Month: August 2005

The (Raging) RINO Sightings Carnival has been posted at Searchlight Crusade. (A blog which champions the value of being able to disagree without being disagreeable.) So much insolence and heresy is displayed by outraged RINOs that I couldn’t begin to link to them all, but a few stood out: Louisiana Libertarian looks at James Dobson’s…

Next time you mumble “it can’t happen here,” take a look at the situation in Denver, Colorado, where I’d be a criminal for owning Coco: Zena the buff, brindle-colored pit bull had been living the outlaw life, her fate haunted for nearly a month by the possibility of a death sentence. She had been confined…

Today’s Inquirer has a piece on an issue I’ve covered before — an attempt in Ardmore, Pennsylvania to condemn private property (in this case, charming older commercial buildings), and hand it to private developers. It’s now looming large as an election issue — without respect to ordinary party politics: Eminent domain is about as popular…

Here’s Tom Lasseter writing in the Philadelphia Inquirer over the weekend: Talking to a truckload of troops, sitting in the predawn darkness in a desert staging area yesterday, Sgt. Marcio Vargas Estrada made the point in plain language to the men of his squad from the 3-2. “If somebody shoots at you, you waste” him,…

Via an email from Newsmax.com, I found myself drawn to an interesting argument that Hillary Clinton will win the election by splitting the Republican Party: ?We?re not making a flat prediction, but a plausible case can be made that she will become president on Jan. 20, 2009,? writes Greg Valliere, chief political strategist with the…

Donald Sensing (and, no doubt, many other bloggers) linked to Michael Crichton’s observations about environmentalism as religion. Excerpt: certain human social structures always reappear. They can’t be eliminated from society. One of those structures is religion. Today it is said we live in a secular society in which many people—the best people, the most enlightened…

Long drive way up river. Coco had a great time, and she’s getting pretty good at the famous “pit bull grin.” Coco slept through the long drive back; this is how the road looked at sunset…. MORE: Oh what the hell! Here’s Coco’s real time reaction to this post, as I sit here feeding up…

Long drive North (and NO I am not running away from the dirty bomb attack predicted in certain quarters), so no posting till much later, if at all today. Meanwhile, I thought this Brookings Iraq survey (via Glenn Reynolds) is well worth a look. Because I know people don’t like to click on links, here’s…

I don’t know whether it’s tougher to close an open mind or open a closed mind, but I want to re-examine a premise I tend to take for granted, and which I expressed this way: ….if there’s one thing I can confidently predict, it’s that — nukes or no nukes — eventually we’ll all die.…

Yesterday when I commented on evidence that Iran was winning the Iraq war, I hadn’t seen this NBC report on “the number one killer of American troops in Iraq: roadside bombs.” Military officials say there?s only one use for shaped charges ? to kill American forces ? and insurgents started using them in Iraq with…

Charles Hill has the goods on an appalling story from New Jersey. One of that state’s appeals courts has decided to revoke a cruise ship captain’s concealed carry permit, even though that had been previously issued on the grounds that the ship might be a target of terrorism. Reason? Other targets of terrorism might obtain…

“We know that we don’t have much air, we need to protect what we have.” So says astronaut Eileen Collins, Shuttle Discovery Commander, on her Fourth mission. “We would like to see, from the astronauts’ point of view, people take good care of the Earth and replace the resources that have been used,” said Collins,…

“Norton is gayness.” How could I have known? But that’s what they say: THANK YOU!!!! YOU SAVED ME FROM A 190 gB video project that went bizerk because I was loosing gigs and gigs on my drive. Norton is Gayness!!! I wish I had known!! Someone should post this on a huge FAQ On Thursday,…

So says Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily fame, recently interviewed by Front Page Mag’s Jamie Glazov. In the interview, Farah warns that Al Qaida plans to use its “existing nuclear arsenal” on major American cities — and he highlights the critical importance of dates to Al Qaida: Dates are very important to al-Qaida, as we have…

Steven Vincent’s death (especially his fatal op-ed piece) has reminded me that what might make sense militarily (invading Iran now, or at least neutralizing them militarily by other means) is often impossible — even unthinkable — politically. General George S. Patton was thought insane for wanting to go after the Russians in the last days…

I’ve been joking about the Air America scandal — in a post and in an Air America parody. Certainly, it’s beyond dispute that things don’t look good for Air America, either. While I agree that if this were a right-wing network there’d be a lot more coverage, whether this is really being “kept out of…

If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s when people mischaracterize what is said on this blog. The only thing worse than that is when such mischaracterizations are used to harm someone else. Which brings me to the topic of my latest rant. While the subject can be considered funny in a way (because it…

This blog is great. And the blogger — Steven Vincent — is dead. Murdered by Shiite gunman dressed as police (and driving a police vehicle), he’s the first American journalist to be killed in Iraq. (Links via Glenn Reynolds.) He deserved to be more than an adorable little rodent in the Ecosystem (which is what…

The fight against same sex marriage is heating up, with opponents now trying to do away with domestic partnerships in the guise of “protecting marriage.” Here’s the text from a leading California ballot initiative which would amend the state’s constitution: SEC. 1.1. a) Only marriage between one man and one woman is valid or recognized…

There’s much I’m missing these days. The 150th Carnival of the Vanities was posted at Riding Sun before I even thought to submit an entry. And it’s a great carnival too, written by an American motorcyclist in Japan. So go read it. And while I’m busily documenting my own carelessness, there’s something else I missed:…