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"Restore My Soul" by The Choir. Details here.

Moe Lane points out some things that should be obvious to everyone that has a clue:

One has to make a distinction between the people of the world, and the governments of the world. The people of the world generally like the USA/Americans/the concept of America for one or more of the following reasons:

• Because we are free;
• Because we are vulgar;
• Because we are loud;
• And because we visibly do not care if anybody likes that or not.

Meanwhile, most national governments do not like the USA/Americans/the concept of America for one or more of the following reasons:

• Because we are free;
• Because we are vulgar;
• Because we are loud;
• And because we visibly do not care if anybody likes that or not.
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Unfortunately, the current resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. doesn't have a clue.

I expected this all along, because if the Left is willing to fight a war at all, it's not going to be the one you're in right now. This is a corollary to the only weapons systems libs will vote for (other than those produced in their own districts) are the versions that are not ready to be built yet.

If Obama thinks the war is unwinnable, it would have been nice for him to tell the American public during the campaign, instead of completely reversing himself on a key provision of his foreign-policy vision less than a year into his presidency. Why, if we didn't know any better, we might think that Obama was dovish and unwilling to defy his party's pacifist grassroots the whole time, and that all of his "this is a war that we have to win" talk during the campaign was empty window-dressing to hide an out-of-the-mainstream worldview. [From Obama's Afghanistan Policy Reaches Its Expiration Date - Jim Geraghty - The Campaign Spot on National Review Online]

My god, this is stupid:

The Showalter Plan realigns as follows, with four divisions of seven teams each, arranged geographically to keep all divisions as much within the same time zone as possible -- another simple, common-sense idea. Gee, how novel. Here it is:

Buck Showalter Realignment Plan
Babe Ruth Division	Jackie Robinson Division	Roberto Clemente Division	Hank Aaron Division
Yankees	Dodgers	Cubs	Royals
Mets	Angels	White Sox	Cardinals
Red Sox	Padres	Indians	Rangers
Blue Jays	Mariners	Reds	Astros
Orioles	Giants	Twins	Tigers
Nationals	Diamondbacks	Brewers	Braves
Phillies	Athletics	Pirates	Rockies

[From ESPN.com - Baseball needs to consider the Buck Showalter Relocation Plan ]

I saw Showalter selling this on Baseball Tonight. What a fool he made of himself. First, he kept talking about how his plan decreases travel because the divisions are regional. Hello? He wants a balanced schedule, so everyone travels everywhere.

Second, how do you say you're emphasizing regional rivalries and have the Cards & Cubs in separate divisions? And again, his plan has a balanced schedule. How does that emphasize rivalries? His plan also has the Yankees play the Mariners as often as they play the Red Sox. Good luck selling that MLB, Fox & your bosses at ESPN, Buck my boy.

He also suggested the Rays would be a good candidate for contraction the year after they were in the World Series? What is he smoking?

There's a good reason I usually fast forward through both the commercials and the talking heads on BT.

Bill Whittle, at his best.

Considering the price. (Via RedState)

Booster of NASA and the Viet Cong, dead at 92.

Of course, we had no choice after private health insurance was "mysteriously" no longer available:

Read it all:

Sometimes, when it comes to an issue like abortion, people slip up and say what they mean. It’s seldom a point deemed appropriate for public discussion, but on occasion someone will point out that a hugely disproportionate number of abortions are executed upon black and Hispanic children. Occasionally, a pro-life person will even go so far as to wonder whether, for many supporters of legalized abortions, this fact is a feature of the system, not a bug. Supporters of legalized abortion at this point, offended by the idea, will typically recoil in horror at the suggestion, insisting that no responsible supporter of legalized abortion feels that way. Most abortion proponents will then insist that the disproportionate numbers of minority abortions is an unintended (and surely undesirable!) consequence of this nonetheless important social policy [From What Does Ruth Bader Ginsburg Mean By “The Populations That We Don’t Want to Have Too Many Of”? | The New Ledger]