Archive for April, 2005

Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

What If Al Franken Threw a Party, and Nobody Came?

It’s not a hypothetical, actually…listeners are avoiding Air America in droves. I mentioned before that it recently came to Austin, by a good measure the most liberal city in Texas, and, despite the fact that I know one other conservative in my building, and at least 40 liberals, I have yet to hear a […]

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Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

Another Important Must Read

Be sure to check out part 3 of Rusty Shackleford’s Damned of the West series, focusing this time on an interview with the daughter of American hostage Roy Hallums…good job to Rusty for his important work on this. Please take the time to read this one…

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Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

Maurice Hinchey Receives More Travel Gifts Than Tom Delay

Who’s the recipient of the most travel gifts in the U.S. Congress? It ain’t bad ol’ Tom Delay…in fact, our old buddy Maurice Hinchey gets more bang for the buck than the embattled Texan. Check out the details at QandO…

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Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

Was Social Security Reform a Mistake?

I don’t think so, and neither, it seems, does Viking Pundit. Commenting on a Fred Barnes piece suggesting Bush and team adopt a Social Security exit strategy, Eric has this to say:
…there�s still a chance that Dubya can turn things around perhaps by shifting the argument from solvency to financial freedom. But, whatever may […]

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Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

Whither Bolton?

Yea, says Rove; too close to call, says Arlen Specter (I know who I’m putting my money on)…

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Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

Syrian Withdrawal Complete?

Well, the MSM has finally noticed that Syria has withdrawn its troops from Lebanon. So they say, anway; a UN team is on the ground to verify the withdrawal (let’s hope they do a better job on this than on most of their other assignments). What you won’t see, at least not at CNN, the […]

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Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

Thomas Sowell: Culture Holds Back Black ‘Rednecks’

Provocative, convincing op-ed in the WSJ today by the excellent Thomas Sowell, who makes the Cosbyesque point that neither race nor racism can explain the relative success of, say, blacks from the West Indies or Africa as compared to their ‘keeping it real’ counterparts - in the words of Chris Rock, yeah, you’re keeping it […]

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Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

Hitchens On Blair: Right On The Things That Matter

Christopher Hitchens makes the case for Tony Blair in much the same way as I would (though, of course, with far greater erudition); we can quibble about certain points, but on the big, foreign-policy questions, he has nearly always been right. I would make the same case for Bush being a great president; his […]

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Monday, April 25th, 2005

A New, More Difficult Poll

Now that we’ve determined just how smart we all are, it’s time for a more abstract, provocative poll. Goodfellas ran away with best Scorsese flick, but the whole thing was tainted since I left off Raging Bull. Remember, when trying to respond to this week’s brainteaser, there are no wrong answers, only wrong questions…

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Monday, April 25th, 2005

My Readability Results

I’ve seen lots of folks putting up the results of their blog’s Readability Test (hat tip to Kevin Drum for being the first that I saw). Here are my results for my front page as of Friday, I think it was:

Total Sentences: 747
Total Words: 8,099
Average Words Per Sentence: 10.84
Words with 1 Syllable: 5,344
Words with 2 […]

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Monday, April 25th, 2005

Quick Shots: Doesn’t Sound Like A Blog To Me

When referring to the newest venture of Arriana Huffington, I’ll defer to the great Tim Blair:
Sounds like a pile of crap.
Heh. Indeed…
You’ve probably seen this already, but if you haven’t, don’t waste any time - go there right now! On the basis of this report, I’m knocking both Hillary and Kerry down […]

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Monday, April 25th, 2005

A Match Made In Heaven

MoDo reviews Jane Fonda: whose prose is worse? Ye gads, take a look:
”My Life So Far” is not a lyrical title, but it captures Jungian Jane’s Sisyphean, Oprahphean struggle to process her pain and banish her demons. Her book is a psychobabble loop of ”tectonic shifting,” forfeiting her authenticity and feeling disembodied, then trying […]

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Monday, April 25th, 2005

A New Indiana Jones Movie?

…the good Dr. Shackleford links to a story that says so. I sure hope so, I’ve been holding INDI4 long on the Hollywood Stock Exchange for over a year, and I’m seriously underwater…

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Monday, April 25th, 2005

Syrian Troops Leave Lebanon: Civil War Missing In Action

As the vast majority of the remaining Syrian troops pulled across the border with Lebanon yesterday, an All-Points-Bulletin was issued for the promised outbreak of civil war (last seen in the company of the MSM coverage of the good news from that area). Guess the NY Times doesn’t want to take valuable space away […]

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Monday, April 25th, 2005

Sullivan: Benedict=Law?

Andrew Sullivan continues his one-man crusade against the new Pope, by using speculation and unsourced quotes to draw a direct parallel between then-Cardinal Ratzinger and Cardinal Law. Hey, Andrew, here’s a thought - the Pope has been installed, and you won’t change that - how about waiting to see what his Papacy is really […]

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Monday, April 25th, 2005

George Soros - The Open, Government-Funded Society

Would you agree with the federal government spending money to defeat George Bush in 2004? Would you give any of your hard-earned pay to billionnaire lunatic George Soros? Both things are happening, at least indirectly…Michelle Malkin has the details.

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Monday, April 25th, 2005

Quick Shots: What’s In A Name? Dreaming of What Could Have Been…

John at Kill Righty has a good roundup of possible future Pope names that I’ve been meaning to link to for a few days now…Alex at Marginal Revolution has some thoughts on increasing IQs and TV and movie plots. I have to agree that (most) movies were more boring in days gone by - […]

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Monday, April 25th, 2005

Barone on Faith: A Masterful Commentary

Michale Barone is one of the most solid, clearheaded commentators on the scene today, and as usual, he manages to cut right to the heart of the faith / theocracy debate. He dismisses concerns we’re headed down the theocracy road as ’silly’, takes a shot at Andrew Sullivan’s hysterical reaction to Benedict XVI, and makes […]

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Sunday, April 24th, 2005

That MoDo Mojo: Compares Ratzinger to Cheney, Thinks It’s An Insult

Alright, I’m late in getting to the latest installment, but (surprise, surprise!) MoDo has decided, for a change of pace, to criticize a religious figure (as opposed to just criticizing someone for practicing religion). Her big brainstorm this column is that Dick Cheney selected himself, and so did Ratzinger (of course, Ratzinger did no such […]

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Sunday, April 24th, 2005

Miscellanea: Judge Not Edition

Since the Economist is a (mostly) pay site, Prof Bainbridge does us the favor of printing a most devestating graphic…
Ward Churchill: Too cool for his school…
Carpe Bonum is riding high with another Instalanche…
With a hat tip to the Bernoulli Effect, here’s a vicious fisking of what passes for military analysis in the world of the […]

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