Mark Bossingham

Playing Dumb

THERE IS something both pathetic and infuriating about the head-scratching and obfuscation going on in the wake of the Ft. Hood massacre: Jennier Rubin.

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That figures

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Cabo San Lucas at 58

YOU CAN tell it's Mexico because of all  the cactus growing in the wild. That's a joke. Part of a cruise around the Sea of Cortez aboard the Holland America Line ship Veendam. Fun. Kiyomi was arguably the youngest adult passenger. Very brief port calls. The ship disgorged a herd of elderly passengers who milled around aimlessly for a couple of hours in the sun before retreating to the ship. Ports: San Diego, Mazatlan, Loreto and one other place I've already forgotten. Great food in San Diego and Mazatlan. I hit Mexico (some border town next to Brownsville when I was 25. It was hot and I was drunk. Still hot but at least I was sober this time.

California vs. Texas: The verdict is in

TEXAS, INCREASINGLY, is the economic and intellectual leader of the U.S. During the last 18 months before the current recession took hold, while the country as a whole was still creating jobs, more than half of those jobs were created in a single state: Texas.

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Dog days in Tokyo

 

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President Pantywaist

MARK STEYN:

(Obama) gives off the air of somebody only marginally less paranoid than this week's president-for-life in some basket-case banana republic ranting on the palace balcony because his interior security chief isn't doing a fast enough job of disappearing his enemies.

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Awesome-est ever!

GALLUP ON Obama’s historic plunge in approval: “The 9-point drop in the most recent quarter is the largest Gallup has ever measured for an elected president between the second and third quarters of his term, dating back to 1953.”

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Cynical

THERE IS nothing wrong with a president taking his time before sending tens of thousands of additional troops into harm's way, and no one can say for certain that a troop surge is the right decision. But the three alternatives the White House has floated are so cynical and ill-conceived that Obama loses credibility just by considering them.

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