Entries Tagged as ‘Ed Morrissey’

July 19, 2008

Missing the point on Phil Gramm

Ed Morrissey wrote post about the departure of Phil from the McCain camp. As part of his post, he talked about the Gramm venture in the porn industry:
The second issue has been bouncing around the Leftosphere for a few days.  Gramm invested $15,000 in some cheesy soft-core porn film … in 1973.  Apparently he lost [...]

April 23, 2008

Misusing McCain’s POW experience

The LA TIMES had a recent article that had the following title:

John McCain gets tax-free disability pension
The disclosure of the Navy benefit for injuries incurred as a Vietnam POW may raise fitness questions.
I don’t particularly want to discuss the article, but I think there is a point to be made here. Personally, I think that [...]

April 20, 2008

Did you see the little tears down their eyes?

Hotair as a clip with David Axelrod of Barack Obama’s campaign going against Hillary Clinton’s new chief strategist Geoff Garin. Ed Morrissey comments:
Both campaigns have conducted negative advertising, and for both strategists to cry about it on national TV would embarrass anyone — except maybe a Democrat.
You know, I watched that clip and didn’t see [...]

April 10, 2008

The new education litmus test: knowing how to work a rope-and-pulley system!

I love the exaggerations at Hot Air. This is from a story where a school in Minnesota doesn’t know how to raise and American flag on a pole.
Yesterday I linked to the Katherine Kersten column about the state-funded madrassa in Minnesota, Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA). Today, local ABC affiliate KSTP follows up on the [...]

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 [...]