Month: January 2008

Here is a round up of the skeletons in Obama’s closet. I will be adding links as I find them. Check back at Power and Control. Obama goes to Church. Obama timeline Obama does Kenya Islamic coup attempt in Keyna Jihad in Kenya Obama Backs Taliban Supporter Obama exploits grievances

A fuming Bill Clinton delivered an angry lecture (“rant” would be a better word for it) to a group of Dartmouth students, and in a hectoring tone, he warned them about fairy tales and the big bad media. “Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.” Mr. Clinton’s…

World’s smallest home made cathode ray tube If you liked that I have an even better one. An absolutely fascinating video that revives the mostly lost art of vacuum tube construction. It has a nice sound track. The titles are in French, but it doesn’t matter. About 17 minutes of absolutely no politics. HT hanelyp…

Today is the big day for New Hampshire. As usual there are shenanigans. Could Romney be behind some of them? Upper Left Coast has some dirt on Romney. The New Hampshire attorney general is going after a Portland polling firm to determine who launched the anti-Mitt Romney push polling that asked Granite state voters if…

M. Simon has an interesting post which raises a good question — whether Barack Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ (and its minister, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright) is racist. The place certainly seems to be dedicated to a nutty left wing liberationist theology, and there are a variety of troubling connections (among other things, between…

I’m not enough of a political junkie to know all the details about Frank Luntz and his background. However he certainly seems to like Mitt Romney. A lot. So much so that in a post yesterday I questioned Fox’s claim that he’s a professional and objective pollster: I thought Fox was shamelessly plugging Romney (the…

If I shed tears, most people don’t care, nor would I expect them to care. (I have wasted a lot of time crying over losses, and I can assure everyone that crying has never brought anyone or anything back to life.) Of course, I’m not crying in New Hampshire. When Ed Muskie cried in New…

In contrast to some of the people running for president, Rudy Giuliani and John McCain have experience, background and specific ideas about how to best conduct the war on terror. Both were interviewed by Pajamas Media’s Claudia Rosett and Roger L. Simon — Rudy Giuliani here, and John McCain here. Excellent interviews, not full of…

Matt Drudge sometimes pushes sensationalized stories, and I can think of few stories more likely to cause a sensation among political junkies than this: TALK OF HILLARY EXIT ENGULFS CAMPAIGNS Mon Jan 07 2008 09:46:28 ET Facing a double-digit defeat in New Hampshire, a sudden collapse in national polls and an expected fund-raising drought, Senator…

Quite lamely (in my view), Glenn Greenwald charges Glenn Reynolds with racism based on the latter’s link to Jonah Goldberg in this post. Whether Greenwald read the rest of the post or the links I do not know. But I think Glenn (Reynolds) made it abundantly clear that he was not talking about race. While…

I guess two debates two nights in a row is the sort of thing we have to get used to over the next few months. I watched the Republican debate on Fox, and now I’m watching the Democrats on CNN. I thought Fox was shamelessly plugging Romney (the Luntz stuff with the charts was especially…

Jimmy Smith on the organ.

Here’s something that I think ought to concern everyone, regardless of political perspective: Fox News has banned Ron Paul from tonight’s Republican debate: When Fox News hosts its Republican candidates forum Sunday night, one of the leading candidates won’t be invited. The Fox debate is excluding Texas Congressman Ron Paul, even though he polls higher…

Jimmy Smith on the organ

I notice from a recent blog post by Eric that there is too much politics here these days. I have to agree and I’m probably as much to blame (probably more) than any one else. However, election season is when we get to reopen the culture wars and choose our masters. It is my opinion…

West Hawk is discussing oil and geopolitics and asks “Could the U.S. walk away from the Persian Gulf?” It seems as if American society has finally reached a political consensus on the urgency of energy security. December’s energy bill that President Bush signed into law contained a government mandate to sharply increase the fuel mileage…

It’s not often I find myself annoyed by politics, but this two debates on Saturday night shit is just too much. Haven’t I written enough about politics? Already, people are complaining that my blog (which is supposed to be eclectic) is too focused on politics, and for the last three days I’ve written about politics.…

It is starting to look more and more like Fred is every one’s second choice. The candidate that everyone can compromise on. The Washington Post reports that Fred came in second in Wyoming picking up 3 delegates out of 12 up for grabs. By the time the votes were counted, Romney had won eight delegates…

Here is the essence of the Reagan Coalition. “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” If you believe that you are a member of the Reagan Coalition. If that is not your foundational principle you are not. Cross Posted at Power and Control