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Stuck on stupid

Posted on April 15, 2008 | Comments Off on Stuck on stupid

John McCain is simply the best of a bad lot of politicians now running for the White House. I’ll take him over the other two anytime. But I’m with the critics who call stupid his previous remarks about vaccines allegedly causing autism, and, lately, his pandering to the MSM on the federal "shield law" they’ve wanted for so long. I used to think the law was a bad idea because it was better to rely on judicial interpretation of the First Amendment than some law that could just be rewritten or overturned altogether. Now, with the rise of new media to challenge the old, I agree with Instapundit (a constitutional law professor) that it will be problematic to pass such a law. It will have to apply to everyone who reports news, including bloggers, not just the employees of the MSM, howsoever a lawmaker could figure out how to define them alone. But I also have come to think that empowering reporters to hide the news, i.e. which CIA agent helped them violate national security, is just plain wrong. Not to mention stupid.

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First Amendment misunderstanding

Posted on April 14, 2008 | Comments Off on First Amendment misunderstanding

Country music singer Trace Adkins doesn’t have a very melodic performance, but there is a certain appeal to his art, especially the intro to this one on the First Amendment. He reminds that it’s really about being free to criticize the government [though you’d better not specifically threaten the life of the president], without fear of reprisal. It’s not about being protected from Adkins or someone else who may be offended by your words. "I’ll beat the hell out of you, and then we’ll deal with it in court… I’ve been to jail before, I ain’t scared, I’ll go back again…"

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Chest candy

Posted on April 14, 2008 | Comments Off on Chest candy

Baldilocks does some sniping at Dick Cavett, etc., for complaining about Gen. Petraeus’s pyramid of ribbons (a third of them hidden by his lapel) that make his uniform look lopsided. Not a real man, Cavett, etc. Wimps, and so forth. Well, at the risk of being lumped with the girlie men, I also think all that chest candy looks ridiculous. Much as I admire the general–a modern Grant or Sherman, to be sure–I have to say that most of the stuff on his uniform is boilerplate that everyone has been awarded, such as his National Defense Service ribbon with two oak leaf clusters. It’s not personal. I would much prefer a high-ranking American officer pare his/her ribbons/badges down to the half dozen or so that really are distinctive. It would look a lot more serious; much less like a pretentious peacock.

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The coming race war

Posted on April 13, 2008 | Comments Off on The coming race war

Some alarmists are already predicting that Barry’s impending fifty-state losing sweep will precipitate a race war led, initially, by angry black people. I rather believe that it will, instead, create a stunned silence that might gradually lead to a new understanding of race in America. That, among other things, the old black-white dichotomy has been relegated to history. The transformation may be impeded by the usual loudmouthed haters screaming at each other on radio and television. The paranoid, certainly, will cower with loaded weapons behind locked doors awaiting arrival of the Klan or the Black Panthers, and some all-black inner cities may consume themselves in self-righteous fire. But, in the end, the transformation will occur quietly and effectively. Much the way that our politics have always been decided. Without a lot of regard for the hustlers and the shouters.

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Yank bashers

Posted on April 13, 2008 | Comments Off on Yank bashers

Among them, ah, yes, the famous ungrateful English. But these ones do have an excuse:

"Like many other Germanic and Scandanavian tribes, the English have been cowed by self-doubt in recent decades, and have turned from be[r]serking empire-hurlers into a nation of social workers, drones and emigrants." 

Actually, they have many more than just one excuse. Quite a lot, really.

Via Simply Jews 

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Smokey Robinson: American

Posted on April 12, 2008 | Comments Off on Smokey Robinson: American

This video of his performance on race and Americanism is inspirational. It’s another of his miracles.

Via Roger L. Simon 

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Barry: out-of-touch liberal elitist

Posted on April 12, 2008 | Comments Off on Barry: out-of-touch liberal elitist

Well, he did go to Harvard and Yale, after all. So, of course, he feels superior. But must he be foolish enough to say so in public? This man is such a hoot. I persist (unpopular as it is at this stage) in asking: What, if any, state can this racist fellow traveler with an identity crisis (see his autobio) possibly win in November?

More from Instapundit. And from VDH who concludes: "…in Obama we are witnessing the slow formation of a McGovern candidacy, a disaster to come that won’t be fully appreciated by now starry-eyed Democrats until September or October when, as in 1972, it will be too late." Meaning that Barry likely will lose every state, including his home state of Illinois. I agree.

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