Thursday, October 13. 2005
Was Jesus a Marxist? Huh? View from the Right Cheese-eating surrender monkeys. RWRH Stevie Wonder back at work. Pennywit. A new James Bond? This guy looks like Putin. Ex-Donk. Remember the Cole. Michelle
Is the Army broken? A sad tale. Piece here.
Wednesday, October 12. 2005
Zawahiri's letter to Zarqawi It's remarkable that the US intercepted this highly revealing letter, which discusses terrorist strategy, tactics, and goals, including their manipulation of the media and, implicitly, their manipulation of the anti-war crowd. Powerline has a bit of it, with discussion.
Ed Koch: "For me, the single most important issue the world faced in 2001 and now, trumping all other issues, is international terrorism. President Bush’s willingness in the face of all the attacks, so many unfair and ad hominen, to continue to stand up and exhort the world to continue the ongoing battle against international terrorism is why I admire and respect him so much." Read entire. Miers: No Oil says she's not good enough. But Dunn at American Thinker feels conservatives are getting too rigidly doctrinaire. Steyn on Bush, religion, and the self-hating Left: "We hear endlessly about "systemic racism" in British institutions, but the really rampant contagion seems to be systemic auto-racism, a psychologically unhealthy predisposition to believe the worst only about one's own culture. And the trouble with the Anne Owers school of pre-emptive misinterpretation is that the perpetually aggrieved interpret it all too accurately. Thus, Chris Doyle, director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding, already feels Ms Owers's ban is insufficient. The cross of St George, he explains, is offensive to Muslims because it was carried by English crusaders in the 11th century. Hmm. Would that be the 11th century that ended nine and a bit centuries ago? When a fellow's got hang-ups about things that happened a millennium ago, there's no point trying to assuage them; he'll only unearth some earlier grievance, demanding the Natural History Museum be dismantled because some stegosaurus was disrespectful to Muslims back in the Jurassic era." and "Why is George W. Bush's utterly unremarkable evangelical Christianity so self-evidently risible but complaints from British Muslims hung up over the 11th century are perfectly reasonable and something we should seek to accommodate? Where is the secular Left's "insensitivity" when you need it? " Read entire.
Barone's election update including his thoughts about the very important California referendums, here. Tough love for those living in flood zones. Cole. King Gillette: his story, via Instapundit via Samizdata, here. Prager: Three ways the Left damaged America this week. A good piece. Anderson gets fired up about Intelligent Design. Why bother? It's a local issue, and schools teach all sorts of silly things. If you doubt it, skim through a recent college catalogue of courses.
Tuesday, October 11. 2005
Freeh on Clinton, with video, at Atlas LBJ ordering a pair of custom pants - audio here. Thanks, Patterico, for this important piece of American history Antisemitism of the Left. Moonbat Central Proof of intelligent design, plus comments on the Nobel, from Shape of Days: "I mean, s--t. Take one look at this and tell me that Intelligent Design has no place in schools." Teach for America is useless. Nyhan. Taking lawyer jokes seriously, here. Churchill and the "Anglosphere" Am. Thinker Flat Tax debate at Town Hall Harriet's job application. Iowahawk Does high oil mean the death of the suburbs? The Commons
Monday, October 10. 2005
National Novel Writing Month - write one this November. Paxety Star of David banned in Norway. LGF Cabdriver stories from US immigrants. Anatomy of a Photograph - Press bias and distortion via a photo. Zombietime. George Will praises Tancredo. Town Hall Calvin and Hobbes: An appreciation, and a New Collection
Democracy means getting those people to vote who would never have the cheek to govern; and (according to Christian ethics) the precise people who ought to govern are the people who have not the cheek to do it. G.K. Chesterton
Friday, September 30. 2005
Wild cards: Baseball headed for an interesting weekend. Canada's military "woefully unprepared" for terror - or anything. SDA Teaching in Inner City Schools - not fun. Edn Wonks How to beat your wife: Instructions on how, by a Spanish Imam. LGF More on fisheries, and the success of IFQs. Env. Economics Supreme Court will take on spending limits. Lonely Centrist Polygamy in the Netherlands. Ah yes, the Vanguard of Societal Evolution, eh? Zarquawi: "This war sucks." Iowahawk How do we get around without getting lost? Cognitive Daily The War on Israel is just the Lesser Jihad. Jihad Watch Conservatives getting fed up with Bush. Nyhan Samuelson: Are capitalism and democracy really so perfectly compatible? Click here: Capitalism vs. Democracy - Newsweek Business - MSNBC.com Exodus, freedom, truth, and Dylan. Real Meal Ministries Olasky on Katrina winners and losers. Click here: Townhall.com :: Columns :: Three winners, three losers by Marvin Olasky Eric takes on the 10 Commandments: Graven Images? NYT Letters to the Editor: Stix does a little study. Click here: Bush League: Letters Page Politics at the New York Times
Thursday, September 29. 2005
VT needs a Repub to run against Sanders for Senate: Am. Spectator DeLay's statement, here. Anglican leadership in Iraq slaughtered. Why I am still a Republican, by Robert George Is Cindy a media whore, a star-f-er, or just a "liar," as McCain says Real reason NO Police Chief resigned? RRWH has info. (Who would live there?) At No Oil, A Marine comments on the peaceniks. Propaganda in the classroom. Protein Wisdom Calif - important referendum on union dues and politics. CSM FEMA's Brown testifies, gets roasted by congresspeople trying to evade their own resp. Junior Gotti out on bail - Curtis Sliwa watchful Dick Morris: Hillary doesn't know which way to turn. How Zarquawi hijacked the insurgency. Austin Bay Downward mobility tough on male health.
Wednesday, September 28. 2005
"E pur si muovo" Galileo's famous sotto voce words regarding the nature of the solar system, following his conviction by the Inquisition. One of our thoughtful readers (well, they all seem to be a cut above) suggests that the so-called "Scopes II" trial in PA might be better regarded as a "Galileo II."
Steyn: US out of UN? Hard headed, strong stuff from Steyn: Transnationalism is the mechanism by which the world’s most enlightened progressives provide cover for its darkest forces. It’s a largely unconscious alliance but not an illogical one. Western proponents of ‘sustainable consumption’ and some of the other loopy NGO-beloved eco-concepts up for debate in New York this week have at least this much in common with psychotic Third World thugocracies: both groups find it hard to win free elections, both regard transnational bodies as useful for conferring a respect unearned at the ballot box, and neither is unduly troubled by the lack of accountability in global institutions.
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Tuesday, September 27. 2005
Media Whore gets herself Arrested Yup, Cindy finally did it. Wow, what a hero! Saw her happy face on Drudge this AM, but the photo is taken down now.
Gimme Some Money, Part 2 Katrina's flood waters woke the poverty pimps from their dormancy, but now the heavy hitters are getting on board - massive pork projects for LA. Quoted from Washington Times at The Corner: Louisiana Sens. David Vitter (R) and Mary Landrieu (D) tucked the request into their $250 billion Hurricane Katrina Disaster Relief and Economic Recovery Act, the state's opening salvo in the scramble for federal dollars. The bill, unveiled last week, would create a powerful "Pelican Commission" controlled by Louisiana residents that would decide which Corps projects to fund, and ordered the commission to consider several controversial navigation projects that have nothing to do with flood protection. The Corps section of the Louisiana bill, which was supported by the entire state delegation, was based on recommendations from a "working group" dominated by lobbyists for ports, shipping firms, energy companies and other corporate interests. The bill would exempt any Corps projects approved by the commission from provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Water Act. It would also waive the usual Corps cost-sharing requirements, ensuring that federal taxpayers would pay every dime.
Monday, September 26. 2005
Katrina, Environmentalists, The Corps of Engineers, and Money Powerline highlighted this piece in the WSJ. Good. A sample: "...the Corps hardly has a record of rationality. It claims that Katrina produced surges higher than the levees that Congress funded it to build. But Louisiana State University's Hurricane Center found that "the flooding of most of New Orleans" came from breaches of floodwalls on canals adjoining Lake Pontchartrain; Katrina's surges did not pour over the levees but breached them because the Corps' floodwalls were shoddy. The barrier stopped by the lawsuit was designed to keep storm surges out of the lake, so it would have reduced the pressure on these floodwalls. And now, as we have seen, Hurricane Rita drove new surges into the lake. The Corps actually contributed to increased pressure from the surges on Lake Pontchartrain by building the little-used Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, a 76-mile long canal that destroyed 20,000 acres of wetlands. The Corps causes floods across the country by destroying wetlands and channeling rivers. Meanwhile, the federal government encourages construction in flood plains by providing flood insurance."
Gimme Some Money Trying to leverage the Katrina coverage into some cash. Star Parker: More than $7 trillion has been spent on poverty programs since Lyndon Johnson declared his "war on poverty" 40 years ago, with effectively zero impact on overall black poverty. Yet 40 years of failure doesn't seem to be enough to suggest to liberals, black and white, that their approach to poverty might be wrong. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and former Democratic Sen. John Edwards, among others, riding the post-Katrina poverty-in-America theme, are making predictable speeches calling for yet more government poverty programs. I'm not sure I want to let these folks off with an insanity plea, but you really have to wonder what it takes for liberals to add one and one and get two. It's a bit hard to buy the claim that Katrina suddenly made Americans aware of poverty.
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Sunday, September 25. 2005
Stop the ACLU has a fundraiser for an ad in the Washington Times. It has been many years since I have believed that the ACLU had America's best interests at heart. The Anti-War "Movement" Ah, the nostalgia for the 60s. They sang "We shall overcome" and "Blowin in the Wind." Lots of "angry grannies." Powerline reminds us of who organizes this stuff, in a 2002 piece by David Corn. The IFC looks dead Chalk up one more giant slayed by the blogosphere. I can just hear the Marxist professors on the Committee saying to eachother "Rats. Foiled by the know-nothings again." Sweet. Washington Times editorial, yesterday It begins like this (I cannot link to it): IT SHOULDN'T BE necessary to write in praise of the three Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who this week voted in committee to confirm John G. Roberts Jr. as chief justice of the United States. Supporting overwhelmingly qualified members of the opposite party for the Supreme Court used to be the norm, not an act of courage. Yet, set against the general opposition from Democrats to the nomination, and truly intense pressure from interest groups, the votes cast by ranking Democrat Patrick J. Leahy (Vt.) and Wisconsin's Herb Kohl and Russell Feingold took guts. Their votes ensure that Judge Roberts will not take the helm of the judiciary perceived as the representative of only one party, and they guarantee that at least some Democrats -- albeit sadly few -- will have the moral authority to demand Republican support for qualified liberal nominees in the future.
Darn right. Big mistake to change the rules of the game. Not very grown-up, either: petulant.
Friday, September 23. 2005
Freddie Ferrar is a Goner Why? Dinkins just endorsed him. A death sentence. Bloomberg wins in a landslide.
Thursday, September 22. 2005
Too Much Good Stuff Today: More on family collapse as cause of poverty: Bray at Detroit News Dickerson mocks failures of fiscal conservatism. He has a damn good point. Lee makes same point. Newspapers dying a slow death, grieving from Eric. Why? Is it because "You are stuck on stupid, reporter" ? - video here, thanks to Political Teen. Or is it because of pieces of stupidity such as the disparagement of motherhood by the NYT yesterday, reported by Charmaine. Sheehan is gone for good. Why? The Doc suggests that it is because she took on the media's sweety-pie - the lovely, charming and feminine Hillary. And speaking of feminine, California women feel oppressed by having to wear bathing suit tops, reports Right Wing Nation. Story here. The link to Nude Beach at the bottom is x-rated - do not visit that site. Boston most expensive town in US: Martinipundit
A sane Moslem, in a nation which is well on its way to becoming majority Moslem - Sweden. Latest on the Bird Flu Fred Barnes on the difficulties in getting a conservative court Scott on Pork - did we need Katrina to remind us of pork? It must be fun to be so generous and extravagant with other people's hard-earned $. England update at New Criterion. Bork on Roberts. Sample: The hysteria of the Democratic Left is understandable. It has lost confidence in its ability to compete in the political arena and sees a politicized judiciary as its only hope to advance its agenda. The policies it desires, and the Supreme Court has so far advanced, are ones that encourage radical personal autonomy in moral and cultural matters. Activist judges announce principles and reach results that have no plausible connection to the Constitution. Thus, it is increasingly obvious that activist judges are issuing decisions that have no basis other than the judges' personal preferences. There is more than a grain of truth in the statement that the court represents the blue states in their contest with the red states.
Bloated Bodies Tens of thousands, ummm, thousands, ummm, hundreds? The media hysteria about NO.
Scheisse. Demarche on Germany's unraveling.
Wednesday, September 21. 2005
Courtesy of Cox and Forkum: 
Bush's cronyism - come on, GW - give us good people - we pay for them Brit Moslems worried about extremists - but not the kind you think. LGF The Porkbusters Campaign: worth a good try. We endorse it, Instapundit. Steyn on Germany: a Quote: Germany is dying, demographically and economically. Pick any of the usual indicators of a healthy advanced industrial democracy: Unemployment? The highest for 70 years. House prices? Down. New car registration? Nearly 15 per cent lower than in 1999. General nuttiness? A third of Germans under 30 think the United States government was responsible for the terrorist attacks of September 11. Whole thing here.
Marx still popular? WFT? Katrina News Lie # 37, debunked. Bush agenda dead? Some say so. Hope not. But where are all of the political geniuses?
Tuesday, September 20. 2005
Environmental engineering summary of why rebuilding NO makes no sense: Confed Yankee. Read it. Agree with him completely. Guard the Borders Blogburst: The latest in illegal hutzpah. Poverty in socialist paradise France. Joe Carter outs himself as a Calvinist. So what, exactly, is a Calvinist? Read comments after article too. Very good. Bloomberg opposes Roberts. Huh? Brit bishops repent war in Iraq. WTF? Norm. Tropical deforestation and weather Health advice from FMFT: Sample: Q: Will sit-ups help prevent me from getting a little soft around the middle?
A: Definitely not! When you exercise a muscle, it gets bigger. You should only be doing sit-ups if you want a bigger stomach. Read 'em all.
Monday, September 19. 2005
Afghanistan Election Despite neo-Taliban threats, etc., the election happened, and an inspiring one, too. Have we lost interest because it's going well? Publius has all of the details.
The bureaucratic approach, at FEMA, reported by Buzzmachine/ Stop the US Occupation of NO: Sheehan and the Left display more wisdom; NE Repub Roberts is great: Vote against him. NYT via Powerline, also by Right Thinking The problem the Dems face, from Macho Nachos: Unless they discover a purpose, a vision, and a personality, the Democrats will be doomed to repeat the same political note over and over again - namely, tying themselves to the possibility of American failure in Iraq, or at the very least, Republican failure at home. However, they will always have a problem taking this approach: no one is inspired by someone who looks for failure, who barely contains their glee when it occurs, and who seeks to capitalize on a misfortune that affects a whole country. That is not the sort of agenda that almost anyone votes for, and it certainly isn't one that's capable of flipping a ten-seat majority.
Read entire Yahoo plays ball with China: Right or wrong? Roger Simon The civilized world gradually comes around to Bush: Chris Christner
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