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Shire Network News #176: Pastor Ameal Haddad
Shire Network News #176 has been released. The feature interview is with Pastor Ameal Haddad of Ambassadors For Peace. His idea is that people around the world should have religious freedom. I know, crazy, right? Maybe it’s so crazy it might ju...
My Two Krugmans
That was then… "The big step by extremists will be an attempt to eliminate the filibuster."–former Enron adviser Paul Krugman, New York Times, March 29, 2005 …and this is now. "We need to take on the way the Senate w...
Shire Network News #174: Ian Wishart
Shire Network News #174 has been released. The feature interview is with New Zealand journalist and author Ian Wishart, who explains why New Zealand is, if you can believe such a thing, even more PC, multi-culti and obsessed with apocalyptic global w...
A Cult of Personality
"Big Hollywood" documents the latest in a long line of videos showing children singing Obama’s praises. The videos get more and more fawning, and the kids get younger, as you move down. Unfortunately, some of the videos ha...
Political Cartoon: The New Segregation
From Chuck Asay (click for a larger version): ...
White House Tries to Bar Fox From Interviews
In an incredibly chilling move, the White House tried to freeze out Fox News from interviewing Obama’s Pay Czar, while granting interviews to all the other major news organizations. As the video notes, often the White House makes a partic...
Christians and Politics
There’s a very interesting comment thread going on over at First Things "Evangel" blog dealing with how Christians deal with the political realm. Clearly I’m for engaging the world (in the world but not of it, as it were),...
Understanding the Difference Between News and Opinion
Clearly, the White House hasn’t quite figured out the difference between the two. Now, I will say that some many who complain about liberal bias in the media and quote Keith Olbermann to, in part, prove it also need this bit of education. (...
Obama Derangement Syndrome
Like the Bush strain before it, Obama Derangement Syndrome is an overly hysterical reaction to what are essentially policy differences. The most recent episode of the podcast I contribute to, Shire Network News, dealt with this very real issue....
The Nobel "They Like Me, They Really Like Me" Prize
That’s what the Nobel Peace Prize has become. This was evident when Yassar Arafat won it in 1994 for pretending to go along with a peace agreement with Israel while continuing hostilities. This was evident when Al Gore won it in 2007 for hi...
"De"regulation
Eric Scheie at "Classical Values" points out that the word "deregulation" doesn’t mean what some users of it think it means. After noting that some consider it an unmitigated evil, it seems that they are making it the ...
More Points for Joe Wilson
While his accusation was out of order and unseemly, again we see he was right. Wilson accused the President of lying when Obama said that health care reform wouldn’t cover illegal immigrants. Recently, Obama tipped his hand on that ...
Jimmy Carter and the Race Issue
Pursuant to a comment conversation I had here recently regarding Jimmy Carter’s charges of racism against anti-Obama protesters, Hans von Spakovsky writing at National Review Online just noted some of that very thing in Carter’s past. As ...
Not So Much Anti-War As Anti-Bush
That was then. Remember the anti-war movement? Not too long ago, the Democratic party’s most loyal voters passionately opposed the war in Iraq. Democratic presidential candidates argued over who would withdraw American troops the quickest. Netr...
Appropriate Protest
Shouting at congressional leaders is getting the Left all upset. "This is not an appropriate form of protest!", they insist. Fine, then. Let’s use a form that the Left was all in favor of; throwing shoes at them. ...
Not Enough Stem Cell Lines? Blame Bush!
Former President George W. Bush walked a fine line between science and morality/ethics when he decided that existing embryonic stem cell lines, at the time, would be the only ones available for Federal grants. Federal money would not be availab...
War On … What, Exactly?
According to President Obama’s top counterterrorism official, we should no longer use the term "war on terror" to describe the struggle against jihadis. Oops, sorry, John Brennan also said we’re not at war with jihadis eithe...
A Sixth-Month Assessment
Billy Hollis, writing at the Q&O blog, has a breakdown of Obama’s successes and failures in his first 6 months in office. He comes away very unimpressed. No President should be ultimately judged on his first 6 months only, but g...
My One and Only "Birther" Post
James Taranto had a great take-down of all the Obama "birther" brouhaha (is Obama a "natural-born citizen for purposes of running for President) in his "Best of the Web Today" column yesterday. For those who don’t get ...
What Will You Do For Me If I Vote For You?
Scott Ott, of ScrappleFace blog fame and occasional CNN guest, is running for Executive of Lehigh county in Pennsylvania. Tuesday night, he went strolling around Allentown, looking to strike up conversations, maybe hand out a few campaign bookm...
Barack Obama Speaks on Rushing Legislation
That was then: BARACK OBAMA: …When you rush these budgets that are a foot high and nobody has any idea what’s in them and nobody has read them. RANDI RHODES: 14 pounds it was! BARACK OBAMA: Yeah. And it gets rushed through without ...
Political Chuckle of the Week
The old phrase goes, "What if they gave a war and nobody came?" Well, here’s another: What if they gave a universal health care support rally… Local MoveOn.org members had penciled in on today’s schedule a protes...
Candidate Obama vs. President Obama
Those campaign promises are reaching their expiration dates quite quickly. Back during the campaign, Obama ran hard against Hillary Clinton’s mandatory health insurance. PoliFact.com has the quotes. "Hillary Clinton’s atta...
ChangeWatch
Y’know, that whole "signing statement" thing wasn’t apparently so bad after all. So says one man who used to decry the use of it. Congressional Democrats warned President Barack Obama on Tuesday that he sounded too much like...
So Take Away Their Toys
Headline: Clinton likens North Korea to unruly children Well, except for the nuclear bomb stuff. But yeah, otherwise they’re just like ‘em....
Using Obama’s Judicial Standard on His Nominee
Yesterday, Senator Orrin Hatch, who has voted on 11 Supreme Court nominees, had very good opening remarks in the Sotomayor confirmation hearing. His whole speech is worth reading (or watching, if you prefer), but I’d like to highlight a s...
Shire Network News #165 - Letterman v Palin
Shire Network News #165 has been released. The feature interview is with Israeli historian Yaacov Lozowick, author of "Right to Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel’s Wars" and a former peace activist who found himself voting for (gulp) Sha...
Double Standards on Sexism
Imagine this statement by a some guy in DC bucking for a job in government: I am a member of a private organization of male professionals from the profit, nonprofit and social sectors. The organization does not invidiously discriminate on the b...
Voter’s Remorse
"Buyer’s remorse" is a phenomenon where, once a purchaser gets a product home and uses it, they decide it’s not living up to its potential, the advertising hype, or their expectations (realistic or otherwise). According to R...
Shire Network News #164: A Tale of Two Murders
Shire Network News #164 has been released. The feature interview is with Cliff May, head of the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies, about his recent appearence on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, civility in political discourse, and what const...
