Talk about your “They told me if I voted for John McCain” line…
Archive for December, 2011
Chiquita is concerned about where they get their oil from. But they seem to be concerned about the wrong thing.
Thanks to reversible-hull designed ships? Interesting, and neat to know.
What has Romney accomplished? Gingrich has enemies because he’s got a long track record of very successful reforms and politics.
There are other conservatives who I think are worth looking at – Jon Huntsman, Rick Santorum – but I don’t think that Romney has much to run on, or should be doing nearly as well as he is right now. So many are considering him so “electable” because he doesn’t have much that he’s done in politics. He’s like Obama in 2008 (who did have a bit of a record, but nobody looked at it).
First of all, good riddance, it couldn’t happen to anyone more deserving. This is among the most benign of what he puts his people through. The North Koreans crying en masse are doing so because the regime holds suffering and death for anyone who doesn’t show absolute devotion to the state.
Now the son, Kim Jong Un is shakily in charge of a country with the greatest stockpile of chemical and biological weapons in the world (which it tests on it’s political prisoners), contending for power with any top military that weren’t recently purged by Il. Hence the recent aggravations and missile launches.
As always, the best place to keep up with everything that the rest of the world knows about North Korea is OneFreeKorea.
Yet another reason to vote for someone else.
You’ve probably seen all the eulogies for him (list of highlights at the link), and there’s not much I can add that isn’t already said, except for one point:
Many on the left feel that Hitchens, famously Liberal, veered right in the last decade or two, as he began supporting certain Republicans, or at least certain Republican policies – especially the Iraq war. Even while they respect him and his principles in his passing, they miss a key aspect of his politics. He was incredibly principled, and stood by his principles. He didn’t stray from his position – as increasingly large numbers of formerly Democrats are discovering, the entire Democrat Party is becoming increasingly radical, driving out all who don’t adhere to whatever the most currently advantageous (and likely hypocritical) political position is, and entirely forgetful of the principles the party held generations ago – that most of the voters still blindingly believe to be true. Those of us on the right did not agree with his political positions, but we respected him as a critic and political opponent for having ideals he believed in and was able to eloquently defend. I can not think of anyone else on the left who is able to keep straight the simple idea that dictators, tyrants, and terrorists around the world are worse people than your political opponents. In recent years we have seen Democrats ally with anyone to try and disrupt Republican plans, and the worst language and actions of the left are all reserved entirely for Republicans and Republican demographics, instead of for those who are truly evil.
