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video two video three video four Transcript of Ezra Levant’s opening statement. He has a donate button at Ezra Levant. Brit blog Samizdata comments. Instapundit has more links.

I saw Lenny Bruce live at the Gate of Horn in Chicago a day or two before he got busted. I went with my girlfriend Joan who I met at the University of Chicago campus radio station. Before the gig we hung out in front of the Playboy Club and after we went to eat…

Senator Obama is the New Hope from Chicago, Illinois. A uniter, not a divider. Obama’s dealings with Nation of Islam member Tony Rezko are above reproach. Fortunately Tony was involved with the top cadre of politicians in Illinois. All of whom are under investigation. I don’t think such investigations will have any effect though. They…

From the Fred ’08 Campaign: I can’t even begin to thank you enough for your support of our Red Truck Challenge 2. Thanks to you we have funded Fred’s entire South Carolina media campaign and have gone on to start funding critical voter contact programs that will complement our excellent ground game and give Fred…

It just keeps getting weirder and weirder. Well it does: It was clear from the op-ed that Rove wrote a few weeks ago that the Republicans, whose own candidates run the gamut from the ridiculous (Fred Thompson) to the psychopathic (Rudolph Giuliani) and the theocratic (Huckabee) have already begun to see finagling the Democratic primary…

This is a trailer number two for Hillary the Movie. It is for sale. You can see more trailers and advertising clips and buy the movie here. If it comes down to it that we are going to elect a Socialist from the Democrat Party I’d prefer Obama or Edwards. They don’t screech. Welcome Punditeers…

“The American People will take Socialism, but they won’t take the label.” — Upton Sinclair Truer words were never spoken, and the above are from the author of the book on which a great film I saw last night was based. I see a lot of films, but I don’t usually write reviews of them.…

Via Dr. Helen, Jonah Goldberg explains how the culture war drives politics: What Americans really want when they look into a politician’s eyes is to see their own images reflected back, like in Narcissus’ pool. The presidency in particular has become the highest ground in the culture war. Americans want a candidate who validates them…

I don’t know whether this makes me a chronic complainer or some kind of crank, but if there’s one thing I hate more than being lied to online, it’s being lied to in the newspapers. Especially when they’re blatant. One of the reasons that so many cranks like me take up blogging is because we…

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An interview with R. Buckminster Fuller – Bucky to his friends I had the honor of meeting Bucky at a number of his lectures and the supreme honor of living in his dome home in Carbondale for two weeks around 1974.This was after he sold it to Mike Mitchell who I worked with on a…

This is the second time I’ve linked Rick Moran’s Fred Thompson Blogburst (which Glenn Reynolds linked earlier today), and I’m linking it again because I feel strongly that Fred Thompson — while not perfect — is the best all-around Republican candidate for people with views similar to mine. As I stressed the last time, I…

Quick question. Does anyone understand the ethics of “separation and reaggregation of blastomeres of cleavage-stage embryos“? Because that or something similar is what I (a hopeless layperson) suspect is going on with this breakthrough development: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A company that devised a way to make embryonic stem cells using a technique it said does…

I’ve been a bit upset by some of the vituperative attacks on Obama coming from the right, because they tend to cloud intelligent discussion of the man’s many serious shortcomings. Worst of all, to the extent that they become full-blown irrational Obamaphobia — this email I received earlier today being a perfect example — they…

If this isn’t the outrage of the day, I don’t know what is: Citi Merchant Services and First Data Corp has decided to implement their own form of gun control, refusing to process credit card transactions between firearms retailers, distributors, and manufacturers, according to a press release issued by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a…

Earlier I was thinking about how contentious things are getting, but then I reminded myself how in just a year there will be a new president, and whoever it is will have just been sworn in! Unless the election was another ballot-counting cliffhanger, in theory that would mean that the election will be completely behind…