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Archive for June, 2006

Friday, June 30th, 2006

Music Notes

American V, streaming on MySpace NOW. It’s the posthumous death-country you need.

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

Nature’s Way of Telling You

IOZ is right about more than just the specific issue of storm insurance in Florida. Florida is a textbook example of government stupidity on the environment. Government collects money from people that don’t stress Florida’s ecology to pay other people to do that very thing. The government sees to it that we pay extra for [...]

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

Quick Superman Returns Review

Well, that was a mess.
Not altogether bad, mind you. In fact, it had some very good qualities. The “stalker” angle that some have noted works in conjunction with some touches that succeed in (purposefully) making Superman a little scary, a little bit the Stranger. There’s one very good line as Clark and Lois finish this [...]

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

Is Our Conservatives Learning?

Interestingly, last year Arnaud de Borchgrave found it worth his time to publish an op-ed about those menacing Wahabist mosques. (Through Benador Associates yet!) This week, in his article on the Miami Seven, he writes,
Since 9/11, the FBI has been plagued not only by costly computer interface glitches, but also by a shortage of agents [...]

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

Elmore Leonard Reenactor Society News

A bunch of bleeding-heart liberalism from well-known pinko simp Arnaud de Borchgrave, who writes about the Seas of David group:
The indictment stretched credulity. It had all the earmarks of an overzealous FBI informant creating crime by conditioning impressionable poor blacks looking for a cause against a system they had grown to hate. It’s not rocket [...]

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

Sieze of David

A local Miami news program gets footage of the inside of Narseal Batiste’s warehouse. It all proves nothing one way or the other. Richard Cohen and Matthew Yglesias take the Administration to task for hyping the arrests. Matt writes
Obviously, one of the things terrorism is supposed to do is, well, terrorize people. The actual risk [...]

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

The Expropriated Glass is Half Full

Scott Bullock of the Castle Coalition surveys the state of eminent-domain abuse on the first anniversary of the Kelo decision.

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

Blinterview

If politics is show business for ugly people, what the hell is blogging? NOT one of the questions I answered for a brief Bloggasm interview.

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

Stop Me Before I Kill Again

I won’t waste any time “refuting”The war for moral superiority” by Diana West. It does that job quite nicely on its own. Somehow in West’s panicky and bitter brain condemning “Abu Ghraib, Haditha, CIA interrogations or Guantanamo Bay” becomes evidence of “perpetually adolescent non-judgmentalism” since what could be more “non-judgmental” than judging things? For West, [...]

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

Nation Breaking

Nation Breaking