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Congratulations to President Elect Barack H. Obama
A Blog For All — ... defense. Those are decisions that will affect us for a generation or more, and our enemies will take due notice. At the same time, I also expect the tax increases to come fast and furious, as will the inflation and unemployment. I wish that wasn't the case, but having seen your policy pronouncements during the campaign, your associations, and the plans concocted by your fellow Democrats, I hope to be proven wrong. The sad thing is that I fully expect to be proven right. UPDATE: James Lileks points out that history has a way of pushing people in unexpected directions. Obama ...

I May Get Rich Yet
The Sundries Shack — Well, here’s a heck of an idea for making a few bones, from James Lileks at his spiffy new screedblog site . I’m off to the Mall to sell razor blades so people can scrape off their “Question Authority” bumper stickers. Just remember: Dissent is still the highest form of patriotism. Except now it will be practiced by the lowest form of people . And if you can grab a few dozen of those bumper stickers, you might find that there’s a whole untapped market for them among your right-leaning friends. Alternately, you could just ...

Scraping off the bumper sticker
TigerHawk — ... later in the day, remarked on it, and I said that "I was not one of these lefty losers with Kerry/Edwards stickers all over my Volvo years after they lost, just to prove that the current president is not my president. Barack Obama is my president." I do not live in the past. (None of that will preclude me from getting a "Don't blame me..." sticker if, well, there is blame to be apportioned.) In related news, James Lileks, the libertarian Minnesota humorist (he may be the only one), spotted a different sort of bumper sticker issue: I’m off to the Mall to sell razor blades so ...

Magical thinking watch
TigerHawk — ... that at least some voters have for Barack Obama, and says that she doesn't "recall Republicans engaging in this kind of magical thinking in 2000." Neither do I, but George W. Bush would not have inspired that even before he became Chimpy McPretzelchoker . More tellingly, I do not recall it with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, which was a delightful relief from Jimmy Carter for those few of us who were both college students and conservative in those days, but not much more. The reason, I think, is that conservatives are conservative in no small part because they are not ...

POLITICS: The Honeymooner
Baseball Crank — ... : "Alas, that [dissent is patriotic] standard only works for liberals. When conservatives dissent it's called being 'divisive.'" Lileks: "I'm off to the Mall to sell razor blades so people can scrape off their 'Question Authority' bumper stickers." ...

The Honeymooner
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... : "Alas, that [dissent is patriotic] standard only works for liberals. When conservatives dissent it's called being 'divisive.'" Lileks: "I'm off to the Mall to sell razor blades so people can scrape off their 'Question Authority' bumper stickers." ...