Entries Tagged as 'Politics'
Dalai Bama!
Just read that in an email from Brett McS. And had to share.
Update:
OC Register - Mark Steyn: Obama the humble savior
By the time he wrapped up his “victory” speech last week, the great gaseous uplift had his final paragraphs floating in delirious hallucination along the Milky Way: “I face this [...]
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Dr King and Michelle Obama
The Times - Barack Obama - the path is still long and treacherous The Illinois senator’s journey through the primaries has left him limping in the election that really matters, by Gerard Baker
Only the most gnarled cynic, or a member of the Clinton family (but I repeat myself), could fail to be moved by [...]
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Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CLXXVII
Never Mind, Gladys, It’s Just the Joooo Lobby Again
Headline: Obama pledges to back Israel against terror threats from abroad
Oh, wow! Good for him! I guess he just wanted to maintain his leftist stance as long as Hillary was still in the race and would come out strong to the American people and foreign leaders with his true –
Subheadline: Hours after securing the Democratic [...]
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Not Comforting
The Times - The Sixties and the presidential race Whoever reaches the White House must shake off the bitter legacy of a divided decade, by Daniel Finkelstein
Mr McCain had been taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese when his plane was shot down. He returned to his country a hero. He had been crippled by [...]
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Sisyphus Us
The Times - Change drink habits? You’re joking Only foolish or hopelessly naive politicans believe they can remould a country’s culture, by David Aaronovitch
Sisyphus (and this is true) was sentenced by the gods to roll a huge rock up a steep hill for eternity. Each time he would bring the boulder just about to [...]
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Blackmail, Extortion, Lies and Power
Welcome to the modern publishing industry.
Btw this:
This in an industry that, just like newspapers, appears to be dying a slow death at the hands of new media, print-on-demand, and other modern technologies, and is desperate for books that can add substantial numbers to the bottom line.
Should read:
This in an industry that, [...]
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The Urgent, Pressing, Critical Political Redresses of the Day
The Times - Churches must be ‘entertainment’ too If clairvoyants must have warning signs, why not faith healers and others places of worship? By Matthew Parris
Another example of careless jurisprudence this week: on Monday a new law came into force requiring fortune-tellers, clairvoyants, astrologers and mediums to stipulate explicitly that their services are for [...]
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Oily Oyalot
The OC Register - Mark Steyn: Your car can’t run on Congress’ hot air
I was watching the Big Oil execs testifying before Congress. That was my first mistake. If memory serves, there was lesbian mud wrestling over on Channel 137, and on the whole that’s less rigged. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz knew the [...]
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My Old Gaffer
Okay, revisiting yesterday’s Obama reaches out to his core electorate…
Instapundit:
Reader Matthew Conlan notices something: Within the link you provided on a McCain-Obama Trip to Iraq, there seemed to be an explanation for Obama’s “I See Dead People” comments yesterday. Perhaps he and his campaign honestly don’t [...]
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It Just Keeps Getting Worse
The Corner - Rush vs Jonah, by Mark Steyn
Re this dispute, I am the opposite of James Baker on the Balkans: I feel I have both dogs in this fight. I assumed initially that Jonah’s McCain-needs-a-Dem-veep column was a deeply Swiftian satire: A Democrat running mate! What better way for McCain to shore [...]
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Obama Is the New Hillary
The Times - Voters just don’t trust Hillary There’s no Vast Misogynist Conspiracy against Senator Clinton, she’s simply not suitable, by Gerard Baker
She compared her effort to overturn the decision not only to Al Gore’s controversial defeat in Florida in a disputed recount in 2000, but to the victims of tyranny throughout history - [...]
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When a Roll Isn’t a Roll Anymore
Hey! I’m in California! I went and talked to a flowers guy, then I went and talked to a hair lady! The first one was productive, the second one, not so much! And I had three hours of sleep last night! Wooot.
Anyway:
The Times - Hillary Clinton takes Kentucky but Barack Obama marches on
Hillary [...]
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This Isn’t Funny
And in no way do I think it is, but I just now I opened my blogs and my eye lands upon the words “Breaking”, “Hospital”:
LGF - Breaking: Ted Kennedy Rushed to Hospital
Sen. Ted Kennedy is rushed to a hospital in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a Democratic source tells CNN
And I read it:
LGF - [...]
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Hard-Hatting Political Coverage
The Times - Earthquake in China: the aftershocks The Sichuan disaster may have wider political implications
China’s President, Hu Jintao, flew to the devastated city of Mianyang yesterday in his first visit to the Sichuan region hit by the massive earthquake on Monday. He was met there by Wen Jiabao, the Prime Minister, who has [...]
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