Amid all the furor about the show Survivor beginning next season with teams organized on racial lines, one thing has been lost. While Survivor is just a TV show (a.k.a. not real life), in reality society in the United States is divided along these same lines without as much of a peep of criticism....
Read more »
The ACLU has convinced a federal judge that monitoring overseas communications of terrorists is against the constitution. Despite the fact the preamble lists defending the nation as an acceptable federal government function, the ACLU and US District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor said that the risk “innocent” communications could be intercepted far outweighed the risk...
Read more »
The marriage between the Republicans and conservatives has been a loveless and unsatisfying marriage. The Republicans keep “stumbling home after midnight, smelling of booze and cheap perfume.” And it is time for the marriage to come to an end. Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause...
Read more »
Compare and contrast these two cases: The first, a scandal-ridden New Jersey Senator who was running for reelection abruptly resigns and drops out of the race 35 days before the election. Litigation ensues and the court decides that it should override the law under the concerns to ensure a “full and fair ballot choice”...
Read more »
The ACLU is indignant that there are members of Congress pushing to pass a law that would bar awards of attorney fees when groups sue to get religion out of the public square. These award of legal fees are very directly responsible to a vast increase in the body of law that has gone...
Read more »
Mel Gibson’s drunken rants are disgraceful and there is no defending them. In fact, Mel Gibson himself doesn’t defend them and claims they are not only disgraceful but that they disgrace his family. In a world where public figures hardly utter the words “I’m sorry” and issue non-apology apologies, one would think people would...
Read more »
Something has always bothered me about declarations that claim Islam is a violent religion. Largely relying on circumstantial evidence, because the regions that are typically the most violent tend to be Islamic, the argument goes that Islam is a violent religion. I haven’t read the Koran that I was sent by CAIR yet to...
Read more »
It’s one thing to have reframing in political discourse where blind partisanship reigns. It is an entirely different matter when reframing starts affecting medical information presented to patients. The recent acclaim for the cervical cancer vaccine is one such case of reframing the debate going drastically wrong. One important fact about the cervical cancer...
Read more »
A recent appellate court ruling has decided that it is illegal for companies to pay Hollywood for movies and then sanitize them of gratuitous nudity, over-the-top profanity, and puerile violence. For years, Hollywood has found ways to insert into otherwise coherent storylines scenes of nudity, sex, profanity, and violence. In what seems like a...
Read more »
Has George Lakoff ever met a conservative? Read any conservative books? Actually sat down and talked over conservativism with someone who actually holds it? From his latest co-written article “Bush is not Incompetent” it appears the answer is no. Lakoff’s latest “research” shows that reframing a discussion isn’t about getting your points out, it’s...
Read more »
The Democrats came up with their agenda for 2006. Too bad it has nothing to do with what's important to Americans.
Read more »
This week, Wictory Wednesday presents US Rep. Mark Kenney for the Senate in Minnesota. Having served 3 terms in the US House of Representatives, he has the advantage of name recognition in the state. Current the race is to replace retiring Senator Mike Dayton (D) and is considered to be a race where the...
Read more »
If the Marines at Haditha started indiscriminately killing civilians, they should pay for their crimes. I want that clear right now. The point of this piece is not to defend their actions. However, there are those who never cease the chance to start throwing corpses at political opponents who are using this event to...
Read more »
If the Marines at Haditha started indiscriminately killing civilians, they should pay for their crimes. I want that clear right now. The point of this piece is not to defend their actions. However, there are those who never cease the chance to start throwing corpses at political opponents who are using this event to...
Read more »
Mike McGavick has been running an insurgent campaign against incumbent Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell. Bucking the trend against the GOP nationally, Mike has closed the gap between his Democratic competitor to within 5 percentage points in the last Rasmussen Reports poll. Last November, he was trailing by 15 percentage points. Mike is a solid...
Read more »
This book has the look and feel of a business school textbook, moving from topic to topic in a fairly academic matter. It is a combination of 14 essays from prominent authors in the topics they are writing on. This allows for a book that can treat a wide range of concepts and still...
Read more »
Gonzales, Mueller, and others threatened to resign if they had to give back evidence after raiding Rep. Jefferson’s office. I would too. If you can’t prosecute members of Congress because they hide all the incriminating evidence in their congressional office, there isn’t much point to trying anymore. If there is nothing else that should...
Read more »
Wictory Wednesday has returned! It is a once-a-week event where hundreds of bloggers ask their readers to support a Republican candidate by donating to their campaign (or at least blogging about them). After over a year break, I’ve taken the initiative to set it back up and put it together again. 2006 is a...
Read more »
Stop the ACLU has the latest on the NSA’s litigation against phone companies and their state-by-state effort to hammer those phone companies (and thus drive up the price we pay for telephone service) based on the USA Today story detailing the NSA buying phone records from those companies. Problem is? There doesn’t seem to...
Read more »
Over the weekend, the FBI executed a search warrant to search Representative William Jefferson�s congressional office. While it might be amusing to point out that the distinguished gentleman from Louisiana is a Democrat, the intent here is not to make partisan jabs (okay, maybe a little). Corruption has been a part of both parties...
Read more »