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A lot of people — not including me and my fellow politically-irrelevant Pennsylvanians — are voting tomorrow, and it is natural for them to be ferociously debating whether Romney or McCain is a better choice. In a number of blog posts, I’ve said that even though I am very uncomfortable with him, that I prefer…

No, this is not another rant about mandatory spay and neuter laws. I’m talking lobotomy! It was once very much in vogue, not for wayward dogs, but wayward people. And the guy who invented it did in fact win the Nobel Prize for it. For years it was the rage in the United States. (I’m…

McCain has a more consistent conservative record than Giuliani or Romney. What startled me about reading that in a recent column by Jeff Jacoby was that source was given as the National Review. The National Review is considered so pro-Romney that Jonah Goldberg’s quasi-defense of McCain was seen as borderline treason, so naturally I wondered…

Dick Polman thinks the Republicans have “lucked out” because despite opposition from the conservative wing, they might have managed to pick a candidate who can actually beat the Democrats. The Republicans have lucked out. They appear poised to nominate a guy who can actually win the presidential election in November – a possibility few Republicans…

While it may be a contradiction (and it’s certainly rare in politics), I think Ann Althouse comes close to displaying it in her discussion of McCain: I really don’t care if he considered changing parties or not. I like the people in the middle, like Joe Lieberman, who could fit — but only uncomfortably —…

WHEN THE GOVERNMENT “can come into our homes and decide whether our dogs can have gonads, that’s the day I leave California.” — Carol Hamilton As regular readers to this blog know, the nanny-staters want your dogs’ nuts and ovaries badly — whether you feel like surrendering them or not. Urged on by Bob Barker…

The Justice Department is at it again. Protecting us from unscrupulous doctors. The kind that prescribe too much pain medication for those in pain. In a drama that has been played out all too many times across the country in recent years, the Justice Department’s campaign against prescription drug abuse — if you can call…

I think this falls into Glenn Reynolds’ “THEY TOLD ME THAT IF GEORGE W. BUSH WERE REELECTED” category. (I’m not Glenn Reynolds, but I’m going to do an experiment in channeling…) Ahem. THEY TOLD ME THAT IF GEORGE W. BUSH WERE REELECTED, public access to places offering unpopular minority views would be restricted, and government…

I was reading at Alphecca about the Brady anti-gun campaign’s rating of various States on the level of their gun prohibition laws. A low rating means a gun friendly state. A high rating means very unfriendly to fire arms. California is very unfriendly. Here is the take of one commenter from California. Of course like…

I hate it when this happens. There I was, minding my own business. (At least, I think fashion in the election is my business — even if I do tend to focus on more extreme examples.) And I stumbled right into a gratuitous attempt by a journalism professor (in an article about fashion in the…

I’ll start with a comment left to the post I wrote late last night: I suspect that some conservatives are thinking in terms of the ‘putting a frog into a pot of hot water’ analogy as opposed to a slow, drawn out death from creeping socialism and the steady encroachment of nanny-statism. Zoological accuracy aside,…

Apparently she prefers her to McCain. At least, so claims Drudge. While it’s tough to evaluate the claim (as the link goes nowhere), if it’s true I’m not surprised at all. I’ve been predicting something along such lines. What I’m still trying to figure out is why McCain didn’t make this list. And why Romney…

I caught just a hint of this picture in the video at Get Some and thought it deserved a closer inspection. Taken from: American Partisan where you can see an even larger version. A history of the picture. It dates from 21 Sept 2001.

A comment Glenn Reynolds made the other day reminded me that everyone has their limit: Bill Quick begs to differ. Hey, for everybody there’s a point at which they’d rather take their marbles and go home. For me it would be Huckabee. For some Democrats it was Gore in 2000 and they voted Nader instead.…

The opening music is not my favorite. It gets better towards the end, for a while. Lyrics in parts NSFW. The video is just excellent. A nice rejoinder to the Bezerkeleyites.

Via Glenn Reynolds, another horrible (thought not unsurprising) story about more anti-military bigotry — this time from Berkeley: …The Berkeley City Council [] voted 8-1 Tuesday night to tell the U.S. Marines that its Shattuck Avenue recruiting station “is not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited…

My Pet Jawa has a report up on the cyber war between the Taliban and the Jawas. To: Taliban Shura Council CC: Propaganda Dept.; Cyberwarfare; Planning; BCC: Adil ‘Murchal’ Watanmal; Qari Muhammad ‘Ahmadi’ Yussuf; Zabihullah Mujahid From: Rusty Shackleford, The Jawa Report, & Sandcrawler Crew Date: 01/25/2008 Subject: Cyberattack Failure Nice try. Your cyberattacks are…

I keep taking flak for saying that I’m willing to hold my nose and vote for McCain, even though that’s hardly an endorsement of the man. I admit, I like his position on Iraq, and national defense. As to McCain-Feingold, I don’t think I could count the number of angry, even rabid posts I wrote…

Iraq. That’s what I woke up thinking about today. McCain seems to be the only candidate who’s really comfortable talking about it. Hell, he seems to almost want to talk about it. And while it was a a tad disingenuous the way he spun Romney’s timetable talk last night, I think McCain did have a…

A larger question than whether Romney or McCain did a better job at tonight’s debate is whether we should elect a president who “Says She Can Control Her Husband.” Now, I don’t mean to sound sexist, but how would it look if a man running for president promised to control his wife?