Month: September 2004

George Will has an interesting perspective on the hip, new, expansive Republican Party. It’s retro Goldwater chic.

Here’s more (via InstaPundit) from Gay Patriot: STOP THE OUTING! STOP THE INVASION OF PRIVACY! I agree wholeheartedly, and I’m reminded of a recent email exchange with a noted practitioner of “outing.” Even though he didn’t request anonymity, I decided to go out of my way to respect his privacy as a gentle way of…

I was just asked why I am not posting more about the situation in Russia, and I replied that it isn’t my style to post about things simply because others have. Not that I don’t think the terrorist swine need to be killed, or that I am suprised when barbarians behave as barbarians, mind you.…

Here’s a news item which ought to make the Kerry forces tremble: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) – The United States and its allies have moved closer to capturing Osama bin Laden in the last two months, a top U.S. counterterrorism official said in a television interview broadcast Saturday. “If he has a watch, he should be…

On FoxNews Sunday Tad Devine offered this sad defense when told that no challenger has ever recovered when behind so far at Labor Day: no president has ever had a convention this late before! Cheaters! Filthy cheaters!

Calling Arnold Schwarzenegger a liar, Atrios links to this report that historians in Austria claim that Arnold could not have seen a Soviet tank in his native Styria: VIENNA, Austria (AP) — Austrian historians are ridiculing California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for telling the Republican National Convention that he saw Soviet tanks in his homeland as…

Walter Williams addresses the failings of appeasement, and unlike most (who cite Hitler as the ultimate example) Williams does not fail to address the outrages of communism: Quite interestingly, Western leftist appeasers exempted communist leaders from the harsh criticism directed toward Hitler, even though communist crimes made Hitler’s slaughter of 21 million appear almost amateurish.…

We’ve all surely heard of Texas Democrat Ben Barnes, who is selling himself out for John Kerry, and taking many others along for the ride: Barnes has told friends that he intervened with Rose to help a number of other prominent, young Texans into the National Guard. In addition to Bush, who was accepted for…

Nat Hentoff’s welcome voice once again joins the blogosphere’s chorus asking, ‘What is John Kerry hiding?‘ Referencing an August 23rd Washington Post article by Michael Dobbs (buried in the print edition but available here), Hentoff writes: What I find strange is that Dobbs writes that “Kerry himself was the only surviving skipper on the river…

Atrios asked me to post this for him. You doubted that this administration was targeting prominent Democrats for attack when Ted Kennedy was ‘accidentally’ placed on a list of terror suspects and delayed in boarding flights, but now the Bushies are using their cronies in the Oregon state police to extort money from Al Gore!

A new blogger called Gay Patriot has a simple question: Russia’s 9/11 First NYC/DC, then Madrid, now Russia faces its own “9/11”. How many more will have to die until Europe, and ostriches here in the US wake up and realize we are in a World War? (Via Glenn Reynolds.) A good question. I’m tempted…

Leave it to that quasi-governmental body, the E.U. (which even my girl in Paris dislikes), to disrespect the dead, second-guess those who respond to crisis, and blame the victims: Putin has long tried to paint the Kremlin’s conflict with Muslim separatists in Chechnya as part of the global war on terror. Some countries, particularly in…

Too much stupidity can make you irritable. Heres a proper antidote. In July and August, a team from MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) deployed its sixth field “fab lab,” based on the campus of the Takoradi Technical Institute in the sister cities of Sekondi and Takoradi in Ghana’s southwest corner…. With about $20,000…

WARNING. Abridged Wisdom Alert. For Wisdom in Bulk, click HERE. Excerpted from “L’Chaim and Its Limits: Why Not Immortality?” by Leon Kass ….The core question is this: Is it really true that longer life for individuals is an unqualified good? ?. How much more life do we want, assuming it to be healthy and vigorous?…

Rarely I have never seen the left so obsessed with the importance of military service! It’s refreshing, really, because so often one associates their sort of politics with an anti-military mindset. Let’s start with a quote from Kerry: We all saw the anger and distortion of the Republican Convention. For the past week, they attacked…

And now, for something more frightening than Michael Moore, or George Soros (or Dennis Hastert’s remarks about the latter)…. Reza Bayegan, described as “a commentator on Iranian politics who was born in Iran and currently works for the British Council in Paris” says Iran is just about ready to launch the Big One: The Islamic…

Today’s Friday Online Tests are an example of why I don’t especially enjoy supplyng these tests every week without fail; these are the dumbest tests I could find — which is another way of saying they’re the only tests I could find! And seriously, they are all pretty bad. (Consider yourselves warned.) According to the…

A lot of people think a lot of Eugene Volokh, and people I know personally have told me that he’s brilliant and one of the webs true intellectual gems, so I can only scratch my head on this one. In the sequel to his censure of Dennis Hastert’s on-air question over the source of George…

The big-hearted Michael Moore claims that he “loves” President Bush’s twin daughters, and, kind man he is, he doesn’t even begrudge their celebrating with their dad. Still, he reminds them how lucky they are not to share the plight of their father’s victims: ….I loved the Bush daughters: They were funny, sassy and free spirits.…

The following is an excerpt from “L’Chaim and Its Limits: Why Not Immortality?” by Leon Kass. It is severely abridged wisdom. For the full wisdom, go here. ….Jewish commentators….nearly always come down strongly in favor of medical progress and on the side of life?.They treat the cure of disease, the prevention of death, and the…