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From CNN, regarding the Coleman-Franken recount: Yet if the trend of the latest voting count continues as it has — Coleman initially led by 725 votes, but his lead has dwindled to just over 200 — Franken may be in the more favorable position. A recently completed Dartmouth study of the race argued that the roughly [...] Jewish voters — 2 percent of the electorate today — went heavily for Obama: 78 percent to 21 percent. I always found Jews’ allegiance to the Democratic party odd, both for demographic reasons and due to the Democrats’ less favorable treatment of Israel compared to that of Republicans.
I guess I’m not alone. Harsh [...] On my way to lunch recently, I passed a homeless guy with a sign that read “Vote Obama; I need the money.” I laughed. In a restaurant my server had on an “Obama 08″ tie. Again I laughed. Just imagine the coincidence. When the bill came, I decided not to tip the server and explained [...] Its hard to write this without sounding like a prig. But its just as hard to erase the images that planted the idea for this essay, so here goes. The scene is a middle school auditorium, where girls in teams of three or four are bopping to pop songs at a student talent show. Not [...] It is now a cliché to rant about the spread of postmodernism, cultural relativism, utopian pacifism, and moral equivalence among the affluent and leisured societies of the West. But we are seeing the insidious wages of such pernicious theories as they filter down from our media, universities, and government and never more so than [...] That’s the theme and the pace and the action of “United 93:” How ordinary people, at first strangers to each other, found the courage to act together in the face of certain death. Despite the whines and the cavils of the weak and the vile and the corrupt among us, “United 93″ has no “message.” Despite [...] There are those who question the timing of this project and the painful memories it evokes. Clearly, the film portrays the reality of the attack on our homeland and its terrible consequences. Often we attend movies to escape reality and fantasize a bit. In this case and at this time, it is appropriate to get [...] Nothing is quite as surreal as the Islamic world’s fury at the liberal and innocuous Danes. How could anyone wish to burn their embassies and kill their citizens, when they have always offered all the politically correct, multicultural platitudes and welcomed in any and all from the Middle East? Now the furor over the cartoons, coming [...] From Cox and Forkum. |
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