Monday, October 30, 2006

Things I should be reading on today

A jaw-dropping program from the BBC

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The American Thinkerby The American Thinker on Oct 30, 2006
From the UK Times:...

Liberals Did Not Give A Damn About Soldiers Then, They Do Not Give A DamnNow

viaPoliPundit.com on Oct 30, 2006
Drudge is reporting of the shameless New York Times:NYT SETS PHOTO ESSAY FOR PAGE ONE MONDAY: Burials of soldiers atArlington National Cemetery nearly every day over the last week...Developing...In 1993, 1,213 members of the military died. Instead of meeting deathin Baghdad or Harat, they perished at places ...

When Jews is News

viaRealClearPolitics - Articles on Oct 30, 2006
"Jewcentricity" is a word that sounds like itwas coined by an embittered anti-Semite. But it's actually theinspiration of Adam Garfinkle, a Jew, writing in The American Interestmagazine to call attention to a phenomenon that has roots inanti-Semitism and runs from the silly to the sublime: " . . . the idea,or the intimation, or the subconscious presumption . . . that Jews aresomehow necessarily to be found at the very center of global-historicalevents." "Jewcentricity" is most evident in the recycling of "TheProtocols of the Learned Elders of Zion," a fictitious textcommissioned by the czar's secret police for a Russian audience at theend of the 19th century, describing a fanciful cabal of Jews who planto take over the world. Some critics of the neoconservatives, some ofwhom are Jewish, cite the protocols, so called, in their accusationsthat Jews have hijacked American foreign policy. Others, critical ofIsrael, hyperventilate over the power of the "Israel lobby.""The Protocols" have naturally become a best seller in several Muslimcountries, including Turkey and Egypt, where they were turned into atelevision series. ("Semitic Sex in the City," however, it was not.)"The Protocols" were featured on the Iranian stands at last year's bookfair in Frankfurt "to expose the real visage of this Satanic-enemy,"along with an abridged edition of Henry Ford's literary thriller, "TheInternational Jew: The World's Foremost Problem" (which never made itto the screen). "The grip of the Jewish parasitic influence," assertsthe preface of the new edition, "has been growing stronger and strongerever since [Henry Ford's time]."

The Story Behind the Polls

viaRealClearPolitics - Articles on Oct 30, 2006
What's with the polls? In 2004, the electoratethat went to the polls or voted absentee was, according to the adjustedNEP exit poll, 37 percent Democratic and 37 percent Republican. Inparty identification, it was the most Republican electorate sinceGeorge Gallup conducted his first random sample poll in October 1935.But most recent national polls show Democrats with an advantage inparty identification in the vicinity of 5 percent to 12 percent. Partyidentification usually changes slowly. Historically, voters haveswitched from candidates of one party to candidates of the other morereadily than they have changed their party identification. Over time,big changes in party ID can and do occur. When I started in the pollingbusiness, in 1974, national party identification was almost 50 percentDemocratic and not much more than 25 percent Republican.

Hugh Hewitt: Just The Numbers, Please: The Bush-Rove-Mehlman PoliticalLegacy

viaHugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog on Oct 30, 2006
The Washington Post continues its election eveblitz, but again goes over the cliff with this story: "Midterm Vote MayDefine Rove's Legacy: Big Losses Could Dim Aura of Bush Advisor."First, some very basic...

Derbyshire: God Me

viaNational Review Online on Oct 30, 2006
Want to talk religion?

OBrien: Race-Colored Classes

viaNational Review Online on Oct 30, 2006
The University of Michigan badly needs MCRI.

Michael J. Fox: Dupe of the Left

Just amazing:

Stephanopoulos: In the ad now running inMissouri, Jim Caviezel speaks in Aramaic. It means, "You betray me witha kiss." And his position, his point, is that actually even though downin Missouri they say the initiative is against cloning, it's actuallygoing to allow human cloning.

Fox: Well, I don't think that's true. You know, Icampaigned for Claire McCaskill. And so I have to qualify it by sayingI'm not qualified to speak on the page-to-page content of theinitiative. Although, I am quite sure that I'll agree with it inspirit, I don't know, I— On full disclosure, I haven't read it, and that's why I didn't put myself up for it distinctly.

In the ad, Fox makes two distinct accusations: he says that Talentis opposed to expanding stem cell research, and that Talent voted tocriminalise stem cell research. Both of these assertions aredemonstrably false - but I'm really not going to blame Foxanymore...he's just an empty suit; an actor parroting whatever thedirector tells him to say. He was told that Talent said such and such,and he repeated it, even though he couldn't possibly have checked itout. Now we see that he hasn't even read the ballot initiative whichtriggered this whole thing.

Fox knows nothing of what he is speaking - he is just yet another dupe of the left.

Miller: Fearing Election Day?

viaNational Review Online on Oct 30, 2006
Will Dems get their six?

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