Yesterday a Republican managed to trigger the infamous Howard Dean temper. Ungerer, wearing a T-shirt bearing the words "Mr Fix It," rose to his feet and condemned what he called the incivility of the campaign and the political press. He suggested Dean and the other Democratic candidates stop "tearing down your neighbor" and cut their […]
When I hear news about the Democrat presidential frontrunner, I often think: "The gall of that man." Howard Dean's latest comment is Exhibit A for arrogance, hypocrisy and gall. Howard Dean criticized President Bush on Friday for saying Christianity had influenced his opposition to stem-cell research. "I think we ought to make scientific decisions, not […]
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's column, addressing the latest developments in the Enron investigation presented him with a unique opportunity. This should be no surprise to anyone, but Krugman is once again the most partisan columnist among those in the direct employ of newspapers. (Only conservative bomb-thrower Ann Coulter is more partisan.) In its […]
Democrat President hopeful Howard Dean says that he signed a civil unions law for gays because God told him to. Dean, who's really studied the Bible, told The Washington Post that: "The overwhelming evidence is that there is very significant, substantial genetic component to it," Dean said in an interview Wednesday. "From a religious point […]
Well, if you're a Democrat, probably not. Democrat President hopeful Wesley Clark told the Manchester, N.H., Union-Leader that anyone who holds pro-life views need not apply for appointment to the federal bench -- but that's not a litmus test. Clark was asked if would appoint or reject a prospective judicial nominee who passed all of […]
Anytime any Republican questions the wisdom of a Democrat's foreign policy pronouncements, such criticism is in turn attacked as questioning the Democrat's patriotism. Unfortunately for the Democrats, Republicans "question" their patriotism much less than Democrats attack Republicans' patriotism. For example: Sen. Ted Kennedy said that the Iraq War was "cooked-up" in Texas to help President […]
Columnist Ben Shapiro wins today's award with the following paragraph, part of an article summarizing some of Moveon.org's 30 second commercial finalists: I've saved two of the best for last. One of my favorites is Eric Martin's "Bush's Repair Shop." President Bush and Vice President Cheney are portrayed as mechanics, destroying a car they are […]
As one of the few people with a journalism degree who actually took (and passed -- barely) multi-variable calculus, I continue to find math interesting, especially when something like this happens. The Poincare Conjecture, named after the Frenchman who proposed it in 1904, is the question that essentially founded the field of topology, the "rubber-sheet […]
The New Republic has an excellent article outlining what may be one of Democrat presidential wannabe Howard Dean's fatal flaws. As conversion stories go, Dean's hardly conforms to the conventions of the genre. Rather than show how religion helped him to change his life--see, again, Bush overcoming the bottle--it shows how a conflict in everyday […]