Blogging will resume Monday afternoon
To bed now, then to work tomorrow a.m. Blogging will resume Monday afternoon. Consider this an open thread.
Continue readingMonth: October 2008
Interesting stuff
A PUMA calculates the number of Hillary voters who will be voting for John McCain. It’s an interesting analysis and an honest one. Melanie Morgan reports that freedom of speech is good and dead in Marin, unless you believe that freedom of speech means destroying someone else’s political speech, in
Continue readingObama wants the government to redistribute wealth *UPDATE*
Traditionally, Americans conceived of taxes as a way in which citizens paid for basic government services that benefited all (such as defense, infrastructure, etc.). With socialism, the notion arose that the government was to take from the rich (as defined by the government) and give to the poor (as defined
Continue readingContact information for companies that advertise in the LA Times *CONTINUOUSLY UPDATED*
Ymarsakar is right — contacting the editors at the LA Times to get them to release the video showing Obama cheerfully consorting with radical Islamists is pointless. They don’t care what you and I think. However, as he said, the advertisers and owners do (or, at least, should) care. With
Continue readingA Bookworm sweep week at the Watcher’s Council
I don’t think I’ve ever done it before, but I did it this week: Not only were my fellow Council members kind enough to vote for my own post in sufficient numbers to make it the winning Council post, but they also voted for my non-Council submission so that it
Continue readingOverheard on the soccer field
I was sitting near two women and overheard part of their conversation. After a lengthy back and forth praising Oprah, this gem came out: “Sarah Palin is stupid but she communicates really well to Americans because most Americans are stupid.”
Continue readingYour read for the day
Victor Davis Hanson nails the most intellectually corrupt campaign in American history.
Continue readingLA Times hides damaging video of Obama
The LA Times has admitted that it possesses a video of Barack Obama cheerfully attending a radical Muslim meeting at which the speakers hurled the usual violent and threatening invective at Jews and at Israel. Also attending were Ayers and Dohrn. One might think that, given next week’s election, the
Continue readingWhy Obama’s European-style socialism is a danger to us all
I’m still developing the same theme I’ve been hammering at for a week, because I think it’s important. The ideas in this post should be familiar to you, but I’m trying to express them with more factual data and lucidity: My mother, bless her heart, said something very important the
Continue readingWho knew one could be so tired?
This was an endless day. I hope to blog tomorrow, although I also have work to do (not to mention soccer). I really love soccer season but, with two kids in competitive soccer, this has been a hard season and I’ll be glad when it’s over. I spent an interesteing
Continue readingA bit late, but two more “must reads”
Writing at Front Page Magazine, Stephen Brown looks at the revolting intersection between Muslim jihadism and pederasty. And writing at National Review Online, Victory Davis Hanson manages in one article to lambast the media, expose Joe Biden’s unhinged quality, reveal the sham that is modern feminism, and laud Sarah Palin.
Continue readingThe journalistic death cult
I’d say that this — an article elegantly decrying the collapse of the professional news media — is a must read for today.
Continue readingIf ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise
I was speaking to a liberal friend who thinks that, with the market in free-fall, now is a good time to invest, because there are bargains out there. I think that’s probably true. I don’t believe we’ve hit bottom yet, but there are certainly bargains out there, and anyone who
Continue readingAmbassador Oprah?
The British papers are reporting that, if Obama becomes President, Oprah will become the Ambassador to Britain. As is frequently becoming the case in today’s political climate, words fail me. I guess I’ll add only that it makes sense for the most narcissistic President in the history of the United
Continue readingPC strikes again, weakening the British military
When my mother was liberated from concentation camp in Indonesia at the end of WWII, she found herself facing another threat: the native Indonesians were rising up against the colonial Dutch. For them, killing the sick, starved Dutch ex-POWs, all still clustered in the camps pending repatriation, was like shooting
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