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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

Pajamas Party

Unlike the President, Pajamas Media DID invite me to their latest shindig at the National Press Club, but I was unable to attend. Many of my favorite bloggers did, and you can find the roundup here.
Remember when all the smartypants assured us that Pajamas wouldn’t last (I recall the smart money was ‘gone by April’)?…

No Comments » - Posted in Pajamas Media by Mark

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

Most Ridiculous Story Of The Day

This is just sad:
Three years after the city banned smoking in restaurants, health officials are talking about prohibiting something they say is almost as bad: artificial trans fatty acids.
The city health department unveiled a proposal Tuesday that would bar cooks at any of the city’s 24,600 food service establishments from using ingredients that contain the […]

13 Comments » - Posted in Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

Clinton and Terror: Examining the Record

Richard Miniter looks at that record against Osama that Clinton seems so proud of now:
In his Fox interview, Mr. Clinton said “no one knew that al Qaeda existed” in October 1993, during the tragic events in Somalia. But his national security adviser, Tony Lake, told me that he first learned of bin Laden “sometime in […]

16 Comments » - Posted in Radical Islam / GWOT by Mark

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

Want To Lose Iraq? Vote Democratic

Whoa, whoa, that’s way unfair, you may say…but let Charlie Rangel and Lynn Woolsey set you straight on what a Democratic House will mean for the war:
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) will chair the powerful Ways and Means Committee if Democrats win control of the House next year, but his main goal in 2007 does not […]

22 Comments » - Posted in Election 2006, Donkeys, Iraq by Mark

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

Decision ‘08: No Presidential Love

Oh, I still love Bush, but it’s an unrequited love; as you may have heard, a bunch of bloggers got invited to witness the President sign the anti-pork database bill. Yours truly was NOT extended an invitation, thank you very much. What’s Mary Katherine Ham have that I don’t (besides brains, beauty, charm, youth…er, well…never […]

4 Comments » - Posted in Navel-Gazing, POTUS by Mark

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

A Question I Find Myself Asking A Lot Lately…

…is also on the mind of Daniel Drezner, who contemplates Iran and finds an administration that (a) is not in favor of a purely diplomatic solution (i.e., what I call the “let Iran do what it wants and put the best face on it” ploy), (b) seems to rule out a gasoline embargo (I could care […]

3 Comments » - Posted in Iran, POTUS, Radical Islam / GWOT by Mark

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

This Is Called “Picking The Wrong Guy To Argue With”

If one is to tangle with Christopher Hitchens, one had better come well-prepared, a lesson David Corn has learned the hard way. Corn purports to show Hitchens is wrong about Niger (and by extension, about Joe Wilson) here:
In mid-October 2002, a nuclear analyst named Simon Dodge in the State Department’s intelligence division was forwarded copies […]

11 Comments » - Posted in Hitchens the Great, PlameGate, Iraq by Mark

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

Clinton, Osama, Somalia, and Greenwald

The MinuteMan ties them all up in a nice, neat package in not one, but two, of the kind of posts that made him famous. Go ye therefore and educate yourself…

5 Comments » - Posted in Radical Islam / GWOT by Mark

Monday, September 25th, 2006

BDS: Too Much For Even The Times?

Well, for one Times writer, anyway; Jennifer Senior looks at the latest offerings from Lewis Lapham (he of the extremely unpopular lefty yawner Harper’s) and Sidney “Dirty Tricks” Blumenthal (proud father to Max “I’m famous for nothing” Blumenthal, of whom Christopher Hitchens once said, “one hopes not to have to speculate about how far the […]

5 Comments » - Posted in Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

Monday, September 25th, 2006

Are You Ready For Some Football?

Okay, the pro game is not my deal - I’m a college sports fan to the core. I’ll make an exception tonight, though, for two reasons; one, to see the improbable return of the Superdome to action, and two, because my boys from Ireland will be playing. More from The Edge, who has been very […]

No Comments » - Posted in Celebrities / Pop Culture / Sports by Mark

Monday, September 25th, 2006

Takedown Of The Day

Josh Marshall, given the business by the Baseball Crank; the subject, PlameGate, and Marshall is a proxy for the progressive ‘retaliation’ camp as a whole. Read it and weep (and laugh - and then weep some more - and then round it all off with a little more laughing)…

No Comments » - Posted in PlameGate, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

Monday, September 25th, 2006

Allen Camp Issues Detailed Denial Of Salon Claims

Earlier today, I blogged about Salon’s accusations from three ex-teammates of George Allen that he frequently used the ‘N’ word and other such crap we’ve come to associate with ‘oppo’ research (accompanied by the testimony of far more than three that they witnessed no such behavior and found him to be a praiseworthy individual). Allen’s […]

15 Comments » - Posted in Election 2006, George Allen, Republican Candidates by Mark

Monday, September 25th, 2006

I’ve Got No Air Travel In My Immediate Future…

…but you may, and if so, you should know you can now carry on a beverage that you purchased in the secured part of the airport, and you can take a teensy-eensy-little-bitty (no, not a yellow polka-dot bikini, you fool! We’re talking airports here) portion of toiletry-type gel with you, as well. Details here…

No Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs by Mark

Monday, September 25th, 2006

A Dog’s Life? We Should Be So Lucky…

I KNEW it was a mistake to buy my beagle that subscription to the New York Times…why, oh, why, didn’t I stick with my first instinct and get the squeaky bone instead?…

1 Comment » - Posted in Beagle Blogging by Mark

Monday, September 25th, 2006

A Minority Republican? Will Wonders Never Cease…

Sure, it’s anecdotal, but it says a lot about the Democrats and the minority vote they take for granted:
A funny thing happened when I went to vote in the primary election. I signed in at my district’s desk and a poll worker printed my information on a green card. She gave the card to another […]

9 Comments » - Posted in Election 2006, George Allen, Republican Candidates by Mark

Monday, September 25th, 2006

Kerry Decries Those Who Would Cut And Run

No, really, I mean it:
The U.S. must not cut and run from the real front line in the war on terror.
Of course, he’s not talking about Iraq, but Afghanistan…there seems to be a concerted effort by Democrats underway to conflate the two. It’s a bait and switch game that is purely political, and I […]

3 Comments » - Posted in John Kerry, Radical Islam / GWOT, Democratic Candidates by Mark

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

Oh, Brother!

Proof positive that even Rhodes Scholars can be idiots:
In a contentious taped interview that aired on “Fox News Sunday,” former president Bill Clinton vigorously defended his efforts as president to capture and kill al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
“I got closer to killing him than anybody has gotten since. And if I were still […]

6 Comments » - Posted in Radical Islam / GWOT, Iraq by Mark

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

Courage, Redefined

Ouch!
A friend of mine –he’s a Colombian politician in a small town- receives frequent death threats. Last year he denounced the paramilitaries for skimming a percentage off public contracts, and there’s a strong chance that he’ll now be murdered (they’ve already tried once). He thinks they might try to abduct him.
I’m going to order him […]

No Comments » - Posted in Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Celebrities / Pop Culture / Sports by Mark

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

More Sunday Fun

To the question why, I answer, “Why not?”
In the middle of the incredible U2 show at Houston’s Toyota Center, I turned to my nephew and, only halfway joking, said we should just get in the car and drive to Dallas for the next night’s show. One person who was there at the American Airlines Arena […]

7 Comments » - Posted in Celebrities / Pop Culture / Sports by Mark

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

Ned Lamont: An Empty Suit For Senate

Kevin Rennie has been no fan of the Lieberman campaign, as regular readers of the Hartford Courant know, so when a man with friendly eyes looks at Lamont and finds the man wholly lacking in qualifications, you know there’s something to it:
Democratic Senate candidate Ned Lamont is having trouble moving from the small stage of […]