Month: October 2004

Jonah Goldberg, noting a common double standard, observed something too often forgotten — that the MSM’s portrayal of a war as “good” or “bad” depends on who’s running it: I’m not saying there are no good arguments against the war. I am saying that many of you don’t care about the war. If Bill Clinton…

I have to run out for the evening, but before I leave I must ask — nay, demand! — that any readers who have come here looking for a fresh post please go and read the 108th Carnival of the Vanities. Nick at Conservative Dialysis plays host, and does a great job or organizing a…

Justin supplied me with a link to a marvelous Letter to the Editor which I liked so much that I thought I would share it here. In an opinion titled Say no to war toys, one Mary Rudge attacks the climate of guns ‘n’ burgers, and maintains that Happy Meals aren’t happy at all! McDonald?s…

Drudge exposes an effort by Democrats to manufacture a climate of fear and distrust at the polls by targeting minority voters and using ‘minority leadership’ to manipulate voters: It strikes me that this is voter intimidation. It clearly shows intent to agitate fear and distrust among minority voters based not on what is actually happening…

Speaking of the choice issue, here’s something that made me feel that I had none. Something about the choice of weapons….. Dutiful automaton that I am, I just fed it up for my readers, because I’m so fed up myself. It seems that no matter what I do, the feathers will continue to fly!

I want to return briefly as I can to Bob Schieffer’s unanswerable question, “Is homosexuality a choice?” The question is loaded with ambiguity, because for starters there is no definition of homosexuality. Are we talking about mere homosexual desires, homosexual sex acts, or homosexual lifestyles? The answer would be very different in each case. To…

Am I the only person who is sick to death of this election? I have been sick of it for a long time, and I am dead tired of writing about Kerry this, Kerry that. Yet now, after the latest debate, I feel obligated to write about Kerry. Or else not write at all. It’s…

Looking around I see some hardnosed bloggers complaining about nothing new here, but trust me. Remember, I was none too impressed with the second debate which many people thought Bush won handily. This was a dominant performance which will resonate with voters. Democrats tend to assume that domestic issues are their strength, and many seem…

What inane questions! Will our children and grandchildren grow up in a world as safe as the one where we grew up in? Safe? World War II, Korea, Vietnam? Only the dead have seen the end of war. Flu shots? Show me where the Constitution gives the president the power to vaccinate! Then there’s the…

Here’s something fascinating: according to a story I’m so far unable to confirm, Tennessee Republican congressional candidate Dave Dahl has complained that Republicans are being compared to Special Olympics children: Dahl says the flyers have been distributed for at least two weeks from Fitzhugh?s campaign office in Ripley, Tennessee. It also serves as the Kerry-Edwards…

Here’s something I think will turn out to be one of those now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t stories — a report that Chechen terrorists may be crossing into the United States via the Mexican border: U.S. security officials are investigating a recent intelligence report that a group of 25 Chechen terrorists illegally entered the United States from Mexico in…

The effort to censor Sinclair seems to me to be a bigger — and more significant — assault on free speech than fines against Howard Stern for using dirty words. I wonder if the free-speech defenders will turn out for Sinclair like they did for Stern? So asks Glenn Reynolds about the airing of an…

…and tells us that Classical Values is one of his daily reads. Be still, my racing heart. I’m still new enough at this business to enjoy the idea of having a reader in China. Embarassing, but true. At any rate, reader Scott Hillis wanted to point out that John C. Wright’s newest novel is now…

When I was much younger, I envied my older brother’s air of suave accomplishment. Along with a few of his other talents, I thought his facility with shadow hand puppetry was too cool for words. Not only could he do the alligator and the butterfly (as who among us cannot?) he could do the barking…

It’s baseball time folks, so here’s luck to the Red Sox, who really don’t need it because they’re the better team! But just in case (no, not you Justin), I’ve decided you might aid Pedro Martinez’s cause by watching Nelson de la Rosa, Pedro’s personal good luck charm, do a little dance called Mahow Mahow.…

Don’t miss this CNN poll parody! (Via tjic.com.) This is the very same parody which had been posted by Robert Cox at The National Debate, which CNN forced the ISP to remove. I like it so much that I decided to copy the html in case those mean-spirited people at CNN make them take this…

Blogging up a storm? Well batten down the hatches, ’cause it ain’t over yet. Dave Kopel of FahrenHYPE 9-11 fame (which also features former NYC mayor Ed Koch and former Clinton advisor Dick Morris) has a report on the reporting of false reports: the draft hoax: Both papers, and CBS, would have done better to…

I am delighted that Dennis has been blogging up a storm in my absence so I don’t have to force myself to write anything. Instead, I thought I’d upload a few photos from today’s trip to New York’s Lower East Side. (Yeah, last time was Upper West Side; I’m making my way around….) Here’s an…

Those who saw Kerry that morning recall mainly that he was furious, an emotion, those close to him say, that comes easily to him in times of trial. He thought it was a mistake to shut down the Capitol, to show terrorists that they had the power to send the United States government into hiding.…

I’ve been told about a mailing to registered Democrats from James Carville requesting donations to aid in the recount in the upcoming Presidential election. You read that correctly. The Democrats are fund-raising to finance recounts for an election that hasn’t happened yet. This is not apocryphal. My mother had one of these letters in her…