce himself to the country, but he can’t change the [...]

Last night, environmentalists urged us all to turn out the lights for one hour–Earth Hour–to make a worldwide statement imploring us to fight global climate change.From the Earth Hour website:
Earth Hour 2008 was a remarkable global event, and in towns and cities across America people “turned out” to lend their voice to the worldwide call for [...]

This election campaign couldn’t have been scripted more beautifully. From Hot Air:
Democrats continue their self-immolation in Texas in the run-up to the critical caucuses that will determine whether Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton can claim the win in the Lone Star State. The state party had to counteract e-mails and robocalls that tried to mislead caucusers into thinking [...]

Progress. Change. Misspoke. National Conversation. Sniper. 

via TownHall.com

It’s been a crazy week at IvyLeagueConservatives.I had an immersion in everything that can go wrong with Wordpress, which caused some hiccups and a day or two of downtime as the excellent support team over at Globat.com tried to undo my plentiful mess-ups. I also had an interesting run-in with a group of lunching liberals from Germantown, Pennsylvania, [...]

Where do they find these people? Courtesy of MichelleMalkin.com:
They really do live on a different planet:
About 22 demonstrators gathered outside the ABC News building in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to deliver a petition reportedly bearing 200,000 signatures of people who agree that “FOX News is a Republican mouthpiece” and that networks, including ABC News, should stop “parroting” the [...]

Didn’t anyone tell Obama that he is the company he keeps? Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s church newsletter articles have been released, and how apropos that their anti-Israel content appears as Obama is welcomed to New York by mayor Michael Bloomberg–a Jew.From the Times Online: 
The articles included a column by the Hamas leader, Mousa Abu Marzook, which asked: [...]

Somebody needs to shut this guy’s pie hole. In an interview with 60 Minutes, Al Bore Gore likened global warming skeptics to fringe conspiracy theorists. Read this, courtesy of NewsBusters:
The former vice president and former presidential candidate talks to 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl in an interview to be broadcast this Sunday, March 30, at 7 p.m. [...]

From the AP:
A judge known for creative sentencing has ordered three Spanish-speaking men to learn English or go to jail.
The men, who faced prison for criminal conspiracy to commit robbery, can remain on parole if they learn to read and write English, earn their GEDs and get full-time jobs, Luzerne County Judge Peter Paul Olszewski [...]

If global warming is happening right now, all around us, why are global temperatures dropping? 

Things I’ve learned in the last 24 hours:1.  When everything is working properly and the blog is laid out just the way you want it, leave it alone.2. If you decide to run a Wordpress update, back up your database.3. Back up your database.4. Expect everything to go wrong.5. Back up your database.6. If you [...]

Why is it that a liberal ‘misspeaks,’ and a conservative ‘lies’?

From NewsBusters: 
On Thursday’s “Today” show co-anchors Ann Curry and Hoda Kotb sipped wine, while Lempert claimed that North Carolina wines were going to be all the rage because Napa Valley wineries were being harmed by “global warming.”
 
The transcript on the NewsBuster site cites Lempert as saying that by the end of this century, Napa will be [...]