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The Healing Power of Mahler's 10th Symphony
Feb 8, 2020
The Healing Power of Mahler's 10th Symphony
Feb 8, 2020

Gustav Mahler’s Tenth Symphony is about death, and acceptance. It released me from the memory of a day at Auschwitz.

I spent a day at Auschwitz-Birkenau, then returned to my wife’s family home in Luxembourg, thinking I would move on. But I couldn’t move on, because I couldn’t stop thinking about the hooks. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t stop thinking about the hooks, and the moment they knew.

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Feb 8, 2020
What's Up With All These Attractive Conservative Women?
Feb 7, 2020
What's Up With All These Attractive Conservative Women?
Feb 7, 2020

Are they beautiful because they're conservative, or conservative because they're beautiful?

CPAC is an annual gathering of high-school and college conservatives--and the young women are noticeably attractive, animated and stylish.  What's going on?  Why this concentration of the kinds of girls all the high school quarterbacks want to date?  An exploration...

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Feb 7, 2020
The Four Big Slurs Democrats Use Against Conservatives
Feb 6, 2020
The Four Big Slurs Democrats Use Against Conservatives
Feb 6, 2020

Grab a piece of paper and make a hash mark every time you hear a progressive make a beeline for one of the Four Big Slurs rather than acknowledge a legitimate counter-position.

Look for it: When confronted with Republican ideas (or, for that matter, Republicans) Democrats’ go-to stance is always to assert, directly or by implication, that those ideas and persons are and should be deemed noxious and disqualified on the basis of four factors, the Four Big Slurs.  All of them go to Republicans’ fundamentally odiferous and unenlightened character.

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Feb 6, 2020
Hillary Treated Her Emails Like Criminals I've Known
Feb 3, 2020
Hillary Treated Her Emails Like Criminals I've Known
Feb 3, 2020

See if you can spot the difference between these two sentences: I didn’t do it. There’s no evidence I did it. 

Now Google this:  Hillary no evidence.  Notice anything? 

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Feb 3, 2020
Feb 2, 2020
Ann Coulter Takes One for The Team -- Too Often
Feb 2, 2020

Did you hear the one about how Ann Coulter got destroyed the other night at the Rob Lowe Roast on Comedy Central?

Well, maybe.  I’ll provide a verbatim transcript and you can decide for yourself… 

The Dogs Bark, The Caravan Moves On....

Feb 2, 2020
Sanders Voters Have More in Common With Conservatives Than They Think
Feb 1, 2020
Sanders Voters Have More in Common With Conservatives Than They Think
Feb 1, 2020

Yes, Bernie Supporters, We've Been There, Where You Are.  

And We've Been There For A Long Time...

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Feb 1, 2020
Jan 31, 2020
What's all this Business about "Chevron Deference" and Rights of Privacy?
Jan 31, 2020

It's a little like watching cricket:  Nobody knows what's going on, but they're doing it with a lot of energy... read more at The American Thinker

Jan 31, 2020
Jan 31, 2020
And the Award for Most Insufferable Virtue-Signaling Goes to...
Jan 31, 2020

It is unclear just when the cosseted, self-referential cohort of Hollywood elite began to believe themselves to be the most compassionate, enlightened people who have ever lived…Here’s why it’s hurting everybody.

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Jan 31, 2020
Jan 29, 2020
The FBI is Unbiased and I'm a Strawberry Sundae
Jan 29, 2020

The question isn’t whether agents have the right to hold opinions, or whether they can set their biases aside, it’s whether they have a special duty to avoid forming biases in the first place…

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Jan 29, 2020
Aug 15, 2018
How The Press Lies About Itself
Aug 15, 2018

Trump’s attacks on “fake news” might be saving the press, not hurting it…

Just as you can be against for immigration but against illegal immigration, you can be for the free press but against “fake news”.

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Aug 15, 2018

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