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04-Sep-10Integrity
01-Sep-10“I was asked recently which of the political leaders I had met had most integrity. I listed George near the top. He had genuine integrity and as much political courage as any leader I ever met.” –Tony Blair on George W. Bush
Eli Lehrer of the Heartland Institute accuses US Attorney General Eric Holder of dragging his feet on implementing reforms that would protect vulnerable prisoners from rape.
Another post from his daily email newsletter: I keep hearing gays and lesbians lament that the government won’t let them get married. No, the government won’t give them a piece of paper declaring that they’re married. Marriage is not a piece of paper; it is made out of years of love, mutual effort, understanding, and [...]
Shouting “racism” as a political tactic
26-Jul-10The great blog American Thinker offers us a nugget of fact-based truth: Journolist, the “unofficial Obama campaign,” proves that irresponsible, false charges of racism are accepted on the left as a political tactic.
He might be starting to get it
22-Jul-10Then again, a broken clock tells the right time twice a day. Here is Sullivan’s rather bloodless post acknowledging that Journolist critics might have a point.
Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller expands the the JournoList scandal with a new article by Jonathan Strong, showing how the formerly-secret internet listserv was used to coordinate a strategy to mute criticism of Rev. Jeramiah Wright during Obama’s campaign. The current mainstream media can still function with a tarnished reputation. But they leave a vacuum that legitimate, [...]
Another canary dies in the coal mine
18-Jul-10One of my friends, a very liberal white guy whose partner is black, removed all the Obama stickers from the back of his car. Only his Human Rights Campaign sticker remains. If the Democrats lose people like him, who’s left to vote for them? They seem to be expecting to lose Congress, as Charles Krauthammer [...]
She’s sooooooo stupid
01-Jul-10It’s no news that Nancy Pelosi is dumb as a box of rocks. But her notion that unemployment insurance payments are a great way to create jobs is so incandescently ignorant, it’s stunning that a person so stupid could ever become a leader of any kind. By her logic, we could achieve full employment by laying everybody [...]
Breitbart tells Sullivan where to put it
30-Jun-10If that’s possible. UPDATE: Headline changed. The Standards and Practices Dept. suggested that I tone down the blue rhetoric a bit, in the hope that this will become a more family-oriented blog. (Hah.)