Month: February 2008

  • Please not eight more years!

    This video shows Hillary Clinton earlier today getting about as close to becoming unhinged as she’s been so far. She’s literally screaming “Shame on you, Barack Obama!” and accusing Obama of acting like Karl Rove — not because of genuine smear tactics, but because his campaign is distributing a leaflet criticizing her health care plan.…

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  • We Are In Need

    Barry Rubin of GLORIA Center is taking a look at the latest call to arms by Hamas. If it is to be believed, it sounds like a last desperate message from a cut off segment of the army hoping the cavalry will arrive soon. From the looks of things the cavalry is not coming. In…

  • Desperate Hillary is stuck on silly

    This piece by Democratic blogger David Musgrove takes a skeptical look at Hillary Clinton’s latest bit of unoriginal and desperate sloganeering — which can fairly be called the “It is time to get real” campaign: “It is time to get real — to get real about how we actually win this election, and get real…

  • World Net Daily strikes again!

    Not long ago, groundless paranoid conspiracy allegations were floated against John McCain. What irritated me was not the idea that some crackpot would be making the allegations, but that such claims are being treated as “news” — and are then believed by bloggers who ought to know better. In the case of the McCain allegations…

  • All the change that’s fit to Xerox!

    I was up late last night writing a post about the Texas debate for Pajamas Media. Read it here. I expected gladiatorial combat, but the most exciting thing that happened was Hillary’s revival of the plagiarism charge, with the “change you can Xerox” remark. This drew boos, and IMO it would have lost the debate…

  • Damned with faint pride

    If there’s one thing I understand, it’s damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t situations. Why I am so plagued by them I don’t know. But I really identified with a sentiment expressed in an email underlying the topic of Dr. Helen’s excellent post on male bashing: A few years ago Lionel Richie allowed his wife to knock him around…

  • “Beauty is only skin deep.” (But appearances rule!)

    Examiner columnist Meghan Cox Gurdon looks at the fawning, sycophantic behavior by lefties towards Fidel Castro when she had a chance meeting with him at a UN conference: My companions seemed to be jolted by electricity and then knocked by a wave of emotion as they took in the spectacle of the celebrated revolutionary, all…

  • Inaccurate smearing of American founder

    This amusing video shows the very pompous Michael Coard being corrected on a fairly important point of history: Coard is quite wrong to to smear American founder Robert Morris as a slave trader who profited from slavery. Morris was pressured by British policies into a single slave trading voyage which lost money, and subsequently became…

  • “it’s just a shame that these things happen.”

    Here’s what happens in cities where the criminals know that thanks to strict gun control, law-abiding victims will be almost certainly helpless and unarmed: The customer’s nightmare unfolded innocently enough as he was standing at the counter paying for some items just after midnight on Jan. 6. The shopper, a white man wearing a white…

  • So let’s have dialogue?

    Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s latest statements about Israel are a real mouthful: In yet another verbal attack against Israel, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the Jewish state a “filthy bacteria” whose sole purpose was to oppress the other nations of the region. Jafari: If attacked, Iran will target US Forces in neighboring countries “The world powers established…

  • The strategic rightness of total wrongness

    Regarding the ongoing right wing animosity towards John McCain, Clayton Cramer has a good question for conservatives: Do you want someone is wrong half the time, or someone who is wrong all the time? Well, according to the logic of Ann Coulter or Pat Buchanan, being wrong all the time is better than being wrong…

  • The campaign that will not die!

    Not only did the blogosphere not stand still during my absence, but apparently, neither did the world. There’s a major election in Wisconsin today and results ought to start trickling in soon. I enjoyed Ann Althouse’s explanation of why she’s voting for Obama. I haven’t liked [Hillary Clinton], but I pictured myself voting for her…

  • Sustaining a better world!

    Just back from Florida, and I am delighted to see that even though I cannot generate posts when I’m not near a computer, the blogosphere has nevertheless managed to take care of itself without me. Not only that, the blogosphere is saving the world by not meeting face to face: Built in to the iLinc…

  • More felonies, more felons!

    In front of a perfectly ordinary looking construction site, I saw a sign which indicates how times have changed since I was a kid: I don’t approve of trespassing (especially on occupied residential property), but traditionally it has long been considered a misdemeanor, and it was a bit startling to see evidence that it is…

  • Teach Them A Lesson

    I’m seeing a general discontent with politics I haven’t seen in other election years. The Right is not solidly for McCain. The left hasn’t even made their final choice. At Talk Left one commenter expresses it this way: With endorsers like Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, how does he shake off the “superLiberal” tag. I…

  • Greetings from “Sunny” Florida

    Unfortunately, the free WiFi here at the hotel does not allow uploads. I’m here in St. Petersburg, and tomorrow I’m visiting the Salvador Dali Museum. (I need more surrealism!!!!) I’l try once more with a picture I tried earlier. If that doesn’t work, the post ends here. Hah! Success!! It’s party time! Which seems quite…

  • Happy Valentine’s Day!

    Or is that “international people’s friendship day”? (Glenn Reynolds had something earlier about it….) Anyway, I’m off for a quickie weekend trip and blogging will be light to nonexistent for the next few days. I’ll try to check in if I can, and I return home on Tuesday. My advice till then? Don’t do anything…

  • What’s love got to do with it?

    What is it about James Carville and Mary Matalin? Bridget Johnson, who describes herself as conservative, thinks it might be about sex: The poster models for cross-political romance have long been James Carville and Mary Matalin — same pit-bull personalities, just polar opposites on the political spectrum. And all one hears — from anti-war, Prius-driving,…

  • McCain/Rice?

    Nicholas von Hoffman thinks it would be an unbeatable combination: Rice’s presence on the ticket deprives the Democrats of the we-are-more-diverse-than-thou argument. It makes McCain–whose ethnically diverse family includes an adopted daughter from Bangladesh–an even more attractive candidate for a certain kind of independent voter. Rice can rightly be attacked for serving Bush and backing…