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May 2008

Clueless [Dan Collins]

I hate to thump Andrew over this, as if he’s been consistent about one thing over the years, it’s been that the Clintons are ethically pernicious.  So, when Mrs. Clinton demagogues the vote in Florida, stating that it would be tragic if once again, after the way they were robbed by Bush in 2000, their votes (in the primary) weren’t counted.  It makes Andrew’s gob tingle painfully, in a way

Media meltdown over Clinton’s comments on FL & MI [Karl]

TIME magazine’s Mark Halperin calls it Hillary Clinton’s “baldest” appeal to Florida and Michigan voters.  Fernando Suarez of CBS News calls it a “desperate” ploy for attention to her cause to seat Florida and Michigan delegates.  TNR’s Jonathan Chait calls it a “shocking gambit” and “simply incredible.”  And of course Excitable Andy is gobsmacked/ nauseated/ heartsick at her “shameless” and “unconscionable” efforts; her poor losing is “so ugly, so feckless, so

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull [Karl]

“Prairie dogs… Why did it have to be prairie dogs?”  I’m kidding! You know I wouldn’t spoil it for you! 

John Kerry [Dan Collins]

Feels sad about Teddy, but finally gets to be Massachusetts’ Senior Senator! The Day Lebanon Died Related Sad, really.  It seems not so long ago that we were excited by Lebanese Protest Babes:   And it could have been, too, if the “international community” had . . . ah, well: none of that.  They weren’t even aware of the Syrian reactor that the Israelis took out, were they? No, much

Unrequited Love [Dan Collins]

>Comment by Chuck Adkins on 5/21 @ 6:15 pm # Left in my comment section of my Blog. Chuckie, Dan Collins, Jeff Goldstein’s mini-me, is calling you a bad person. This is from a guy who stalks his exes on the internet, calls Glenn Greenwald a faggot, uses the word “nigromancy” as a clever allusion to Obama’s charm, and knows people in his grad school hated him because he wore

Are (fill-in-the-blank-here) out of ideas? [Karl]

At The Atlantic, Megan McArdle asks, “Are conservatives out of ideas?” Her answer, unsurprisingly (to me, anyway) is “yes,” though she adds: There is, however, a nascent optimism in the conservative and libertarian policy worlds. The last five years have been pretty demoralizing. Now I’m seeing more and more people who are actually looking forward to going into the wilderness for a little while, where they can get their heads

Barack Obama starts getting organized in Florida [Karl]

At the L.A. Times, Peter Wallsten reports on Barack Obama’s new organizational and outreach efforts in the Sunshine state: The extended fight with Clinton helped Obama build volunteer networks and burnish his get-out-the-vote techniques in less populous general-election battleground states, such as Colorado. But winning Florida’s 27 Electoral College votes will require him to build his campaign machinery almost from scratch. *** The Florida efforts are being replicated nationally, with

Hezb’allah Consolidates Power in Lebanon [Dan Collins]

Walid Phares.At the same time, the Syrians are reaching out to Israel?  Can that possibly mean that they’d dash the hopes of the “Palestinians” in exchange for the Golan Heights?  Somehow, I don’t find that credible.My suggestion is that US forces might occupy a portion of Syria roughly equivalent in size to Lebanon without a great deal of trouble.  Then we can talk. Related: According to Palestinian Media Watch, the ‘Palestinian’

Children lose the right to have fathers

…Well, only in the UK, for the time being. But there’s always hope that our legislators and justices will look abroad to find out what the sophisticates are doing and, in a perverse reversal of the impetus for founding this country, seek the approbation of their English betters. After all, what good is having a “Living Constitution” if it can’t vacation over seas now and then, and bring back a

Illegal Aliens and Identity Theft [Dan Collins]

Identity-theft amnesty:  As everyone knows, America is experiencing an epidemic of identity theft. In the last five years alone, complaints to the Federal Trade Commission from U.S. residents who have had their identity stolen have skyrocketed 60 percent, to 258,427 in 2007—one-third of all consumer fraud complaints that the commission receives. What’s less well understood, however, is how illegal immigration is helping to fuel this rash of crime. Seeking access