Simply amazing.

At least some of these people used to have interesting things to say, occasionally. Has the war completely unhinged them?

Shawn Steel says that the ongoing GOP disaster in California should be laid at the feet of Gerry Parsky, the White House’s guy.

He makes a good case, and is optimistic about Republican chances in the Golden State with a change in strategy. And leadership.

[Thanks to Lloyd Albano for the tip]

Shawn Steel says that the ongoing GOP disaster in California should be laid at the feet of Gerry Parsky, the White House’s guy.

He makes a good case, and is optimistic about Republican chances in the Golden State with a change in strategy. And leadership.

[Thanks to Lloyd Albano for the tip]

Shawn Steel says that the ongoing GOP disaster in California should be laid at the feet of Gerry Parsky, the White House’s guy.

He makes a good case, and is optimistic about Republican chances in the Golden State with a change in strategy. And leadership.

[Thanks to Lloyd Albano for the tip]

From a discussion over at sci.space.shuttle (I know, it seems pretty off topic for that newsgroups, but anti-semitism came up in the context of Ramon’s Shuttle flight tomorrow, and it brought out the usual Palestinian apologists…)

Sure, individuals within that group have committed terrible acts, as have individuals from every other group on the planet. Did Timothy McVeigh make you fear and hate white christians?

To which I responded:

This is a truly odious comparison.

You’re comparing the act of a deranged individual to a conscious and deliberate murderous policy, supported by large segments of a population.

Maybe you can refresh my memory, but I don’t recall any public opinion polls of significant numbers of “white Christians” supporting Tim McVeigh’s actions.

And perhaps I missed it, or it didn’t get adequate coverage because of “white-Christian bias” in the news media, but I can’t recall any instance of “white Christian” people thronging in the streets, and passing out candy, and cheering and ululating when they heard the news of the Oklahoma City bombing.

I must have been watching something else when they ran the endless interviews with “white Christians” about how those dumb Okies deserved to be blown up because of their support for their oppressive government.

And were “white Christian” parents dressing their pre-school kids up like Tim McVeigh, and getting them to chant “Death to the Fascist Amerikan Government!” and giving them little truck bombs as toys? Did I miss that, too?

Can you point me to any links for anything like that? I’d love to see them.

Oh, and, by the way, I hate to break it to you, but McVeigh was agnostic…

Really.

I’m having trouble getting my sympathy mill grinding on this one, though. It’s an odious practice.

Guess he should have been better at “choking the chicken.”

The Europeans (not including the Brits) continue to make themselves irrelevant.

Does anyone know the origin of the title for this post?

I didn’t know that Jane Galt had a PhD in Economics. I thought it was an MBA from Chicago (though some would say that’s almost equivalent). If you read her blog regularly, I can see how the writer of the web site might have been fooled, though.

William Stern provides a little more context for Scorcese’s Gangs Of New York, and points out some critical factors that the director missed (not surprising, considering how ill informed he is about current affairs).

A fascinating read for those interested in American history, and particularly the history of the Irish in America. It’s obvious once pointed out, but I’d never before considered the origin of the term “paddy wagon.”