Month: March 2008

According to a growing body of experts, being online can be an addiction: If you’re a blogger, you could soon find yourself labeled with the newest mental disorder: Internet Addiction Disorder. IAD has actually been proposed for inclusion as a psychiatric diagnosis in the next issue of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V).…

A gay blogger in Oklahoma argues that his state (which my subliminally Freudian fingers keep unconsciously misspelling as “Oklahomo”) is not hell, despite the fact that a state legislator is determined to stop the homos from, from, teaching or spreading their, their lifestyle. Or something. Here’s the video. Says the blogger: As I get older…

In a recent Human Events piece — “The Softer Side of SWAT,” Brett Winterble complains about a plan to admit more females onto SWAT teams on the theory that male SWAT members “under-emphasize negotiating skills, patience, empathy and flexibility while over-emphasizing physical prowess and tactical acumen.” …isn’t the whole point of a SWAT team to…

I have been a critic of NAFTA from the very beginning. — Hillary Clinton, February 26, 2008 Anyone remember Barack Obama’s NAFTAGATE? Hillary’s Texas and Ohio victories were made possible in no small part because she hammered away at Barack Obama for being secretly in favor of NAFTA, or at least, not as opposed to…

Ever wondered why so many teachers and bureaucrats oppose home schooling despite the fact that home-schooled children score far better in standardized tests? Education may have a lot less to do with it than you think. In his analysis of the recent California decision to outlaw homeschooling, Vin Suprynowicz may have identified the chief reason…

In a recent interview, Mike Huckabee noted the left’s double standard in analyzing religious sermons: It’s interesting to me that there are some people on the left that are having to be very uncomfortable with what Louis Wright said, when they all were all over a Jerry Falwell or anyone on the right who said…

Spengler of Asia Times takes a look at the theology of Rev. Wright. It is not pretty. During the black-power heyday of the late 1960s, after the murder of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr, the mentors of Wright decided that blacks were the Chosen People. James Cone, the most prominent theologian in the “black…

Are these ladies typical examples of swooning female Obama voters? There is no way to tell.

Maybe. The City Edition has the history of the Republican backing of Obama. Evidence of a covert campaign to undermine the presidential primaries is rife, so it’s curious that the Democractic Party and even some within the G.O.P. have ignored the actual elephant in the room this year. That would be Karl Rove. Long accused…

I see a Republican landslide coming. McCain in the upper 50s. In addition maybe the Ds will rethink their love for identity politics. It has not served them well. I think McCains’s “we win they lose” speaks to the American spirit. What have the Ds got? Hope and Change. BTW a poll I just saw…

Justin (I mean the good Justin who writes here, not the one who carried on at the recent demo) told me about a wonderful sign being displayed at San Francisco’s “‘Peace Vigil’ starring Cindy Sheehan, Justin Raimondo — and not Sean Penn” as documented by Zombietime. Here it is: That’s Cindy Sheehan holding the banner…

While it might not be as vital a national issue as sex, today’s Inquirer has a fascinating article about an organized effort to stop the use of artificial turf on local playing fields, which they claim is dangerous: The newest generation of artificial turf comes with a cushion of recycled tire crumbs and, in some…

Obama is against racial insensitivity. “I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus,” Obama told ABC News, “but I would also say that there’s nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up…

Beware using religion to create division. “Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and started being used to drive us apart. It got hijacked,” the Democratic presidential candidate said in remarks prepared for delivery before the national meeting of the United Church of Christ. “Part of it’s because of…

Glenn’s reference to the “reticence and hypocrisy of the Victorian era” (in reference to New York’s latest governor’s extramarital heterosexual outing of himself) made me wonder about something. Most of us realize that people in the Victorian era had plenty of sex (otherwise we wouldn’t be here). However, they were known for not talking about…

This is a slightly modified version of the Hillary commercial. I’m putting this up for the children, because “we won’t surrender, they will”.

Today Obama repudiated the message of Rev. Wright and said that it was a message from the last generation. So explain to me why Obama sends his kids to Sunday school at Wright’s church? What about the next generation? Update: Here is an excerpt from the Obama speech saying that individuals must take full responsibility…

Clinton is slightly ahead of McCain. And McCain is slightly ahead of Obama. The majority of Democrats, though, still prefer Obama. If McCain is lucky, the majority will get its way.

Both CNN and Fox are getting ready to carry Obama’s speech on Wright and race. It’s 10:53 and he just took the stage…. I’m staying tuned. MORE: He begins with the founding…. the document was unfinished because of slavery. Mentions the reflection of slavery in the original Constitution. Overview of the anti-slavery and later civil…

Meanwhile, in a gubernatorial sex show, we see the new New York governor governor newly admitting to having had an old affair, as the old New Jersey governor rehashes his old gay affairs, while new conspiracy theories circulate about the Eliot Spitzer bust. No really. Over the weekend I received an email stating the following:…