In my post yesterday, I laid out, by way of a brief but broad historical overview, the reasons I believed that Colin Powell’s support for Barack Obama — the latest in a line of “realist” Republicans to endorse the left-most Senator in the US, a man who has proven ideological ties to radicals like Bill Ayers, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Bernardine Dohrne, et al — was unsurprising: first, because realpolitik,

I’ve already covered here at length Obama’s disturbing, anti-democratic attempt to game law reviews in an attempt to sway judicial rulings against the “individual rights” (plain text / intentional) interpretation of the Second Amendment. Following up on that, here is the text of an open letter to the nation’s hunters and sportsmen issued by Illinois State Rifle Association Executive Director Richard Pearson. All of the emphases will be mine: Fellow

Over a week now and still no response to my dozen or so queries. In fact, I still haven’t received notification of the account suspension. The one contact I do have at youtube, grove@youtube.com, has ignored my several emails asking to please be put in touch with anyone who might shed some light on my situation. I even included phone numbers and asked, if he’d prefer, for me to call

Notes Scranton’s regular Joe: Electing Obama will lead to an international crisis. Not may, mind you, but will. “Mark my words,” Biden assures us. “I guarantee it will happen.” And when it does, Democrats need to circle the wagon around Barack. Because in the long term, peace through, uh, weakness? capitulation.? ..is the best way forward. Or something. Meantime, I sure do Hope that nobody is turned to a fine

…only one of which, surprisingly, claims Queen Elizabeth is given to screaming “butter my parsnips!” at the height of her royal ecstasy. And believe me, I’ve looked.

“Sorry, Comrade Lesnar. When I said I’d be heading home to have a nice dinner and then share some intimate time with my wife, of course I meant with I’d be asking you home for a nice dinner and some intimate time with our wife…” Developing…

Unfortunately, while Kurtz’ points will resonate with those of us who vote with an eye toward more than simply “fashion” or “symbolism,” they will likely be brushed aside by those raised on a nannystate grown increasingly legitimized by both parties. From “Something New Here,” NRO (which, given its importance, I’ll quote at length): During his first campaign for the Illinois state senate in 1995-96, Barack Obama was a member of,

Well, it was partly Mr Ayers’, too, so let’s “spread the wealth” of praise a bit, shall we? From the NY Post: Chicago’s former schools chief has flunked the education foundation headed by Barack Obama and founded by 1960s terrorist Bill Ayers – saying it failed to monitor projects and funded school “reform” groups that campaigned against boosting academic standards. “There was a total lack of accountability. If you went

So argues the LATimes blog. Personally, I’m not bothered by that death. But what I’d like to see is a clear set of rules and those rules adhered to. I suspect that, forced to compete, the GOP — or perhaps even a fledgling new party — will find a way. And the market will once again show its wisdom.

First, I bet Oliver Stone wishes just now he’d tempered the General’s portrayal in the disappointing W. Beyond that, though, why is there any surprise Powell would back Obama? As I’ve been writing about for years now, contemporary progressives — either to separate themselves from “neocons” for electoral purposes (and so cynically) or because they truly believe in the foreign policy realism of Nixon, George H W Bush, 70s-era Kissinger,