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LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSIONPosted by Ron Coleman on March 5, 2008
There are numerous scholarly books and law review articles on the history of the Federalist Society. The only book or article the Wikipedia article cites in its references section? “101 People Who Are Really Screwing America,” also cited 9 times in the article. Second is the People for the American Way’s hit piece on the organization, cited five times. Also cited: Daily Kos. Welcome to Wikipedia’s NPOV policy, where the N apparently stands for Nader, rather than neutral.
Or, you know, “nuts.”
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Posted by Ron Coleman on March 5, 2008
Voters in two Vermont towns approved measures Tuesday calling for the indictment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for what they consider violations of the Constitution.
More symbolic than anything, the items sought to have police arrest Bush and Cheney if they ever visit Brattleboro or nearby Marlboro or to extradite them for prosecution elsewhere — if they’re not impeached first.
“More symbolic than anything”? How about more pathetic than anything.
Most of us manage to keep our impotence to ourselves, though it is true that it is harder to hide our ignorance. Must of us don’t live in Vermont, though.
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Posted by Ron Coleman on March 4, 2008
Just a picture.
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Posted by Ron Coleman on March 4, 2008
Naturally I can’t deny it: I’ve used raw animal magnetism to get to this prominent spot on the blogging heap. For me, it’s all I’ve got; and if you had what I do, you’d use it too.
But it’s different for girls. John Hawkins has just published a piece at Right Wing News in which he interviewed conservative bloggers Michelle Malkin, Amanda Carpenter, Pamela Geller, Ericka Anderson, and Rachel Lucas about gender issues and the blogosphere. The staggering level of abuse aimed at some of these women is grisly.
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Posted by Ron Coleman on March 4, 2008
One morning last week it was so cold on the way to work that I took the unusual step of walking in the underground passageway that connects the west side subways to the ones on the east side at 42nd Street, instead of my usual approach of walking one block east on 41st Street to the pick up the 7 train.
And just at the stairs down to the 7 platform, there they were again — the table full of literature, the fire-and-brimstone placards — a handful of black holy rollers of the old school, working the subway for Jesus.
Usually they’re pretty laid back, but evidently this morning some passerby had riled up my man, and he was hurling angry firebolts at this unidentifiable person as he or she continued down the tiled corridor.
“You devil! You must repent! Repent, you devil! Repent!!!”
This person is very passionate about his beliefs. But of course, he can’t possibly think that he can persuade a person this way, can he?
I wonder. Does this lack of sensitivity about how to talk to people mean this evangelist is for sure nuts?
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Posted by Ron Coleman on March 3, 2008
Isn’t all really just exhausting, though?
I’m committed to one Sunday contribution a week to Right Wing News — and I couldn’t squeeze it out
. I am already so politicked out, and it’s only March.
I turned on the radio and there’s Laura Ingraham, inveighing against or about some Iraqi or Iranian oil millionaire and food for oil and…
How do people just keep going and going and going and going and going on this stuff?
I have been interested and involved, mainly on the periphery, in politics for over 25 years, but I am astonished at how so many people don’t get sick of the constant partisanship, the ankle-biting, the personal attacks — and the substantive stuff too. The position papers, staying up to date on every little thing, and who said what and…
Please.
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Posted by Ron Coleman on March 3, 2008
No, I don’t mean February, though it was pretty good for me. Big picture: A lot of bloggers aren’t old enough to remember “The Kremlin’s Really Bad Month,” which as this post at The American Thinker explains we lived through in March 1983. That’s a good thing for liberals, because the kindly forgetfulness of history has a way of making us all forget how, by and large, in those days when the Kremlin stubbed its toe, the New York Times, the Democratic caucus and the rest of the usual suspects howled.
But for the rest of us–my, those were heady times to be young, conservative and in college!
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Posted by Ron Coleman on March 3, 2008
This place has been a mess, by all indications, since the beginning of time. This blog post at Chicago Boyz not only explains why, but demonstrates the “process” as well as you work your way through the comments!
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Posted by Ron Coleman on March 3, 2008
A little bit of an overstatement. But happy advocate of good clean American litigation fun and fuzzy fighter for the First Amendment? That’s me!
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Posted by Ron Coleman on March 2, 2008
It’s a lot to ask of a modest BlackBerry Pearl to take a picture in lighting conditions like this one of two weeks ago, and for it to come out beautiful.
On the other hand, compelling can be something else altogether, and so can the concept of capturing and connecting with the moment.
That moment compelled me, and I, in the midst of everything else, could not but stop and capture it.
And perhaps even the beauty, sometimes, follows. The beauty of Main Avenue in Passaic Park under a full moon is not readily apparent to everyone, by a long shot. But in its way it captured me.
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