Last weekend I finally got around to seeing "The Pianist." The movie is the story of Polish Jewish concert pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman and how he survived World War II through luck and the help of friends and other people who risked their lives to save him from the concentration camps. There are several scenes in […]
The logic behind the condensed and early primary season was to provide Democrats with a nominee early and head off any wacko (Deanlike) insurgency. The thought (apparently) was that having a nominee with nine months to go before the election would give the Democrat Party plenty of time to do fundraising and really rally behind […]
For those of you who aren't up to speed on the latest inside-the-beltway scandal, "Bush was AWOL," here are some links for your education and edification. First, the inestimable Bill Hobbs has a plethora of posts on the subject. For those of you who don't trust any blogger other than myself, a non-partisan Web site, […]
A dispatch today from the Associated Press on Inspector David Kay's report on Iraq's lack of WMD's (for a more complete picture of Kay's work, check out this report) contains the following dishonest quote from Vice President Dick Cheney (the quote is dishonest, not the VP): Cheney warned in March 2003, three days before the […]
Earlier this month, when Carol Moseley Braun announced she was ending her presidential campaign, I suggested that she was throwing her two supporters to Howard Dean in the hopes of getting a job in a Dean administration. Well, I was right and I was wrong. Braun wanted a job, but she's not waiting until Dean […]
President Bush's State of the Union Address was like most of their ilk -- too dang long. I caught snatches of speech as I was working last night. By the time I got off work and had watched online video of the speech and the Democrat response I was to exhausted to write. Your patience […]
It's been a busy morning/afternoon for me, and I've got to do some housecleaning on this Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Tonight we've got the Iowa caucuses, which I'll write some observations on once the numbers start coming in. I'll also be doing a quick couple of book reviews and a movie review. I spent […]
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 […]
A New York Times editorial page has finally discovered the infamous, pilfered Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat memos. The piece, entitled "Partisan Hacking in Congress," is an abuse of the language. According to The Wall Street Journal, one of the outlets to receive the stolen memos, what occurred wasn't exactly hacking. A statement put out last […]
The best analysis I've seen thus far of the leaked memo that outlined Democrat plans to use the intelligence committee -- historically a nonpartisan zone -- comes from Steven Den Beste. Dewey decided that it was more important to defeat the Germans and Japanese than to defeat Roosevelt. He decided that it was more important […]