Drudge Needs to Update His Cal

DRUDGE is saying on his site that he’ll be appearing on C-Span on Friday April 28th, at 08:00.

Only problem is Friday is the 29th.

Stanley Kurtz notes an article in Harpers:

“One thing I didn’t mention in my piece is the remark that appears to caution liberals against playing by the “old, polite rules of democracy” when dealing with conservative Christians. If I’m reading that right, then not only do we have a systematic attempt to identify conservative Christians with fascists in a mainstream organ, we also have a call to disregard democratic principles when opposing them. How’s that for the side that claims to respect “checks and balances? “

Bingo. And this is HARDLY a new thing, Stan.

Power Line this morning notes the case of one Jim Merkel who has just been hired at Dartmouth for a position apparently created for him called a “sustainability director”.

To give you a picture of what that task entails is a tall order, but the way to start is to look at the activities of this inDUHvidual;

Merkel — “who is currently bicycing through Spain to promote his book ‘Radical Simplicity'” — has lived “on only $5,000 a year — close to the global average income — for the past 14 years.”

Scott adds some reader comments to this post and they raise some interesting questions.

As I’ve always said, it takes a simpleton to be PC… and it takes a really Radical Simpleton to be this PC. Hey Dartmouth Parents; This is the kind of thing you’re paying for. Is this REALLY what you want?

Dean at Dean’s World debunks rather neatly, the argument about how we’re slipping toward this horrible Theocracy….

It’s a visual, so I won’t bother quoting it.

Drezner last night decides to take on the task of reading and arguing Andrew Sullivan’s TNR peice. Glenn’s been commenting on this one too.

The two of them do a far enough job of trying to argue with him as if they take him seriously. I suppose they DO take him seriously, and I think it a mistake. But, even there, I think they get the better of the argument.

Let’s go for the root of the problem, though.

Well, I gotta tell ya…it’ll all I can do to hold my chair for all the laughing. It’s like Elmer Fudd claiming Jack Warner had a widdle speech prwobwem.

Sullivan’s attempts in this article at self-justification… and that’s really what that article is… are about as impressive as Teddy Kennedy complaints about simulated drownings at Abu Griabe.

What amazes me is anyone takes Sullivan seriously, anymore, when he breaks out his label gun.

Speaking of Jason, he notesa report in The Globe and Mail that Paul Martin has used taxpayer money to hold onto power.

Essentially it works like this:

In exchange for agreeing to the New Democratic Party’s demands for more spending on the environment, social housing, foreign aid and tuition reduction, the Liberals have secured a commitment of support on all no-confidence motions until the budget receives royal assent.

This is, as the G&M suggests….

…” a move that will force the Conservatives to rely on the separatist Bloc Quebecois if the party wishes to bring down the government in the coming weeks.

So, basicly, Jack Layton has signed onto the corruption, his denials not withstanding.

At Musing , Jason notes that the Canadian government thinks anyone earning over $51k (USD) /yr is rich.

Jason calls this claim pathetic, and he’s right.

But what this really is, is a Canadian government trying to make the citizens there feel good about an unquestionably abysmal economic situation… which their socialism isn’t helping.

I’ll have to tell my wife… the Canadian government thinks we’re bloody rich….. (snork)

Outside The Beltway passes on some good news;

Laura’s breast cancer surgery yesterday “couldn’t have gone better,” in the words of her surgeon Dr. Katherine Alley. Initial sentinel node testing done during surgery showed no signs of cancer involvement in the lymph nodes, and we all hope that this good news is confirmed by more in-depth tissue testing done over the next 48 hours.

Good news, indeed.
I’ll add my best wishes, here.

Says C-Net;

Microsoft came under renewed criticism from gay- and lesbian-rights groups on Tuesday after an online report indicated that the company is using former Christian Coalition chief Ralph Reed’s lobbying firm.

Ah, yes… the politics of Personal Destruction, again?

“We’re just dismayed that as an agent of Microsoft, (Reed) might have played a role in the defeat of equal rights for all Washingtonians,” said George Cheung, executive director of Equal Rights Washington, a Seattle-based gay- and lesbian-rights group. Cheung’s group has invited the company’s top executives to a town hall meeting this Friday to discuss the company’s future activities.

A company spokesman said Microsoft has used Reed’s consulting firm continuously since 2000 on international-trade and competition issues. That work had nothing to do with the Washington state legislative issue, the spokesman said.

“They have never advised Microsoft in any way on any social-policy issues,” spokesman Mark Murray said. “Those are two completely unrelated things.”

Heh.
Sounds like Microsoft is getting weary of being the fish stuck in the homosexual-extra rights group’s blender.

So says Slashdot.

They’ve got pics, too.

In answer to the repeated questions from readers….

Yes, I have seen the Drudge Flash. I even heard the event on air. But I didn’t comment on it here for several reasons.

First and foremost; Err America engaging in overheated rhetoric isn’t news…. it’s simply par for the course. It’s how they have operated since day one… it’s all they have.

And secondly, why give them the free ads on my blog?

Remember under Reagan the rich actually paid more in taxes than everyone else? Odd, the Democrats never gave him credit for that, still claiming that the irch were not paying their fair share, whatever the hell that was supposed to mean.

TaxProf Blog points out that the same thing is happening today, and has the numbers to back it up.

Of course the Democrats will deny this one, too.

Pravda West, otherwise known as the WaPo is amazingly reporting something positive about President Bush. Only reason I can think of that they’d do such a thing is that they don’t consider that it’s all that positive a thing…. (Actually increasing energy output is never lauded at a liberal paper such as WaPo) …but I do, and you should.

The president plans to prod federal agencies to work with communities to encourage the construction of new refineries at closed military bases. Because of the cost associated with building new refineries, most companies have chosen to expand production at current sites instead of building new ones. The White House officials said there is concern that refineries are approaching maximum capacity at current sites.

This is exactly the kind of thinking that’s needed.

Look; Let’s call this what it is; Bush going over to mess up the knees on his pants on some Saudi carpet isn’t going to solve the pump price issue. The Saudis are not the issue here.

The fact is, our current crude stockpiles are ~6% higher than they were a year ago.  Yet the prices at the pump are far higher than the difference in crude prices though the period. And the reasons simple enough;

Trouble is, cars don’t burn crude oil.
Lack of refining capacity is the issue.
We’ve not added a refinery since 1976. It’s about time we did, and this proposal from the President is spot on to solving the problem. Applause from here.

AP- WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on Tuesday rejected compromise offers that would allow minority Democrats to continue to block judicial nominees, saying all of President Bush’s past and future court choices deserve confirmation votes from the GOP-controlled Senate.

About bloody time someone started acting like they were part of a majority.

Captain’s Quarters note this morning that there’s a rather large hole in the report we were all fed yesterday about there being no weapons sent to Syria.  As I noted on OTB yesterday… seems to me they’d forgotten about that line of trucks headed to Syria just before we invaded.

Well, now we find out just how disconnected form reality such reports can be…

The data remains inconclusive, and that’s all. ISG could not go into Syria, nor into the Bekaa Valley that until this week was controlled by Syria, to determine if any kind of transfers took place. The only conclusion they could reach is that official transfers never took place, meaning that Saddam’s files contained no records of any such movement of materiel between Iraq and Syria. The report further tells us that had the ISG had the time and resources to follow up on the leads provided, they still probably would find out nothing, given the geopolitical difficulties of invading Syria to complete the investigation.

THAT, of course has ALWAYS been the problem with intel in the region.