Month: February 2008

I am delighted to see that psychopathic master terrorist Imad Mughniyeh (whose name is just as unpronounceable as it was when he was alive) is dead. Not only has he been killing Americans and Jews since the 1980s, and pioneered suicide bombings, but he’s long been a crucial link between Hezbollah (and Iran) and al…

Thinking I might catch up with the news, earlier I turned on the TV, and saw that the big event (both on Fox News and CNN) involves past steroid use by baseball player Roger Clemens. Not that I can blame the networks for making the subject so eminently newsworthy. They’re dutifully reporting “he said, he…

“If the biblical account of creation in Genesis isn’t true, how can we trust the rest of the Bible?” — Beverly La Haye, president of Concerned Women for America. (quoted in Ron Bailey’s Origin of the Specious.) Belated birthday greetings to the much-embattled Charles Darwin! I guess if yesterday was his 199th birthday, he’s now…

I’m too sick to live blog the election results. I can barely watch the damn TV. Anyway, Obama won big in Virginia, while Huckabee was so far ahead of McCain for the past hour that I thought he’d won it, but now (with 24% of the vote in) McCain has inched slightly ahead of Huckabee.…

First farce then tragedy. Seinfeld gave us a TV show about Nothing. Obama is proving it can work for a political campaign. Why a campaign about nothing? It is obvious. There is nothing to disagree about. We can all join together. Nothing will keep us apart. Nothing will bring us together. Nothing is best and…

Forgive my slowness in blogging, but I’m trying to fight off a cold while freezing my butt off. Temperatures have been in the teens and it’s snowing right now. Naturally, I want to blame someone for this vicious coldening, and the most likely culprit is Al Gore, who has a documented record of ushering in…

Well we have already have Ein Volk. The Unity Candidate who will bring us together. If this latest Obama idea is any indication Ein Reich is on the way. A patriotism test for corporations. Says Senator Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH): I’ve talked to Barack a lot about his Patriot Corporation Act, which is not trade…

Hey, don’t ask me why. It was Bill Clinton who asked, and he seems to be wondering why God is screwing up Hillary’s chances of getting the nomination: Bill Clinton, touring black churches in Washington and Maryland, which hold primaries Tuesday, said he understands voters face a tough choice between his wife and Barack Obama.…

You hope they are lying to you. Except when you hope they are telling the truth.

Much as I find it hard to believe that Hillary Clinton is no longer invincible nor inevitable, that seems to be happening. I realize that Bill Clinton said he would work in the background, but I find it tough to believe they don’t have a few more tricks up their sleeve. The Clintons’ predicament is…

Ann Althouse links this McCain Obamanation parody video, from which I captured the most damning piece of evidence. (Click the picture to play.) OK, I’m a McCain supporter, but I have to admit that unfortunately, the above is highly incriminating. I mean, wasn’t McCain supposed to be against timetables, and unalterably opposed to setting a…

AVI was commenting on my I Won’t Vote For McCain piece and came up with this gem which I think bears repeating. It occurred to me over the weekend what people in other countries – even freeish, democratic countries in Europe – have for candidates to vote for. If free-marketers in Europe applied the same…

My previous post about Bryn Mawr College’s new president only briefly addressed the subject of “interfaith dialogue” (very much in the news in light of the recent controversy involving the Archbishop of Canterbury.) In this respect, Jane Dammen McCauliffe considers education to be of primary importance: ….While many scholars and officials hone in on high-level…

Obama Is The Messiah. “Just follow Barack’s lead and be honest with them,” [Obama’s] site advises. “You don’t need to debate policy or discuss the day’s headlines. You have a very personal reason for investing your time and energy in this campaign – that is the most compelling story you can tell.” Indeed, participants in…

Last night it was made clear that in both parties there’s major dissatisfaction with the establishment candidates. In her discussion this morning of Obama’s big night (and concomitant squabbling among Democratic activists), Ann Althouse linked this wonderful interactive map showing the states which the Democrats have won so far. Another map at the same site…

Today Huckabee won the Kansas caucus. But can he win the number of delegates he needs to win the nomination? What are the odds? Huckabee has won 181 delegates — 533 less than McCain. To capture the Republican nomination, he would have to win more than 80 percent of the remaining contests. OK, what states…

If you are a blog fanatic, as I am, you see a lot of “Ill never vote for John McCain because…..”. And I agree totally with that sentiment. When I vote for John McCain again (I did it 9 or 13 times in the recent primary – hey, it’s Illinois we got to keep up…

You’ve had your tantrum. Now it’s time to be adult about it. That’s how Jules Crittenden begins his sober and reflective Pajamas Media piece about conservatives and John McCain. Crittenden (who has been anything but a McCain supporter) takes issue with the “strategic loser” mentality: Some conservatives are talking about sitting it out. The idea…

I’m a bit concerned about the new president of Bryn Mawr College. From today’s Inquirer: An internationally known scholar of Islamic studies whose expertise is in the Quran and relations between Islam and Christianity was selected as the eighth president of Bryn Mawr College yesterday. The appointment of Jane Dammen McAuliffe was announced to the…

With Romney out of the race, today’s Wall Street Journal discusses a delicate issue, and cites interesting study of political prejudices relating to religion, sex, and race: Mitt Romney’s campaign for the presidency brought more attention to the Mormon Church than it has had in years. What the church discovered was not heartening. Critics of…