Straw Man Argument

Melanie Phillips goes ballistic on American Jews and their support of Obama saying he is preparing "to throw Israel under the bus."

Almost eighty per cent of American Jews voted for Obama despite the clear and present danger he posed to Israel. They did so because their liberal self-image was and is more important to them than the Jewish state whose existence and security cannot be allowed to jeopardise their standing with America’s elite.

I wonder what evidence Phillips has to explain how American Jews are not a great part of America's elite.

Name change.

In honor of Jeff Strabone's landmark decision, the name of this blog has changed.

Fashion Terrorists

I wasn't even aware of the "scandal" that arose over Rachael Ray's scarf in a Dunkin Donuts ad, but apparently, the company has pulled the offending spot. Conservative bloggers, such as Michelle Malkin said the scarf looked like a keffiyeh, and could be construed as a symbol of Palestinian jihad.

Noting that if product placement were all it took to bring down America, a Daily Kos frontpager wrote:

"To bring America to its knees, all Bin Laden must do is make his next video while drinking from a can of Coca Cola. The nation would erupt in chaos; Coca Cola sales would vanish into nothingness. In his next video, he could casually munch potato chips; the entire snack industry would collapse. One after another, he could film himself driving an American car; he could insert himself into a Girls Gone Wild video; he could appear next to a caveman, or a gecko, or Captain Crunch; he could enroll in DeVry University. On the day he refinanced his home at new historically low rates, the United States housing market would collapse irretrievably. One by one, he could decimate the entire economic fabric of America merely by association. Not one person in fifty would be willing to buck social trends and still buy Coca Cola if Bin Laden was seen drinking it; our consumer-based economy would be destroyed."

That's what happens sometimes when you carrying things out to their logical conclusion. You realize how illogical they are.

"Dude, you're an idiot."

Dr. Laura Schlessinger is the subject of a headline on MSNBC.com titled:

Dr. Laura: Women share blame for cheating men

Sitting governor decides to cross state lines (remember former ATTORNEY GENERAL) to procure a high-end prostitute, and it was originally investigated by the IRS looking into "transactions by a governor who appeared to be trying to conceal the source, destination or purpose of the movement of thousands of dollars in cash." You're a governor, and you're this stupid.

You know if one of your boys got mixed up in something like that, you'd have to sit him down and say, "Dude, you're an idiot."

Maybe it is Silda Spitzer's fault. For marrying a moron.

Take that, Rush

VoteVets' Brian McGough lays it out:

Bad Except When They're Good

Victor Davis Hanson posting at The Corner on National Review Online makes an interesting remark while commenting on Iran and its nuclear implications.

He writes about the "moral equivalence" of Prof. John Mearsheimer at the YearlyKos convention, who surmised that Iran had the right

"to have a bomb since Israel has one too-as if an anti-American theocracy run according to Sharia Law is no more a nuclear threat than a pro-American liberal democracy."

So anti-American theocracy is the bad and pro-American liberal democracy is good. Catch that? Liberal is good, says the conservative.

Okay, just checking.

If you got the time

While randomly browsing the Wikipedia entry for Christopher Hitchens, I came across a link to a rebuttal posting by Wes Walls to Hitchens' stance on the war in Iraq and the circumstances leading up to it.

Very worth reading.

An excerpt:

Let [Hitchens] tell [the Iraqis] how, consequences be damned, he was right, because by his math a world minus a bad man is a better world, notwithstanding the subtraction of a few hundred thousand lives. Let him tell them that this is exactly what he means, as if one writer sticking to his imaginary guns were itself such an act of fortitude that it redeems any amount of actual destruction.

Qualifications

"Christianity -- this a subject that I am actually qualified to discuss"
- Tucker Carlson

Carlson attended a liberal arts college in Connecticut graduating with a B.A. in History. Nowhere did I see any mention of a seminary or a theological curriculum.