At 27%, his next closest competitor is Mit Romney at 16%, with McCain third at 13%. One of the speakers at the YAF conference was National Review’s John Miller, who admitted to leaning toward Giuliani, though he acknowledged Rudy’s problems on abortion with the conservative base. Of course, Miller’s observation is only germane if one believes the conventional wisdom that the conservative base these days consists nearly entirely of social

To Michael Gibson for the CD lot: The Gram Parsons Anthology, Uncle Tupelo’s No Depression, Son Volt’s Wide Swing Tremolo, and John Prine’s John Prine. My iPod, it runneth over. Incidentally, I brought an iPod dock speaker system and a bunch of music with me to the YAF convention, but I never got to use it publicly — specifically, because it dawned on me at some point that much of

Roger Simon, on the lackluster response to the recent batch of anti-American foreign policy films that have been oozing out of Hollywood like chicken-fried steak grease out of Michael Moore’s backfat: The truth is Hollywood people are massively uninformed. They live in a bubble and, outside what they read in the New York Times and hear on NPR, they know almost nothing about what is really going on in the

Scorpius over at SondraK’s brings us this fascinating tidbit: Winona Ryder has joined the cast of J.J. Abram’s upcoming Star Trek, playing the mother of young Spock (Zachary Quinto), Variety reported. If Abrams’ Trek film follows the established mythology, Ryder would play Amanda, the human woman who marries Spock’s Vulcan father, Sarek. In the original series, Amanda was played by TV veteran Jane Wyatt. She’s invited on a Starship, and

Dr. Sanity has up a superb article on the rhetorical and philosophical symbiosis of Intellectually Elite Westerners and Islamofacists. Congratulations to Moron Pundit! When I started this blog all those days ago, I had a dream; to pollute the airwaves with flagrant profanity and pointless images of explosions. I think we can all agree that I have achieved my fucking goal. Let this be a lesson, people: Aim high; you’ll

Jack M. steps out of his online persona over at AoS to crave the attention of the blogosphere and the MSM in making notorious some evil bastards who caused a fifteen thirteen year old girl to hang herself in a bizarre and sick MySpace ambush.

Michelle Obama urges Black America to wake up and smell the black coffee on The Morning Grind: “I’m completely confident: black America will wake up, and get [it]. But what we’re dealing with in the black community is just the natural fear of possibility…You know, there’s always that doubt in the back of the minds of people of color. People who’ve been oppressed and haven’t been given real opportunities. That

Hillary Clinton’s campaign has admitted to planting questions with audience members in Iowa and pointing out the plants to her (though it was also news to her, somehow).  Rival candidate John Edwards pounced on the scandalette, saying the practice is “what George Bush does.” Edwards — and the press which relayed his attack — have short memories. Others may recall that in 1992, President-elect Clinton held an “economic summit” in Little

Our flight out of Santa Barbara — a nice 1:52 direct shot to DIA — was canceled yesterday afternoon when some kind of warning light flared up during taxiing for takeoff. So instead of getting home at a reasonable hour, my wife and I were obligated to visit the airport in San Jose, and from there, catch a flight back to Colorado. All of which has left me exhausted, particularly

In an excellent piece at The American Thinker. If there’s one thing I want you to take away from the article, it’s that pirates are to blame for rising temperatures. It also suggests a cool new team name for my alma mater.