Month: September 2006

Is it just Google, or are there more ex-liberals than ex-conservatives? At 284,000, the ex liberals would seem to outnumber the 51,900 ex conservatives by a margin approaching sixfold. Of course if you put a hyphen in it, the ex-liberal number drops slightly to 266,000, while the ex-conservative number rises slightly — to 53,000. What…

Other than activist sites like Handgun Control, Inc., I sometimes think I’d be hard-pressed to find an outfit more dedicated to gun control than the Philadelphia Inquirer. While I’ve written innumerable blog posts on the subject, I invite anyone who’s interested to simply take a look at this package of articles and editorials the Inquirer…

I hate to dwell on environmental violence, but right now I feel as if I’ve been kicked in the teeth! If we don’t want it in our fish, we don’t wwant it in our thermometers, what is it doing in our heads? — Sara Moore-Hines, identified as a “Pennsylvania counselor” in this morning’s Philadelphia Inquirer…

Even though I watch hardly any television, I care — I care deeply — about Katie Couric’s “First-Night win.” That’s because I prefer real phoniness to fake phoniness. MORE: It occurs to me that readers might think I am being facetious in attempting to distinguish between real and fake phoniness, so I thought I should…

ABC has produced a pre-911 docudrama (using such things as composite characters and incidents which are not technically correct), and predictably, the former Clinton admininistration officials and their supporters are alleging the film is inaccurate. WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (UPI) — An upcoming TV mini-series about the origins of the Sept. 11 plot is provoking angry…

I don’t often agree with Inquirer columnist Tom Ferrick. But I think he’s at least partially right in his latest column which predicts a seismic change in the electorate this fall. We are listening for tectonic plate movement among the electorate, one of those rare seismic events that result in great change. We have evidence…

While I cannot follow the logic (often the case with arguments based on emotion), it seems that when white rich kids manage to get shot, it’s seen as more of an argument for gun control than when the same thing happens with poor black kids. That last link is the Inquirer’s report of a shooting…

Ann Althouse touches on the touchy issue of whether bloggers — especially female bloggers — should avoid trivial matters. Citing a post from Feminist Law Professors expressing grave concerns over how things male bloggers in drag affect “the image of serious female bloggers everywhere,” Althouse counters with concerns of her own: This dread of triviality,…

This Chigaco fire that killed six children raises a lot of questions about personal responsibility. CHICAGO ? Without electricity since May, the impoverished immigrant family living on the third floor of a brown brick apartment building was using candles for light. About 12:20 a.m. Sunday, a candle started one of the city’s deadliest and most…

BREAKING NEWS RINO COUP ALERT! IMPORTANT UPDATES BELOW! *skwaaaawk* That’s the sound of this week’s RINO Sightings carnival, held at Right Thoughts whose “Base 17” does a great job of dispatching great posts like these: Respectful Insolence (himself a researcher) shares his thoughts about animal rights terrorism, and concludes: terrorism does work, and, if animal…

Via Pajamas Media, I see that San Francisco (which plans to cut down its beautiful Eucalyptus groves and “restore” its parks to their “native” sand dune status) is not alone. Loony tune legislation is being proposed in a number of congressional bills which would enable the Nature Nazis to hunt down and eradicate foreign vermin…

I’ve heard of good cop/bad cop before, but al Qaeda’s ricidulous video “invitation” (downloadable here) really takes the cake for chutzpah. [Note: If you have trouble with the above download, I’ve uploaded a copy of the silly video and put it here.] Anyway, I downloaded and watched the video last night. It’s incredibly tedious, and…

Yes, that was what I predicted in June. But really, this time the drought has gone too far. Until a few minutes ago, my power was out because of the horrible drought-related rains we’ve been having lately, and now that it’s come back on (God knows how long that will last), my duty seems clear:…

Speaking of the Washington Post, I think this Op Ed by John F. Lehman is well worth reading. Excerpt: This not a war against terror any more than World War II was a war against kamikazes. We are at war with jihadists motivated by a violent ideology based on an extremist interpretation of the Islamic…

I doubt this Washington Post editorial will receive quite as much MSM attention attention as it should: …one of the most sensational charges leveled against the Bush White House — that it orchestrated the leak of Ms. Plame’s identity to ruin her career and thus punish Mr. Wilson — is untrue. I guess that means…

The DC Examiner reminded me that September 7 is destined to become the day free speech died in America: Something almost without precedent in America will happen Thursday. That?s the day when McCain-Feingold ? aka the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 ? will officially silence broadcast advertising that contains criticism of members of Congress…

I’m having a little trouble making sense out of this story: A 22-year-old Philadelphia man who went from soldier to student and hoped to perhaps teach one day was shot to death early yesterday while riding home on his bicycle in the city’s Strawberry Mansion section. L’Salle Harvey III had taken out a small amount…

I was quite irritated to see that a successful homeless center in Los Angeles (originally opened to much acclaim in Hollywood) will have to close. Reason? The center’s opperater — homeless activist and former Democrat Ted Hayes — came out of the closet as a Republican, and the rent was raised from $2500 to $18,330.…