When someone says to me, “Chew on that for a bit,” the first thing that comes to mind is a delicious stick of Spearmint Wrigley’s.
June 2007
Verdict: AMNESTY!
64-35. Tom Tancredo — watching the proceedings from behind razor-wire twisted around his TV on the off chance a Jennifer Lopez movie slips through his hate filter — just threw up a little bit in his mouth. Ironically, it tasted a teensy bit like refried beans. Here’s Stanley Kurtz, speaking, in the runup to the vote, on behalf of those redneck bigots who oppose this “reform” bill simply because they
Power uber alles? (GOP edition)
From ABC News’ Political Radar: ABC News’ Z. Byron Wolf Reports: Republican Senator Richard Lugar, the ranking member on the Foreign Relations Committee, made a stunning speech on the Senate floor this evening after most people had gone home. Watch the video HERE. He said the president and Congress must start planning to redeploy American troops from Iraq now. Waiting for September 2007, when Army General David Petraeus is set
in which Joe Trippi sends me an email informing me that John Edwards is the "Right Wing's worst nightmare"
— His proof being that they attack him! Which couldn’t be because they believe his positions are opportunistic, divisive, or plain idiotic, you understand — such a concession, after all, would require that Trippi conceive of Edwards’ critics as sentient beings instead of beer guzzling, gun-toting trailer trash who hate the gays and wish to control The Vagina. Instead, Edwards’ detractors, per Trippi, attack him because they fear him. It
SCOTUS and the conservative turn
Hot Air has the rundown on a rash of Supreme Court rulings — one of which may rehabilitate free speech, even as another (absurdly, in my view) weakens it. In short, the Supreme Court has positioned itself to be forced to deal with elements of McCain Feingold, with the likelihood being that portions of the law will be ruled unconstitutional. At the same time, though, the Court — with Roberts
Eyeless in Gaza, redux
Bloodthirsty Zionist apologist Charles Krauthammer takes a hard line on both Hamas and Mahmoud Abbas — calling on Israel to threaten Gaza with isolation, and, while supporting Abbas, insisting that this time he show results, or else step down as head of the Palestinian Authority. Which is predictable rhetoric for Krauthammer, as any leftwing blog will readily point out. What these same critics won’t discuss, however — at least, not
A tale of two advocacy groups
The New York Times: fair, balanced, and unafraid. **** related: Overheard at a Manhattan cocktail party: Man: “How many hicks does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” Woman: “I don’t know. How many?” Second woman: ” — Excuse me, I’m sorry to interrupt. Consuela, dear? We’re running low on crab puffs again. Go fetch another tray and make the rounds again, would you? “Now where were we. Oh yes.
One step forward, two steps back
In an AP story detailing how Britain’s next prime minister Gordon Brown promises to “learn lessons that need to be learned” regarding Iraq — namely, that Britain’s foreign policy under Labour’s new leader will “‘reflect the truth that to isolate and defeat terrorist extremism now involves more than military force” (unless, presumably, that involves surveillance, coercive interrogation, private businesses cooperating with government, the monitoring of finances, correctly identifying terrorists as
Overheard in a Baqubah bunker, Monday, June 25
First militant: “Point of clarification, Tahir. What, precisely, is, an ‘arrowhead ripper’, anyway?”* Second militant: “What does it matter, Brother? Just make sure your weapons are loaded, and that you are prepared to die for the greater good of Allah’s will.”* First militant: “Oh, of course. That’s a given. Allahu akbar, Death to America, blah blah blah. I’m just wondering what is meant by this strange phrase — one that,
Offsprung: We believe the (socio-political experimenting we hope to do with the) children are our future
All hail the progressive social engineers!: About Offsprung: A new generation of parents is currently reinventing the very notion of parenthood, and, for that matter, of generations. Never before have human beings reproduced so interestingly, with such skepticism, and with such clever nicknames for their progeny. This important sociological development has only thus far been the subject of about 500 articles in the New York Times, and many far less
