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Blog in Haste, Repent at Leisure
I’m backing off of my knee-jerk, under-caffeinated early morning “Pull the Plug” post. The secession thing doesn’t look like it’s gaining any traction, it just seemed so weird and out of left field and on…
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OK, Pull the Plug on Palin
Hard to see how the Palin candidacy can survive the continuing drip-drip-drip of new revelations — and the press is only getting warmed up. The Alaska Independence Party is not exactly a “fringe” group —…
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Palin Backlash Watch
I don’t agree with every word of this article, but I offer this snippet as evidence that Palin-bashing is a losing strategy for the Democrats: Let me make it clear: there are many things I…
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"Better Qualified Than Obama"
From The Corner: Governor Palin is, based on her resume and achievement, better qualified than Obama to be president. … Obama has no important legislation to his name and no achievements that commend him to…
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Could There BE a Worse Way to Choose a Vice President?
In choosing a President, standard-bearers for each of the major parties bubble up to the top through an extended process of caucuses and primaries over a period of months. The contenders then essentially campaign in…
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Five Stages of Adjusting to Palin
As a socially liberal McCain supporter living in one of the bluest towns in a blue state, I’ve learned how to reconcile myself to various aspects of his candidacy. The most glaring example is abortion…
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Senator Biden’s Odd Notions of Right and Wrong
Joe Biden’s acceptance speech last night was well-delivered and powerful. The only part that raised my hackles was the Iraq section, with the thrice repeated “John McCain was wrong. Barack Obama was right.” At the…
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Michelle: "This Is Why I Love This Country"
Kevin Drum of Mother Jones (see, I read lefties, too) describes NRO’s The Corner as “a peek into the conservative id,” which is a great description. I don’t agree with everything I read in The…
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Local Boys Rescued from Grand Canyon
Six Boy Scouts from Maplewood NJ (my hometown — should I disclose that on my blog? Well, whatever) were rescued from the Grand Canyon Sunday. When I was a Boy Scout growing up in Albuquerque,…
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Real Clear Politics Election Map Favors McCain
Real Clear Politics takes an interesting approach with its Electoral Vote map by creating a “no-tossups” version — giving every state to one of the candidates regardless of how excruciatingly close the polls may be.…
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Indecision 2008 (With Apologies to Jon Stewart)
As I continue my schizophrenic efforts to determine what this blog is about, let’s revert for a moment to the Presidential race. I’m introducing a new widget in the right-hand column showing the latest Electoral…
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Link Love (Be Still My Heart)
Taranto likes me! He really likes me! Moi is thanked today by James Taranto in the acknowledgements for today’s Best of the Web Today column. He spells my name right and everything. I (along with…
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A Military Perspective on the Anbar Awakening
A fascinating 20-minute video from MilBlogs TV describes how American forces cooperated with and supported the early stages of the Anbar Awakening, a key factor in the turnaround in Iraq. It’s not a completely happy…
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"The United States is now winning the war that two years ago seemed lost."
That’s not an op-ed piece, it’s the lead sentence of an Associated Press article. As James Taranto points out, it’s kind of the mirror image of Walter Cronkite coming out against the Vietnam War.
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Let’s Go Mets
The whole post-every-day thing is already running out of steam. So far the blog seems to be mostly about Obama. Today it’s about the Mets — game starts at 1:10, I need to head for…
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Whoops… Just a Few Minutes Left…
… to make my quota for Day Five of the post-every-day experiment.
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Mr. Obama’s War?
Obama opposed the surge, and McCain was its champion. Jonah Goldberg argues that the success of the surge will therefore favor… Obama. If it were going worse, McCain’s Churchillian rhetoric would match reality better. But…
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Politicians in Iraq Provide Reasons for Hope
I’m talking about two politicians in particular. One, of course, is Barack Obama, who is in Iraq to lay the groundwork for throwing under the bus the people who thought he was going to bring…
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Blogger’s Block
One barrier to my blogging has always been technical. For a non-techie, I’m reasonably web-savvy, after five years of working full-time on intranet content. But, perhaps because I don’t have a technical background, I get…