Month: August 2008

Voters are noticing.

The pro-life movement’s darling – and Obama’s nemesis – just published a new piece. It’s title:

Michael J. Fox Is A Cannibal.

Just so you know where she’s coming from.

(Correction: the piece is from October 2004; it has two dates on it, including today’s, and I misread it. The point remains.)

"With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I gave a great respect for the semicolon; it’s a very useful little chap," – Abraham Lincoln.

This is hilarious.

Presumptive Democratic Presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks during a campaign event at the Patrick Henry Community College August 20, 2008 in Martinsville, Virginia. By Joe Raedle/Getty.

Jeff Weintraub has a disturbing update.

I mentioned it this morning. A reader’s translation of Putin’s summary of his grad school thesis – on the strategic importance of energy resources for Russia – is after the jump. For good measure, it may have been plagiarized. Hey: it’s Putin. You think he cares about ethics?

The full summary here:

Putin’s Thesis – Free Legal Forms

Some revealing comments on this piece:

The Constitution does NOT state that there will be separation of church and state.

She says America was founded on separation of church and state. Where did she study history? America was clearly founded on Judeo-Christian principles. Ben Stein’s new book How to Ruin the United States of America spells this out word for word for those that are unaware.

Evil is unrelenting, destructive and corrupting. It is a desiese [sic] that affects us all in loss of American life and property. So, please, this separation of church and states argument is so specious. Just because nine black robed men and woman says it’s in the constitution does not make it so. Sorry, but they were and are wrong.

This is the voice of contemporary "conservatism".

Images in Julien Breton’s photo series were not digitally altered. More work by the artist here.

(Hat tip: Notcot)

Max Bergmann worries:

The big concern with a McCain presidency – a concern which I am surprised has not been vocalized more fully – is that the U.S. will lurch from crisis to crisis, confrontation to confrontation, whether it be with Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, Saudi Arabia, etc. The danger is that McCain’s pundit-like rhetoric will entrap the U.S. in descending spiral of foreign policy brinksmanship. Just think about the very likely scenario of McCain giving Iran/Russia a rhetorical ultimatum and Iran/Russia ignoring it. Now we are stuck – either we lose face by not following through on our threats or we follow through and go to war.  We can’t afford such a reckless approach after the last eight years. For the next eight we need a president not a pundit.