McCain Has 5 Point Lead in Latest Reuters/Zogby Poll
Did Russia’s invasion of Georgia have an impact?
Zogby:
Republican John McCain has taken a five-point lead over Democrat Barack Obama in the race for President, the latest Reuters/Zogby telephone survey shows.
McCain leads Obama by a 46% to 41% margin.
Can it possibly be that the media’s chosen candidate’s abilities and appeal may have been a trifle overrated? [...]
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:49:20 +0000
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McCain Stops Playing Games and Gains Ground
Says David Brooks.
On Tuesdays, Senate Republicans hold a weekly policy lunch. The party leaders often hand out a Message of the Week that the senators are supposed to repeat at every opportunity. Sometimes there will be a pollster offering data that supposedly demonstrates the brilliance of the message and why it will lead to political [...]
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:21:12 +0000
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Technologists Re-Learning Manual Skills
The Sunday Times Business section this week described an interesting reverse development taking place at high tech environments like Adobe, Intel, Stanford, and M.I.T.: a return to hand-ons, build-it-yourself engineering training featuring physical tools inculcating manual skills.
At Stanford, the rediscovery of human hands arose partly from the frustration of engineering, architecture and design professors who [...]
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:48:54 +0000
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European Genetics and Geography
The New York Times summarizes an article on European Genetics from Current Biology which arrives the conclusion that it could very likely be possible to identify the nationality of Europeans by genetic testing.
Europe has been colonized three times in the distant past, always from the south. Some 45,000 years ago the first modern humans entered [...]
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:58:47 +0000
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The Ayres Connection: Cover-Up Underway
Stanley Kurtz, of National Review Online, finds his efforts to investigate the full extent of Barack Obama’s relationship with former terrorist, now university professor, William Ayres mysteriously blocked.
The problem of Barack Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers will not go away. Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn were terrorists for the notorious Weather Underground during the [...]
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:54:32 +0000
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Plucky Cow Routs Bear
Apple, a heifer resident of Hygiene, Colorado, discovered an intruder in her pasture. She touched noses investigatively, doubtless reaching the correct conclusion that the visitor was a black bear cub, and promptly proceeded to run him off.
TheDenverChannel.com
slideshow
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:24:36 +0000
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Silliest Argument Contest
Roger Kimball, at PJM, has proposed a summer’s end contest
The Challenge: Name the silliest argument to be offered by a serious academic in the last 25 years and to be taken up and be gravely masticated by the larger world of intellectual debate.
Examples given include Global Warming, and Kimball’s current favorite, Francis Fukuyama’a “End of [...]
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:02:19 +0000
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Britain Elite Hates Fat People
Jenny McCarthy posts dispatches from the front lines of Britain’s class war.
The old-fashioned stereotype of a Tory used to be someone “very fat, very lazy, and very clever,” someone rather like Evelyn Waugh. But embonpoint today is looked upon in Britain, not as an indication of access to good dining and fine wine, but as [...]
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:08:06 +0000
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Russia Planning More Payback for Defensive Missiles in Poland
Israeli-based Depkafile has some nasty rumors to share.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report Moscow’s planned retaliation for America’s missile interceptors in Poland and US-Israeli military aid to Georgia may come in the form of installing Iskandar surface missiles in Syria and its Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad.
Russian Baltic and Middle East warships, submarines and long-range bombers may [...]
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:11:06 +0000
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Obamessiah Chronicles, 1
1:53 video
Hat tip to Michelle Malkin.
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:49:22 +0000
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Cute Advertisement
Seeing this photo posted by MeaninglessHotAir on YARGB, my wife and I both said “Chicago!” but no, it was an insurance ad in Columbus.
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:22:23 +0000
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Close, Very Close
Allahpundit catches Obama teetering, one foot over the edge of a fantastic gaffe. Asked what currently-serving Supreme Court Justice he would not have appointed, he names the libertarian, strict constructionist Clarence Thomas, and proceeds to contend that Thomas lacked “EXP,” the first syllable of experience. Then Obama pulls back himself back from cliff edge [...]
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:37:01 +0000
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McCain Certainly Won
Like most Americans, I’m more than content to read about the 2008 Presidential Election at this point, prior to the nominating conventions. I’m not glued to my television screen following it. Besides, I have plenty of Equestrian Olympic events, and Women’s Beach Volleyball, recorded on our satellite box to catch up on.
Consequently, I’ve seen nothing [...]
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:08:52 +0000
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Heart-Warming Television Moment
From Ms. Underestimated via Gateway Pundit:
NBC’s Chris Collinsworth prods Basketball player Kobe Bryant (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) with an audible sneer to remember that public expressions of patriotism are no longer appropriate.
0:58 video
Collinsworth: Is that a ‘cool’ thing to say, in this day and age? That you love your country, and that you’re fighting for [...]
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:56:03 +0000
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New York Times Does Not Like New Corsi Book
Roger Kimball enjoys the New York Times’ dilemma on how best to suppress Jerome Corsi new book.
Oh dear, Oh dear, Oh dear. Jerome Corsi, author of the bestselling Unfit for Command in 2004, a book that turned the phrase “swift boat” into a verb and helped defeat John “Reporting for Duty” Kerry, has written a [...]
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:34:08 +0000
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How Do They Know?
The authors of the Left Behind books say Obama is not, repeat: not, the AntiChrist.
link
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:17:40 +0000
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Green Authoritarianism
Stephen Moore, in the Wall Street Journal, describes how the environmental movement has come to claim the right to regulate, tax, and control every aspect of every American’s life.
Earlier this month, while visiting a friend in San Francisco, I almost spilled my latte in my lap when I read this on the front page of [...]
Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:28:49 +0000
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Why the Presidency Matters
Bruce Walker, at American Thinker, argues that, just as it was no accident that Ronald Reagan armed with conviction and consciously asserting the ideals of Liberty the United States was founded upon was able to bring down Communism and win the Cold Water, it is also no accident that the post-Reagan return to political “realism” [...]
Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:24:51 +0000
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The Glorious Twelfth Makes A Convert
Urbanista Amanda Platell takes to the moors for one of those journalistic visiting the rustic primitives who shoot think pieces, and finds the shooting sports and the pursuit of the red grouse nothing like what she expected.
Like many townies, my prejudices about the Glorious Twelfth were well and truly fully formed. The official start of [...]
Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:12:00 +0000
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Two Candidates From No Place
Peggy Noonan, every once in a while, justifies her reputation for brilliant insight. In her weekly WSJ piece, this week, she puts her finger on exactly what seems so strange about this year’s Presidential Election: its candidates are a new kind of candidate, one with no real roots in American regions or communities.
OK, quick, [...]
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:04:53 +0000
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"Obama's School Registration is Real, So What?"
Bob Owens, who blogs as Confederate Yankee, informs us that Jack Stokes, Associated Press manager of media relations confirmed the authenticity of the photograph of Barack Obama’s school registration in Indonesia.
Owens then proceeds to discount totally the document’s significance, point by point:
Did Barack Obama have Indonesian citizenship? We don’t know anything from this picture other [...]
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:43:43 +0000
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Victorious Russians Grab US Gear
To the victor go the spoils. Stefan Korshak, at Monsters and Critics, reports on happy Russians collecting souvenirs and useful US-supplied gear in Georgia.
You’ll be seeing the stuff on Ebay very shortly.
The troopers of Russia’s 58th Army, fresh from chasing their US-trained Georgian opponents out of South Ossetia, are just in love with their [...]
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:46:43 +0000
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"An Americal Carol" Trailer
There’s already a trailer out for David Zucker’s anti-Michael Moore comedy satire, opening in theaters October 3rd.
2:05 video
Hat tip to Dirty Harry’s Place.
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:27:17 +0000
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Iran Training Assassination Teams
A certain news agency has received a deliberate leak from a US military intelligence official, apparently intended to deter Iran from pursuing its nefarious plans by making a public announcement that the US knows all about them and is prepared to counter them.
The report states that Iran’s elite Quds Force, with the help of Hezbollah, [...]
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:15:12 +0000
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Olympics of Fraud
The original Olympic Games were played by competitors representing a variety of Greek cities sharing a common civilization, culture, religion, and ethical perspectives. Having a lot more sense than modern Europeans and Americans, the Greeks did not invite barbarian nations to compete or to host games.
Barbarian participation in competition is a firmly established part [...]
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:47:17 +0000
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Russian Sniper Shoots Female Georgian Journalist
He just grazes her arm, and though Tamara Urushadze takes cover, she bravely keeps reporting.
1:20 video
This video got my blood flowing. I was soon wishing that there was an American nearby with a scope-equipped ‘06 in the neighborhood able to reply. But then I wondered: how good was that Russian? He only fired [...]
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:28:05 +0000
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Barry Soetero, Muslim?
According to Day-Life, the above is a news agency photograph taken by Tatan Syuflana, captioned as follows by that agency.
This registration document, made available on Jan. 24, 2007, by the Fransiskus Assisi school in Jakarta, Indonesia, shows the registration of Barack Obama under the name Barry Soetoro into the Catholic school made by his step-father, [...]
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:11:26 +0000
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Obama Facts
The best collection.
A few samples:
Every now and then, Obama opens his eyes and the world springs into existence.
When a tree falls in the forest, Obama hears it.
Obama can clap with one hand.
When Obama squints dreamily into the distance, he can see next week’s lottery winning numbers. But he never plays because that would mean poverty [...]
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:12:17 +0000
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Investor's Mind
Chart of the mental processes of the typical equities investor. I know exactly how accurate this is, being typical myself.
From John Murrell via Karen Myers.
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:51:59 +0000
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Ooops!
29-year old Saleman Abdirahman Dirie, a Canadian citizen from Ottawa of Somali origin, was found deceased in his room at the Burnsley Hotel in downtown Denver, about four blocks from the State Capitol.
The cause of death remains to be determined, but the pound (.45 kg.) of Sodium Cyanide found by authorities next to the body [...]
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:20:56 +0000
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California Group Claims to Have Bigfoot
Looks like a gorilla mask, a buffalo rug, and a bear paw to me
Searching for Bigfoot, Inc. of Redwood City, California announced the alleged recent discovery of a deceased male Bigfoot in the woods of northern Georgia by a Clayton County police officer named Matthew Whitton and a friend, Rick Dyer. Robert Barrows, [...]
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:39:07 +0000
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Major Disruption
Cadet
If you find blog postings filled with typos and a trifle incoherent today, it may have something to do with active interference by this 8 month old Basset Bleu de Gascogne, who got kicked out of his hunting pack, and who has moved in here. Try typing with this hanging onto your right arm!
Some [...]
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:16:17 +0000
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New Obama Book Already on Bestseller List
In the case of John Edwards, as in the case of John Kerry before him, as in the affair of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky still earlier, the mainstream media refrained from investigating or reporting unpleasant stories about their favored political leaders until widespread dissemination by alternative sources made the stories impossible to overlook.
Tom Maguire [...]
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:20:43 +0000
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How the Japanese Martial Arts Came to America
President Theodore Roosevelt demonstrating some wrist holds
Samuel Hill, a prominent attorney, railroad executive, and businessman of Seattle, Washington, concerned for his son’s health, decided that judu (which he had seen performed while visiting Japan on business) would represent an ideal form of fitness training. Despite his own Harvard background, he made inquiries in New [...]
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:57:14 +0000
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The Moral Standing of Andrew Sullivan
Peter Wehner really does a marvelous job of demolishing Andrew Sullivan’s pretensions to any kind of moral authority, merely by contrasting Sullivan’s current anti-Iraq-war diatribes with what Sullivan was saying five and six years ago.
Sullivan has changed sides too frequently and too frivolously to be taken seriously in his favorite pose of lone, small voice [...]
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:29:03 +0000
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Most Important Al Qaeda Capture in 5 Years
Aafia Siddiqui
Several news agencies are describing the capture in Afghanistan last month of Aafia Siddiqui, a 1995 graduate of MIT who later earned a doctorate in neuroscience at Brandeis, as the capture of most important al Qaeda operative since 2003.
ABC story with 2:55 video.
The Pakistani scientist has been on the FBI’s top list of [...]
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:03:43 +0000
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Differing Perspectives on Elite Education
Rachel Toor (Br ‘84) responds to William Deresiewicz’s recent widely-read article on the Disadvantages of Elite Education.
She thinks Deresiewicz gets it wrong because he only taught at Yale. He didn’t go there.
With the ongoing admissions frenzy, I, too, have been wondering if people really know what they’re aspiring to. Certainly for less-affluent students, a name-brand [...]
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:40:13 +0000
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Georgia and Russian Strategy
BTC Pipeline
I don’t agree with Green with a Gun’s PC envirnmentalist cant about the people of Great Powers being able “to have more than their fair share of world resources.” Shares of world resources are actually not conventionally exchanged at gun point. Sorry, Marx. We buy them.
Some countries have politically systems providing security of [...]
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:14:32 +0000
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Second Major al-Qaeda Leader Killed in Pakistan NW Frontier
Abu Saeed al-Masri aka Mustafa Abu al-Yazid
Reuters reports another leading al Qaeda figure has been put out of the jihad business.
Senior Al Qaeda commander Abu Saeed al-Masri has been killed in recent clashes with Pakistani forces in a Pakistani region near the Afghan border, a security official said on Tuesday.
“He was believed to be among [...]
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:28:35 +0000
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Beijing Olympics, Equestrian. and Other Events! Online
The NBC Olympic web-site is making videos of all events available on-line.
To view them, you will first have to allow Microsoft to install its Silverlight plugin, then restart the browser.
Here is the Equestrian events video page.
Now that is convenient.
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:38:16 +0000
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How Crazy Are Leftwingers?
This crazy.
That little Obama endorsement video was a comedy satire, but this moonbat is completely in earnest.
Blake Fleetwood, at Huffington Post, thinks Dick Cheney and Karl Rove persuaded Georgia to provoke war with Russia to help John McCain win the US presidential election.
He just needs to get some of his ultra-left blogger friends to repeat [...]
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:01:10 +0000
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The Political Endorsement That Really Matters
Angelina Jolie is keeping an open mind, Wiltshire & Washington reports.
In June, when Entertainment Weekly asked her whether she talked politics with Clint Eastwood, a longtime Republican, on the set of the upcoming movie, “The Changeling,” she said, “Actually, we don’t disagree as much as you’d think. I think people assume I’m a Democrat. But [...]
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:47:24 +0000
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Obama 2008
A couple of YouTube 19 year old comedians satirize youth for Obama. They were sufficiently persuasive that some angry Hillaryites at Larry Johnson’s blog took this for a real endorsement.
3:55 video
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:36:03 +0000
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Beijing Fireworks Faked for Broadcast
Yahoo Sports explains that, though fireworks were actually used at the Beijing Olympic Games opening ceremonies, the astonishing display broadcast around the world on television was faked, combining computer generated images with prerecorded shots of fireworks.
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:05:51 +0000
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Female Shooters' Site
The Cornered Cat has a lot to say about firearms choice, ownership, and use from the female perspective.
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:56:34 +0000
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New Record House Price
Villa Leopolda, Villefranche-sur-Mer
Charles Bremmer reports from Paris, in the London Times, that Russians are not only gobbling up real estate in the Republic of Georgia. Let’s hope they overpay just as much for that Caucasian real estate.
A mysterious Russian billionaire has trumped his big-spending rivals and broken a world record by splashing out €500 million [...]
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:46:44 +0000
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The Remission Defense
Ross Douthat, in the Atlantic, is less than sympathetic.
You stay classy, John Edwards:
Edwards made a point of telling Woodruff that his wife’s cancer was in remission when he began the affair with Hunter. Elizabeth Edwards has since been diagnosed with an incurable form of the disease.
Also, he made a point of telling Woodruff that he [...]
Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:59:25 +0000
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11 Deaths on K2 Tie Record For 2nd Worse Himalayan Climbing Disaster
K2 - More Dangerous than Everest
Freddie Wilkinson, in HuffPo of all places, gives a climber’s inside perspective on the recent K2 tragedy, critiquing some mainstream media accounts in places like the New York Times and National Geographic.
Roughly thirty people left the high camp in the predawn hours on Friday, August 1st, bound for the summit. [...]
Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:46:46 +0000
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Obama's Name and Citizenship Problems
Apparently, the Obama birth certificate published on Daily Kos, later demonstrated to be a forgery was the result of an effort to avoid embarrassing discussion the real document bearing the candidate’s adopted name of Barry Soetero, and consequent issues connected with his dual citizenships.
Apparently, having a Kenyan birth father automatically makes Mr. Soetero a citizen [...]
Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:18:34 +0000
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44-Year-Old Airline Mechanic Foils Tulsa Armed Robbery
In Tulsa, an ordinary citizen recently demonstrated that it doesn’t take a SWAT team, machine guns, and paramilitary gear to subdue an armed robber, just guts.
WND:
(Craig) Stutzman, 44, an American Airlines mechanic, had stopped at the Food Pyramid store to buy some dog food before leaving town for a family reunion, according to a Tulsa [...]
Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:52:50 +0000
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