They laughed at me when that bitch Monica rug-burned her knees in the Oval Office. They laughed at my universal health care plan. They laughed when I told them of my conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt’s ghost — they said I was mad. Mad, am I? I’ll show them mad…soon, I’ll unleash my mainstream-media minions and… Continue reading All she needs is a lab coat and a fright wig
Category: Politics
How low can they go?
Here’s another one for the file marked “Bush’s opponents are so deranged that they are good reasons to support him”. At The Corner, via InstaPundit, Tim Graham has this report: Driving in, I had to sample some “progressive talk” on the SOTU [State of the Union address]. At the Stephanie Miller Show, they were laughing… Continue reading How low can they go?
Oh, Canada! Oh, delicious!
Stephen Harper, the newly-elected Conservative prime minister of Canada, is huffing and puffing about Canada asserting its sovereignity over the arctic waters of the Nortwest Passage. “The United States defends its sovereignty; the Canadian government will defend our sovereignty,” said Harper at the end of a news conference, promising to deploy naval icebreakers into the… Continue reading Oh, Canada! Oh, delicious!
Glenn Reynolds puts it perfectly
Glenn Reynolds writes: You know, to me Wal-Mart is a lot like George W. Bush. It’s not that I’m that big a fan in the abstract, really, it’s just that the viciousness and stupidity revealed in its enemies tends to make me view it more favorably than I otherwise would. Thank you, Glenn, for expressing… Continue reading Glenn Reynolds puts it perfectly
Live by government regulation, die by it too
Teresa Nielsen Hayden, a blogger and much-respected figure in the science-fiction community, is staring at the ruin of her life, and she’s enraged about it. And rightly so. As her husband Patrick explains, she’s a narcoleptic, and the FDA has just banned the only drug that keeps her functional.
The smell of victory, part deux
Aha. The Sunnis say they want to work with US. This comes hard in the heels of reports that the Baathist dead-enders protected al-Qaeda polling places from jihadis during the just-concluded elections, in which turnout pushed 70% even in the heart of the Sunni triangle.
Is that victory I smell?
The last two days have seen a triple whammy for the Islamofascists and their Western quislings. The Iraqi elections were a thumping success; congressional Democrats voted in a resolution supporting prosecution of the Iraq war; and the Patriot Act failed to be renewed.
No War For Magnetite!
I contemplete this news story: Earth’s north magnetic pole is drifting away from North America and toward Siberia at such a clip that Alaska might lose its spectacular Northern Lights in the next 50 years, scientists said Thursday. The story goes on to say “exactly why this happens is a mystery”. No it isn’t, or… Continue reading No War For Magnetite!
Secret prisons
I’m having real trouble understanding the current flap over allegations that the CIA is running secret overseas prisons for terrorists and enemy combatants. I would prefer not to believe this is just another outbreak of reflexive anti-Americanism, but I don’t see any principled case against what is being alleged. Can anyone explain it to me?
Just desserts
There comes to us from Iraq the news that a terrorist group calling itself Sword of Truth has kidnapped four people from a group called Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) and has threatened to kill them unless some demands for the release of certain terrorists from Iraqi jails are met. What makes this interesting is that… Continue reading Just desserts
Riots in France declared over
The Brussels Journal reports that the French government has officially declared the banlieu riots over. The article continues: Police figures are at exactly 98 cars torched on Wednesday night. This, the police say, is a normal average. Consequently the 20th consecutive night of violence was declared the last one. Yes, you read that correctly. 98… Continue reading Riots in France declared over
Why “Commons” language gives me hives
A bit of blogging for the record here. Doc Searls wrote: “The Commons” and “the public domain” might be legitimate concepts with deep and relevant histories, but they’re too arcane to most of us. Eric Raymond has told me more than once that the Commons Thing kinda rubs him the wrong way. […] (Maybe he’ll… Continue reading Why “Commons” language gives me hives
Peak Oil — A Wish-Fulfillment Fantasy for Secular Idiots
Secularists and leftists enjoy sneering at conservative Christians who believe in the Rapture and other flavors of millenarianism. Reasonably so: it takes either a drooling idiot or somebody who has deliberately shut off most of his brain, reducing himself to an idiotically low level of critical thinking, to believe such things. The draw, of couse,… Continue reading Peak Oil — A Wish-Fulfillment Fantasy for Secular Idiots
Paris is Burning
As I predicted two years ago, in Demographics and the Dustbin of History, Paris is burning. The banlieu riots are so out of control that the French have declared a national state of emergency.
Suicidalism
The most important weapons of al-Qaeda and the rest of the Islamist terror network are the suicide bomber and the suicide thinker. The suicide bomber is typically a Muslim fanatic whose mission it is to spread terror; the suicide thinker is typically a Western academic or journalist or politician whose mission it is to destroy… Continue reading Suicidalism
Impotent radicals
A minor SF writer of radical Marxist political convictions recently uttered a rather incoherent rant in which, among other things, she accused me of “simple-minded right-wing” views. I’m not going to name her because I don’t dislike the woman enough to want to add to her troubles. But I’ve heard this song before from other… Continue reading Impotent radicals
Getting Orwell Wrong
The interpretation of George Orwell could be a paradigm for how dead literary figures get knocked from pillar to post by the winds of political interpretation. During his lifetime, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm went from darling of the left to exile for having been willing to write the truth about Communist totalitarianism… Continue reading Getting Orwell Wrong
Katrina and the Kos
About twelve hours ago I toyed with the idea of writing a satire in which the Bush-haters blame W. for the magnitude of the disaster bearing down on New Orleans. I discarded the idea on the grounds that it’s (a) not funny, and (b) not believable enough. I mean, who could really imagine that theory… Continue reading Katrina and the Kos
Libertarian realism
I hate war. Even when the results of defeat would be worse than the results of war, I hate war. It kills people and makes government stronger. But when the results of defeat would be worse, I face reality and support war. Our Islamist enemies want to kill us all — starting with Jews and… Continue reading Libertarian realism
The “Bush Lied” lie
Today’s entry in the Belgravia Dispatch does an excellent job of demolishing the “Bush lied, people died!” canard so popular among the anti-war left — Greg Djerejian echoes my own conclusions when he writes: “But if you dig into the weeds of the investigations that have taken place — one must judiciously conclude that he… Continue reading The “Bush Lied” lie