It is horribly unfair that Obama will still be judged by his affiliation with Rev. Wright. It is also understandable that people will have questions about that affiliation. He did his best to lay the issue to rest yesterday, but God only knows how successful he was. In a nation where many […]
Via Alex H via email, Leon Wieseltier reviews Martin Amis’ “The Second Plane”, and it is a really very unfavourable review indeed, with at least three gasp-out-loud moments of literary viciousness. I have invited Leon W to the Aaronovitch Watch annual awards ceremony. Wieseltier himself is unlikely to have a great […]
It took some 20 years, but finally Rev. Jeremiah Wright said something that got Barack Obama’s goat: Wright called him a politician. That was the last straw. Obama was moved at last to take Wright to task for his lost week-end (rather, the week-end Wright probably destroyed his chances of becoming president) spent dissing all those white voters […]
Oil prices are on the up and up, setting new records at the pump. Each time this happens, a spate of panicky reactions in national politics, all isolated from each other, burst up. First, a brief look at the state of the debate in the USA: In the USA, McCain has proposed reacting to […]
Iraq’s former deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz, has faced court on charges of genocide. An Austrian dad has been arrested and charged with keeping his own daughter in the cellar for twenty-four years and repeatedly raping her, fathering seven children, three of whom were also incarcerated. The controversy continues over John Yoo […]
Democrats Lift Ban Prohibiting Tax Dollars From Funding Needle-Exchange Efforts in D.C. Washington- Last summer, Paul Hodes (NH-02) joined his liberal Democrat Party in Washington in voting to allow tax dollars to be spent on providing drug users in the nation’s capitol with new needles. Now, almost a half million dollars is […]
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Just in case I’m ever struck by the mad thought of running for political office in Israel, where I live, I’d like to set the record straight: I don’t agree with the prophet Isaiah’s political views. He doesn’t speak for me. No way. It’s true that I’ve enjoyed some of his sermons, and […]
There is a crisis happening on a global scale, and we here in the United States of America have a moral responsibility to take action to help alleviate global food prices and ensure that millions of people do not suffer the ill effects of hunger and possibly even starvation. We are all complaining about […]
Busy for much of today, but here are a few items of possible interest. Feel free to add your own. Gail Heriot notes the fallout of affirmative action and enforced diversity. “It didn’t seem to matter that… students admitted with lower academic credentials would end up incurring heavy debt but […]
Obama Repudiates Ex-pastor Senator Barack Obama, saying that he’d had enough, forcefully repudiated his former pastor yesterday and declared that racially charged remarks made by the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. contradict “all that I stand for.” Obama said he had tried to give Wright “the benefit of […]
Democrats Lift Ban Prohibiting Tax Dollars From Funding Needle-Exchange Efforts in D.C. Washington- Last summer, Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01) joined her liberal Democrat Party in Washington in voting to allow tax dollars to be spent on providing drug users in the nation’s capitol with new needles. Now, almost a half million dollars is being […]
What it does The beauty of the web is its democratism. Anyone given a computer can profess their views and expound upon the themes that really matter to them. CreateDebate is a new site devoted to, well, debate of course. It gives everyone their very own soap box. You can express your ideas […]
(source) It looks like Flori-duh’s latest state-sponsored proselytizing might have “hit a roadblock” (as reported on CNN). The plate design did not make it into a bill sent to Governor Crist on Tuesday. Opponents of the plate said approving it would result in a court challenge because it violated […]
by Robin Forman I went to sit in the park for my lunch today. And by park I mean the patch of green and benches called Lafayette Park that’s just in front of the White House. I sat with my iPod and listened to the band Goldfinger whine about capitalism as I watched […]
Italy’s new government will be up and running within two weeks, Premier-elect Silvio Berlusconi said on Tuesday. Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the official opening of Italy’s 16th postwar legislature, Berlusconi said: ”I believe my government will be sworn in on the 9th or 10th of May”. read more […]
Last week we had the incredible experience of having Instapundit, one of the world’s top ranked news and political blogs, cover the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek. This single post by Instapundit exposed thousands upon thousands of people to this inspirational story. So many news blogs are covering the 758 mile Equal Parenting […]
I like the sound of this. Houston builders will have to incorporate “green” design techniques such as heat-trapping vestibules and “cool roofs” that deflect sunlight under a proposed new energy code for commercial buildings. The City Council could pass the new code for commercial buildings on Wednesday. A new residential […]
Commentary on “Positive Discrimination” April 30th, 2008 by Sean Jin “Troy” on thedebateclub.org posted his opinion on what he deemed as “Positive Discrimination” which is , in his particular example, the practice of putting more “blacks and ethnic minorities into the corridors of power” in politics. Essentially, this is a strong form of […]
Re: “Preacher still lifting his voice” (TNT, 4-29).
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The links between food and food are growing tighter. How can that be anything but terrible, especially at a moment when much of the world is faced with shortages of both?Across the country, ethanol plants are swallowing more and more of the nation’s corn crop. This year, about a quarter of U.S. corn will […]
McCain’s Health Care Platform: A radical plan Very little about John McCain excites me, I admit. I’ve read all of his platforms on the issues, and there are two that catch my eye as being absolutely necessary. The first is his foreign policy views and the War on Terror. This is mostly why […]
At that point - I would have you see - the force to which one yielded mingles with one’s will; and no excuse can pardon their joint act. Absolute will does not concur in wrong; but the contingent will, through fear that its resistance might bring greater harm, consents. […]
I most recently wrote about about Governor ‘Bobby’ Jindal of Louisiana in March in, “McCain’s Surprise: VP ‘Bobby’ Jindal ?” Well, Jindal was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno this past Monday night, no doubt to answer the speculations that he may be McCain’s running mate. This is the first time […]
Cross posted from Miss Beth’s Victory Dance here. On my nightly drive home, I listen to Savage. I don’t always agree with him, but sometimes he has an idea worth repeating and getting out there. This is one of those ideas and it deals with the gas pump prices. It’s short, sweet, […]
Gordon Brown admits making mistakes over 10p tax but says he is “listening and learning” as prime minister.
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Um, OK: A state appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the Port Authority was liable for damages caused by the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, because it knew about but chose to ignore “an extreme and potentially catastrophic vulnerability that would have been open and obvious to any terrorist who cared to […]
Our press release: Headline: MOMocrats EXCLUSIVE with Barack Obama MOMocrats step up where mainstream media and traditional debates let the American public down, “Things we wish they’d asked in the debates…” Recently, MOMocrats asked the Democratic Presidential candidates the questions we all wish reporters or moderators had asked in any interview or debate. Today, Senator […]
Just a plug in for my festival desiFEST . desiFEST Vancouver takes place on Saturday May 3rd, 2008 at Gas Town on Water Street. That right, Water street Gas Town. We are shutting down from cambie to richards on Gas Town to bring the most exciting south Asian music festival to Vancouver. desiFEST is […]
No bias to see here … Via the CUPE union website - dated April 1st: A trial involving Elections Canada and a former activist for the Conservative Party in Oshawa, who allegedly defamed federal NDP candidate Sid Ryan during the 2006 election, has begun in Oshawa today. During the federal election, the former activist for […]
Wimax By Douglas V. Gibbs at 1:18 AM on 4/30/2008 Alan Keyes By Douglas V. Gibbs at 2:21 AM on 4/29/2008 Israel, Hamas, and the JerUSAlem Connection By Douglas V. Gibbs at 12:00 AM on […]
No less than the President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, brands domestic helpers from the Philippines as supermaids, a term, they, indeed, so richly deserve. These domestic helpers have, for years, endured the loneliness and pain of being far away from home in order to be able to give their families a better […]
Is Wright Wrong? Nekpen Osuan | April 30, 2008 - 1:02 am Tags: election, Obama, politics, Religion The role of religious influence in the ongoing Democratic nomination race changed shape today. For the very first time, I heard Senator Barack Obama say something negative and it […]
Hollywood A-listers might not be as welcome on the red carpet at Rome’s Film Festival under new plans for the event by the city’s freshly appointed mayor Gianni Alemanno. Appointing a new festival head on Tuesday, Alemanno hinted that the festival - a pet project of ex-mayor Walter Veltroni - will undergo changes […]
So… who’s first up to make excuses for the tax cheat, Al Franken? The man that is advocating higher taxes, yet he doesn’t even pay his own taxes. What did I tell you about Democrats? Oh yeah, “All men are created equal, but some are more equal than others.” What did that pathetic […]
How Europeans & Americans used World Bank, WTO & IMF to make profits for Food Conglomerates while creating worldwide food shortages. 3rd World countries should turn down those vulture loans with those devious strings attached. EXPLOITATION!
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The decision by former Gerakan deputy secretary-general Datuk Lee Kah Choon to accept a job under the Penang DAP Government should not be taken lightly by Barisan Nasional if it wishes to survive and regain the people’s support, says Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. The former prime minister said in a letter that Lee […]
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Federal authorities say a South Carolina teen accused of plotting to blow up his high school told police that he wanted to die, go to heaven and kill Jesus. 6 News Links, 0 Liberal Blogs, 0 Conservative Blogs 0 Comments
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Check the dictionary on bigotry, since we’re in the written medium and all. Assumed behaviors based on people race, creed or sex is closest to stereotyping. Then there’s prejudice. Then there’s bigotry. Dictionary.com: stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one’s own. AmericanHeritage: One who […]