Fred Barnes at the Weekly Standard says: The new 30-second ad that Mike Huckabee has put on the air in Iowa represents a quite remarkable step in presidential politics. Maybe my memory betrays me, but I don’t recall a major presidential candidate who made such an unabashed, unambiguous appeal for support on the basis of…
Op-Ed Blog
What a farce
I came across an article that just happen to discuss three of my favorite pet peeves (global warming, UN, and wealth distribution). How in the world could I NOT comment on it! The myway.com site was putting up an AP article (press to read) that, in a nutshell, says that the UN feels America should…
November Fools’ Day?
And if that face doesn’t inspire trust I don’t know whose possibly could! The Guardian reports that, because of the clamor for his services throughout America, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has generously offered to act as an election monitor during the Great Satan’s 2008 presidential election: “If the White House officials allow us to be present…
Posted: No Sex Offenders
Determined to keep itself safe, an Amarillo subdivision is implementing deed restrictions that will bar sex offenders from owning or living in new homes built there: G.R. Chapman Limited Partnership said the restriction will apply to future development within The Woodlands. The 550 existing homes are not affected. “We want to try to have a…
Big Brother in Your Pocket
The Washington Post says that the feds are asking for – and getting – real-time location tracking data about ordinary (non-terrorist) criminal suspects. No problem, right? Surely the Justice Department is providing evidence of probable cause to courts before obtaining this information. Um, not necessarily. In some cases, judges have granted the requests without requiring…
Childless and Saving the World
The Daily Mail has an amusing article today about two couples who are doing their part to save the world by not having children. Had Toni Vernelli gone ahead with her pregnancy ten years ago, she would know at first hand what it is like to cradle her own baby, to have a pair of…
Hate Crimes
By overreacting to Don Imus, the Jena 6, and reports of nooses being hung on campus doors, black leaders like Al Sharpton are doing their constituencies a disfavor. Clarence Page says that they should be should be at least as interested and outraged at black-on-black crimes as they are at these more politically explosive but…
Thanksgiving
If you haven’t already read Mark Steyn’s ode to America and Thanksgiving, give it a read. The best bit: …Americans should be thankful they have one of the last functioning nation-states. Europeans, because they’ve been so inept at exercising it, no longer believe in national sovereignty, whereas it would never occur to Americans not to….
Saudi Rape Victim’s Sentence
No, the sentence of 200 lashes handed down to a Saudi girl for being alone with a man before being attacked and brutally gang-raped by 7 other men has NOT been reversed. But it has been “clarified“, according to CNN: The Justice Ministry acknowledged in its statement Tuesday that the [young woman’s] attorney is no longer…
Four Doctors and a Vet
One of my favorite movies is Four Weddings and a Funeral and the title inspired that of this post. Happily, no one was in any particular danger during the medical procedures described in this essay. These all new, all true stories were ripped, if not exactly from national headlines, then straight from the lives of…