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Be Wary of Libertarians
2007-09-16 04:48:00 Randian minarchist Alan Greenspan, adds a little more timber to the old “capitalist leftist” complaint conservatives have often had about their alleged libertarian allies, with cut-rate contheorizing of the basest sort: ?I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil? (The Times) Time Magazine said in 2003 ... More About: General , Libertarians , Libertarian
Cautious Buzzards
2007-09-11 22:00:00 Over the weekend I was re-reading Walter Miller’s Catholic post-apocalyptic novel A Canticle for Leibowitz. There’s a moment in the final chapter of the first book, where the wanderer comes upon the body of Brother Francis, which has been carved up by the cannibalistic Children of the Fallout for food. The wanderer keeps his distance ... More About: Congress , Iraq , Democrats , General
Oops.
2007-09-11 11:04:00 As we’ve occasionally observed here, Fred Thompson has a knack for upsetting all the right people, in all the right ways. Case in point. Recently, a gaggle of Leftist and Ronpaulist nitwits pounced on him when he mentioned that the Al Qaeda prohibition on smoking, had significantly contributed to their unpopularity in Anbar Province. The usual ... More About: Iraq , General
Korean Baseball is Odd
2007-09-11 08:08:00 Bench-clearing brawls are a little different in the South Korean leagues. (TBH via With Leather) More About: Humor , Baseball , General , Base
The Most Shockingly Misleading Poll in History
2007-09-11 06:36:00 Oh alright, it’s not the most misleading in history, but this is a homage to a dead and lamented post of similar name. You see, earlier today Right Wing Nuthouse called the new BBC poll of the Iraq i people the ?The Most Shockingly Dishonest Poll in the History of the Media,” but later pulled the post ... More About: General , Al Qaeda
Obligatory Soap Knob Love
2007-09-11 05:24:00 The lewdest thing you might ever see on postpolitical. More About: Love , General , Soap , Tory , Gator
Appomattox in Baghdad?
2007-09-11 03:18:00 For me, this was Petraeus’ most dramatic slide in his presentation on Capitol Hill today. It illustrates the gradual collapse of the ethnic/religious civil war in Baghdad . This conflict within, represents the most material threat to an enduring stability of the central government and if it continues to evaporate, that’s a genuinely meaningful condition for ... More About: Iraq , General
Protest and Pessimism in the Maghreb
2007-09-11 00:08:00 The left-leaning (if allegedly nonpartisan) 501(c)(3) group Americans for Informed Democracy (AID), has taken exception to our reposting from June, of SnappedShot’s enormously amusing Islamic Rage Boy project. AID notes that there seems little interest on our part by contrast, in heartening nationwide demonstrations in Algeria to protest Al Qaeda ’s brutal terrorist operations there. The weekend ... More About: Africa , Morocco , Protest
The New York Times Can Still Surprise Me
2007-09-10 13:55:00 I was reading this morning’s article by Steven Lee Myers and Megan Thee, on the NYT’s new poll revealing 68% of Americans trust the military command to resolve the Iraq conflict. An intriguing finding ahead of the Petraeus report to say the least. But then I came across this stupefying piece of analysis in the fourth ... More About: New York , General , York , New York Times
When Brookhiser Attacks
2007-09-10 08:37:00 MichaelW over at ASHC points out a rotten little post by Richard Brookhiser on Fred Thompson . In it Richard warns us that by supporting FDT for the presidency we are fools at the wheel of history: He has done nothing, anywhere, ever. The Hubble Telescope could not find what he has done, because he has not ... More About: Elections , Republicans , General , Three Amigos
Unnecessary Stress for the Secretary of Defense
2007-09-09 23:04:00 (photo: Cliff & Katie Allen) It’s not all that well known outside of certain corners of the web, but the Secretary of Defense , Robert M. Gates, regularly hangs out at the TexAgs football message board (screen name ranger65). Consumed with the situation in Iraq and a deteriorating global security environment, Texas A&M’s truly embarrassing triple overtime ... More About: Football , College Football , General , Stress
Unity!
2007-09-07 15:24:00 (image: townhall) Why would a conservative senator from Tennessee, whose politics outline a vision of V-Tech students defending themselves with guns, where Roe vs Wade is bad science and bad medicine, and where entitlement programs need to be overhauled, talk about a word like “unity”? Lee and I were discussing this yesterday. He was admittedly less enthusiastic ... More About: War On Terror , General , Islamic Extremism , Unity , Unit
Marketing The Fred
2007-09-07 14:43:00 Call me strange for choosing the topic of marketing to base my first post-announcement Fred Thompson story on, but something is irking me a bit. See, I’m a guy that likes to buy shirts and signs and political memorabilia. Just a hobby of mine. I’m really digging the purple and gold “Fred Thompson 2008″ logo ... More About: Marketing , General
Option Atavism
2007-09-03 22:55:00 Bill Callahan calls the option against Nevada. I never thought I’d type that, but it was a glorious homage to the old order. (via BRB) More About: General , Nebraska , Avis
The Psychopathic Politics of Alex Jones
2007-09-03 22:15:00 This as an audio clip from Alex Jones ’ truly vile radio show. It made the rounds on the blogs in mid-August, but in stumbling into it again today I figured it’s worth a another post for the degree to which it illustrates how ideological fanaticism can poison the mind. I’m sure you’ll agree it’s a ... More About: Politics , General , Fanaticism
Viceroy of the Common Republican
2007-09-03 21:23:00 (Fred Thompson) Newsweek’s well-researched Thompson cover story is of considerable interest if you haven’t yet read it. Broadly, it depicts an entirely human face and an extraordinarily reluctant candidate, who has seen enough of Washington to know he shouldn’t be eager for the job he’s pursuing. A commendable attribute if you ask me. There’s also a significant ... More About: Elections , Republican , Bill Clinton , General , Common
Barely Golden
2007-09-03 00:42:00 I’ve seen the notorious drug induced on-air meltdown of Jessica Savitch many times since it aired in 1983, but I’d never seen her earlier update from the same day until just now. This clip was shot two hours before the disastrous broadcast. She’s just slightly buzzed, so apparently her evening got worse (or better) as ... More About: The Media , General , Barely , Golden
Schadenfreude
2007-09-02 16:57:00 Penn State fans reacting to Michigan losing to tiny Appalachian State University. Crass, but amusing all the same: Frankly I’m shocked by all the shock in the press. Once again Michigan was preposterously over-hyped in the preseason, with no real business being near anyone’s top 10 list (including a list of the Big10+1 itself, after ... More About: Football , General , Schadenfreude
Cut!
2007-09-01 21:19:00 (image: philly.com) It seems as though Lee was right on his early prediction that Jeremy Bloom would fall short of achieving a stellar NFL career. Word leaked early this morning that the second year punt returner and Philadelphia Eagle would be officially removed from the finalized 53 man roster. Bloom had been sidelined throughout the 2006 NFL ... More About: Football , General , Philadelphia Eagles
Dutch Gunships Over Afghanistan
2007-08-29 22:32:00 Fairly interesting little clip of our friends from the Netherlands in action: More About: Afghanistan , General , Dutch , Ghan
The Omega Man Gun Battle
2007-08-29 19:49:00 I love the scene in the first part of this clip from 1971’s The Omega Man. When Neville is battling the Luddite pseudo-vampires with his S&W M76, the gentle mournful music is so lovely. More About: Films , General , Battle , The O
On Vietnam: A Response to Joshua Foust
2007-08-29 09:57:00 (image: Charles Major) Joshua Foust had a post yesterday which I meant to get round to saying a few words about, but I ran out of caffeine in my blood and fell asleep watching Mr. Ed. So we’ll give it a whirl tonight. This will probably be a long post, so beware. In fact, there’s two ... More About: Iraq , History , Vietnam , General
Clinton Fundraising
2007-08-29 03:26:00 While we’ve been preoccupied with Quranic literalism, exploding washing machines and the nature and political consequences of homosexuality, the rest of the blog world has been feasting on the WSJ piece about Hillary Clinton ’s unlikely financiers. Yes, it appears that the Clinton campaign’s fundraising is….well, Clintonian. Six members of the Paw family, each listing the house ... More About: Elections , Fundraising , General , Linton
Scriptural Literalism as a Cause for Islamic Terrorism: A Short Dissent
2007-08-29 01:43:00 Ordinarily, citing one of Karen Armstrong’s devotional and haphazard apologias for Islam ic Fundamentalism in your introduction, is not a good way to win me over to your essay. However Mahmood Sanglay did manage to keep my interest in his fine editorial for The Brunei Times. The Armstrong argument selected by Sanglay, is her view that a ... More About: Terrorism , Religion , Islamic , General
Plastic Sexuality
2007-08-29 00:47:00 I was looking at Catie’s picture I used on my “Are We Bigots” post and I thought “Those girls have nice legs, too bad about the rest.” Then it occurred to me that this image is a bit of an interesting exercise in elemental visual attraction. I’d break it out like this: As a heterosexual, my ... More About: General , Gay Rights , Plastic , Sexuality , Ality
Are We Bigots?
2007-08-29 00:11:00 (image: Catie) Jason’s fierce call to repudiate all gay (or clandestinely gay) Republican political leaders in light of the Craig experience, made me very uncomfortable. Definitionally, the post is a call for discrimination in the selection of political leaders, so it’s bound to be nettlesome. But what bothered me most, was the question of whether it ... More About: Republicans , General , Gay Rights , Bigot
Breaking the Silence? On Larry Craig.
2007-08-28 20:31:00 (image: thehague) So I’ve been on hiatus for a while… Sorry about that. But I couldn’t resist chiming in a scandal the size of Larry Craig’s. It’s sad really, not only for Craig’s family who like a famous recent governor of mine has probably ruined his credibility forever, but for the Republican Party in general. Why? ... More About: Republicans , General , Gay Rights , Breaking
Grenade + Washing Machine = Fun?
2007-08-28 10:02:00 ….if you can run. Takes nerve to pull this one. More About: Machine , General , Washing , Nade , Mach
A Cult of Dawkins
2007-08-28 04:39:00 When the chairperson of a debate intended to seriously examine Richard Dawkins’ views on religion shows up on stage in a Dawkins t-shirt and introduces the discussion by precluding it (in saying flatly that Dawkins has already “closed the discussion” on his subject), you know there’s an astonishing amount of stupidity and arrogance running amok ... More About: Science , Religion , Books , Scotland , General
Buried in Stone
More articles from this author:2007-08-28 00:13:00 A pretty striking little anti-Iran ian art project from Spartakism: (image: Spartakism) This image was made in support of Pegah Emambakhsh, a lesbian Iranian woman who escaped from the theocracy to the United Kingdom. The barbaric Iranian treatment of her and her family for the crime of her sexuality, has been rather predictable: Pegah escaped from Iran, claiming asylum, ... More About: General , Gay Rights , Stone , Tone 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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