Month: July 2006

This weeks RINOs carnival is hosted at Nick Schweitzer’s blog, The World According to Nick. He calls it the The Lazy RINO Sightings Carnival, and while there’s a picture of a RINO sleeping in the sun, there’s nothing lazy about the posts. The Commissar speculates about the intriguing possibility of Neanderthals breeding with humans. Yes,…

Via Justin, I just learned that Bill Whittle has posted chapter one of his new book, AN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION. I like his take on ad hominem attacks: The entire concept of Civilization has been so deconstructed, and vilified, that by having the audacity to defend the ideals of Civilized behavior Your Author has been called…

I played tour guide for an out of town visitor this afternoon, and took a few photos. Some oddball architectural details I liked: I don’t know whether this is on or off, peeling or unpeeling: A breakthrough at long last: And finally, my photograph of an unexplained photograph of a couple of guys who obviously…

I’m having some serious logical problems with this: It’s time for all of us to collectively mourn more for people than we do for a horse. If we don’t show the most desperate among us that we value their lives more than an animal’s, they have no reason not to kill indiscriminately. So says Philadelphia…

I’m wondering what went into the thinking of the ACLU’s decision to file suit on behalf of Fred Phelps’ God Hates Fags “church group”: KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas church group that protests at military funerals nationwide filed suit in federal court, saying a Missouri law banning such picketing infringes on religious freedom and…

I’m getting a bit tired of Capitol Hill Blue. It’s an unreliable web site which I’d never read before July 16, and I think it’s staffed by sock puppets. John Hawkins had it right in February, when he said: I wonder if Thompson actually makes up like names for these fake sources? Like ya know,…

It occurred to me that the George Harleigh>Doug Thompson>Bill McTavish>Teresa Hampton>Sandra Riley connections might have been tough for readers of the several previous posts to follow. So, I have attempted to simplify everything by making an easy-to-follow flow chart: PLEASE NOTE: This is intended as a guide only, and it is based on my interpretation…

I can’t believe the really intelligent, well-thought-out, and downright encouraging comments and emails this blog has received in response to the “George Harleigh“/”Doug Thompson“/CHB affair. My thanks to all, and again, especially to Glenn Reynolds for linking the post. Discrediting web sites is not what I normally do here. Most of the time, I write…

Who is Doug Thompson? Honestly, I have no idea (although for starters, this Doug Thompson says he’s not this Doug Thompson: Who appears to be the same as this guy.) But what do I know? Nothing. Until July 16 (when a friend emailed me and asked about a story he’d written) I had never heard…

Europe is hardly the free place Americans so often assume it to be. Brussels Journal’s Paul Belien was recently visited by the police because of alleged “racist articles” on his website: This morning, a police officer from the “Projectcel Mensenhandel en Vreemdelingen” (Project Cell Human Trafficking and Foreigners) came to my door to question me…

My previous post about the much-quoted “George Harleigh” (said to be a SIU political science professor who worked for Nixon and Reagan administrations) has received enough attention that I thought it merited a new post. Clayton Cramer linked my original post and asked his readers for help in locating the mystery man. According to readers…

The post-Hurricane Katrina “lessons” (if that’s what they are) seem to be piling up. During the emergency, citizens’ guns were confiscated illegally, and they are now having to petition to get them back, and meanwhile state and federal legislation is in the pipeline to stop this sort of abuse from happening again. Losing your gun…

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I’m glad I called myself a “Goldwater liberal” before this latest bout of psychopolitical “analysis” started: Something is rotten in the state of conservatism, says John Dean in Conservatives Without Conscience. Today?s conservatives are ?hostile and mean-spirited,? ?vengeful, pitiless, exploitive, manipulative, dishonest, cheaters, prejudiced, mean-spirited [again], militant, nationalistic, and two-faced,? not to mention ?enemies of…

I’m so busy that I haven’t had time to post anything, but in New Jersey yesterday (where else?) I happened upon this sterling example of responsible journalism: But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that if I posted it I might be accused of engaging in “extremist rhetoric” — or that…

The very future of this Republic may well rest on whether or not anyone can, or will, stop George W. Bush. Agree or disagree, it’s a very famous quote from an obviously famous man, one George Harleigh. He’s so famous I feel like a complete idiot going to my readers for help like this, and…

Other than a post expressing general support for Israel, I haven’t had much to add to the discussion of the Israel/Hezbollah war. This is not because of any lack of interest, but because I’m not much of an expert on these things, I don’t think I really have much to contribute. Once again, I lack…

Is there anybody who voted against the Commander-in-Chief who can remain free? So asks Glenn Greenwald. Anybody? I’m thinking it over. I’m thinking it over! The problem is, absent some sort of coup, Bush only has a couple of years as president. The American concentration camp system cannot possibly hold more than a small fraction…

After more than three years of blogging, I’m finally hosting a carnival — a new first for me. And I don’t get new firsts that often, so this ought to be considered cause for celebration. Over the years, I’ve written a number of mini-reviews of carnivals, but I can’t do that this time, because my…

I was planning to grapple with my thoughts about the war between Israel and Hezbollah Iran, until I was distracted by today’s Sunday paper. Not that an article on the Israel/Hezbollah war didn’t merit the front page (it did), but on the same front page there are two huge articles on “gun violence” (at the…