"a careful mix"

Definitely shaken, and not stirred, I say. Tim Kaine’s fidelity to his Catholic faith, that is. The “careful mix” is how candidate Tim Kaine compromises with his faith in his quest to become for governor of Virginia.
There is no constitutional religious test for any public office, nor should there ever [...]

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Skin deep

Monica Bhide, an author of cookbooks, writes in today’s Washington Post of racism she’s been a victim of.
Ms. Bhide is coy to the point of annoyance as to her ethnicity (she is Indian), but she is clear on the fact that she has brown skin. And that some ignorant Americans have seen her skin [...]

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Criminalizing politics

Poor Scooter Libby. Back when Joe Wilson was lying about Niger, he was engaged in trying to find out what was going on. Then, because some at our State Department and CIA are hostile to the Bush administration (to say the least), it became political payback for the Donks in exile, pissed about [...]

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Fire for effect

Looks like the president took the advice of Charles Krauthammer, and allowed Ms. Miers to withdraw. The news story in the Washington Post notes
In announcing the decision, Miers and President Bush cited their concern with the requests of members of the Senate Judiciary Committee for documents dealing with her work as White House [...]

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Were the Founders Christian?

This is the CliffsNotes version only. In response to a comment on one of my BlogCorner Preacher posts, two citations as to why I think the American founders were Christian. Note: not evangelical as this term is used today, certainly not snake-handlers or talking-in-tongues Pentecostals. Christians, nevertheless.
First source is a [...]

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What’s in a number?

Depends on who’s asking. Two stories today illustrate the problems of numerology as applied to warfare. The first, on the front page of today’s Bring-the-Troops-Home Post provides yet another Vietnam quagmire analogy.
This story concerns the release of enemy body counts, i.e. the number of enemy combatants our troops in the field [...]

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Chicago’s turn

Pity the Chicago baseball teams, mired in what seems to be decades upon decades of failure. The Cubs haven’t won a World Series since 1908. The Sox, who blasted their way into this year’s fall classic, haven’t even appeared in the Series since 1959, and last won it 1n 1917. That’s a [...]

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Lesson learned, Mr. President?

The lesson? One must never abandon principle for expediency. You do and you will lose your base. The nomination of Harriet Miers was as purely an expedient political move as ever was conceived by the mind of Karl (I’m not indicted yet!) Rove. As a conservative Republican, I say, enough [...]

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“desecration of their religious and cultural beliefs”

Looks like it’s going to be another Koran down the Krapper incident.  It is claimed, with video backing, that our boys in Afghanistan had, quoting from the New York Times
…burned the bodies of two dead Taliban fighters and then used the charred and smoking corpses in a propaganda campaign against the insurgents.

Well, we all know [...]

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West Wing dreamin’

As a former victim of the Inside-the-Beltway culture, I enjoy the fantasy show about what a Democratic administration would be like if it were led by a morally straight and academically brilliant version of Bill Clinton.  The West Wing is an interesting show, if only for the insights it gives to the world of Hollywood liberals.
In [...]

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Harriet Miers should withdraw…

…or be withdrawn. For the good of the nation. For the good of maintaining a nation of laws, and not of nine lawyers on the Supreme Court. The last thing we need on the court is a good-ol’-girl who will vote just like George Bush told her to.
I strongly encourage you to [...]

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A victory of sorts

Boy do I hate to agree with an America-doubter like Juan Cole, but there seems to be some ground truth here:
“This thing is an enormous fiasco,” said Juan Cole, a University of Michigan historian and a specialist on Shiite Islam. He said having such a solid bloc in opposition to the constitution “really undermines its [...]

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A victory of sorts

Boy do I hate to agree with an America-doubter like Juan Cole, but there seems to be some ground truth here:
“This thing is an enormous fiasco,” said Juan Cole, a University of Michigan historian and a specialist on Shiite Islam. He said having such a solid bloc in opposition to the constitution “really undermines its [...]

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War is Peace

Ah, for the Newspeak written of by George Orwell. Mark Steyn has a splendid piece today on how the mainstream media refuse to call a spade a shovel, let alone its proper name.
“Militants.” “Rebels.” “Insurgents.”
You pays yer money and takes yer pick. We’ve seen this for years in the Israel-Palestine [...]

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Satanic verses?

One of the best country songs, ever, by Charlie Daniels is “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” Well, Satan is most definitely afoot. At least insofar as one, count him, one, extremist in the suppression of any public expression of anything remotely related to the religion is able to suppress a harmless song.
The sad story [...]

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War is Peace

Ah, for the Newspeak written of by George Orwell. Mark Steyn has a splendid piece today on how the mainstream media refuse to call a spade a shovel, let alone its proper name.
“Militants.” “Rebels.” “Insurgents.”
You pays yer money and takes yer pick. We’ve seen this for years in the Israel-Palestine [...]

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Satanic verses?

One of the best country songs, ever, by Charlie Daniels is “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” Well, Satan is most definitely afoot. At least insofar as one, count him, one, extremist in the suppression of any public expression of anything remotely related to the religion is able to suppress a harmless [...]

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This won’t make them step up…

…to their responsibilities as men. That’s the ‘Millions More Movement’, for which, according to the usually sympathetic Washington Post story, actually may garner…thousands. Which is still pretty impressive for a race-bating, anti-Semite like Louie Freakycan.
The objective seems to be to embarrass black men into actually acting like men; to stepping up [...]

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And a child shall lead them?

“Marching to Nowhere” is the headline on a commonsensical piece in today’s Washington Post. David Nicholson, the author, reminds blacks that displays of solidarity, such as the (way-less-than-million-but-hey, who’s-counting) million man march of ten years ago hasn’t led to any significant improvement in the black condition in the United States.
Nicholson serves up some of [...]

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Religion of Peace doing its thing

From the Washington Post website, this headline: “Bloody Street Fighting in Russian City Kills Dozens; Region Increasingly Restive as Violence Spills Over from Nearby Chechnya.” The news story has it that “scores of gunmen launched a wave of attacks on government buildings, telecommunications facilities and the airport.”
The story further notes that “Chechen separatists [...]

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Boycott DC

The inmates are in charge in the District of Columbia’s asylum, also known as the city “government.” These apes couldn’t arrange a two-car funeral, and yet DC’s over-taxed, over-regulated, and under-served citizens whine about “home rule.”
Home drool is more like it. The latest outrage against reason is on the front page of today’s [...]

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Flat Earth Society

Tom Friedman, Everyman’s New York Timesman, He Who is All-Knowing and All-Seeing, was on Fox&Friends this a.m. to shill his bestselling book, “The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century”. I’ve not read the book, and have no plans to; my shelves are already overstocked with books that don’t have [...]

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Maybe it was the 78%

The Premier of Pork, His Highness of Hog, Bobby Bryd, won re-election to the Senate in 2000 by a mere 78% of the votes cast. Pretty impressive, actually. That ‘ol boy Bobby can shore deliver the chitlins to his state. OK, enough piling on the rebels who just had to take their [...]

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The power of love

Time for what might seem an unserious post, about a very unserious movie: “Legally Blonde“. We just watched it, and its plot is seriously contrived and most definately not asking to be taken as a metaphor for anything. What you see is what you get.
And yet, while watching this ostensibly silly piece [...]

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The power of love

Time for what might seem an unserious post, about a very unserious movie: “Legally Blonde“. We just watched it, and its plot is seriously contrived and most definately not asking to be taken as a metaphor for anything. What you see is what you get.
And yet, while watching this ostensibly silly piece [...]

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The Pope they love to hate

“They” being those who would tell us that a homosexual “lifestyle” is but one choice among many. Sort of like choosing to decorate your home in the Shaker style, or in the Virginia colonial style. Here he comes again, that pesky former Cardinal Ratzinger, now Papa Benedict XVI, reminding his flock, all billion [...]

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Dear Mr. President…

What you likely will never see is a letter like this:
Dear Mr. President:
I recognize that as a loyal colleague, I should simply keep my nose to the grindstone and proceed through with this honor you have bestowed on me. Let me say, however, that the reaction among your base of supporters is disheartening. [...]

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Dear Mr. President…

What you likely will never see is a letter like this:
Dear Mr. President:
I recognize that as a loyal colleague, I should simply keep my nose to the grindstone and proceed through with this honor you have bestowed on me. Let me say, however, that the reaction among your base of supporters is disheartening. [...]

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“a sorry retreat into smallness”

Thus is the Miers moment captured by Charles Krauthammer today. There are many problems with the nomination of Harriet Miers, but the single most important reason for her to not get to the Supreme Court as a justice is the fact that her sole qualification is loyalty and closeness to the president. [...]

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"a sorry retreat into smallness"

Thus is the Miers moment captured by Charles Krauthammer today. There are many problems with the nomination of Harriet Miers, but the single most important reason for her to not get to the Supreme Court as a justice is the fact that her sole qualification is loyalty and closeness to the president. [...]

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