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October 2007

When the Democratic Smear Brigade gives you lemons…

…make $2.1 million in lemonade, donate it to the Marine Corps, then sit back and watch as Harry Reid goes from gray-skinned opportunist to, like, grayer skinned opportunist. Final score: Capitalism 1, Reid, et al, still trying to find their way through the maze of tunnels to the stage. “HELLO CLEVELAND!”

Conservative Echo-chamber shows signs of internal friction (UPDATED)

First, here’s John Podheretz, writing in NRO’s The Corner: “Immigration Is Incompatible With a Modern Society” So sayeth Mark Krikorian. Thank you, Mark. You have written honest words. And this is where I came in. Nearly four years ago, speaking out in modest support for the original Bush proposal on immigration, I was hammered by John Derbyshire and others for not understanding the profound difference between LEGAL IMMIGRATION (good) and

Blowback

Scores dead, hundreds wounded. Probably just some jihadis upset over Kyoto stalemates and subprime lending. Or Maybe Bhutto was caught reading “My Pet Goat” while the Towers fell. So difficult to tell sometimes what sets these folks off. **** Michelle Malkin has more.

"Neal Boortz and Susan Estrich Debate Randi Rhodes Incident" (UPDATED)

Video here, courtesy STACLU. Incidentally, Steve Green and I talked about this very thing on next week’s Pajamas Media XM radio show (not sure when it airs, to be honest). From what I can gather, Rhodes was mugged by 14 Ketel-One Bloody Marys — which, given that she might have been enjoying those libations in the evening — makes her mugging completely antithetical to conservatism. I mean, what Buckleyite would

When Mediocrity Attacks!

In response to my post “Al Qaeda reported crippled in Iraq,” La Rana, in a post entitled “Dumb people La Rana reads for some reason,” attempts a brisk fisking [portions of my original post I’ll place in italics]: Jeff Goldstein is smart enough to identify some of the arguments that obliterate the rationale for the War On Terror, but not smart enough to do anything but wriggle around and throw

Handicapping Identity Politics

If you happen to be a Democrat politico, it’s like a grievance group steel cage match! Early returns have the “gendereds” leading the “of colors” by a widening margin. I suspect this has something to do with the essentialism of sex trumping the construct of race — though I suspect Dr Watson, were he queried, might try to poke such supposition with a set of rudimentary utensils and a makeshift

Nanny statism writ small (UPDATED)

Well, it’s finally happened. My first run in with our HOA. And the The Covenant. Seems the outside of my back fence (a 6-foot wood plank job), which borders a dead end street and is contiguous to an open brush field, has become the breeding ground for some broadleaf and tumble weed. I’ve sprayed the area and pulled the weeds twice this summer — it’s a considerable stretch, but nothing

BREAKING: Pelosi working on Bush Impeachment? (UPDATED)

Via Richard M, who attended a meeting of anti-war activists in Los Angeles on Sunday: Congresswoman Diane Watson (D-Culver City) spoke in front of an audience of some 150 activists from various LA antiwar organizations at an Iraq Town Hall meeting in Los Angeles on Sunday, October 14th hosted by California Assembly Majority leader Karen Bass and the ’47th Assembly District People’s Council’ at Hamilton High School. The audience responded

"GOP targeting Clinton on phone-call snooping"

Greenwaldian outrage sure to follow. From The Hill: Republicans plan to seize on an allegation from the 1992 presidential campaign to tarnish Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) on the red-hot issue of government surveillance. Government surveillance will be at the forefront of the political debate this fall as congressional Democrats and President Bush square off over legislation allowing electronic spying on U.S. soil without a warrant. Well, I continue to

An excerpt from an extremely brief Sherlock Holmes mystery (previously unpublished)

Holmes: “And because it appears the murder was committed by someone whose belief in the powers of his own intelligence exceeds that of it’s material heft, I’m forced to conclude –” Dr. Watson: ” — Wait, allow me. A negro did it. Am I right…?”* ~ finis ~