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There are few things more irritating in blogging than having to reconstruct a vanished post. Fortunately, it doesn’t happen too often, and usually, it’s a result of carelessness or a software glitch. This time, it was because the cord to the power strip that feeds my computer was coming loose from the wall receptacle, and…

There are a lot of things I have not yet done in the area. I still haven’t been to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, nor have I been to the Detroit Institute of Arts, which is now featuring “Monet to Dali.” There’s a ton of stuff in Ann Arbor I have not explored; for…

The renowned educationalist Bill Ayers will not be speaking at the University of Nebraska. The Omaha World Herald had this to say: Just 11 days after next month’s election, the University of Illinois-Chicago professor, William Ayers, is scheduled to speak at a student research conference held by the UNL College of Education and Human Science.…

In the ongoing campaign to minimize Bill Ayers (discussed previously in this post and others), the latest meme is an attempted moral equivalency comparison between Obama’s friend Bill Ayers the terrorist, and McCain’s friend G. Gordon Liddy the Watergate burglar. While others have made this comparison before, it’s getting attention now because David Letterman brought…

This story about the 7th grade girl being called a “racist” for wearing a Sarah Palin t-shirt is so predictable that initially I thought it hardly merited a blog post: VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) — She’s only 12 years old but Ashleigh Jones is feeling the heat of this election year. That’s…

Cribbed From getliberty.org Cross Posted at Power and Control

For more information visit getliberty.org. H/T Eric of Classical Values by e-mail.

I have been thinking some about what all this voter fraud business means in the larger scheme of things. It means that the left is on the wane in a very serious way. They can’t win without cheating. Cross Posted at Power and Control

As I have been saying, there’s a bigger problem than Bill Ayers’ unrepentant terrorism and his present day radicalism, and that is his mainstream respectability. For. The. Umpteenth. Time. Bill Ayers should not be respectable or mainstream. For some reason, that issue is seen as irrelevant or nonexistent, and the Ayers issue is spun alternately…

Have you ever wondered why big giant corporations and utilities have so many brainless morons working in things like “customer service” and “billing”? I think I’ve figured it out. Since my move from Pennsylvania to Michigan, I have spent untold hours on hold trying to have my utilities and services at the old address disconnected.…

The Republican Party is a pawn of Joe the Plumber

When I wrote an earlier post about the phony “race card” McCain is alleged to have “played” because unknown voices screamed things, I was assuming that the “Kill him!” allegation was at least factually correct. Surely (so I thought) no reporter would make up such a story. Wrong! It was either made up, or a…

America’s great friend of the working man Joe Biden has attacked Joe the Plumber for — guess what? — making too much money! To anyone who understands the way Biden’s sleazy little mind works, this should surprise no one. Yes, I think it is “sleazy” and “little” (with all respect to short people *) to…

We are all against child pornography, right? Society deems people who send or receive [or possess] kiddie porn to be so evil and beneath contempt that we have laws punishing them with long prison terms, regardless of circumstances. The statutory scheme imposes (here in Michigan and in many other places) strict criminal liability for possession…

If I didn’t know better I’d say some one was trying to steal an election in Ohio. Jennifer Brunner is the Secretary of State of Ohio. She is a Democrat. She is not interested in finding out if every one registered is actually eligible to vote. The court’s 9-6 opinion, written by Judge Jeffrey Sutton,…

The above video shows the encounter of Plumber Joe Wurzelbacher with Senator Obama on the campaign trail. Joe is not a happy camper. He wants to buy a business. The business makes too much money, over $250,000, and Joe knows his taxes are going up under Obama. Now here is where it gets tricky: Obama…

I didn’t live-blogging tonight’s debate, but I noticed the 25 year age gap as never before. I’m worried that current economic problems favor youth, for reasons that are neither fully understood, nor rational. The conventional wisdom is that it hurts McCain: Many see the 25-year age gap as McCain’s greatest vulnerability. It’s what Obama is…

Watch the above video if you want to learn a little about Joe the Plumber who was a feature of tonight’s debate. I think he is going to be a cult figure. I wonder if he is going to come out with a line of pants and male undergarments? And if you want to refresh…

In an earlier email discussing McCain’s prospects, M. Simon said, “Maybe lower gasoline prices will have some effect.” I replied with a quote that I attributed to Frank J. at IMAO: McCain only needs to threaten to drill — and prices go down! I can’t find the exact link (Frank might as well have said…

Jeff Jacoby takes issue with the claim that calling attention to Barack Obama’s close working relationship with Bill Ayers constitutes unfair guilt by association: …Obama’s defenders have been insisting that to call attention to these deplorable associations is to engage in ridiculous and unfair “guilt by association.” But it isn’t ridiculous to question the values…