The Friday Political Thread: Stuff White Europeans Like
25 Jul 2008 10:50pm GMT Quote of the Week"Obama? C'est mon copain. Contrairement à mes conseillers de la cellule diplomatique, je n'ai jamais cru dans les chances d'Hillary Clinton. J'ai toujours dit qu'Obama serait désigné."- French President Nicholas Sarkozy. Translation: "Obama? He's my pal. Unlike my diplomatic advisors, I never believed in Hillary Clinton's chances. I always said that Obama would be nominated." Especially stinging if you've ever heard McCain gloat that...
This Polygamist Thing of Ours
25 Jul 2008 9:53pm GMT At a Senate hearing yesterday, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) described polygamous sects such as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) as a "form of organized crime," saying they have created a "web of criminal conduct that includes welfare fraud, tax evasion, massive corruption and strong-arm tactics." Reid, who has introduced a bill that would establish a Justice Department task force on polygamy and "assist victims of...
Girlie-Governor
25 Jul 2008 9:48pm GMT L.A. Times: "Gov. Schwarzenegger signs law banning trans fats in restaurants."
Libertarian Funny Pages
25 Jul 2008 9:10pm GMT Entertainment Weekly gives a thumbs up to the new coffee table biography of Spider-Man co-creator and Ayn Rand fanatic Steve Ditko, calling the artist's life "one of the strangest comic-book tales ever: not just how a talented man was ripped off by others, but how he denied himself a larger place in comics history."Ditko is one strange bird, no doubt about it. As reason contributor Julian Sanchez tells it:[A]fter falling out with his Marvel collaborator Stan Lee, Ditko, well, went...
The Impeachment Hearing That Wasn't
25 Jul 2008 8:57pm GMT If you ever get too confident about the strength of our republic, please, hop a bus and zoom on down to Congress. I spent the morning and a chunk of the afternoon on the Hill to hear Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr address a House Judiciary Committee hearing on "Executive Power and Its Constitutional Limitations." The title was a smokescreen, as the hearing came about when Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) introduced multiple articles of impeachment against the president and...