tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39032499280379147872012-01-20T03:10:47.603-08:00Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.comBlogger2601100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-13661570793130924532009-05-22T01:20:00.000-07:002009-05-22T01:22:26.682-07:00

Andrew McCarthy at NRO has an excellent article explaining that federal prosecutions of Bush administration interrogators are well nigh impossible. He discusses the issue at length with Hugh Hewitt, and Hugh also discusses the issue with Congressman Dan Lungren, who apparently knows a lot more about the relevant torture statutes than our present Attorney General. Lungren

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-31598783780892686522008-12-11T12:22:00.000-08:002008-12-11T12:24:28.029-08:00

. . . so says New York state Rep. Gary Ackerman of Queens. Several Kennedys, including Ted Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., have been lobbying Gov. Paterson to replace Hillary Clinton with Caroline Kennedy. Paterson doesn't like it. Neither does Ackerman: "I don't know what Caroline Kennedy's qualifications are." "Except that she has name recognition, but so does J.Lo," Ackerman

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-74063348746662572222008-10-08T13:41:00.000-07:002008-10-08T16:14:04.102-07:00

. . . at least according to the staff at Slate, which includes one supposed 'conservative'. These staffers hope that, once Obama is elected, the Dems will no longer have to hide their true views. Here is a selection of what Dems hope they can say out loud once the Messiah is properly annointed (the italics are not mine): I think Karl Marx had some valuable insights into capitalist

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-86313871908866031252008-10-07T12:39:00.000-07:002008-10-07T12:41:59.663-07:00

The key to Obama's success thus far is a campaign of obfuscation on the issues. He knew that he need only drop off a press release on any given topic with the MSM, and they would dutifully report it as 'fact' and neglect to investigate his actual voting record and prior statements. Even Obama himself must be impressed with the success this tactic has had. Just as his friendships with

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-35403331350417286362008-09-12T19:22:00.000-07:002008-09-12T20:04:25.583-07:00

A few more thoughts about what Rob and Proof have said earlier about Obama's new ad going after McCain for not using email. FDR won WWII without AOL. Reagan didn't use email . . . are you saying Reagan sucked, you pinko ratfink loser? McCain is absolutely fair game. He has taken the low road against Obama (which, frankly, I am all for and hope he is saving the best for last) so

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-23867935328617818612008-09-10T15:50:00.001-07:002008-09-10T15:50:54.978-07:00

When Kim Jong-Il failed to appear for the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, it gave impetus to the rumors that he was ill. Now, the North Koreans have confirmed that Kim had a stroke. He probably underwent surgery. That same news article quoted a Nork diplomat employing the usual communist veracity as saying that reports about Kim

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-51252902333465974362008-08-19T20:42:00.001-07:002008-08-19T20:42:33.985-07:00

This article by Roger Kimball is a must-read, must-link and must-forward piece. Kimball outlines the horrible guilt liberals feel when anyone succeeds, and their weird zero-sum attitude that any such success must have come at someone else's expense. There is no math or science to it, it is simply emotional vapors. It leads to anti-rationality: for example, the idea that taxes should be raised

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-24337911431906498602008-08-18T17:55:00.001-07:002008-08-18T17:57:00.586-07:00

Sure, we're supposed to put our trust in democracy. One wonders, however, whether this is really a step towards democracy, or anarchy, or worse. Suffering from a death by a thousand cuts, threats of impeachment were the last straw for Musharraf: "They want to impeach me now. Why do they want to do it?" a downcast Musharraf said in a televised address in which he denied any wrongdoing. "Do

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-91117190694100506282008-08-16T08:32:00.000-07:002008-08-16T08:37:37.061-07:00

Heh, I actually know this guy in real life. He is available for birthday parties, bar mitzvahs, and natural disasters. Oh, there's more: What can I say? I am as perplexed as you are. BTW, some of the comments on the YouTube pages are hilarious.

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-3568893641298943632008-08-14T19:47:00.000-07:002008-08-14T19:55:34.432-07:00

Behold Olympian Alicia Sacramone: Yeah, she has been blamed a bit for some of the american gynmast team woes . . . but she probably has another career ahead of her in case this gymnast thing doesn't work out. She has been signed up to be a CoverGirl spokesmodel. Or, she could go into boxing:

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-40688200608199627662008-08-13T21:59:00.000-07:002008-08-13T22:08:15.695-07:00

I wonder if she snapped any necks with those man-hands of hers. We might learn more today: The full secret comes out Thursday, all of the names and previously classified files identifying nearly 24,000 spies who formed the first centralized intelligence effort by the United States. The National Archives, which this week released a list of the names found in the records, will make available

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-11088162190773318782008-08-12T22:34:00.000-07:002008-08-12T22:58:40.662-07:00

To Democrats, being 'bipartisan' means Republicans caving in to their demands. So in a sense, Barack Obama can be forgiven for claiming he will 'bring people together' in some sort of post-partisan paradise - after all, he does not really understand what 'bipartisan' is supposed to mean in an objective, non-Dem fashion. Nor does bipartisan mean merely joining in sponsoring or voting for

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-4572291027305714512008-08-12T00:46:00.001-07:002008-08-12T00:56:16.046-07:00

When the dam bursts, it really goes. You may recall that Wikipedia invoked its 'protect Democrats at all costs' policy by refusing to post rumors about the Edwards affair that would have appeared instantly had it been Rush Limbaugh or Karl Rove in trouble instead. The Enquirer is solidly reliable only when it reports on Republicans, it seems. It is a rather lengthy article on the whole

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-57003266734246131042008-08-11T18:49:00.000-07:002008-08-11T19:09:11.722-07:00

The dumbest conspiracy theory since 911 trutherism comes from - where else? - the brain trust known as the Huffington Post. This is what passes for proof of this bizarre idea: What is most interesting is that McCain's chief foreign policy aide, Randy Scheunemann, has been advising/ lobbying for pro-western Georgia for the last four years. Stratfor links to some weird chest-puffing by Sergei

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-79700327709611206382008-08-09T15:11:00.001-07:002008-08-09T15:15:00.174-07:00

Hey how about them Olympics! Oh yeah, and apparently there is some war going on in some place called Georgia that isn't in the southern U.S. (via Stratfor via Tigerhawk)

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-13371732491301732642008-08-08T23:05:00.000-07:002008-08-08T23:23:47.677-07:00

There is a little justice in the world: Rep. Steve Cohen, who won just 31% of the primary vote in a crowded field in 2006, beat former Congressional aide and attorney Nikki Tinker by a 79%-19% margin to retain the Democratic nomination in Tennessee's Ninth District. In the Memphis-based seat where about 60% of the population is African American, a white Jewish Democrat winning a second term by

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-10525276404400640402008-08-08T12:05:00.000-07:002008-08-08T12:11:18.172-07:00

The gatekeepers can no longer protect their favorite politicians. The coverup of the Edwards affair was doomed to fail in this age of new media, and the accumulating undernews proved to be too much for Edwards to deny: John Edwards repeatedly lied during his Presidential campaign about an extra-marital affair with a novice film-maker, the former Senator admitted to ABC News today. In an

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-84510866624916183932008-08-07T09:11:00.000-07:002008-08-07T09:33:31.683-07:00

Not exactly 'morning in America', is it: I suppose only the Messiah can save us now. Update: Jim Geraghty quips: "One spouse says we used to be great and have fallen; one spouse says we haven't been great until now." Hey, Barack and Michelle . . . which is it?

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-8186607715374035152008-08-05T20:40:00.000-07:002008-08-05T23:07:05.414-07:00

I am really really glad Gateway Pundit survived a fairly serious wreck earlier today. The guy is indispensable, and a source for what seems to be half of my blog posts. He was a really good sport back when I was blogging at WILLisms.com, so I am glad he came out of it with little more than some soreness. Too bad he can't say the same about his golf clubs.

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-33102554630717634342008-08-05T17:46:00.000-07:002008-08-05T18:11:21.613-07:00

Today in Berea, Ohio, hiding behind his telepromtper, and courageously facing a large throng of adoring Obamanoids, Barack Obama said this: "So I’m happy to have a battle of words because I’ve got facts on my side," he concluded. "I’ve got truth on my side! I fear no man when I’ve got truth on my side!" Then why is Obama so afraid to talk to Sean Hannity? After all, Obama has 'truth on his side

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-52298990324089913352008-08-05T13:16:00.000-07:002008-08-05T13:26:43.023-07:00

Inflation: are we talking about the economy, tires, or Obama's ego? This is the kind of thing that makes conseratives wonder if maybe, just maybe, the press is running a kind of protection racket for Barack Obama. The objective journalist Nedra Pickler, whose 'fact check' segments always somehow help Democrats but never Republicans, decided to 'fact check' this statement by John McCain

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-14735781404229665332008-07-29T12:54:00.001-07:002008-07-29T12:54:58.375-07:00

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. - Daniel Burnham Everyone complains about the weather, but no one does anything about it. - Mark Twain The Politico today is reporting that Nancy 'Navigator' Pelosi said: “I’m trying to save the planet; I’m trying to save the planet,” she says impatiently when questioned. “I will not have this debate trivialized by their

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-12839348634418776112008-07-29T00:36:00.000-07:002008-07-29T00:37:26.727-07:00

Who is the baby of the house?

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-63411328713236368142008-07-28T23:17:00.000-07:002008-07-28T23:22:36.749-07:00

I am a lapsed Unitarian Universalist (is that even possible?) but I don't agree with this inane drivel: You killed them, Pat Robertson. You killed them, Pastor Hagee. You killed them, Ann Coulter. You killed them, Dick Morris and Sean Hannity and the rest of you at Fox News. The hatred of the right is horrible, so let's whip up some hatred against them! Yeah, we need more of that. Yet

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-22542684878892373742008-07-28T16:29:00.000-07:002008-07-28T18:40:04.930-07:00

For the first time since the 1936 Olympics in Berlin 1980 Olympics in Moscow [ed. thanks for the reminder, Likwidshoe], a non-democratic state is hosting the world's games. This is stunningly shameful, and I urge all readers of whatever political persuasion to turn your back on the rehabilition of the butchers of Tiananmen. Instead, I recommend taking a look at this presentation

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-36701498599530866562008-07-28T15:34:00.000-07:002008-07-28T15:44:42.897-07:00

I cringe to think what the leftwing blogs are saying about Robert Novak's brain tumor. The article notes an incident involving Novak last week: "Novak, 77, struck a pedestrian last Wednesday while driving his Chevrolet Corvette in Washington, D.C. The man he struck suffered minor injuries, according to the Associated Press. Novak was issued a $50 citation. Asked whether the

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-43810773944989561602008-07-28T14:26:00.000-07:002008-07-28T14:42:02.921-07:00

Indeed. Barack Obama's excellent adventure in Europe may have backfired: "The Friday-Sunday poll, mostly conducted as Obama was returning from his much-publicized overseas trip and released just this hour, shows McCain now ahead 49%-45% among voters that Gallup believes are most likely to go to the polls in November. In late June, he was behind

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-57024444678974459602008-07-26T15:12:00.000-07:002008-07-26T15:27:43.686-07:00

Yeah, diplomacy, nuance and multilateral hand-wringing has just worked out so well, hasn't it: "Islamic Iran today possesses 6,000 centrifuges," Fars news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying Saturday in an address to university professors in the northeastern city of Mashhad. That is, 6,000 centrifuges operating at full-tilt in a custom undeground reinforced concrete facility at Natanz. Don't

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-67373026750001842182008-07-25T18:36:00.000-07:002008-07-25T18:37:21.171-07:00

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-76542413240759580462008-07-23T09:14:00.000-07:002008-07-23T09:44:50.206-07:00

Yesterday in Rochester, New Hampshire, McCain said: This is a clear choice that the American people have. I had the courage and the judgment to say I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war. It seems to me that Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign. It seems that way? Any honest appraisal demands it. Obama's profusion of views on Iraq are dizzying,

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-68687482079118611622008-07-22T18:33:00.000-07:002008-07-22T19:39:58.015-07:00

It was quite a gaffe for Obama to say that he wouldn't have supported The Surge if he could go back and do it all over again. True to form however, he has turned this foreign policy gaffe into his foreign policy: I am sure Obama did not expect any kind of pushback from her, which is undoubtedly why he agreed to an interview with Couric instead of, say, Sean Hannity. But even Katie Couric

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-43756524677273955542008-07-22T09:49:00.001-07:002008-07-22T10:03:41.091-07:00

"We need legislation to rein in Wall Street traders who unfairly are driving up oil prices," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. There is so much buffoonery at work in this statement, it is hard to know where to begin in demolishing it. Only 'Wall Street traders' are driving up the price of oil? And they are doing so 'unfairly'? Any effective legislative attempts to rein in oil speculators

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-89102570039637061632008-07-22T08:41:00.001-07:002008-07-22T09:41:08.066-07:00

First Obama said that, if he had it all to do over again, he would have voted against The Surge. You might think Obama said this because he doesn't think The Surge has led to progress in Iraq. But wait . . . now that he is serving his tour of duty in Iraq he suddenly has glowing things to say about the success there: . . . Mr. Obama said he was “pleased with the progress taking place” in

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-1219078083458152002008-07-20T16:22:00.000-07:002008-07-20T16:25:01.497-07:00

Just . . . wow. (h/t one of Ace's minions)

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-80908911094360359922008-07-20T05:29:00.000-07:002008-07-20T06:26:15.278-07:00

Josh Marshall is all a twitter over Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki practically endorsing Obama in the presidential election: I've spent a couple hours now trying to process the probable impact of Prime Minister al Maliki's explicit endorsement of Barack Obama's 16 month timetable for withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. My first instinct is always to try not to overstate the impact

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-71211977004311907932008-07-18T07:17:00.000-07:002008-07-18T07:21:22.930-07:00

It appears that the 'consensus' on global warming promoted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was reached by fraud, as proven by members of the American Physical Society: The APS is opening its debate with the publication of a paper by Lord Monckton of Brenchley, which concludes that climate sensitivity -- the rate of temperature change a given amount of greenhouse

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-47375531806368418042008-07-15T19:24:00.000-07:002008-07-15T19:27:39.748-07:00

A statement of Reaganesque clarity from our President: Wiser words were never spoken. I hope Obama saw this, with dread.

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-87521998775937543212008-07-15T19:04:00.001-07:002008-07-15T19:12:52.201-07:00

Why oh why do they bother polling McCain against Democrats who aren't even running for president? Um . . . we are through with Hillary now, right? Right??? Guys??? McCain fares better against Obama than he does against two other prominent Democrats. New York Senator Hillary Clinton leads McCain by eight points, 50% to 42%. Former Vice President Al Gore, the Democratic presidential nominee in

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-76034799952827974152008-07-15T09:15:00.001-07:002008-07-15T09:15:44.161-07:00

First of all, everyone gets that the New Yorker cover was supposed to be a satire of what the 'rightwing' thinks of Obama. Never mind that the myth of Obama-the-Muslim was promulgated chiefly by Hillary Clinton's supporters during the primaries (some of who used the very lame excuse that they needed to send those emails around as a warning of 'what will come this November' at the

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-57263825495368639442008-07-11T19:21:00.001-07:002008-07-11T19:21:54.367-07:00

Newsweek's latest poll is an ugly thing for Barack Obama. His lead has shrunk considerably since Newsweek conducted their last poll - Obama has dropped 11 points versus McCain in under a month. Obama now leads 44 to 41, just within the margin of error. The poll slightly oversamples Democrats to Republicans. However, this was a poll of registered voters, not likely voters. Democratic

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-61037640522368572032008-07-10T10:02:00.000-07:002008-07-10T10:27:21.497-07:00

In response to the Reverend Jackson saying he wants to 'cut Obama's nuts out' . . . Even Jesse Jackson Jr., an Obama supporter and congressman from Chicago, condemned his dad's remarks. "I'm deeply outraged and disappointed in Reverend Jackson's reckless statements about Senator Barack Obama," he said. This whole episode says volumes about how resentful and vengeful Jackson Sr. is about losing

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-87545848048584754052008-07-10T05:31:00.000-07:002008-07-10T05:33:32.760-07:00

Sure Carlin was a leftist, but even he had only so much tolerance for leftist nonsense. He even sounds a bit like Rush Limbaugh in this clip:

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-82056154988326314842008-07-03T21:29:00.000-07:002008-07-03T21:30:10.244-07:00

What is the lupara?

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-9811025121421519022008-07-03T19:25:00.000-07:002008-07-03T23:04:14.415-07:00

Obama has flipped and flopped so much, I am wondering if he even knows what he stands for. His campaign is a pretty awesome and well-oiled machine right now, it is only hampered by a candidate who shows himself to be preternaturally incapable of providing any policy leadership whatsoever. He said he would pull all troops out of Iraq in 16 months regardless of what the generals say.

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-92101251605770339262008-07-03T15:27:00.000-07:002008-07-03T15:52:47.420-07:00

This kind of thing really irks me. Liberals are famous for rewriting history to their own advantage, and this presidential campaign has already seen quite a bit of that (mostly from the Obama campaign trying to keep up with his gaffes). Here, from Slate, is yet another liberal moaning about how Republicans have cornered the patriotism market, and engages in some ridiculous revisionism along the

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-79931554771527723642008-07-02T16:09:00.000-07:002008-07-02T16:41:38.360-07:00

. . . and only fake patriots actually love America. Rob noted a self-loathing liberal still feeling shame over Abu Ghraib. RealClearPolitics links to another guilty liberal who comes up with lots and lots of reasons to hate America (yet who oddly chooses to live here). He starts with that classic formulation: 'It’s not that I’m anti-American . . . ' and then goes on to be exactly that,

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-66292978926777169432008-06-27T15:31:00.001-07:002008-06-27T15:34:22.542-07:00

Somehow, I just don't think that talking to our enemies without preconditions will ever lead to results like this:

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-48158942064009878422008-06-27T14:39:00.000-07:002008-06-27T15:09:54.315-07:00

The odious Canadian 'Human Rights' Commission has wisely dropped its complaint against Maclean's magazine and Mark Steyn. The case generated a typhoon of protest both in Canada and the U.S., to the point where there are grumblings about doing away with the Commission altogether. Truly free societies should not have a bureaucracy dedicated to prosecuting liberal thought crimes, so that is not a

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-59727945755198208062008-06-27T13:02:00.000-07:002008-06-27T13:05:01.119-07:00

The Heller decision, published yesterday, ruled that the District of Columbia cannot impose restrictions on guns that would completely ban weapons for self-defense. The scope of the case is limited to Washington DC however, and it is an open question as to whether other extremely restrictive anti-gun measures will be affected or not. The reason for this is the incorporation

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-84636635802934831952008-06-27T03:20:00.001-07:002008-06-27T03:20:44.422-07:00

Although an individual now has a constitutional right to own guns, that new right is not unlimited, wrote [Justice Antonin] Scalia, a hunter. Reuters I agree with the ruling, however, the Constitution does not grant us the right, it enumerates that right. It is a natural law that man is able to defend him or her self. Chuck Mallory If D.C. street thugs are pleased by anything, it's

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-62351160600049917172008-06-26T18:16:00.001-07:002008-06-26T18:17:54.232-07:00

It is a bit surprising that venerable old pundit workhorse David Broder doesn't know how gerrymandering works, and what it is supposed to accomplish. Gerrymandering is a technique whereby politicians draw political boundaries in a way best suited to help their party - and it doesn't quite operate the way Broder thinks it does. Broder sees gerrymandering as a huge problem, maybe

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-84409085316419556302008-06-03T13:30:00.000-07:002008-06-03T13:39:33.133-07:00

Supposedly, allegedly: WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton told colleagues Tuesday she would be consider joining Barack Obama as his running mate, and advisers said she was withholding a formal departure from the race partly to use her remaining leverage to press for a spot on the ticket. On a conference call with other New York lawmakers, Clinton, a New York senator, said she was willing to

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-56898597984737138902008-06-02T18:00:00.001-07:002008-06-02T18:41:10.593-07:00

Hugh Hewitt just reported this on his show, I went to Google news and a few other places and haven't seen any news on this come across the wire. I suspect it is true though, given the senator's age, hopefully it is nothing serious. Meanwhile, doctors have reported that the operation to remove a tumor from Ted Kennedy's brain "accomplished our goals", though creepily, Kennedy was awake during

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-26390035864082993192008-06-02T10:14:00.000-07:002008-06-02T11:16:15.343-07:00

There is, allegedly and supposedly, some kind of video of Michelle Obama with Louis Farrakhan railing against 'whitey'. Or is it 'why'd he', as explained by Jim Gerahty: Apparently, if the tape ever comes to light, her words will sound something like: Whitey cut folks off Medicaid? Whitey let New Orleans drown? Whitey do nothing about Jena? Whitey put us in Iraq for no reason?* ...when

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-47739819059352397632008-06-02T04:48:00.000-07:002008-06-02T04:52:50.711-07:00

From commenter Seneschal at Jake Tapper's blog Political Punch: "John McCain spent five years in chains listening to anti-American propaganda, and he paid a dear price. Barack Obama spent twenty years sitting in a pew listening to anti-American propaganda, and he happily paid for the privilege." I read Tapper's blog a lot, because he is one of the very few MSM correspondents that doesn't think

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-45650500809862512762008-05-30T21:36:00.000-07:002008-05-30T21:43:23.431-07:00

From Mickey Kaus: Where does Obama get that "hate crimes against Hispanic people doubled last year"--an alleged increase he blamed on "people like Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh ginning things up"? The latest FBI statistics I can find are from 2006, not last year. They show about a 14% increase from 2005, by my calculation. Even the Southern Poverty Law Center only claims According to hate crime

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-91651984382378378932008-05-28T21:47:00.000-07:002008-05-28T21:49:33.790-07:00

Sanity prevails: The Telegraph newspaper reported that Guardian columnist George Monbiot, a critic of the Iraq war, tried to arrest the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations as he was exiting the stage at the Hay Literary Festival. The Telegraph earlier reported that Monbiot would try to arrest Bolton for war crimes. According to the article, Monbiot was blocked by two security guards,

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-16070578348933624402008-05-28T21:15:00.000-07:002008-05-28T21:18:22.996-07:00

I was showing a friend the famous Magpul flashlight gun video, and he turned me on to this nearly unbelieveable video: Every movie gunfight will look like molasses from now on.

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-83138600228229589812008-05-28T07:15:00.000-07:002008-05-28T07:37:19.945-07:00

From Barack Obama's campaign website: Obama is the only major candidate who supports tough, direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions. Now is the time to pressure Iran directly to change their troubling behavior. Obama would offer the Iranian regime a choice. If Iran abandons its nuclear program and support for terrorism, we will offer incentives like membership in the World

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-74350209782129827752008-05-27T06:28:00.000-07:002008-05-27T06:40:36.309-07:00

Obama is in mass-production mode with his gaffes now. This one is a real howler: Obama also spoke about his uncle, who was part of the American brigade that helped to liberate Auschwitz. Now, is Obama so ignorant of history that he doesn't know that the Soviets, not the Americans, liberated Auschwitz (located in Poland), or is Obama now simply flaunting the fact that the press will cover for him

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-55233868660140107002008-05-26T07:23:00.001-07:002008-05-26T07:24:35.762-07:00

Thomas Lipscomb at RealClearPolitics questions the motives of some groups seeking veterans' benefits in his article Purple Hearts for PTSD? PTSD sure seems to be a real enough affliction. But, Shakespeare's St. Crispin's Day soliloquoy from Henry V comes to mind: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named, And rouse him at the name

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-26239813859752444222008-05-26T00:12:00.000-07:002008-05-26T01:21:02.988-07:00

If Dan Quayle were dead he'd be rolling in his grave. The left made a laughingstock out of him for misspelling 'potato' with an 'e' (once an acceptable spelling of that word) and implied that Quayle was a moron, a dummy, and unfit for office. Well what does that make Barack Obama then? Here is a guy who thinks there are 58 states in the union. He thinks Arkansas is closer to

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-68906022517532753552008-05-25T20:51:00.000-07:002008-05-25T21:00:36.195-07:00

At least that is how the MSM will probably spin the fact that the Iraqi Army dismantles Mahdi Army caches in Sadr City. A few more victories like this, and Moqtada al-Sadr is finished. If he isn't already. This is particularly interesting: The Iraqi Army raided numerous Mahdi Army weapons caches in Sadr City May 22-23, Multinational Forces Iraq reported. The Mahdi Army has stockpiled weapons

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-17517945449317721342008-05-25T19:38:00.001-07:002008-05-25T19:42:48.188-07:00

Rev. Al Sharpton urges Hillary Clinton: Watch what you say Wow. You have to be in pretty damn deep to have Al Sharpton warn you about your comments. This RFK assassination thing must be far worse for Hillary than I thought.

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-75298975671194306652008-05-23T23:42:00.001-07:002008-05-23T23:49:20.953-07:00

In this Super Extra Very Special Comment, Keith Olbermann presumes to speak for all Americans, engages in risible hyperbole, locks and loads his ego, and assumes his place as rightful heir of Edward R. Murrow. In other words, it is just like that episode of Gilligan's Island where they almost escape the island, except Gilligan screws it up at the last moment. He goes after Hillary

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-79329037347125650332008-05-23T15:06:00.000-07:002008-05-23T15:11:24.663-07:00

From USAToday: Republican Sen. John McCain, who would be the oldest first-term president ever sworn in if he wins his White House bid this year, is in "excellent physical and mental health," the leader of his medical team said Friday. "We can find nothing in his medical history that would preclude him from serving as president of the United States with vigor," Dr. John Eckstein, who serves as

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-21568361516426743162008-05-23T14:40:00.001-07:002008-05-23T14:40:35.814-07:00

Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) comes up with today's dog-bites-man story, in which he admits that Democrats 'sort of stretched the facts' when it came to their ability to end the war. Here is the full quote: "I'll tell you my impression. We really in this last election, when I say we...the Democrats, I think pushed it as far as we can to the end of the fleet, didn't say it, but we

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-40753987530028179602008-05-23T14:13:00.000-07:002008-05-23T14:14:13.315-07:00

Hillary Clinton said this in regard to the drawn-out nature of the Democratic primaries: My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don't understand it" So of course Miss Cleo, working for the Obama campaign, used her

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-49578758283832262342008-05-20T05:13:00.001-07:002008-05-20T05:15:33.635-07:00

Great news: the Coalition Forces in Iraq are on pace to report the lowest monthly casualties since the Iraq War began. This is testament to the success of the surge, and the political and military progress made by the Maliki government. Is this an 'acceptable' level of casualties? There is no such thing. It is unacceptable that the enemy continues to have the

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-79443245546915828322008-05-19T03:44:00.001-07:002008-05-19T03:45:29.180-07:00

Hello Kitty was bad enough when it was merely a way to decorate an asian schoolgirl's pencil box. Now it has become a threat to western civilization itself. Exhibit A: Exhibits B and C: I always knew the Japanese would finally get their revenge and find a way to completely subvert our way of life. If the Air Force adopts Hello Kitty as a fighter paint scheme, which seems

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-55067282536640371142008-05-18T20:59:00.000-07:002008-05-18T21:02:10.257-07:00

"Aggressively inarticulate." Too true. (h/t Ed Driscoll)

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-38127985513486563002008-05-15T21:13:00.000-07:002008-05-15T21:15:18.446-07:00

The response of the Obama campaign and his supporters to Bush's Knesset speech should have been something like "we know he wasn't talking about us. We abhor appeasement and reject it as a method of fighting the War on Terror." Considering that Bush did not accuse anyone person in particular of being guilty of appeasement, Instapundit's comment that "when somebody condemns appeasement, it doesn't

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-13223001652357376572008-05-14T19:37:00.000-07:002008-05-14T19:46:04.086-07:00

What is the dismal science, and the sweet science?

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-91113480217715189302008-05-14T08:23:00.000-07:002008-05-14T08:24:21.006-07:00

Today is the 60th birthday of Israel, the day in 1948 that David Ben-Gurion proclaimed its independence with the approval of the United Nations. Against all odds, in a sea of enemies, Israel has managed to survive and thrive. May it continue to exist as the great ally and democracy that it is.

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-61231537060887326732008-05-14T06:54:00.000-07:002008-05-14T07:13:10.219-07:00

Obama actually catches himself here as he is about to say something monumentally stupid, and give him kudos I guess for knowing that Pashto, for example, is one of the main languages in the areas of Afghanistan where the insurgency is active, and not Arabic. But, this little quip shows the absurd extreme to which Obama is willing to take the 'Iraq is a distraction' meme. Everything is a

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-31364096321738378032008-05-14T06:06:00.000-07:002008-05-14T06:15:28.026-07:00

Slate Magazine has had the Hillary Deathwatch for what seems like forever, but maybe it is new for some of you folks out there. It seems that with Hillary's West Virginia victory it will linger on as the entertaining triviality it is, much like Hillary's campaign itself.

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-26591370036074299822008-05-07T16:33:00.000-07:002008-05-07T19:02:14.820-07:00

Not even kidding here. Hillary goes on the Keith Larson Show (WBT 1110AM, Charlotte NC) and does an imitation of Curly, late of the Three Stooges. Hat tip to Hugh Hewitt, who said this is Hillary's Dukakis tank riding moment. Eh, she seems so over by now, I am not sure this bizarre performance will get much notice. She also throws out some of that irritating cackling in the interview too.

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-74895521008408245772008-04-23T07:45:00.000-07:002008-04-23T07:54:41.781-07:00

The dastardly, freedom-hating press is covering up the fact that Paul took a whopping 16% of the vote in the closed Pennsylvania Republican primary. Its a whopping percentage for Paul, anyway. What, with all of those Operation Chaos Republicans crossing over for Hillary, the best Paul could muster was 16%? He had no opposition, in that McCain already has the nomination nailed and didn't bother

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-44763729953112932322008-04-21T18:38:00.000-07:002008-04-21T19:00:23.045-07:00

Two mutually reinforcing theories on why Obama cancelled a debate next Sunday with Hillary Clinton: one, he is going to win North Carolina anyway, so why give the desperate Hillary a shot at him, and two, he is afraid of another dismal performance. There is plausible deniability here, because normally you would expect Obama to turn down a debate when victory is a foregone conclusion, as it was

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-63822298699265590962008-04-21T16:46:00.000-07:002008-04-21T17:12:00.459-07:00

Get this: some pointy-headed writer for the New Yorker Magazine is complaining that last week's debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was 'something akin to a federal crime.' Yes, how dare anyone ask Obama about his terrorist connections, or Hillary's brazen lies! Why, that time could have better spent trying to wedge a piece of paper into the policy differences between the two, just

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-24787908887898237862008-04-19T12:06:00.000-07:002008-04-19T12:14:28.226-07:00

Ed Driscoll provides us with this vid of the admittedly great, but whitewashed, career of architect Philip Johnson: It cannot be repeated too often: fascism is a disease of the left, not the right.

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-57365596837512464162008-04-14T16:53:00.000-07:002008-04-14T17:05:05.580-07:00

It's the biggest scandal of this campaign: why are Hillary, Obama and McCain not addressing the potential threat of zombie hordes rampaging through our neighborhoods? When is the press going to force them to discuss this critical issue? If Obama says he is going to speak directly with the zombies, he will certainly lose my vote. I urge all readers to take heed of the valuable advice provided

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-10426246573092100712008-04-14T15:30:00.000-07:002008-04-14T15:32:31.912-07:00

You betcha that first one is going to make the caption contest rounds this week. McCain seems to genuinely enjoy Hillary's company in these pics. Why not? They have all of those war stories to share with each other . . .

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-20321190123393901902008-04-14T14:38:00.001-07:002008-04-14T14:54:47.626-07:00

Barack Obama may or may not have been in church to hear 'Reverend' Wright's bigoted greatest hits as shown on YouTube, but Obama most certainly did hear Wright preach that "white folks greed runs a world in need", perhaps the most racist statement by Wright yet uncovered. How do we know Obama heard this in person? He himself says it, in this excerpt from the audiobook of Dreams From My Father:

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-69495194626083129392008-04-12T18:27:00.000-07:002008-04-12T18:29:40.775-07:00

Jim Manzi at The Corner points us to a WaPo article about New Jersey restauranteur Bobby Egan, who serves up BBQ ribs and also dabbles in amateur diplomacy with the North Koreans: "You couldn't put Condoleezza Rice or Madeleine Albright on a level with me in dealing with the Koreans," he says. "They've never even been in a fistfight. I've been in fistfights — including with the Koreans. These

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-56098101885118413792008-04-11T22:46:00.000-07:002008-04-12T01:03:26.129-07:00

Mickey Kaus: I used to think working class voters had conservative values because they were bitter about their economic circumstances--welfare and immigrants were "scapegoats," part of the false consciousness that would disappear when everyone was guaranteed a good job at good wages. Then I left college. ...

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-36839156305628533172008-04-11T17:42:00.000-07:002008-04-11T18:35:28.033-07:00

There is video and a transcript of Obama hatin' on the poor country folk of Pennsylvania (it's from the Huffington Post, so it must be true): "You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them," Obama said. "And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-18893797411904517792008-04-11T10:21:00.000-07:002008-04-11T10:57:40.193-07:00

Who knew that Bill Clinton lying could still be considered 'news'? Clinton served up some hot, tasty whoppers yesterday in Boonville, Indiana: "A lot of the way this whole campaign has been covered has amused me," he said. "But there was a lot of fulminating because Hillary, one time late at night when she was exhausted, misstated and immediately apologized for it, what happened to her in

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-41526778913951112082008-04-10T14:39:00.000-07:002008-04-10T14:41:16.824-07:00

Just incredible. Barack Obama, while he was sitting on the board of the Woods Fund with his America-hating terrorist buddy Bill Ayers, helped fund a new organization by Rashid Khalidi, a mouthpiece for the terrorist PLO. From The Obama Files by John Batchelor: In Chicago in 1995, Mr. Khalidi and his wife Mona founded the Arab American Action Network (AAAN), a group associated with

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-14725854273056316612008-04-03T20:31:00.000-07:002008-04-03T20:47:50.301-07:00

Greeley says that Thomas Sowell has a 'sick mind', but I'll put Sowell's intellect up against Greeley's (or just about anyone else's) any day of the week. In comparison, the paucity of Greeley's ability to reason shows itself quite clearly: Neither expert, I daresay, ever drove by the church on 95th Street on Sunday morning. The people, including the young ones, are the best dressed and best

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-27224767039777292112008-04-03T18:39:00.000-07:002008-04-03T18:50:29.921-07:00

Hillary is outraged by huge oil profits. Unless they end up in her pockets, of course: A Texas oilman who’s accused of defrauding the Nigerian government by illegally pumping and exporting 10 million barrels of oil is a major fundraiser for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-4431845170223918002008-04-03T16:33:00.000-07:002008-04-03T17:17:26.136-07:00

Matthew Yglesias has a reputation for being a 'reasonable' liberal blogger, but does this seem 'reasonable' to you? Ed Kilgore has an excellent post on the oddly backward nature of John McCain's current "biography tour" and the general weirdness of the campaign emphasizing the idea that their candidate is genetically programmed to monger war through his jingoistic heritage (or

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-38180625815717611962008-04-03T11:08:00.000-07:002008-04-03T21:56:53.175-07:00

Who knew Air America was still around? Rhodes also compares Geraldine Ferraro to David Duke in this 'standup' routine. Oh yeah, that's some big funny right there. Language Warning: typical foul-mouthed liberal rant follows: Good thing she only got suspended. She needs that day job. Update: The Campaign Spot at NRO compares Rhodes' suspension to getting kicked out of Guns

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-70062646665925452082008-04-02T16:32:00.000-07:002008-04-02T16:43:46.336-07:00

We have been told ad infinitum how President Bush and the War on Terror have caused every man, woman and child on the face of the planet to hate America, but according to the BBC this hardly seems to be the case. If these poll results are to be believed, that is. Is it really true that only 19% of Israelis believe that the U.S. has a positive influence in the world, but

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-54975457082591394472008-04-02T12:24:00.000-07:002008-04-02T12:31:49.129-07:00

Who was voted the "second meanest" member of the federal House of Representatives, as well the "biggest windbag" and "show horse" in a 2006 Washingtonian article?

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-55580729479231591742008-04-02T00:20:00.000-07:002008-04-02T00:22:56.514-07:00

. . . if they don't give this guy his job back.

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-81454098608253520712008-04-01T18:03:00.000-07:002008-04-01T18:11:40.636-07:00

Huh? But, hey, at least Clinton can make the case that she won big states like Texas, right? Sadly, no. Final numbers are still trickling in from the district and county conventions Texas held on Saturday (Step 2 in the state's electoral freak show), but it looks like Obama won the day—and, by extension, the state's March 4 vote. Clinton netted five delegates in the primary, but Obama's

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-22707347469422029372008-04-01T17:15:00.000-07:002008-04-01T17:18:01.115-07:00

Woah . . . this is some serious cash: NEW YORK - Alex Rodriguez makes more this year than his hometown Florida Marlins. Boosted by his new deal with the New York Yankees, A-Rod tops the major league baseball salary list at $28 million, according to a study of contract terms by The Associated Press. The 33 players on the Marlins' opening-day roster and disabled list total $21.8 million. Yes,

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-15504617825605519842008-04-01T10:09:00.001-07:002008-04-01T10:18:01.744-07:00

WABC 77AM in New York City is reporting that Robert Mugabe is stepping down as president of Zimbabwe. Mugabe was in negotiations with challenger Morgan Tsvangirai to arrange a settlement after Mugabe lost the national election for president. Hard-core leftist Mugabe single-handedly destroyed the Zimbabwean economy by appropriating white-owned farm lands, printing money that caused 1,000+

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903249928037914787.post-53109737381000981612008-03-31T19:07:00.001-07:002008-03-31T19:14:16.670-07:00

One reason I could never be a muslim is Islam's utter lack of a sense of irony:   Via Gateway Pundit, who has more about Indonesian muslims being all peaceful n stuff about Geert Wilders and Fitna.

Ken McCrackennoreply@blogger.com1