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I've decided to give Wordpress a try for awhile. I'll leave this blog up for backup or in case I change my mind and conclude I don't like it over there. Here's the new address.

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If you're not familiar with what TinyURL does, it's a site that allows you to shorten long URLs into more manageable ones of 25 characters or less. It comes in handy if you want to paste URLs in chatrooms or blog posts without taking up a lot of space.Well, I just noticed that at the upper right corner of the page is a "We Support Ron Paul" icon. Yikes. I wonder how much of their revenue goes to

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"Editorial Observer" Eduardo Porter in The New York Times today:The framers of the Constitution evidently believed that happiness could be achieved, putting its pursuit up there alongside the unalienable rights to life and liberty. Though governments since then have seen life and liberty as deserving of vigorous protection, for all the public policies aimed at increasing economic growth, people

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In the continuing series dealing with real world Democrats attacked by the nutroots, I present the example of what's happening to Rahm Emanuel, Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, and Heath Shuler in regard to illegal immigration. Recall my earlier post about the fix the Democrats are in over the issue. The recent attacks are the result of two new efforts by Democrats to take positions more in line with

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It's hard to tell anymore if lefty blog opinion is informed by reading the New York Times or the other way around. I'll start with their editorial out today titled Abdicate and Capitulate. Gee, where have I read that formulation before? Can you guess the topic? Here are some excerpts. I'll provide text in italics from other moonbat postings that say the same things. Notice that all them were put

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Ann Althouse has a post about Hillary Clinton's campaign planting questions in her audiences. The title is very clever: "I'm beginning a conversation with you, with America, because we all need to be part of the discussion." The quote is from the included Youtube video of Clinton announcing her candidacy. I guess her staff decided we don't all need to be part of the conversation; just her and the

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I won't quote much from this post, though I suggest reading the whole thing. I will, however, highlight this one bit:In time, a decade or two, the outrageous scam will be obvious. As the temperature rises, polar ice cap melting, coastal flooding and super storm pattern all fail to occur as predicted everyone will come to realize we have been duped. The sky is not falling.This is where I'm perhaps

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Via Fishwrap:Karl Rove teed off this afternoon on the liberal netroots, the coalition of far-left blogs and advocacy groups who are a new power bloc in the Democratic party."The Web has given angry and vitriolic people more of a voice in public discourse," said Mr. Rove, who served as one of President Bush's top strategists until he resigned this past summer, and is a noted technology nut."People

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Why did I choose that title instead of maybe Mukasey and Torture? I did so because I want to point out the similarities in the political dynamics reflected in the respective votes in the Senate and the House. I'll start with the Mukasey vote.The Senate confirmed Mukasey last night by a vote of 53-40. That tally is important for several reasons, which I'll get to in a moment. All the Republicans

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I don't have much in common with Joe Lieberman politically (he's a liberal and I'm not), but today he earned my respect in a big way. Let me start with a little background.It was during the contentious recount mess of the 2000 Presidential election, in which Lieberman was Al Gore's VP running mate, that he began to get on the bad side of moonbats. See, according to this moonbat at Huffington Post

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There's a very interesting article in Newsday today by James Pinkerton. He suggests a parallel between the 2008 race and that of 1988. Some relevant passages:In '88, Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis was leading the Democratic White House hopefuls. On April 12, he debated his remaining Democratic rivals in Manhattan. One of them, Sen. Al Gore, mentioned the Massachusetts prison furlough plan

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Oh, for crying out loud. The Hillary campaign just keeps getting weirder. As you'll recall from last week, during the Democratic debate Hillary was asked about Eliot Spitzer's idea for giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. Her non-answer was such a monumental flip-flop that the other candidates were well within their rights to press her on it, as was Tim Russert, one of the

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From AP:WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, aided by an extraordinary outpouring of Internet support Monday, hauled in more than $4.2 million in nearly 24 hours.Paul, the Texas congressman with a libertarian tilt and an out-of-Iraq pitch, entered heady fundraising territory with a surge of Web-based giving tied to the commemoration of Guy Fawkes Day.Fawkes was a British

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Malkin reports that Mukasey has cleared the Judiciary committee. The vote was 11-8, with Feinstein and Schumer joining the nine Republicans on the panel. Naturally this won't sit well with the moonbat community.Yesterday Larry Johnson, moonbat extraordinaire, sent a letter to the committee calling on them to put a hold on the nomination. The signatories listed are a who's who of disgruntled

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From WaPo: Musharraf Declares Emergency Rule in Pakistan:ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 3 -- Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule Saturday, suspending the constitution amid a heavy security presence including armored personnel carriers on the streets of the capital.Musharraf, who instituted a provisional constitution, was expected to address the nation later and cite continuing

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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, talks with Attorney General-designate Michael Mukasey on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007, following Mukasey's second day of testifying before the committee's hearing on his nomination. Mukasey's nomination for attorney general runs into new trouble with Senate Democrats after President Bush accuses them of

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I saw this a while back and wondered if anybody remembers it. I suspect a bunch of lawsuits were generated by kids screwing up their necks with that contraption.

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There has been much hyperventilation among the nutroots over Bush's nomination of Michael Mukasey for Attorney General. Supposedly they want him to be voted down in committee because he won't say "waterboarding" is torture. It doesn't matter that it's not legally defined as such, they want him on record as declaring it so that Bush, Cheney, and others can be charged with war crimes. Yes, they

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From AP and Drudge Report:Security officials at the nation's largest nuclear power plant detaineda contract worker with a small explosive device in the back of hispickup truck Friday, authorities said.The worker was stopped and detained at the entrance of the Palo VerdeNuclear Generating Station, said U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissionspokesman Victor Dricks. Security officials then put the

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According to an article in Jerusalem Post, Al-Jazeera is reporting the September raid on the suspected nuclear facility in Syria was carried out by the United States. That's a remarkable claim in itself, but there's much more:The sources added that each US plane carried one tactical nuclear weapon and that the site was hit by one bomb and was totally destroyed.Wow. I suspect it's BS, but I'm

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Yes, yes, yes! We need much more of this from Bush and his spokesmen. From the George Soros sponsored bureau of misinformation otherwise known as Think Progress:Bush Grasps For Relevancy By Bashing 'Moveon.org bloggers' and "Code Pink Protesters'In a politically-charged speech this afternoon at the Heritage Foundation, President Bush brazenly attacked congressional leaders for not immediately

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Via Newsbusters this morning: U.N. Scientist Rejects Nobel Prize Share, Denounces Climate AlarmismHas the global warming alarmism movement hit its apex? Maybe so.In recent weeks, we've seen a resurgence of hard scientists who have come out strongly against the warm-mongers, the latest of which is Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change member John R. Christy. In an op-ed in today's Wall Street

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Is this what passes for a unified message these days? While I can understand the importance for a political party to stand together pressing for specific goals, it's become completely ridiculous lately in the reality based community. Here's a hint: Having a united message doesn't require everybody adopting the same talking points or even the very same words!What I'm referring to in this instance

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If you're wondering what a Bush Dog Democrat is, the term was coined by Matt Stoller at Open Left to describe Democrats who don't disagree with Bush or Republicans on every issue. What is likely to get Rockefeller labeled as such is his op-ed in the Washington Post today about the FISA bill, specifically as it relates to legal immunity for the telecom companies that provided information to the

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Bush Derangement Syndrome is on full display over at Daily Kos. It seems people are blaming everything under the sun on Bush, including their personal and family problems. One in particular makes me wonder if it's for real. It's just too much. Check it out:meldroc: Bush has also damaged my mental health. After I actually took the trouble to inform myself about politics a couple years ago, and

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via the corner at NRO

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John Hawkins at Right Wing News comments today on a story I read the other day by Rick Jacobs at Huffington Post. Jacobs is all a twitter because he spotted Ann Coulter eating at a gay owned restaurant in West Hollywood. Naturally, he thought he had a scoop, so much so that he had to take a picture of her to put on his post.Mr. Jacobs is apparently one of those who's convinced that Coulter hates

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In his opinion piece in the NYT today, Krugman hits on many of the moonbat talking points regarding Iran and Islamofascism in general. Let's do this in a checklist format:Moonbat talking point #1: Scary "neocons" are threatening to take over US foreign policy. Here's Krugman:Consider, for a moment, the implications of the fact that Rudy Giuliani is taking foreign policy advice from Norman

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From The Hill this morning: Laura Bush accuses Dems of demagoguery on SCHIP. Accuses? It's more like she's pointing out something that's blatantly obvious.“It’s really easy to blame people for so-called voting against children,” Bush said in an interview on Fox News Sunday. Yep, that's how they play the game. If you watch that video of Reagan's speech from 1964 that I posted earlier you'll see

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Most people have probably seen this speech by Reagan before, but upon watching the video again I'm struck by how familiar the issues are that he talks about. It's a shame that so few approach them this way lately.

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This is pretty hilarious. IAEA head honcho Mohamed ElBaradei is pissed because Israel took out that Syrian site suspected of being a secret nuclear facility. Get a load of the pompous, arrogant, windbaggery: "That, to me, is very distressful because we have a system; if countries have information that the country is working on a nuclear-related program, they should come to us. We have the

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Here we go again. The House has passed what is being called a scaled back version of the S-CHIP bill. The vote was 265-142, still short of veto proof. How was it scaled back? According to the Washington Post:The new version will underscore that illegal immigrants will not have access to the expanded program. It will ease adults off the program in one year, rather than the two in the vetoed

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As I posted yesterday, the netroots wing of the Democratic party is becoming increasingly disenchanted with the real world Democrats in the House and Senate. Today there's more of the same with the confirmation in the Senate of Leslie Southwick of Mississippi as U.S. Circuit Judge for the fifth circuit. Prominent members of the reality based community are peeved at the Democrats who voted to

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Facing a censure vote in the House for his moonbat outburst last week, Pete Stark apologized today, saying he hopes he can now be as insignificant as he should be. The highlighted part is important, not so much for how it pertains to Stark, but to his message. He's learned that it doesn't pay to stand up in Congress and spew talking points culled from left-wing bloggers. Perhaps it's their

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There's trouble brewing in the netroots. As the Democratic Party continues to operate as if they exist in the real world instead of the make-believe reality based community, left-wing hostility toward their hitherto progressive allies is mounting.John Hawkins from Right Wing News has reaction from Democratic Underground and Daily Kos to how Democrats in the House and Senate are dealing with their

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Pete Stark's Moonbat Minstrel ShowI honestly can't say I'm outraged or even shocked by Stark's comments here. He reads from notes enough to convince me he just went around to lefty blogs and collected their talking points. A few times he tries to dramatize them, but not very convincingly, because he keeps having to go back to the list. None of it was original or surprising, to me at least.

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Okay, more on Tumulty, S-CHIP, and smear campaigns. The only reason I'm focusing on Tumulty is because she's apparently operating as a public relations envoy for the socialized medicine crowd. Perhaps this doesn't make her unique, but she caught my attention with her story in Time and her parroting of Think Progress talking points.On October 17, Ms Tumulty put up a post on her blog titled: SCHIP:

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Limbaugh let's it all hang out here. I can't say I disagree with anything he says.

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That's a relief. Earlier I was wondering what I'd write about if the expansionists had prevailed. But looking at the vote count is still a bit depressing, because there were still 273 Congresspeople who think this S-CHIP bill is just fine as it is. Here's some text in the bill that should make everybody stop and think.Let's start with what proponents of this bill hope to achieve:SEC. 2. PURPOSE.

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UPDATED 10/19 at bottomI'm here to tell you I'm shocked...shocked and appalled, even, that the left-wing blogger at Horse's Mouth is pleased with Ms. Tumulty's coverage, and is confident enough that she share's his point of view, to openly encourage her to follow the story on the "smear the sick kid" crowd (as if she hasn't done enough to parrot their campaign line from the start).Not

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I know it's been a long time (over a year) since I've posted. I'm toying with the idea of starting back up, but I first wanted to clean up some of my previous posts. I deleted one that upon further thought appeared to be simply an extension of the introduction post and two that were videos from youtube. If you want to see them they're still in Google cache if you happen to like ABBA and Blondie.

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It's over. Lamont took out Lieberman (52%-48%). Lieberman will run as an independent in November. Lefty reaction here and here(language warning on the second one).In my earlier post I said Lieberman is a liberal/progressive on most issues other than Iraq. According to Andrew Sullivan he's to the right of a few Republicans on the war. Come to think of it Lieberman has tried to portray himself as

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Beth over at My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy has a lot more information coming out about what appears to be a growing media scandal. She also has links to Dread Pundit Bluto and Rusty at The Jawa Report with more.Says Beth:Bastards. This stuff really pisses me off. There’s no way every single piece of news coming out of there (or Iraq, for that matter!) could possibly be analyzed, and they know it.

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I'm really not surprised if this is true. Jeff Goldstein says sarcastically:But you know how Jews are—always trying to guilt you into giving them sympathy. Or a good deal on a used Lincoln Towncar. Michelle Malkin has more.

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Today is the day in Connecticut. We'll see if Lieberman is able to pull off a last minute comeback or if the Lamont insurgency pays off. There have been two editorials recently from the pro-Lieberman side in the Wall Street Journal (how ironic is that?). One is from Martin Peretz, editor in chief of The New Republic, and the other by Lanny Davis, former special counsel for Bill Clinton.Peretz'

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This picture on the right is something Hajj just happened to stumble upon after and Israeli bombing raid. That's right, it's a Koran burning. What are the chances of him finding something like that to photograph? More than likely it's staged. I don't see how that's any better than photoshopping smoke. Is it really reporting on events when the photographer himself creates the news? (h/t Ace)Left,

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Beginning yesterday, it came to the attention of various bloggers such as Little Green Footballs, Ace of Spades, Michelle Malkin, and others, that something just wasn't right about a photo from the Reuters news wire posted on Yahoo!. That's the picture up top. Well, after all the commotion in the blogosphere, Reuters finally "killed" the picture and explained that is had done so because "photo

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Well, I've finally taken the plunge into the blogosphere. After spending a couple of months reading what other people have to say on their's it's only fitting that I now join in the conversation. I don't know yet how it will work out. Some of the things I've observed out there leave me a bit wary. I just hope I can keep it fun and interesting.

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