Who Are We Helping?
November 22, 2004
I am sure this is a retouched photo
Read the black patch on the shoulder carefully (click on picture to enlarge). The message is clear and appropriate
Sphere: Related ContentSomething for Us All to Consider
November 22, 2004
Where has this spirit gone?
The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe
to our country is superior to all other considerations.–George Washington
Certainly the MSM is not on board with this sentiment!
Sphere: Related ContentWizbang Weblog Awards
November 20, 2004
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I think this is an excellent tool for promotion of an information medium which has changed the way we look a society and politics. The entire blog community radically changed the way political candidates look at grassroots politics and kept traditional media sources on their toes this year. I believe this project is a worthy attempt to highlight those who have performed the best in recent months.
Let’s all participate.
Sphere: Related ContentPictures the MSM Won’t Show
November 20, 2004
Spreading Understanding shares with us more pictures from Iraq. You’ll see the irony in the following statement by him when you see the post:
Too bad the soldiers don’t care about the Iraqis, huh?
Thanks for sharing these pictures!
Republicans Enjoy Political Spotlight
November 19, 2004
Let’s have at it!
Kerry Says UBL Tape Cost Him Election
November 19, 2004
On the Left’s Claim of Red State Ignorance. . .
November 19, 2004
With so many in the liberal media lately attempting to prove the election results are due to the stupidity of Republicans and Bush supporters, Cathy Young of the Boston Globe found that Republicans are generally more informed about the issues than Democrats.
“[In a recent study] Republicans have on average scored higher than Democrats on knowledge of political issues than Democrats — though voters across the board tend to be woefully ill-informed. [The study] speculates that in the more recent polls, ignorant Bush supporters were likely to pick answers flattering to Bush, while ignorant Kerry voters did the opposite.”
Thanks to Hoosier Review for tracking down this article.
One side of the aisle can make any sort of claim about the lack of reasonableness or ignorance of the other. I am not personally convinced either side of the aisle is “smarter” than the other. In addition, I am very suspicious of the value of high IQ scores when it comes to moral or critical judgment about the pressing issues of our time.
We must understand the methods of analysis and persuasion currently being used by either side at any given time to understand the efficacy of their agenda. Evaluated in this manner, it seems the liberal side of the aisle is much more prone to ad hominem, non sequitur and other forms of logical fallacy which has led to electoral and legislative defeat. Logical fallacy leads to emotional outburst rather than substantive deliberation. Voters may not understand but can detect analytical incoherence, and it shows eventually in the polls. Democrat politics since the 1980’s have relied upon emotional debate to make its case. It worked well in the Congress then, but accumulated superficiality of argument led to their demise in 1994.
Not all Democrats nowdays are slaves to incongruity, but their leadership are currently made up of those who are–with few exceptions. At a time when the “Rockefeller Republican” lived in the empty space of inane, self-interested argument, Willaim Buckley in the press and Barry Goldwater at the head of the ticket changed the tone of the issue debate and brought back an intellectual unity which had been non-existent in the Party since FDR. This eventually led to Reagan and then to the Republican takeover in 1994. The Democrats acted like the Republicans of the turn of the century who controlled it all and sat fat and happy on the top; then whined and cried when they lost it all.
I am curious if today’s Republican Party will react the same way now that we have reached our current high watermark?
Sphere: Related ContentShould Kentucky Governor Loose Medical License Because of Execution Duty?
November 19, 2004
A New York psychiatrist who opposes the death penalty is leading an effort to have the medical license of Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher because his role in signing the death warrant for those guilty of the death penalty in his state.
Chicago Tribune: “LOUISVILLE, Ky. — When Gov. Ernie Fletcher signed a death warrant for a convicted killer this month, he may have done more than start the clock ticking on an execution. Some say Fletcher, a doctor, may have put his medical license at risk.
American Medical Association guidelines bar doctors from taking part, directly or indirectly, in executions, and Kentucky requires doctors to follow AMA ethical guidelines.
‘I think it’s a clear violation,’ said Dr. Arthur Zitrin, a retired psychiatrist in New York and a death penalty opponent. Zitrin also is challenging the license of a Georgia doctor accused of helping nurses find a vein in a condemned man for a lethal injection.”
The Texas Insider, commenting on the actions of Zitrin, asks the following question:
[We] now anxiously await Doctor Zitrin and his fellow travelers’ next turning their attention to having the licenses of abortion doctors everywhere revoked, on similar grounds and for their more directly executing the termination of an existence, these transpiring without the benefit of a trial by jury.
Excellent point!
Remote Control Range
November 19, 2004
Hey! Look Hunters! No more rubbin’ on skunk and urine smell and sittin’ in cold tree stands. Now you can hunt from the web!
Thanks to Backcountry Conservative for sharing.
Sphere: Related ContentNovember 19, 2004
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