Palin & the pledge

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Tuesday September 02, 2008 · 6:38 AM PDT

2008/09/02 · 06:38

I'm just documenting yet another thing Palin can't seem to get quite right. In a questionaire (not even an on your feet question), Palin can't even get the history of the pledge correct:

11. Are you offended by the phrase "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance? Why or why not?
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SP: Not on your life. If it was good enough for the founding fathers, its good enough for me and I’ll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance.

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Wednesday November 08, 2006 · 4:03 AM PST

2006/11/08 · 04:03

I know that they're saying minimum wage and similar things, but let's be fair; those will take more than just doing the right thing. Instead, I would propose three things which are simply the right thing to do for the new Democratic congress should do:

A significant pay raise for those troops in the Middle East
Increase the healthcare benefits for veterans
Disavow the most recent pay raises the politicians gave themselves

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Thursday November 03, 2005 · 6:40 AM PST

2005/11/03 · 06:40

So CNN is running lots of stories about Michael Brown's e-mails during Hurricane Katrina. The things they're excerpting are interesting, but I didn't think all that unbelievable. So I went to read the original e-mails for myself.

Three things about the e-mails struck me as beyond unbelievable. Read More

Terrorists' objectives

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Friday June 24, 2005 · 6:24 AM PDT

2005/06/24 · 06:24

Has anyone asked this question, "how is it that this administration KNOWS the objectives of the terrorists?" I woke up this morning to hear a Bush administration official saying that the terrorists are not achieving their objectives, and therefore we're winning. Among the terrorists objectives he cited was the disruption of the election. However, basically he cited all the things that the Bush administration has also cited as "victories" for the administration. This didn't particularly catch my attention, except that they don't seem to be the objectives I would expect the terrorists to have. Read More

Not much of an American

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Friday June 17, 2005 · 3:09 PM PDT

2005/06/17 · 15:09

I wanted to post this to the comments of Austin Bay's Blog story called Iraqi Whirlwind, but as with most winger-sites, the comments are disabled. The paragraph I take issue with:

...The military is fighting, the Iraqi people are fighting, but where is the US political class? The Bush Administration has yet to ask the American people -correction, has yet to demand of the American people- the sustained, shared sacrifice it takes to win this long, intricate war of bullets, ballots, and bricks. Bullets go bang, and even CBS understands bullets. Ballots make an impression-in terms of this war's battlespace, the January Iraqi elections were World War Two's D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge combined.... Given the vicious, megalomanical enemy we face, five years, perhaps fifteen years from now occasional bullets and bombs will disrupt the political and economic building. This is the Bush Administration's biggest strategic mistake- a failure to tap the reservoir of American willingness 9/11 produced.

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The Six things to know about the Voucher debate

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Sunday June 12, 2005 · 8:33 PM PDT

2005/06/12 · 20:33

I live in Wisconsin and there has been some heated discussion over the voucher issue, again. This is thanks, in part, to the Journal Sentinel article on the issue. While the article is interesting, it seems apparent from the comments on both sites that people really need some talking points. Here they are, with longer descriptions below the fold:

There's no apple-to-apple comparison
The limits on public education expenses don't apply to vouchers (in Wisconsin, it's the QEO)
Free market will never work because there's no selfish interest.
There is a substantial "urban problem."
There is no control on curriculum
The real source of the problems is the home

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Saturday June 11, 2005 · 5:48 PM PDT

2005/06/11 · 17:48

I've read the Downing street memo, DSM, several times. I never really noticed this before, and it seems to refute something I've heard the right use as an excuse for war. One paragraph in particular seems to tackle this issue:

The Attorney-General said that the desire for regime change was not a legal base for military action. There were three possible legal bases: self-defence, humanitarian intervention, or UNSC authorisation. The first and second could not be the base in this case. Relying on UNSCR 1205 of three years ago would be difficult. The situation might of course change.

(emphasis added)

How can there be a liberal media...

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Wednesday June 08, 2005 · 6:31 PM PDT

2005/06/08 · 18:31

... when even the Instapundit can find hundreds of articles to link to in a month.

This thought occurred to me while I was reading his site today and he repeatedly links to stories from the regular news media that support his own world view?

Oh wait, my bad. The liberal media meme is just a anti-intellectual construct used to support writing only the "good news."

As a diabetic

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Friday May 20, 2005 · 7:15 AM PDT

2005/05/20 · 07:15

I was reading, about the advances in stem cells, and it occurred to me that those that think the culture of life means protecting the lives of stem cells have no idea what a culture of life is.

How can favoring a cell or a line of cells over an actual life be celebrating a culture of life? In fact, it seems to be a net loss of life. One stem cell line could provide new life for thousands. The undifferentiated stem cells aren't life yet, but they COULD provide it for others. Read More

Newsweek and the President... two peas in a pod

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Sunday May 15, 2005 · 7:11 PM PDT

2005/05/15 · 19:11

The Instapundit blames Newsweek for causing deaths based on a possibly erroneous news story.

People died, and U.S. military and diplomatic efforts were damaged, because -- let's be clear here -- Newsweek was too anxious to get out a story that would make the Bush Administration and the military look bad.

You mean like an administration that was too quick to go to war on erroneous intelligence. Whose to blame for the total lack of fact checking on that one?

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Thursday November 04, 2004 · 2:38 PM PST

2004/11/04 · 14:38

I remember the last time President Bush had "political capital", we went to war... twice.

"I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it," President Bush said in his first news briefing since winning re-election. Bush outlined his second-term agenda, saying it would focus on economic recovery, fixing the tax code, Social Security and building on education.

I'm hoping he wastes it on booze and good looking cheerleader twins.

Rewriting the platform for a purple country

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Thursday November 04, 2004 · 10:01 AM PST

2004/11/04 · 10:01

As a recent post makes clear, it's a purple country. It's also clear that on the issues that matter to many of those in the red-purple states, even the border states, the Dem's platform doesn't deliver. Even the blue-purple states, the Dems don't offer a substantial amount to make them bluer.

So what to do?

The easy answer: capitalize on two losses and rethink the platform.

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How can there be a liberal media...

As a diabetic

Newsweek and the President... two peas in a pod

"Political Capital"

Rewriting the platform for a purple country