Politics

Brian Carnell watched a hilarious exchange on Hannity & Colmes where Sean Hannity defended the Easter bunny against leftist religious intolerance: ... if Hannity would use his brain for a second he might stop to wonder why a rabbit is symbolized with Easter. What the hell does a rabbit have to do with the resurrection of Jesus? Nothing, of course -- its a pagan fertility symbol people. If anything, Hannity should be glad that people are starting to dissociate this pagan fertility symbol from ... (read more)

2005/03/20

Democratic Podcast: Cuts Dishonor Veterans

The Democratic response to the presidential radio address was delivered today by Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, who criticized President Bush's proposed budget cuts to veterans' services and a new $250 "user fee" charged to many veterans to qualify for health care. His speech: I'm Ed Rendell, the governor of Pennsylvania. America's governors are united in our commitment to the troops who put their lives on the line in our global fight to combat terrorism and bring peace to Iraq. In fact, we as ... (read more)

2005/03/19

John Scalzi believes that the real dividing line in this polarized country is not liberal vs. conservative, but rational vs. irrational: I'm far more comfortable with some conservatives than I am with some liberals, even though my own positions tend more liberal than not. I'm rather more comfortable dealing with someone whose politics I disagree with, but I can see how they got to where they are, than someone who politics are in line with mine but who appear to have arrived at those politics ... (read more)

2005/03/18

A Marine who attended President Bush's speech at Camp Pendleton disagrees with my fashion critique: Most Marines I talked to didn't even know what that jacket was, they thought is was Pres. Bush's personal jacket he had modified. As for the flight suit thing, he was flying on a Naval aircraft landing on a Naval aircraft carrier, he had to wear one! Hell we gave the Discovery channel guys flight suits when they flew on my ship in 1998. In retrospect, I should have been skeptical of reporter Dana ... (read more)

2005/03/14

The Heritage Foundation has declared that I am a tech-elite busybody for criticizing the Google Toolbar: This week's busybody pushback is the same sort of reaction we've seen in response to every half-innovative feature that Google's offered in recent years, from its Adwords advertising program to advertising-supported Gmail. Oddly enough, the tech elite still seem to respect the company's technological prowess and innovation. They're wary, however, that Google intends to profit from these ... (read more)

2005/03/08

Because he fought alongside the French resistance during World War II, Captain America is cheesed off about surrender monkeys and other anti-French rhetoric. From Captain America 3, March 2005: Why does Captain America hate America? ... (read more)

2005/03/07

Democratic Podcast: We're in Bush's Debt

Today's Democratic response to the presidential radio address was delivered by Sen. Kent Conrad, ranking Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee. Conrad takes President Bush to task for passing the cost of his huge borrow-and-spend budgets to future generations. Deficit spending has become so reckless during the past four years that it's now being described, appropriately enough, as a birth tax. As a radio commercial produced by BuzzFlash puts it, "every man, woman, and child in this country ... (read more)

2005/03/05

Tillie Fowler Left an Impression

When I moved to Jacksonville in 1997, my representative in Congress was Tillie Fowler, a Republican elected five years earlier during the term-limits craze, when numerous candidates pledged to serve a finite number of years. These pledges, part of the GOP's Contract with America, were a terrific hammer to drop on incumbents, making them look like entrenched career politicians out of touch with the concerns of real Americans. Fowler campaigned on an "eight is enough" pledge, vowing to leave the ... (read more)

2005/03/02

Remembering Samuel Francis

Samuel Francis, the syndicated newspaper columnist who may be the last to ever take a stand against race mixing, died Feb. 15 at age 57 of complications related to heart surgery. Reading the Washington Times obituary and a loving tribute by friend and fellow columnist Joseph Sobran, you'd have no idea that Francis was fired by the Times and lost favor with most conservatives for explicitly racist commentary. Francis was so outspoken in his views that it was amazing he still had Creators ... (read more)

2005/03/01

I Am the Ideal Mother

In an attack on gay marriage in National Review, David Frum complains that it undermines the gender roles of husbands and wives: ... one effect of this revolution -- and for many proponents, one of the revolution's aims -- is to make forever unthinkable the idea that husbands and wives each have special duties to one another, and that a husband's duties to his wife -- while equally binding and equally supreme -- are not the same as a wife's duties to her husband. Once we lose that knowledge, we ... (read more)

2005/03/01

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