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I taught a course called “Congress and the Presidency” this summer and I’m polishing off the finals for that course as I begin the Fall semester tomorrow. Anyway… I asked the class, as part of a larger question: Lasty, on which, if any, President did you either change your opinion from this class or merely [...] Jim Treacher has a rather solid re-capping of ledes from various reportage on Glenn Beck’s rally in Washington D.C. this weekend. Instead of focusing on the rally, the focus is on race. Quite ironic. Some points: I say this as a major Beck critic, and someone completely un-enamored with one Sarah Palin. Shouldn’t the press be hailing [...] Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) sums up what’s at stake this election cycle — should Republicans be given majorities again. From the Wall Street Journal: I ask what so many voters are pondering: If Republicans win this fall, will they have learned the lessons from the overspending and corruption that got them tossed out in [...] Somebody at the Environmental Protection Agency takes too much policy guidance from Chris Rock standup routines. Rumors — let’s call it “truth” — were circulating that the EPA was planning on banning lead — as in lead bullets. You see the lead was poisoning the environment and killing animals. Yeah.. I know. [...] Frank J. at www.imao.us has a great post about recent news stories that ceased to be news once it was discovered the perpetrators were not angry, right wing nutjobs. They were angry, left wing nutjobs, but since the mainstream media is convinced there is no such animal there is no sense in assigning a reporter to [...] Brendan Bernhard at Pajamas Media puts into perspective why so many readers, and writers, are inconsolable about Christopher Hitchens and his battle with cancer. Isn’t Hitchens pretty much the last journalist/pundit/commentator/critic left in America whose work appears across the political spectrum? If there is another writer whose work can still be found (and welcomed) [...] Some light dawns on self-proclaimed liberal and atheist Susan Jaboby vis a vis multiculturalism and many of her fellow travelers on the Left. From Big Questions Online: The latest example of the Left’s blind spot on this issue is the antagonism of so many liberal reviewers toward Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s recent memoir, Nomad. The Somali-born [...] I saw Janelle Monae a few weeks ago on So You Think You Can Dance and thought… “she’s the anti-Lady Gaga”. Yeah the hair is funky, but she was appropriately dressed, on that she danced a lot more than on this clip, and who doesn’t love horns. Lady Gaga — she’s awful, awfully [...] and then there are journalists. P.J. O’Rourke tells us about a special kind of expert in The Weekly Standard — the 72-Hour Expert from Kabul, Afghanistan. If you spend 72 hours in a place you’ve never been, talking to people whose language you don’t speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don’t understand, and [...] Wikileaks founder and spokeshole Julian Assange was charged and then discharged of rape and molestation by a Swedish prosecutor this past week and weekend. Assange, of course, is trying to paint it as a Pentagon set up. Using our noodle — and the common sense God gave us (or that you inherited from [...] I ran across this piece last night by P.J. O’Rourke on Radio Free Europe, free speech and liberty in the journal World Affairs. In a free society all people must be communicated to, and we must be able to get communication from them in return. People must be able to talk back. People must be able [...] Did Germany outstrip England’s growth — reaching industrial parity in 1900 because it didn’t have copyright laws? This article from Speigel online makes that claim. The entire country seemed to be obsessed with reading. The sudden passion for books struck even booksellers as strange and in 1836 led literary critic Wolfgang Menzel to declare Germans [...] This is the quintessential play by Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten. He is also a great guy off the field too. This provides a nice tonic to the douchebag liar post below. From Yahoo! Sports: It’s that kind of modesty and drive that helped Jason Witten earn Pro Football Weekly’s 2010 Arthur [...] The Washington Post is reporting that Roger Clemens is going to be indicted for perjury. Roger Clemens will be indicted on charges of making false statements to Congress about his use of performance-enhancing drugs, the New York Times is reporting. Citing two sources who’ve been briefed on the matter, the Times reports that an announcement is [...] Share on Facebook Every year a couple of professors at Beloit College in Wisconsin put out what they call “The Mindset List”. The List sets out some things that each years incoming freshman may not know or have ever experienced. For example… when I teach criminal law courses or my course in crime and media many [...] NFL Network is reporting that Favre is coming back. Announcement tomorrow. I figured. What’s not to lose? Share on Facebook The Super Fight — Muhammad Ali v. Rocky Marciano… from 1970 and filmed three weeks before marciano died in a plane crash. From BoingBoing: In the late 1960s, the fighting styles, punching patterns, and other data about famous boxers like Jack Dempsey, Max Baer, Rocky Marciano, and Muhammad Ali were entered into a computer to produce simulated [...] Looks like Iran/Israel may be heating up sooner rather than later. From the Jerusalem Post: Former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton said he didn’t see “any signs whatsoever that President Obama would make the necessary decision” to strike Iran’s nuclear reactor, speaking in an interview with Israel Radio Tuesday. Bolton claimed Israel has only [...] Best part of interviewing people on the street – interviewing people like this. Floyd Here: It gets better… this thing has gone viral: Share on Facebook Deadline Hollywood has “The Expendables” pulling in $13 million for Friday, putting it at No. 1 and on pace for a $34 million weekend. The film flubbed Julia Roberts in “Eat, Pray, Love,” which Deadline says will finish second at $23 million. Scott Pilgrim took on the world, but he got his ass kicked by “The [...] As my Republican Party membership card sits in the ash tray after last week’s Connecticut U.S. Senate primary, the conservative media begins to rally behind reprobate candidate Linda McMahon. In response to widespread criticism from Democrats who blasted Connecticut Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) program content that she oversaw as [...] I’ve been meaning to blog this since summer began. I want to sing the praises of ABC’s show Wipeout. Is it inane? Yes. Stupid? Sure. Annoying contestants? You betcha. But here’s the catch. Most of the annoying contestant “wipeout” on the ridiculous obstacle course in horribly embarrassing [...] As the old saying goes… you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him watch the WNBA. Why feminists don’t get the American indifference with professional women’s sports — even by wimmins — is beyond ludicrous. Say this with me now feminist sociologists… WOMENS PRO SPORTS… SUCK. (except for [...] Here’s a good full look at the Israeli response to a nuclear Iran and a portrait of Benjamin Netanyahu (Israeli Prime Minister) from The Atlantic… according to Jeffrey Goldberg… they are fast approaching the point of no return. But the Israelis are doubtful that a man who positioned himself as the antithesis of George W. Bush, [...] Sarah Palin has a new television series, set to debut this fall. The series, titled Sarah Palin: Alaska, will feature a prominent guest. Make that nine. The latest news out of TCA proves that worlds will be colliding this fall: TLC president Eileen O’Neill confirmed that Kate Gosselin and her brood will make a [...] You’ve probably heard this talking point with regard to the California Proposition 8 case: the counsel for Prop. 8 proponents did a crappy job of presenting their case. Heck – they didn’t even present evidence – the morons! Plaintiff’s co-counsel Ted Olson echoed that theory on Fox this Sunday: “In fact, they [Prop 8 proponents] said [...] We’re all familiar with the number of dead on 9-11 — or its approximation — 3,000 total including over 2,700 in the World Trade Center attack. I had assumed that after nearly 9 years that most (well over most) remains had been recovered and identified. That assumption was wrong**. Human Remains Discovered Since 2006 About [...] Talking late this afternoon with THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Republican congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin blasted New York Times columnist Paul Krugman for his “intellectualy lazy” attack on Ryan’s fiscal “Roadmap.” In his Friday column, Krugman called Ryan a “charlatan” and his plan to reform the welfare state and eliminate the [...] Every year in my summer courses around this time — and definitely in my Fall International Law seminar — I have to set the record straight when it comes to Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The “hate America crowd” loves to hit us over the head with Fat [...] Part of the big lie of feminism has been the notion that men are lazy and women can and do alot more than men. After all they work hard outside the home and then do ALL the chores at home too. Right? Wrong. A new study from the London School of [...] Share on Facebook For those who couldn’t stand Anderson Cooper’s celeb-esque questioning, here’s an infinitely more inquisitive Hitchens interview with Jeffery Goldberg at The Atlantic. Part of a series, this episode touches on mortality and features an appearance by author Martin Amis, Hitchens’ life-long friend and compatriot. I saw Hitchens a little less than two months ago on The [...] From the Hill’s Blog Briefing Room: The Pentagon demanded Thursday that Wikileaks hand over classified Afghanistan war documents published leaked to the website. Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell at Thursday’s briefing said “the only acceptable course” is for Wikileaks to turn some 15,000 documents still being reviewed by the website back to the U.S. government and delete all [...] Every time I feel embarrassed for California (even though I didn’t create the problems here) Al Franken comes along and makes me think… “Hey! Maybe we’re only the 49th most embarrassing state!” Jesse Ventura AND Al Franken… holy crap Minnesota. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) scolded Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) on the Senate [...] Federal judge overturns CA gay marriage ban. A federal judge overturned California’s same-sex marriage ban Wednesday in a landmark case that could eventually land before the U.S. Supreme Court to decide if gays have a constitutional right to marry in America. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker made his ruling in a lawsuit filed by two gay [...] I know this story is all over the news — people can’t STOP talking about it, but just in case you’re the one in 311 million people who haven’t heard… while New York City rushes to help Muslims build an Allah-damned mosque 500 ft. from Ground Zero — St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was [...] Christopher Hitchens has a piece up on Vanity Fair about his illness. Here’s a bit, go read the whole thing here. I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death. But nothing prepared me for the early morning last June when I came to consciousness feeling as if I were actually [...] Not that I think that the GOP is out of the woods… and like the Texas Rangers or the Chicago Cubs (or the Indians)… there’s always time to throw away the race… Rich referenced it a bit yesterday. But the Democratic Party platform can be summed up — and Obama gives it [...] Bill McGurn has a great piece on the Mosque that is being planned near Ground Zero in today’s Wall Street Journal. Here’s a bit, go read the whole thing: In the 1980s, Carmelite nuns moved into an abandoned building on the edge of the former Nazi death camp to pray for the souls taken there. [...] UPDATE: It might help if I actually linked to the story from the Guardian… But with their high cheekbones, dark eyes and brown skin, they are hardly the Third Reich’s Aryan ideal. A new strain of Nazism has found an unlikely home: Mongolia. Once again, ultra-nationalists have emerged from an impoverished economy and turned [...] Chang Apana… Detective Honolulu Police Dept. Here’s a very interesting piece from The New Yorker on the beginnings of, the inspiration for, and legacy of Charlie Chan. I loved the Warner Oland movies in reruns of course in the 1970s though I’ve never read the books. Chang Apana, a real life detective [...] |
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