Ask your doctor

if OxyClinton is for you.

Decision 2008

How to vote is the subject of much heated debate.

For the Sheer Joy

of watching someone who is really good at what he does.

York Called It

Romney is out.

I disagree with Senator McCain on a number of issues, as you know. But I agree with him on doing whatever it takes to be successful in Iraq, on finding and executing Osama bin Laden, and on eliminating Al Qaeda and terror. If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win. And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of aiding a surrender to terror.

This is not an easy decision for me. I hate to lose. My family, my friends and our supporters…  many of you right here in this room… have given a great deal to get me where I have a shot at becoming President. If this were only about me, I would go on.  But I entered this race because I love America, and because I love America, I feel I must now stand aside, for our party and for our country.

That shows class, and just raised my opinion of Romney a notch or two. If he evaluates what happened, and realizes how he failed politically, he could spend the next four years getting ready for a real run, and showing us that he really is the guy he claims to be now.

Not everybody makes President on their first try.

QOTD

“I’m now going to sleep in hopes that, when I wake up, it will all be a bad dream and Calvin Coolidge will be ahead in the primaries.”

-Mark Steyn

Britain’s Demise

Is all but complete.

Here is the face of Multiculturalism: Abject, dhimmi, disgrace.

Don’t worry. It can’t happen here! No way we’d elect a president who consorts with guys who like sharia law. Right?

Be nice. Be Polite.

And have a plan to kill everybody you see.

Bob Owens provides a very good synopsis of concealed carry training, including some very practical advice that hadn’t occurred to me:

We were told not to try for tight groups, to spread our shots around the target’s center mass. “Air goes in and out. Blood goes rounds and round. Any variation of that is bad.” Bullets close together cause less disruption than those spread apart affecting different areas. I get that.

I took a similar course in California a couple of decades ago. It’s a sobering, thought-provoking exercise which is a beneficial side effect of liberalized CCW laws.

Now if we could only get CCW laws in California out of the racist 19th century…

Kerry Hits Bottom

And digs.

(Be sure to read the first comment.)

Our 2008 Bumper Sticker

is the last paragraph of this post.

Update:

Byron York sees signs that the field is about to narrow.

Remembering Hillary

The Mexicans have a great saying for this: Génio y figura hasta la sepultura. Translates roughly as the leopard doesn’t change his spots.

Don’t Stay Home

Both Mark Levin and Stanley Kurtz make the case for at least voting for a Republican congress. It’s a good point. A President Obama or Clinton would be unthinkable, and a President McCain would need someone to keep his feet to the fire. No matter which of  the three wins, handing them a liberal Democrat congress would do severe, lasting damage to the country.

Al Gore is in China?

Who knew?

“In the first place, God created idiots.”

Even Mark Twain might have a hard time imagining how stupid school administrators can be.

Modern Snake Oil

Genetics is going to provide some fascinating and useful information, and may end up transforming the world in ways we can’t predict. Meanwhile, though, the snake-oil salesmen who used to ride into town on a wagon now arrive via the internet.

Caveat emptor.

Three Cheers for Wikipedia

Braver than 95% of the world’s media organizations. Because they dare show this:

“Air Surge” is working, too

Let Bob Owens lay 40,ooo pounds on you.

If you are as unenthusiastic about McCain as I am

here’s a pretty good argument that even if he’s the Republican candidate you’d better vote for him.

Is Obama the Most Dangerous Man in America?

Not unless he wins.

Ray Jacobs, RIP

One of the first flag-raisers on Iwo Jima died today.

MSM Turns on Bill Clinton

First watch this clip at ABC.

Then read this.

This is the sort of hatchet job they reserve for their enemies. That Bill “Legacy” Clinton, former media darling who couldn’t get bad press even if he raped someone is now getting this treatment tells you just how the libs are giving him the fickle finger.

Hillary’s campaign should be worried. As for me, I’m worried enough by the “Honk for Obama” folks I passed on the way to work. They were getting lots of honk.

Has Newsweek Smelled the Coffee?

Don’t know how the same rag that published the bogus Koran flushing story published this, but I’ll take it as a good sign.

Shame on Mitt

for hitting McCain from the left.

I’m no fan of McCain. At least I know who he is, and what he’s likely to do. Things like this make me wonder if anybody knows who the real Mitt is. He should be ashamed of linking himself with the AARP at any rate.

The way things are shaping up there just won’t be any good candidates this fall. It’s depressing.

Bush Throws In the Towel

Power Line covers the SOTU capitulation.

Shame on Snopes

I find Snopes invaluable. I haven’t noticed this problem because I use a popup blocker. Snopes needs to clean up its act and not push adware.

Nipping HIV in the Bud

This could turn out to be very big news. It is, at the least, interesting.

MSM Colludes With Terrorists

Again.

More Alzheimer’s Hope?

If this works it will be, paradoxically, elegant.

“I’m prepared to die, Dad.”

“But I don’t want to die for nothing.”

It’s not quite that bad

But it’s close.

But the 2008 tax rebate brings us full circle back to 1980, as the final year of the Bush administration increasingly resembles the final year of the Carter administration– including national malaise, getting tough on Israel but not on Palestinian terrorists, support for the DC handgun ban, the Olympics hosted by a communist regime with contempt for human rights, and a consensus that the current adminstration is lacking in competence.

California Propositions Voting Guide

Buttle’s World presents its recommendations on the California Ballot Propositions:

91    Yes. McClintock calls it the “real McCoy” for prohibiting Sacramento from raiding highway taxes.

 92   No. Think of it as Prop 98 for Community Colleges.

93    No. It’s a low-down dirty trick by Don “Pistol-Packin” Perata and “Fabio” Nunez.

94-97    Yes. With sleazy TV ads on both sides I was about to apply the “when in doubt, vote No” rule. Then I learned that the unions are trying to use these to, among other things, rob casino workers of secret ballots. So if the thugs are for it, I’m agin’ it.