If Obama Had Been on the OJ Jury...

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Elena Kagan Personal Life

The blogosphere is abuzz with stories re. Obama's inexperienced Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan personal life- as a matter of fact Google Trends actually has the term "Elena Kagan Personal Life" as the hottest search item today in the US.

But Left Coast Rebel is going a step further to get to what really matters re. Elena Kagan's pending confirmation hearing:

Kagan’s undergraduate years at Princeton reveals a young woman who, even if restrained, was passionate about political life. Her senior thesis, the editorials published under her tenure as editorial chairman of The Daily Princetonian and her campus activities, as well as the words of those who worked closely with her at Princeton, shed light on Kagan’s commitment to political activism and her liberal beliefs.

A history major, Kagan had a strong interest in political history — especially labor movements and radical politics — and was passionately committed to her studies. History professor Sean Wilentz, who advised Kagan on her senior thesis, described her as “one of the most extraordinary people I’ve met in my life, let alone teaching at Princeton.”

Under Wilentz’s direction, Kagan spent her senior year conducting research for her thesis on the history of the socialist movement, which was titled “To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900–1933.” Her thesis has been criticized by her opponents for revealing sympathies with the Socialist Party and became a source of controversy when she was a potential nominee for Associate Justice David Souter’s seat on the Supreme Court last spring — a position which instead went to Sonia Sotomayor ’76 — and when she was nominated for her current position of solicitor general in January 2009.

“Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s greatness,” she wrote in her thesis. “Conformity overrides dissent; the desire to conserve has overwhelmed the urge to alter. Such a state of affairs cries out for explanation.”

She called the story of the socialist movement’s demise “a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism’s decline, still wish to change America ... In unity lies their only hope.”

More updates today at here at Reaganite Republican, and as well at allied site Left Coast Rebel...

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Viral e-Mail of the Week: WHY Wait?

"The other day I needed to go to the emergency room. Not wanting to sit there for 4 hours, I put on my old Marine fatigues and stuck a patch onto the front of my shirt that I had downloaded off the Internet.

When I went into the E.R. I noticed that 3/4 of the people got up and left- I guess they decided that they weren't that sick after all.... cut at least 3 hours off my waiting time.

Here's the patch. Feel free to use it the next time you're in need of quicker emergency service:

It also works at the DMV. It saved me 5 hours..

At the laundromat, three minutes after entering, I had my choice of any machine... most still running.

Don't try it at McDonald's though; the whole crew got up and left and l never got my order . . ."

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lol -thanks Bob!

LOL Sunday Funnies...

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Rock-n-Roll Oldies: The Creation- 1967

English rock band The Creation was formed in 1966 London, and best-known for the Top 40 single Painter Man in England and in several European countries... though never really catching-on all that big in The States.

The style was loud pop art known later as freakbeat, similar to The Kinks and The Who -and with a similar sense of humor- but evolved over time into more of a mid-60s psychedelic rock. Members had played together in a previous band with bassist John Dalton, who left them to join The Kinks. The new then lineup became The Creation- but their short history was turbulent, and there were changes for each album. In it's final 1968 form, the band featured today's Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood right-before he went on to join The Faces.

Note in the video guitarist Eddie Phillips' use of a violin bow- producing a haunting, edgy sound, an innovation he perfected in his teens, and employed with amusing showmanship onstage... when most attribute this idea to Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin years later.

Asked to describe the band's sound, Phillips famously responded: "Our music is red... with purple flashes." Ah, the 60s- And as with The Who, these guys are best when you crank 'em up...

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Talkin' Crap II: Healthcare Edition!

This Time... it's Crap, lol- but in actuality, 
same as every time with Dear Leader.


Another Klavan gem...

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Financial Crisis 101

The real meat comes at 2:00... everybody who votes (or has tried to blame the financial crisis on the GOP) needs to soak this one up:

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