There's a Web ad out now on Gov. Mike Huckabee's pressured parole of rapist/murderer Wayne Dumond. The ad features the mother of the girl Dumond raped and murdered after Huckabee helped set him free. I honestly don't see how Huckabee can survive this, but I've been wrong before.
On the comparatively rare occasion that a conservative of some sort is invited to speak on a college campus, leftists of various stripes come out not just to protest, but to silence the opposition. They take over the stage with yelling, shouting and the occasional assault in an effort to maintain the ideological purity of […]
Huckabee's problem has gotten worse, with this bit from a report on the case in The Los Angeles Times: Huckabee said the DuMond case was already "on my desk" when he became governor in July 1996. He announced that he was considering a commutation. Later, he acknowledged, he wrote a letter to the prisoner saying […]
Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has a problem. The problem has a name. The name is Wayne Dumond. Dumond was a convicted rapist and Arkansas resident who had a bad thing happen to him -- before his trial he was released on bond. Two masked men broke into his home and castrated him. He was later […]
Christianity cannot be the basis for governing a nation. Unlike Islam, which has a model for law known as sharia, Christianity is based on having a personal relationship between the believer and God. Jesus didn't say anything about how to run a town, a city or an empire. It's one of the points Gregory Boyd […]
I defended CNN a couple weeks ago when it turned out that several of the "undecided voters" at the Democratic Debate were in fact political operatives of one sort or the other. While it would’ve been nice for CNN to get less politically activist questioners, remember that that is a pretty good list of the […]
And the man doesn't have a prayer of becoming president. Instapundit summarizes: "Don't hate me because I'm smarter than you." Only a politician -- or professional athlete -- can manage this degree of arrogance. Sorry, but the man behind the assault on free speech that is McCain-Feingold isn't going to get a lot of conservative […]
Sen. John McCain's mom caused a minor brouhaha on the campaign trail with this little observation. When asked about former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s experience by Hardball host Chris Matthews, Roberta McCain, who’s campaigning in New Hampshire with her son at the age of 95, said "as far as the Salt Lake City thing, he's […]
Curiously, I hadn't gotten this e-mail that's been making the rounds. Commonsense & Wonder did, and I reprint it here: We all have our disagreements with President Bush. Immigration, U.S. Attorney firings, Iraq , Darfur , etc., are all hot topics these days. The following “speech” was written recently by an ordinary Maineiac [a resident […]
But this is the best line of the campaign by anyone in either party, courtesy of John McCain. For those of you ignorant of McCain's biography: At the time of Woodstock, McCain was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.