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I'll probably get off to a slow start this morning. We're expecting out of town family we haven't seen in years to be by about the time I normally get up and stay, I hope, for several hours. Dad's sister who lives in Alton IL finally talked her son into taking her to see their other sister in Hartford KY. We thought they were going to be here for a while mid-afternoon yesterday then go on home but they got a late start out of Kentucky, spent about 10 minutes here, then headed for a local motel with the intention of coming here for a while tomorrow before going ahead home. My aunt, my cousin, three of his kids and one grandkid. I hadn't seen my aunt or cousin since the mid '80's and had never met any of his kids. *** Our guests came by for a much shorter visit much earlier in the day than I'd expected. I've been surfing the web in a sleep deprivation stupor since they left. Mom and my sister combined some errands with window shopping for houses and I try not to sleep when I'm the only one here in case someone comes by unexpectedly. Now that I'm not the only one here I'm crashing for a while. Maybe I can get some blogging done after I catch up on my sleep.

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Some things worth knowing about that I didn't devote separate posts to:

• Pvt. Beauchamp: In Big Trouble Either Way

• Wiretap Debacle
• Putting Politics Ahead of National Security

• New Vent: Return from Ramadi
  Bryan Preston: Rep. Steve King (R-IA) returned from Ramadi, Iraq this week. Michelle asked him what he saw and heard in the war zone. ...

• WSJ editor: What will become of my well-manicured lawn if these nativist monsters have their way?
• Is it really worth pointing out that the WSJ is still touting open borders and smearing opponents?

• Presidential
• YouTube Debate or MNF?
• Save the Debate
  Lorie Byrd: Some Republican presidential candidates look like they might decline to participate in a planned GOP YouTube debate. As Patrick Ruffini explains at Townhall, it would be a huge mistake to skip this one. ...
• YouTube and Republicans: Get in the game
• Hot Air viral video: Don’t run away from the CNN/YouTube debate

• Fred Thompson: On Federalism
• Thompson's Philosophical Campaign
  Ed Morrissey: John Solomon does a better job in today's Washington Post in reporting on the non-campaign campaign strategy used thus far by Fred Thompson than yesterday's attempt to use his law-practice client list as a political football. Solomon notices that, far from the attempt to paint Thompson as substanceless, the advocate for federalism has been offering a blizzard of policy positions all year long -- and that might have a price later in the campaign: ...
• Video: Fred on the Hillary/Obama foreign policy dust up

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