Courtesy of my dad. 5 more in the post body.
Month: May 2008
Hillary’s Sexism Claims
Of late Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been crying foul over alleged sexism directed at the New York senator. But is that really what’s broken the back of her once-promising campaign? Andrew Stephen says it is and blames media bias for causing her defeat. But is Hillary’s real problem simply that she’s a Clinton? Or was…
Voting While Guilty
At Slate, Ron Rosenbaum says that it’s not wrong to vote for Barack Obama because of his race. This is an assertion I’m highly resistant to. I believe my vote ought to be for the candidate who is most likely to do the things I believe are right for the nation – the candidate who…
Voter ID Laws Rankle Left
Legal scholar Jeffery Toobin thinks laws requiring voters to show a valid picture ID before voting are biased in favor of Republicans. This argument makes sense given the affinity of poorer Americans to vote Democratic. But is that relevant? Two principles of free and fair elections are contradictory, that we count every vote and that…
Telcos, Money, and Immunity
Glen Greenwald’s latest piece on immunity for telecom companies that helped the government in the aftermath of 9/11 is one worth reading. Fundamentally the issue hasn’t changed – telecoms that cooperated with the Bush administration deserve protection as is currently given – but Glen’s analysis of their contributions to lobbying firms and the money’s subsequent…
Illegal Immigrant Crackdown
The NY Times reports that immigration officials have been running a rapid-fire prosecution program aimed at illegal aliens who’d fraudulently used other people’s identification to gain employment with Agriprocessors Inc. Nearly 400 people were processed through the special court. 94 were convicted on Wednesday alone. For the math-challenged, that’s nearly 12 convictions per hour. That…
Effects of Feminism
Rebecca Walker, daughter of feminism and author Alice Walker, who publicly called her own child a calamity in her life, has some interesting things to say about the movement. Well worth reading. the truth was I was very lonely and, with my mother’s knowledge, started having sex at 13. I guess it was a relief…
About that Dream Ticket… (or How a Bad Choice of Words Could End Hillary’s Political Career, Again)
The New York Post: "My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t understand it," she said Not the right thing to say – ever. Certainly not given…
Dream Ticket Happening?
CNN says that talks to create the Democratic party’s Dream Team are underway. The word "difficult" was used, as you’d expect, given that Hillary has a very good chance of winning the aggregate popular vote. Partisan voters almost always come home after their candidate loses. The problem arises when a candidate’s supporters believe that their…
Dems Lied re Iraq to Win Congress
Jeff Emanuel’s excellent article about Representative Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) confirms what I’ve written for several months now: that the Democrats were dishonest about their intentions – and ability – to put an end to the Iraq war. Jeff says that Kanjorski has an "honesty problem" – too much of a good thing! I wish there…