July 19, 2006
“Thank you for the Hezbollah view”
Is Tony Snow the greatest White House press secretary ever, or what? Watch and enjoy.
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June 25, 2006
Quotable
Newt Gingrich:
I think the Republican Party has few allies more effective than the Daily Kos. (Link)
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May 8, 2006
The things people believe ...
I’m not sure which one of these I enjoyed more:
The voting machines in Florida were built by white supremacists. They may well be able to distinguish between black and white voters. Who knows what they are capable of making those machines do?
Or:
It is a proven fact that U.S. Coast Guard ships — on orders from President Bush — were seen crashing into the New Orleans levees during Hurricane Katrina. Bush did it to kill black people living in government housing projects.
More amusement here.
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April 7, 2006
“Experts agree, Wilson’s a pig”
Joe Wilson, via The Plank:
You know when they first started trying to come up with a way to discredit me, which we now know started in March of 2003, they went through the old standbys. “He’s had 3 wives, he’s a womanizer, he’s done drugs.” But then they realized they couldn’t use those because I’ve never actually denied them. I mean I’m the first to admit that, unlike Ken Mehlman and David Dreier, I really like women. (Link)
Ken Mehlman is chairman of the Republican National Committee. David Dreier is a Republican congressman from California.
How do you think the lefties would react to Wilson’s snide gay-baiting were he a conservative? Do you think they’d thrill to him?
For the Left, hating Mr. Bush covers a multitude of sin.
By the way, have I ever mentioned that Joe Wilson is a liar? Yes, I see that I have.
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“I would hope from time to time that you have the humility and grace to be ashamed of yourself”
That’s what a granola-eating, “what-if-I-were-a woman” moonbat said yesterday to the president of the United States.
The audience booed the moonbat.
The president said, “Let him speak.” And then he turned the moonbat aside with self-deprecating humor, and told him that he absolutely would not apologize for invading the privacy of terrorists.
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March 29, 2006
Rep. Cynthia McKinney assaults Capitol cop
Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) punched a U.S. Capitol Police officer today after he mistakenly pursued her for failing to pass through a metal detector.
Members are not required to pass through metal detectors and the officer, manning a position at Longworth House Office Building, apparently did not recognize McKinney and didn’t see her Member pin.
The officer called out “Ma’am, Ma’am,” in an attempt to stop her.
When the officer caught up to McKinney, he grabbed her by the arm.
McKinney pulled her arm away, swung around, cell phone in hand, and punched the officer square in the chest, according to the witness.
Won’t it be interesting to see what, if anything, happens to Rep. McKinney? I know what would happen to you or me if we punched a cop.
(Thanks to Right Wing News.)
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March 26, 2006
Cindy Sheehan, MFC*
[Grrr. Video not working. Click here for a link to it.]
*Moonbat First Class
(Thanks to Michelle.)
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February 18, 2006
You, moonbat! Put down the gun! Do it now!
I’m pretty sure angry, conspiracy-minded leftists should not even handle guns. And I’m certain they should not conduct ballistics testing.
I was going to settle in and deconstruct this moonbat video, which purports to show a cover-up in the Cheney shooting. But I don’t have to. Dan Riehl has already done it.
By the way, the video comes from the same dude who claims that, as part of the Government’s high-tech plans to surveil you, your $20 bills will explode if you microwave them.
(Thanks to Pundit Guy.)
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February 9, 2006
Cindy won’t run: “I felt that putting pressure on her from the outside would be more effective than working from the inside”
Oh sure, Ms. Sheehan. And I feel that I can put more pressure on Ken Mehlman by blogging than I could by taking his job as chairman of the Republican National Committee.
You’re always more effective on the outside, dear, if you have no chance whatsoever of being on the inside.
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February 8, 2006
“liberalism is the philosophy of the ill-informed; the intemperate; the marginal”
Yes.
That wasn’t always true. Remember Daniel Patrick Moynihan, one of the few intellectuals to ever sit in the U.S. Senate? He was a liberal.
But somewhere along the way, something happened — I don’t know what — and liberalism became the province of the ignorant and the unstable.
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January 31, 2006
Sheehan in the clink
According to CNN, “Cindy Sheehan was arrested Tuesday in the House gallery after refusing to cover up a T-shirt bearing an anti-war slogan before President Bush’s State of the Union address.”
If we lived in the dictatorship that Ms. Sheehan and her ilk say we do, she would now be “disappeared.” But according to the Capitol Police, she’ll be “out sometime tonight,” and I’m sure we’ll be hearing from her mouth sometime tomorrow.
ADDED — Here’s the photo from Reuters:
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January 30, 2006
Over at the left-wing Daily Kos ...
… they are not happy today. (Warning: graphic content.)
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Dressing up Cindy Sheehan ...
Jeff at Beautiful Atrocities offers several stunning outfits from which you can choose.
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January 21, 2006
Belafonte cries “Gestapo!,” but his mouth is still running
Associated Press (via Fox News):
Entertainer Harry Belafonte, one of the Bush administration’s harshest critics, compared the Homeland Security Department to the Nazi Gestapo on Saturday and attacked the president as a liar.
“We’ve come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended,” Belafonte said in a speech to the annual meeting of the Arts Presenters Members Conference.
“You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel,” said Belafonte.
Do you know how we know your accusations are untrue, Mr. Belafonte? We know they’re untrue because we’re still hearing from your mouth. Had we anything like a Nazi Gestapo, it’s a safe bet you would have been “disappeared” long ago.
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December 29, 2005
“Suspected Bush attacker in Georgia sews up mouth”
If we’re lucky, he’ll start a trend.
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December 17, 2005
WTO protestors demand secret sauce
And the Hong Kong police give it:
Helmeted police with riot shields used pepper spray foam and high-pressure water hoses to drive back the demonstrators as the clashes escalated.
And here you’ll notice the police have batons the size of baseball bats:
A good time was had by all.
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November 25, 2005
‘Fahrenheit 1861’
What if Michael Moore had made a documentary of the Civil War? Here’s the video.
(Thanks to Homocon.)
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A ‘heartbroken’ Cindy Sheehan returns to Crawford
Well, she certainly looks heartbroken:
Umm, hmm.
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November 23, 2005
Scalia v. Franken
If you don’t know what you’re talking about, it’s a bad idea to get into a public spat with Justice Scalia.
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Britain’s far Left panders to the Islamisists
Direland:
… I always thought it was a serious mistake for some sectors of the U.S. anti-war movement to have embraced [George] Galloway as an anti-war spokesman on his recent American speaking tour. Now, this repulsive and opportunistic pandering to homophobia by Galloway and his party’s leadership as part of their electoral strategy ought to make American opponents of the war shun them. Period.
(Hat tip to Will.)
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September 27, 2005
Things that make you go “hmmm”
Clayton Cramer:
It makes you wonder, doesn’t it, if the reason that the left is so focused on calling Bush a liar has something to do with projection?
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September 16, 2005
Liberal compassion in action
Why give to Katrina victims when you can give to screwball hacks?
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Gaggle
He-he …
(Thanks to News Busters.)
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September 5, 2005
Would you leave a baby in the heat?
The “compassion” of the Angry Left …
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September 4, 2005
If Republicans lose, these people will govern you
As sick as I sometimes am of my party — and of its big-spending, anti-federalist, illegal-immigration-ignoring ways — the alternative terrifies me.
Republican governance has proved costly, unprincipled and incompetent. But it’s not psychotic.
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August 7, 2005
The hatreds of the Left
David Bernstein at The Volokh Conspiracy:
Attacking [Michelle] Malkin in this way comes with especially poor grace from the left blogger community, which—dare I note—includes, as far as I’m aware, no female, nonwhite blogger nearly as prominent as Malkin. Anyway, a whole bunch of people, including Atrios, owe Malkin an apology.
Bernstein refers here to racist, sexist attacks directed at Michelle from members of the “reality-based community,” whose reality evidently includes generous amounts of trait-based hatred. As I suspect any conservative, “minority” blogger can attest, as evidenced by their e-mail, many leftists apparently think gender, race or sexual orientation perfectly legitimately targets of the vilest forms of derision if the blogger’s politics are unacceptable.
It’s fascinating, and revealing, to compare and contrast. The e-mail sent to me by readers identifying themselves as Christian evangelical Republicans is invariably free of ad hominem attacks of any sort, polite, restrained, almost apologetic. I’ve never had one call me a “fag.” I wish I could say the same, but I cannot, about the mail I’ve received from left-wing detractors, whose homophobic rhetoric has ranged from the merely juvenile to the bilious.
My little site generates only a tiny, tiny fraction of the traffic Michelle gets. As of this morning, I’ve had 62,974 unique visitors this year; Michelle will get more than that today. She’s a star of the blogosphere, destined, I think, to rival Glenn Reynolds as the leading right-of-center blogger. If I use my own inbox as a point of reference, I can only imagine how much mail Michelle gets, or how many times she’s been called a “Bangkok whore,” or worse.
As we’re told repeatedly, there is, still and yet, a lot of hatred in America. But nowadays most of it comes from the very people who loudly and often protest their fealty to “tolerance” and “diversity.” They protest too much.
I’m often asked — as I was when Ronald Reagan was president — why I do not in the prevailing political climate fear that gays and lesbians will be rounded up en masse and dispatched to the crematoria. In fact I do fear it. I just dispute the identity of the crematoria’s operators.
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July 17, 2005
"Dress code"
“… might I suggest we put away our ‘Bush is a Liar’ t-shirts?”
(Editorial cartoon courtesy of Cox & Forkum.)
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July 16, 2005
And they say gun owners are paranoid ...
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July 14, 2005
They can't take yes for an answer
Supposedly they're objecting to the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which precludes service in the armed forces by openly gay men and women. But these are the same moonbats who don't want gay men and women in uniform anyway, lest they facilitate the president's "illegal war for oil" in Iraq.
There's just no pleasing some people ...
(Thanks to Gryphmon's Grumbles. More at Gay Patriot.)
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June 24, 2005
Friday night moonbat blogging: laugh 'till you pee
When Karl Rove implies that liberals are candy ass pansies, his rhetoric is "divisive." (Oh God, are there divisions among us? Say it ain't so, Dorothy!) But when Howard Dean says he "hates" the "white, Christian" Republicans, his rhetoric is only "inartful." And when Dick Durbin compares U.S. soldiers to Nazis, his rhetoric is only "frank."
Let David Corn of the left-wing The Nation -- who, by the way, writes in complete sincerity -- provide your end-of-week belly laugh.
(Incidentally, wouldn't you think that the Washington editor of a political publication would have enough snap to know when he's being played?)
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June 4, 2005
Is Howard Dean on the GOP's payroll?
WASHINGTON -- National Democratic Chairman Howard Dean was defending another of his comments Friday after telling liberal activists a lot of Republicans "have never made an honest living in their lives."Republicans called his Thursday comment "mudslinging." Some fellow Democrats expressed reservations over his choice of words, too, before Dean amplified his comments.
"The point I was making is clear: Republican policies have declared war on hardworking Americans," Dean said Friday. "I will continue to criticize Republican leaders and their policies, and the Democratic Party will continue to offer constructive alternatives."
The Democratic chairman made the initial comments about Republicans doing "an honest day's work" Thursday during a speech to a Washington conference sponsored by the Campaign for America's Future.
While discussing the hardship of working all day and then standing in line for eight hours to vote, Dean had said, "Well, Republicans, I guess, can do that because a lot of them have never made an honest living in their lives."
Ummm, hmmm.
You know, when they see this kind of ghastly stuff, sponsored as it is by one of their own, a lot of Republicans have to think to themselves, "Maybe my party has been in power too long; maybe it should return to the minority for a while and get reacquainted with its values." No, these Republicans don't imagine themselves voting for the Democrats; they just imagine themselves not voting, which is the next best thing for the Democrats. And then right as they're imagining it, Howard Dean drops trouser.
Howie, maybe you're getting a little sumtin'-sumtin' from Karl Rove? Hmmm? After all, somebody is getting their money's worth here and it sure as hell ain't the DNC.
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March 3, 2005
Gay students at Harvard upset; world not reshaping itself on their behalf
Political correctness runs amok at Harvard, where these throw away lines from the speech of a heterosexual woman are cause for "concern," "debate" and diffuse panty-knotting:
Women, you can have it all -- a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career. They say you gotta choose. Nah, nah, nah. We are a new generation of women. We got to set a new standard of rules around here. You can do whatever it is you want. All you have to do is want it.
To my men, open your mind, open your eyes to new ideas. Be open.
Now I can see where the fastidious, inclined to the petty pleasure of ridiculing the insipid, could take issue with these remarks, which are airheaded pablum, unhelpful and untrue. Among other things, the absence of a penis does not mean that you "can do whatever it is you want." Even if you have a penis, you can't do whatever it is you want; no serious adult believes otherwise. But at Harvard, this slop comes under criticism not because it's untethered from the truth, but because it's "heteronormative:"
After some students were offended by Jada Pinkett Smith’s comments at Saturday’s Cultural Rhythms show, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) [Gag!--Ed.] and the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations have begun working together to increase sensitivity toward issues of sexuality at Harvard.
Students said that some of Pinkett Smith’s remarks concerning appropriate gender roles were specific to heterosexual relationships.
We interrupt this post for breaking news: in post-Lawrence America, heterosexuals are still relating. Film at 11.
BGLTSA Co-Chair Jordan B. Woods '06 said that, while many BGLTSA members thought Pinkett Smith’s speech was "motivational," some were insulted because they thought she narrowly defined the roles of men and women in relationships.
"Some of the content was extremely heteronormative, and made BGLTSA members feel uncomfortable," he said.
Of all the things Harvard has taught Jordon, evidently it hasn't taught him that his feelings won't always be of paramount concern to others. Pity.
The world is extremely heteronormative. And it isn't going to rearrange itself to accommodate Jordon and his fellow offendees. If they fail to accept that, they will spend their lives feeling beset and victimized at every turn; of course, that is the goal of the Grievance Lobby, whose members derive moral satisfaction from feeling put upon.
Even if the Jordon Woods of Harvard and other bubbles of the PC never get it, the rest of us can: certain inconveniences and disadvantages -- some small, others large -- attach to membership in a social minority. Assuming that we all begin life with equality of opportunity -- which is, in fact, a highly dubious assumption -- not everyone will experience equality of result.
Or, as Mickey Kaus puts it: "Part of being a minority in a democratic society with a clear majority is that you don't find yourself validated and celebrated all the time everywhere ... "
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January 8, 2005
Atheist wants to ban Bible in inaugural ceremony
Does Michael Newdow really think federal judges are this stupid? Or does he just want to give Mr. Bush a spectacular way to smack down judicial activism? I can hear the president now, with the echo of history in his voice: "The judges have made their decision. Let them come enforce it."
There really are limits to the bullshit, Mr. Newdow.
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November 16, 2004
Berry says she will not leave at term's end
Human Events:
Mary Frances Berry, the combative chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, won't step down when her term expires in December, vowing instead to stay on the job six weeks longer at the government's expense.
Ummm, hmmm.
Take it from here, guys.
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Trash talkin' neighbors
Alpha Patriot wonders whether it's time to invade Canada.
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Some people never learn II
Can Republicans truly get this lucky?
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November 11, 2004
Theorists: heavy Democratic win evidence of Republican vote fraud
By now, you've probably heard the plethora of conspiracy theories, advanced assiduously by the inhabitants of Moonbat Prime, of how Mr. Bush and the Republicans stole this election. Many of the theories are centered on voting irregularities in Ohio, including Cuyahoga County.
From the Washington Post:
The Ohio vote-fraud theory appears to stem from the curious ways of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections. During even-numbered years the county's canvassing board posts vote totals that include the results from outside the county from congressional districts that spill over Cuyahoga's borders. The quirk made it look as if the county had 90,000 more votes than voters.
The disparities were spotted, and urgent mass mailings began: "Ohio precincts report up to 1,586% turnout . . . 30 Precincts in Ohio's Cuyahoga County report 'over' 100% turnout!" Later, the county added a disclaimer to its Web site in an attempt to explain the numbers.
"It takes me about three times to explain" why the fraud allegation is untrue, said Kimberly Bartlett, community outreach specialist for the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections. "You have to ask them why no top Democrat is making these charges."
You might also ask them why a county that is heavily Democratic and that voted 2 to 1 for Mr. Kerry is evidence of Republican vote fraud.
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November 9, 2004
The majority and its morals
In a comment to this post, Roger, one of my regular liberal readers, writes:
What's the difference between the Republican party largely backed by extremely conservative Christians legislating moral values for me (passing 13 different measures in 13 different states this year preventing gay couples from marrying) and the Taliban? Both the Republican party and the Taliban have oppressed and denied equal rights to minority groups simply because they could in the name of their so called religions.
It is a symptom of the pathology with which the modern left is afflicted that Roger sees no distinction between the Taliban in Afghanistan and Christian conservatives in America.
But that isn't what interested me about Roger's comment. I'm interested by the oft-repeated suggestion, implicit in Roger's comment, that Americans -- perhaps expecially Christian Americans -- ought not to translate their moral views into law. I think that's intellectual silliness.
There isn't a law on the books that doesn't reflect somebody's moral understanding. It cannot be otherwise; we cannot not legislate morality. Take, for example, the prohibiton on murder. Does that not reflect a moral choice? Or the injunction against robbery; or the ban on insider trading; or the requirement to wear a seatbelt. Whatever the different purposes of the law -- to protect innocent life and property; to promote fairness in the markets; to prevent unnecessary and costly injuries -- they all share one thing in common: they codify private morality into public law.
Who says life and property are worth protecting? That markets ought to be fair? That injuries should be prevented? We do. And in each case, our pronouncements are rooted in our understanding of the moral and the immoral, the right and the wrong.
For the Christian evangelical, the will of God, as revealed by Scripture, is the source of moral understanding. For the secularist, moral understanding might be drawn from literature, philosophy or even personal reflection. But whatever its origins, we rely upon our moral understanding when we make law. We cannot do otherwise. Even an effort to have the law reflect no moral choice -- as, for example, when the Texas Legislature repealed the requirement that adults wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle -- is itself a moral choice. Even in our silence, our moral choices can be heard.
What Roger and others like him fear, I think, is not the writing of private morality into public statute. After all, Roger wants the law to provide equality to gay and lesbian couples, which is a reflection of his own morals. In Roger's understanding, equality is more important than tradition or guarding against unintended consequences wrought by rearranging social institutions. Other gays and lesbians want the law to punish so-called hate crimes with extra severity; this, too, is a moral choice, reflecting as it does the belief that crime motivated by certain thoughts is more offensive than other crime.
No, what Roger fears is that his own moral understanding is not shared by the majority; this is, of course, programmatically worrisome if you live in a democracy. At best, it means you have the often formidable burden of persuading your fellow citizens to change their minds. At worse, it means you lose. But in either case, it's disingenuous to pretend that we don't all want to write our own morals into law. The law is nothing but the codification of moral choice.
Posted by Paul at 4:32 PM
Leading by example, eh?
Washington Times:
The Internet has exploded with talk of a blue-state confederacy, including one screed circulating by e-mail that features a map of a new country called "American Coastopia" and proposes lopping off the Northeast, the West Coast and the upper Midwest to form a new country, away from the "rednecks in Oklahoma" and the "homophobic knuckle-draggers in Wyoming."
"We were all going to move to various other countries, but then we thought — why should WE move?" the anonymous message asks. "We hold our noses as we fly over you. We are sickened by the way you treat people that are different from you. The rest of the world despises America, and we don't want to be lumped in with you anymore." [italics added]
When it comes to how we should treat people who differ from ourselves, thank goodness the blue state left is setting such a fine example.
Posted by Paul at 4:13 PM
November 7, 2004
But the beauty is skin-deep
Reuters:
Peace and tolerance have long been the words to live by in San Francisco, known for its large gay community, broad ethnic mix and frequent anti-war protests. But days after the election, many residents said they were so worried about an erosion of civil rights, environmental standards and the escalating violence in the Middle East, that they did not know how they could tolerate the Bush administration, or Americans who voted to re-elect him.
What happened to all the liberal talk of "diversity" and "cross-cultural understanding?" Evidently, it doesn't extend to Republicans, not even when they're family:
"I have family in Idaho, but I told my wife we're not going to visit them now. It's all Republicans there," said Ron Schmidt, a public relations executive. "We have family in Indiana and I don't want to go there either."
But while his opinion of his fellow Americans is in tatters, Mr. Schmidt's opinion of himself is still high:
Schmidt said: "The ideologies of the two parties are too different. I don't see how healing can take place. I feel like the disenfranchised minority now, and that's a funny thing for a tall, good-looking white guy like me to say."
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