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Fred Barnes? Bad Advice to John McCain
2008-07-10 20:45:00 No sooner did Fred Barnes say he thought McCain should use the issues of gay marriage and gays in the military to prevent social conservative voters from staying home, then readers either via e-mail or in a comment asked me in the words of this post, whether gay Republicans would tolerate the Barnes Option. Given the ... More About: Advice , John , Gay Marriage
Which Obama Will Show Up Today?
2008-07-10 20:00:00 I’m starting to wonder, which Barack Obama will be governing from the White House — if he is elected? The flip-flop on immediate withdrawal versus adopting the Bush-McCain Iraq plan is too obvious. So let’s go deeper with John Kerry Barack Obama. Which Barack Obama should I consider voting for in November….. The Obama who tries to lift ... More About: Show , Today
Memo To Pelosi: PLEASE Listen to Dennis Kucinich!
2008-07-10 19:35:00 I just got this high-larious email from the Re-Elect Kucinich for Congress Committee. (How the frick did I get on THAT list?) Anyway, enjoy this laugh…. Impeachment on the House floor TODAY Dear Friends, Congressman Dennis Kucinich will present a single Article of Impeachment to the House of Representatives sometime between 3:30 pm and 4:00 pm (EDT) today, Thursday, ... More About: America , War On Terror , World War I , Liberals
Allowing Gays In Military Won?t Impact Unit Cohesion
2008-07-09 21:37:00 With my Mom doing much better, I returned to LA as planned today, but feel pretty drained, having chosen to spend more time with my brother (father to an energetic nephew) last night rather than go to bed at a decent hour, especially given my early departure (6 AM LA time) from Cincinnati this morning. As ... More About: Military , Gays , Unit
Important Life Lesson #491 B-12
2008-07-09 19:51:00 Don’t roll down the hill with your two-and-one-half-year-old nephew after eating pizza. At that age, once isn’t enough, especially when there’s the chance to crash into an indulgent uncle and cry “I caught you” while giggling. More About: Family , Life , Random Thoughts , Lesson
Midsummer Strategy Memo for John McCain
2008-07-08 20:50:00 Senator McCain: In his Op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times, your longtime supporter Bill Kristol contends that your campaign has “largely frittered away” your “ three-month general election head start.” While I don’t think you entirely wasted those three months, the conservative columnist does have a point. You didn’t do enough in those three months to solidify ... More About: Strategy , John , Memo , John McCain
W, a Disappointment, but Hardly a Failure
2008-07-08 14:58:00 This morning, I did something I don’t normally do in LA. I scanned (& read) the New York Times (my Mom subscribes to the print edition). While the paper’s bias is palpable, one can still get a good sense of what’s going on in the world by perusing its pages. Something struck me when I read the front-page ... More About: War On Terror , Media Bias , Failure , Disappointment
GPW: Tolkien Geek
2008-07-07 16:00:00 I wonder if it’s being around my family where the women are Democrats, the men Republicans that has made me less inclined to write about politics. To be sure, when we do get together, there is often much political banter, though others might use a stronger word to describe our exchanges. Just over five years ... More About: Ideas , Tolkien , Geek
The Big Woods Got Smaller
2008-07-07 02:51:00 Today, as my Mom, now at home, has been doing much better, I decided to visit the two houses where I lived as a child. As I approached the first, up a windy lane, I observed that except for one house which I didn’t remember, the houses all seemed the same. Sure, a ... More About: Family , Travel , Woods
I wonder what Joe Wilson has to say about this
2008-07-06 17:59:00 550 metric tons of “yellowcake” uraninium, the “last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program” removed from Iraq. More About: War On Terror , Wilson
Best Fireworks Color Commentary Ever
2008-07-05 03:18:00 After my sister returned to the hospital to spend the balance of the evening with my Mom, I returned on I-71 to my brother’s where I am currently staying. All around me, as I traversed Hamilton County, I could see — and hear — fireworks and regretted that I would miss seeing them ... More About: Family , Commentary , Color , Patriotism , Fireworks
The Danger of Taking Things too Literally
2008-07-04 23:28:00 Today, my brother who had sat with my Mom when she was in her operation joined my sister, step-sister and myself in my Mom’s hospital room and showed us a picture he had received in an e-mail. As he had trouble forwarding it from his hand-held device, I decided to google the e-mail’s subject and ... More About: Danger , Things , Literally , Taking
The Change Obama Stands For
2008-07-04 15:57:00 In his constant flipping and flopping, Obama shows that his followers supporters’ hopes notwithstanding, he’s just another typical politician. As Gerard Baker writes today: Since securing the Democratic nomination a few weeks ago, the only change coming from the Illinois senator has been in what he seems to stand for. I mean, what does the guy ... More About: Change
Heartland Hospital Blogging on Independence Day
2008-07-04 15:12:00 I flew into Cincinnati yesterday to be with the PatriotMomWest as she recovers from back surgery and to spend Independence Day with my sister who flew in from San Francisco as well as my brother who still lives in the town where we grow up. Back in the Buckeye State, I see far more American flags ... More About: Family , Hospital , Blogging , Patriotism
Obama: Wishy-Washy on Gay Marriage?as on Most Issues
2008-07-03 16:04:00 There doesn’t seem to be any issue on which Obama hasn’t changed his position in the course of this campaign. Sometimes it’s on successive days. Now, that it’s become evident to all and sundry that the “surge” has succeeded, his advisers and surrogates are trying to say that he never really was against ... More About: Marriage , Issues , Gay Marriage
An Agenda Everyone Can Rally Around
2008-07-03 15:44:00 Well, except maybe poor Jimmah. Recently, I sent Limbaugh an e-mail message, his preferred means of long-distance communication, asking what his own presidential agenda would look like. His answer reflects his actual concerns. A Limbaugh administration would seek to: 1. Open the continental shelf to drilling. Ditto the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. 2. Establish a 17 percent flat ... More About: Elections , Rally , Agenda
Do Gay Marriage Advocates Understand the Insitution They?re Promoting?
2008-07-02 23:18:00 Reading my letter to the editor (full text included below) of the San Francisco Chronicle correcting an misrepresentation of my research on monogamy and gay groups which appeared in an Op-ed that paper published last Thursday reminded me yet again how few gay advocates of gay marriage understand the institution they’re advocating. They not only repeatedly ... More About: Marriage , Promoting , Gay Marriage , Understand
Real Gay Self-Hatred
2008-07-02 06:50:00 I’m don’t remember when I first heard a gay leftist dismiss gay Republicans as self-loathing. It must have been about the time I first became active in Log Cabin when I lived in the Washington, D.C.-area in the mid-1990s. I do recall some activist badmouthing me for my allegedly hypocritical and closeted life about ... More About: Real , Hatred
Why Didn?t Jimmy Carter Monitor Zimbabwe Election?
2008-07-02 05:59:00 At the recent African Union summit in Egypt, member nations failed to condemn Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe ’s President-for-Life, for stealing the election from opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai. The union did pass a resolution “calling for him to negotiate with” the man who bested him in the initial balloting on March 29. Some say Tsvangirai would have ... More About: Election , Jimmy , Monitor , Jimmy Carter
Gay Marriage: Significant Social Change
2008-07-01 23:48:00 In response to my quoting Jonathan Rauch’s observation that that honest advocacy of same-sex marriage “requires acknowledging that same-sex marriage is a significant social change.” in a post last week, commenter ILoveCapitalism (hereinafter ILC) wrote, “WHAT social change(s)?” ILC’s not the first person to question whether gay marriage represents a significant social change. Others, in ... More About: Social , Marriage , Change , Gay Marriage
No More Handheld Cellphones when Driving in CA
2008-07-01 22:00:00 Not normally in favor of legislation which limits our freedom, I find myself in an odd position today, delighted about a new California law banning the use of handheld cellphones when driving taking effect. While many Golden State drivers have learned to operate a motor vehicle while talking on their phones, all too many ... More About: Cellphones , Driving , Handheld
Impact of CA Supreme Court Gay Marriage Ruling
2008-07-01 01:29:00 Along with Jonathan Rauch, Dale Carpenter is one of those rare advocates of gay marriage who can make a compelling case for “this expansion of the meaning of marriage” (as the editors of the LA Times puts it) to a conservative audience. (Basically, if you see Dale’s name on a column, just read the ... More About: Marriage , Supreme Court , Gay Marriage , Court , Ruling
Clark?s Attack on McCain:Another Mean-Spirited Broadside from the Left
2008-06-30 21:56:00 In a post this morning, I noted that Andrew Sullivan called General Wesley Clark’s recent attacks on John McCain “revolting” and “repulsive.” He wasn’t the only one to take on the favorite general of the Clintons. In addition to Senator John Warner, former Secretary of the Navy, Admiral Leighton “Snuffy” Smith (USN Retired), Colonel Bud ... More About: America , Left , Attack
McCain, CA Marriage Initiative & Federalism
2008-06-30 17:08:00 When working on his piece on presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s letter supporting Proposition 8 which would enshrine the traditional definition of marriage in the California constitution, LA Weekly writer Patrick Range McDonald contacted me for a comment on this decision. As I considered my response, I came up with something a little longer than ... More About: Marriage , Gay Marriage , Initiative , Federalism
Sullivan Slams Clark for his Attack on McCain
2008-06-30 16:18:00 Shortly after posting my piece wondering if the sensible Andrew Sullivan were returning, I checked his blog a little more regularly had was my wont in recent months. It seemed I had a little premature in heralding the return of the blogger who was once my favorite. While Andrew still did occasionally offer insightful observations ... More About: Blogging , Attack
Gone Fishin?
2008-06-30 12:12:00 My silence from the blog this coming week will be intentional as PatriotPartner and I pack up the gas-guzzling 1999 Ford Explorer and head to the South Carolina beaches. The great part about this vacation — PatriotPuppies are coming with us. Yep, we have a dog-friendly cottage right on the beach. Hopefully I will post ... More About: Travel , American History , Patriotism
McCain at Funeral of Mark Bingham, Gay Hero of 9/11
2008-06-29 20:54:00 I have always thought that the real measure of someone’s attitude toward gay people was not whether he supports the legislative agenda of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) or mouths the appropriate political correct slogans of gay activists, but how he treats individual gay men and lesbians. John McCain has a long record of treating individual ... More About: America , Heroes , Leadership , Hero , Mark
Does McCain Think USA Is A ?Nation Of Laws??Or Not?
2008-06-29 14:22:00 I’m telling you, I’m on the verge of not voting for President in November and just sticking with putting my energy into the NC Governor’s Race. Just when I’m starting to think that McCain is the better of two evils, he says something that completely disgusts me and, more importantly, concerns me about his willingness to ... More About: Laws , Nation
Gay Man Challenges San Francisco Gun Ban
2008-06-28 23:18:00 Commenting on my post calling the Supreme Court’s Heller decision a victory for gay rights, a reader points out that the plaintiff (joined by the National Rifle Association and the Washington state-based Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms) suing the San Francisco Housing Authority “in a bid to overturn a ... More About: Freedom
Harry Reid: The Do-Nothing Senate Leader
More articles from this author:2008-06-28 19:20:00 Senator Reid may well be the most incompetent man ever to be in charge of the United States Senate . Political Maneuvers Delay Bill-After-Bill In The Senate - Washington Post The Senate went home yesterday for the Fourth of July holiday to face voters, having failed repeatedly to address critical economic issues from skyrocketing gas prices to climate ... More About: America , Liberals , Congress , Harry Reid 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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