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Following Cao’s lead with the poetry meme at Cao’s Blog, I’ve chosen a haiku through which to express my worry:

Has John Kerry doomed
Poor signed one-eighty form to
A death by shredder?

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We’ve formed a blogburst group and here are the bloggers who are contributing so far. If you want to join the blogroll for Free […]

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
–Sir Francis Bacon, Of Revenge.

As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher’s Council hold a vote every week on what they consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around… per the Watcher’s instructions, I am submitting one of my own posts for consideration in the upcoming nominations process.
Here is the most […]

On Memorial Day 2005, there seems little else for me to add to Bergbikr’s wonderful tribute below. Therefore I will share just two links:
1) From the Department of Defense: a nice memorial page with solemn music.
2) from The Washington Post: a salute to one of the few and proud survivors who served for […]

This Memorial Day Weekend is the first three day get-away of the Spring. But what does this “Memorial Day” label mean? As summarized by The Federalist Patriot group of conservatives,
Monday is Memorial Day, set aside to honor millions of fallen
Patriots — generations of American Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen,
Marines and Coastguardsmen, who served […]

The Friday 27 May column by Victor Davis Hanson, titled “Our Spoiled and Unhappy Global Elites”, is a study in just how the liberal annointed class worldwide can provide endless hours of entertainment even as they persistently and predictably annoy. Hanson provides four recent textbook examples of hypocritical anti-Americans of global stature that, […]

Dr. George H. Taylor, an Oregon climatologist, does his homework gathering statewide climate data far back beyond the half century usually cited to illustrate climate change effects. Guess what? Using near century-long data sets yields very different conclusions than statistical linear fits from 1950 to present. The thirties were the warmest years. […]

Stalled presidential appointments. Unprecidented judicial filibusters. Not to mention, a filibuster of John Bolton for UN Embassador that wasn’t really a filibuster because the Democrats said it wasn’t — even though there was, if I recall, a failed cloture vote. If the Constitutional/Nuclear Option is still viable, as Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) would […]

It’s Friday, which means it’s schnack time again after a hard blogging week. Sandy couldn’t make it, though — she’s on an extreme sailboarding vacation in Galveston. But I’ve invited another of her acquaintences along.

Restaurateur, entrepreneur, evil genius… a little man with big ambitions. Never winning, but always trying. In a word: Plankton. […]

If ‘pro’ is the opposite of ‘con’ what is the opposite of ‘progress’?
–Paul Harvey

The second of a two-part series. Click here for the first article, written by The MaryHunter.
In an American Thinker article, Mary Davenport wrote a clear, well-written account of the differences between adult stem cell research and embryonic stem cell research (see also this companion post). The bottom line is that, at present, adult […]

In view of the renewed U.S. Military offensive in Iraq, it’s heartening to know that here on the home front, more and more regular folks are, for their part, joining the War Against Islamofacist Terrorism. In fact, there are plenty of unsung heroes who, through their efforts, have endeavored to push back against […]

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”-Voltaire

The right to express unpopular opinions, advocate despised ideas (NAMBLA) and display graphic images is something the ACLU has steadfastly defended for all of its history. Exception: in the case for pro-lifers.
The ACLU’s Reproductive Rights Project has […]

The first of a two-part series. Click here for the second article, written by Penelope.
Stem Cell research has come to the fore again, this time through a recent vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to support overwhelmingly the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act (HR 810). If it becomes law, this bill would effectively repeal […]

Raven at And Rightly So! has a wake-up call for us: the deadline for input to the FEC regarding blogger freedom of speech is 3 June 2005. She posted a summary of info at RedState.org that is a must read if you care one iota at all about your right to do what you’re doing […]

I’m feeling emotionally too close to the issue of The Deal of the Century to End the End of Judicial Filibusters to be able to write much today. As I try to make sense of it all, I chose instead to point out a few posts and threads that I’ve found to be the […]

Last week, all I thought Sen. John F. Kerry needed to encourage him to sign the Standard Form-180 were warm words of encouragment and prayers. I felt that he’d sign that form if he knew we were praying for him. That he just needed a little love.
How many days has it been now, since he […]

as of 19:30 EDT… According to Fox News and Drudge…
From Fox News:
Under the agreement, Democrats would pledge not to filibuster any of Bush’s future appeals court or Supreme Court nominees except in “extraordinary circumstances.”
For their part, Republicans agreed not to support an attempt to strip Democrats of their right to block votes.
Under the […]

In a recent post, Bergbikr notes that there is no provision for filibuster of presidential judical nominations in Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution.
Treaties proposed by the Executive Branch for “advice and consent” by the Senate require a two-thirds affirmation to be adopted. Appointments of ambassadors, executive Cabinet heads, federal […]

Winston Churchill is reputed to have said, in effect, “If you are not a Liberal when you are 20 years old, you have no soul; if you are not a Conservative by the time you are 40 years old, you have not acquired wisdom.” The quote is contested, I believe, but it rings true […]

In the Sunday 22 May 2005 Washington Post Outlook section, CBSNews.com’s Dick Meyer ponders “The Wreck of the U.S. Senate” and concludes rightly that “it was foundering even before the filibuster flap.” He in fact dates the nascence of this current vitriol 9 March 1989. On that date, the Senate rejected Senator John Tower, President […]

Timestamp 04:53 EDT
I broke the glass espresso pot at 4:42 am today. No joke. That feeling you get, when you do something that you so want to take back; that neck twinge that accompanies an irreversible increase in local entropy that Stephen Hawking himself couldn’t theorize away? I’m bathed in it. The worst is […]

With her great Armed Forces Day post yesterday, Raven at And Rightly So! reminded me of that other, less-well-sung military rememberance day in May. Seeing that image of the USS John F. Kennedy in Boston Harbor gave me goosebumps. It instantly sent me back to my recent visit to the USS Midway.

I’ve always […]

To see the phrases “Republican politician” and “State of Maryland” in the same sentence might seem a non sequitur. After all, this is that ever-blue state that has given us most recently the likes of former representative and former NAAC(L)P president Kweisi Mfume, current House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, Sen. Paul Sarbanes, and the indefatigable […]

Thomas Sowell today has some compelling words on an obscure but insidious brand of bigotry being foisted upon the Senate and the country by the Democrat caucus. As Sowell so correctly observes:
The essence of bigotry is denying other people the same rights you have. For generations, it was racial bigotry which provoked […]