Politics Blog

In a brilliant piece at opinionjournal.com, P.J.O’Rourke (in his uniquely humorous way) imagines how the world might look if America did as the anti-war protestors, France and many others suggest and just recused ourselves from our international responsibilities and commitments. Don’t miss the last paragraph where O’Rourke reminds us how this country we are told the world now hates, is still the place everyone in the world wants to come.

Friday night on Dennis Miller’s show on CNBC, Gary Sinise appeared to promote Operation Iraqi Children. He brought some of the many pictures he has that he says show the good news that is happening everyday in Iraq. He has been there two or three times, and he was in some of the pictures. In addition to being a heck of a good actor, he appears to be a genuinely kind and decent person, as well.

Dennis Miller’s show can be quirky and doesn’t get the ratings of the other cable news chat shows (it is on CNBC, after all), but I love it. Last night in addition to Sinise and several other guests, on his “varsity panel", Doug McIntyre talked about his work on the animated series “Liberty’s Kids". He said he actually sat in on a conversation with PBS people who asked him if they couldn’t somehow do the show without including the references to or images of guns. McIntyre said it was necessary to explain to them that the series was based on the American Revolution, after all. He said something else about how we didn’t defeat the British by throwing parades at them or something to that effect. (I was laughing so hard at that point that I may have misunderstood him, and since the website doesn’t provide transcripts, I wasn’t able to double check it.) Anyway, if you haven’t seen his show, or haven’t seen it recently, give it a chance. It is definitely different.

Kathryn Jean Lopez at NRO’s The Corner posted a link to this picture and comments:

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This is not a bad idea.

Check out this excellent ad at Junkyard Blog (I was clapping at the end) using the latest Al Gore speech. I would love to see an ad like this on television. Excerpts from Gore’s “meltdown” last week are run after showing earlier quotes from Gore about the danger posed by Saddam Hussein and Iraq. It is very effective. (Thanks to Betsy’s Page for the link.)

I was joking earlier today in the comments section of one of the threads below about Kerryusing any issue whatsoever to bring up his Vietnam service. I wasn’t terribly far from the truth; and it seems that even the NYT has noticed. Real heroes don’t talk about their heroism at all, much less, in every other sentence they utter. Kerry’s braggadocio in regard to his four months in Vietnam is wearing thin. Of course, when I or any Republican calls attention to this practice, we are sure to be accused of questioning the Senator’s patriotism. Well, so be it.

Kathryn Jean Lopez at NRO’s The Corner posted a link to this picture and comments:

There

This is not a bad idea.

Check out this excellent ad at Junkyard Blog (I was clapping at the end) using the latest Al Gore speech. I would love to see an ad like this on television. Excerpts from Gore’s “meltdown” last week are run after showing earlier quotes from Gore about the danger posed by Saddam Hussein and Iraq. It is very effective. (Thanks to Betsy’s Page for the link.)

I was joking earlier today in the comments section of one of the threads below about Kerryusing any issue whatsoever to bring up his Vietnam service. I wasn’t terribly far from the truth; and it seems that even the NYT has noticed. Real heroes don’t talk about their heroism at all, much less, in every other sentence they utter. Kerry’s braggadocio in regard to his four months in Vietnam is wearing thin. Of course, when I or any Republican calls attention to this practice, we are sure to be accused of questioning the Senator’s patriotism. Well, so be it.