Thursday, March 29. 2007
I still cannot believe that a military Brit prisoner would speak these words: "Obviously we trespassed into their waters," Turney said. "They were very friendly and very hospitable, very thoughtful, nice people. They explained to us why we've been arrested. There was no harm, no aggression." Meanwhile, incomprehensibly, Pelosi refuses to support the Brits.
 To My Fellow Immigrants. Kohlmayer, in the NY Sun
"Great moments in political priorities". Driscoll. And may I ask what is the big problem with either plastic or paper bags? Clinton pays $400,000 for the Vilsak endorsement. Who is Vilsak again? Dems inching away from free trade. Very bad idea, but it has cheap populist emotion behind it. The DC scandal that was never reported. Gateway. Why not reported? That little "D" after your names comes in handy sometimes. It's a free pass. Dog performs Heimlich on owner. Arterial stents aren't much good, new study says. Sad tales of foreclosures of subprime loans. NYT. Unfortunately, wishful thinking doesn't pay bills. The Tort Tax. How much do trial lawyers cost the average American annually? About $9000. Never yet Melted. The Hillary poll. I am surprised that it is so negative. Are we at war with Iran? A cold war, at the least, ever since they took our embassy staff hostage during Carter. Moslems acting strange and creepy in airports want to be ignored. Sorry guys: We are watching you especially carefully. Do we look stupid? We are all John Does. World's tallest man gets married. BBC A fine rant about the decay of American education. "Shame on us for allowing this to happen". S,C&A Mugabe just won't quit. But it's OK - to create a socialist paradise, you have to crack a few heads.
Wednesday, March 28. 2007
 I am wondering what I would do if I were Tony Blair.
Robert Petersen (of Petersen Publishing) died. A sportsman and car-lover, Petersen was very generous with conservation causes. Frontline's News War site:you can have fun with this site for a while/ Love the planet. Ham video tells you how. Another US income redistribution graph at Viking. When is enough enough? Obama doesn't get it. Betsy. America is the people, not the government. Offensive to women? World's best bourbon. UK in a dreamworld. EU REferendum. I agree with neo-neo's comment yesterday: Since Vietnam the situation is murkier because many conflicts (such as the present one) are not wars at all, although in earlier times such acts as that of Iran’s seizing of the sailors would be considered a casus belli. Now, as Admiral West says, we are reluctant to “escalate” to military action for fear of causing a larger war—and our opponents are not reluctant to provoke us because they know that. Paradoxically, our respect for civilian life is being used against us by an enemy that does not share it.
A Chris Ware video, at David Thompson Does the internet put all of us in cocoons? Valid question. Don't know the answer. Drezner
Tuesday, March 27. 2007
 Yankees or Red Sox fan? Are there any other teams?
The benefits of global warming. Jim Miller I have a family friend who was in the Battle of the Bulge as a medic at 16. Are we keeping our kids too young too long? Samizdata wonders. What county pays the highest federal taxes in the country? Average of $82,000/household. California Yankee lives in it. If you like toads, you'll love this toad. Yes, I do like toads. Locate the state on the map. Good game Lower the drinking age? Addison Independent Woops, says Army Corp of Engineers, re NO Injustice. Shaquanda Cotton. No facts needed. The new SATs A prayer for Tony Snow. What a lovely guy. Very sad. Mr. Sun has been acting strangely. Cramer Arizona newspaper comes out against the education-industrial complex. Bravo. Why McCain-Feingold is a terrible thing. Betsy Hey - how about those marches in support of the 15 Brit hostages? (h/t, Viking) $28 billion. That's the final tab for Pelosi's surrender vote. And she complains about the cost of the war? "I was told there would be no math." Journalists are numerically impaired. From a piece at Belmont Club, re the Brit prisoners: As currently interpreted the Geneva Conventions only apply to individuals bent on destroying America. Individuals who blow up elementary schools, kidnap children, attack churches and mosques, kill invalids in wheelchairs, plan attacks on skyscrapers in New York, behead journalists, detonate car bombs with children to camouflage their crime, or board jetliners with explosive shoes -- all while wearing mufti or even women's clothing -- these are all considered "freedom fighters" of the most principled kind. They and they alone enjoy the protections of the Geneva Convention. As to Americans like Tucker and Menchaca or Israeli Gilad Shalit -- or these fifteen British sailors for that matter, it is a case of "what Geneva Convention?" We don't need no steenkin' Geneva Convention to try these guys as spies. That's the way the Human Rights racket works. Don't go looking for any Geneva Convention in Somalia, Darfur, Basilan or Iran. Try Guantanamo Bay.
Do we have enough tax redistribution, or do we need more? I think we are taking care of the poor - and this doesn't even include charity. Graph from piece at Willisms: 
Look at how Time and Newsweek alter their covers for other countries. Registan. (Registan focuses on news from Central Asia.) Australia's Geelong Advertiser has a strong editorial against global warming hysteria. People are beginning to catch on. (h/t. Tim Blair) Decorum preferred to truth at the UN Human Rights Council. Democracy Project The new Jane Fonda. Sean Penn. Do such folks really hate the America which has given them everything, or are they just looking for easy virtue (with photo ops) to redeem their empty, foolish, decadent and superficial Hollywood lives? Caught up with Iraq the Model lately? He has three recent posts. Children of alumni are harmed by admissions preferences. Smuggling crocodiles into Gaza under her dress. WTH? Why Thompson is a good candidate. (h/t, reader) Our pill-popping world. Licensed to Pill - funny video Did you take the time to listen to the Kayet How Liberals Think video? Please do.
Monday, March 26. 2007
 What is Iran up to, with their Brit prisoners? It's almost a declaration of war.
David Stockman charged in securites fraud. Barone on Al Gore and globalistical warmening. Sounds just like us. Sane and reasonable. Kelo, Chinese-style. All those years of Communism and they still want private property. (h/t, Small Dead Baby Seals) There's a new medicine for restless leg sydrome. Don't mock it if you haven't had it. Fact vs. narrative. Well put, by Asst. Village Idiot In Canada, they give you a discount for energy conservation, then raise your bill because the conservation makes the power company lose money. How rational. Is there anyone left in the world who thinks that bureaucrats are smarter than markets? A sheep that is 15% human. Definitely a good college candidate. Super-size me. Ambulances for fatties in Australia. A fine Monday morning rant, about WalMart, medical insurance, and CEO pay. And Rightly So Bad things happen in wars. Never Yet Melted. War is not social work
Sunday, March 25. 2007
 What is Iran up to? Tweaking the nose of the West to prove something? Testing limits? Trying to demonstrate that the West will collapse easily? Do they want to trade personnel? Or do they want to provoke an attack? Or do they want to scare the Brits away from the Middle East? Or do they want to provoke a battle? And, more important, what is the Brit game now? More talk?
Iran has captured Brit sailors outside their waters. That is a calculated invitation - provocation - for military reprisal. Will Tony Blair take off his skirt and put on his trousers? I know international affairs are more complex than the ordinary bar fight, but, ultimately, this is a test of resolve. And Iran already decided that the Brits would fold, or they would not have dared this stunt. There is laughter in Tehran tonight.
 Viacom's case against YouTube. Sounds compelling to me. If stuff isn't public domain, it's private. But the way stuff moves around these internets, it can be hard to tell.
How to juggle three balls. This is great. Very clear instruction. Get off the dang computer, find some tennis balls, and teach the whole family to juggle. Update: The Dylanologist would prefer to juggle oranges, heads of lettuce, eggs, or 20 year-old blond Swedish nannies. On the other hand, Roger says: Tennis balls make lousy juggling balls. Go to the sporting goods store and buy three lacrosse balls. Get two orange and one white. You can use the white one to see how far along in any progression you are, and eventually you can use it to do unusual throws. Tennis balls don't weigh enough and bounce out of your hands. A lacrosse ball is heavy and sits right in there. It bounces, but not like a superball.
Also, magic/joke/book stores sell little square beanbags for juggling. They are great for learning, as they do not roll or bounce away when you drop them. Lacrosse balls at the beach in the sand are the ne plus ultra schizzle, though.
Remember how the Vernal Equinox works? Druze, Bedouins, Circassians, etc: What's the deal with the Israeli Arabs, and did Jimmy Carter have a point or not? Berdichevsky at New English Review
Saturday, March 24. 2007
 Bush's speech yesterday on video, if you missed it. Hot Air
Massachusetts shows us how to do taxes right. Wizbang Daddy government and Mommy government. One Cosmos. Transference is strong stuff, isn't it? Kristol and Kagan. Wrong on Timetables. Weekly Standard Comments from The Anchoress on the Immorality of Global Warming moralizing. A blog we just found, thanks to Protein Wisdom, which covers German media. Take a look, and you will easily see why Germans think America is a terrible place filled with evil people. We'll add them to our Other Countries blogroll. Phony treatments, to fill school seats. Same in the US, but less so. People love quackery - it gives them magical hope. Excellent for hypochondriacs. h/t, Junk Science 946 known billionaires on earth. I suspect many more who are not known. How did they accumulate this? Must be nice not to worry about orthodontia, car repairs, or vet bills - but that's Real Life. Newsweek serves up large doses of false history. Pitiful...or deliberate misinformation? If you want money, work hard and long hours. Duh. Villainous. Luckily for them, most folks do not target riches: they just aim to pay their bills and to be more-or-less content. If you want to hang out with your family, or go fishing, you will never be wealthy. It's a choice. The New Orleans surge. Riehl. Get yourself a gun... Why moderate Moslems never speak up. There is a Civilian Gun Self Defence Blog. Cramer is part of it. Image: Gotta enjoy these Mardi Gras or Key West or whatever celebrations of exhibitionism, decadence, frivolity - and loveliness. This one is an angel, and there is nothing naughty about her. Art.
Friday, March 23. 2007
 How the Communist Party took over Hollywood in the 30s. View from 1776
A victory for white, racist, evil, capitalist, rapist, patriarchy: Duke lacrosse charges to be dismissed. Dr. Sanity slams the 88 profs. I think the absence of a crime is a deep disappointment to the Duke faculty moonbats. Would it not be a bit more normal to be relieved that your student-athletes are not rapists? Was Houdini murdered? Mod. Voice 50 reasons to praise the EU. Not. Worstall Jihad fun with Google Earth. Crittenden Masai model prefers his goats. Nations ranked by nuclear power use. Willisms. We should be at the top. $45,620. per year for Harvard College. Worth it for a lifetime of bragging rights? In what country were these photos taken? Moonbattery Sun heats earth, claim scientists. Dinocrat. That's funny - I thought CO2 caused the heat. And the sun - that's nuclear, right? We don't want nuclear - I mean nucular. China and the US feed from the same bowl. TCS  Rhode Island school bans Easter Bunny. Never Yet Melted. Bunny and State issue, I guess. What will they do if a bunny rabbit hops onto the school grounds? Or if my friend Harvey stops by?
Licensing interior decorators? Why? Betsy explains. Government doesn't have enough to do, I assume. What if they mixed mauve with peach? Tragedy. Good reason for government intervention.
 Dems propose largest tax increase in history. Luskin. That's an original idea.
Subpoena Leahy's staff. Brilliant! Surber A "splat" from Woodside Bible Church, via Bird of Paradise - a few minutes of Christ's peace. Give it a few minutes and settle your Friday morning. Tick tock. The American Croc comes off the endangered list. Not getting much attention: The China spy case in Calif. Disorder and productivity. CSM "The Koran seems to have become the basis for a court decision in Frankfurt." Dr. Sanity. Multiculturalism at its best. Is this child abuse or neglect? Govt considering taking this 7 year old fat kid from parents. Looks like a case of too many Moonpies to me. The mom, too. But why should the govt care? The world has room for fat people, even though it's out of fashion. Excerpts from R. Emmet Tyrell's The Clinton Crack Up Colin Beavan and his wife want to leave no carbon footprint. Will this plan last after his book is on the remainder shelves? That First Amendment thingie. Coyote Remembering Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement speech. Asst. Village Idiot Bubble Wrap turns 50. Image: Classic Southern breakfast: RC and a Moonpie. For Southerners trapped in Yankeeland, there's always the Moonpie General Store. Just one warning: the CO2 from soda pop adds to the warmening crisis.
Wednesday, March 21. 2007
 Winds of change at the EU. EU Referendum. If the idea was to create a Soviet Union Lite, then apparently people do not want that.
Did you already read about the Iraq insurgents using kids in car bombs? The Fear Industrial Complex. Blue Crab Is credit only for the rich? Marginal Rev. Designer vaginas? The latest fad. Obama rebuffs Soros. I like this Obama. Wouldn't vote for him, but kinda like him. Does hanging out with Irish kids count as multicultural? Ankle Biter wonders. The hidden costs of illegal workers. CSM Al Gore declared a Planetary Emergency in Congress today. Personally, I think the hysteria is the planetary emergency. Losing the election shook a screw loose in this guy, same as it did to Jimmy Carter. "There I was inside a bat infested sea cave." Ron Rosenbaum. A Jewish Christian on the Dead Sea scrolls and pre-Paul Christianity and the phony Jesus tomb. Another view on illegals, from Jacoby at the Globe Does Al Gore make money on his carbon offset company?
A Hummer is a greener car than a Prius. Truly. Not that it matters. So many news items satirize themselves. Edwards claims his mansion is carbon neutral. Al Gore makes his own rules. He is going to control his Senate presentation today and filibuster it - talk so much that he gets no questions. Why Ethanol is a terrible idea. Czech Pres. Vaclav Klaus - our hero - presented to the House Energy and Commerce Committee via letter yesterday. A quote from it: “The so-called climate change and especially man-made climate change has become one of the most dangerous arguments aimed at distorting human efforts and public policies in the whole world.”
Tuesday, March 20. 2007
Martin Strel is swimming the length of the Amazon. His swimmer's diary, to date, with photos, here.
 Tool humor. Cramer
The documentary Indoctrinate U is trying to build an audience via an internet campaign. Let's help. Hey, here's the trailer for the movie. Actually, the YouTube works better. There is no such thing as a "global temperature." Of course not. How could there be? Meanwhile, the global warming hoax is gradually unravelling. Zimbabwe. Inflation heading towards 4000% The wealthy: Why not just paint a target on their forehead? Luskin A Kennedy says Chavez "is a true friend of American and social justice." Blue Crab Do expensive weapons systems make us impotent? A case for simpler, less costly military hardware. This is what nation-building looks like. Totten via SDA. Malls?
Monday, March 19. 2007
 500 passengers. The A380 will visit NYC. It "handles like a Ferrari?" What a fine target for the jihad.
The Utrecht riots. A taste of things to come? The Blackstone IPO. This is a big deal. Prof. B. Nice catch for Simpson Thatcher. Barcelona: Modernism, From Gaudi to Dali, at the Met. Man stabs bear to death to save his dog. First and last company picnic. S,C andA We never miss an opportunity to slam the Beeb. Cultural Marxism. Good term. Indoctrinate U. A new documentary about free speech on campus. 20% of Americans are illiterate? Driscoll A government plot, says Ray Nagin. I thought he was the government. No wonder Mexico wants open borders Follow the money. (one-way open borders, of course. Try moving to Mexico - you cannot). Slavery alive and well in Sudan. Where are the protests?
Sunday, March 18. 2007
 Defending the honor of the Confederate flag. AOL News. We already explained why we honor it, and it ain't racist. Nobody remembers that wealthy Yankees had slaves during the war until the Emancipation Proclamation. We honor our southern brethren at Maggie's Farm every chance we get, for their valiant and hopeless struggle for freedom. And we are sort-of glad that they lost that effort - it was probably for the best in the long run. But worth all of those brave young lives? I doubt it. Slavery was a goner, anyway.
Did you like Al Gore's green zinc mines? The Tennessean Steve Emerson on CAIR. What do people think, that they are like the NAACP? Powerline video The "protests" in DC yesterday. A quote from Rick's piece: History ended yesterday. Or at least one version of it. Or perhaps it didn’t end as much as it was overthrown, trampled by the feet of 30,000 ordinary Americans who gathered on the mall and along the broad avenues in Washington to confront those who have, either wittingly or witlessly, given aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States for more than 40 years.
Wow! The WaPo actually noticed! Sunday evening tax music: Keb' Mo, Angelina. How good is this guy? And the best blues guitarist in the world - bear with it - wobbly at first. Impossible not to love this guy. White folks just don't move with music, do they? It's a genetic defect. Also, some rather old Buddy Guy, showing off a bit on The First Time I Met the Blues.
Saturday, March 17. 2007
 Bill Clinton's ongoing pussycat chasing. Not sure people will want more of this in their White House. I mean, like, it's OK if it isn't general knowledge, but when it's indiscreet, it is tacky.
Europe of the future. Video. No Pasaran. Whoa. Watch this, UK citizens: you are getting there. African medicine. The President of Gambia has discovered the cure for AIDS. Something for Africa to feel proud about. Are conservatives losing the internet wars? Hog on Ice thinks so. There is no conservative Soros to pay and to organize bloggers, and most conservatives are too busy with work, family, sports, volunteering, etc. to have time to read, much less to write, for blogs. The tunnels of Passchaendaele. BBC. Now potato fields, filled with blood. Painful to contemplate. Has anyone forgiven Germany? Hirsi Ali: Hero. TCS Happy Abortion! Send her a card. She'll appreciate it. Reasoned Audacity. Yes, they make cards, but I doubt Hallmark makes them, yet. Ham Nation News. Video. She is cute and funny. Buddhism having a big resurgence in Vietnam. I enjoy reading that. Religion is a sign of freedom from the state. More Gandhi bashing. Powerline. Who made this jerk a saint? And why did I just buy it, without thinking, for so long? More on the Shadow Wolves. Cool. They are hunting Al Quaida in Afghanistan. Synthstuff Be Here Now. Ram Dass has a website. Leisure in the USA: Everyone has more (if they want it), but the higher your income, the less you get. That figures. Hard workers work hard. If money is your goal, you don't focus on leisure. The Constitution is just an old piece of paper. Yglesias - read the comments on the Second Amend. (h/t, Althouse). Why does the Left want to take my guns away? Why do they care so much? I hardly ever shoot people, without good reason. Bin Laden, in 2001 (h/t, Townhall): We experienced the Americans through our brothers who went into combat against them in Somalia, for example. We found they had no power worthy of mention. There was a huge aura over America -- the United States -- that terrified people even before they entered combat. Our brothers who were here in Afghanistan tested them, and together with some of the mujahedeen in Somalia, God granted them victory. America exited dragging its tails in failure, defeat, and ruin, caring for nothing. America left faster than anyone expected. It forgot all that tremendous media fanfare about the new world order, that it is the master of that order, and that it does whatever it wants. It forgot all of these propositions, gathered up its army, and withdrew in defeat, thanks be to God.”
Friday, March 16. 2007
We have crocuses in the snow, this morning. Time, Inc. is shrinking fast. Deservedly so. They do have some fine writers/reporters, but people just do not want their lefty pablum nowadays. The science of jury selection. I have heard about these jury consultants. Big bucks. Psychology Today: Unnatural Selection Kondracke thinks Bush and congress can agree on immigration reform this year. RCP. That's what I'm afraid of. If we can send Mexico a bill for $10 million per illegal, I'd consider it - but I'd still reject it. Another major scientist says anthropogenic warming is a crock. A Great Wall of Bacon? I like that idea. Yum. Powerline. It's about CAIR. The science of jury selection. I've read about these jury consultants. Big bucks. Psychology Today  This question, via Driscoll, via Blair:
If you’re already getting burglarized, do you really want to add to your problems by confronting a desperate criminal with your own loaded weapon?
Umm, damn right I want to. Make my day. More Euro riots - but different, this time. Tangled Web What's your view on gays in the military? I think I tend to agree with Hillary's third or fourth version of her opinion, at Riehl. But I really don't know. I'd like to defer to the opinions of the officers and generals. Thanks, Alphecca. You said it better than we could. Gun control idiot of the day. If rights are conditional, then they do not really exist at all. May we ask, one more time, why it matters whether global climate is man-influenced or not?
Thursday, March 15. 2007
 Scott: Rev. Hagee's speech brought me to tears.
Have you already seen this video from the Hamas family kids? Inside North Korea. Video clips, at Michelle His face, eight years of photos compressed. Unique. Bush is so wrong on immigration, but his worrying about Mexico's problems is over the top. Would someone please remind him that that is not his job. Darfur. Can anyone do anything? EU Referendum A fertility program for gay men. Is this odd, or am I old-fashioned? Cops can sue you if hurt protecting you. Who knew? There is something wrong with that. Who are the victims in the Flying Imam story? Blue Crab. I would have been off that airplane in a New York minute. Sue me. There's a sucker born every minute. A naive global warming believer gets scammed. No Looking Backwards Does anybody like No Child Left Behind? I doubt it. Pejman. You can blame Bush for this usurpation of state sovereignty. For the children, of course. One of his top three costly mistakes (along with the Medicare drug program and his immigration policies). Eco-fascism in the UK. Moonbattery The media bias poll. Willisms One billion people are online. Club for Growth. A shame they don't all visit Maggie's. It's their loss. How Moslems are taking over Antwerp.
Wednesday, March 14. 2007
Is it OK to leave "post-fetal tissue" lying around? Cramer. I call this a natural extension of the abortion ethic. The pumps don't work cuz the vandals took the handles? New defective pumps in NO. Now everybody is piling on Al Gore. Hey, he meant well, didn't he? Or did he? Small Dead Polar Bear has update. What is a Spartan workout? Synthstuff Pelosi gets booed. She is taking it from all sides. Behead those who insult Persia. More insanity from Iran. Good commentary at Classical Values. Greeks told they will need to work during the summer. Such a hardship The wild and crazy French. French courts say marriage is between a man and a woman. Austin Bay: We aren't losing in Iraq. TCS Deconstructionism and the law. Volokh. Hasn't this dumb fad run its course yet? Hispanics vs. Blacks. You can imagine how LaShawn feels about that. NYT tries to provide cover for CAIR. Captain Ed
Yuppifying Dunkin' Donuts? Tell me it isn't true. War between the fly fisherman and the bait fishermen, in Maine How exercise is good for your brain Organic food? A silly notion. A food writer obsesses over the subject. Time. Meet Ben. Michelle Idaho prof: Execute Republicans Jim McGreevy wants child support. Gimme a break. Dems opt for socialism. Democracy Project The way you walk determines your attractiveness. Neo-neo has just decided that she loves Leonard Cohen How to kill a country. Zimbabwe, in Atlantic Monthly (h/t, Viking) NYT says "cool it with the global warming hype". Blue Crab has comments. I think the backlash is only beginning. Who is getting very rich over carbon credits? Moonbattery Joe Lieberman as quoted in Powerline: There is something profoundly wrong when opposition to the war in Iraq seems to inspire greater passion than opposition to Islamist extremism. There is something profoundly wrong when there is so much distrust of our intelligence community that some Americans doubt the plain and ominous facts about the threat to us posed by Iran. And there is something profoundly wrong when, in the face of attacks by radical Islam, we think we can find safety and stability by pulling back, by talking to and accommodating our enemies, and abandoning our friends and allies. Some of this wrong-headed thinking about the world is happening because we're in a political climate where, for many people, when George Bush says "yes," their reflex reaction is to say "no." That is unacceptable.
More here.
Tuesday, March 13. 2007
 A patriotic reveller. Somebody said these cute art photos were from Mardi Gras, but I think they are from this fun and artistic festival on Key West. My only question: Is that paint sugared frosting? Yum. Or is it lead-based paint? If our Editor will permit such art, I may decide to use this art for a little while, to attract the well-deserved attention of art-lovers to my random posts.
Barone. Berger and Libby: A tale of two crimes Chavez "will build heaven on earth." Good deal. Free money and free babes like the photo? Sign me up, Hugo. World's largest horse, with video How we are going to get screwed by this subsidized ethanol scam. Swiss reject nationalized medicine, overwhelmingly. Democracy Project Separate bedrooms to improve your marriage? Oprah's school too strict? Sounds like a normal American boarding school. Structure and disciple are necessary for the youth! Including me. Poll on the DC gun ban. Gun-haters will hate this poll. An EU speed limit for the Autobahn? The Germans will love that. Four year-olds in UK being taught same-sex stories. View from the Right. Is there a point at which we can term perversion "perversion"? Or is anything just swell? I do not have the answer. I only like girls over 16, but I like them plenty. Problem is that they do not seem to like me all that much. Nerdy and awkward. If you enjoy that sort of thing, call me. Bernard Lewis discusses the Crusades, via Asst. Village Idiot. Indeed, the Crusades were the European response to the Moslem invasion that closed Jerusalem. European Jews heading for the exits. Crittenden The political economy of alternative energy, and the surge of rent-seeking. Kling at TCS (h/t, Mankiw, who we will add to our blogroll. We need an economics section.) Update: Done. 12 different views on global warming. Live Science. You already know my view: It doesn't matter and I don't care. Hillary: Walter Reed proves we need more govt-run health care. Scrappleface An Usama bin Ladin mini-biography, at Horsefeathers. Definitely worth reading. Who let CAIR into the US Capitol? Lewis in American Thinker. It begins: If "one's man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter," then all wars are the same, liberation equals conquest, tyranny equals democracy, aggression equals defense, and Churchill equals Hitler.
That seems to be the hidden premise of European, and especially Franco-German cant against the American-British overthrow of Saddam. Because the truth is of course that George W. Bush's decision to overthrow Saddam for fear that he was armed with WMDs, is a lineal descendant of FDR's decision to come to the aid of Britain against Nazi Germany, Harry S. Truman's decision to fight in Korea, and Woodrow Wilson's decision to aid Western countries against Prussian militarism in World War I. The United States involved itself in these conflicts to prevent larger and terrible consequences for itself before being militarily attacked by Germany.
Whole thing here. Editor's Note: The News Junkie has a thing about girls. Pardon us if you have opened Maggie's in a public work or educational setting in which some lesbian females or limp metrosexuals might be offended. Too darn bad. I am the Editor Dog, but I am not totalitarian. And I do enjoy the lovely female form myself, especially when presented as "art." And even when not presented as art. Big or small, we love 'em all.
Monday, March 12. 2007
Elk Crossing. SISU Fred Thompson? Ann at Instapundit. Also, Surber. He was so good in Hunt for Red October that I would vote for him for anything. "This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it..." UK: Your tax dollars at work. Blair. This begs for revolution. Arm yourselves. Hillary: I'm the next JFK. I thought she was the next Eleanor Roosevelt, or the next Al Jolson. Now JFK? Who next? George Washington? When I kill somebody, get me this judge. Ivy League Admissions. It ain't your grandpa's Ivy League. Class, wealth, donations? What matters, and is it important anyway? NY Review of Books Let's get clear about the Dem plan for Iraq. Dinocrat Ethanol is stupid. Indeed it is. Blue Crab Daniel Ortega makes abortion illegal. The EU goes berserk. No respect for the values of others. Pull out Now! Haha. Never Yet melted Fitzgerald's eternal shame. Driscoll More Georgians on the way to Iraq. No, not our Georgians. continuation page below is an error -
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Sunday, March 11. 2007
Watch the documentary Bird Dog posted last night. It's about an hour, but it goes fast. The new bumper sticker: "Gore Lied: Children Cried." Indeed, Gore admitted lying in his movie. His rationale for doing so? "A greater good." Powerline would vote for Bob Dylan before Hagel. Same here. What's the deal betweens the Clintons and the Chinese? Frontline WaPo: Here comes the river of blood! Blue Crab Unemployment drops some more. Not much more room to improve. What kind of "green" are we talking about? The proletarianization of doctors. Stumbling The FBI story is disheartening. Thousands of personal records were involved, apparently. Someone should be fired. This is precisely what people were afraid of: abuse of the power. Tenure and non-profits. Interesting. Of course, you could include government under non-profits, right?
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