Entries from March 2008

March 31, 2008

Keep it classy, as in don’t complain?

I love Mary Katharine Ham’s idea on keeping something classy.
Keep It Classy, Washington
Cringe-inducing, but it has to be pointed out. President Bush booed while tossing the first pitch at the new Nationals Stadium. Pretty trashy on the fans’ part, here, although there are cheers mixed in, too…
So note to National fans: if you are not [...]

March 31, 2008

Hot Air confused about the Universal in Universal Health Care

It would be funny if it wasn’t so important. When writing about Hillary’s money trouble, Ed at Hot Air writes:
Yesterday, Allahpundit posted on the Politico’s story about the Hillary Clinton team not paying their bills. Today Kenneth Vogel digs a little deeper, and discovers that Team Hillary’s commitment to universal health care doesn’t even extend [...]

March 31, 2008

When you kneel too much at the altar of the free market…

Some people just don’t get it:
ARLINGTON, VA. — Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of former Democratic presidential contender John Edwards, said she and John McCain have one thing in common: “Neither one of us would be covered by his health policy.”

Under McCain’s plan, insurance companies “wouldn’t have to cover preexisting conditions like melanoma and breast cancer,” [...]

March 31, 2008

The American president Americans have been waiting for?

From Crooksandliars:

The RNC gets a little touchy
On Friday, John McCain’s campaign unveiled its first general-election TV ad — the one that uses the word “American” one too many times — and the Democratic National Committee did what was expected: it responded by criticizing John McCain.

The ad claims McCain is “The American president Americans have been [...]

March 29, 2008

Is affirmative action bigotry?

Some people really love to misuse words. Take for example Alyssa Cordova. She writes that:
George Mason University, like many public universities, is an affirmative action institution, meaning they discriminate on the basis of race and/or gender when accepting and rejecting applicants for admission. Although this obvious bigotry exists in the admissions process, I have an [...]

March 29, 2008

The Hot Air pro-environment litmus test

This is getting ridiculous. There seems to be a knee-jerk reflex to always go after the messenger if that messenger dares to say something good for the environment.
Today is ‘earth hour’, where people and business are supposed to turn of their lights for 1 hour from 8pm till 9pm. Google is a part of that, [...]

March 29, 2008

Little (intellectual honesty) Green Footballs

I found this post on Little Green Footballs interesting:

The Protocols of the Daily Kos
Jew-hatred bubbles and ferments just beneath the surface at Daily Kos, erupting from time to time in gaseous diary posts like this one: Daily Kos: What’s Wrong With Being Anti Israel?
There seems to be such a taboo in the media about anyone [...]

March 28, 2008

Geert Wilders for his freedom of expression but against ours?

Some of the blogosphere is going nuts over the new video from Geert Wilders. Michelle is boldly declaring she will not submit, the crowd is going wild, etc.
Prepare for more March Madness. I don’t know what “solidarity” is in Dutch, but show it by embedding the video, e-mailing it, and writing about it. Their fight [...]

March 27, 2008

Ed Morrissey, uneven sentences for similar crimes

I was reading this post by Ed and it got me thinking. The post is about Mumia Abu-Jamal getting his sentence overturned. In there, he writes:
Maybe they should consider letting Mumia rot. I’m not a fan of the death penalty, but one application where it makes sense is when someone murders a police officer, especially [...]

March 26, 2008

Do you want to dine with Barack Obama?

Now is your chance to tell him how much you like John McCain, ask him about Rev. Wright, maybe tell him you are part of Operation Chaos from Rush Limbaugh.
Imagine what you could do.
The only thing you have to do is donate at least 5$ to his campaign.
 https://donate.barackobama.com/dinner
Think about it. If you win that dinner, [...]