About Maverick. Obama would later pick these lies up and use them to claim that Maverick was lying about his own record, when he criticized Obama. Even as Obama repeated the claim that McCain anticipates a 100 year American military occupation of Iraq. Waiting for Obama apology. Sweetie.
May 2008
A Subtle Reminder [Dan Collins]
I am one of those people, like Malkin, who was first inspired to blog by a fellow named Jeff Goldstein, whose blog, Protein Wisdom is one of the best that ever has been (Scott Burgess also deserves discredit). Jeff (“Heff” in Spanish) is looking to blog from the Democratic National Convention in Denver. I’d like to see him put up in a suite with plenty of good single malt, so
Days of Future Passed [Dan Collins]
By 2014, the New York Times has become a print-only newsletter for the elite and the elderly. Uh. Too late. Guess this thing’s 4 years old, though, so it would have been hard to anticipate how far the NYT’s fortunes would have dropped by now. If everybody’s special, nobody’s special, right? Anyone have the information on who funded this? The production values are very good. More: For $5,000, AuthorTree will
Michael Totten on Michael Yon’s New Book [Dan Collins]
A great review of what appears to be an exciting book by possibly the best war reporter alive. I don’t know the publisher, Richard Vigilante Books, but please support them if you can, and make the big names wish it were theirs. And, if you haven’t seen it yet, don’t forget JD Johannes’s Outside the Wire, more than halfway to surpassing Redacted‘s box office gross. Dissident Frogman’s Obama campaign poster.
Poor Hillary, poor Libby, poor journalism, poor thinking [Karl]
Washington Post Staff Writer Libby Copeland bemoans “poor Hillary” — or rather, that people say it of Hillary Clinton’s seemingly Quixotic quest for the White House: “Poor Hillary,” write the op-ed writers and the bloggers and the newspaper letter-writers. “Poor Hillary’s done,” writes a gleeful reader in Portsmouth, Va., on Mother’s Day. “The Billstone Around Poor Hillary’s Neck,” reads a New York Daily News headline yesterday. The talk show host
Contrast [Dan Collins]
Greedy President Bush: President Bush‘s financial fortunes appear to have declined over the past seven years, with his family assets dropping as low as $6.5 million, according to disclosure forms released yesterday. Bush and his wife, Laura, were worth at least $9 million and as much as $24 million at the start of his term. The Bushes could still be worth as much as $20 million now, according to the
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (CraigC)
The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (who knew) explains the sexual practices of the little brown peoples: Throughout Indonesia, a majority of women regularly engage in a number of practices to “clean,” “dry,” “tighten,” or “deodorize” their vaginas. These practices derive from longstanding traditions designed to achieve conformity with expectations about the appearance, function, and sexual performance of the vagina. These are rooted in a widespread
Lori Drew Indicted [Dan Collins]
As much as I disdain this [insert rude epithet], I don’t think that the courts are the way to go. You may feel otherwise: perhaps to make an example is worthwhile in such a notorious case? Sister Toldjah’s writing about it, too. (h/t memeorandum) Investigations: while Specter wants Congress to look into “Spygate,” Patterico drops a bombshell on the LA Times, and David Vitter was acquitted for having instrumentalized the (presumably) suicided
Peggy’s Pathetic Pontificating Pundit Pity Party [Dan Collins]
Ptooie. Bemoaning the party’s problems, Peggy doesn’t provide much in the way of constructive advice: What happens to the Republicans in 2008 will likely be dictated by what didn’t happen in 2005, and ’06, and ’07. The moment when the party could have broken, on principle, with the administration – over the thinking behind and the carrying out of the war, over immigration, spending and the size of government –
