Month: October 2008

We’ve all been hearing about mobs lately. Especially the brutal McCain mobs. First, here’s a YouTube video titled “The McCain-Palin Mob in Strongsville, Ohio“: (Views: 154,518) I’m not sure the above is really a “mob,” but that’s what it’s being called, and I’m trying to be fair to both sides. So let’s assume the above…

While I have not yet seen An American Carol, reading this post by Little Miss Attila makes me want to run right out and see it while I can: People are unable to buy tickets online for this movie, and have to get them at the cineplex itself; When one goes to the theater, the…

So snarks Frank Rich triumphantly, in what he obviously feels is a summary “refutation” of Sarah Palin’s remark about Barack Obama “palling around with terrorists.” (Also characterized by Rich as a “violent escalation in rhetoric.”) While I can understand why some people might dispute the tense and meaning of “palling around,” what’s the problem with…

Click To Enlarge According to Gateway Pundit Obama had some interesting friends when he was learning the political ropes in Chicago. Obama actively sought the New Party’s endorsement and urged the Marxist members to join his campaigns. The New Party went so far as to claim Obama as an official member of their organization. The…

I’m absolutely fascinated by the conflation that is going on. Now that McCain (who has barely mentioned Bill Ayers until very recently) has decided to finally say something about Obama’s unrepentant terrorist buddy, he’s being accused of not only ignoring the economy, but going negative about a trivial subject. For his part, Obama has been…

About 11 minutes I have looked into Obama’s birth certificate issues at: The Birth Certificate Democrats Against Some Entitlements Obama Birth Certificate Issue Heats Up Not A Citizen? Juhah Benjamin On Obama’s Birth Certificate You can also find out more by searching Philip Berg Obama. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Rumors Abound A post yesterday on pro-Hillary HillBuzz claims that a contributer spoke with someone in the Chicago court system that a team of FBI investigators in ten states are putting together a RICO case for U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. They are claiming that alleged undocumented contributions to the Obama campaign could potentially ensnare ACORN…

In a great piece about coping with stress — especially the stress of financial difficultues — psychiatrist Pat Santy, M.D. makes a passing observation about how unlikely it would be for anyone to take heart in the current problems: Unless you are some kind of environmental lunatic — or Al Gore — it is rather…

Until yesterday, I didn’t know that it was “unethical” to fire someone you don’t like if you have the power to do that. (At least, not in Alaska with an election pending.) I guess that means Sarah Palin is unethical. The downside of this is that if she is elected, and is given the power…

McCain campaign has been getting a lot of gratuitous advice from the left lately. A lot of his enemies are saying that the reason he is losing is because his focus on Bill Ayers while the economy collapses makes him look ridiculous. Or desperate. So (they helpfully suggest), John McCain should focus on the economy,…

So what is Mr. Obama’s dark ambition? I’ll give it to you in his own words from his book Dreams From My 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…

What if Barack Obama adopted John McCain’s policies? As the following interviews (all broadcast on the Howard Stern Show) suggest, he’d still be supported by many of his followers. The few McCain voters who were interviewed also seemed to feel the same way. As Thomas Jefferson said, “An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper…

A good friend told me that while traveling in England, he was horrified by the number of surveillance cameras (apparently 1 camera per 15 people), and he sent me a link to a piece titled “Orwellian U.K. Angers People With Tree Cameras, Snooping Kids“: Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) — Hidden in foliage next to a path…

In a remarkable statement (especially for a former constitutional law professor), Barack Obama said that health care is a right. Not ought to be a right. Is a right. For the reasons I explained in this post, health care is not a right. Certainly not a right in the way our country has always defined…

As I’ve said before, I have never had a security clearance. Considering the problems in my life and some of the people I’ve known, it is highly doubtful that I could ever get one. Naturally, this inclines me to be somewhat unsympathetic to the security clearance mindset. Frankly, I have always found the security clearance…

Might Bill Ayers have ghost-written Barack Obama’s “Dreams from My Father”? It’s an intriguing question, and Jack Cashill offers a fascinating analysis. It’s long, but here’s an excerpt: To add a little science to the analysis, I identified two similar “nature” passages in Obama’s and Ayers’ respective memoirs, the first from Fugitive Days: “I picture…

In a CNN Commentary piece titled “Why Ayers case is risky for McCain-Palin,” Roland Martin asks a rhetorical question about the late philanthropist who funded the Annenberg Challenge: …never mind the fact that Ayers and Obama were involved in a multimillion-dollar education grant that was funded by a right-wing Republican, media magnate Walter Annenberg. Do…

It seems that Mr. Obama is not proud of his friends. It also looks like McCain is going after this with everything he has got. I suspect this is not the end of this subject, either. I’d expect at least one more ad featuring John Murtaugh, the son of the judge whose home got bombed…

My friend Tom Ligon has just been inducted into the Sigma Society. Here is what Sigma does: Many SIGMA members are Ph.D.-level scientists and engineers; all are science fiction writers who have spent careers applying their technical and literary talents in exploring the future of science, technology, society and cultures. SIGMA provides a significant pool…