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Down the Rabbit Hole...

Posted by Ryan S. on Monday, July 30, 2007 10:51:45 AM
In doing research for this post, I stumbled across one of the oddest campaign videos I've seen so far this cycle:

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Hillary: The Values Candidate

Posted by Ryan S. on Friday, July 27, 2007 3:49:59 PM

Last week I made The Washington Post my hack for running an article devoted entirely to Hillary's...uhh...cleavage. Even after being asked "Can that be the first and last time you ever say Hillary Clinton and cleavage in the same sentence?" by my friend Ryan Mc. of Liberal Delight, I am forced to breach the topic again (my response, by the way, was "God willing, yes.").

It seems Hillary and her campaign reacted similarly to the way I did about the article. Accroding to the WaPo's "The Trail" blog:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign has sent out a fundraising letter calling a Washington Post fashion writer's column on Clinton's cleavage "grossly inappropriate" and asking donors "to take a stand against this kind of coarseness and pettiness in American culture."

I wholeheartedly agree. Does this make Hillary the values candidate?


What hath God wrought?

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Code Pink-O

Posted by Ryan S. on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 12:58:03 PM

 Code Pink is having a rally July 21 at Arlington National Cemetery.*

It's sickening that they would try and degrade the honor of those buried there for political purposes.  While I disagree with their aims, it is their tactics that are truly cringe-inducing.

And remember kids, Pink is just a lighter shade of Commie Red.

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*There should be a link there, but I refuse to link to website whose design aim seems to be to give me premature glaucoma.

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Obama: Those Voters Don't Count

Posted by Ryan S. on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 6:59:28 PM
Barack Obama:

"Folks in D.C. still don't have a voice in their national government. That's wrong. Residents shouldn't be treated like tenants. You are part of our government, which is why I will support full voting rights."

I wonder if Obama is aware that people in DC do have a voice in their national government. Besides having an elected (but non-voting) Member of Congress, they can vote for president of the United States (as per the 23rd Amendment).  Makes me wonder if he'll be asking any DC residents for their votes.
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BBC: Washington Fails as Surge Starts to Work

Posted by Ryan S. on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 10:54:17 AM
From the Britain and America blog:

The BBC has not been a supporter of the Iraq war so it is quite something when its World Affairs Editor John Simpson concludes that America might finally be pursuing the right tactics in Iraq.  Mr Simpson made his conclusion at the end of a report on BBC1's main evening news bulletin.  After interviewing General David Petraeus, the Commander of US troops in Iraq, the BBC journalist said that the real battle was no longer in cities like Baquba which American troops had just liberated from Al-Qeada but in Washington where patience was running out.

General Petraeus said that the kind of counter-insurgency operation now underway usually took nine to ten years but his hearts and minds approach to building security in Iraq had only just begun.  Mr Simpson contrasted the liberation of Baquba where "only" eleven Iraqi civilians had been killed with the situation in Fallujah where large-scale civilian casualties had hardened Sunni opinion against the coalition.  The people of Baquba had also grown tired of the suffocating rule of Al-Qaeda and welcomed the arrival of the Americans.

Look for a much longer post on this subject over on my main blog, Jokers to the Right to go up this evening.
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Harry Potter and the Half-Crazed Bureaucracy

Posted by Ryan S. on Monday, July 09, 2007 2:37:36 PM

A UT Law Prof is stressing that Harry Potter (or J. K. Rowling, at least) has a libertarian bent:

"What would you think of a government that engaged in this list of tyrannical activities: tortured children for lying; designed its prison specifically to suck all life and hope out of the inmates; placed citizens in that prison without a hearing; ordered the death penalty without a trial; allowed the powerful, rich or famous to control policy; selectively prosecuted crimes (the powerful go unpunished and the unpopular face trumped-up charges); conducted criminal trials without defense counsel; used truth serum to force confessions; maintained constant surveillance over all citizens; offered no elections and no democratic lawmaking process; and controlled the press?

I'm no libertarian, but this has to be better than trying to make kids into statists.


Related: Reason magazine article on libertarianism in children's lit.

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Quote of the Day

Posted by Ryan S. on Monday, July 02, 2007 9:18:19 PM
 Quote of the Day goes to Tim Blair talking about Live Earth:

I’ve been trying to come up with a violently destructive Gaia-raping stunt for us to participate in on Live Earth day, but it is literally impossible for even several thousand non-millionaires to match Live Earth’s own level of eco-vandalism while remaining within their means and the law.

We’ve been out-carboned by Big Environmentalism. There’s simply no way we can come close to matching the colossal carbon output of Gore and his musical mates.

Brilliant. Sadly brilliant. I love the environment too, but I don't trust Al Gore and his celebripals to keep it safe any more than I do the government.

(h/t: Instapundit)
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