Quality interweb mischief from Jared Bridges
Ideas are apparently a fashion faux pas these days, especially if you’re Theresa Heinz-Kerry. Recent statements reveal that anger is more important in determining Heinz-Kerry’s political stance: Teresa Heinz Kerry says anger, not ideology, prompted her to become a Democrat. The wife of Sen. John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, says her emotion stemmed … Read more
Victor Davis Hanson has a must-read piece on NRO today: Nearly three years after 9/11 we are in the strangest of all paradoxes: a war against fascists that we can easily win but are clearly not ready to fully wage. We have the best 500,000 soldiers in the history of civilization, a resolute president, and … Read more
…Makes a stop in Washington: I hope these folks get a lot of publicity. I hope people recognize them wherever they go. I hope they remember that only in America are they allowed to display such buffoonery.
A New York Times article draws attention to recent legislation introduced by house Republicans to make it easier for churches to support political candidates. This is, of course, a red-hot political issue. It already has raised the ire of Democrats and other groups: Although its chances of enactment are uncertain, Democrats and other critics of … Read more
When President Reagan gave his famous “Evil Empire” speech, some who took notice were captors of that empire. Natan Sharansky writes of his experience of hearing Reagan’s label, which seemed a faux pas to some: In 1983, I was confined to an eight-by-ten-foot prison cell on the border of Siberia. My Soviet jailers gave me … Read more
The battle is now over for Ronald Reagan. His passing is bittersweet for me. On one hand, he is finally at peace. On the other hand, I will miss him. Many people wrote him off as dead ten years ago. Those people didn’t give him credit that he had one last battle to fight. Though … Read more
Al Gore, the has-been inventor of the internet (and everybody’s favorite pseudo-Tennessean), delivered today a speech for the MoveOn PAC in which he implies that President Bush was standing right beside Lynndie England and company at Abu Ghraib. A simpleton such as England couldn’t have thought to commit such atrocities on her own: Private Lynndie … Read more
The censors at TruePravda are hard at work. My last entry just got a “comment” from a Kerry supporter on something completely unrelated to my post (Kerry’s energy plan). There’s one good thing about Movable Type 3.0: I can approve or delete each comment before it is published to the site. This one from the … Read more
As our eyes are on Iraq and transitioning a dictatorship into a democray of the people, two important writings of late have been looking at how things are going in Russia. In today’s Wall Street Journal, Andrew Higgins examines the fact that while the Russian free economy has improved, the free political scene has regressed … Read more
I was a little disappointed with President Bush’s speech tonight, primarily because he really didn’t say anything new. Maybe it’s just me, but it seemed to be more of a “placate the Middle Eastern detractors” speech than anything. Nothing really bad, just not one of his best. I did like this line though: Iraqis will … Read more