Eengstro on December 6th, 2005

This is yet another reason I cannot support the Democrats:

“The idea that we are going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong.” — Howard Dean, DNC chairman

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Eengstro on October 1st, 2005

This intersting article, via Instapundit, demonstrates how easy it is for a newspaper to subtly slant a story based on the photos it runs.
But of course, the media isn’t biased…

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Eengstro on September 5th, 2005

Bill Whittle has posted a very good, very non-PC piece in which he explores evil people, people who don’t believe that evil exists, and people of action, in the dual context of terrorism and the savagery and utter incompetence we’ve witnessed in New Orleans:

Now, much has been made of the fact that Ray Nagin [Mayor [...]

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Eengstro on June 10th, 2005

Less than a month after agreeing to end filibusters against judicial nominees except under “extraordinary circumstances”, Democrats are blocking a vote on the nomination of John Bolton as ambassador to the UN.
What happened to the spirit of “cooperation”? Oh, I know: Bolton isn’t a judicial nominee, therefore the agreement doesn’t apply to him! How [...]

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Eengstro on June 8th, 2005

…for the Republicans, that is. As long as the Chairman of the DNC continues to fire off zingers (CNN, SF Chronicle) like these, the electorate will not take the Democrats seriously:

Republicans are “not very friendly to different kinds of people”
“they are a pretty monolithic party … it’s pretty much a white, Christian party”
Republicans “never [...]

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