God's Law

Andy McCarthy on Taliban Huck:

Huckabee is made to order for the Left: his rhetoric embodies their heretofore lunatic indictment that we're no better that what we're fighting against. Let's "amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards"? Who needs to spin when the script speaks for itself? Where has Huck been for the last seven years? Does he not get that our enemies — the people who want to end our way of life — believe they are simply imposing God's standards?

While Jihad Joe and Taliban Huck have the same slogan, they answer to different gods - and that's the problem for the rest of us, including those on the left seeking to esconch their god, Gaia, into our country's pantheon. The only religion I want from the Constitution is to be free to exercise mine as I please and for you to do likewise.

H/T Hugh Hewitt

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Jan 15, 2008

Saving the Culture

I was absent the day my civic's class covered Congress' role in Major League Baseball. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is in full swing and Chairman Henry Waxman schools those of us who played hooky:

Waxman warned that "the culture of major league clubhouses trickles down to become the culture of the high school gym."

So, will the committee subpoena Britney, Lindsey, and Paris next?

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Jan 15, 2008

AP Repeats a Lie

AP turns a story about Dan Rather’s CBS lawsuit into a hit piece against President Bush by omitting a crucial detail:

Rather, whose last months at CBS were clouded by a disputed story on President Bush's Vietnam-era military service, says his employers made him a "scapegoat" to placate the White House after questions arose about the story.

… Rather says in his lawsuit that the defendants' actions damaged his reputation and cost him significant financial loss.

Rather was removed from his "CBS Evening News" post in March 2005, six months after he narrated a report that said Bush disobeyed orders and shirked some of his duties during his National Guard service. The report also said a commander felt pressured to sugarcoat Bush's record.

Dan Rather’s report, however, relied on demonstrably false documents – a detail that doesn’t make AP’s report. The story on Bush’s Guard service had no basis in fact, yet the AP includes it without informing the reader of its falsehood.

In the tradition of Joseph Goebbels, AP repeats a lie hoping people will eventually come to believe it.

H/T Instapundit

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Jan 12, 2008

Will the Mormon Church* Endorse Mitt Romney?

No.

The Church does not endorse, promote or oppose political parties, candidates or platforms.

*Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Jan 5, 2008

Before Republicans Count Those Chickens

Hillary's third place finish - 29% of over 220,588 Democrat caucus goers - still beat the Huckbee vote count by 65%

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Jan 4, 2008

Good Thing Bush Implemented the Iraq Study Group Recommendations

Certainly this attitude:

"The object of our policy has to be to get our little white asses out of there as soon as possible" - Iraq Study Group participate.

Was going to lead to these results:

"US deaths in Iraq are at the lowest 3 month total ever (hat tip: Free Republic). The three month total for October, November and December 2007 is 93. It's also the first time a 3 month total has dropped below 3 digits." - Richard Fernandez

"Iraq’s and Venezuela’s populations are roughly comparable: 27.5 million versus 27.7 million. In the last three months, there have been 1498 civilian fatalities in Iraq. During this same time, roughly 3000 Venezuelans have been murdered.

For the last three months of 2007, a Venezuelan was twice as likely to lose his life to violence as an Iraqi. It looks like its time for Hugo to put more attention on his abysmal security situation and less attention on Hollywood." - Gateway Pundit

Is there a Venezuelan Study Group in the offing?

h/t Instapundit

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Jan 3, 2008

Terrorism Just Not Part of a Democrat's Agenda

Mark Steyn once noted Pakistan didn't warrant a lot of concern from presidential candidates. Then there was 9/11:

You may remember during the 2000 campaign an enterprising journalist sprung on Gov. Bush a sudden pop quiz of world leaders. Bush, invited to name the leader of Pakistan, was unable to. But so what? In the third week of September 2001, the correct answer to "Who's General Musharraf?" was "Whoever I want him to be." And, if Musharraf didn't want to play ball, he'd wind up as the answer to "Who was leader of Pakistan until last week?"

Hillary Clinton seems to be campaigning in the pre 9/11 world:

And then it hit me:

Sen. Clinton really didn't know that the upcoming elections were for individual seats in Pakistan's parliament. She actually believed that Bhutto, Nawaz and Musharraf would be facing off as individual candidates for leadership of the country in the upcoming elections.

Sen. Clinton didn't know that Nawaz Sharif isn't allowed to run for office in Pakistan because of a felony conviction. She didn't know that President Musharraf won't be on the ballot because he's already been elected.

Sen. Clinton, a candidate for the leadership of the free world, apparently doesn't know the first thing about the country referred to by some as "the most dangerous place on earth."

What is scary is Hillary is the Democrat candidate who is billed as the toughest on terrorism.

Obviously for her it is an inconvienent side issue that get's in the way of domestic spending programs.

H/T Ben Smith

Others:

Wizbang recalls the 2000 campaign pop quiz also, plus "Senator Clinton is looking quite foolish after setting up her foreign policy experience like this because she has set an expectation that she didn't fulfill."

Small Dead Animals notes at least Bill helps take the spolight off her miscues.

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Jan 1, 2008

McCain Declared This Post Illegal for Broadcast

Repressing free speech isn’t limited to third world dictatorships and Canada. To exorcise the ghosts of the Keating Five, John McCain has ensured most Americans are unable to broadcast their views of presidential candidates 30 days before a primary and 60 days before an election.

However, it’s not our access to the airwaves that concerns me most about McCain and the McCain Feingold law. It’s his sincere belief he is right. The corollary is he will be driven to appoint judges who share his belief. He will find them; but a judge who agrees the First Amendment can indeed be abridged by Congress isn’t going to come from the conservative world. With Congress most likely to remain in the hands of Democrats, he would certainly have no problem getting such judges approved.

A McCain presidency would be a disaster for conservatives.

UPDATE:

Patrick Ruffini sees similarities to the 2000 campaign and predicts another McCain New Hampshire victory; along the way he opines:

In stark contrast to rest of the nation, it is very difficult for a candidate running as a conservative to win a Republican primary in the Northeast. McCain won every New England state except Maine against Bush in 2000, even Bush’s ancestral Connecticut.

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED 1 Jan, 2008

Jay R. Grodner

This wish didn't take long:

I hope that every time someone Googles Grodner’s name when deciding whether or not to hire him, that this story is the first thing that appears…and they decide to look somewhere else.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

IMPECCABLE TIMING:

Meanwhile the Utah Bar Association president complains attorneys are not accurately portrayed on television.

He's right - some can be much worse.

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED 31 Dec, 2007