A couple of folks have passed along this WSJ article from Hoover Institute Scholar Shelby Steele, which hits on quite a few of the topics I discuss here.  From “Hillary’s Plantation”: Of course Hillary Clinton’s recent claim that Republicans run the House of Representatives like a “plantation” was old-fashioned political and racial pandering. After all, she uttered this remark at what certainly would have been a prime venue for her

From the Boston Globe: Sen. John Kerry said Sunday he will vote against Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. because he fears Alito would take the country “backwards.” Kerry, the failed Democratic nominee for president in 2004, also voted against now-Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. But Alito, Kerry said Sunday, goes even farther than Roberts in undermining established legal precedents. A flash point during Alito’s confirmation hearings

Even though I’ve long felt myself agnostic, I’m pretty sure the Devil does exist.  Only. instead of having horns or carrying a trident or hobbling around like some bowlegged dock whore on a pair of ungraceful goat legs, he’s actually more of a temporal phenomenon—a moment that hides in plain sight between other moments while taking on some completely pedestrian form.  Like for instance, the refrigerator you’re almost certain held

I still think the Broncos are the better team, but when your defense is unable to stop the opposing offense on third and long for an entire half—the Steelers were something like 8 of 9 on 3rd and 8 or longer in the first half—you simply can’t expect to win.  Saddest about this was that the Broncos were able to run very effectively against the Pittsburgh defense, which would have

Via DEBKAfile: Tehran plans a nuclear weapons test before March 20, 2006 – the Iranian New Year, moves Shahab-3 missiles within striking range of Israel […] Reporting this, the dissident Foundation for Democracy in Iran, a US-based watch group, cites sources in the US and Iran. The FDI adds from Iran: on June 16, the high command of the Revolutionary Guards Air Force ordered Shahab-3 missile units to move mobile

Our friend DarkSyde, writing at Daily Kos, pulls out his airbrush and his engorged sense of self and paints one of the most delusional and dishonest pieces of aggrandizing twaddle ever to tag the blogosphere—no easy feat in a medium known for posts that pimp themselves in the same way an aging Norma Desmond once moved showily toward the harsh Klieg light of her own ultimate self parody.  From “Turning

From The Washington Times: The head of the United Nations’ nuclear monitor has rejected an EU request to condemn Iran’s nuclear program. Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, was urged to issue a condemnation of the Iranian situation before his agency meets in special session next month. But, ElBaradei, though frustrated by Iran’s resumption of nuclear research and a slowdown in Iranian cooperation with his inspectors,

Karl Rove, speaking to the RNC on Friday: “Republicans have a post-9/11 view of the world. And Democrats have a pre-9/11 view of the world,” Rove told Republican activists. “That doesn’t make them unpatriotic, not at all. But it does make them wrong — deeply and profoundly and consistently wrong.” Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean denounced Rove’s remarks and renewed his call for the deputy White House chief of staff