Extreme Hoplopobia

A legislator with too much time and not enough brains, by William Kates, Associated Press: 

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – A New York City lawmaker’s plan to regulate antique firearms like other weapons could have severe economic repercussions for museums and

Lots going on as regards John McCain, and people’s perceptions thereof. I see Jonah Goldberg essentially saying ‘he’s not so bad’. I see also, by way of Billy Hollis at Q&O that he’s joined a group of folks saying

• Nice to see Billy made it home. By the way, Billy, I caught the Blue Man Group in HD the last few days, and the show had a fairly close clip of the light control desk. Wild… I’ve seen audio

As this election season ramps up, I am finding more and more that I am faced with what I consider to be an impossible choice; I can either chose to support the person whom I will call the presumptive Republican

• Look at it this way, Dale; The Berkeley City Council serves Humanity as a bad example, if nothing else. And FWIW, I’m with you on cutting off their funding by the same token that they’re acting, here. Thing is

As I was growing up, one of the lessons I learned from my folks was that if you don’t lie, you do’t have to worry about who you told what, later. That lesson seems to apply well to John McCain.

James Joyner:

Ben Smith and David Paul Kuhn argue that poor showing in this campaign “seems also to mark the beginning of the end of a period in Republican politics that began on Sept. 11, 2001.”

“There’s a paradox for

• McQ puts up a few telling comments about Identity politics, in the context of the ever increasingly irrelevant “National Origination for (Leftist) Women. Not much of a shock that we both draw the same conclusion about NOW in particular… but

As a candidate Mrs. Clinton has made a lot of promises   Can she be expected to keep any of them?   Remember that B.J. Clinton campaigned on the promise of a middle class tax cut but instead delivered a retroactive tax

• Another Honorable Mention in the OTB Caption Contest.
• The State of the Union was about as expected… as we discussed today….with Bush stating the truth, by and large and the Democrats with their fingers in their ears.
• I find it

Press release, in full, from the NAG-NY: 

ALBANY, NY (01/28/2008; 1101)(readMedia)– Women have just experienced the ultimate betrayal. Senator Kennedy’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton’s opponent in the Democratic presidential primary campaign has really hit women hard. Women have forgiven

• I see where Romney and McCain are trading insults, both saying to one another, that they’re liberal. Of course, long term readers of this blog will understand something many other have not yet… they’re both correct.
• I hear there’s

The Boston Globe is reporting that Teddy “Hang a left off the bridge” Kennedy will be endorsing Barack Obama on Monday.

WASHINGTON — Boston Globe– Senator Edward M. Kennedy will endorse Barack Obama for president tomorrow, breaking his year-long neutrality

Billy:

 It’s wonderful to see Field Marshal Rodham getting kicked in the teeth in South Carolina. What’s awful is the hysteria surrounding Obama.

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I keep thinking about Martin Luther King’s admonition on the content of character. There is an

COLUMBIA, S.C. – AP- Barack Obama routed Hillary Rodham Clinton in the racially charged South Carolina primary Saturday night, regaining campaign momentum in the prelude to a Feb. 5 coast-to-coast competition for more than 1,600 Democratic National Convention delegates.Former Sen.