Archives for May 2007
There’s Nothing Pretty About an Ungracious Mexico
The behavior of the audience at the Miss Universe in Mexico City was was another example of how ungrateful many Mexicans can be. Representing the United States was Miss USA Rachel Smith. She’s a beauty contestant, nothing more. But to many of the 9,000 barbarians in the seats it was a chance […]
Romney’s Right Of Passage
The media are deriding him just like they once did you-know-who….
Rudy Seizes An Opportunity
Earlier this week Hillary! Clinton horned in on Opie Edwards’ crypto-Marxian turf with a speech so economically “populist” that it would have made Uncle Hugo exclaim, “Whoa, espere un minuto, Muslos del Trueno del Senador”.
Prudently recognizing the need to take public attention off his “I support Roe v. Wade/I’ll appoint judges in the mold of […]
More signs on a Thompson run?
First Fred Thompson was on, set to announce a run for the President on the 4th of July. Then - maybe not. Now another positive sign, Arkansas Interim US Attorney Tim Griffin is stepping down on June 1st.
“The U.S. Justice Department has notified Arkansas’s congressional delegation that Interim Eastern District U.S. Attorney […]
Mitt Romney, Iowa Public TV Interview
The next event on Mitt Romney’s schedule is an interview with IPTV, Iowa’s public-television station here in Des Moines. The interview will actually air on 6/1 and 6/3, so this will give Iowa viewers a preview of the recording. Afterwards, the Governor will conduct another “press availability,” and I’ll blog both here. […]
Mitt Romney, Press Availability
We’re moving directly from the speech to a press conference of sorts. I have to claim a spot, and I’ll update here.
12:53 - I’m sitting off to the side, but I can hear him well.
12:54 - What type of conservative are you? Conservatives work from positions of strength, especially in terms […]
Not so fast on Fred
Via Jim Geraghty:
“No July 4 Announcement For Fred Thompson
Just talked to a Thompson source I’ll call “TA3″ (Thompson Associate 3). Much more coming shortly, but the first word was, there will not be a presidential announcement from Fred Thompson on July 4.
(The Politico got it wrong, it appears.)
TA3: “There will be no July 4 announcement… […]
Mitt Romney, Live At The Greater Des Moines Partnership Government Policy Council
Mitt Romney will be speaking live at the Greater Des Moines Partnership Governoment Policy Council luncheon at the Des Moines Marriott. It looks as though there will be some media coverage; the AP has a photographer, and the Des Moines Register — which is next door to the hotel — has a reporter on […]
WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING…
Hi All,
Andrea Shea King here. Tonight on my BlogTalkRadio program we’ll be talking with William Gheen of ALIPAC (Americans for Legal Immigration PAC), an engaging and passionate crusader against the proposed Senate Amnesty Bill. Join me at 9 p.m. ET at Blog Talk Radio.
Gheen says the New Media, which is a fusion of […]
Chavenezuela
Chavenezuela, my latest article, is up at Pajamas Media, with videos.
Miguel Octavio will be P.V. Radio’s podcast guest tonight at 9PM EDT. Don’t miss it.
Please also listen to my Blog Talk Radio podcast with guests Thor Halvorssen, President and CEO of the Human Rights Foundation, award-winning bloggers Daniel Duquenal of Venezuela News and Views and […]
Plame Game “Just one Minute”
Crossposted at Macsmind:
Hate to borrow from Tom McGuire, but this called for it.
“An unclassified summary of outed CIA officer Valerie Plame’s employment history at the spy agency, disclosed for the first time today in a court filing by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, indicates that Plame was “covert” when her name became public in July 2003.
The […]
P.V. Radio: Interview with Hugo Chavez Dissident
There are ominous things developing in Venezuela. The dictator Hugo Chavez is taking over the media, closing down recalcitrant television stations who won’t accept his terms, and today he’s even threatened CNN for slandering him, apparently for “inciting for the killing of Hugo Chavez and using his image the wrong way.” His next […]
Re: Choosy Social Cons Choose Rudy
Wow, Ed, even that title is bass-ackwards, reflecting the Politico piece from which it was derived. Which brings to mind the old expression, “Consider the source.”
Rather than take a base on balls, I think I’ll take a few cuts at this.
***Here’s the operative portion of the quote:
Rudy Giuliani, whose positions on abortion and homosexuality mark […]
Hillary Gets Economics
She just gets it wrong.
Choosy Social Cons Choose Rudy
That’s the conclusion drawn by The Politico’s David Paul Kuhn. In reviewing the polling data, Kuhn says that social conservatives have given Rudy the margin he needs to have maintained his national polling lead — despite being the most liberal Republican candidate for the presidency in the last 30 years:
Rudy Giuliani, whose positions on […]
GOE Live Wrap-Up Wednesday on The Front Line
If you attended Gathering of Eagles II in Washington D.C. last weekend, this is your
chance to tell the world of your experience. If you missed it, it’s
your chance to hear about what happened from those who were there.
The Front Line will be airing a special live edition of GOE Radio on Wednesday night at 10 […]
Upside-Down?
I’ve been looking, against my better judgment, for an explanaton as to how the two seemingly least likely GOP presidential nominees in the field (okay, besides Ron Paul) - John McCain and Rudy Giuliani - can possibly be the “front-runners” for the 2008 Republican nomination.
After all, Giuliani is not just “pro-choice,” but pro-Roe v. Wade, […]
In the Company of the Brave
I begin writing this at 36,000 feet in the air, looking down on Charleston or Little Rock or whatever other all-American places are in between Washington, D.C. and Dallas. I still have another flight before I get home to Tulsa.
My body is tired from walking so many miles this weekend, from staying […]
Today on Blog Talk Radio: Gates of Vienna and Sigmund, Carl and Alfred
On today’s podcast: Dymphna and Baron Bodissey of Gates of Vienna join my co-host Siggy and I today at noon, EDT.
What does this have to do with Memorial Day? Tune in to find out!
TONIGHT @ 7PM EDT, Human Rights and Venezuela
As I posted yesterday, Hugo Chavez pulled the plug on RCTV, Venezuela’s most popular TV station, and his Supreme Court confiscated the station’s property.
Tonight at 7PM my guests will be Thor Halvorssen, President and CEO of the Human Rights Foundation, Daniel Duquenal of Venezuela News and Views, Miguel Octavio of The Devil’s Excrement, and oil […]
Gala Premier, If My Guests Make It
Today is has finally arrived. It’s finally here. The debut of the Hard Starboard Radio Network. Which for some reason isn’t mentioned in today’s “Heading Right lineup” list at the top of the page. Maybe you have to have done a show before that “little” promotional detail kicks in. Guess I’ll find out, huh?
Today I’ll be […]
Indoctrination of our Children
Join my guest, Lee Culpepper, and myself (along with Mrs. Pistachio) tomorrow on Political Pistachio Radio as we discuss the indoctrination of the youth of America through secular progressive teachings. We will also discuss the voucher plan that has been so far defeated by liberalism out of fear that it may make our schools actually […]
Venezuelan Supreme Court confiscates RCTV
Chavez Pulls Plug on Venezuela’s Favorite Television Network three days ahead of schedule, and follows with DOS attacks on blogs and websites covering the story.
Details and round-up at Fausta’s blog
Update, Saturday 26 May: Podcast 7PM EDT: my guests will be Thor Halvorssen, President and CEO of the Human Rights Foundation, Daniel Duquenal of Venezuela […]
Liar Plame
Byron York fact checks Valerie Plame’s March 2007 testimony based on newly released documents.
Fred Gets Closer
Fred Thompson continued his pre-campaign for the presidential primary yesterday in Stamford, Connecticut, speaking to a state Republican Party audience at the Prescott Bush Awards dinner. Ryan Sager reports that those hoping for the Advent of Fred could take more delight in this appearance than at his rather flat performance at the Lincoln Club […]
“I’m not comfortable around those people”
So appears to be the sentiment of some Clinton Machinists (in this case, deputy campaign manager Mike Henry) to the good caucusists of Iowa, if Henry’s leaked internal memo is to be taken at face value.
I tend to agree with J-Ger that this is much ado over nothing. Obviously Hillary! isn’t going to skip Iowa. She […]
Who Said This?
Here’s a quote. You tell me who said it.
. . . said he would keep the country safe by going “after terrorists where they are.”
The answer and my thoughts at bRight & Early.
Syria is the answer, Ed
How did those weapons make it into the camp?
One if by land, two if by sea. It appears that Syria smuggled those arms in over many months using small boats. Here’s Anton Efendi of the excellent Lebanese/Syrian blog Across the Bay:.
I had traced a timeline leading to the clashes, which strongly suggests that this was […]
UN Knew Of Arms In Refugee Camp
The continuing battle in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr el-Bared in northern Lebanon has raised many questions about the spread of radical Islam and its ties to Syria and Iran. However, one question seems to elude most of the major media outlets, which is how an armed terrorist group managed to establish itself […]
More From The Mind That Holds Up The Coif
Y’know, to follow the Opie Edwards For Pa Of The United States campaign, you get the distinct impression that he knows he doesn’t have a soap-dropping new convict’s chance in the communal prison shower. Take his latest two public appearances as examples.
Here’s what he had to say after congressional Democrats opted for an operational pause […]
Tancredo Vlogs Senate Amnesty Bill
“I hope any Republican that votes for this pays the price.”
If the YouTube video does not appear, go here to VIEW
Who is Afraid of Debate?
John rocks on this: Political suicide?
And check out The Conservative Grapevine
Tom DeLay: A dangerous sellout on immigration.
More from Erik in Cannes
Erik Svane, No Pasaran blogger and man-about-town in Cannes, and his co-blogger U*2, are following Michael Moore’s Sicko at the Festival, so don’t miss their posts.
Erik has two books in French that are soon to be translated into English: La Banniere Etalee (sorry about the punctuation marks - they don’t show well on my server), […]
Did I Miss The Election?
After reading this article I began to wonder if I’d missed the 2008 election.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton prodded the Pentagon Wednesday to plan quickly for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq — even as she refused to say how she plans to vote on a critical war spending bill.
“We’ve been hearing that there is […]
Guest-Worker Program Survives, For Now
The first attempt to make a major modification to the immigration compromise failed in the Senate yesterday. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) wanted the program removed for its impact on American jobs and wages, but only garnered support from a third of the Senate:
The guest-worker program in the new immigration bill survived its first test late […]
Grave Robbers
Kate O’Malley, columnist for Human Events Online and proud fellow Eagle, has a great column up this morning. The article explores the motives behind people like Dan Frasier, an antiwar activist who has produced T-shirts with the slogan “Bush Lied, Soldiers Died,” on top of a list of soldiers who have given their lives […]
A Hag, A Lag, A Snag & Some Swag
Hillary! wants to syphon $5 (heh) billion from the middle class to futiley subsidize the pre-school and Kindergarten educations of her fellow hypoplutocrats. An idea (in the form of a ballot initiative) that even hyperliberal Gollyfornia rejected in 2006.
But it will be good for, and accepted by, America as a whole for the same reason she’ll […]
Raining on my Romney Parade
Curse you Byron York, how dare you dig into the polling data on Romney!
Live from Cannes - Erik Svane of No Pasaran
Today at 10:30 AM, on Fausta’s Blog Talk Radio podcast Erik Svane of No Pasaran, talking about the Cannes Film Festival, his books, and French politics
Can We Get — And Keep — Citizen Legislators?
Mark Tapscott recalls the momentum that built in the early 1990s for term limits on political office. With pork-barrel spending running out of control regardless of which party runs Congress, Mark thinks the time may be ripe for another attempt to term-limit Congress, twelve years after the Republican Revolution reneged on its promise. […]
If HR Moderated The Next GOP Debate
The next question is for Senator McCain.
Senator, I would like your response to the following story.
You were in a backroom in the Capitol last Thursday in which you, Senator Kennedy, Senator Cornyn, your other Senate colleagues, and Secretaries Chertoff and Gutierrez were working out the final details of the bipartisan agreement on comprehensive immigration reform. These negotiations […]
Macsmind to McCain, No F-K you!
Evidently Senator McCain is trying to do get his mojo back through a conference call he had with a group of moderate bloggers.
Here is all you need to know via Capt Ed:
“He also wanted to caution the GOP about recognizing the humanity of the issue. We could lose the Hispanic vote for a generation, despite […]
MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE
What’s really behind this amnesty bill? You might be shocked to learn that it’s about much more than admitting illegals into our country with a gilt-edged carte blanche invite to help themselves to everything we’ve worked hard and paid dearly (read: taxes) to have.
Christi (with the Coalition Against Illegal Immigration) at Common Sense America […]
It’s Been A Long Road….
That’s the first lyric of Faith Of The Heart, the theme song of the last Star Trek series, Enterprise, which ran from 2001 through 2005. That is also the rough line of temporal demarcation for the heyday of GOP governance under George W. Bush. So, in other words, the debacle of 2006 was all Brannon Braga’s fault. […]
Help For Jimmy Carter
It must be tough to be Jimmy Carter. Not quite forgotten as one of the worst Presidents of the 20th century, Jimmy seems to be on a crusade for attention, something like you’d expect from Britney Spears during a slow week. Where Britney shows the world her bare head and her bare…well, you […]
Will Israel Make it to 60 Years Old?
Oliver North isn’t sure.
While sipping lattes, editorial board members conclude that things aren’t going well [in Iraq], so we must end our involvement with the same lack of commitment as that binding a Hollywood marriage. It’s been five years, after all — longer than World War II. Our drive-thru culture and ADD-afflicted electorate just don’t […]
ACLU Book Dishonest From The Start
I often receive books for review; in fact, I receive so many, I rarely get the chance to read through most of them. One recent arrival caught my attention for being out of the ordinary. In Defense of Our America comes from the ACLU’s Anthony D. Romero and acts as an apologia for […]
A Fake Ranger and His Comeuppance
Jessie MacBeth, the pencil-thin, stuttering excuse for a man who claimed that he had committed war crimes in Iraq, has been charged with one count of “one count of using or possessing a forged or altered military discharge certificate, and one count of making false statements in seeking benefits from the Veterans Administration.”
Of course, that […]
TALK RADIO
I was watching one of the news shows this Sunday morning. Discussion centered around shock jocks who’ve run into trouble with tasteless jokes and as a result, whether or not radio executives are running scared in the wake of Don Imus.
Michael Harrison, editor and publisher of TALKERS Magazine got to the crux of […]
Talkin’ bout the politics
Tonight on The Rocky Mountain Political Ride (part of the four day weekend of the Rocky Mountain Ride) it’s a three way battle royal between Aaron the Republican, Scott the Democrat and Daniel Myers the young middle of the road fresh faced big brained young man.
We’re talking about The Mainstream Media and just where in […]
Tomorrow’s MacRanger Show
The MacRanger Show at 12pm EST Saturday, will be all things amnesty- immigration bill. I will be hosting with Macsmind guest blogger Harold C. Hutchinson of the Called as Seen Blog, and who is also a contributor at Strategy Page joining in. Should be a lively discussion and this is also an […]
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