Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In a posted opinion piece “Biden pick shows lack of confidence” a pundit suggests that Biden brings a lot to the table in terms of national security credibility. Biden brings a lot to the table. An expert on national security, the Delaware senator voted in 2002 to authorize military intervention in Iraq but has since…

No Quarter has this interesting bit of gossip: I asked a friend who knows someone who has seen the video to Michelle Obama making disparaging remarks about “white” folks. You know, those angry God hugging, gun toting mouth breathers. He wrote me the following: But there is a very strange air about Republican operatives. In…

I’m thinking that Obama’s pick of Joe Biden doesn’t go far enough. To really beat McCain, Obama needs to pursue a strategy of annihilation by total triangulation. As I pointed out in a comment to Simon’s post, I’d feel more comfortable if Obama had reached across the aisle and chosen a man with hands-on experience.…

One of the strangest things about Ann Arbor is the presence of ubiquitous signs like this one: They’re right in my neighborhood, but the reason I didn’t have a photograph of my confused self standing in front of one with Coco is that I don’t have an available photographer right now. But trust me. They…

So who will be answering the 3 AM phone call in an Obama Administration? Joe Biden

Well, it’s official. Joe Biden is Barack Obama’s vice presidential choice. Barack Obama picked Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden as his running mate, choosing a long-time Washington insider who could balance his thin resume on foreign policy over younger politicians who could have amplified the Democratic presidential candidate’s message of change. […] Sen. Biden, who has…

Tom Maguire at Just One Minute has lots more on the Obama/Ayres relationship here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here. Whew. And that is just in the last week. Update: A little more on Ayres’ educational philosophy. Scroll down.

The choice of Joe Biden for VP on the Obama ticket is a sign of desperation. I think I’m going to go over to DU and Kos to see if I can capture the howling. If I get anything tasty I’ll do a post.

Yesterday I did a piece on the decline of the fortunes of Iran and its best buddy Hizballah No Deal. Today I got some news that fleshes out the story. Since the 2008-09 marketing year began on June 1, Iran has bought more than one million tons of hard red winter wheat directly from the…

Michael Totten reports from Georgia On Monday, I visited one of the schools transformed into refugee housing in the center of Tbilisi and spoke to four women–Lia, Nana, Diana, and Maya–who had fled with their children from a cluster of small villages just outside the city of Gori. “We left the cattle,” Lia said. “We…

In a marvelous essay about the animal rights organization PETA, Michele Catalano touched on two of my pet peeves — animal rights and the tendency of shrill activists to drive ordinary people away by dominating issues they might support. PETA’s current attempt at activism only made me shake my head in dismay. Who are they…

The RNC has a page up covering Obama-Rezko Shady Deals. H/T Pal2Pal

I find it extremely annoying that the question of how many houses John McCain owns would be of any more interest to anyone than how many shares of stock he owns, how many cars, how many suits, how many websites, or how many guns. Anyway, when asked the question, McCain said he wasn’t sure (“I…

The only people who actually need to “define rich” are the folks who are trying to establish a threshhold for redistributing your money. Commenter JM hanes at Just One Minute

The deal brokered in Lebanon to end Muslim on Muslim violence is off. Maybe way off. Several Sunni factions in Lebanon announced Tuesday night that they are freezing a truce they had signed with Hizbullah a day earlier. The agreement, intended to defuse sectarian tension, prohibited any Muslim group from attacking fellow Muslims. “The agreement…

The US military has been training the Georgian Army since 2002. Us troops were scheduled to leave Georgia in March of 2009. It appears the schedule has been changed. During the Soviet era, Krtsanisi military base outside Tbilisi was home to the Red Army. Now it is US soldiers who are in charge and, according…

Update: Commenter Thomas says: Now I truly understand how liberals think. I could not understand why my opinion of an issue was always the opposite of every liberal politician. Now I know. This video is well worth 45 minutes of your time. Yes it is.

It appears that Obama is losing the housing war. You gotta go and read the whole thing esp. if you are into military history. It is fookin hilarious. The second comment is most excellent as well. Don’t miss it. H/T Instapundit Cross Posted at Power and Control