Stand in the Trenches: Dumb Ironies
This is the best short critique of the Harvard-President-thinks-men-and-women-differ kerfluffle I have seen ...
Baby Jordan Needs a Heart
There's a little baby in New York City who needs a heart transplant within the next few days to live. Details here. Hat tip: Michelle Malkin ...
Johnny Carson: An Appreciation
Google has 440,000 entries for the phrase "end of an era"; yet, few of its uses are likely to be more apt than in referring to the loss of Johnny Carson. It is not just Carson's uniqueness -- which others are addressing better than I can -- but that for ...
Blunt Talk from U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln
Michelle Malkin has a link to an on-the-scene report from a writer who serves on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, which is engaged in tsunami relief in Indonesia. The writer, "Ed Stanton," does not mince words ...
Douglas Brinkley: Inconvenient History
Douglas Brinkley (the one who appears on cable shows with the title "historian") complains in the Washington Post that "the right has hijacked the word 'freedom' from the progressive movement." ...Historian Douglas Brinkley points out that Bush's use of "freedom" as political rhetoric pulls a fast one on liberals. The ...
Love for Abortion in Search of a Justification
Speaking of the Center for American Progress, it has an essay posted today on its main page by a Reverend Debra W. Haffner saying, "we have a moral imperative to ensure access to abortion services." The essay says even parental notification (not just consent) laws are immoral as well as ...
The Paragraph Farmer: Misreading the Coverage
The Paragraph Farmer uses a football analogy while analyzing Bush's Second Inaugural Address ...
Anti-Spam Blogs
A blog about spam. Efforts to fight it, that is. And here's another one. While this anti-spam site has an article about new developments in the war against comment spam on blogs ...
New Sisyphus: State Department Underground
Another member of the State Department Republican underground has a blog. This post in particular caught my eye. There are some good comments posted to it, too ...
Appreciation
"There's snow! It's on the playground! That's beautiful!" That's what my four-year-old son said when he saw the newest picture atop the Everything I Know Is Wrong blog earlier this evening. (The articles there are nice, too.) ...
Glenn Reynolds: Regulator?
Glenn Reynolds seems to be calling for governmental regulation of free speech. If the government can regulate a nonprofit's ability to say it believes that one in five children have been sexually solicited online, then that same government can regulate a nonprofit's way of speaking about Social Security reform, the ...
Rumsfeld the Wimp…
...at least, in comparison. Personally, if we are going to have a sex symbol at DoD, I'd like to keep the male one ...
Talking Points on Social Security: Social Security in Crisis
Opponents of President Bush's plan to rescue and modernize Social Security increasingly are claiming "there is no crisis." But Social Security is pledged to pay out $25 trillion more by 2077 than it expects to have available.1How can that not be a crisis? * In 15 years we will need ...
Social Security Reform: Necessary or Not?
The Wall Street Journal is hosting a bloggers' debate on Social Security reform. Visitors are being encouraged to vote in an online poll and leave public comments about the debate. Hat tip: InstaPundit ...
From Mrs Suha Arafat – Again
When I said this letter was just a parody, I did predict "so far." Not anymore. Can the people who fall for stuff this stupid really have any money worth stealing? (Maybe the joke is on the 419-ers.) Hat tip: American Digest ...
FDR’s Sparse Fourth Inaugural
Dittos on what Squaring the Boston Globe says about FDR's fourth inaugural, and Bush's second. Harry includes a link to and comments about FDR's fourth inaugural address ("[it] would choke any Democrat who tried to give it today"). Agree. There's something else I noticed, re-reading it. It reads like something ...
The Corner: Arlen Specter’s Early Moves
I actually noticed this National Review "The Corner" post by Ramesh Ponnuru because it contains a link to a Project 21 press release, but I am glad I did. It seems Senator Arlen Specter has hired one of the NAACP's top lawyers for the Judiciary Committee staff as one of ...
Third Infantry Division Support Blog
The Society of the 3rd Infantry Division, which has just been deployed to Iraq, wants family, friends and supporters to know they have a blog. You can visit, read and leave comments here ...
Greatest American: Nominations Open
AOL Television/Discovery Channel is asking the public to nominate up to five people per person for the title of "greatest American," living or dead. They'll tell us who the top 100 vote-getters are. You can vote online here. One of my five nominees is my late father. Not all of ...
Social Security Employees Oppose Answering Questions According to Employer’s Instructions
I was going to write a post about the whining labor union representing employees of the Social Security Administration, but Dick McDonald did it first. Dick is way less P.C. than I am, but he hits the nail on the head. By the way, the White House says the entire ...
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