tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58173802012-01-11T08:42:18.344-06:00Comments, questions, hallucinations...DanGnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-82695844221631711452010-04-22T21:35:00.000-05:002010-04-22T21:36:06.323-05:00

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No comment needed.

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A letter to the editor in today's Post Dispatch arguing for government involvement in health care used the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) as an example of a government entity that actually was successful and did what it set out to do when it was created in 1935. True, within a decade or so the REA had brought electricity to almost all of rural America, something the utility companies

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Next time you see one of those ads calling for "creating green jobs" consider this:So, to meet the target the climate campaigners have set, the U.S., Europe and Japan will have to replace virtually their entire fossil-fuel energy infrastructure. For the U.S., the 80% target means reducing fossil-fuel greenhouse-gas emissions to a level the nation last experienced in 1910. On a per-capita basis,

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Michael Barone lays out the problem with Obama's plans- magical thinking.There is an element of convenient fantasy as well in Obama's health care statements to date. We are going to save money by spending money. We are going to solve our fiscal problems with a program that will increase the national debt by $1,000,000,000,000 over a decade. We are going to guarantee you can keep your current

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So...How's that Hope and Change working out?Mr. Obama has repeatedly suggested that the security challenge of bringing more than 100 trained and dangerous terrorists onto U.S. soil can be solved by simply installing them in an impenetrable fortress. This view is either disingenuous or naïve. The militant Islamists at Guantanamo too dangerous to release believe that their resistance behind the

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In many ways it's better to be poor in the US than to be middle class in Europe.Overall, the typical American defined as poor by the government has a car, air conditioning, a refrig­erator, a stove, a clothes washer and dryer, and a microwave. He has two color televisions, cable or satellite TV reception, a VCR or DVD player, and a stereo. He is able to obtain medical care. His home is in good

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I have the feeling this might come in handy soon.

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Uh huh. I had a (really dumb) female roommate years ago, she believed her dog of a boyfriend when he told her the reason she got crabs was because they had had sex in the park. A mother is suing a hotel claiming her teenage daughter fell pregnant simply from using a hotel swimming pool.Magdalena Kwiatkowska says the 13-year-old conceived after coming into contact with 'stray sperm' in the water

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Mother of God, this is absolutely insane. Here's 50 things to remember about the cap and trade bill.The stimulus bill was the legislative equivalent of the famous cantina scene from Star Wars, an eye-popping collection of the freakish and exotic, gathered for dubious purposes. The Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, known as ACES (the American Clean Energy and Security Act), is more like the third

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If there are any sane Democrats left, this won't make it into law.I bet you thought that if you bought a house, you actually own it and can, with reasonable exceptions, do with it what you want. You probably think that if you want to live in a log cabin, with wood stoves that belch smoke into the air for heat, and an old washer and dryer that don't have those little EnergyStar stickers on them

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Even the Brit papers are noticing. Bush was bad, but things just got worse.For America voluntarily to reduce its nuclear superiority is madness. Bien-pensant talk of a nuclear-free world displays total stupidity in a global situation where nuclear weaponry is proliferating, not receding. There is even a nuclear bomb in Pakistan, which is teetering on the brink of failed statehood at the hands of

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-3972410410795583262009-06-30T11:23:00.000-05:002009-06-30T11:23:22.757-05:00

When you find yourself on the same side as Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro and Daniel Ortega it's time to re-examine your position. What a disgrace this clown is. He's turning out to be every bit as bad as the most extreme predictions said he would be. One term.There was a coup all right, but it wasn't committed by the U.S. or the Honduran court. It was committed by Zelaya himself. He brazenly defied

DanGnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-78806707467484512882009-06-16T09:24:00.000-05:002009-06-16T09:24:00.532-05:00

But...Hope! And...Change! The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn't have to reveal who comes calling to influence policy decisions.

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-32516253352907991572009-05-13T09:38:00.000-05:002009-05-13T09:38:34.474-05:00

How a person feels about and treats dogs tells me everything I need to know about them.“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.” — Milan Kundera.

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MeatCards: Print Your Business Cards On Beef Jerky With A Frickin’ Laser Beam This is why people keep coming to America from all over the world. We are always on the cutting edge.

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Next time Obama wants to use Churchill as a good example he might want to think twice. Anyone with any knowledge of Irish history would have known the other side of Winston. He may have been the right man for the job against the Nazis, but against the Irish he was responsible for a lot more sufferring than anything caused by waterboarding.The Black and Tans were created after the First World War

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-74306896887227975772009-04-29T14:28:00.000-05:002009-04-29T14:28:28.419-05:00

Michael Scheuer tears Obama a new one. Which is rather surprising considering how often he went after Bush.George W. Bush's democracy-spreading philosophy yielded the invasion of Iraq and set the United States at war with much of the Muslim world. Bush's worldview thereby produced an enemy that quickly outpaced the limited but proven threat-containing capacities of the major U.S. counterterrorism

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-43387184648004540862009-04-26T10:28:00.000-05:002009-04-26T10:28:18.789-05:00

The West Coast Plot Though it won't matter it's good to have the facts in one place.

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Maybe because it's their default mode?These should be happy times for liberals and the Democratic party as a whole. They control the White House and both houses of Congress, while opposition Republicans are leaderless and lost. So why do some Democrats, particularly those farther to the left, appear so angry?If you doubt it, just watch a few minutes of MSNBC...

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My obedient, well behaved dog on our walk yesterday.

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Holy hell, here's one Brit who isn't taken in by Obama.President Barack Obama has recently completed the most successful foreign policy tour since Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. You name it, he blew it. What was his big deal economic programme that he was determined to drive through the G20 summit? Another massive stimulus package, globally funded and co-ordinated. Did he achieve it? Not so as

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Even the Guardian can't help but have some fun at Captain Bullshit's expense.

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Life can't get much better. Really. It can't.

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A more perfect example of the stupidity of government cannot be imagined. I think this is probably the best line of all: The report recommends Congress prohibit the State Department from funding projects in countries that sponsor terrorism, but the State Department opposes this.The country's in the very best of hands.

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What? That's illegal now?

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An illustration of how big the pile is.

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Lileks hits one out of the park with a fisking of one of the more ridiculous columns of Amitai Etzioni. Etzioni is clearly arguing in favor of "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" and I have an idea who he wants to decide my ability and need. Etzioni in italics: The precept of a good life calls for setting ceilings for purchases and for work, for setting fairly

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Hmmm. And on MSNBC no less.

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Never waste a good crisis? Bush does it= BAD. Obama does it= GOOD.Recall that not long ago, the first item on the bill of indictment against the Bush administration was that it was “exploiting” 9/11 to enact its agenda. Al Gore shrieked that President Bush “played on our fears” to get his way. In response to nearly every Bush initiative, from the Patriot Act to the toppling of Saddam Hussein,

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Meltdown An explanation of what went wrong in housing on one page.

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The evil Karl Rove in the WSJ on President Strawman.President Barack Obama reveres Abraham Lincoln. But among the glaring differences between the two men is that Lincoln offered careful, rigorous, sustained arguments to advance his aims and, when disagreeing with political opponents, rarely relied on the lazy rhetorical device of "straw men." Mr. Obama, on the other hand, routinely ascribes to

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Iowahawk looks at the recent problems with Obama's nominees.U.S. Energy Secretary Stephen Chu announced his resignation this morning amid new reports that Alameda County workers had unearthed more than a dozen additional dead hobo bodies at his former home in Berkeley, California. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist had been the subject of a week-long controversy after he amended his White House

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This is Just Creepy...: Let us all join hands...I SAID LET US ALL JOIN HANDS!!! You will be assimilated

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Mark Steyn with his usual excellent effort on the latest Gaza mess.Forget, for the moment, Gaza. Forget that the Palestinian people are the most comprehensively wrecked people on the face of the Earth. For the past 60 years they have been entrusted to the care of the United Nations, the Arab League, the PLO, Hamas and the "global community" – and the results are pretty much what you'd expect.You

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Now I know what we're going to make for next Thanksgiving.The other day the guys from BaconToday.com contacted me in search for some barbecue bacon recipes. Of course I have plenty of great uses for bacon in a barbecue pit, but the longer I thought about it, the more I wanted to step it up a notch and clog a few arteries for those guys. Behold, BACON EXPLOSION!!! Here’s what you’ll need…2

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Truer Words Were Never Spoken. The GOP destroyed itself in about 12 short years. It took the Dems decades to accomplish as much, proving that Republicans are that much more efficient!Let us bend over and kiss our ass goodbye. Our 28-year conservative opportunity to fix the moral and practical boundaries of government is gone--gone with the bear market and the Bear Stearns and the bear that's

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Well, he did it. And god help this country. I just hope I'm wrong.Well, now the Democratic Party is for all practical purposes America's super-majority party. It has complete control of the presidency and Congress. It's time to put away childish things and govern. If Democrats govern from the center, good for the country. If they govern from their instincts, good for the Republicans. Just

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Palin Rumors It's too late but I think it's still worth linking to.

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House Democrats Contemplate Abolishing 401(k) Tax Breaks If the Dems really want to learn the meaning of the word backlash they will try to push this great idea.House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-California, and Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Washington, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, are looking at

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If you weren't depressed about this election before, you will be after reading this.If the current polls hold, Barack Obama will win the White House on November 4 and Democrats will consolidate their Congressional majorities, probably with a filibuster-proof Senate or very close to it. Without the ability to filibuster, the Senate would become like the House, able to pass whatever the majority

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Next time someone sends me a comment on how the Left is scared of all the "rage" on the right I'll have something to send them backThe Obamedia is attempting to set yet another false narrative: The narrative of the McCain “mob.” McCain-Palin rallies are out of control, they wheedle. Conservatives are mad! They’re yelling mean things about Obama and calling him names! It’ scaaaaary!

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Tony Blankley on our current economic "Black Death."As the plague reached Burgundy in the middle of 1348, the results of a study ordered by the king would have been reported. A commission of University of Paris professors concluded that the catastrophe was caused by the astrological place of Saturn in the house of Jupiter. Medieval experts had long been aware of the dangers that the feared planet

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The North Korean remix of the Obama Song.

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A clearinghouse of articles on how the financial mess came about This will come in handy once the politicians start trying to "fix" the problem they caused in the first place.The bailout bill that passed through Congress today seeks to solve the financial mess by massively increasing government involvement in private finance. But more Government cannot be the answer to a government-created

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Though Palin wasn't too impressive in my opinion Biden was unbelievable. Literally. When you just make shit up as you go along it's easy to have an answer for any question.Joe Biden's 14 Lies 1. TAX VOTE: Biden said McCain voted “the exact same way” as Obama to increase taxes on Americans earning just $42,000, but McCain DID NOT VOTE THAT WAY. 2. AHMEDINIJAD MEETING: Joe Biden lied when he said

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Unfortunately, this won't make any difference. The media has decided that this is a Republican/Wall Street problem, not a Democrat problem. So that's what it will be.Soon after taking office, Bush had his hands full with the Clinton recession and 9/11. But by 2003, he proposed what the New York Times called "the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the

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This chart shows the top 20 Congressional recipients of money from the investment and securities industry. That's just for 2007-2008. Obama, Barack (D) $10,059,210 Clinton, Hillary (D-NY) $7,355,720 McCain, John (R) $7,029,893 Dodd, Christopher J (D-CT) $2,932,532 Coleman, Norm (R-MN) $626,850 McConnell, Mitch (R-KY) $620,236 Emanuel, Rahm (D-IL) $600,500 Sununu, John E (R-NH) $595,650 Baucus,

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Naomi Wolf on the coming police state. And yet somehow she stays out of jail. This is a very inefficient police state if you ask me. What I can't believe is that Democrats hire her for advice. Or did anyway. After this I don't think she'll be getting too many calls.What's the plan? It is this. McCain doesn't matter. Reputable dermatologists are discussing the fact that in simply actuarial terms,

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Ace puts it all on one page. If McCain can't do something with this he doesn't deserve to be president. Obama's fingerprints (and the Dem's in general) are all over the financial mess.

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I already know the answer, but why isn't this the lead of every story about the financial crisis? The article below is from 9/11/2003 and the NYT:The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago. Under the plan, disclosed at a Congressional hearing today, a new agency would be created

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Here's another one. But do we see this anywhere but on the conservative blogs? Hell no. Because look who the top four recipients of PAC money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were: 1. Dodd, Christopher J D-CT $133,9002. Kerry, John D-MA $111,0003. Obama, Barack D-IL $105,8494. Clinton, Hillary D-NY $75,550

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An interesting recap of how the nation's financial mess came about. I wonder if McCain's camp is smart enough to do something with this. Or will they keep going back to look at what Obama did as a state legislator?

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How Come I Would Make the Economy Better, by Barry Obama Barry gets his paper on the economy graded. Not pretty.

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I was in Phoenix, still lying in bed when my wife walked in the room to tell me that a plane had flown into the World Trade Center. Like most people I assumed that meant a small private plane had gone off course. I couldn't understand how a pilot could be so bad at flying to not be able to miss an obstacle that large. I walked into the living room, and as I recall, within a couple of minutes saw

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I think the McCain campaign should reproduce this article and send it out as a press release. Or just read it from the stage every chance they get. Palin may have been a boost of political Viagra for the limp, bloodless GOP (and according to an ABC/Washington Post poll she has created a boost in McCain's standing among white women to a 53 over Obama's 41). But ideologically, she is their hardcore

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Martin Taylor duets with himself. Amazing.

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What a surprise. It seems that the BBC has done its job well. Our own media would kill for results like this survey shows. The survey showed that a majority agreed with the false statement that since the Second World War the US had more often sided with non-Muslims when they had come into conflict with Muslims. In fact in 11 out of 12 major conflicts between Muslims and non-Muslims, Muslims and

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Now I've heard everything. Climate justice, the latest from the race grievance industry.Climate change is no longer just an environmental issue. It’s now an issue of race, according to global warming activists and policy makers. “It is critical our community be an integral and active part of the debate because African-Americans are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change

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And of course we know that they wouldn't lie about something like this...Palestinian officials from the Gaza Strip have distributed a set of carefully-staged photographs they say are evidence that the smuggling tunnels running under the Gaza-Egypt border are for milk and other essential goods, not weapons.

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-82853598079337552152008-07-13T22:33:00.001-05:002008-07-13T22:35:20.382-05:00

Infuriating story of gun confiscation after Katrina. The police turned into another gang and stole weapons from any law abiding citizen they came across.

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-10182629020306261892008-06-20T10:04:00.000-05:002008-06-20T10:04:03.274-05:00

Canada is getting scary. These examples of speech suppression combined with the recent court decision overturning a father's grounding of his daughter would indicate that they have crossed a line up there. Why do we pretend that the threat to free expression comes from the Right?The human-rights tribunals are a censor’s dream. Under Canada’s human-rights act, commissioners can convict if they

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-58330982555120330962008-06-09T16:52:00.000-05:002008-06-09T16:52:22.094-05:00

Major craziness going on at Obama's official website. I think the longer we have to look at him the more we'll notice that all the crazy people support him. I'd like to see him address the Troofer argument if he hasn't already.

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-33307578680161399862008-05-15T08:15:00.000-05:002008-05-15T08:15:20.303-05:00

The brave lads of the insurgency are now using eight year old little girls as remote control "suicide" bombers. A young girl carrying explosives that killed her, an Iraqi captain and injured four soldiers was blown up by remote control, officials said today.The incident happened as she approached an Iraqi command post in Youssifiyah, south Baghdad, earlier this morning.Iraqi army Lieutenant Ahmed

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-81836680027356503522008-05-09T23:27:00.000-05:002008-05-09T23:29:54.400-05:00

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The liberal church is really beyond parody. Here's Canadian minister who doesn't believe in God apparently.Ms. Vosper believes most liberal ministers do not really believe in orthodoxy and see things like the Resurrection or the miracles as metaphors, not real events. She is also chair of a group called the Canadian Centre For Progressive Christianity, which also espouses a vague form of

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-4078259411403090272008-05-02T08:22:00.000-05:002008-05-02T08:22:23.251-05:00

The other problem here is that nobody knows anything about history anymore, and consequently think they know what happened years ago. The Tuskeegee Institute study was certainly wrong but it wasn't what it's been turned into.Wright says the U.S. government “purposely infected African-American men with syphilis.” This is a lie, and no knowledgeable historian says otherwise. And yet, this untruth

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-30753815701872860972008-04-21T11:07:00.000-05:002008-04-21T11:07:05.286-05:00

Here a former Clinton administration member slams St Barack for consorting with terrorists and not really caring about the fact that they stand by what they did.This exercise in moral equivalence is unconvincing, if not dishonest. Would Obama be friendly with someone who actually bombed abortion clinics and defends that conduct? Not likely. But he is friendly with William Ayers, a leader of the

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-52121197730220780802008-04-18T16:28:00.000-05:002008-04-18T16:28:31.594-05:00

Karl Rove hands Dan Abrams his ass. Apparently Abrams is still trying to sell the CBS story about Rove's "dirty tricks" against a former Alabama governor.Dear Mr. Abrams:On April 7th, you again devoted a substantial part of your show to the claim of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman that I was behind his prosecution. Your continued coverage of this issue raises questions about your

DanGnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-83542941842568002532008-04-09T15:34:00.000-05:002008-04-09T15:34:08.160-05:00

Boy, here's a head scratcher. I wonder what could explain this?

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Apparently no one ever told them that Islam has been hijacked by a small group of extremists.A new poll has found that more than 60 percent of Arabs believe violence is a permissible reaction to Western interference in a country, and 55 percent believed offensive words or behavior was another acceptable response, Qatar's Gulf Times reported.The survey, conducted by YouGov, a British research and

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-29771102019159383982008-03-31T15:23:00.000-05:002008-03-31T15:23:08.555-05:00

Hitchens on what the Clintons really did in Bosnia.Yet instead of preserving a polite reticence about this, or at least an appropriate reserve, Sen. Clinton now has the obscene urge to claim the raped and slaughtered people of Bosnia as if their misery and death were somehow to be credited to her account! Words begin to fail one at this point. Is there no such thing as shame? Is there no decency

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-27604997939444983962008-03-24T09:45:00.001-05:002008-03-24T09:46:23.134-05:00

Once again, the worst communications effort in US presidential history drops the ball on the most important issue of its term in office.The Administration has always maintained that Iraq is just one front in the war on terror; and the report offers "evidence of logistical preparation for terrorist operations in other nations, including those in the West." In 2002, an IIS memo explained to Saddam

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-3922239215180774062008-03-21T09:29:00.001-05:002008-03-21T09:30:42.218-05:00

Jonah Goldberg on Bill Richardson's endorsement of Obama This just cracked me up.But is there any person in the Known Universe who honestly and sincerely will vote for Obama now solely because Bill Richardson has endorsed him? Could such a person exist? If such a person existed would you feel better or worse about the world we live in?

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-75222494019720369362008-03-15T10:59:00.000-05:002008-03-15T10:59:51.703-05:00

No connection between Saddam and al Quedais what the headlines said, butIn 1993, as Osama bin Laden's fighters battled Americans in Somalia, Saddam Hussein personally ordered the formation of an Iraqi terrorist group to join the battle there.For more than two decades, the Iraqi regime trained non-Iraqi jihadists in training camps throughout Iraq.According to a 1993 internal Iraqi intelligence

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-75871171236826497162008-03-12T10:07:00.000-05:002008-03-12T10:07:47.906-05:00

Senseless Overkill Yet another case of cops relying on bullshit to perform a military style operation on a pot suspect and one of them getting killed as a result. What's clear, though, is that Chesepeake police conducted a raid on a man with no prior criminal record. Even if their informant had been correct, Frederick was at worst suspected of growing marijuana plants in his garage. There was no

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-9737720037774394732008-02-26T21:27:00.002-06:002008-02-27T08:20:06.084-06:00

“If elected President, my first order of business will be to do away with the prefix anti-. Because to me, in order to think positively, you have to surround yourself with the trappings of positivityness, in all of its forms. And to surround yourself with the trappings of positivityness — to immerse yourself in its warmth, to feel its reassurance along the finer hairs of your thighs, to really

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-5764033912857472592008-02-25T12:37:00.000-06:002008-02-25T12:37:33.544-06:00

UFOs and Global Warming Oh no. The threat is greater than we thought.One of the first questions that the brainwashed public and environmentalists are going to ask is so what if UFOs are real and aliens exist, I don’t see how it’s affecting me, our society and especially the environment? To ask such a question in the first place is a sad commentary on the present dire situation of widespread

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Obama: the Muzak Messiah of the pseudo-revolution Mark Steyn on the strange reaction to Obama, even among his supporters."Around the world, a second instant subgenre has sprung up in which commentators speculate how long it will be before some deranged Christian-fundamentalist neo-Nazi gun-nut deprives America of its fleeting wisp of glory. Setting a new standard for fevered, slavering Obama

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William M. Briggs, Statistician � Zombie attacks might increase due to global warming, study shows Uh oh. Now maybe Bush will do something about global warming.A new study by scientists has suggested that zombie attacks might increase if the current projections of global warming are realized. “If the earth gets warmer, it means longer springs, summers, and falls, and shorter winters,” said John

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-9981130038109335362008-01-18T08:04:00.000-06:002008-01-18T08:09:45.235-06:00

Another disturbing trend. First the Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans and now this. How many more victims will there be before someone does something about it?

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-20170914308086939922008-01-10T20:38:00.000-06:002008-01-10T20:41:43.734-06:00

I don't know what this will look like but I'm just sick of looking at the same top story.

DanGnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-86236836089633124142008-01-07T18:40:00.000-06:002008-01-07T18:40:57.743-06:00

For sale: West's deadly nuclear secrets Why isn't any of this in the NYT?A WHISTLEBLOWER has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets.Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-6173023706299913772008-01-07T18:29:00.000-06:002008-01-07T18:29:39.845-06:00

The Daily Gut Greg Gutfield explains Obama's popularity.In a nutshell: Obama is a stripper and Hilary is your wife. Think about it. When you go to a strip club, you see the very best attributes of the stripper you're ogling. You see her curves and her implants, but you see none of her problems. You don't see her meth habit, her biker ex-boyfriend, the box of severed ears she keeps in her closet.

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More nice work from the boys at the CIA. The Left used to worry that intelligence agencies were trying to run the government, now...not so much. The recent NIE is a disaster.A US intelligence source has revealed that some American spies share the concerns of the British and the Israelis. "Many middle- ranking CIA veterans believe Iran is still committed to producing nuclear weapons and are

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Offended Muslim Syndrome & Self-Help Support Groups How many more have to be offended before we act? Following the misery inflicted on Islam by a toy bear that ended up with calls for the execution of an English woman, more Muslims are stepping forward with stories of long-suppressed emotional trauma imposed on them by so-called reality. This has led to the creation of support groups and social

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-37382307751354511912007-12-06T08:13:00.000-06:002007-12-06T08:13:37.396-06:00

John Bolton looks at the NIE report that claims everything is just fine with Iran's nuke program. Rarely has a document from the supposedly hidden world of intelligence had such an impact as the National Intelligence Estimate released this week. Rarely has an administration been so unprepared for such an event. And rarely have vehement critics of the "intelligence community" on issues such as

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-3150609690350282562007-11-22T22:56:00.000-06:002007-11-22T22:56:48.527-06:00

Media myths about the Jena 6By now, almost everyone in America has heard of Jena, La., because they've all heard the story of the "Jena 6." White students hanging nooses barely punished, a schoolyard fight, excessive punishment for the six black attackers, racist local officials, public outrage and protests – the outside media made sure everyone knew the basics.There's just one problem: The media

DanGnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-25951404638790255362007-11-10T11:25:00.000-06:002007-11-10T11:25:26.349-06:00

Al-Dura and the "Public Secret" of Middle East Journalism The Palestinians make up the news, the western reporters know it, yet use it anyway. Where else does this happen that we don't know about yet?More ominously, just as Al Dura represents a “higher truth” for Muslims — a justification for hatred, a call to revenge — so does it carry symbolic freight with Europeans. Catherine Nay, a respected

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-89773740899369470772007-11-02T09:09:00.000-05:002007-11-02T09:11:35.491-05:00

Jonah Goldberg writes up a list of questions that Hillary Clinton will never be asked as she runs for president. In 1993, staffers on your secretive health-care task force penned a memo in which they schemed to use state-run children’s health insurance — “Kids First” — as a first step toward the nationalization of health care. “Kids First is really a precursor to the new system,” they wrote. Do

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-47979915720062573252007-10-27T16:54:00.000-05:002007-10-27T16:54:01.996-05:00

OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan Looks at Beauchamp's bullshit. To read the Thomas pieces was, simply, to doubt them. And to wonder if its editors had ever actually met a soldier on his way to or from Iraq, or talked to any human being involved in the modern military.The diaries appear to be another case of journalistic fabulism. This week came word, via the published transcript of a telephone

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-73683962532277004742007-10-05T16:42:00.000-05:002007-10-05T16:42:03.268-05:00

Christopher Hitchens at his best writing about meeting the family of a fallen soldier who was inspired to enter the service from reading Hitchens.I was having an oppressively normal morning a few months ago, flicking through the banality of quotidian e-mail traffic, when I idly clicked on a message from a friend headed "Seen This?" The attached item turned out to be a very well-written story by

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-35138609190903098102007-09-27T08:00:00.000-05:002007-09-27T08:00:49.747-05:00

The Subtle, Lethal Poison of Religion Hitchens takes a good whack at religion.Yet is it not positively immoral to argue that our elementary morality and human solidarity derive from an authority that we must simultaneously (and compulsorily) love, and also fear? Does it not degrade us in our deepest integrity to be told that we would not do a right action, or utter a principled truth, were it not

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-22631920179015344212007-09-18T07:18:00.000-05:002007-09-18T07:18:20.859-05:00

So was this Osirak II? A look at what might have happened in Syria recently when the Israelis did what they seem to do so well and may have taken out a nuclear facility.Why Israel apparently chose to route its attack through Turkey is a nice question, given that it means a detour of more than 1,000 miles. Damascus claims the fuel tank was discarded after the planes came under Syrian anti-aircraft

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-51194268164579397552007-09-08T19:55:00.000-05:002007-09-08T19:55:24.909-05:00

The Freedom to Go Topless I remembered reading this a few years ago and found it again. It says the hijab is a relatively recent addition to Islam, not something they've been required to wear forever.Perhaps it is worth recalling at this point that radical Islam's obsession with women's hair is a new phenomenon. Mussa Sadr, an Iranian mullah who won the leadership of the Shiite community in

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-62915368639300821102007-09-08T18:42:00.000-05:002007-09-08T18:42:01.887-05:00

Jew-Hatred and Jihad Why they hate us, as though we're supposed to care what they think. Clearly the inspiration of Jihadism isn't really about Iraq, but about....THE JOOOOS!!Despite common misconceptions, Islamism was born not during the 1960s but during the 1930s. Its rise was inspired not by the failure of Nasserism but by the rise of Nazism, and prior to 1951 all its campaigns were directed

DanGnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817380.post-69734347280739653572007-08-31T21:27:00.000-05:002007-08-31T21:28:30.877-05:00

The boys from Redstate Update discuss Larry Craig,

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Robert Rector on Poverty It would seem that (surprise!) life in the US isn't nearly as horrible as snake-oil salesmen like John Edwards would have us believe.

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