MoveOn Can’t

Yes, the organization whose very name is an oxymoron has come smack up against the internet’s detailed memory.

In a statement to The Huffington Post, MoveOn’s Executive Director Eli Pariser reacted strongly to Clinton’s remarks: “Senator Clinton has her facts wrong again. MoveOn never opposed the war in Afghanistan, and we set the record straight years ago when Karl Rove made the same claim.

We have always been at war with Eurasia. Have these guys even read Orwell?

Reagan said “How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.” Maybe there’s a flip side. A Progressive is someone who has read Orwell but didn’t understand him. Just what a Progressive understands from his reading of anything might make for an interesting study.

Why I Never Celebrate Earth Day

I remember whose birthday it is. And don’t try to convince me it’s a coincidence, because it isn’t. It doesn’t have to stay on that date. Here’s an idea, for example.

Flunked, not Expelled

I used to love reading Ben Stein’s Journal in The American Spectator, back in the 90’s. His dry wit, earnestness, and humanity made for good reading. Sure, there was the time or two when he wrote admiringly of lunatics like PETA, but I chalked that up to good intentions on the part of a man who really, really loved his dog.

Then, recently, came the shameful trailer to Expelled, the dishonest anti-evolution “documentary”. There was loveable Ben engaging in ad hominem attacks on “big science”, using all the Left’s favorite tactics. Poor Ben. He’s really gone over the edge, and I have no idea who pushed him.

The National Center for Science Education has put up a site: Expelled Exposed where you can win prizes playing Set Ben Straight. Ironically, this will sell a few more tickets to the movie if it gets people like me to actually watch it.

Update:

Michael Shermer, one of the scientists ambushed interviewed by Stein has a nice, short article about it.

Endgame?

TigerHawk sees a possibility.

Even the New York Times, which has done its level best to promote the myth of Iraqi incompetence, acknowledges that the government has won the battle of Basra…

It’s an interesting take on the situation. At first blush it seems feasible. Take a look and see what you think.

Nasty Little Man Explained

Ramirez elucidates.

Right in my Own Back Yard!

There was a Marine counter-protest against the Code Pinkos yesterday, and I didn’t hear about it before hand. And it happened only three blocks from my house! Zombie provides his usual good coverage.

I hate that their stupid, ugly truck defaces Solano Avenue.

Tell you what, though. I’ll remember the stupid mayor, decked out in the shirt of a local grade school, come next mayoral election. He’s lost my vote due to his wimpy stand.