Month: February 2008

As nearly everyone knows now, Ann Coulter endorsed Hillary Clinton. Well it turns out that Hillary has reciprocated, and says she welcomes Ann’s support, right down to actually letting the words “strange bedfellows” leave her lips. Now, I’m not one of those kooks who reads the “homosexual agenda” into everything, but considering that Ann Coulter…

A lot of people — not including me and my fellow politically-irrelevant Pennsylvanians — are voting tomorrow, and it is natural for them to be ferociously debating whether Romney or McCain is a better choice. In a number of blog posts, I’ve said that even though I am very uncomfortable with him, that I prefer…

No, this is not another rant about mandatory spay and neuter laws. I’m talking lobotomy! It was once very much in vogue, not for wayward dogs, but wayward people. And the guy who invented it did in fact win the Nobel Prize for it. For years it was the rage in the United States. (I’m…

McCain has a more consistent conservative record than Giuliani or Romney. What startled me about reading that in a recent column by Jeff Jacoby was that source was given as the National Review. The National Review is considered so pro-Romney that Jonah Goldberg’s quasi-defense of McCain was seen as borderline treason, so naturally I wondered…

Dick Polman thinks the Republicans have “lucked out” because despite opposition from the conservative wing, they might have managed to pick a candidate who can actually beat the Democrats. The Republicans have lucked out. They appear poised to nominate a guy who can actually win the presidential election in November – a possibility few Republicans…

While it may be a contradiction (and it’s certainly rare in politics), I think Ann Althouse comes close to displaying it in her discussion of McCain: I really don’t care if he considered changing parties or not. I like the people in the middle, like Joe Lieberman, who could fit — but only uncomfortably —…

WHEN THE GOVERNMENT “can come into our homes and decide whether our dogs can have gonads, that’s the day I leave California.” — Carol Hamilton As regular readers to this blog know, the nanny-staters want your dogs’ nuts and ovaries badly — whether you feel like surrendering them or not. Urged on by Bob Barker…

The Justice Department is at it again. Protecting us from unscrupulous doctors. The kind that prescribe too much pain medication for those in pain. In a drama that has been played out all too many times across the country in recent years, the Justice Department’s campaign against prescription drug abuse — if you can call…

I think this falls into Glenn Reynolds’ “THEY TOLD ME THAT IF GEORGE W. BUSH WERE REELECTED” category. (I’m not Glenn Reynolds, but I’m going to do an experiment in channeling…) Ahem. THEY TOLD ME THAT IF GEORGE W. BUSH WERE REELECTED, public access to places offering unpopular minority views would be restricted, and government…

I was reading at Alphecca about the Brady anti-gun campaign’s rating of various States on the level of their gun prohibition laws. A low rating means a gun friendly state. A high rating means very unfriendly to fire arms. California is very unfriendly. Here is the take of one commenter from California. Of course like…

I hate it when this happens. There I was, minding my own business. (At least, I think fashion in the election is my business — even if I do tend to focus on more extreme examples.) And I stumbled right into a gratuitous attempt by a journalism professor (in an article about fashion in the…

I’ll start with a comment left to the post I wrote late last night: I suspect that some conservatives are thinking in terms of the ‘putting a frog into a pot of hot water’ analogy as opposed to a slow, drawn out death from creeping socialism and the steady encroachment of nanny-statism. Zoological accuracy aside,…

Apparently she prefers her to McCain. At least, so claims Drudge. While it’s tough to evaluate the claim (as the link goes nowhere), if it’s true I’m not surprised at all. I’ve been predicting something along such lines. What I’m still trying to figure out is why McCain didn’t make this list. And why Romney…