Category Archives: politics

Two interesting charts

UPDATE: Fixed chart resolutions, should be more legible.

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Lieberman != Rumsfeld

Instapundit notices Democratic talking heads calling for Rumsfeld to be replaced by Lieberman. Democrats, this is not the phase where, now that it won’t cost us anything, we wash our hands of having done what needed to be done by … Continue reading

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When in Rome

The assimilation of Mark Steyn: HH: That’s why I’ve just posted, and I will be devoting most of today’s show to, a guide to Thanksgiving Day festivities with cranks. That is, how to engage, or not to engage, the crank … Continue reading

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domestic dirty tricks shop

Zell Miller: It’s like a spy thriller. Institutional rivalries and political loyalties have fostered an intelligence officer’s resentment against the government. Suddenly, an opportunity appears for the agent to undercut the national leadership. A vital question of intelligence forms the … Continue reading

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You might be a leftist if…

…you can’t tell the difference between society and government: When a country seemingly on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons calls for one of its neighbours to be “wiped off the map”, the world surely has every cause to worry. … Continue reading

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Mass murder and arithmetic

I’m posting this a little late, but – on the Arlington List, the “Co-Leader of MoveOnArlington”, wrote: MoveOn.org is planning vigils all over the country when we top 2,000 Americans killed in Iraq. As of this morning, 1,992 American soldiers … Continue reading

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Rape and pillage

Instapundit writes: MY ADVICE TO CHRISTIANS, JEWS, HINDUS, ETC: Start blowing things up and beheading people. This will gain you enormous solicitude from the powers-that-be: A West Yorkshire head teacher has banned books containing stories about pigs from the classroom … Continue reading

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No thin blue (or red) line here

RCMP investigate an Edmonton Police Service attempt to frame a journalist critical of the coming panopticon: Diotte cited statistics that showed speed cameras raised a lot of money for police butled to an increase, not a decrease, in accidents. “In … Continue reading

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Steyn nails it, as usual

Couldn’t have said it better: Meanwhile, back in the real world, the storm is exhausted, meteorologically and politically. Power has been restored to the whole of Mississippi (much quicker than in Euro-style big-government Quebec during the 1998 ice storm, incidentally), … Continue reading

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European culture, or what’s left of it

More Euro-wanking: Hamburgers and coke, yes you already knew But do you also know the cause of the general decay? Short-sighted thinking, loud talking Sticking to one-liners forever Down with America! Down with the jerks from America Down with America! … Continue reading

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That scumbag Biden

From the transcript at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Judge, look, I want to try to cut through some stuff here, if I can. I said yesterday this shouldn’t be a game of Gotcha, you know. We shouldn’t be playing a game. … Continue reading

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Judge Leon vs. Senator Holden

Via Jane Galt, finally a list of good questions for Judge Roberts: If you knew to an absolute moral certainty that you could capture and consume a live infant without being caught, how many do you suppose you could eat … Continue reading

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Order now, while supplies last

Free-market-hating politicians (are there any other kind?) want to nationalize Russia’s young hotties (article quoted here in its entirety): To mark International Beauty Day Nikolai Kurianovich, a State Duma deputy with the nationalist LDPR party, suggested introducing a ban on … Continue reading

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Everybody’s good at something

Bill Whittle (via just about everyone): It’s always such a pleasure to have Germans enlighten us on the best way to move large groups of sick, downtrodden people by rail. Ha!

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Gotta love those Czechs

I don’t like linking to Instapundit carried stories, because, well, everybody already reads them. But I just needed to comment. The two Vaclavs have to be my favorite politicians because of their open critisisms of soft socialism, “old” Europe and … Continue reading

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Slick World Order

David Corn writes: As I’ve written about (or, obsessed about) before, Clinton visited Rwanda in 1998 and issued something of an apology. Speaking of those terrible months in the spring of 1994, he said, “All over the world there were … Continue reading

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Horvath vs Robertson

A while back, Mark wrote: Christianity is a Religion of Love (refrain) Christianity is a Religion of Love repeat until exhaustion. OTOH, Robertson urges U.S. to kill Chavez … Those wacky Christians. When dialouge doesn’t work, lets just murder our … Continue reading

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A cunning plan

I’ve got it! Bush’s endorsement of teaching “intelligent” design in schools is really a clever, subtle plan to deeply entrench school vouchers by making the Left want vouchers as well. Or maybe it’s even more subtle — to eliminate the … Continue reading

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Homesteadin’ time

My bags aredog is packed, I’m ready to go. (btw there’s a great image here)

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Even a blind squirrel can find a nut now and then

I despise Ed Markey from the bottom of my heart, but I have to give him credit for this one-liner about the big energy bill that’ll be passed tomorrow: Right now Adam Smith is spinning in his grave so fast … Continue reading

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