Monthly Archives: May 2008

Hypocrite McCain Straddles the Hagee Fence

John McCain wants John Hagee’s supporters and John Hagee’s money, but he doesn’t want to be tarred with the brush of John Hagee’s insane and hateful beliefs. While Barack Obama has denounced not only the insane statements of Jeremiah Wright, … Continue reading

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Religion and Mobs

Here’s a perfect example of religion run amok, when mobs are incited by religious fantasies to commit horrendous acts. Kenya Mob Burns 15 Women to Death Over Witchcraft In America, people cite the Bible in justifying their beating to death … Continue reading

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Is It Diplomacy or Appeasement?

A story in The Jerusalem Post (linked in the Dredge Report) quotes Army Radio as reporting that the Bush Administration plans a military strike against Iran before the end of Bush’s Presidency. This is hardly news. Anyone who has been … Continue reading

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Britain Removes Another Brick from the Wall of Privacy

The people of the UK must throw out the Labour Government soon before the petty tyrants of the Home Office turn Great Britain into Vladimir Putin’s Russia (and before they give any more ideas on shredding civil liberties to the … Continue reading

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Buckley: A Giant Among the Ants of the Right

It may be a little late to write a tribute to William F. Buckley, Jr., but I was reading his Newsweek obituary by Evan Thomas this morning and was struck by the glaring differences between the intelligent and erudite conservatives … Continue reading

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McCain’s Wright is Wrong

Recently, I was eating dinner at a fast-food restaurant with a friend and discussing the campaign between Senators McCain and Obama. I was describing to my friend some of the outrageous things said by one of McCain’s most prominent supporters, … Continue reading

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Supporting the Troops

Republican backers of the quagmire in Iraq, including the party’s apparent nominee to succeed George W. Bush, have a reprehensible habit of equating support for the President’s policy with support for the troops and brand anyone who disagrees with the … Continue reading

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