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Click here. I don't think Buchanan has understated the case. He failed, however, to predict what will happen on the international scene, and I can't imagine that will be good.
What does the triumvirate of Obama-Pelosi-Reid offer? Read on...
Continue reading "Pat Buchanan - The First 100 Days of an Obama Presidency" »
VDH writes another great article I recommend that you read it. If Obama wins the presidency, the articles I am posting, along with that of many other bloggers who are doing so even more extensively, will make significant reading. VDH concludes:
The media has succeeded in shielding Barack Obama from journalistic
scrutiny. It thereby irrevocably destroyed its own reputation and
forfeited the trust that generations of others had so carefully
acquired. And it will never again be trusted to offer candid and
nonpartisan coverage of presidential candidates.
Worse still,
the suicide of both print and electronic journalism has ensured that,
should Barack Obama be elected president, the public will only then
learn what they should have known far earlier about their
commander-in-chief — but in circumstances and from sources they may
well regret.
But read the entire article, there is so much more here.
Excellent article. It underlines why we do well to be wary (indeed scared?) of Barack Obama. (HT: The NRO Corner)
** Update: "Spread Wealth Around: Obama Aunt found in Boston slum (HT: Drudge) - Mark Steyn comments on the story:
The London Times story of Barack Obama's Aunt Zeituni - like that of his penniless brother and the Kenyan grade school he promised to help - is interesting not only as a reflection on the candidate's belief that "spreading the wealth around" is a centralized government mandate to be imposed on Joe the Plumber rather than a personal act by, say, a wealthy memoirist whose books repackage colorful relatives to highly lucrative effect.
Me: It's the foreign press that investigates. The American press doesn't. See the bottom of this Gateway Pundit post for other Obama-related stories first researched by the foreign press.
** Update: 5 Things You Didn't See in Tonight's Obama Infomercial
** Tony blankley - Is Obama Secretly Sensible? Don't Bet On It Me: I consider Blankley one of our most astute commentators. This column is a must read! (HT: The Corner)
- Good question. Michelle Malkin has selected what she considers the top five of the Obamedia’s most shameful biases and notorious blunders. My personal guess is that she had an extraordinarily difficult time limiting herself so drastically.
-Columnist Michael S. Malone has perhaps penned the definitive lament over journalism's sabotaging of its own professed ethics. It's a long read, but well worthwhile. Some excerpts:
. . . For the last couple weeks, I've begun -- for the first time in my adult
life -- to be embarrassed to admit what I do for a living. A few days
ago, when asked by a new acquaintance what I did for a living, I
replied that I was "a writer," because I couldn't bring myself to admit
to a stranger that I'm a journalist.
(Note: Included in this post - on the extended page - are references to two other articles with links and quotes)
- I wonder if people realize how crucial this election is to the future composition of the Supreme Court? Consider the closeness of the following decisions:
5-4 - Decided to uphold a ban on partial birth abortion.
5-4 - Decided against the death penalty for raping a child under 12.
5-4 - Affirmed the Second Amendment -- does indeed protect an individual's right to own a gun.
5-4 - Rejected efforts to limit access to internet child pornography.
Dutch Sheets has issued a call to prayer. He points out:
The next president of the United States will appoint at least 2, and maybe 3, Justices in his first term. If he serves 2 terms, it could be 5 Justices -- there are 5 of the 9 on the Court 70 years old or older! Since the trend is to appoint younger and younger Justices, the next president will most likely shape the court for the next 30-40 years! This means we are not voting only for a
Continue reading "THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND THE SUPREME COURT " »
So says Elaine Lafferty, former editor in chief of Ms. Magazine (and
a Democrat) on what she learned on a campaign plane with the would-be
VP. She is irritated that Palin is getting a bad rap. Bravo for Ms.
Lafferty! It's amazing that elementary fairness now deserves
special recognition because of its stark contrast to the sewer-like
treatment the media affords Palin. Read Lafferty's article.
While you're at it, take a look at Fred Barnes' piece, "To Know Her is to Respect Her." It's excellent.
And finally, I love the way Sarah Palin is setting the record straight about those expensive clothes!
Though there are dozens of reasons to vote against Barack Obama, Mike Kozlinski has focused on the abortion issue in a particularly penetrating and comprehensive way. He rightly laments that many Christians plan to vote for Obama despite the fact that Obama has consistently championed abortion "rights" more vigorously than anyone else on the national scene. I urge you to read Mike's carefully researched essay.
Melanie Phillips has done one of the best jobs I have seen in laying out the serious foreign policy differences between the two Presidential contenders. And I do mean policy differences! They are huge, and frightening, especially as far as Barack Obama is concerned. My emphases do not do justice to her article. Read it carefully. . . word for word... and shudder. She rightly titles her article, "Is America Really Going To Do This?"
The impact of the financial crisis on the American presidential election has somewhat obscured the most important reason why the prospect of an Obama presidency is giving so many people nightmares. This is the fear that, if he wins, US defences will be emasculated at a time of unprecedented international peril and the enemies of America and the free world will seize their opportunity to destroy the west. . .
Keep reading. . .
Mark Levin expresses observations about Barack Obama and his campaign that many of us have noted and written about as well. He writes (my emphases):
There is a cult-like atmosphere around Barack Obama, which his campaign
has carefully and
successfully fabricated, which concerns me. The
messiah complex. Fainting audience members at rallies. Special Obama
flags and an Obama presidential seal. A graphic with the portrayal of
the globe and Obama's name on it, which adorns everything from Obama's
plane to his street literature. Young school children singing songs
praising Obama. Teenagers wearing camouflage outfits and marching in
military order chanting Obama's name and the professions he is going to
open to them. An Obama world tour, culminating in a speech in Berlin
where Obama proclaims we are all citizens of the world. I dare say,
this is ominous stuff.
Keep reading...
Continue reading "MARK LEVIN - BARACK OBAMA AS CULT LEADER AND CHARISMATIC DEMAGOGUE" »
Thompson's message needs to be heard. Click here. It's about 12 minutes long.
Update: Here is the text of his talk.
To anyone wavering between Obama and McCain, Krauthammer's important column today should make the choice easy. It is must reading. After chastising fair-weather Republicans for
abandoning ship, and after noting Obama's many negatives, Krauthammer lays out a positive case for McCain as follows:
The case for McCain is straightforward. The financial crisis has made us forget, or just blindly deny, how dangerous the world out there is. We have a generations-long struggle with Islamic jihadism. An apocalyptic soon-to-be-nuclear Iran. A nuclear-armed Pakistan in danger of fragmentation. A rising Russia pushing the limits of revanchism. Plus the sure-to-come Falklands-like surprise popping out of nowhere.
Who do you want answering that phone at 3 a.m.? A man who's been cramming on these issues for the past year, who's never had to make an executive decision affecting so much as a city, let alone the world? A foreign policy novice instinctively inclined to the flabbiest, most vaporous multilateralism (e.g., the Berlin Wall came down because of "a world that stands as one"), and who refers to the most deliberate act of war since Pearl Harbor as "the tragedy of 9/11," a term more appropriate for a bus accident?
Or do you want a man who is the most prepared, most knowledgeable, most serious
Continue reading "Charles Krauthammer - McCain for President!" »
Excellent question. It caught my attention. Pat Buchanan wrote a wide-ranging article on the media's totally biased treatment of the presidential election, and concluded with the way the media treats Sarah Palin vs. the way it treats Michelle Obama. Buchanan wrote:
The media cannot get enough of the "Saturday Night Live"
impersonations of Palin as a bubblehead. News shows pick up the Tina
Fey clips and run them and run them to the merriment of all.
Can one imagine "Saturday Night Live" doing weekly send-ups of
Michelle Obama and her "I've never been proud" of my country, this
"just downright
mean" America, using a black comedienne to mimic and
mock her voice and accent?
"Saturday Night Live" would be facing hate-crime charges.
How do we know? When the New Yorker ran a cartoon of Michelle in an Angela-Davis afro with an AK-47 slung over her shoulder, New Yorker editors had to go on national television to swear they were not mocking Michelle, but the conservatives who have so caricatured Michelle and the Messiah.
Is there a media double standard? You betcha.
Dr. Dobson talks with Gov. Palin (via phone) for about 27 minutes on this broadcast. It's refreshing to hear two pro-life people converse together as they do. The mutual respect is palpable.
Palin also talks about the rigors of campaigning.
The Associated Press writes up the interview here.
Bill Dyer picks up a line from a Nicholas Lemann New Yorker article on the foreign policy differences between the Obama camp and the McCain camp. Lemann wrote, "In the Obama camp, all dichotomies are false dichotomies, which the candidate transcends." [my emphasis] That
strikes me as one of the most naive statements imaginable. Although the words are that of an Obama supporter, everything Obama has said and done so far points to their accuracy. Bill Dyer's comments are apropos:
And great-power competition no longer existing? I cannot imagine a more reckless and dangerous notion. It does exist, it has existed since even before the time when the great powers were the Persians and the Greeks. In case Sen. Obama and his whiz kids haven't noticed it, a resurgent Russia is at this very minute playing games of chicken with the U.S. Navy off the Black Sea coastlines of Georgia and the Ukraine while quote-unquote "negotiating" with the Ukrainians for an extension of the old Soviet Navy strategic base at Sevastopol. The Chinese have just conducted their first space-walks and are building an aircraft carrier. And yes, the
Continue reading "OBAMA'S FOREIGN POLICY - "ALL DICHOTOMIES ARE FALSE DICHOTOMIES"" »
I profit immensely from John Baillie's A Diary of Private Prayer. It is a valuable little volume I return to again and again. It's hard to overstate its importance in my life. Part of yesterday's reading/prayer
includes the following:
Inspire all my thoughts. Pervade all my imaginations. Suggest all my decision. Lodge in my will's most inward citadel and order all my doings.
I am also helped and challenged by the morning prayer for the 9th day of the month:
Dear Father, take this day's life into Thine own keeping. Control all my thoughts and feelings. Direct all my energies. Instruct my mind. Sustain my will. Take my hands and make them skilful to serve Thee. Take my feet and make them swift to do Thy bidding. Take my eyes and keep them fixed upon Thine everlasting beauty. Take my mouth and make it eloquent in testimony to Thy love. Make this day a day of obedience, a day of spiritual joy and peace. Make this days' work a little part of the work of the Kingdom of My Lord Christ, in whose name these my prayers are said. Amen.
I could add many more prayers but will stop for now. Keep an eye out for a hard copy edition at used book stores. The in-print softcover edition uses cheap paper which doesn't do justice to the richness of the content inside.
This video makes me gag . . . Various people recite "President Barack Obama" to the words and melody of a Christian worship song. It is saying, You are the sanctuary of a sacred vision: President Barack Obama.
Daniel Pipes says no. I would hesitate putting up this post if it were not for my confidence in the integrity, reliability, and thoroughness of Daniel Pipes' research. It is second to none. He is one of those rare individuals whose work cuts across the grain of political correctness in the interests of ferreting out truth, regardless of consequences. He writes:
With Colin Powell now repeating the lie that Barack Obama has "always been a Christian," despite new information further confirming Obama's Muslim childhood (such as the Indonesian school registration listing him as Muslim), one watches with dismay as the Democratic candidate manages to hide the truth on this issue.
Instead, then, let us review a related subject – Obama's connections and even indebtedness, throughout his career, to extremist Islam. Specifically, he has longstanding, if indirect ties to two institutions, the Council on
Continue reading "DANIEL PIPES - "WOULD OBAMA PASS A STANDARD SECURITY CLEARANCE?"" »
Update 10/22/08 - Another California school pushes "Gay Day" for kindergartners.
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Definitely amazing. Click here to see a short video report produced by the San Francisco Gate.
The Family Research Center comments:
"It really is what we call a teachable moment," argued Liz Jaroflow, the
interim director of a local California charter school. This is how she
and other administrators rationalize the decision to take a class of
impressionable first graders on a field trip to their teachers' lesbian
"wedding." At the suggestion of a parent, Jaroflow herded the five- and
six-year-olds onto a bus during school hours last Friday and surprised
Erin
Carder and Kerri McCoy at City Hall.
Now the unorthodox excursion is putting San Francisco's school district at the center of a national debate on counterfeit marriage. When asked what educational value the trip had,
Continue reading "1ST GRADERS IN CALIFORNIA TAKE A FIELD TRIP TO THEIR LESBIAN TEACHER'S WEDDING" »
Michelle Malkin covers the story well, writing:
Evil reigns in Afghanistan.
Apathy reigns everywhere else.
It reminds me of how the world shrugged at the South Korean Christian hostage ordeal.
Ho-hum:
A BRITISH aid worker gunned down in Kabul yesterday was murdered because she was a Christian, the Taleban claim.
Gayle Williams, 34, was shot at close range by two men on a motorbike, in a residential district of the Afghan capital popular with missionaries.
Eyewitnesses said she collapsed in a pool of blood, after the men fired six shots from a pistol, hitting her in the chest and legs.
Continue reading "TALIBAN ASSASINATE CHRISTIAN RELIEF WORKER, WORLD YAWNS" »
I have posted on this before, most notably here. The Family Research Council today reiterates (my emphases):
Americans who are voting for change in the form of liberal candidates are certain to get it. But is it the kind of change our families need? If the keys to Congress are placed squarely in the hands of the current leadership, imagine what our future could hold.
The Fairness Doctrine,
a bad
policy that was abolished in 1987, would likely be reinstated to
regulate the views of U.S. broadcasters. Although it would muzzle free
speech and
drive talk radio into an era of opinion neutrality, this leadership has
already called for it.
We can also expect the passage of a full
complement of
"hate crimes" laws, which would clog the legal system with lawsuits
that criminalize how you and I think and what religion teaches.
Third,
Sen.
Barack Obama is on the record stating that his first priority as
president would be to pass the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA),
obliterating every state
and local law that protects the unborn, including parental
notification, conscience protections, bans on taxpayer-funded abortion,
and much more. Under FOCA an individual who tries to limit abortion
could be sued. This could mean anyone from state and federal
legislators who work to pass
abortion restrictions to pro-life protestors.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg. The Left has already announced its plans to roll back the Defense of Marriage Act and repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." If the last two years are any indication, this nation will be in for a total policy makeover.
- Update 10/21/08 - LifeNews: George Soros Funds Catholic Groups Making Obama Seem Pro-Life on Abortion
Regrettably I have little time to blog right now, but I'd like to at least draw attention to an outstanding pro-life leader in the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, about whom the Family Research Council commented (my emphases):
Pretty low, it seems, to the extent of trolling Facebook to get kids to report on what kind of mother Cindy McCain is. Ed Morrissey reports:
Jodi Kantor apparently got so desperate for dirt on Cindy McCain for the tiresome rehash the New York Times
published today that she tried suckering teenagers on Facebook into
cooperating with her. The McCain campaign released the contents of an
e-mail Kantor sent to one of Bridget McCain’s 16-year-old classmates
through the social-networking site. Is this what “political
correspondents” do? -- Read on for Kantor's e-mail, etc.
Morrissey concludes:
The New York Times long ago transformed itself into an advocacy organization for Barack Obama. Trolling for dirt on Facebook among teenagers for hit pieces on a candidate’s spouse hits a new low. Does the National Enquirer even do that?
The best response to the MSM's fanatical desire to "take down" Joe the Plumber was given by Jim Treacher (whose whole post you've got to read!):
(HT: Mark Steyn at The Corner)
Update: Rush Limbaugh: "The story isn't Joe, liberals. It's what Obama said to Joe."
The consequences of all legislative power concentrated in a triumvirate of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid produces nightmares. The Wall Street Journal editorial today is titled "A Liberal Supermajority" (my emphases):
If the current polls hold, Barack Obama will win the White House on
November 4 and Democrats will consolidate their Congressional
majorities, probably with a filibuster-proof Senate or very close to
it. Without the ability to filibuster, the Senate would become like the
House, able to pass whatever the majority wants
Though we doubt most Americans realize it, this would be one of the most profound political and ideological shifts in U.S. history. Liberals would dominate the entire government in a way they haven't since 1965, or 1933. In other words, the election would mark the restoration of the activist government that fell out of public favor in the 1970s. If the U.S. really is entering a period of unchecked left-wing ascendancy, Americans at least ought to understand what they will be getting, especially with the media cheering it all on.
Click here to access the video. Heartwarming!
- Update 10/17/08 - Professor Robert P. George of Princeton tells the story of the "Born-Alive Bill" which Obama opposed and concerning which Obama comes out looking very bad indeed. George's concluding paragraph:
Some of Senator Obama's supporters are now making one last, rather desperate-sounding attempt to defend his votes against protecting infants born alive after unsuccessful abortions. Their argument goes this way: Permitting children who survive attempted abortions to be abandoned is so heinous, so barbaric, that for someone to accuse Senator Obama, a decent man who is himself the father of two daughters, of supporting what amounts to legalized infanticide is too outrageous to merit an answer. There is a problem, though. In light of the documentary evidence that is now before the public, it is clear that the accusation against Senator Obama, however shocking, has the very considerable merit of being true.
- The headline for this post is not hard to substantiate. The question is, "Does anybody care?" Consider the National Right to Life's major article dissecting Obama's history related to abortion, this article or the Family Research Council's press release today.
But I ask again, "Does anybody care?" Certainly not the MSM (mainstream media).
As usual, VDH published a superb column. He ends it with the following two paragraphs (but do read the whole thing):
Yet for a self-acclaimed conservative to vote Obama would mean that
higher taxes, larger
government, more entitlements, more of a
UN-centered foreign policy, dialogue with an Iran, less
coal,oil, and
nuclear energy production at home, more "oppression" studies and
"reparations", leftish Supreme Court judges, open borders (I could go
on) were the truly conservative positions, or perhaps suddenly truly
the 'right' positions. And as far as ethics go, in fact, a cursory
review of the past Obama campaigns would reveal a ruthlessness never
seen in any of McCain's efforts. Obama's record is far more left than
McCain's is far right. Obama the healer has proven to be the most
partisan in the Senate, McCain one of the most bipartisan.
Yet to believe that truth would be--if we remember that scene in Tolkien's The Two Towers--to trust the grating harsh voice of Gandalf detailing the dangers of Saruman rather than the mellifluous charm of the latter who in soothing tones outlines his own victimhood.
Scott Johnson writes:
Me: Must we abandon former allies in favor of "Coke diplomacy"? Shameful!
Continue reading ""COKE DIPLOMACY" ALLOWS MONTAGNARD CHRISTIANS TO ROT IN VIETNAMESE PRISONS" »
Mark R. Levin has it right:
Continue reading "OBAMA'S ASSOCIATIONS MATTER, DESPITE McCAIN'S FAILURE TO EXPLAIN WHY" »
Click here. We can't say we haven't been warned. Serious stuff.
Update - After posting the above, I came across this IBD editorial along the same lines, "The coming Counterrevolution To Hush The Alternative Media. Sound too wild and outlandish? It's must reading (my emphases):
Continue reading "MICHAEL BARONE - THE COMING LIBERAL THUGOCRACY " »
Click here. Kimball writes elegantly(as usual), this time on why Christopher Buckley is wrong to support Barack Obama. (I love Kimball's words about Sarah Palin tucked into this article).
Click here.
Update 10/29/08 - Steve Sailor - I had not realized Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman is this stupid.
John Hinderaker says:
You have to hand it to the mainstream media: they are utterly shameless
in their effort to hand this year's election to Barack Obama. . . . For those who have observed the lunacy that has gripped the Democratic
Party and liberals generally over the last seven years, the idea that
we are now witnessing "Republican rage" is
laughable. Michelle Malkin
does a definitive job of reminding us what hate, rage and lunacy really
look like. Rage has been the public face of liberalism for the last
seven years.
Me: I couldn't agree more. Michelle Malkin does indeed set the record straight with a terrific photo gallery.
Update: Check out the "calm reaction" of Dems to a McCain/Palin march on New York's Upper West Side. Illuminating video! Click here.
- Update 10/13/08 - Jack Cashill has unearthed a chapter Obama contributed to a book in 1990. It's writing style is B minus. This furthers the thesis that Ayers is the author of Obama's Dreams From My Father. Click here.
- That's the question Andy McCarthy asks, after reading Jack Cashill's lengthy analysis in The American Thinker. McCarthy says of Cashill's article:
There is nothing in Obama's scant paper trail prior to 1995 that would suggest something as stylish and penetrating as, at times, "Dreams from My Father" is. And when Obama speaks extemporaneously, one doesn't hear the same voice one encounters in the book. Now maybe Obama has a backlog of writing from Columbia or Harvard that signal great literary promise, but he not only hasn't shared it, he's assiduously hidden traces of it. And, to be sure, writing is
Continue reading "DID OBAMA WRITE "DREAMS FROM MY FATHER" ... OR DID AYERS?" »
What a terrific speech:
Continue reading "GOV. SARAH PALIN ON "THE CULTURE OF LIFE"" »
The media is buzzing with reports that Gov. Sarah Palin is guilty of abusing her power in the trooper gate accusation. But for the present, until I know more, it seems to me that Bill Dyer a/k/a Beldar perceives what is going on better than most. His post is titled, "Branchflower report on Tasergate: Just one guy's
opinion that contradicts itself and ignores the relevant facts and law." He writes:
Please understand this, if you take nothing else away from reading this post: The Branchflower Report is a series of guess and insupportable conclusions drawn by exactly one guy, and it hasn't been approved or adopted or endorsed by so much as a single sub-committee of the Alaska Legislature, much less any kind of commission, court, jury, or other proper adjudicatory body. It contains no new bombshells in terms of factual revelations. Rather, it's just Steve Branchflower's opinion — after being hired and directed by one of Gov. Palin's most vocal opponents and one of Alaska's staunchest Obama supporters — that he thinks Gov. Palin had, at worst, mixed motives for an action that even Branchflower admits she unquestionably had both (a) the complete right to perform and (b) other very good reasons to perform. [Beldar's emphases] Continue reading . . .
The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
After months of pressure from an anti-gay-marriage group, McDonald's Corp. has given up a director's seat and will stop sponsorship of a national gay business organization.
Richard Ellis, who until last month was vice president of communications of McDonald's USA, has resigned from the board of directors of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, franchisees were told in a Sept. 23 memo.
McDonald's USA, which had made a $20,000 donation to the chamber and
became a 2008 chamber sponsor, said it would not sponsor the
organization in 2009. (more . . .)
The Family Research Association comments:
Continue reading "McDONALD'S BACKS DOWN - - ENDS PROMOTING THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA" »
Associated Press report here. Hot Air coverage here.
Next question: Time to start talking about Obama’s judicial appointments?
The Famly Research Council responded:
"It's outrageous and shameful that the Connecticut Supreme Court took it upon itself to legislate from the bench," said FRC Action President Tony Perkins. "This radical redefinition of marriage will have severe consequences for children, families, religious liberties, businesses and every facet of society as we know it.
"This decision puts marriage at risk all across the nation and
highlights the need for a Marriage Protection Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution. It is imperative both Presidential candidates address the
problems created by four activist judges in Connecticut. We call on
Senators John McCain and Barack Obama to explain what they would do as
President addressing the issue of same-sex marriage and articulating
their criteria for ensuring that judges they appoint follow the law of
the land and not legislate from the bench. (more . . .)
On the issue of Bill Ayers, Andy McCarthy crystalizes the Obama-Ayres ideological partnership, and that is precisely where Obama doesn't want to go. McCarthy writes:
That was the ideology that drove him to bomb American targets, it is the ideology he has taken to America's classrooms (which are just a different front in the same war he has been raging against our society for 40 years), it is the ideology he has never hidden from anyone, and — here's the point — it is the ideology that drove his partnership with Barack Obama. That's the reason Obama is minimizing the relationship. Obama and Ayers worked well together — happily funding the same communists, socialists, America haters, Israel haters, etc. — because they were ideologically aligned. Obama is smoother and more marketable than Ayers, but ideologically they're coming from the same place: American society needs drastic change. And if you want to know the change Obama and Ayers have in mind, look at what they did at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Look at Obama's Chicago years, which explains why Ayers and Dohrn would host the launching of his political career from their living room. That's where Obama doesn't want to go — because if voters look there, he's toast.
I don't think anyone puts it better than Charles Krauthammer in the first two paragraphs of his article today:
But associations are important. They provide a significant insight into character. They are particularly relevant in relation to a potential president as new, unknown, opaque and self-contained as Obama. With the economy overshadowing everything, it may be too late politically to be raising this issue. But that does not make it, as conventional wisdom holds, in any way illegitimate.
Continue reading "OBAMA'S ASSOCIATIONS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE - by CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER" »
Hugh Hewitt [pictured at the left], for those who do not know him, is an extraordinary man, a lawyer, author, columnist and talk-show host. Victor Davis Hanson, one of the wisest of men, a historian and classicist, sat down with Hewitt for an extraordinary two hour interview, the transcript of which can be found here. Their discussion covers the state of the world, the elections, the culture, and a whole lot more. Take the time to read it. You will be well rewarded. If you prefer, you can listen to the podcast of hour one, and the podcast of hour two. If I can find the time, I may later come back and provide some excerpts. Again, the transcript of the interview can be found here.
Today I received this e-mail from the Family Research Center:
Recently FRC hosted an outstanding lecture by Michaelene Fredenburg, discussing her excellent
new book Changed: Making Sense of
Your Own or a Loved One's Abortion Experience. Michaelene offers a unique and compassionate perspective on the impact of abortion on women,
men, friends and family members. The new web site she has established, abortionchangesyou.com,
offers a unique place of respite, reflection, and steps toward restoration for anyone whose life has been changed by abortion.
Michaelene is a frequent guest lecturer at universities and other public events. In recent years she has advocated for studies that evaluate the emotional and physical impact of all pregnancy outcomes.
Watch her complete talk here, hosted by Moira Gaul, Director of Women's and Reproductive Health at Family Research Council.
Paglia, an iconoclastic professor, self-proclaimed atheist, social commentator, and declared supporter of Barack Obama, has interesting -- and appreciative -- things to say about Sarah Palin. An excerpt:
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