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  • Respectable dedication?

    Yesterday’s post about Ayers became so long with updates that it’s looking cluttered. When I started it, I had not seen the video about Ayers and his buddies’ plans to murder 25 million Americans, nor had I had a chance to examine his book Prairie Fire in much detail, although I did note that Ayers…

  • The Wrong Parties

    It should probably be the “wronged parties”, but then we would be talking about citizens. Which will come up eventually but not quite in that context. And what is the context? Obviously some one is getting it. What the heck am I gibbering about? The inevitable political season wheeze that “we need to punish a…

  • the singularity of the narrative

    In the early days of the Obama phenomenon, I harbored hopes that Barack Obama’s viable candidacy might cause a sea change in the way America sees itself in terms of race, as it does appear to be genuine evidence — in the broadest possible sense — of the final demise of American racism as we…

  • A. Hitler Big Obama Fan

    What? You think this is some kind of Godwin joke? No my friends, it is not. It is for real. A. Hitler has made a Credit Card (CC) donation of $19.45 to the Obama Campaign. Obama has all the safeties turned off on his credit card (CC) verification system. Frankly, its easier than I’d believe…

  • Is California In Play?

    Is California in play? You might think so given this report from Yreka, California in The Siskiyou Daily News. Last week, Louise Gliatto, a volunteer at the Republican campaign office, handed out the last McCain-Palin yard sign. The last campaign button went a few days earlier. There is a good supply of McCain-Palin bumper stickers,…

  • Ayers didn’t do enough

    I’ve written a number of posts about Bill Ayers, and I was especially horrified by his organization’s plot to blow up American soldiers at the Fort Dix NCO club. And while I know that terrorists are generally unconcerned with civilian casualties, still, I had not read about Ayers’ role in an attempted Detroit police station…

  • Turning cardboard into dough?

    In today’s Detroit Free Press, I read about an interesting promotional idea — free pizzas in exchange for McCain campaign signs: A Warren pizzeria owner received threatening phone calls Wednesday after a political pizza deal went awry. “They’ve been actually calling here and threatening my life,” said Salvatore’s Pizzeria owner Diana Franzoni, who previously offered…

  • McCain 37, Obama 24

    Have you heard that McCain voted with Bush 90%-95% of the time? I’ve heard it so many times my eardrums are ready to burst. Of all the talking points in the Obama campaign, I think it is probably Point Number One. I hadn’t really given much thought to looking into the details, although it did…

  • Ripping Them A New One

    Orson Scott Card is a Democrat. He is also a fierce critic of the press. The in the tank for Obama press. An open letter to the local daily paper — almost every local daily paper in America: I remember reading All the President’s Men and thinking: That’s journalism. You do what it takes to…

  • “Above politics”
    (the apolitical nature of non-partisan political endorsements)

    In my long discussion of the Michael Smerconish endorsement yesterday, I should have made it more clear that in terms of the big picture, Michael Smerconish is what film gangster Hyman Roth would call “small potatoes.” Most ordinary middle class people — especially the undecideds who don’t read newspaper pundits (much less blogs) — have…

  • Something Strange Coming Your Way

    Real Clear Politics has Obama up by 11 in Pennsylvania as of 22 Oct 008 0300z. And yet Governor Rendell is nervous about Pennsylvania and is asking Obama to return. Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has sent two separate memos to the Obama campaign in the past five days requesting that the Democratic Presidential candidate–as well…

  • Socialism. It’s not what you think!

    I just learned something new, and I am horrified. While I often condemn socialists and socialism, until today I had not realized that the word “socialist” is code language for “black”: The “socialist” label that Sen. John McCain and his GOP presidential running mate Sarah Palin are trying to attach to Sen. Barack Obama actually…

  • How Bill Ayers became respectable

    If there’s one thing that’s worse than Bill Ayers, it’s his respectability. How did it happen that a guy like that came to be respectable? The same way bad people always become respectable, of course. Nice respectable people fail to speak up. By “nice” I mean the very people I referred to in this post;…

  • Dishonest polls, dishonest victory?

    Like a lot of people, I’ve been wondering about those polls. If McCain were to pull ahead of Obama (as he has four or five times before), wouldn’t the Obama campaign be so scared that they would want the results either changed, statistically skewed, or somehow not reported? I realize they don’t have the kind…

  • Haven’t I seen you somewhere before?

    “He did not write a blurb for his book,” Burton said. “He did not.” So said Obama spokesman Bill Burton, specifically denying what Zombieboy had to go out and specifically track down. Here’s the picture. Of what Barack Obama absolutely Did Not Write. While I’m at it, I figured I might as well scan page…

  • Facing the music?

    Now that Philadelphia conservative radio talk show host and columnist Michael Smerconish has “decided” (for Obama), M. Simon is disgusted. So am I. In fact, I am so disgusted that I don’t know what to do. I realize that everybody’s mind is made up so what could I say that chould make much of a…

  • Smerconish For Obama

    A certain person named Smerconish who claims to be a Republican has come out for Obama. A giveaway is that this missive was published in the HuffPo among other places. Mr. S lists five concerns where he thinks Mr. Obama has better ideas than John McCain. The five are Terrorism, where he thinks Iraq is…

  • We have to do something! Fast!

    It’s getting colder! That’s what Lorne Gunter says in a piece headlined “Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof“: In early September, I began noticing a string of news stories about scientists rejecting the orthodoxy on global warming. Actually, it was more like a string of guest columns and long letters to the editor since…

  • Fusion Report 20 October 2008

    Alan Boyle brings us up to date on the latest news from the world of fusion. Of course I’m especially interested in what he has to say about Bussard Fusion and their progress to net power. I’ll give you the short version: “We’ve been pretty busy, but it’s the same situation,” Nebel told me today.…

  • You Can’t Say That

    Evidently in Britain there are fewer restrictions on polite conversation that there are in America. So Melanie Phillips says it: You have to pinch yourself – a Marxisant radical who all his life has been mentored by, sat at the feet of, worshipped with, befriended, endorsed the philosophy of, funded and been in turn funded,…