Month: August 2008

So who will be answering the 3 AM phone call in an Obama Administration? Joe Biden

Well, it’s official. Joe Biden is Barack Obama’s vice presidential choice. Barack Obama picked Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden as his running mate, choosing a long-time Washington insider who could balance his thin resume on foreign policy over younger politicians who could have amplified the Democratic presidential candidate’s message of change. […] Sen. Biden, who has…

Tom Maguire at Just One Minute has lots more on the Obama/Ayres relationship here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here. Whew. And that is just in the last week. Update: A little more on Ayres’ educational philosophy. Scroll down.

The choice of Joe Biden for VP on the Obama ticket is a sign of desperation. I think I’m going to go over to DU and Kos to see if I can capture the howling. If I get anything tasty I’ll do a post.

Yesterday I did a piece on the decline of the fortunes of Iran and its best buddy Hizballah No Deal. Today I got some news that fleshes out the story. Since the 2008-09 marketing year began on June 1, Iran has bought more than one million tons of hard red winter wheat directly from the…

Michael Totten reports from Georgia On Monday, I visited one of the schools transformed into refugee housing in the center of Tbilisi and spoke to four women–Lia, Nana, Diana, and Maya–who had fled with their children from a cluster of small villages just outside the city of Gori. “We left the cattle,” Lia said. “We…

In a marvelous essay about the animal rights organization PETA, Michele Catalano touched on two of my pet peeves — animal rights and the tendency of shrill activists to drive ordinary people away by dominating issues they might support. PETA’s current attempt at activism only made me shake my head in dismay. Who are they…

The RNC has a page up covering Obama-Rezko Shady Deals. H/T Pal2Pal

I find it extremely annoying that the question of how many houses John McCain owns would be of any more interest to anyone than how many shares of stock he owns, how many cars, how many suits, how many websites, or how many guns. Anyway, when asked the question, McCain said he wasn’t sure (“I…

The only people who actually need to “define rich” are the folks who are trying to establish a threshhold for redistributing your money. Commenter JM hanes at Just One Minute

The deal brokered in Lebanon to end Muslim on Muslim violence is off. Maybe way off. Several Sunni factions in Lebanon announced Tuesday night that they are freezing a truce they had signed with Hizbullah a day earlier. The agreement, intended to defuse sectarian tension, prohibited any Muslim group from attacking fellow Muslims. “The agreement…

The US military has been training the Georgian Army since 2002. Us troops were scheduled to leave Georgia in March of 2009. It appears the schedule has been changed. During the Soviet era, Krtsanisi military base outside Tbilisi was home to the Red Army. Now it is US soldiers who are in charge and, according…

Update: Commenter Thomas says: Now I truly understand how liberals think. I could not understand why my opinion of an issue was always the opposite of every liberal politician. Now I know. This video is well worth 45 minutes of your time. Yes it is.

It appears that Obama is losing the housing war. You gotta go and read the whole thing esp. if you are into military history. It is fookin hilarious. The second comment is most excellent as well. Don’t miss it. H/T Instapundit Cross Posted at Power and Control

This is an advertisement for a movie coming out just in time for the election season. If you follow the link there is a movie trailer that tells more about the movie. If you would like some words about the movie from the makers, here are some of them: HYPE: The Obama Effect examines the…

The Chicago Annenberg Challenge Ayer/Obama affair (discussed infra) is finally receiving national attention. More here and here. (Via Glenn Reynolds.) While Glenn thinks the files have probably been “vacuumed of any seriously embarrassing matter,” I think it’s an embarrassment that a candidate for national office worked closely for years with an unrepentant terrorist. Let me…

It seems that China can’t keep the Free Tibet folks down. Despite the consequences to them that could be easily anticipated. On Monday, “…five pro-Tibet activists unfurled a banner spelling out “Free Tibet” in English and Chinese in blue LED “throwie” lights in Beijing’s Olympic Park tonight. The five were detained by security personnel after…

In The Ties That Bind I discuss Russian proposals for selling nuclear capable missiles to Syria. And then I learn today that an Obama adviser was recently in Syria at an oil company sponsored conference to discuss what? Dried fruit exports? Maybe. Oil exports? Much more likely. Barack Obama’s Middle East Policy Adviser recently discussed…