Already Obama is gearing up to reverse the Bush position with respect to Gitmo detainees. Unlike Bush, who doesn't believe in the right to a speedy and fair trial is part of those God-given rights that we hold to be self-evident, Obama is… …quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to … Read More
A Quick Message To Wingnuts
Guys, Obama isn't going to touch your guns. And he's not going to take away right wing talk radio. He's really not. You want to know how I know that? Because Obama is a constitutional scholar. Unlike you wingnuts, or the Bush Administration, he's actually read the document. He's studied it. He taught it for several years. So he knows … Read More
Owner Of Gun Manufacturing Company Forced To Resign…
…and why? Because he's an Obama supporter. The namesake of Montana-based Cooper Firearms has been asked to resign as president of the company after he expressed support for Barack Obama. The company said it asked Dan Cooper, founder and part owner of Cooper Firearms, to resign as president after he voiced support for the Democratic Illinois senator's bid for president … Read More
More On Palin’s Constitutional Scholarship
Hopefully you've heard by now Palin's blunder. It boils down to this: Media Criticism of My Criticism of Obama = First Amendment Violation Brian Beutler says that Palin has a "third grader's understanding of Constitutional rights" and asks: If the conservative media convinces enough voters that Barack Obama is a Muslim, does that violate his right to freedom of religion? … Read More
Jesus F*&*!&@ing Christ!! For The Love Of God, Will Someone Please Hand Sarah Palin A Copy Of The United States Constitution?!? (Part XXIV))
Here's her latest bizarre quote, from today: Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama's associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative attacks. Rather, for reporters or columnists to suggest that it is going negative may constitute an attack that threatens a candidate's free speech rights under the Constitution, … Read More
Senator Stevens (R-AK) Who Immortalized “The Internet Is A Series Of Tubes” Is Convicted
As the Wall Street Journal notes, this has some historical significance. Sen. Stevens is a sitting senator, one of only five in all of history to be convicted of a crime, and the first since 1981. Stevens is 84 years old — soon to be 85 on Nov. 15 — and is the longest-serving Republican with almost 40 years in the Senate … Read More
“No Age Limit Or License Required To Shoot Machine Gun… It’s All Legal & Fun!!!”
Here's the flyer for a gun expo held this past weekend: Hmmmm. Christopher Bizilj, age eight, from Ashford, Connecticut attended the above gun expo on Sunday. Did little Chris have "fun"? We'll never know, seeing as how he died after accidentally shooting himself in the head with an Uzi. People and their guns…. I really don't get it.
The Latest Drudge-Driven Attack
Hyped by a Drudge article, the conservative websites and the McCain campaign are attacking Obama over this, a radio interview on September 6, 2001, by then state legislator Barack Obama. You can hear a heavily edited version on Youtube (this is what the conservatives are drooling over, but if you click on my first link, you'll see access to the entire … Read More
I Was About To Weigh In On The Ashley Todd Story….
You know what I mean, right? Ashley is a 20 year old McCain volunteer. In the wee hours of yesterday morning, she stopped at an ATM in Pittsburgh "on the wrong side of town" and was robbed. Sixty dollars were taken. The reason it made headlines (asn was HEAVILY promoted by Drudge) was this: she claimed that her assailant (a black … Read More
I Would Have Acquitted Ivins
Yesterday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation outlined a pattern of bizarre and deceptive conduct by Bruce E. Ivins, an Army microbiologist who killed himself last week, in an attempt to show, in the court of public opinion, that Ivins (and Ivins alone) was behind the 2001 anthrax-by-mail attacks which killed 6 people. I’m not saying that Ivins was innocent. I’m … Read More
Let Us Not Bicker About Who Killed Who
Wow. This paragraph is astounding: In other words, the Adkisson case provides a case study in the secular demonology of the left. We’re seeing the politics of hatred in action. It’s marked by demands for vengeance and modes of discourse seeking to protect the perceived purity of the liberal sensibility. It is irreligious and opportunistic. It is the repudiation of … Read More
Required Reading
For constitution and "war on terror" geeks only: Dworkin’s article in The NY Review of Books explaining the historic significance of last month’s SCOTUS decision in Boumediene v. Bush. It’s too detailed to summarize here: just read it.
The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow
A nice blog report about the services at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church. As you may know, the gunman interrupted a church performance of "Annie" which (obviously) never reached the final curtain. Today, the kids sang "Tomorrow". That’s very Unitarian.
Shootings at Unitarian Church In Tennessee
You know, it’s both laughable and disturbing that pundits like Michelle Malkin can make their daily bread by referring to liberals as the "unhinged left", accompanyed by such adjectives as "deranged" and so on. When was the last time a disgruntled liberal started shooting people he disagreed with politically or socially? Ever??? It just seems to me that even at … Read More
Greenwald Is Good Today
He’s on a rant about the Justice Department under the Bush Adminsitration — people who seem to think they work for the President and not for the people of the United States: The core attribute of the Justice Department is independence, not allegiance to the President as "client." The President has his own lawyers in the White House Counsel’s Office. … Read More