Nov 4 2009

Batting .750 Ain’t Bad

I must admit, I developed an emotional attachment to the NY-23 congressional race; so it got me right in the kischkes when Democrat Bill Owens topped Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman. If it’s any consolation, Hoffman is much better known now than he was just a month ago; which means he may be a [...]

Oct 24 2009

Yes, Virginia, There Is a Sanity Clause

From the Washington Post — which seems to be edging ever so gingerly away from the One They Have Been Pining For:
Sensing that victory in the race for Virginia governor is slipping away, Democrats at the national level are laying the groundwork to blame a loss in a key swing state on a weak candidate [...]

Oct 23 2009

No class, bad character, Part Two

The Obama administration has apparently given up hope of a Democratic victory in the Virginia gubernatorial race and is, in the words of the Washington Post, “laying the groundwork to blame [the] loss of a weak candidate who ran a poor campaign that failed to fully embrace President Obama until days before the election.” [...]

Sep 4 2009

The Last of the Macacas

The PC flare-up over Robert McDonnell’s excavated graduate thesis
paper calling feminism “detrimental” to the traditional family
has followed the usual pattern: a perfectly sound conservative
position is “exposed,” that position is described for days,
without any argumentation to prove it whatsoever, as “offensive,”
an ongoing journalistic beat [...]