Talk and talk-back
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Continue readingMonth: September 2008
Embittered women
In the past couple of days, I’ve read more than a few articles in which liberal women express incendiary anger about Sarah Palin. I blogged yesterday about Michelle Cottle’s screed, and today read equally over-the-top material from Judith Warner (h/t The Anchoress) and Heather Malick (h/t Small Dead Animals). In
Continue readingAbout those community organizers
The race got shaken up a bit when Palin implied that community organizing, which is one of Obama’s big resume items “proving” his executive abilities, might be a little bit too amorphous a job to justifying entrusting the entire nation to his care. That was amusing, but things became less
Continue readingThis and that *UPDATED*
I don’t have any coherent thoughts of my own this morning but, thank goodness, others have pulled together wonderful stuff. Here’s a list, in no particular order, of things I found interesting: Herbert Meyers writes that this presidential election may be the decisive battle in the culture war that has
Continue readingA brilliant slogan proposal for McCain and Palin
I noted earlier that the “Country First” slogan that McCain uses is meaningful (and moving) only if you understand McCain’s life story. Otherwise, it sounds suspiciously jingoistic, especially to liberal ears. Beldar, however, has come up with a brilliant slogan that would serve McCain and Palin very, very well. What
Continue readingWinners at the Watcher’s Council
The articles are read, the votes are counted, and the winners are: Council 1. Wolf Howling – Palin in Comparison – Winning submission with 2 2/3 votes! 2. Joshua Pundit – The End Game In Iraq – 2nd place with 1 1/3 votes. 3. The Colossus of Rhodey – The
Continue readingWhat Labour hath wrought
One of the things few people realize Tony Blair’s government did to England was to open the floodgates to virtually unlimited immigration. Get a load of these numbers: Between 1982 and 1997, Britain added about 50,000 new immigrants per year. In 2004, a peak year, after a few years of
Continue readingWomen speaking back
I don’t know how much difference this will make, but it’s a petition to show that the media is wrong — women will and do support Sarah Palin. Hat tip: Bloggers for John McCain
Continue readingBeneath the gobbledy-gook, an implied concession about taxes *UPDATED*
Wow! Unless I’m very confused, beneath all the O-babble here, Obama is conceding that low taxes benefit the economy: Democrat Barack Obama says he would delay rescinding President Bush’s tax cuts on wealthy Americans if he becomes the next president and the economy is in a recession, suggesting such an
Continue readingJohn McCain’s speech
I finally got the chance last night to watch John McCain’s speech and I thought it was excellent. It was, in fact, exactly what I anticipated: pragmatic, straightforward, low on, and rich with a sense of love for America. Certain subjects fired him up, especially national security, about which he
Continue readingHow much do brains matter in a President?
Another long, hot day, this one augmented by a nasty little migraine that’s so far rebuffed treatment. Blogging has therefore been minimal and what blogging I’ve done has been for other sites to which I owe commitments. Nevertheless, what I blog there, I can reprint here, right? Here’s the start
Continue readingHow do you give the finger in Hebrew?
I ask, because I hope that’s what Israel does when it receives this request.
Continue readingDebugging the rumor mill
Explorations has a comprehensive list of the rumors circulating around Sarah Palin, and explains which are true and which are false. It’s amazing how much dirt managed to flow down the media pipeline is a single week.
Continue readingAh, so that’s what a community organizer is
Thanks to Sarah Palin, a lot of people in America, rather than speaking in reverent tones about the Emperor’s past service to the nation as a community organizer, have finally started to point their fingers and laugh at the silly figure he cuts as he touts that amorphous term —
Continue readingPutting natural disasters into perspective
Part of the environmentalists’ apocalyptic frenzy about climate change is the fact that natural disasters seem to have worse consequences than ever before, with more property destroyed and more people killed. Time Magazine, of all journalistic places, puts that into perspective, reminding the hysterics of something they might have forgotten:
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