Call It A Comeback
Kathryn Jean Lopez is lambasting Planned Parenthood over chocolate birth control pills. Is this any different than flavored cough syrup? And the money the government gave to Planned Parenthood goes to health care for poor women. The horror.
Calpundit takes issue with Reynolds again, but he really misses the greater problem with the post.
From the article Reynolds is commenting on:
We face, now and for the foreseeable future, the threat of a new barbarism. The new barbarians, like those of old, consist of groups in which every member is a potential warrior. Like their predecessors, the new barbarians rely on their ability to outmaneuver their civilized adversaries, to concentrate deadly force at vulnerable spots. But unlike the old steppe nomads, the new barbarians seek neither booty nor conquest. Our new barbarian adversaries pursue a strategy of pure and perfect nihilism: They seek destruction for destruction’s sake. Their strategy, in other words, is terrorism.
Pure and simple claptrap. Al Qaeda has specific goals and they use terrorism to obtain those goals. They don’t use terrorism for destructions sake, they use it to obtain political goals. Using violence against civilians to obtain political goals is generally the definition of terrorism. Writing garbage for the sake of drama should consign one to the category of drama queen and not serious commentator.
As most of you visiting have probably figured out, I recently moved my site to Blog Studio (if you need a link to figure out how to get to the home page–just don’t bother). I am very, very pleased with both their interface and hosting. And it is all for $15. Even better, they are going to be adding stats to the paid sites soon. If you are tired of Blogger and all of the problems with it, consider giving Blog Studio a try. Most features can be tried out for free.
My favorite group of wingnuts have moved beyond the election and are now complaining about the passing of the Conservation and Reinvestment Act. The writer seems (seems because her argument is heavy on allusion and light on substance) to think the Constitution doesn’t allow government to take land. Actually the Constitution is quite clear in allowing the government to take land, but compensation is required when the government does so.
I can’t believethis passed in the current form. This may well be beating the record for overreaching established in ’94.
Let’s drop the fiction about Pelosi being an extremist and notice that for all of the decent Republicans out there, the friggen party has been hijacked by a bunch of wingnuts and business schills.
*looks at the current world’s population* You must have a lot of frustration then.
Created by ptocheia
Dusty is cleaning house.
We’ll be ignoring the Bears for the rest of the season. McCaskey couldn’t have done this badly.
And I only hope the return of the twit from Cedar Rapids means the end of the Rams successful comeback.
Gary MacDougal is having a hard time after being hit hard on the head.
"(MacDougal) was the right person at the right time, but now we have to move onto other things," said MaryAlice Erickson, a member of the Republican State Central Committee from Peoria. "We don’t want to embarrass anyone … but the graceful thing is for him to write his letter of resignation and we can move on."
But alas, don’t fear dear reader, because the ICFST has a plan to screw itself quite well:
But his victory may have come with a price. Tenhouse may attempt to lead his own caucus within the Republican minority, potentially forcing Cross and his supporters to deal with him on major issues and legislation.
David Broder writes the article that anyone who has every seriously studied the institution of Congress was expecting. The Republicans are already loading up bills with garbage and it is pretty damn funny, well if it wasn’t sad. And despite all of the high-minded nonsense about Tom DeLay learning from Gingrich’s fall, Broder points out the Republicans and DeLay haven’t.
There is a gem buried in the article that could spawn several books:
On another pair of questions, most said a Republican Congress would be good for business but bad for the economy.
While all evidence is that the American people have little understanding of complex issues, amazingly they are quite astute at understanding the big picture.
The Illinois Leader has decided that the Speaker of the House of Representatives has decided to go left. They get a dig in on Skip Saviano, but strangely don’t address his, ahem, ties to organized groups. So everyone to the left of Denny Hastert is a bad Republican? That is one hell of a coalition they are trying to put together.
ArchPundit