Watching someone use a computer. It takes the patience of Job sometimes.
Camille
La Paglia is AWOL in the real war against women.
The DoJ Lied
And justice died. And some of the lies were under oath. I’m shocked, shocked.
Is there room under the bus for Eric Holder?
[Update late morning]
Here’s more:
The NBBP case has been virtually ignored by the mainstream media for almost two years. It has been dismissed as “small potatoes” by some who do not seem to understand its implications, particularly its underscoring of the bias of this administration against the race-neutral enforcement of our voting-rights laws. But this latest development shows that the political leadership of this Justice Department has been much more involved in the case that it has been willing to admit (and in fact has denied under oath). So far, these leaders have faced virtually no repercussions for their misbehavior. Let’s hope that soon will change.
It may not change until there’s a change at the top.
The Anti-Government Straw Man
We don’t want no government — we want limited government, as the Founders intended, and the Bill of Rights dictates. We want a restoration of the lost 9th and 10th Amendments, and a reining in of the out-of-control interpretation of the Commerce Clause that has served to eviscerate them.
As I’ve noted in the past, when the left has no real arguments against our actual positions, they make up their own for us, and then kick them down. Of course, the headline of my piece from two years ago (which was not mine) wasn’t correct — it was a way to win the election in 2008. This year, not so much…
Dowdifying Asimov
Eric Schie rehabilitates. Let’s hope that his blog post is at the top of any future search for “Asimov national anthem.”
Grounded In Congress
Jack Kennedy has a good op-ed in the Roanoke Times about the space-policy mess on the Hill.
The Lombardi Rule
Thoughts on the Delaware race. You know, I vastly prefer someone who dabbled in witchcraft in high school to someone who dabbled in Marxism in college, and clearly never outgrew it. And I’m not just referring to the Dem’s Senate candidate.
Old Age
…is it a cause of death?
There will be unintended consequences (good ones, in my opinion) of making it one. It implies that aging is itself a disease, and one that should be fought directly, rather than coming up with palliatives for individual symptoms of it (e.g., hypertension, muscle degeneration, senility, etc.), which would mean that the medical establishment would have to take gerontological research a lot more seriously than it currently does, both in terms of interest and resources. It also flies in the face of the deathist belief that we shouldn’t seek longer life, because it’s not “natural” (the naturalistic fallacy).
Why We Should Read Science Fiction
Thoughts from Walter Russell Mead. I disagree with his opinion on Clarke’s writing quality, though.
Loathesome Columnist Of The Month
A righteous rant on the educational system and teachers’ unions, from Matt Welch.