Archive for the 'Current Events' Category
Josh Marshall over at the TPM Café (www.Talkingpointsmemo.com ) made an interesting observation this morning about Presidential candidate Michael Huckabee’s reference to “vertical thinking.” in his campaign literature. Josh thought the phrase was odd and puzzled over its meaning.
Googling the phrase“vertical thinking” along with the word “god” yields a large number of hits, some referring [...]
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The War on Christmas: Redux
George Bailey, Bill O’Reilly, Henry Potter, Sean Hannity, Scrooge, Michelle Malkin, Micheal Savage, and Frank Capra on the War on Christmas
The long long war on Christmas has been co-opted by infidels. In the early days of this epic conflict, this war could have been described as a minor league guerrilla operation. The body counts were low, [...]
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Heroin Trade Inverse
The New Heroin: Money on the Cheap
History may be repeating itself is a strange way. A century and a half ago, the West (mainly Britain) encouraged Opium smoking in the East (mainly China and India) and profited from its trade. Opium dens devastated China and created widespread addiction in that land.
But recently, China, [...]
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Jonah on Joe and Valerie
Jonah Goldberg is an editor at large for the National Review, and has been conducting a relentless attack on both Valerie Plame, the outed CIA agent, and her retired diplomat husband Joseph Wilson. This article is a rebuttal to Jonah’s piece posted here: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MmYxNTAyNTZlNjllNmQ2MzZlYjA1YzJlM2U3M2MyMjY=
I know, name calling, innuendo, smug tones, and character assasination are innappropriate responses to [...]
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Thomas Sowell is a syndicated columnist and senior fellow for the conservative Hoover Institution. Thomas Sowell’s recent article on the Valerie Plame affair http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/03/09/meatgrinder_politics proves there is a sound reason to have people pass a bar exam before they are authorized to practice law.
Essentially, Sowell wrongly asserts that because Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald learned early on that Armitage [...]
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A fuming John Yoo, famous author of specious legal arguments for ever greater war powers by this President, sounds personally affronted by the Supreme Court’s recent rebuke of his own arguments in “The high court’s Hamdan power grab” in the LA Times. He accuses the Court of being “hostile,” via its “interference,” and in its “lack [...]
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A few weeks ago, Ken Mehlman asked the public to write the White House and give their views on the secret CIA detainees now being transferred to
Guantanamo and how they should be treated and under what rules they should be tried.
I did watch key excerpts of Mr. Bush’s address and now follow Mr. Mehlman’s [...]
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The current debate over “judicial activism” is being waged primarily from the conservative side of the aisle. Although there was a cry from the liberal side when they complained that the Supreme Court intervened far too early in settling the 2000 election via the case of Gore V. Bush in what they claimed was an [...]
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With all due respect to recent comments by David Gelernter and Larry C. Johnson & their opposing views on the torture debate: both miss the point.
Johnson claims the limited value torture brings is offset by the committed enemies it creates and the limited quality of the information gathered by such methods. Gelernter believes that [...]
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