Conservative Politics, Religion, Culture, and Anything Else
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Senator John Warner of Virginia announced today that he will not seek re-election in 2008. Given Virginia’s recent willingness to elect Democrats who successfully pretend to be moderate (Despite what you may have heard on MSNBC, Virginia is NOT becoming another Massachusetts), this is not good news. To make matters almost as bad, [...]
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Arizona Senator John McCain, who I affectionately refer to as Gollum (or Smeagol depending on the context), has allowed his campaign to release a video highlighting his service in Vietnam, which includes interrogation film while he was in a North Vietnamese prison. The nearly 12-minute video is sure to show up in pieces as campaign commercials for the next [...]
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This CNN-ran Associated Press story finally lets the mainstream know what former BB8 watchers like me have known for six weeks: the show’s producer, Allison Grodner, is acting like a shrewd ratings shill for CBS, playing up an anti-Semetic remark from Amber and downplaying the emotional and sometimes physical abuse of Dick on the rest of the House, [...]
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The Pentagon has denied the use of the “Active Denial System” (a 21st Century ray-gun) in Iraq citing that it might be construed as a torture device! The Marines have been screaming for this crowd-control device since October of 2004, and some military officials call its lack of deployment “a kind of a national scandal” given [...]
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The Larry Craig incident has sent the MSM’s collective pulse racing. Evidently they are really excited that the scandal will help their favorite party win their 60th Senate seat in the next election. Although it is plausible that Craig’s political future is in jeopardy, I think a math lesson is in order.
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Hurricane Katrina, the most expensive hurricane in American history, wreaked its havoc on the Gulf Coast about two years ago today. I say “about” because two days before the hurricane everybody on the weather news was saying it was going to be a disaster, especially if it hit around Lake Pontchartrain and surged over the [...]
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Muqtada “Mookie” al Sadr’s Shiite militia group the Mahdi Army, a militia funded by Iran to harrangue Coalition forces and Sunnis in general, has called a six-month ceasefire to reorganize, “rehabilitate,” and regroup. In the interim, they won’t be attacking the US or Coalition forces. That’s nice of them, but there has to be something [...]
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With the kickoff to the new college football season only days away, I figured this oldie and goodie is also timely. The Notre Dame and Boston College comparison alone makes it worth the read.
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Mitt Romney helped his campaign today by turning a potentially embarrassing situation to his advantage. Before news of Larry Craig’s “There’s Something About Mary” audition, the Idaho Senator was serving as Romney’s campaign chairman. Naturally, Romney’s Republican opponents were ready to pounce, but Romney’s rapid response should squash any negative consequences.
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Conservative Idaho Senator Larry Craig is not having a very good week. Allegations from a June incident have surfaced and it doesn’t look good. Rather than go through all the details, suffice it to say that he should behave himself better in airport bathrooms from now on– one never knows if there’s a cop in [...]
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The Trust For America’s Health (TFAH) monitors the health of various states as a way to raise awareness for, among other issues, America’s obesity problem. According to their findings, Colorado is the slimmest state, while Mississippians (pdf) are just about ready to walk around with tuba players behind them. Yet, all states have shown an increase in the [...]
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For some time now, Gordon Brown has been risking his Labour party’s post-Blair bounce by arrogantly insisting that the UK adopt the EU Constitution without a referendum despite Labour’s most recent election manifesto promising one. Until now, Labour’s worst case scenario resulting from their broken promise was the creation of an issue for the Conservatives [...]
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Berkeley Breathed’s cartoon strip “Opus” was striken from Sunday’s Washington Post and other papers (probably syndicates) because it had the audacity to knock radical Islam in a satirical way. Apparently, when shown the cartoon, a few Muslims on staff had an “emotional” response to the cartoon so the execs chose to strike it from the paper. Some [...]
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Embattled Attorney General and long-time Bush friend Alberto Gonzales has tendered his resignation this morning amid endless investigation and controversy. He will stay on until September 17. Solicitor General Paul Clement will serve as his replacement until a new one can be found. Alberto Gonzales dug his own grave on this one. Every member of the [...]
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You can’t make this stuff up! The University of Vermont has installed “gender neutral restrooms” in the new student center at about $2500 a pop. These include a toilet, a sink, a shower and a lockable door. Well, one problem solved only creates a new one sometimes. Some trans-gendered students (by the way, could somebody give me [...]
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At the Midwest Republican Leadership Conference this weekend, prominent Republicans seemed to be foaming at the mouth in delight at the prospect of a She Who Must Not Be Named general election campaign. Some Republicans had an “anybody but her” attitude, others weren’t too clear on who they wanted competing against her, and some worried about turnout [...]
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Friday, Democratic Presidential candidate Barry O’Bama got a “boost” from a premiere Democratic foreign policy “expert”, Jimmah Carter’s own, Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Brzezinski believes that O’Bama has the historical sense to repair the damages that the Bushies have done to America’s reputation in the world. He actually liked what O’Bama had to say about unconditionally talking to [...]
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Robert Novak has reported just such a thing in a Human Events political wrap-up piece posted today. Fred Thompson is planning on participating in a Republican debate on September 27. So, taking Newt’s advice, Fred plans to finally announce his candidacy online, following She Who Must Not Be Named’s model (I’m sure Fred will come off better in [...]
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Sometimes its funny when Democrats sound like parodies of themselves. At other times its frightening when Democrats sound like parodies of themsleves. This one is a little bit of both. Here is a parody of She Who Must Not Be Named discussing terrorism; and here is SWMNBN sounding like said parody. Sometimes the [...]
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China has an image problem. Its products litter dollar stores, Walmart, and countless electronics and toy stores all over the United States. China has been in their own version of the Gilded Age for about twenty years. Ten percent economic growth per year is considered necessary to keep the newly created middle class happy enough not to stir [...]
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An 86-year-old brain surgery patient, whose name is yet to be released, eventually died Saturday of a botched operation. The nurse practitioner didn’t specify which side of the patient’s brain needed to be operated on, but the doctor went ahead anyway, on memory of an old CT scan. Once he realized his mistake he began to work [...]
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The few vocal Republicans in the State of California have gotten together over the last month or so with a brilliant idea to mess with the Democrat monopoly in their state. The 1986 Amnesty Act virtually guaranteed a voting bloc of non-English speaking, socialist-leaning immigrants that will make California virtually impossible for Republicans to win for a while. As its [...]
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I’ve complained for months that liberals and certain Republicans tend to exaggerate when portraying Mitt Romney as a serial flip-flopper because the former Massachusetts Governor is not as guilty as his opponents would have us believe. Unfortunately, these exaggerations usually carry a badge of credibility. For that, Romney has no one to blame [...]
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Rove leaving… Cheney in an undisclosed location… It would seem that Dubya going in front of a camera would be nothing the Left would care about. However, Bush’s VFW speech yesterday did something that the Left simply did not anticipate: among other things, Bush compared Iraq to Vietnam. What? Is this a betrayal of those who’ve [...]
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This Washington Post article basically lays out the Dems political problems on Iraq: the Surge is working. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have been pretty adamant about us losing the war over there, but it turns out not to be so. But, since the Dems have seen Iraq as one big political calculation since long before the war, [...]
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…is apparently cleaner than She Who Must Not Be Named’s house according to these recent comments which include, ”if you can’t run your own house, you can’t run the White House.” While not a specific swipe at SWMNBN by name, it can and will certainly be taken as a swipe at the former Victim-in-Chief. She has a point when [...]
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This Fox Sports editorial by Kevin Hench really makes the point about Michael Vick’s guilty plea in the dogfighting scandal. Once his friends turned on him, there was nothing left for him to do. Now his career is officially in shambles. Perhaps when this is all over he can fall back on whatever his Virginia Tech college [...]
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As if things weren’t ominous enough for the impending seventh season of “24″, word comes out that Janeane Garofalo is joining the cast. “24″ Season 7 begins shooting on September 10, but I’m getting less and less excited about that. Not only are they going “green”, but they’re having a female President the same year [...]
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Gordon Brown has been riding high in the polls ever since he moved into Downing Street despite ignoring the source of the attempted terrorist attacks on his country. In fact, Brown is doing so well that many of our British friends believe that a snap election may be called sometime soon. Labour should not [...]
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Karl Rove, a major contributing factor to Bush Derangement Syndrome, made the rounds on the Sunday talk circuit yesterday, appearing on nearly every major talk show: “FNS”, “Meet the Depressed”, and “Deface the Nation”. His appearance on Fox News Sunday was the one that I caught and there were no real softballs coming [...]
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