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Welcome to Imperial Rome 2008 Joe

Posted on September 04, 2008
Welcome to Imperial Rome 2008 Joe Biden holds out the possibility of pursuing President Bush for war crimes. Wasn't the policy of proscribing political enemies one of the things that led to the fall of the Roman Republic?

If you're getting flack, you're

Posted on September 03, 2008
If you're getting flack, you're over the target. Newt hammers the Palin "experience" meme. There is something fundamentally disconnected in the liberal mind when they can raise experience as a reason to vote against the Republican ticket.

Zing! "Since some of our opponents

Posted on September 03, 2008
Zing! "Since some of our opponents seem to look down on that [mayoral] experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ?community organizer,? except that you have actual responsibilities." "We don't have much use for those who talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco...

"She has a life." Steve Sailer

Posted on September 02, 2008
"She has a life." Steve Sailer nails the average person's view of the charges leveled at Sarah Palin much better than the chattering class. Check it out. I like this in particular: Overall, what we can say for sure about Palin is: she Has A Life. In contrast to undersexed Hillary Clinton's cautious, cramped biography, Palin's life story just makes you feel sorry for poor Hillary.

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"Republicans are funnier" Nearly

Posted on September 02, 2008
"Republicans are funnier" Nearly 30 years ago, I sat in an auditorium with a bunch of college students pre-screening an otherwise unknown Hollywood comedy. The movie was pretty good, and the writer/directors nervously wanted to know, "would people pay money to see it...

If only John Edwards was the father... ...the

Posted on September 02, 2008
If only John Edwards was the father... ...the media would have buried the Bristol Palin pregancy story. Oh, and where were the thoughtful discussion on the need for sex education when Rielle Hunter got knocked up? Hypocrites.

More Collateral Damage from the

Posted on September 01, 2008
More Collateral Damage from the Ugly Left The Daily Kos is peddling the spurious notion that Sarah Palin's baby is really the baby of her sixteen year old daughter. So, typical of the Left to complain when an issue is made about the substance of statements made by Michelle Obama, who is an adult and campaigning for her husband, but then to turn around and smear a child with a fantastic

Andrew Sullivan is a tool Sullivan

Posted on September 01, 2008
Andrew Sullivan is a tool Sullivan is still demanding a birth certificate. Ugly and vicious.

More Collateral Damage What's

Posted on September 01, 2008
More Collateral Damage What's wrong with the world reports that the McCain-Palin campaign released the fact that 17 year old Bristol Palin is pregnant because of insane speculation by the ugly left, including Andrew Sullivan. Incidentally, this is heartening: Bristol Palin, the 17-year-old daughter of Sarah Palin, is pregnant and will keep the baby and marry the father, a senior aide to Sen.

Despite all our modern advances

Posted on September 01, 2008
Despite all our modern advances in science and technology, Nancy Pelosi still lives in the Dark Ages. In my 40+ years of listening to homilies - o.k., "listening" may be too strong a word - I don't believe I've ever heard a better example of teaching as this one by Father John De Celles in Alexandria, Virginia in which he connects the fateful consequences that happened when "faithful" Catholics

More Slime from the Ugly Left Except

Posted on September 01, 2008
More Slime from the Ugly Left Except this comes from a U.S. Congressman. Democratic Congressman Robert Wexler of Florida lashed out Saturday at John McCain's choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, accusing her of supporting "Nazi sympathizer" Pat Buchanan, and branding the move an "affront to all Jewish Americans...

Anbar Province handed over to Iraq The

Posted on September 01, 2008
Anbar Province handed over to Iraq The cradle of the Sunni insurgency is quiet and no longer our problem. I like the times reference to "Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia", which "homegrown" but "led by foreigners." The circumlocutions that the New York Times will go to avoid saying that Al Qaeda is in Iraq is amazing.

Speaking of Projection Let's be

Posted on August 31, 2008
Speaking of Projection Let's be honest, we've always had the sense that the Democrats want bad things to happen to America so that they can rush in with their nostrum of "more government." Likewise, their constant harping on alleged Republican indifference to the suffering of Americans seems to bespeak a calculating projection of their own feelings...

The experience issue Here is thoughtful

Posted on August 30, 2008
The experience issue Here is thoughtful discussion asking what "experience" is and whether any of the four contenders for leadership really have it.

Ha! Proves my point about the Velma-Daphne

Posted on August 30, 2008
Ha! Proves my point about the Velma-Daphne Issue Mark Steyn riffs elegaic about Governor Palin's "naughty librarian" thing, and also offers this: First, Governor Palin is not merely, as Jay describes her, "all-American", but hyper-American. What other country in the developed world produces beauty queens who hunt caribou and serve up a terrific moose stew? As an immigrant, I'm not saying I came

For the true is good and the good

Posted on August 30, 2008
For the true is good and the good is true To the best of my knowledge this is not about Obama, but, hey, timeless philosophy ought to say something that can be applied to practical examples. So, let's see where this ends up. In any event, as a follow up on my previous post in ST Q 87, I'm going to point out these observations on truth by a thomist at Just Thomism: -People?s arguments are a

Palin Speaks She's good. Check

Posted on August 29, 2008
Palin Speaks She's good. Check out this Youtube clip and listen for the part where she testifies that she wants her son - a young serviceman going to Iraq - to serve under McCain (and presumably not the "Empty Suit Guy.") Wasn't it the Democrats who bashed Bush with the "unique moral authority" of Cindy Sheehan because she was the mother of a serviceman killed in action, at least until she

About last night Oh, and if I

Posted on August 29, 2008
About last night Oh, and if I recall, there was something about a speech by Obama on the last night of the Democrat convention. Mickey Kaus was underwhelmed. Peggy Noonan shares the sentiment, and writes: All in all, a muted affair. But not one without power...

Why McCain has now got this thing

Posted on August 29, 2008
Why McCain has now got this thing suitcased. He shores up his conservative base, makes Obama's speech last night a distant memory and grabs both the women's vote and the Catholic vote with a woman who lives the pro-life message and he picks a running mate who hunts moose...

Who Obama's friends really are Those

Posted on August 28, 2008
Who Obama's friends really are Those '60s Leftists are so cute and cuddly. All they wanted was peace, love and understanding. And to murder 9 year olds. This is an essay by John Murtagh worth reading so that we don't forget who these people really were...

Great Moments in Self-Government Jim

Posted on August 28, 2008
Great Moments in Self-Government Jim Geraghty points out: A stunning, yet accurate statement from Campaign Spot reader Tim: If Barack Obama serves a full term as president, it will be the longest time he has served in a full-time job. He spent about a year and change working for a financial publication in Manhattan, then three years as a community organizer, then three years in law school.

Biden's Catholic Problem Biden

Posted on August 28, 2008
Biden's Catholic Problem Biden didn't mention his Catholicism in his speech last night. According to LifeSite News Biden has been banned from speaking at Catholic schools in Delaware: In an interview with Bob Krebs, the Communications Director for the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington, to which Senator Joseph Biden belongs, Krebs confirmed that Biden's Bishop will not permit the Senator even if

Why the Orthodox stand ready to

Posted on August 28, 2008
Why the Orthodox stand ready to act as Earth's first line of defense against the Martian menace. "Rite chanted in time of attack by aliens." It gives a whole new meaning to "I want to believe."

Now for something a little different Funny! Should

Posted on August 27, 2008
Now for something a little different Funny! Should have worked in something about "pay grade". [Via Mark Shea]

"Uncle Tom" Biden Catholics against

Posted on August 24, 2008
"Uncle Tom" Biden Catholics against Biden. Biden was pro-life before Democrat orthodoxy required that he convert to a belief in the licity of killing the unborn. The spectacle of so many Catholic Democrat politicians selling out their conscence for political advantage is sad...

Peggy Noonan on Biden During the

Posted on August 24, 2008
Peggy Noonan on Biden During the Alito confirmation hearings, she wrote: Let's cause some senators distress. The great thing about Joe Biden during the Alito hearings, the reason he is, to me, actually endearing, is that as he speaks, as he goes on and on and spins his long statements, hypotheticals, and free associations--as he demonstrates yet again, as he did in the Roberts hearings and even

Great Moments in Representative

Posted on August 23, 2008
Great Moments in Representative Government Joe Biden as Senate Judiciary Chair questions nominee Ginsberg about her judicial philosophy.

The plagiarization that ended Biden's

Posted on August 23, 2008
The plagiarization that ended Biden's 1987 Presidential Campaign From the Telegraph: The speech by Mr Kinnock, as he desperately tried to remodel and rebuild the Labour Party, was widely judged to be a dramatic and powerful piece of political rhetoric - making it particularly tempting, but also unusually unwise, for Mr Biden to borrow its most significant passage without attribution to the

Empty Suit Guy picks Guy who Faked

Posted on August 23, 2008
Empty Suit Guy picks Guy who Faked Life-story by Plagiarizing Someone Else Obama's VP choice is Joe Biden. Ironic.

Revenge of the Lizard Queen Hillary

Posted on August 22, 2008
Revenge of the Lizard Queen Hillary supporter files suit to block Obama nomination. The putative basis of this purported lawsuit is that under some very arcane laws, Obama is not a "natural born" citizen. [Vox Populi.]

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