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"The leftist party that these people support is currently in control of both houses of congress and the White House (and they are well-represented within the federal judiciary) and yet, it is not enough. The power is not pure enough, it is not invincible enough; their power is diluted because, dammit, those little people crowing about the constitution all over the internets are mucking things up!" and another excerpt "Friedman and Mitchell, and even that self-absorbed twerp Woody Allen are all wringing their hands over something they cannot (yet) control; alternative media and how it has contributed to the difficulties...

Cobb is saying Rush Limbaugh has crossed a line with Operation Chaos, and he even has a cartoon up about it. My take on “Operation Chaos” is that Rush is doing several things, here - he’s demonstrating his sway, he’s enjoying making mischief (and hoping that when the press talks about “Hillary winning and demonstrating momentum” they’ll mention his “Operation,”) and he’s getting a feel for just how strong may be the desire of conservatives to — not now, but in coming years — jump the GOP ship and form a more demonstrably “conservative” party.Rush is justifying “Operation Chaos” by...

http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/009699.php April 16, 2007 Prayers For WFB And The Anchoress Patricia Taylor Buckley, the beloved wife of conservative godfather William F Buckley and mother of novelist Christopher Buckley (Thank You For Smoking), has passed away this weekend. National Review's The Corner has a number of touching tributes in remembrance. Bob Leibowitz, who knew Mrs. Buckley for many years, writes his personal recollections of the "den mother of the conservative movement". Our prayers go to the two Mr. Buckleys and all of their family and friends.While you say your prayers for the Buckleys, spare a few for The Anchoress as...

The day before the president’s speech, I got email from some people asking me why I’m such an idiot, how I can reconcile Christianity with war, how I could reconcile the present engagement with the “Just War” musings of Aquinas, etc. The day after the speech, I had a friend urge me to perform an exercise of “reassessment” regarding my views. I found myself writing essentially the same response to several of those folk - the ones worth answering (here’s a hint, if you want me to respond to an email of yours, don’t call me names or wish my...

Chavez clearly listened to Dems and Air America Filed under: Bush Bad?, Dumb Democrat moves, The Fourth Estate, America, Election 2006 So, Hugo Chavez is is still at it. Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez launched a new personal attack on President George W. Bush, using a visit to a church to call the US leader an “alcoholic” and a “sick man.” A day after Chavez used the UN bully pulpit to call Bush “the devil” a “tyrant” who acts like he owns the world — prompting broad condemnation in the United States — Chavez was equally vitriolic as he spoke at...

I apologize for light-to-non-existant posting. We’ve had out-of-state company in for the funeral, etc, and I was wondering why I seemed to have no energy for even answering my emails - then I got my CBC today and realized WHY I was so tired…but I should be back on my feet in a day or so…or so. Meanwhile, plodding through my emails, I note that Van Morrison is promising (or threatening) to play this summer at a local venue and I was wondering if anyone has ever seen him live and would recommend going? The last time I attended a...