....when you read this. … [Read more...] about You Know The Iraq War Is A Political Liability For The GOP

The Cardinals just beat NY Mets in Game 7 of NLCS. Endy Chávez caught what should have been a home run off the bat of Scott Rolen as the Mets play the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 7 of the N.L.C.S. … [Read more...] about World Series: St. Louis Cardinals vs Detroit Tigers

This ad will make it a lot easier for many independents and disgruntled formerly mainstream Republicans (people who admire the first President Bush and GOP stalwarts such as Barry Goldwater) who don't like the people now in charge of the Republican party to cast protest votes on Election Day: The Republican Party will begin airing a hard-hitting ad this weekend that warns of … [Read more...] about GOP Suggests Vote Republican Or Face More Terrorist Attacks

A friendly reminder that we offer some folks (for the final time) with a heartfelt smile. We appreciate you visiting this site, reading the posts and passionately commenting. But please read the agreement below the comments area. Simply insulting people who write posts on this blog is the most basic violation of our rules. Outline why you disagree with someone on a post, then … [Read more...] about A Friendly But Serious Reminder

At Outside the Beltway today, James Joyner has an excellent post on blogging that I highly recommend to all of you, bloggers and non-bloggers alike. Responding to the concerns and frustrations of fellow bloggers Stephen Bainbridge and Steven Taylor, Joyner addresses "the day-to-day grind of maintaining a blog of political commentary". A major problem is that "the increasing … [Read more...] about The grind of blogging

I love Halloween. It is official. We have to introduce Halloween in the Netherlands as well. Yes, terrible, just terrible. There are not words enough in the English language to express my disgust for this. Therefore I will just look at the picture and say nothing... … [Read more...] about Yes… Terrible!

An interesting DVD is for sale here, for those interested in the Jewish American heritage. UPDATE BY HOLLY IN CINCINNATI: And These Are Jews | a documentary by Ruth Goldman I saw a free showing of this film last night at HUC Cincinnati sponsored by the American Jewish Archives, JCC Cincinnati, Rockdale Temple, Wise Temple and the American Jewish Committee. A trip through … [Read more...] about And These Are Jews

Kansas: do you really want this man to represent you? I missed this a couple of days ago, but comment 'Rambie' e-mailed a link to me to the story about it at the Washington Post. He - rightfully - wrote in the e-mail 'It shows how "Sexual McCarthyism" to use InstaPundit's term is indeed alive and well in American Politics, but not exclusively by the party he thinks is using … [Read more...] about Screw the Gays… And Those Who Do Not Hate Them

Are Democrats poised for victory in November? A new NBC/WSJ poll says yes — well, maybe. The Dems are in pretty good shape — or, rather, the Republicans are in truly terrible shape. Indeed, "the Republican Party is on more unstable ground than Democrats were in 1994". And you know what happened back then. History may be about to be repeated. Unless Republicans, as … [Read more...] about 1994 all over gain (in reverse)

It would seem so. See Michael Bérubé, then some additional commentary from Heraclitus. … [Read more...] about Is James Dobson a child torturer?

No, not that one. This one. … [Read more...] about About President Ford

A must read editorial at The New York Times regarding the new law on military tribunals. I do not always (and that's putting it mildly) agree with the editorials at the NYT, but this truly is a magnificent one. Once President Bush signed the new law on military tribunals, administration officials and Republican leaders in Congress wasted no time giving Americans a taste of the … [Read more...] about A Dangerous Order

Providing facts to put a play in perspective. Great initiative and great approach by Judith Kesher. … [Read more...] about Putting Things Into Perspective – In a Decent Manner

Rush Limbaugh: "I am not at war with bloggers" - he just did not agree 'with that Instapundit fellow' - Glenn Reynolds. Limbaugh also lists some bloggers he reads on a regular basis. Among them: AJ Strata and Ed Morrissey; two bloggers I greatly respect and enjoy reading as well. … [Read more...] about Rush: I am Not at War with Bloggers

'River' published a passionate and frustrated post at Baghdad Burning about the current situation in Iraq and more specifically the Lancet Study. It's very difficult at this point to connect to the internet and try to read the articles written by so-called specialists and analysts and politicians. They write about and discuss Iraq as I might write about the Ivory Coast or … [Read more...] about Frustrated in Baghdad

Keith Olberman was on a roll last night. Crooks and Liars has the video up. Olberman - rightfully - attacked Bush for signing the torture law. As should be obvious to anyone who reads TMV at a regular basis, all of us at TMV greatly oppose this law. Those who are supporting it should be more than ashamed of themselves. The world is watching how America deals with terrorism, … [Read more...] about A Disgraceful Law: The Surrender of Basic Rights

The BBC reports that Charles Darwin's works are being published online at Darwin Online (free of charge). The project run by Cambridge University has digitised some 50,000 pages of text and 40,000 images of original publications - all of it searchable. [...] "The idea is to make these important works as accessible as possible; some people can only get at Darwin that way," … [Read more...] about Charles Darwin Goes Online

Newsbusters has an excerpt and a video up of Stephanopoulos's interview with Bush. There is quite some criticism coming from the Right regarding ABC's 'summary' of what Bush said regarding Iraq-Vietnam: "Bush Accepts Iraq-Vietnam Comparison" reads the headline of the article about this at ABCNews. However, that is not what I found to be the most interesting part of it all. … [Read more...] about 1+1=2

Joe linked to an interesting article at Instapundit earlier today: Rush Limbaugh seems to be criticizing, if not Mr. Instapundit himself, than at least conservatives who have decided to sit the coming elections out. In the comment section of before mentioned thread started by Joe, Joe wrote the following: "I have LONG contended that if you look at the election results the GOP … [Read more...] about What Karl Rove Refuses To Understand

...you can visit my personal weblog, Random Fate, to read some musings on the meaning of "home". … [Read more...] about If you want a brief break from politics…