DMB likes the Poulan chainsaw. He likes the light weight, which surely can be a plus after a few hours.
Illegal immigration, solved
The list of excuses Obama will need. Reality's a bitch.
The election being over, the WaPo confesses
US trials for Gitmo prisoners? Good grief. Can't we just ship them all to Botany Bay?
From Blame Bush: "...that's all Obama wants to do, really. He just wants to share his peanut butter and jelly sandwich with all the people of this country."
From the KKK to Birding.
Newt offers himself up. I say, Take the offer. He has all the brains in the Stupid Party, and he knows what it's like to be Palinized.
Norm rates the Emmylou albums. My favorite is always the most recent one I've heard.
Child labor can be a good idea
PJ O'Rourke says "We Blew It." I know what he means, but I do not entirely agree. Polls show Reaganism is far from dead.
How to avoid the clutches of Obama Derangement Syndrome
An open letter to my friends on the Left
Somebody please tell this jerk to shut up: UK's Brown says Now the time to build global society. No thanks.
From Powerline:
In the 1970s a survey was taken of German and American auto executives. They were asked, "What do you do?" The Americans replied, "We sell cars." The Germans answered, "We build cars." It was a difference in corporate culture. The Japanese noticed. They decided to build cars, and they succeeded. Many Americans today, brought up on Pontiacs and Fords, won't own an American car, unless it's a car made in Ohio by a foreign company. What a stunning change.
Why you cannot build a Party around moderates. Related, from Big Lizards:
34% of voters called themselves "conservatives."
- Of that 34%, 20% voted for Barack H. Obama; that means 6.8% of the electorate both called themselves conservatives and also voted for Obama. (Would that include Christopher Buckley and his ilk?)
- Contrariwise, only 10% of self-dubbed liberals voted for John S. McCain. Conservatives defected at twice the rate of liberals.
I think this from VDH is true. Not just because I want to think it's true, but because it's consistent with what I hear from people:
I think many advisors privately are thinking that the turn-out the vote hoopla in key states wasn’t all that much more than in 2004. And for all the talk of a new realignment and the end of the old conservative regime, 2008 is more likely explained as a once in a lifetime alignment of the stars (cf. Carter in 1976): the mid-September meltdown that ruined McCain’s lead; the normal weariness after eight years of incumbency; two wars; a charismatic young and path-breaking Democratic candidate, a liberal's renouncing of public campaign financing to amass $600 million.
