Author: Dennis

I was in in New York at 3 am when I wrote most of this in a little note pad. My train was scheduled to leave for more than two more hours, and I’d been waiting for what seemed forever. My friend had assured me that the trains ran all night, but I think maybe…

Or Rathergate? I can’t decide. But bear in mind that it’s 7am on a Saturday and I was unceremoniusly wakened by the ringtone on my cell phone (don’t take that the wrong way, dear). I’m still a bit groggy. UPDATE!: I just learned a lesson Eric has tried to teach me on several occasions. You…

Spotted this piece linked by Drudge by a Muslim organization opposing extremism and terrorism, the Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism. Will Muslims wake up before it is too late? Or will we continue blaming the Jews and an imaginary Jewish conspiracy? The blaming of all Muslim problems on Jews is a cancer that is destroying…

Note that in every instance in which the ‘th’ following a number appears in superscript there is no intervening space between number and suffix. MS Word is set to automatically substitute the superscript when you hit the space bar, but if there is an intervening space, the rule is not triggered, which would explain the…

from the AP. John Kerry is STILL. FIGHTING. BACK. Elevating the polemic and throwing off the gloves, he revealed his latest slogan late last night: “Your Momma!” George Wrong Bush avoided serving … us with a comment. After leading the crowd in a chant of “W means wrong!,” Kerry finally shouted, “Georgie porgie poo poo…

Senior Kerry advisor Tad Devine, seen in this file photo, assures us that this drop in the polls has been in their plans all along. On one of the network shows recently Devine spun the downward spiral as some kind of wily strategy (perhaps akin to Kerry’s secret plan?). The NYT has him saying much…

This undocumented piece of psychotic drivel was forwarded to me with the subject line, ‘Breaking News..Has America really faced the fact that we have an alcoholic as our president?’ The scribbler behind this bitter rant, Susan Estrich, considers herself an intellectual and a feminist, yet writes books with titles like Making the Case for Yourself:…

George Will has an interesting perspective on the hip, new, expansive Republican Party. It’s retro Goldwater chic.

On FoxNews Sunday Tad Devine offered this sad defense when told that no challenger has ever recovered when behind so far at Labor Day: no president has ever had a convention this late before! Cheaters! Filthy cheaters!

Walter Williams addresses the failings of appeasement, and unlike most (who cite Hitler as the ultimate example) Williams does not fail to address the outrages of communism: Quite interestingly, Western leftist appeasers exempted communist leaders from the harsh criticism directed toward Hitler, even though communist crimes made Hitler’s slaughter of 21 million appear almost amateurish.…

We’ve all surely heard of Texas Democrat Ben Barnes, who is selling himself out for John Kerry, and taking many others along for the ride: Barnes has told friends that he intervened with Rose to help a number of other prominent, young Texans into the National Guard. In addition to Bush, who was accepted for…

Nat Hentoff’s welcome voice once again joins the blogosphere’s chorus asking, ‘What is John Kerry hiding?‘ Referencing an August 23rd Washington Post article by Michael Dobbs (buried in the print edition but available here), Hentoff writes: What I find strange is that Dobbs writes that “Kerry himself was the only surviving skipper on the river…

Atrios asked me to post this for him. You doubted that this administration was targeting prominent Democrats for attack when Ted Kennedy was ‘accidentally’ placed on a list of terror suspects and delayed in boarding flights, but now the Bushies are using their cronies in the Oregon state police to extort money from Al Gore!

Leave it to that quasi-governmental body, the E.U. (which even my girl in Paris dislikes), to disrespect the dead, second-guess those who respond to crisis, and blame the victims: Putin has long tried to paint the Kremlin’s conflict with Muslim separatists in Chechnya as part of the global war on terror. Some countries, particularly in…

A lot of people think a lot of Eugene Volokh, and people I know personally have told me that he’s brilliant and one of the webs true intellectual gems, so I can only scratch my head on this one. In the sequel to his censure of Dennis Hastert’s on-air question over the source of George…

I got an instant message last night from someone who posts on a message board I used to be involved with. He was very excited about his new song (‘i’m writing a protest song heh’) and asked me to critique his lyrics. I asked what he was protesting, and though I didn’t get a direct…

I’m fast gaining a reputation as a not very nice guy. So our newest winner, following inaugural Idiot of the Week Carl Lewis, is my fellow Pennsylvanian, Kathryn Miller of Greensburg: Store Clerk Accepts Fake $200 Bill, Makes Change PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – At first glance it looked like the real thing, so store clerk Kathryn…

Those protesting under the banner of anarchism show no real resemblance to the historical phenomenon of philosophical anarchism and at best may be compared to the syndicalists (who would transfer authority to labor unions), the offshoots who fueled early communism (who would transfer authority to the intellectual elite), or Mussolini’s several Fasci which need little…

Eugene Volokh is outraged over Dennis Hastert’s comments on FoxNews: Here in this campaign, quote, unquote, “reform,” you take party power away from the party, you take the philosophical ideas away from the party, and give them to these independent groups. You know, I don’t know where George Soros gets his money. I don’t know…

Adrian Wojnarowski has an excellent piece at ESPN.com on basketball star Allen Iverson and U.S.A. Basketball: The most telling moment of all was in the minutes after the United States’ loss to Argentina in the semifinals, when the possibility for gold and glory were gone. When the coach stayed on his self-serving course of blaming…