Month: April 2008

Barry The Big O had a few Dreams from His Father. To avoid being mistaken for a sellout,I chose my friends carefully.The more politically active black students.The foreign students.The Chicanos.The Marxist Professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets.At night,in the dorms,we discussed neocolonialism,Franz Fanon,Eurocentrism,and patriarchy.When we ground…

I think Barack H. Obama (D, Rezko) could prevent this sort of thing if he got his old friend Bomber “I didn’t do enough” Ayres to practice his black arts and shut down Youtube. Don’t get me wrong. I think there is a future for Obama in politics. As a Chicago ward heeler. I’d start…

Rachel Lucas likes Cesar Millan, aka the Dog Whisperer. And she recently used his techiques to ward off an ill-trained pit bull which some bratty kids were unable to control. She stopped what could have been a tragedy for all concerned, and none of the dogs were seriously hurt. Good for her. I’m glad Millan’s…

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been everywhere in my area lately. As the Inquirer says, the Philadelphia suburbs hold the key to victory in the primary. Yesterday, “High Tech Hillary” first appeared at Haverford College (just a few minutes away from here), and later she went to the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia where she…

Yesterday, Glenn Reynolds remarked that Alan Keyes is getting nasty and linked this report about Keyes’ announcement that he is leaving the GOP, apparently to seek the nomination of the Constitution Party. While I share Glenn’s skepticism about the Keyes candidacy, it just so happens that earlier I had earlier read an AP report that…

From the wiki: Although “Spirit in the Sky” is considered by many to be a Jesus rock song with a heavily Christian theme, Greenbaum was and still is a practicing Jew. He was inspired to write the song after observing a preacher on television. Inspired by The Culture War Is Over.

I visit many sites on the ‘net in the course of a day. And I see this kind of sentiment a lot: I do not intend to send one penny until I know who the VP candidate is. I, too, would very much like it to be Mitt. From what I can tell only the…

From the Wiki entry for Osama bin Laden’s father: Sheikh Mohammed bin ‘Awad bin Laden (Arabic: ???? ?? ??? ?? ?????), also known as Mohammed bin Laden (1908–September 3, 1967), a Yemeni immigrant to Saudi Arabia was a wealthy investor, businessman and patriarch of the bin Laden family. He married 22 times and fathered at…

Don’t miss “The ‘Useful Idiots’ of Militant Islam” by Youssef M. Ibrahim. (Biography here.) Analogizing to Lenin’s “useful idiots,” Ibrahim argues that their Islamist equivalent are everywhere: Today’s Islamist Lawrences are being cultivated among a broad swath of political analysts, scholars, anthropologists, pundits, missionaries, and even spies dissecting militant Islam and Islamofascism. While most carry…

WARNING: Gruesome discussion follows. At least, I guess discussions of how to kill people are gruesome to some people. I suspect that that a few readers, though, might come here because of occasional discussions of gruesome things. (In fact, a commenter to my previous post on lethal injection mentioned the “Classical Values Torture poll.”) The…

If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democrat president. It’s kind of a pipe dream, it’s a personal fantasy of mine, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. — Ann Coulter That was said in humor, right? I mean, like most of the serious women who…

Anyone who enjoyed the Tweedledee and Tweedledum story as a child will enjoy David Kopel’s piece in today’s Wall Street Journal comparing Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s positions on gun control. Instead of Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Kopel invokes an even sillier (and more surreal) spectacle — Pat Robertson and James Dobson courting the gay marriage…

After a long day in New Jersey, I settled down to watch last night’s debate, and was up late writing this post for Pajamas Media. My conclusion was that Hillary was the tactical winner, and nothing I saw alters my position that she is the stronger candidate, and would be the tougher one for McCain…

Do you remember when Henry Kissinger said about the Iran-Iraq War “Too bad they both can’t lose”? Well talk like that about Hillary and Obama is now entering the main stream press. Not that they actualy want them both to lose but, disaster is staring them in the face. When they face off Wednesday night…

I have been looking at some of the live blogging of last night’s Clinton Obama debate. And I found something extraordinary. According to commenter Simon (not me) at Althouse Simon said… Oh, and great answer from Obama on capital gains! Even though raising the rate lowers revenue and vice-versa, he wants to to raise capital…

Outlaw Fire

I just got an email from a friend who thought I’d get a laugh out of this. I have no idea if any of this is true. Sadly, the worst aspect of this is that it very well could be. == Your govt. in action!!!!! A Washington , DC , airport ticket agent offers some…

This letter to the Philadelphia Inquirer fascinated me: David Reichenbacher Philadelphia This campaign is dragging on too long, forcing candidates and the media to make stories out of nonevents, like the definition of bitter. I’ll tell you something, Hillary Clinton. I’m a Pennsylvanian, and I am bitter. Obama is in touch with us. While I…

One of the best political analysts in the business (IMO) is the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Dick Polman. While he says that Obama “screwed up badly during that fund-raiser in San Francisco,” he finds it quite amusing that Hillary is portraying herself as a gun-loving, working class hero: If you want to enjoy a belly laugh, here…

Jamal just rips into Barry O and his whole shtick. Let me give you a taste but you gotta promise me you will go read the whole thing. In the same speech in which Barry0-the-Big-Zer0 attacks one part of America, he defends another. Hussein0s description of White Rural American was an attack on their irrationality,…