Mark Levin, guest posting, has a takedown of Frum posted at Dan Riehl’s site. If you missed him stomping on Dreher, it’s here. I’m just going to note for the record that the infighting between RINOs and conservatives has reached absurd proportions, considering it’s over the Republican Party. There’s so much fraud and governmental overreach and corruption and outright lying that it’s really impossible to do it all justice on
May 27, 2009
Inflation [Dan Collins]
Golden Thing sold for $10k: A transcript of a secretly recorded phone call between the brother of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and U.S. Sen. Roland Burris was released in federal court today, a call in which Burris, then seeking the Senate seat, was recorded offering the Blagojevich campaign a campaign check. “I know I could give him a check,” Burris said. “Myself.” But in the same call, Burris tells Robert
May 27, 2009
Good Morning! Another Grim Milestone! [Dan Collins]
Worldwide, 100 dead from flu. What makes it so scary is that it’s Swine Flu.
May 26, 2009
SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sotomayor and the role of judges
You say fidelity to the Constitution and deference to law makers, she says empathy and policy creation. Tomato, tomatoh.
May 26, 2009
Prop 8 Upheld [Dan Collins]
California’s State Supreme Court upheld Prop 8 today. More than a victory for traditional marriage, this was a victory for the rule of law, regarding California’s referendum process. Ed Morrissey notes that because the gay marriages that were performed during the interim are grandfathered, this opens the door to years of competing referenda, and that’s true. What we’ll see is people arguing equal protection grounds, even though the argument is
May 26, 2009
Statistician Needed [Dan Collins]
Doug Ross: A tipster alerted me to an interesting assertion. A cursory review by that person showed that many of the Chrysler dealers on the closing list were heavy Republican donors. To quickly review the situation, I took all dealer owners whose names appeared more than once in the list. And, of those who contributed to political campaigns, every single one had donated almost exclusively to GOP candidates. While this
May 26, 2009
The Death of Literary Studies [Dan Collins]
Yesterday, Darleen wrote about the dust-up over graduate student putz Sean Parrish’s typically stupid assertions regarding what the academy is all about, and as others point out, if he’s right, then all literature departments ought to be made portions of social studies and political science departments. Approaching this subject, I feel like Jeff does whenever he feels compelled to make the same arguments regarding intentionality with respect to the endless
May 25, 2009
As Reggie Jackson once said…
…”they don’t boo nobodies.” Which, if that’s the case, who knows? — maybe there’s hope for me yet… Here’s wishing you all a great remainder of the holiday weekend. Now that I seem to have both the pragmatic right and the progressive left aligned firmly against me, I figure I’ve earned myself a bit of guacamole on my vacation burger. OUTLAW! (h/t Dan)
May 25, 2009
This Will Have to Do [Dan Collins]
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate–we cannot consecrate–we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to
May 24, 2009
World’s Most Dangerous Animal Exhibit at London Zoo [Dan Collins]
I saw the headline and thought, “OH, NOES! THEY GOT CHENEY!” Phew! At least they got the sex and skin color right.