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Posted at 8:29am on Jun. 22, 2008 A public service announcement to Time re the FISA "compromise."

By Moe Lane

Contra your suggestion otherwise, the Right is not "unhappy at concessions made to protect civil liberties." First off, that implies that we're the sort to be against civil liberties; second, we got pretty much everything we needed, thanks.

I'll agree that the Left is furious, though. That's how I found your article, in fact: googling blogs with the search term FISA has been a really fun exercise in schadenfreude these last couple of days.

Posted at 7:04pm on Jun. 21, 2008 Our Insane Energy Policy

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Two posts illustrate the insanity; one here and another here. And yes, this qualifies--they tell us, after all, that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result each time.

Posted at 7:02pm on Jun. 21, 2008 Michael Barone On The Surge

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Read it all. As he points out, McCain has been consistently right on this issue and as of this writing, Obama has done nothing to acknowledge the facts on the ground in Iraq. Hardly deserving of the genuine meaning of the term "reality-based" but entirely in keeping with the Orwellian and ironic characteristics that have surrounded the term since its introduction into the public lexicon. (Via Glenn Reynolds.)

Posted at 6:54pm on Jun. 21, 2008 Newsweak

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Worst. Poll. Ever? Possibly. RedState colleague Ben Domenech has more on this issue; I confess that at first glance, I was concerned by the poll, not having recognized in my sleep-deprived state that the poll was only of adults and not even of registered voters, let alone likely ones.

Posted at 6:53pm on Jun. 21, 2008 The Schooling Of David Sirota

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Found here. Whether the schooling actually works depends, of course, on whether the likes of David Sirota are willing to be educated on subjects they plainly don't know anything about. On that latter point, I am not optimistic. (Via Don Boudreaux.)

Posted at 10:04pm on Jun. 20, 2008 Blog Post Of The Day

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Courtesy of Ilya Somin. A masterful reply to exceedingly--and bizarrely--dyspeptic behavior on the part of a small percentage of the University of Chicago's faculty.

Posted at 10:02pm on Jun. 20, 2008 Barack Obama On School Vouchers

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

The flip-flopping continues--and at an almost unbelievable rate.

Posted at 9:56pm on Jun. 20, 2008 More Polls

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Gallup still has the race virtually tied between Obama and McCain. More evidence, it would seem, to conclude that this race may well be closer than a lot of people were initially led to believe.

Posted at 9:48pm on Jun. 20, 2008 A Memo To MoveOn.org

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

The New York Times calls shenanigans on your latest ad. Take note and surprise us by doing the right thing and retracting it.

With an apology for trying to mislead voters, while you are at it.

Posted at 7:29pm on Jun. 20, 2008 Out of Toilet Paper? Use Newsweek Polling Data!

By Ben Domenech

Have you heard? It's over! Barack Obama has a 15 point lead on John McCain! Game over man, game over! You might as well mock up the logo!

Oh, wait. Newsweek surveyed 1014 *adults*.

That's adults, not even Registered Voters, let alone Likely Voters. I wonder how many of them had even heard there was another candidate in the race?

Rasmussen's daily tracking poll questions roughly 3,000 Likely Voters - they've got it at 4 percentage points. USA Today/Gallup has it at 6 points; Fox has it at 4 points. Newsweek's poll isn't even in the Margin of Error for any of these other polls. (Edit: Actually, Gallup has it even closer.)

We're conservationists here, and that's a waste of good paper. Put it to use in your toilet instead.

Posted at 5:40pm on Jun. 20, 2008 Will Veep For Press

By Dan McLaughlin

Chuck Hagel says he's willing to join Barack Obama's ticket. Not gonna happen, of course, but it gets headlines for Hagel, and really, is there any higher purpose one can serve?

Posted at 9:33am on Jun. 20, 2008 Touchstone gem

By Paul J Cella

Touchstone is a magazine every serious Christian should be reading, not least for articles like this one, by Edward Tingley.

Posted at 12:48am on Jun. 20, 2008 Drill, Drill, Drill!

By Dan McLaughlin

Ruffini collects the tea leaves (including a few that have been bandied about here) adding up to a groundswell of energy behind drilling for more oil here in the U.S. Geraghty notes some of the fuzzy math the Democrats are using to discount the value of drilling here ("note that Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer uses the magic math to insist that another million barrels a day from Saudi Arabia would bring the price down by $25 a barrel and 62 cents a gallon, while the exact same amount coming from ANWR would lower prices by a penny"), but we've seen the same strategies deployed over the years against tax cuts, and they don't work; if people think the policy's a good one, they are not going to care about dueling projections of how good (by contrast, the Democrats' pick-at-the-numbers approach worked on Social Security reform in large part because Bush foolishly played on their green-eyeshade turf by fighting about "solvency" rather than stressing consumer choice).

Drilling = more supply = lower prices. Voters are not fools, they understand that, and with $4/gallon gas, they will drill their own dogs if necessary to get prices down. And the Democrats are fools if they let themselves get painted as standing in the way of that.

Posted at 10:28pm on Jun. 19, 2008 Obamanomics

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Dan Drezner is not a fan. I guess the Obama campaign is back to demagoguing globalization and trade, after having initially sought to soothe us by saying that earlier condemnations of globalization and trade merely constituted "overheated and amplified" rhetoric.

Posted at 10:22pm on Jun. 19, 2008 Memo To Congress

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Be like Jed Bartlet. Do the right thing.

Posted at 10:21pm on Jun. 19, 2008 Quotes That Catch My Fancy

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Bastiat always did have a way with words.

Posted at 10:19pm on Jun. 19, 2008 On Speculators And The Price Of Rice

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

The connection is thin. Look at the weak dollar for a better explanation concerning the increase in rice and other food prices--not to mention the increase in the price of oil. Supply and demand have something to do with it as well, or so rumor has it.

Posted at 10:02pm on Jun. 19, 2008 Just words?

By Jeff Emanuel

Just for clarification, it appears that when Democrat Congressman Paul Kanjorski, of PA-11, says:

I shared the frustration of my constituents that the war in Iraq continued...I expressed my belief that some Democrats in 2006 overestimated the ability of a single house of Congress to end the war, particularly in the face of an intransigent President and Senate Republicans who are committed to continuing the war

...it actually means, "I'm going to vote for giving the President everything he wants and more in the next Iraq Supplemental I get the chance to vote on."

Thanks for the clarification, Congressman. It's appreciated, not least by your gullible netroot supporters, I'm sure.

Posted at 9:41pm on Jun. 19, 2008 I think I understand now why Obama got that DCCC money request out so hastily.

By Moe Lane

You know, this one? I figured that it was probably just the FISA thing, but if the Democrats aren't even going to bother trying to look like they're working to defund the war, well...