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Over the past weekend I had the pleasure of seeing Disney-Pixar’s new animated movie “WALL-E.” Set in the apocalyptic-lite 28th century, WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) is a small robot left behind on an abandoned planet Earth, which you discover through a set of video clips has been evacuated due to heavy pollution, brought [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Culture
West Virginian Don Surber is in excessive thrall of the power of hill folk:
Newsweek discovers that hey, those dumb hillbillies may decide the 2008 race — like they did the 2000 race. . .
The hill people (I include Jed Clampett’s Ozarks and Ma and Pa Kettle’s Cascade Mountains) decided the 2000 race. If Al Gore, [...]
Barack Obama should be grateful for Britain’s restrictive free speech laws, according to London’s most fearless magazine, Private Eye. The Eye, which often covers stories other magazines won’t touch, claims that aggressive libel lawyers in Britain have censored web reports on Nadhmi Auchi, the mysterious London-based Iraqi billionaire who has been linked to Obama.
In [...]
Filed under: Election
Ross Douthat has some spot on thoughts here:
Obama’s overt religiosity, his emphasis on social justice, and his team’s savvy religious outreach make him a more attractive figure to many evangelical voters than any other Democratic nominee of recent vintage. Factor in John McCain’s reticence about his own faith, his much-publicized spats with religious-right pooh-bahs, his [...]
Much has been made of the Supreme Court’s rejection of D.C.’s ban on handguns in the home, but the high court handed down another 5-4 ruling as well. It has gone relatively unnoticed–due most likely to the gravity of the handgun ruling–but is nevertheless worth mentioning, if for no other reason than it put a [...]
Filed under: Courts
Things we learned from John Yoo and David Addington’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday:
1. The president can probably bury someone alive—though it’s doubtful he would. (He would probably crush his child’s testicles first.)
2. Yoo—who wrote the memo arguing that pain not equivalent to organ failure of death doesn’t qualify as torture—isn’t sure “what [...]
Filed under: Congress
Update: hoax confirmed
Someone please tell me that Juan Cole has been hoaxed: self-described former Guiliani and future McCain adviser plans casino in the Green Zone.
“What happens in the Green Zone stays in the Green Zone” ; confessional representation in employment ; off-track betting on “camel races”; “a sauna, a golf course can transform a people” ; a mosque [...]
Filed under: Iraq
Commit yourself to party loyalty and you must go along for the stomach-churning moral roller coaster ride. But fall in with a cult of personality and you won’t even notice the contortions of logic necessary to stay true. Keith Olbermann has been a keen, if personally annoying (no humorous remark shall pass out of his mouth unescorted by [...]
In the Huffington Post, Wesley Clark challenges the Conventional Wisdom’s axiom that “John McCain has foreign policy/national security experience”.
While I respect John McCain’s service, I know exactly what he stands for — Bush’s third term. And in national security terms, John McCain is largely untested and untried. He’s never been responsible for policy formulation. John McCain [...]
Filed under: Election, Foreign policy
I have just been reading about Italian businessman Raffaello Follieri, who reportedly fraudulently convinced New York investors that he was a Vatican financial officer who would be able to obtain redundant church properties at knock down prices for redevelopment. Follieri would not even be having his fifteen minutes of fame but for the fact that [...]
Filed under: Law