Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
"A Thinking Democrate" states the obvious in her reply to the story on the last Clinton-Obama debate: When Hillary was asked how did she represent change in this election, her answer was that she is a woman. Come one....give me a break. If thats all we needed in this country for change we could elect …
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Honestly, I thought that American conservatism had taken leave of its senses when Ann Coulter blurted out that she would vote for Hillary Clinton over John McCain. The truth is, she and other conservatives are working under grievously false assumptions: She assumes that Hillary would direct the force of anti-terrorism against Islamicist groups. But liberals …
I'm sure that many conservatives--to say nothing of Lou Dobbs--will go postal over the idea that illegal immigrants would get tax rebates, as is proposed (unintentionally?) in the House package. In their bipartisan zeal to quickly cut a deal on an economic stimulus bill, GOP lawmakers overlooked something that will certainly inflame the conservative base--illegal immigrants could …
A couple of weeks ago, I opined the following: ...the whole Evangelical game plan for life is well suited to get people off of the very bottom of society and equally ill-suited to get them to the very top. People who posit George W. Bush as an example of the contrary forget that a) he …
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Mark Finkelstein wonders the following: I'm measuring my words carefully. Harry Smith has raised the possibility that Barack Obama's life could be in danger... When you tell a man with Ted Kennedy's family history that "you well know" about politicians becoming "targets," the implication is unmistakable. This time, Kennedy [to his credit I would say] …
Alan Comes thought that Dick Morris had lost his mind when Morris stated that Bill and Hillary were running a race based campaign against Barack Obama (as Morris outlines below): If Hillary loses South Carolina and the defeat serves to demonstrate Obama’s ability to attract a bloc vote among black Democrats, the message will go …
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The estimate that it is mathematically impossible that anyone become the clear leader in their party's Presidential nomination race after Super Tuesday may or may not be right. In 2000, I can remember Dick Morris confidently predicting that it was impossible for the popular vote to go one way and the electoral vote to go …
A little while back I posted an excerpt from Fourth of July speech in Houma, Louisiana, in 1911, about “warm receptions.” That speech was just one of four given at that interesting occasion; another one was given by the Hon. Gabriel Montegut. After a lengthy dissertation about Louisiana history, Montegut launched into an interesting subject: …
Last year, when going back and forth with the combative Russell Earl Kelly, I made the following comment: When I look at Dr. Kelly’s website and admire the long list of Christian preachers he refutes, a line from the "John Boy and Billy Show" comes to mind: "We like a good fight down here." That’s …
The hue and cry by the GLBT community's leadership to eject Dr. Joel Edwards from the UK's Equality and Human Rights Commission is all too predictable. The secularists have already whined about his presence on the Commission. But the complaining is based on a simple concept: if you don't embrace our agenda, we don't want …
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