Swanky Conservative

Michelle Obama on 60 Minutes:
“I don’t lose sleep over it because the realities are that . . . as a black man . . . Barack can get shot going to the gas station,” Michelle Obama said in the interview, set to air Sunday night. “You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility [...]

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D’oh! Obamessiah choked on his vast knowledge of foreign policy when speaking to the faithful hordes in Missouri:

Barack Obama visited rural Cape Girardeau, Missouri yesterday.
During his speech he talked about the need for more Arabic speakers in Afghanistan.
Obama insisted:
“If they are all in Iraq, then its harder for us to use them in [...]

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Austin’s first red light camera will be online for the Memorial Day weekend. Meanwhile, other cities and places who’ve used the red light cameras aren’t so warm on them. The Austin American-Statesman reports,

Red-light cameras at some of the city’s busiest intersections will begin helping enforce traffic laws beginning May 23, when more motorists are on [...]

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And the Republican Party, which hit bottom in 2006, has started digging again, instead of taking a breather, looking around at the party faithful, pissed off at the heading the GOP is taking - they’ve started digging again. I predict a Democratic Congress in 2009, and very likely a Democratic President. Is it John McCain’s [...]

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This weekend I’ll be doing my 3rd annual Texas MudBug Jamboree, otherwise known as my crawfish boil. It’s a blast and I thought I would share the recipe I use, handed down to me by a crawdad king from New Orleans. It’s Scott’s Swamp Bugs:
Scott’s Swamp Bugs
This is written for someone boiling 3 sacks of [...]

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Seems the Clinton / Obama down-to-the-wire primary fight isn’t the only place the Left is fracturing this campaign season. In the Denver Post, there’s a story of one group that’s running away from Recreate 68, the radical group promising chaos at the Democratic convention, and another that’s uncomfortable.

A close ally with the local war protest [...]

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One of the quick & easy meals I love is this recipe for tomato basil florentine. I started with a recipe I found on a box of powdered tomato basil soup and have modified it over time to something like this.

One pound of chopped beef. This can be ground, but I prefer cubed beef.
1 box [...]

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