UPDATE: The Jake Tapper article used as the basis for this post misconstrued/misquoted Bill Clinton’s statement. See comments below. -ed. I wonder just how long it’s going to take someone from the Hillary campaign to smother Bill in his sleep,…
I’ve continuously bemoaned John McCain’s frontrunner status in the GOP primary race and have held forth with friends and family as to just what bothers me about Ol’ Straight-Talkin’ John. Rather than repeat myself, though, I’ll let Mark Levin’s editorial…
That sound you just heard was the sound of me staying home this November, as my options are now down to Democrats that are at least honest about their desire to mess up my country and take my money or…
Fark tossed up a link today to an NY Post story under the headline “Is “Cloverfield” this year’s “Snakes on a Plane”? All signs point to yes”. The resulting discussion is par for Fark discussion, with the notable exception of…
I’ve recently had to explain my objections/reservations to Mike Huckabee as the GOP nominee this year to several friends, a process which has been fraught with misunderstanding and a lack of true clarity on my part. Fortunately, my choice for…
UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers. Please note that we’re proudly running WordPress, despite Prof. Reynolds’ unkind words about it. *grin* (Surviving the Instalanche thanks entirely to Donncha’s excellent WP Super Cache plugin) Aron and I have long noted that Battlestar Galactica‘s…
Y’all know the routine: every once in a while (read: more than strictly necessary), I get a whole mess of links just sitting there in my browser, asking to be posted. So, let’s get to the linkage, shall we? First…
John Street, defender of good government: Earlier this month, when Mayor Street announced an aggressive new city plan to go after tax scofflaws, he warned: “We will spare no one.” Certainly, someone taking so bold a stance on other peoples’…
Columbia University president Lee Bollinger showed himself to be a classless buffoon yesterday, despite pronouncements from some corners of a flawless “rope-a-dope” maneuver. Let’s get a few things straight. First: he (Bollinger) and his University extended the invitation to Mad…
This report has been making the blogospheric rounds today and it is, well, damning of our educational system’s ability to impart civic knowledge, to put it bluntly. Simply stated, when presented with a 60 question test covering basic U.S. history,…
