This is indeed jaw-dropping. First paragraph of piece by Rick Moran:
Executive Producer David Doss reveals that CNN not only doesn’t care if their broadcasts give aid and comfort to the enemy in Iraq, but also that there is no difference between a US sniper and an enemy sniper.
I knew there was a reason I can't watch CNN: they just aren't my kind of people. Whole thing here.
If this is true, it should be big trouble. The Ted Kennedy/KGB story. Junkyard, via Ace. More at Driscoll. As Gateway puts it, "Please don't question their patriotism." Yes, well, but this guy can get away with murder, can't he?
Gore Vidal joins the Moonbats. It does sound like satire, but the guy means it. Blue Crab. Projection is a terrible defence mechanism.
The annual flu shot hysteria. RTLC
I keep trying to get out, but they keep pulling me back in. Junior Gotti gets a pass, sort of. "He's a very nice boy."
Evil genius Karl Rove has been blamed for rising oil prices, falling oil prices, Katrina, 9-11, warm summers, the ozone hole, and for losing my socks in the dryer. Now he is blamed for the rising stock market. Rove must be God, disguised as a pudgy bald guy.
Autism gene identified. Finally. SDA
Young Republicans at Berkeley: Update at Volokh
Annie, Get your gun. We keep reading these sorts of stories. An un-armed, or pacifist person is called a "victim," in English. Listen: especially if you have kids: don't let a low-life scum take you away from them, because they need you.
On repealing the First Amendment. If the Left (with John McCain as a useful idiot ally) wants to undo the First, and many others wish to undo the Second, then why not all the rest of 'em? If political speech (advertising) costs money, then when you restrict money, you restrict speech. Simple. I even agree that George Soros is free to spend a billion dollars for Leftist, America-hating candidates if he wants to. It's supposed to be a free country, where you can debate one person's speech with more speech. Ten Napel on George Will.
Right Wing Howler gets a bit non-PC with the Koran. Shame on you, Vilmar. That is insensitive. Did you find these sights in your neighborhood? Very bad manners. BAD DOG!
Boston Chicken: Deval avoids debate. New England Repub
From a piece by LaShawn:
If you have an SAT score of 1240 and a grade-point average of 3.2, your chances of being admitted to the University of Michigan undergraduate school are 9 out of 10.
If you’re black.
White or Asian? One in 10.
List of the earth's civil wars since 1940. A long list. Neo-neo
The NYT's remarkable Johnny Apple dies at 71. Obit here.
How do Dems define the Middle Class? Ankle-Biting
If this is hunting, I'm the King of Spain. Dust my Broom
Juan Williams attacked as "the black Ann Coulter." What? AlphaPatriot
It's James Baker time again! Baker plans the exits from Iraq. Reason
Martin Luther King Jr was a Republican. But you're not supposed to say that, are you? Lib Leanings
Foreigners who would like to see the Dems take over Congress: And Rightly So
From a piece by Friedman, via Best of the Web yesterday:
Although the Vietcong and Hanoi were badly mauled during Tet, they delivered, through the media, such a psychological blow to U.S. hopes of "winning" in Vietnam that Tet is widely credited with eroding support for President Johnson and driving him to withdraw as a candidate for re-election.
Tet, that is, was a military victory for the U.S. that turned into a propaganda victory for the communists because American journalists presented a false picture of what had happened.
Who is rich? And who is complaining? A quote from a piece Australia's Policy, by Wilkinson, entitled Against the Politics of Relative Standing (h/t, A&L Daily):
HL Mencken once quipped that, ‘a wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife’s sister’s husband.’ Writing last April on the definition of poverty in The New Yorker, journalist John Cassidy takes the logic of Mencken’s satire of low-grade ressentiment fully seriously and plumps for its liberal application to public policy. Cassidy argues that it is indeed a hardship to make less than your wife’s sister’s husband—or your co-worker, your next door neighbour, or anyone within the same national boundaries—and proposes that for the purposes of government ‘poverty’ be defined in terms of relative rather than absolute deprivation. In particular, he suggests that the poverty line be set at half the value of the median income. ‘If poverty is a relative phenomenon,’ Cassidy writes, ‘what needs monitoring is how poor families make out compared with everybody else, not their absolute living standards.’ [1]
While capitalism does in fact produce absolutely egalitarian results—enabling the poor to own high-quality mobile phones, microwaves, and cars functionally equivalent to those of the wealthy—it cannot, critics say, manufacture more and better ‘positional goods’, to use economist Fred Hirsch’s term, because, basically, it is impossible to fit more than ten percent in the top ten percent.[2] No matter how trusty, safe, comfortable, and efficient your new Hyundai Accent may be, the fact that is within the grasp of so many will keep it from signaling that you inhabit the commanding heights of society. And that’s what you really want, isn’t it? To be king of the mountain?
Read the whole interesting thing.
Image: Nude surfing season is coming, in Australia. We hope the Imams can get comfortable with this Aussie habit. Hey Imam - quit staring and take a cold shower.
