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It’s going to be about the war…

February 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics

Rush and other pundits kept saying that this upcoming election was not going to be about the Iraq war. They’re wrong. And they’re especially wrong if it’s McCain vs. Obama. Sullivan makes the point well today. McCain doesn’t want to talk about the wisdom of going into Iraq in the first […]

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Gandalf Voted Today

February 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Politics

Update: Shocker - McCain voted against the torture ban.
The Senate has been taking advice from Gandalf. Bush will surely veto, but today the Senate voted against waterboarding and all forms of torture.
You can’t fight the Enemy with his own Ring without turning into an Enemy, but unfortunately Gandalf’s wisdom seems long ago to have […]

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Conservatives for Obama

February 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Politics

Yes, it’s happening, and not just among weirdo conservatives that no one’s heard of. Jeffrey Hart is a Burkean conservative was a speechwriter for Reagan and former writer for NRO (HT to De Regno Christi)
Jeffrey Hart sat at his kitchen table in slippers, reading Barack Obama’s words aloud. The retired Dartmouth professor, a former […]

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Let it Begin

February 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Politics

Yes. I plan to spend the next several months trashing McCain, for all 4 of my readers. This video’s making the rounds now. This is hilarious.

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McCain’s Win

January 30th, 2008 · 10 Comments · Politics

Ugh.
Alright, I guess that’s not all I have to say. I can think of maybe one good thing about McCain, from my point of view, were he elected president - it would be the definitive end of the era of American torture (at least for now). Yet, even then, I wonder about the […]

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