Imagine if Dan Rather said this: "Even we at CBS manage to get some right wingers on the air occasionally, and often let them finish their sentences before we club them to death and feed the scraps to George Soros." If Rather had said that, you would never here the end of it from the wingnut blogsphere. But, of course, … Read More
Oh, Brother!
There is only one thing I can say about this: Trump’s The Apprentice Aspires to Broadway as a New Musical . . . and that’s this: Vomit. It’s shows like that which cause people to hate—and I mean, hate—musical theatre.
Rupert Murdoch Endangers Soldiers
From the New York Times The United States military expressed anger and dismay today over the unauthorized release of photographs of a jailed Saddam Hussein in his underwear and performing menial activity. … “These photos were taken in clear violation of Department of Defense directives and possibly Geneva Convention guidelines for the humane treatment of detained individuals,” the military statement, … Read More
Somebody Fire The Editor Of The New York Times!
…for printing facts that reflect badly on America: Even as the young Afghan man was dying before them, his American jailers continued to torment him. The prisoner, a slight, 22-year-old taxi driver known only as Dilawar, was hauled from his cell at the detention center in Bagram, Afghanistan, at around 2 a.m. to answer questions about a rocket attack on … Read More
Sssshhhhhhhhhhhh!
Instapundit. Powerline. Blogs for Bush. NRO’s The Corner. GOPBloggers. Andrew Sullivan. Lashawn Barber. Michelle Malkin. Redstate.org. As of this posting, not one of these blogs has a single word on Rick Santorum calling the entire Democratic party Nazis. That’s how they work, folks. This is how they do it. I guess we need someone like Newsweek or Eason Jordan to … Read More
1,346
Amanda Marcotte notes something: The number above is the number of days between the bombing of Pearl Harbor and V-J Day. Since it’s not unheard for the warbloggers to compare the War on Terra favorably to WWII, this number has some significance today, the 1,346th day after September 11th, according to Shakespeare’s Sister and Angry Bear. Contrary to the heavy-handed … Read More
Rules And Regs
Anybody else besides me find it ironic that these are the rules for students at Liberty University (Jerry Falwell’s school)?
More Bad Polls For Repubs
Another poll is out—this time by NBC/Wall Street Journal (yes, that bastion of liberalism, the WSJ)—and it looks especially bad for the theo-neocons in the 2006 election. Democrats have a 47%-40% edge over the GOP in the generic ballot question for 2006, the largest advantage for the Democrats in this poll since 1994, while respondents felt by a large margin … Read More
Thoughts On The Nuclear Option
I have no particular warm spot in my heart for the filibuster. I don’t particularly loathe it either. I just view it as one of many silly and arcane congressional rules that has been around for decades, like the entire committee process which can effectively kill bills from even being considered. If I could make the rules for Congress, I … Read More
Silent Majority Speaks Up
President Bush is, not surprisingly, speaking at the commencement of a Christian college in a few days. But what warms my heart, is this, as reported here: [Calvin College is] a liberal arts school that defines its mission as “developing the Christian mind,” and requires what its spokesman, Phil de Haan, calls “an allegiance of faith” from its faculty, and … Read More
“Traditional” Marriage
As reported here, an enterprising blogger sought to get a bead on what constitutes a “traditional” marriage. He unearthed a judicial opinion from Kansas from 1886 (and can you get any more “traditional” than Kansas in 1886?), in which the judge wrote: In my opinion, the union between E. C. Walker and Lillian Harman was no marriage, and they deserve … Read More
Puritanical Sexism
I don’t know what to say about this. It boggles the mind. Alysha Cosby, an Alabama high-school student, was banned from participating in her school’s graduation last night because she is pregnant. So she announced her own name and walked across the stage anyway. (I love it!) Cosby, her mother, and her aunt were then escorted out of the room … Read More
Iraq – A Sobering Assessment
Despite the pie-in-the-sky propagandistic high-fives of those in the non-reality-based community, it seems that things in Iraq aren’t going that well: In interviews and briefings this week, some of the generals pulled back from recent suggestions, some by the same officers, that positive trends in Iraq could allow a major drawdown in the 138,000 American troops late this year or … Read More
Tolerance For Terrorism?
A guy plants a bomb on a plane, and it blows up, killing all the men, women and children civilians on board. That’s a terrorist act, right? And if were up to Bush—the architect of the “war on terrorism”—that guy would be captured, killed, prosecuted, tortured, etc., right? Right? Well, Daddy Bush picked up the bat on this issue once, … Read More
Frist Chokes Bigtime
Shorter Frist: Single judicial filibusters are constitutional, but judicial filibusters of more-than-one judge is not. This morning on the floor of the Senate, Sen. Chuck Schumer asked Majority Leader Bill Frist a simple question: SEN. SCHUMER: Isn’t it correct that on March 8, 2000, my colleague [Sen. Frist] voted to uphold the filibuster of Judge Richard Paez? Here was Frist’s … Read More