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Sunday, April 27. 2008

Sunday Brunch Links

Marines deploying in Afghanistan

Attitudes of disdain. VDH

McCain triangulates. Powerline. Also, McCain never saw the ad he criticized. No wonder he sounded out of touch.

Greenpeace founder wants nuke power. So do I.

Reverse racism in the Dem primaries. Jules

Rev. Wright, in context (if you want to hear more)

Duck hunting on Long island: Dec 26, 1920

Willow Creek changes direction. Interesting. (h/t, Smart Christian)

A good rant about the govt and oil prices. Wizbang

Not a warrior, and other thoughts about war. Comfortably dumb.

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The national security aspects of nuclear power are so obvious I find it hard to understand why it is not one of the cornerstones of the debate on (i) the war against Islamism, (ii) a national energy policy and the implications for both national security and economic prosperity and (iii) environmental concerns (I say this because I am not a "global warming" or "climate change" convert or an opportunistic socialist).

We should build 100 plants in the next 10 years under an expedited permitting process to cut off needless litigation.

Even the socialistic French have figured this one out.
#1 Barrett on 2008-04-27 11:36 (Reply)
I think McCain is a nuke guy.
#1.1 BD on 2008-04-27 11:49 (Reply)
vehemently agree, barrett -- the french get 85% of their electricity from nukes -- and are not beholden to mideast oil for a single watt of that last 15% either.
#1.2 buddy larsen on 2008-04-27 17:42 (Reply)
Hinderaker's quote: "It's one thing for McCain to think that he needs to distance himself from the Bush administration, but if he thinks he can win by attacking his own party and out-Bush-bashing the Democrats, he is sadly mistaken."


Someone ought to make McCain, his campaign manager and his communications director each write that sentence on the blackboard 100 times.

The man makes me sick (McCain, not Hinderaker).
#2 D on 2008-04-27 11:50 (Reply)
Unfortunately, McCain is the best of the lot.
#2.1 Barrett on 2008-04-27 12:04 (Reply)
For sure a 'hold your nose closed' and vote election. The stakes are too large to not do so.
#2.1.1 Luther McLeod (Link) on 2008-04-27 12:09 (Reply)
I didn't catch Buddy's link last night... but I see it now in VDH's column. How insulting is that excerpted piece by Hirsch, and I refuse to go read the whole article.

"A savage, rather unsophisticated set of mores"...

I'd love to see him say that in front of a few Marines. The sorry bastard.
#3 Luther McLeod (Link) on 2008-04-27 12:06 (Reply)
Hirsch could be saying yall's kind of Marine has won the war.

And Yankees, like him, ought to secede from any communion with it.
#3.1 Leag on 2008-04-27 16:08 (Reply)
Maybe, Doc will let him join New England.
#3.2 Leag on 2008-04-27 16:19 (Reply)
LM, you oughtta read the NewsWeek piece -- it's so sneering it's actually hilarious. Between that and Time's utterly tin-ear on the Iwo Jima photoshop, our two major weekly slicks are showing signs of some sort of mental breakdown.
#4 buddy larsen on 2008-04-27 17:50 (Reply)
All right Buddy, against my better judgment, I'll read it. I do have a sense of humor regardless of my unsophistication :) But don't blame me if I come back all pissed off.

Leag, I didn't understand your first comment. More precisely the first sentence of your first comment. I don't think Doc will let him in either.
#4.1 Luther McLeod (Link) on 2008-04-27 20:13 (Reply)
Hirsch is concedeing defeat to the Jacksonians of this century and wants to buck.

New England State, stronghold of yankee patricians should give him sanctuary and Doc needs to make room at the inn.
#4.1.1 Leag on 2008-04-28 10:24 (Reply)
Three. U.S. News & World Report. I got all three for years and dropped Newsweek after the Ishikoff affair, and now I'm ready to dump TIME. U.S. News & World Report is good.
#4.2 Meta on 2008-04-27 23:00 (Reply)
good on ya. tell 'em it's the iwo jima cover that did it. i agree USN&WR good.
#4.2.1 buddy larsen on 2008-04-27 23:09 (Reply)

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