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Tears of a Clown 27 Aug 2013 | 03:30 pm
Hattip to Ed Morrissey at Hot Air. Tuffy Gessling, the rodeo clown who engaged in lese majesty against King Obama speaks out: I didn’t think anything more of it than what we’ve done 15 years ago, t...
Various & Sundry, 8/26/13 27 Aug 2013 | 06:34 am
Bradley Manning Is Not a Woman Kevin Williamson says what is obvious to most, but is sadly considered controversial considering the number of comments. Judicial Activism – That Does Not Mean What You ...
Randolph Scott vs. John Wayne 27 Aug 2013 | 05:31 am
As long as we are discussing Randolph Scott, I recall that he co-starred with John Wayne in 1942 in two films: The Spoilers and Pittsburg. In each film Scott and Wayne had fist fights. The no h...
Why the Welfare State 26 Aug 2013 | 03:30 pm
A powerful scene from the movie The Mudlark (1950), which is a fictional account of a young orphan who scrounges a very meager living by trying to find items of value washed ashore along the banks of ...
The Marines Called Her Reckless 25 Aug 2013 | 03:30 pm
“I was surprised at her beauty and intelligence, and believe it or not, her esprit de corps. Like any other Marine, she was enjoying a bottle of beer with her comrades. She was constantly the center o...
Joseph Bottum Goes For “Strange New Respect” 25 Aug 2013 | 06:43 am
Former editor of First Things Joseph Bottum, before he got canned in 2010, writes a truly vapid and interminable essay at Commonweal in which he comes out for Gay marriage. I am not going to link...
Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott? 24 Aug 2013 | 03:30 pm
Something for the weekend. Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott by the Statler Brothers. A 1974 lament of how tawdry the movies had become, it fastened on Randolph Scott, king of B-movie westerns, as...
Various and Sundry, 8/23/13 24 Aug 2013 | 07:30 am
Sadly all vacations must come to an end, but on the bright side that means I’m back with some linky goodness. The Debate We Aren’t Having Three thugs murdered a young man simply because they were bore...
Devils’ Bargain 24 Aug 2013 | 06:33 am
The 74th anniversary of the Nazi-Soviet agreement. Two of the three great mass murderers of the last century, Mao would complete the trio, the marriage of convenience of Hitler and Stalin signaled th...
Old Abe the War Eagle 23 Aug 2013 | 03:30 pm
The mascot of the Eighth Wisconsin infantry during the Civil War, Old Abe became a symbol of the Union war effort. Born in 1861 the female bald eaglet was captured soon after birth by Ahgamahwegezhig ...
