Mark Steyn takes on idiot journalists who think that the election was about gender, and in the process makes an important point.

What is a ”women’s issue” anyway? To some, it might be the sacred constitutional right to avail oneself of a partial-birth abortion. But to others it might be the war on terror. After all, if there’s one single issue that distinguishes Western values from Islamofascism, it’s the treatment of women. Imagine being forbidden by law to go to school or leave the house unaccompanied. Imagine the state deciding what clothes you can wear. Imagine being prevented by law from feeling sunlight on your face. I’d say voting for people who liberate women from theocratic fascism is a women’s issue.

He also debunks the notion, apparently undying among some in the media, of the “Clinton charisma.”

My favorite line is the last one, though:

Remind me never to complain about ”liberal media bias” again. Right now, liberal media bias is conspiring to assist the Democrats to sleepwalk over the cliff.

Mark Steyn takes on idiot journalists who think that the election was about gender, and in the process makes an important point.

What is a ”women’s issue” anyway? To some, it might be the sacred constitutional right to avail oneself of a partial-birth abortion. But to others it might be the war on terror. After all, if there’s one single issue that distinguishes Western values from Islamofascism, it’s the treatment of women. Imagine being forbidden by law to go to school or leave the house unaccompanied. Imagine the state deciding what clothes you can wear. Imagine being prevented by law from feeling sunlight on your face. I’d say voting for people who liberate women from theocratic fascism is a women’s issue.

He also debunks the notion, apparently undying among some in the media, of the “Clinton charisma.”

My favorite line is the last one, though:

Remind me never to complain about ”liberal media bias” again. Right now, liberal media bias is conspiring to assist the Democrats to sleepwalk over the cliff.

What kind of morons would take this web site, about whale watching in Lake Michigan, seriously?

The whales and dolphins have become part of the scenery and culture of the lake, and their connection to its history is as ancient as the Navajo Indians who settled the shore centuries ago. Although there are stories of the whales causing many of the shipwrecks in Lake Michigan in the late 1800s and early 1900s, these have proven to be fables; the freshwater whale is a gentle creature, and any negative reputation is undeserved. Come see for yourself …

What kind of morons? The certified kind (hint: they’re writing educational materials for your kids).

[Update a few minutes later]

I should add, kudos to the Muskegon teacher, Deb Harris, who caught this error and forced the publication to issue a correction.

Confounding the social engineers, Californians continue, bizarrely, to want a single-family house and to drive to work alone.

Well, they obviously don’t know what’s best for them. I guess they’ll just have to be reeducated…

Watching this morning’s mini-debate on Meet The Press between Terrel and Landrieu, it occurred to me that Landrieu is now in much worse shape for the run-off than she was in the general election.

In the general election, she could make the same argument that Johnson did in South Dakota–that she’s a member of the majority party, and will therefore have more clout in representing Louisiana. Now that the Donkeys have lost the Senate, she can no longer make that argument, but Terrell can, if she’s smart.

She couldn’t get half the vote in the general election. I suspect that many who voted for her because she was a member of the Senate majority may now switch. It’s hard for me to see how she picks up any significant Republican vote this time around.

Glenn, linking to this article describing how Libertarians helped swing the South Dakota senate race, points out that Libertarians (and other third parties) make their impact primarily by affecting the outcomes of close elections.

Well, the solution is for the Republicans to avoid the big-government intrusiveness that alienates libertarian-leaning voters. But are they smart enough to realize that? The push on the Homeland Security bill, and Trent Lott’s comments about reopening the abortion issue, suggest that they’re not. But this is how third parties traditionally have an impact — by costing one of the two major parties close elections.

Well, yes, as a general principle. But in the case of South Dakota, you can’t just point the finger at the three thousand Libertarians. Mr. Miller missed the real story, which was that the Republicans lost many thousands more Republican votes from Republican voters who bought the Democratic line that South Dakota would have more clout with two Senators in the majority party.

Obviously, in retrospect, they screwed themselves.

While I’d prefer that Thune had won, I have trouble spooling up the tearworks for SD Republicans, who voted for crass political influence over party principle, and had no faith in their own party to win a majority. Now they’ve got two Senators in the minority, and it serves them right.

I don’t know if this editorial is correct, but it sounds about right to me.

…we may well see one of the bloodiest intraparty fights since the Whigs imploded 150 years ago.

It’s somehow appropriate, albeit ironic that Marx’ prediction about failing of its own internal contradictions seems to be coming true not for capitalism, but first for communism and now, for the Democratic Party.

I don’t know if this editorial is correct, but it sounds about right to me.

…we may well see one of the bloodiest intraparty fights since the Whigs imploded 150 years ago.

It’s somehow appropriate, albeit ironic that Marx’ prediction about failing of its own internal contradictions seems to be coming true not for capitalism, but first for communism and now, for the Democratic Party.

I don’t know if this editorial is correct, but it sounds about right to me.

…we may well see one of the bloodiest intraparty fights since the Whigs imploded 150 years ago.

It’s somehow appropriate, albeit ironic that Marx’ prediction about failing of its own internal contradictions seems to be coming true not for capitalism, but first for communism and now, for the Democratic Party.

You were saying, Mr. Daschle?

“There have been a number of — numerous senior leaders of al Qaeda that have either been eliminated, incarcerated or detained someplace,” national security adviser Condoleezza Rice (news – web sites) said without elaborating.