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Conservatism Distilled? (Pt 2)


… Unlike the quote that inspired part 1 of this series, both the quote I’m interested in now, and the analysis from John Hawkins’ article do seem to represent conservative thought of the past decade or three accurately. I am skipping ahead a bit in the article, but I do intend to deal with all [...]

Wright Update


This helps. Probably not enough… Hold on to your wallets - the current economic crisis is just going to gather speed under McCain. Two side notes — 1) It’s good to see the kind of religion where the parishioners aren’t afraid to call their preachers out for nonsense. 2) Chuck B. - I feel [...]

Reason# 413 McCain will be the next POTUS…


… and our long national nightmare will continue…
Barack Obama’s pastor.
It’s a shame really. I wonder if Jeremiah Wright will get a footnote when “The Decline and Fall of…” book is written.
Update: I should add… the focus of this post is about the weird cultural reasons that this country will continue to self-destruct [...]

Pelosi on McCain/Hagee


Here:
“That behavior is outside the circle of civilized debate in our democracy,” Pelosi said during a Thursday conference call. “I certainly think John McCain should reject his endorsement and I’m sure it won’t be long before he does.”
I’ve checked back, and it appears that these folks at Red State do not feel that John McCain’s [...]

bill hobbs


I remember Bill was a Rocky Top Brigadier. Back when R. Neal was South Knox Bubba and the world was good. I used to think a little better of Hobbs than this… I guess being a party apparatchnik has changed him some.

Congress asks Justice Department to initiate criminal investigation on Roger Clemens


The Congressional Oversight Committe has drafted a letter that formally asks the Justice Department to initiate a criminal investigation on whether or not Roger Clemens committed perjury during the Feb. 13th hearing.
…Are they asking that Brian McNamee be investigated also? Nope.
…Could Brian McNamee wind up being investigated anyway? Possibly.
Good article and video from ESPN.com [...]

For the record, I expect McCain to win


… and this isn’t the best homebrew campaign video by any stretch. Except in that it is the only one that uses O Fortuna. How can you argue with O Fortuna?

Yes, I expect McCain to win. I hope I’m proven wrong about that as I was about Romney being the GOP front-man. [...]

Guilty until proven innocent ?


Baseball great Roger Clemens and former trainer Brian McNamee appeared before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to give, under oath, two completely different versions of the same story.
1. Should they have been there in the first place?
Well, maybe. When you consider that prior attendees have been Jose Canseco, Mark McQwire, Rafael Palmeiro, [...]

Right about one thing


I called the Shriver endorsement here. It was a bit of a stretch to speculate about her husband, but I’ll take that one-handed pat on the back.

Why I quit being a’skeert of Mike Huckabee, not long after I mentioned worrying about him…


Back in December, I posted some concern that Huckabee might take the GOP nomination, and possibly pose a stronger-than-Romney contest against the Democrats in the General. That was because my peek at him so far gave me the impression of a fair-spoken, sometimes moderate on issues like health and immigration, candidate with real conservative [...]