Now that spring has arrived in Ohio it is harder to find time to blog. I am embarking on a three game a week soccer season and the dogs flat out demand to be walked when the weather is nice. So to hold you over until I can post more (hey I am going to [...]
With all this Iraq as Vietnam discussion stirred up by Ted Kennedy, shouldn’t someone mention that Ted’s brother and his successor (both Democrats) started the debacle in question? Was big bad Lyndon Johnson – the man, BTW, who pushed the biggest chunk of civil rights legislation through congress – the only one doing the deceiving [...]
I have been beating up on Will Saletan lately for his rabid anti-Bush sophistry (see here and here) but now I have someone from his own website to back me up. Granted it isn’t quite as harsh but it points out the larger issue. Here is Mickey Kaus on Kerry’s “No Child” Panderflop: Ron Brownstein’s [...]
Here is a great example of why I am not a liberal. Kevin Drum in the The Washington Monthly: Wal-Mart’s plans to open 40 Supercenters in Southern California got off to a slow start yesterday: voters in Inglewood (former home of the Lakers) told them to get lost. By a huge margin they voted down [...]
I have an announcement to make to the Blogosphere: President Bush is not a libertarian. That’s right, liberal and libertarian bloggers, President Bush thinks differently than you on a host of social issues! He doesn’t believe in minimalist government or a hands off policy when it comes to social issues like abortion, pornography, marriage, etc. [...]
That laugh was not encouraging to strangers; and hence it may have been well that it was rarely heard. Many theories might have been built upon it. It fell in well with conjectures of a temperament which would have not pity for weakness, but would be ready to yield ungrudging admiration to greatness and strength. [...]