Month: February 2008

Michael Totten has a new report up on the goings on in Fallujah. He covers a subject that I have touched on a time or two. The importance of pornography in changing our opposition. If you want a look back you might like Jewish Porn Sweeps The Arab world and Defeated By Pornography. How about…

Hillary Clinton said that anger is honorable. And Robert Heinlein famously said that “an armed society is a polite society.” Is there tension between these two views? How do we factor in extreme anger arising out of (or aggravated by) mental illness? I often complain about how awful it is to be harangued at committee…

A delightful talk about intellectual property its uses and abuses. By a lawyer who actually has a few good ideas. And don’t forget to think about Christmas and dating.

By withdrawing from the race, Mitt Romney has saved me the trouble of formally announcing my support of John McCain. That’s because I’ve already stated that I would support him if he gets the nomination, which is now a de facto done deal. Even though he doesn’t like him, Bob Owens endorsed McCain earlier, for…

Is McCain going to get booed at CPAC today? CPAC it seems, is directing its loyal goers to not boo McCain. They must be more excited that McCain has finally signed on to appear after years of snubs than they want to let on. During registration last night at the Omni Shoreham a registrant was…

I just heard a news rumor on the radio that Mitt Romney is about to announce that he’s dropping out of the race. Apparently there’s an announcement now at CPAC. Stay tuned. 12:50 — He’s just said McCain has more delegates and he’s thanking everyone. No mention of any withdrawal yet. 12:52 — ABC confirms…

“Where did Hillary get $5 million to loan a presidential campaign?” Ed Morrissey wants to know: Where did Hillary get $5 million to loan a presidential campaign? Bill and Hillary have done well on the speaking circuit, and Bill recently got $20 million or so for backing out of his partnership from Ron Burkle. At…

Not long ago, an armed raid was carried out to serve a search warrant for kiddie porn and the suspect ended up dead: Rebecca Hill considered her husband, Darius, “the most honorable person I’ve ever met.” A Marine veteran who served in the first Gulf War, the home-improvement contractor lived near Perkasie with his wife…

I didn’t expect to see the type of paranoid conspiracy nonsense that I remember from the 2000 smear campaign against McCain resurfacing in the blogosphere, but it has. I’m sorry to see that unsourced, unsubstantiated trashy gossip is being taken seriously, but I guess that’s what happens when a “respectable” online news source like WorldNetDaily…

I complain a lot about the primary system, and how it prevents candidates who might prove to be popular in general elections from ever getting there. In several posts, I looked at the Schwarzenegger phenomenon. (Schwarzenegger of course, managed by a fluke to avoid the primary, which would normally have prevented him from becoming governor,…

Instapundit has a bit up on the decline of the two party system. He has a look at the book Declaring Independence. So I thought I’d visit the Amazon page and figure out what is going on. Here is a bit from the blurb: America is at a political crossroads. We are growing alienated from…

Lord help me. I just went out for a short drive and made the mistake of turning on Laura Ingraham. Rarely have I heard such biased vitriol directed against anyone as she directed towards John McCain this morning. (To think that I imagined things might calm down!) Now, she obviously defines conservatism as agreeing with…

Who won Super Tuesday? I have to say that I think Huckabee was the real winner, not in terms of votes, but to go from what most pundits considered an annoying joke to within a hair of second place status — all in one day — that’s the real story. That is a comeback by…

Right now I want Romney to win. No, seriously. I still prefer McCain slightly, but I want Romney to win in order to make this stuff stop. I’m really starting to get angry — angrier than I have ever been at conservatives — over the anti-McCain hysteria. I never imagined it would get this bad.…

I don’t care much for Hip Hop. However, Tone is one of my favorites. Probably NSFW.

Despite the talk of how divisive she’d be, Hillary Clinton is turning out to be quite the uniter. Prominent endorsements from the right wing keep pouring in. First it was Ann Coulter. And now…. It’s Pat Buchanan! …On the three issues that have ravaged the Bush presidency–the misbegotten war in Iraq, the failure to secure…

If I could say anything about today’s election in which I cannot vote, I would ask people simply to think before they vote. Regardless of what anyone says or thinks about McCain, I wish they would reconsider the logic of saying that because he is bad, his opponent must therefore be good. The Anchoress (who…

I don’t know what the communitarian scolds will make of this study, but apparently people who live short and unhealthy lives cost no more to society than their healthier, slimmer, counterparts: LONDON — Preventing obesity and smoking can save lives, but it doesn’t save money, researchers reported Monday. It costs more to care for healthy…

Who or what precisely, is a “gentleman”? Before I get to this question, I thought I should disclose my test results from the “Which of the Seven Deadly Sins are You?” test which Glenn Reynolds linked earlier. My result is Lust: Actually, I’m not that way at all. I consider myself a gentleman. At least,…

The Superbowl was yesterday, and I sort of forgot to watch it, even though I was reminded that the halftime can be controversial. (Hmmm… Maybe they could have a special “Breast of the Superbowl” feature.) Not that I’m anti-sports or anything. I did attend a college basketball game on Saturday, only to see my local…