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From the First Gospel of Obama (NYT revised translation)

Posted on October 19, 2008
The One actually was engaged in an evangelical crusade to convert the San Franciscans to the glories of guns and religion. That's why he tried to persuade the NYT's Matt Bai, who reprints a couple of long and incomprehensible paragraphs along those lines which inspired my latest whimsical guest-post at HughHewitt...

A sad reaction to Peggy Noonan's Palin meltdown

Posted on October 19, 2008
I tried not to write a response to Peggy Noonan's ugly anti-Palin op-ed in Friday's WSJ, but ended up not being able to resist. I hope it's reasonably snark-free. It's a guest-post at HughHewitt.com.

A respectful nod to Paul Mirengoff

Posted on October 18, 2008
My latest guest-post at HughHewitt.com is about Paul Mirengoff of PowerLine, with whom I disagreed (and, I think, still do) regarding Gov. Palin. Paul's at least open to recognizing inconsistencies in the opinions expressed by other Palin critics from the right, in particular from Peggy Noonan...

"How many plumbers do you know makin' a quarter million dollars a year?"

Posted on October 18, 2008
I can't not blog about Joe the Plumber, can I? He's the subject of my latest guest-post at HughHewitt.com, the point of which I don't think is particularly profound, but it's apparently too subtle for The One to grasp.

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Hang in there, Dean

Posted on October 18, 2008
Dean Barnett, who was a previous guest-poster at HughHewitt.com and a frequent guest-host for Hugh's radio show, is still in an ICU battling cystic fibrosis. As I've said in a short guest-post there, he's in my prayers this weekend.

Docs opining on McCains' prognosis divide into two groups: Those who know what they're talking about, and those who're guessing

Posted on October 18, 2008
My latest guest-post at HughHewitt.com distinguishes between those doctors who've actually examined and treated John McCain, who say his prognosis from his 2000 cancer surgery is quite good, and those who are just guessing, who want to scare people into thinking that it's not...

Rest stop

Posted on October 17, 2008
You might think Barack Obama would be the better stand-up comic as between him and John McCain, but you'd be wrong. The proof is in the embedded video in the report I've linked (in my latest guest-post at HughHewitt.com) from last night's Al Smith dinner, at which Sen...

WaPo's endorsement of Obama reveals editorialists as wishful thinkers, him as blank canvas

Posted on October 17, 2008
The WaPo's endorsement of Barack Obama this morning is almost self-fisking, but I couldn't resist having a go in a guest-post at HughHewitt.com.

Reports of bloodthirsty McCain-Palin supporters are mostly exaggerated or simply false

Posted on October 17, 2008
"Tell him" was misheard by a Scranton newspaper reporter as "Kill him!" And then it was once again off to the races with nonsense about how murderous and bloodthirsty the crowds are after Gov. Palin incites them to violence. My guest-post at HughHewitt...

Just another one

Posted on October 17, 2008
My take on the third and final presidential debate appears as a guest-post at HughHewitt.com. Another what? Another conventional tax-and-spend Democratic politician from Chicago.

McLaughlin series on "The Integrity Gap" between McCain and Obama will arm you for water-cooler debates

Posted on October 17, 2008
I've fallen behind in cross-posting, but yesterday my wee-small-hours guest-post at HughHewitt.com was a link to and recommendation of Dan McLaughlin's latest in his series on "The Integrity Gap."

Today's SCOTUS ruling does NOT mean there's no voting fraud problem in Ohio

Posted on October 17, 2008
Today's SCOTUS ruling on the Ohio voting case is almost impenetrable. But I'm convinced it's an important case on an important subject, even though I think its moral is deeply concealed. It's not a statement that there's no voter fraud going on in Ohio, nor even a statement that clears the Democratic Secretary of State in Ohio, Jennifer Brunner, of...

Bill Ayers, Eagle Scout from Hell

Posted on October 15, 2008
My family history in Scouting may have caused me to over-react in my late-night guest-post about an op-ed about Bill Ayers at HughHewitt.com. But I can't think of any rank or position that's more inappropriate to use as a comparison for that twisted dollop of evil scum than "Eagle Scout...

My question that I wish Bob Schieffer would ask Barack Obama tomorrow night

Posted on October 15, 2008
What do elemental mercury and the Congo have in common? They're the subject of the only two pieces of legislation Barack Obama has passed through Congress as author and principal sponsor. In my evening guest-post at HughHewitt.com, that's what I suggest moderator Bob Schieffer ought to ask Obama about in tomorrow night's debate.

Sarah Palin's campaigning is infused with contagious joy

Posted on October 15, 2008
While watching Gov. Palin's televised address at a campaign rally today, I was inspired to write my mid-day guest-post at HughHewitt.com.

Advice for those conservatives with palm-shaped forehead bruises

Posted on October 15, 2008
My morning guest-post today at HughHewitt.com is a combination pep-talk and attempt to offer constructive suggestions to those who are too fixated on polls and the MSM's "it's all over" meme.

A reply to Prof. Post: It's nonsense to argue both that it was okay for Gov. Palin to actually fire Monegan, but that it wasn't okay for her to merely threaten to fire Monegan

Posted on October 12, 2008
Even very smart people sometimes miss the obvious, especially when there are politics involved. I'm sure he's a very smart person, but I think Temple law professor David Post wasn't thinking clearly when it comes to either the Branchflower Report or my first post about it at HughHewitt...

Saturday best wishes

Posted on October 11, 2008
In my latest guest-post at HughHewitt.com, I ask the timeless question: "How 'bout them Longhorns?" Congrats to them on their 45-35 win over the No. 1-ranked O.U. Sooners. I'm enjoying a beautiful and relaxing fall day today, and I hope you are too. (I couldn't abide by the red-and-white theme at Hugh's blog today, though, without inserting this burnt orange...

Condolences

Posted on October 11, 2008
My latest guest-post at HughHewitt.com extends my condolences to Betsy Newmark, the fine blogger who writes Betsy's Page, on the loss of her father, George Washington Bamberger, last night at age 93. I suspect he and my own dad had more in common than just their service as volunteers in the Pacific Theater in World War II.

More judicial tyranny from Obama-style judges: CT courts overturn state law to recognize gay marriage

Posted on October 10, 2008
My latest guest-post at HughHewitt.com criticizes activist judges on the Connecticut Supreme Court who've today imposed their own views over the will of the majority of their state's voters in the guise of interpreting their state constitution. I'm not against same-sex marriage, but I'm against imposing it on an unwilling majority of the public by judicial decree...

The race stays close, and Obama isn't becoming any blacker

Posted on October 10, 2008
My strangely titled guest-post yesterday at HughHewitt.com compares Barack Obama to Bill Cosby/Cliff Huxtable in terms of his familiarity and, insofar as his race is concerned, non-threateningness. But I argue that it's fine, indeed appropriate, to be afraid of him, and to withhold one's vote from him, for reasons having nothing to do with race...

Branchflower report on Tasergate: Just one guy's opinion that contradicts itself and ignores the relevant facts and law

Posted on October 10, 2008
Give a lawyer a $100k budget and tell him to produce a political hatchet job, and what do you get? The 263-page piece of garbage now on the internet and in the hands of Alaska legislators called "The Branchflower Report." My take on it as the latest bit of political thuggery in Tasergate is now up as a guest-post on...

If he can't keep his campaign plane from stinking, what makes anyone think Obama can handle the world's hardest executive job?

Posted on October 09, 2008
The same news network that gave us Rathergate now serves up the news that the Obama campaign plane literally and chronically stinks. Will the MSM reporters next cry out for Barack Obama to call them Edna? My latest guest-post at HughHewitt.com won't help you understand that last techno-punk rock allusion, but it does ask a serious question about Obama's executive...

"The Audacity of Hope" versus "The Erosion of Doubt"

Posted on October 08, 2008
Canaries and unicorns abound in my latest guest-post at HughHewitt.com, with more thoughts on the big-picture significance of Tuesday night's presidential debate.

McCain the Warrior awoke, pivoted on Obama the Professor, and pounded him

Posted on October 08, 2008
My latest guest-post at HughHewitt.com analyzes the second presidential debate between Captain John McCain and Professor Barack Obama. For those not wholly besotted with him, Obama's mystique wears off with repeated exposure. McCain or someone on his team knew that when they proposed lots and lots of town-hall debates, and Obama was smart to refuse that offer...

CNN: Ayers and Obama jointly planned kick-off of Obama's political career at Ayers' home

Posted on October 07, 2008
This is an amazing piece of video ? not least because of its source. I think I've managed to successfully embed it in an otherwise wordless guest-post at HughHewitt.com, whose website mechanics make such postings kind of iffy, but if you can't see it either here or there, try this link...

SCOTUS decision applauded by Obama prompts federal judge to order release into our national capital of 17 Chinese Muslims captured in terrorist training camps in Afghanistan

Posted on October 07, 2008
We catch them in terrorist training camps in Afghanistan, where they'd gone to be taught with the cooperation and under the protection of the Taliban. Now, as laid out in my latest guest-post at HughHewitt.com, a federal court has said that because their home country, China, will imprison them if we return them there, we have to let them run...

Ayers to kids: "Kill your parents!" Ayers to courts:"Don't hold teen murderers responsible!"

Posted on October 07, 2008
Barack Obama chose to share a stage with Bill Ayers in 1997 in a juvenile justice-themed event promoted by Michelle Obama. The lovely Michelle was quoted in the press release as saying that the panelists were "experienced" with the criminal justice system, but it didn't mention that one of them was an unreformed, unrepentant would-be cop-killer and mass murderer, as...

Dealing with Palin haters

Posted on October 07, 2008
So many distractions yesterday that I got behind in cross-posting here. One of my new guest-posts at HughHewitt.com is a riff on Palin Derangement Syndrome, the successor to Bush Derangement Syndrome.

Brokaw claims Ayers is now a mere "school reformer"

Posted on October 05, 2008
My latest guest-post at HughHewitt.com ponders how Tom Brokaw can revere the Greatest Generation's heroism in the 1940s, yet dismiss Bill Ayers' terrorism in the 1960s and 1970s, and call him a mere "school reformer" despite his present radical plans to turn our educational system on its head and turn every teacher into a "community activist" to teach against "oppression...

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