Clueless Wisdom

First, go to Newsbusters and watch the Diane Sawyer video clip.

Then, read this observation at Blue Crab Universe:

Well, not really, she just thought it was “hurtful“. But she related a story on Good Morning America

continuing the thread with Billy…

“The reality is that Freedom has always had to be fought for, even before our country existed…”

The second clause of that quote is the dead-giveaway. Because of the life and death importance of ideas

• Sorry for the delay, and the site outage.  Apparently the host was having trouble with the SQL server.  We appear to be back online fully, as of now.  I’ll be watching.
• I see the new Harry Potter movie pulled $120m

Markos Moulitsas Zúniga a.k.a. Daily Kos, having promoted Mrs. Cindy Sheehan as an absolute moral authority, now rejects her.

Mrs. Sheehan has posted this message on Kos:

I can’t post here anymore because my potential run for Congress

So now we see, the Europeans considering a ban on cars capable of exceeding 100mph.  The reason?  Why, global warming, of course.

“Cars designed to go at stupid speeds have to be built to withstand the effects of a crash

Apparently, we have another case of someone involved with the medical profession, giving money to terrorists.  In this case, Hamas.  I notice, however, that he only gets 21 months in prison.  And that for lying about the funding, not for

I admit it; I’m terribly behind on my reading.  As I plow through my inbox, I’m finding that there is an awful lot of notice being paid to the leftists who find themselves in an emotional and logical quandary about

Mrs,  Sheehan’s friend at Right Wing News, John Hawkins, has been kind enough to produce a second campaign video for her.  Let us all give Mrs. Sheehan the kind of support she deserves.

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I see that Matt Kibbe makes an excellent point this morning, and gets the Snark of the Day Award:

Remember the Parents Music Resource Center, co-founded by Tipper Gore a few years before her husband ran for president in 1988?

• After my comments of the other night, as regards John McCain, I’m not surprised to find some of the other great minds coming to the same conclusion. Limbaugh, for example.  Limbaugh is technically incorrect, when he says that McCain

Former First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson has died at age 94 due to natural causes:

AUSTIN, Texas -(AP)- Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband,

The Useless Toady goes off the deep end assserting that the Forty-Fourth president will inherit an unprecedented mess:

WASHINGTON — The 44th president will move into the Oval Office with an agenda defined in large part by the 43rd president.

In a society that doesn’t lock up dangerously mentally ill people until they have killed someone, and where Congresscritters are talking about the dangers of terrorists obtaining guns, the last thing we need is more victim-disarmament zones.

Clayton Cramer

Captain Ed, this morning, mentions David Brody’s column this morning in which he discusses Fred Thompson’s take on the uselessness of party platforms.

I tend to agree with the basic position that the party platform has become more of a

By way of Billy Beck, I note Tom Bartlett has decided not to do his column anymore.

In the not-too-distant past, this was impossible. If you didn’t write for a newspaper, it was very hard to get out commentary