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Yazidis That Fled to Greece Still Being Attacked by Muslims

Remember the Yazidi, the ethnic/religious minority that the Islamic State tried to wipe off the face of the earth? It turns out that Muslims are still attacking them in European refugee camps: “One hundred and thirty Yazidis arrived to Petra … Continue reading →

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Air Force Finally Gives Up On Trying To Kill The A-10

Remember last year’s story about how the Air Force was trying to kill the A-10 Warthog, with one now-cashiered general saying airmen talking to congress about saving the venerable plane was “treason?” Well it appears that the Air Force has … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for December 28, 2015

I hope everyone had a merrier Christmas than I did. (My father recently went on hospice care after a two year fight with cancer, so I was back home helping my mother care for him.) Here’s a LinkSwarm to start … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for November 13, 2015

The big story this week has been the Children of the Corn running amok in Missouri. I hope to have a longer piece on that by and by. In the meantime, enjoy your Friday LinkSwarm: ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion is blowing … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for November 6, 2015

Another Friday, another LinkSwarm: What’s Obama’s strategy in Iraq and Syria? He doesn’t have one. “Without a clear overarching strategy to resolve the conflict.” Say what you want about Bush, he wanted to win in Iraq. Obama wants to do … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for October 30, 2015

Right now Austin is enjoying our traditional “two weeks of flooding following three months of drought” fall. Enjoy a Friday LinkSwarm: “In Iraq, Obama took a war that we had won at a considerable expense in lives and treasure, and … Continue reading →

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Do You Know More Foreign Policy Than Donald Trump? Take This Quiz

I got six of six. And anyone who doesn’t know who the Kurds are since no later than 1991 shouldn’t be President… (Hat tip: Ace of Spades.)

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LinkSwarm for May 29, 2015

I didn’t get flooded out, but for a while on Memorial Day, I finally had that defensive moat around my house I’d always dreamed of… U.S. economy shrinks in first quarter. (Hat tip: Instapundit, who adds, of course, “unexpectedly!”) Get … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for March 6, 2105

Welcome to Friday! With so much being written about Hillary Clinton’s secret email server (well, secret to mere peasants like you and me, if not foreign governments…) and the King v. Burwell ObamaCare hearings, I didn’t include anything on them … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for November 14, 2014

There’s been so many people offering up so much information on “GruberGate” that I assume anyone reading this blog has seen coverage of it already. The fact that Jonathan Gruber not only lied to the American voters he called “stupid” … Continue reading →

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