from Michael Totten at InstaPundit: Let’s get a couple of things out of the way before today’s votes are counted. You have the right to vote. You do not have the right to see the man of your choice in the White House. If George W. Bush wins the election, the world will still spin […]
Archive | November, 2004
Second Amendment Election Guide:
I’ve just published a Second Amendment guide looking at all U.S. Senate races, all Governor races, and important U.S. of House of Representatives races. You can use the guide to see how the Second Amendment is faring when election returns come in tonight.
Justice Stevens’ Stay Denial:
Justice Stevens denied the applications to vacate the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit’s decision staying enforcement of two federal District Court orders barring partisan poll watchers from polling places in Ohio. Jusitce Stevens did not, however, tip his hand on the merits of the competing claims. Although the hour is late and […]
Law Schools and Democracy:
University of Colorado law professor Robert Nagel has a provocative op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal titled “Law Schools Are Bad for Democracy.” Nagel ponders the persistence of “myths” about the 2000 election, such as the claim that President Bush is an “illegitimate” President, and the “lawyering up” of the electoral process. The essay is […]
A Case for Kerr?
In today’s Wall Street Journal ACLU President Nadine Strossen defends her organization’s position on the USA PATRIOT Act, portions of which she believes are unconstitutional. She writes: “One of the act’s broad surveillance provisions was struck down by a federal judge in New York just a few weeks ago in a case that the ACLU […]
Kerry says he must have been drinking the night before he took intelligence test.–
NEWSMAX reports: Brokaw: Kerry Blamed Low IQ Score on Drinking John Kerry told NBC newsman Tom Brokaw last week that the reason President Bush outscored him on military intelligence tests was that he had likely been drinking the night before his exam. Brokaw revealed Kerry’s off camera excuse in an Election morning interview with radio […]
Who Would Have Predicted,
on September 12, 2001, that between then and the November 2, 2004 Presidential election there would be zero additional terrorist attacks in the United States? You never know what’s around the corner, of course, but the big surprise of the last three years has been the dog that didn’t bark. What does it mean? Does […]
Difficulties in Stopping Suicide Murders:
Consider this article next time you hear someone whining about Israeli checkpoints on the West Bank.
More misleading crime statistics:
The Telegraph (U.K.) writes: [In 1987, Oklahoma enacted a] Make My Day Law, named for the celebrated scene in the Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry film. The law was pushed through by Sen Charles Ford, a Republican, the opposition party in the state. “The purpose of the law is to protect the victim of crime who […]
Reynolds’ latest Guardian column.–
Glenn Reynolds’ column for the Guardian newspaper makes this observation: America, and the west in general, has somehow bred a class of elites who think that their own countries, and societies, are presumptively wrong. Hit from outside, their first instincts are to look inward – to conspiracies, or to some sort of flaw that might […]
Blogs Have Entered the Mainstream.
Proof available here.
Consider this Political Quiz.–
Can you tell who said each statement–Bin Laden, John Kerry, or Michael Moore? I got 65% right. Tip to Betsy, who got 60% right. Pejamesque got 70%.
More Possible Fraud–This time by the Daschle campaign.–
Powerline is reporting that the Tom Daschle campaign is flat-out lying to voters saying that “John Thune is attacking” Daschle’s wife: The Daschle campaign, desperate at finding itself behind in the polls, has resorted to an especially low form of “push polling.” Our correspondent reports: am here in Brookings, South Dakota [and] just thought I’d […]
Election Fraud and Phony Phone Calls.–
1. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports (quick registration required): Between 15,000 and 20,000 Milwaukee residents who registered to vote in recent months have not had their forms processed and may find themselves unregistered at the polls Tuesday, Mayor Tom Barrett said today…. Poll workers will already be reviewing about 5,500 addresses where buildings may not […]
The Enemy Within:
A poster distributed at Northeastern Illinois University, as part of a tribute to Sheikh Yassin,, via Little Green Footballs. Yassin, lest we forget, was, as “spiritual leader” of the Hamas terrorist group, directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent Israeli civilians. Other than Arafat, Yassin is likely also the individual most responsible for […]