Posted at 9:33pm on Jun. 26, 2008 AOL Hot Seat Poll: China
By absentee
I find this question, and the results, interesting. I encourage you to chime in!
Posted at 11:19am on Jun. 26, 2008 Maoist Mike Klonsky sacrificed to Obamabus.
By Moe Lane
Gateway Pundit has the details; Glenn Reynolds sums it all up in one word. Personally, I'd recommend that the Obama campaign stop trying to make these people unpersons and start putting up little stylized signs indicating "This guy is a loon: we didn't want him here, and we got rid of him," except that there's at least one glaringly obvious assumption in there that might not be all that accurate...
Posted at 10:34pm on Jun. 25, 2008 Reviving The So-Called "Fairness Doctrine"
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
I'll make this short: The Speaker of the House is in favor of the plan. But actually reviving the so-called "Fairness Doctrine" is an immensely bad idea. Here's why.
Posted at 9:29pm on Jun. 25, 2008 I'd love to know what his blink rate was when he said that.
By Moe Lane
Given, you know, this:
"A new Rasmussen Reports national poll found just 37 percent of voters think Clinton wants Obama to win the White House."
Posted at 8:38pm on Jun. 25, 2008 Glenn Reynolds is not normally this cruel.
By Moe Lane
Not that I object, mind you: I'm just... surprised. They must have sent him more whiny emails than normal, or something.
Posted at 5:12pm on Jun. 25, 2008 It Is No Longer Acceptable For You To Question My Environmentalism
By Dan McLaughlin
At least, if I've understood the way Democrats talk these days, that's the meaning of this from the Mayor of Denver (Mark Kilmer has more here):
Democrats say the point is to build habits that will endure long after the convention. To that end, the city has staged "greening workshops" attended by hundreds of caterers, restaurant owners and hotel managers. "It's the new patriotism," Mayor Hickenlooper says.
Either that, or they are just trying to avoid unpleasant questions about what they've done with the old patriotism. I understand it's biodegradable.
Posted at 12:49am on Jun. 25, 2008 "Divided Loyalties"
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
Posted at 6:59pm on Jun. 24, 2008 My Response to CfG's Response to My Response to Jeff Crouere's Piece
By Leon H Wolf
First, let me thank Nachama Soloveichik for penning a thoughtful response to my piece about Bobby Jindal from earlier today. I appreciate the work CfG does promoting and donating to conservative candidates and their contribution to conservative discussion in general is valuable.
My disagreements with Ms. Soloveichik are mainly quibbles, and may be disposed of with relative ease. First, my post was clearly directed to Jeff Crouere's Human Events piece, which I found to be clearly and absurdly over the top. I did reference and link to another post on The Next Right that was critical of CfG's coverage of the Veepstakes, but that was certainly not the point of my post. Insofar as I mentioned the CfG at all, it was to disapprove of this post from Andrew Roth (another guy I'm a fan of) that I found to be particularly ridiculous. So much so that I expect that Mr. Roth penned it at least somewhat tongue-in-cheek (although you never know, the internet is a poor communications medium in many respects). But it all goes to my larger point that we ought to show a little more perspective when dealing with possible national stars. Executives especially have a more difficult time maintaining ideological purity, and my sense is that Jindal and Palin are two of the better ones we have (although time will ultimately tell).
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Posted at 1:29am on Jun. 24, 2008 Hey, ACTBLUE! I have another traitorous Democrat for you to burn! [Fixed]
By Moe Lane
A guy by the name of Russ Feingold: he's the junior Senator from Wisconsin, and he just announced that he's not going to participate in a filibuster of FISA.
You know him? I understand that he did some bipartisan work on campaign finance "reform" with Senator McCain, back when progressives still pretended that that sort of thing actually mattered to them.
(h/t Constant Reader bk)
Posted at 12:54am on Jun. 24, 2008 A Note To The McCain Campaign
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
This is an incredibly serious issue which can help your campaign a great deal. You all may want to take note and irrevocably identify your candidate with it so that you can potentially build up a crucial advantage over the Obama campaign--one that might actually put you over the top in what may be a very close election.
Posted at 12:51am on Jun. 24, 2008 "We're All Doomed!!!!!!!!"
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
Actually, no we are not.
Posted at 12:50am on Jun. 24, 2008 Utterly Unshocking News Of The Day
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
Posted at 12:48am on Jun. 24, 2008 Quotes That Catch My Fancy
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
In the end, more than freedom, they [the ancient Athenians] wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all - security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
--Edward Gibbon. Thanks to the Smithians for the most timely reminder of an excellent observation.
Posted at 12:32am on Jun. 24, 2008 "We're Going To Be Respected In The World Again!"
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
It's one of the chief boasts of the Obama campaign and it permeates the Democratic party down the line during this election season. Too bad that when it comes to this issue--and other issues as well--there is such a gap between rhetoric and reality.
Posted at 12:29am on Jun. 24, 2008 Way To Go San Francisco!
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
You're actually giving some credence to that "war on the middle class" rhetoric!
Posted at 11:46pm on Jun. 23, 2008 Throwing Some Reality At The "Reality-Based Community"
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
William Kristol describes--and it is amazing that a description is actually needed--the many, many, many things that are wrong with MoveOn.org's latest demagogic ad. Funny enough, we don't get all that much outrage from the mainstream media regarding the tone and tenor of the ad--which is deeply misleading. Maybe we have to wait for John McCain to start airing his ads in earnest before those complaints saturate the mainstream media--whether the complaints are merited or not in McCain's case.
Posted at 9:43am on Jun. 23, 2008 Much shorter Ed Morrissey:
By Moe Lane
Posted at 8:40am on Jun. 23, 2008 Nice to see the media catching up: New York Post on Obama WTC Gaffe.
By Moe Lane
Somebody finally noticed that Barack Obama seems to be laboring under the profoundly mistaken belief that we caught and captured all the people responsible for the first WTC bombing. Good on them to notice Andrew McCarthy's reaction in NRO - although they could have linked - but, shoot, man: we were reporting on this last week. You guys need to ramp up your reaction times some.