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Thom on November 18th, 2011

I had already long given up any hope of the Occupy movement as being sane, rational, decent, law-abiding citizens trying to raise a valid point. Any comparison between them and the Tea Party is an utter insult to the Tea Party. Their current tantrum in New York is not protest. It’s sabotage. But picking on [...]

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I’ve been meaning to write a post on morality for awhile now, but Mona Charen has managed to capture much of what I would say in her column “Moral Abdication“. One highlight: The irony is that this supposed reluctance to make moral judgments is itself a moral posture. The young people in the study, like [...]

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Thom on November 3rd, 2011

Ted Rall has a column up at Yahoo! News, in which he calls for violence to advance the OWS cause. His claim is that revolutions do not happen without violence, and that revolution is what OWS wants: If voting or writing letters to the editor worked, we wouldn’t need Occupations. The Occupy movement can wind [...]

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This weekend I got serious about sorting out my sprinkler system, and I think I’ve finally got it. The Internet came to my rescue yet again. I had spotted a valve inside the house that was either the main water cut-off, or the sprinkler line cut-off, but I didn’t know for sure. It had an [...]

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Thom on October 25th, 2011

It’s not easy being a parent on a good day, but being a parent from a distance is just plain tough for everyone. This video of a serviceman reading to his daughter by pre-recorded video warms the heart and reminds you it’s all worth it. * * * * * No really, seriously, this is [...]

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I don’t often agree with Barney Frank, but he’s got a point here: “We had an election last year in which people who disagree with them, and disagree with me and with you, got elected,” he told Maddow. “I don’t know what the voting behavior is of all these people, but I’m a little bit [...]

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Thom on October 7th, 2011

So, what do I think about “Occupy Wall Street” and the copy-cat protests starting up around the country? The same thing I thought about the Tea Party protests originally: I’ll wait and see. While I did attend a Tea Party rally a few years ago, it was probably a good six months after the Tea [...]

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