As I’ve noted elsewhere, I’m a bit of a political junkie, and one of the great political spectacles is the national redistricting that occurs every 10 years — after the Federal Census — and sometimes more often than that. So it has been fascinating to run across The ReDistricting Game, a browser-based Flash game that […]
Now the real race has started. Giuliani is still my top pick, but Thompson should make the whole race more interesting. Between the Iraq Surge and the still-unraveling Hsu scandal (involving 83 — count ’em — 83 Democrats), I think the ’06 Democratic Wave has reached its crest. I will not only fearlessly predict (against […]
My wife is off in Utah, helping out on the birth of our (let’s see now…) ninth grandchild, so I filled in for her at church conducting music during the sacrament meeting. Our closing hymn was “The Star-Spangled Banner”, and while I managed to keep conducting through the entire hymn (three verses), I only sang […]
Rudy Giuliani has just released what he calls his ‘Twelve Commitments to the American People’ [link updated]: I will keep America on offense in the Terrorists’ War on Us. I will end illegal immigration, secure our borders, and identify every non-citizen in our nation. I will restore fiscal discipline and cut wasteful Washington spending. I […]
I ran across a blog entry this morning, Mark Steyn citing John Podhoretz regarding the uproar over the immigration bill being rushed through the Senate despite being incomplete, inconsistent and, by and large, incomprehensible. Here are the nested posts in full: Given his general antipathy to the National Review line on illegal immigration, I thought […]
Slate provides some simple animation for a recorded exchange (regarding ferret rights) between Giuliani and a caller back while Giuliani was mayor of NYC: In 1999, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani hosted a weekly call-in program. During one show, he responded to caller David Guthartz, a ferret-rights activist who was upset over city regulations making […]
Michael Barone (much as with Robert Samuelson) is one of my favorite social/political commentators because he bases his observations on actual facts rather than wishful thinking. He also probably knows more about state-by-state, county-by-county, precinct-by-precinct politics and demographics in the United States than anyone else alive. So when he talks about that subject, it’s worth […]
This ad wasn’t done by Barack Obama’s campaign — and I suspect that Steve Jobs at Apple won’t be very happy with it [*] — but, boy, it’s certainly effective (or, at least, amusing). Hat tip to The New Editor via Instapundit. ..bruce.. [*] The ad uses footage and sound from Apple’s famous ‘1984’ ad, […]
I have long felt that Rudy Giuliani is our best bet for the 44th President of the United States; quite frankly, I would vote for him regardless of what party ticket he ran upon. The reasons are quite simple: We’re at war and will be for the foreseeable future. Guiliani was nearly killed in the […]
Socialized medicine at work [UPDATED 10/10/07]
[UPDATED 10/10/07 – 1747 MDT] As does this article: Canada’s Expectant Moms Heading to U.S. to Deliver Mothers in British Columbia are having a baby boom, but it’s the United States that has to deliver, and that has some proud Canadians blasting their highly touted government healthcare system. “I’m a born-bred Canadian, as well as […]
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