Signing Off

By Rudolph Carrera - December 31, 2009

The site is now laid to rest. It’s been a won­der­ful, strange, inter­est­ing jour­ney I’ve had with you, my friends. I ask that you drop the “/wp” if you con­tinue to link to my page, and I bid you farewell via two fit­ting songs: Mid­night, The Stars and You by Al Bowlly and Blue Moon, as sung by Elvis Pres­ley. Happy New Year!

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Report: Rush Limbaugh taken to Hawaii hospital

By Rudolph Carrera - December 30, 2009

Bad news for Rush fans. Lim­baugh, per­haps the most pow­er­ful and influ­en­tial voice in radio his­tory was taken to the hos­pi­tal in seri­ous con­di­tion. This break­ing story will be updated at Drudge Report.

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Dick Cheney: Barack Obama ‘trying to pretend’

By Rudolph Carrera - December 30, 2009

The ghost of the Admin­is­tra­tion of George W. Bush still haunts Pres­i­dent Obama. The Christ­mas ter­ror­ism attempt seems to be the final straw for a good deal of those hold­outs and hangers-on who hoped (and changed) against hope that our leader would mature into a pres­i­dent every­one could rally around. He has been an abysmal fail­ure at every­thing he’s touched. The cat-calls from the psy­chotic branch of the Demo­c­ra­tic Party have no effect, as they can’t blame any­thing any­more on Repub­li­cans. Their heads spin, how­ever, at the sight of Dick Cheney right­fully crit­i­ciz­ing this poseur of a Pres­i­dent as he drops balls from the econ­omy to keep­ing the coun­try safe. The most amus­ing thing to see, how­ever, is NOT Dick Cheney call­ing out the POTUS; rather, it is to watch the Left eat its own, as Mau­reen Dowd does to Barack Obama in her most recent col­umn. His admin­is­tra­tion will fall the way of Jimmy Carter’s did in 1980. Will be end up with a Reagan-type leader or a “country-club” idiot run­ning the coun­try next? Eyes have moved for­ward as this pres­i­dent has effec­tively become a lame duck.

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The future of this site

By Rudolph Carrera - December 29, 2009

I was con­sid­er­ing trash­ing the site entirely, archiv­ing the links to look at in ten years (pro­vided Word­press exists then!) and tak­ing a look at what I’d writ­ten to see how much my mind has changed or stayed the same. Friends have linked to this page, how­ever, so I’ve decided to keep it, per­haps using it as a place where I can prac­tice redesign­ing tem­plates for a nicer look to the other pages. If you, dear friends, have any sug­ges­tions of what could have been done bet­ter here, do let me know.

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Onlymehdi

By Rudolph Carrera - December 28, 2009

For up-to-date events and pic­tures on what’s hap­pen­ing in Iran, this blog, run by Mehdi Saharkhiz, is worth check­ing out.

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On to my new project

By Rudolph Carrera - December 27, 2009

I trust, dear friends, you’ve had a won­der­ful Christ­mas vaca­tion. I sim­ply wanted to announce that I will be con­cen­trat­ing next year on a project dear to my heart. I will be releas­ing music on a reg­u­lar basis for the first time since 1991. The site for CLCX can be found here, and the first release is avail­able for down­load and pur­chase here.

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Terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab charged with trying to blow up Northwest Flight 253

By Rudolph Carrera - December 26, 2009

The cretin who tried to blow up a North­west Air­lines plane for Christ­mas has been charged. As it turns out, his father, a promi­nent Niger­ian banker, tried to warn author­i­ties before­hand of his son being a poten­tial ter­ror­ist threat.

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Happy Birthday to Jesus!

By Rudolph Carrera - December 25, 2009

The­olo­gian Mark D. Roberts reminds the faith­ful on the impor­tance of Christ­mas Day. May you all enjoy your­selves with fam­ily and friends, and be mind­ful of what a gift we received in Beth­le­hem 2,000 years ago.

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A lovely Christmas Eve

By Rudolph Carrera - December 24, 2009

After a pleas­ant trip back from Col­orado, I man­aged to spend a won­der­ful Christ­mas Eve with fam­ily whom I’ve not seen in a year in some cases. It seems that, despite the eco­nomic hard­ships and stresses one would expect at this time of year, peo­ple were gen­er­ally quite kind dur­ing the past few days. It was espe­cially nice to hear “Merry Christ­mas” rather than the usual (and very lame) “Happy Hol­i­days,” which holds no weight on its own. Though it seems I’m hop­ing against hope, per­haps these are minor signs por­tend­ing a won­der­ful 2010 for us.

To my dear friends and read­ers, I wish you a won­der­ful Christ­mas Day, and as we say in Ser­bian, Hris­tos Seroti!

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Iran police clash with mourners, 50 arrested: reports

By Rudolph Carrera - December 23, 2009

All Iran, all the time, I guess! It looks like Aya­tol­lah Mantazeri’s death has fired up pro-democracy demon­stra­tors in Iran, and there isn’t much the Ahmadine­jad regime can do about it for now.

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Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, R.I.P.

By Rudolph Carrera - December 22, 2009

Michael Rubin fol­lows up with an obit­u­ary and a mon­i­tor­ing of events in Tehran after the bur­ial of Grand Aya­tol­lah Hos­sein Ali Mon­taz­eri. A pas­sage that caught my eye trou­bled me:

Montazeri’s mem­oirs, banned from pub­li­ca­tion in Iran dur­ing the time of the sup­pos­edly lib­eral Moham­mad Khatami, acknowl­edge and detail the hor­ren­dous human-rights abuses con­ducted by the regime. The Iran Human Rights Doc­u­men­ta­tion Cen­ter, whose fund­ing the Obama admin­is­tra­tion cut with­out expla­na­tion, doc­u­mented many of the abuses dis­cussed by Montazeri.

Our POTUS is an utter ama­teur, and evi­dence of this grows daily.

Ahmad Mon­taz­eri, the Ayatollah’s grand­son, also eulo­gized him. He is no fan of the cur­rent regime, either.

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Grand Ayatollah Montazeri’s funeral sees hundreds of thousands challenge the Iranian regime

By Rudolph Carrera - December 21, 2009

Ira­ni­ans seem to have stopped being afraid. They’ve been incred­i­bly brave up to this point, but the death of one of the most impor­tant dis­si­dent cler­ics has served as an occa­sion for peo­ple to ratchet up the expres­sion of their dis­con­tent at the bar­bar­ians run­ning the show in Tehran.

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News from Iran

By Rudolph Carrera - December 20, 2009

Far­naz Fas­sihi of the Wall Street Jour­nal writes about a doc­tor, Ramin Pouran­dar­jani, who showed great courage in refus­ing to sign phony death cer­tifi­cates at a Tehran prison. In other prison news, the Iran­ian gov­ern­ment admit­ted that at least three pris­on­ers were beaten to death inside of jail. Their crime? Protest­ing the cor­rupt gov­ern­ment destroy­ing the coun­try. Should Iran ever become a free, demo­c­ra­tic state, these will be among the first martyrs.

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Copenhagen’s Lesson in Limits

By Rudolph Carrera - December 19, 2009

Like the Kyoto Treaty that no one much paid atten­tion to some years back, Copen­hagen has pro­duced another doc­u­ment so that every­one can “just keep talk­ing.” Very pro­duc­tive. At least the POTUS got to see a charm­ing city.

HT: WSJ.

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What I See on the Frontline in Iran

By Rudolph Carrera - December 18, 2009

Hesh­mat Tabarzadi smells rev­o­lu­tion in the air in Tehran. Pray for it.

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News Roundup for December 17

By Rudolph Carrera - December 17, 2009

  • Accord­ing to RIA Novosti and The U.K. Tele­graph, the ‘Cli­mate­gate’ scan­dal over at the Uni­ver­sity of East Anglia just gets worse and worse, despite the naysay­ers in Copen­hagen try­ing to cover their tracks.
  • Ken Tim­mer­man reports that the Obama Admin­is­tra­tion wants to hold up on sanc­tions against Iran, despite Tehran’s bla­tant bel­liger­ence toward Amer­i­can inter­ests. Why?!
  • Even MSNBC, a fringe net­work, is drub­bing CNN. I can’t see them last­ing much longer unless they have a very long-term deal with air­ports or other places where no one will pay atten­tion to them.
  • Hawaii becomes a race-based state. I can’t see this uni­fy­ing any­one in the coun­try, but it’ll cer­tainly cause even more frac­tions that Amer­ica doesn’t need.
  • Pres­i­dent Obama appoints another scoundrel as Ambas­sador to El Sal­vador. Maria Del Car­men Aponte is as close to being a trai­tor to this coun­try as any­one can be, accord­ing to Ben Shapiro, yet with lit­tle fan­fare, she gets nom­i­nated to an impor­tant post. Saul Alin­sky must be proud.
  • PJTV has a video on, sur­prise of sur­prises, the first openly gay mayor of Hous­ton is a Con­ser­v­a­tive in her polit­i­cal out­look. We wish her much suc­cess in fix­ing up the city. You should sub­scribe to PJTV in order to view said video.

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    Single-payer health care plan dies in Senate

    By Rudolph Carrera - December 16, 2009

    Don’t be too thrilled with the news that “single-payer” may have died in the Sen­ate. The rad­i­cal wing of the Demo­c­ra­tic Party will find a way to sneak it in some­how, rest assured. This, despite the fact that the major­ity of the pop­u­lace has no inter­est in wreck­ing their insur­ance plans.

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    The Left Implies Senator Lieberman Is a Killer

    By Rudolph Carrera - December 15, 2009

    It’s one thing to see The Left as vicious lit­tle twerps who wouldn’t be man enough to say the garbage they sput­ter in someone’s face with­out force­ful retal­i­a­tion. It’s quite another for these vicious psy­chopaths to imply that because a Sen­a­tor like Joe Lieber­man doesn’t want to go along with a pol­icy that would wreck the nation’s econ­omy, he must be a killer. In a more sane, eth­i­cal world, Ezra Klein, the losers at Firedoglake.com and oth­ers of their ilk would be chucked out of their offices and into the unem­ploy­ment lines. It’s not. Rather, the Left have become the home of self-loathing Jews who attack an actual Jew who prac­tices as not being “a real Jew.” This will be a fun train wreck to monitor.

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    Secret document exposes Iran’s nuclear trigger

    By Rudolph Carrera - December 14, 2009

    The Times of Lon­don states the obvious:

    Con­fi­den­tial intel­li­gence doc­u­ments obtained by The Times show that Iran is work­ing on test­ing a key final com­po­nent of a nuclear bomb.

    The notes, from Iran’s most sen­si­tive mil­i­tary nuclear project, describe a four-year plan to test a neu­tron ini­tia­tor, the com­po­nent of a nuclear bomb that trig­gers an explo­sion. For­eign intel­li­gence agen­cies date them to early 2007, four years after Iran was thought to have sus­pended its weapons programme.

    An Asian intel­li­gence source last week con­firmed to The Times that his coun­try also believed that weapons work was being car­ried out as recently as 2007 — specif­i­cally, work on a neu­tron initiator.

    The tech­ni­cal doc­u­ment describes the use of a neu­tron source, ura­nium deu­teride, which inde­pen­dent experts con­firm has no pos­si­ble civil­ian or mil­i­tary use other than in a nuclear weapon. Ura­nium deu­teride is the mate­r­ial used in Pakistan’s bomb, from where Iran obtained its blueprint.

    Read more here.

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    Obama tells US banks to lend more and not oppose reform

    By Rudolph Carrera - December 14, 2009

    What gall! The gov­ern­ment who forced banks to loan to peo­ple utterly inca­pable of pay­ing the money back now demand the con­tin­u­a­tion of the same fool­ish poli­cies. Per­haps banks will learn to grow a spine (and busi­ness ethics wouldn’t be a bad thing, either).

    Vic­tor Davis Han­son con­tin­ues the meme in won­der­ing what the President’s prob­lem is with “fat cats.”

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    Berlusconi ‘will need weeks to recover’ after attack

    By Rudolph Carrera - December 13, 2009

    One won­ders what has hap­pened to the pro­fes­sion­al­ism of the secret ser­vice! Some nut belts Sil­vio Berlus­coni and is allowed to walk away? Unbelievable!

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    Back to California

    By Rudolph Carrera - December 12, 2009

    After two days of dri­ving, I’ve returned home for the Holidays.

    I’ll com­mence blog­ging tomorrow.

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    Happy Hanukkah!

    By Rudolph Carrera - December 11, 2009

    A warm and happy Hanukkah to our reli­gious Jew­ish friends (as well as our more sec­u­lar allies). May you be with those you love this year.

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    Give North Koreans A Chance / Iran’s Democratic Moment

    By Rudolph Carrera - December 10, 2009

    Clau­dia Rosett writes on the utter brav­ery being shown by pro­test­ers in North Korea, a place not known to tol­er­ate such activ­i­ties very well.

    Amir Taheri writes on the ongo­ing protests in Iran of peo­ple want­ing to rid them­selves of the fanat­i­cal garbage ruin­ing their coun­try in favor of an Iran­ian democracy.

    If any­one needs sup­port, it is these two sets of brave folk.

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    The Bilingual Ban That Worked

    By Rudolph Carrera - December 10, 2009

    I come from a bilin­gual (actu­ally, more than that, cul­tur­ally) house­hold, and have lived in coun­tries where I had to learn the lan­guage. I never thought, for one moment, that nei­ther this coun­try nor the ones I lived in were obliged to bend over back­wards in order for me to com­mu­ni­cate with my fel­low cit­i­zens or edu­cate myself. Heather Mac­Don­ald writes on a ban on bilin­gual edu­ca­tion that shows promise here.

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    Obama defends war as he picks up Nobel Peace Prize

    By Rudolph Carrera - December 10, 2009

    Inter­est­ing! The effete snobs in Oslo surely didn’t like the sound of our erst­while pres­i­dent mak­ing the grum­blings and jus­ti­fi­ca­tions of war at their lit­tle peace sum­mit. Pres­i­dent Obama, in a back­handed sort of com­pli­ment, had to acknowl­edge (with a few cheap-shots at the pre­vi­ous admin­is­tra­tion, of course) that we are nor a war-mongering nation, but one who indeed wants a safer world for our­selves, adding that if we want that, we have to make other places safe. Good words on his part. Does he believe them? I tend to doubt it, but I’d be very happy to be wrong in this instance.

    There is an amus­ing sense of irony when even the Dalai Lama him­self sees the Nobel Prize Obama “earned” as being given “…a lit­tle too early.” You don’t say, dear sir.

    On the home front, Oba­maCare is look­ing pretty dead. The left will aban­don him if this doesn’t go through, and it will make for a very long, painful three years for the POTUS.

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    Petraeus warns new surge progress will be slow

    By Rudolph Carrera - December 9, 2009

    General Petraeus.

    Never mind the opin­ion of our Pres­i­dent, the light­weights around him or pun­dits who don’t have a clue. The one man whose opin­ion on Afghanistan car­ries weight is Gen. David Petraeus. He feels that there will be a lot of dark­ness before Afghanistan can see it’s dawning.

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    Greek Debt Poses a Danger to Common Currency

    By Rudolph Carrera - December 8, 2009

    Wor­ri­some news from Greece:

    As eco­nomic indi­ca­tors have improved, con­cern about the finan­cial cri­sis has abated. But the next big prob­lem could be approach­ing. Greece’s pub­lic deficit is sky­rock­et­ing and the coun­try may become insol­vent. The effect on Europe’s com­mon cur­rency could be dire

    More from Der Spiegel here.

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    Hats off to Mara Liasson

    By Rudolph Carrera - December 7, 2009

    Good for her! Though a lib­eral, she shows good judg­ment by actu­ally watch­ing Fox for thirty days after being ordered to do so by her other employer, the hor­ri­bly biased NPR, com­ing to the con­clu­sion that Fox was worth asso­ci­at­ing with. Jil­lian Ban­des of Town­Hall writes fur­ther here.

    This could change if NRP were seri­ous about polit­i­cal cov­er­age by invit­ing good con­ser­v­a­tive jour­nal­ists like Mark Steyn, Jonah Gold­berg, Hugh Hewitt and oth­ers, but until they do so, they will be right­fully seen as push­ing left­ist dreck on our tax dollars.

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    Rest Day

    By Rudolph Carrera - December 6, 2009

    No blog­ging today, folks. We’re snowed in and I’m pooped today.

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    Mexican drug gang leader dies in shootout

    By Rudolph Carrera - December 5, 2009

    From the BBC:

    At least 11 peo­ple includ­ing a leader of a local drug gang have been killed in shootouts with police in north­ern Mex­ico, offi­cials say.

    The first clash occurred when armed men ambushed troops who were search­ing a villa in Mon­ter­rey, one offi­cial said.

    Among at least seven gun­men killed was Ricardo Almanza Morales, thought to be a leader of the Zetas, the armed branch of the Mex­i­can Gulf drug cartel.

    A sec­ond shootout left at least four peo­ple dead, reports said.

    State Attor­ney Gen­eral Ale­jan­dra Garza y Garza told the Asso­ci­ated Press news agency that it involved gun­men who ran into a mil­i­tary con­voy as they were appar­ently head­ing to the villa to try to help those arrested dur­ing the ini­tial shooting.

    Seven peo­ple had been arrested in the sec­ond shootout, he said.

    Ricardo Almanza Morales was accused of killing a local police chief, Brig Gen Juan Arturo Esparza, and his four body­guards, in an attack in November.

    Mr Garza y Garza said that hours after Friday’s shootouts, sus­pected Zetas gun­men attacked a deten­tion cen­tre in a sub­urb of Mon­ter­rey, killing two fed­eral police offi­cers and lib­er­at­ing 23 inmates.

    Drug-related vio­lence has led to thou­sands of deaths in Mex­ico this year.

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    Neda Agha Soltan’s family accuse Iran of her killing

    By Rudolph Carrera - December 4, 2009

    The murder of Neda.

    Bless Neda’s fam­ily for call­ing the mur­der­ers of her daugh­ters out. It is to the Iran­ian regime’s eter­nal shame that they blame “out­siders” for butcher­ing this woman.

    HT: BBC.

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    Uncle Milton

    By Rudolph Carrera - December 4, 2009

    The dean of truly Lib­eral (in the clas­si­cal sense) econ­o­mists has been given a new web­site cel­e­brat­ing Friedman’s ideas.

    HT: John J. Miller, NRO.

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    US ‘disappointed’ ousted Honduras leader not reinstated

    By Rudolph Carrera - December 3, 2009

    There was a time where Demo­c­ra­tic pres­i­dents would have been as pleased as their Repub­li­can coun­ter­parts tend to be at sup­port­ing democ­racy in coun­tries who could use the help, espe­cially when the pop­u­lace fol­lowed their own rules to the let­ter in order to keep a tyrant from appear­ing on their scene. Thanks to the Obama Admin­is­tra­tion, those days are done. 2012 can’t come soon enough, not only for Repub­li­cans, but for pro-democracy Hon­durans as well.

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    Mingle WordPress Plugin

    By Rudolph Carrera - December 3, 2009

    I may fid­dle with this on the mother page.

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    Suggestions for jump-starting the economy

    By Rudolph Carrera - December 2, 2009

    Two arti­cles of inter­est appeared in the Wall Street Jour­nal mak­ing some inter­est­ing pitches on how to revive the Amer­i­can econ­omy. Christina Romer sug­gests that busi­ness and gov­ern­ment com­bine forces in order to boost private-sector hir­ing. Paul Kedrosky and Brad Feld want to see more immi­grant investors come into the coun­try in order to play there trade (and surely cre­ate a new tax base).

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    Arrington: No, I Don’t Need to Call You for Your Side of the Story

    By Rudolph Carrera - December 1, 2009

    On first look, Michael Arring­ton comes off as an unpro­fes­sional jerk for blast­ing the pro­gram ‘Video Pro­fes­sor’ with­out hav­ing the other side of the story dis­cussed. Arring­ton, how­ever, may have bro­ken a now-worthless taboo on sec­ond look, and it will hope­fully send shock-waves in the jour­nal­is­tic world. One of the rea­sons no one with any com­mon sense trusts the media is because they present an objec­tiv­ity that patently false. To see some­one express their opin­ion freely may be a sig­nal for jour­nal­is­tic change in the U.S. This may not make the cut at the Colum­bia Jour­nal­ism Review, but for peo­ple who want to hear an opin­ion, this may bode well for main­stream media. Why do you think Fox is a hit, folks? It is because there is a com­bi­na­tion of hard, ’straight’ news and sev­eral opin­ion colum­nists doing their thing. The phony jour­nal­is­tic detach­ment played at by CNN has no tak­ers anymore.

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    Global Warming Consensus: Garbage In, Garbage Out

    By Rudolph Carrera - November 30, 2009

    Mike Barone con­tin­ues the meme of “Cli­mate­gate,” the fraud of so-called ‘Global Warm­ing’ that looks to have been exposed by a hacker who busted char­la­tans like Al Gore and his cabal.

    Gor­don Crovitz and Bjørn Lombergcon­tinue the pile-on.

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    Nearing the end

    By Rudolph Carrera - November 29, 2009

    I’ve been putting for opin­ion regard­ing a num­ber of top­ics since 2003, but the blog started going more in a polit­i­cal direc­tion in 2005. In 32 days, I’ve decided to end polit­i­cal com­men­tary here. There are a num­ber of writ­ers who do this sort of thing in a way less laconic and per­haps more tex­tu­rally pleas­ing than I do. I’ll say my peace over at Young Gun Con­ser­v­a­tives, but the plan is to start chang­ing the focus of this blog to some­thing more…, well…, fun. I have plenty of project sites, and maybe I’ll turn this into a launch­ing pad to the other blogs I fid­dle with. I’ll have more as the days go by. For now, I’m prepar­ing for a hard-earned rest.

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    Will Time Magazine Apologize to Glenn Beck?

    By Rudolph Carrera - November 28, 2009

    Time Mag­a­zine have scum as staff writ­ers. They seek any oppor­tu­nity to build up “right-wing” bogey­men to tear down, even if it means falsely impli­cat­ing a talk-show host as an inciter to mur­der. That, dear friends, belongs in a social­ists, bag of tricks, not a Con­ser­v­a­tives, despite the wish­ful think­ing of the wing-nut brigade. Ken Black­well com­ments fur­ther on Time Magazine’s slan­der here, cour­tesy of TownHall.com.

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    Dubai debt fears remain focus in world markets

    By Rudolph Carrera - November 27, 2009

    Dubai is in huge debt. The reper­cus­sions to the world econ­omy might be tremen­dous. We’ll see more on Monday.

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    Academic Perestroika

    By Rudolph Carrera - November 26, 2009

    Mar­vin Olasky has touched upon a bril­liant meme in terms of acad­e­mia. As the uni­ver­si­ties and col­leges have been hijacked by the Left, per­haps it is time to con­sider char­ter col­leges. It would cer­tainly improve the qual­ity of edu­ca­tion, con­sid­er­ing the gen­er­a­tion of know-nothings schools are pro­duc­ing these days.

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    The Real Story of Thanksgiving

    By Rudolph Carrera - November 26, 2009

    Rush Lim­baugh has a tra­di­tion of read­ing his ver­sion of how Thanks­giv­ing went down. Because I lis­tened to Den­nis Prager, a talk-show host of a very high intel­lec­tual cal­iber, for many years, I never got to hear Rush do his thing until about two years ago. Need­less to say, I found the story impres­sive. It doesn’t gloss over the bad, but it allows peo­ple to under­stand, directly from the record of the Pil­grims them­selves, how events unfolded with­out inter­fer­ence from lib­eral fabulists.

    It makes for a nice read on a day where all should be thank­ful for the bless­ings our Cre­ator bestowed on us and for the won­der­ful coun­try we live in.

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    Global Warming With the Lid Off

    By Rudolph Carrera - November 25, 2009

    There’s noth­ing wrong with being a good stew­ard to your Earth, as I’ve said before. The prob­lem comes with liars try­ing to shake peo­ple down for money to pro­mote a phony agenda. The Wall Street Jour­nal Edi­to­r­ial Board com­ments fur­ther here.

    1 Comment - Posted in Bias, Corruption, Elitism, Environmentalism, Fraud, Hypocrisy

    We Pay Them to Lie to Us

    By Rudolph Carrera - November 24, 2009

    Thank you, Cap­tain Obvi­ous. John Stos­sel couldn’t be more right. Read his Town­Hall col­umn here.

    1 Comment - Posted in Corruption, Incompetence, Politics

    Black Friday Expectations and Stimulus Exaggerations

    By Rudolph Carrera - November 23, 2009

    Andrew Breitbart’s Big Gov­ern­ment links to Fran­cis Cianfrocca’s pod­cast on the embar­rass­ing claims the gov­ern­ment made about the Stim­u­lus Pack­age when mar­ket evi­dence shows we may have a less-than-stellar Black Fri­day and hol­i­day sea­son business-wise.

    No Comments - Posted in Business, Economy, Incompetence, Politics

    If Obama’s Lost Saturday Night Live, He’s Lost…

    By Rudolph Carrera - November 22, 2009

    After spend­ing the day babysit­ting, dogsit­ting, work­ing a full shift and spend­ing some quiet time in con­ver­sa­tion with my dear Lily, I had to wait for a phone call so I decided to go through some blogs I had neglected recently, includ­ing Pow­er­line. They post a story on Obama’s seri­ous­ness among his pathetic lib­eral acolytes fail­ing, espe­cially via the mock­ery dis­played at Sat­ur­day Night Live and the Jon Stew­art Show.

    SNL hasn’t been funny since Eddie Mur­phy left, and appeals to the sort of lib­eral dweeb whose opin­ion means nil in any seri­ous polit­i­cal dis­course. Jon Stew­art, also unfunny, appeals to sim­ple­tons who cheer on com­mand to canned jokes deliv­ered by a guy whose under­stand­ing of polit­i­cal real­i­ties is blink­ered at best. What’s funny to watch is that even these shills have decided “The One” deserves ridicule. When the pre­vi­ous pres­i­dent was sub­ju­gated to this treat­ment, it was con­sid­ered part of the polit­i­cal process for the ple­beians to spew venom against the lead­er­ship. Pres­i­dent Obama’s sup­port base comes from these same peo­ple, and they seem to be aban­don­ing him. Good rid­dance to both.

    1 Comment - Posted in Bias, Incompetence, Politics, Television

    Palin and McCain: the limits of the conservative “litmus test”

    By Rudolph Carrera - November 21, 2009

    I am pro-Palin. She brought a live­li­ness to the Repub­li­can Party at a time when it looked mori­bund because of the nom­i­na­tion of John McCain, whose fee­ble attempt at run­ning for pres­i­dent put the party to sleep. How­ever, not every­one on the Conservative/Libertarian non-pompous, non-country club wing of the party is on board.

    Pat Con­lon of Born Again Red­neck is a blog­ger I con­sider a friend and com­rade, but he doesn’t see the big hub-bub about Palin-mania. He’s also unhappy about very strong voices like Michelle Malkin or Glenn Beck demand­ing polit­i­cal purity from candidates.

    I will dis­agree with Beck being an ide­o­logue of the Right, as he tends to be more Lib­er­tar­ian than Con­ser­v­a­tive, and is pretty vocal about it both on his radio pro­gram and TV show. I’m for get­ting rid of the “country-clubbers” and have no prob­lem throw­ing out the trash, but Pat is right in that there is a fair amount of horse-trading in pol­i­tics. Nego­ti­a­tion is key. My pref­er­ence is that we have peo­ple of a stronger Con­ser­v­a­tive bent doing the negotiating.

    1 Comment - Posted in Activism, Politics

    Disneyland Made Out Of Lego

    By Rudolph Carrera - November 20, 2009

    Too much time on their hands, I guess.

    No Comments - Posted in Architecture, Bizarre

    Obama urges North Korea to change

    By Rudolph Carrera - November 19, 2009

    What Pres­i­dent Obama and those in favor of talks with North Korea fail to under­stand is that, like their fel­low rogue regime in Iran, they have no inten­tion of giv­ing up their desires to acquire nuclear weapons and make mis­ery for their neigh­bors. China will never be any help because hav­ing a pet attack dog in the form of Kim Jong-il serves their pur­poses of cre­at­ing regional insta­bil­ity that much eas­ier, thereby increas­ing China’s ascen­dancy in East Asia.

    No Comments - Posted in Diplomacy, Military, Nuclear Weapons and Proliferation

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