Author: Dennis

Drudge links to a Times UK article on confirmation that Viktor Yuschenko was indeed poisoned: MEDICAL experts have confirmed that Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine?s opposition leader, was poisoned in an attempt on his life during election campaigning, the doctor who supervised his treatment at an Austrian clinic said yesterday. Doctors at Vienna?s exclusive Rudolfinerhaus clinic are…

HumanEvents is reporting that Julian Bond (a Marxist in the vein of Dubois, himself a supporter of Stalin) forced Kweisi Mfume from the NAACP for reaching out to the Republican Party. The two began feuding after Mfume nominated National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice for his 2003 NAACP Image Award. Furious that Mfume was reaching out…

That’s my headline. Maybe I should have said “wags finger.” That befits a cultural dinosaur like me. The BBC was shocked to learn that nearly half of Britons polled had never heard of Auschwitz: Among women and people younger than 35, 60 percent had never heard of Auschwitz, despite the recent popularity of films such…

Though Kofi Annan is still safe in the public eye and still the image of all that is pure and holy in the old press, times they may be a changin’. Political cartoons these days tend to be hacky, easy, and a bit behind, so Jerry Holbert’s cartoon from today’s Boston Herald is encouraging (via…

I was driving home on the Pennsylvania turnpike early Thursday morning for Thanksgiving with the family, and it happened that the tollbooth workers were on strike. When I’d originally gotten on there was simply a sign that read ‘No Tickets’ and I assumed that meant also ‘No Tolls’ so I may be getting a traffic…

Am I the only one who thinks textbook definitions of marriage and adolescence are wholly unnecessary? Next we’ll be debating whether health textbooks should define ‘boys’ and ‘girls’ in terms of sex or gender. “Some children are masculine while others are feminine, regardless of superficial physical distinctions. Terms like ‘boy’ and ‘girl’ lead to fascism.”

The following comes from a ‘progressive’ newspaper oddly enough called the Capital Times. For the first time in Weekly Idiot Award history we’ve got a tie. Although more than 75 idiots were eligible, University of Wisconsin student Ashok Kumar and university employee John Peck take away the (dis)honors: Four UW students were arrested Thursday after…

E-Roc at the Dave pointed us toward this piece of blatant neo-con propaganda from FOXsnooze which purports to further damage the U.N.’s heroic Oil for Food program by citing its support of terrorism insurgency. Next they’ll be telling us that Yusuf Islam (the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens) didn’t deserve the Man for Peace…

James Carville on the way things are: “We can deny this crap, but I’m out of the denial. I’m about reality here,” Mr. Carville told reporters at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. “We are an opposition party, and as of right now, not a particularly effective one. You can’t deny reality here.”…

Eric Engberg at CBSNews takes the infantile blogosphere to task in a specious display of pseudo-journalism. By his logic ‘newspapers’ qua newspapers can be judged by sampling the Weekly World News and the Daily Mirror. All food tastes terrible if we can judge by a British menu, and thus the blogosphere is inherently flawed because…

Once again E. at the Dave has the scoop — this time digging up a site which exposes Karl Rove’s Fascist Plot!

I was first alerted to the rhetorical use of irony at Slate when E. at the Dave pointed me toward Christopher Hitchens’s non-endorsement of John Kerry. Slate missed the irony and made it an endorsement, but have since apologized for the error. It seems that they’ve come a long way since, having learned to master…

What was all that about building alliances? The AP says Europe Allies Extend Olive Branch to Bush. The headline forgot the rest of the world, but they’re in there too. UNRELATED: But irksome, and needing to be posted somewhere. Being in a left-leaning area (the academy only agitates things) I’ve overheard a few disturbing things…

One senior Democrat familiar with the discussions in Boston said Kerry’s running mate, North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, was suggesting that he shouldn’t concede. The official said Edwards, a trial lawyer, wanted to make sure all options were explored and that Democrats pursued them as thoroughly as Republicans would if the positions were reversed. And…

Drudge currently has this on the front page: Before voting even began in Philadelphia — poll watchers found nearly 2000 votes already planted on machines scattered throughout the city… One incident occurred at the SALVATION ARMY, 2601 N. 11th St., Philadelphia, Pa: Ward 37, division 8… pollwatchers uncovered 4 machines with planted votes; one with…

I’ll be getting very little sleep tonight, then driving 40 minutes home to vote when the polls open. Incidentally, I too am voting for President Bush. My endorsement is the bulk of my contributions to this site, though that matters little more than the flood of endorsements floating around the ‘net. What I really wanted…

I was talkin with E. from the Dave just the other day about all of these not-so-glowing endorsements for Kerry (E., by the way, has an endorsement of his own), and he noted Christopher Hitchens’s apparent Kerry endorsement at Slate: Christopher Hitchens, Contributor: Kerry I am assuming for now that this is a single-issue election.…

Eric H. from the Dave pointed me toward this bit of apparent sense by Andrew Sullivan at the New Republic: Equally, his presidency can and should be judged on its most fateful decision: to go to war against Iraq without final U.N. approval on the basis of Saddam’s stockpiles of weapons and his violation of…

But Robert Ariail’s latest does: The nuisance remark is still haunting Kerry despite the hear-no-evil policy of his staunchest partisan supporters. Rudy still hasn’t forgotten the remark either: “We don’t want to go back to the days when Senator Kerry described terrorism as only a nuisance. When they attacked my city for the first time,…

‘But at least no one died!,’ cries the blindfolded choir, echoing their favorite rhyme in their zeal to take the White House, part of their litany of deception and scare tactics. But yes, Kerry Lied: Newspaper Investigation Uncovers Truth: Kerry Never Had Meeting With Security Council As He Has Described Numerous Times. ?U.N. ambassadors from…