To help celebrate Bastile Day, the lovely Lee Ann offers a nice Frogstomp.

Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!

Jonah Goldberg in today's G-File smacks around Jerry Springer and his candidacy for Ohio Senator, a sample:

If you thought it wasn't worth voting until Jerry Springer came along, our society doesn't really need your vote...

Giving Some Thanks

A salute to Nate, a young Baptist conservative, over at Politics and Law School blog for adding me to his blogroll.

And a hearty handshake to TBL for adding me into The-Blacklist Roll of Honor

Candidate Launches Attack Website

Supporters of Mitch Tyner, trial lawyer and long-shot Republican candidate for Mississippi Governor, have started a website, WashingtonFatCat.com, attacking Tyner's rival, Haley Barbour. Aesthetically, it's a well-designed website, and it's easy to navigate through. However, the content is very...um...interesting.

On the main page, there's this short sentence:

"Haley Barbour, Washington Lobbyist gone Gubernatorial Candidate in Mississippi, was featured in Arriana Huffington's Pigs At The Trough.  If you want information on fatcat, Haley Barbour, here it is.  Draw your own conclusions."

Perhaps someone might wish to inform Mr. Tyner and the outfit that created that website that Huffington hasn't been considered a conservative since 1995 or so (and even back then, she was a bit iffy). After all, Mr. Tyner's campaign theme is that he is the true conservative in the race, and using the liberal Huffington might not help advance that idea.

Now on to the categories listed on the site that contain links to critical articles of Barbour. What's fascinating about these categories is that they attack Barbour from differing idealogical perspectives. From a social conservative view point, the site goes after Barbour for associating with pro-abortion groups and politicans, for encouraging gays to join the GOP, and for lobbying for gambling business groups. Yet, on the "Environment," "Health Care," and "Tobacco" pages, the attacks are of a definite Left-wing favor, though given that Tyner is a trial lawyer, it isn't surprising that he bashes Barbour's connections to "Big Phrama" and "Big Tobacco."

While the site may rise some fair points, such as Ted Turner hiring Barbour as a lobbyist to persuade the Congress to pay the UN $1 billion in supposed back dues, the website creators used any criticism made of Barbour, regardless of the fact that the sum of the criticism doesn't seem to come from a coherent politicial point of view.

Abortion Rights Groups Aren't Happy With MS

From today's Clarion-Ledger:

"Mississippi is one of the worst states in the nation in terms of imposing anti-choice restrictions," said Mary Jane Gallagher, executive president of the Washington, D.C.-based NARAL Pro-Choice America, a group that in January gave the state an 'F' for its abortion laws.

Ah, yes, those pesky redneck Mississippians with their sense of morality!

via Magnolia Report

Quick Hits

The U.S.S. Ronald Reagan: Now ready to kick rear ends and take names. More awe-inspiring than the U.S.S. Jimmy Carter.

Chuck Morse, a staunch conservative talk radio host in Boston, is thinking about running against incumbent Democratic congressman Barney Frank in 2004. A conservative Republican candidate in Massachusetts? Who know such a thing could exist?

Pat Robertson defends Liberian "President" and all-around thug Charles Taylor. Could it be that a Robertson owned company, Freedom Gold, has $8 million invested in a mining venture under an agreement with Taylor's regime? Like they always say, "Follow the money."

Robert Bork pens an interesting piece on whether civil liberties have been threaten since September 11.

Yes...

I'm still alive. I've been at my grandparents since the Thursday before last. Currently, I'm on my uncle's computer (he lives a few miles down the road.) I didn't plan on stay this long down there in Leland, MS, but things came up and so on... I'll be back up in Clarksville, where my precious DSL line resides sometime (hopefully) by the beginning of next week. No promises though.

And you can guess, posting will be non-existant to low for the next few days. Sorry, for not posting something sooner.

Quick Hits

A 6-year-old girl was forced to shut down her lemonade stand due to a neighbor's complaint. Fortunately, she's back in business; however, how can her neighbor be such a grouch? (via Drudge)

One of the signs of the End Times: Someone at LewRockwell.com praising a David Frum article.

The Ace of Diamonds has been captured. He is 4th on Most Wanted List of Iraqi thugs, following only Papa Hussein and his two demented sons.

Kentucky Governor Paul Patton pardons men indicted for breaking election laws. Did I mention that the men were involved in Patton's 1995 election campaign? "Attorney General Ben Chandler alleged the four colluded to help Patton's campaign get around spending limits by having the Teamsters pick up some expenses." Ahhh, unions and corruption. They kind of go together like butter and grits.

Al Gore wants to start a liberal TV network along with a liberal radio network. Now let me say what every conservative is thinking after reading that sentence: "Um, Al, have you ever heard of PBS and NPR? Or CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC..."

The Prowler reveals how Hillary Clinton plans to boost up her book sales numbers.

And remember, buy it today! (via KimandQ.com)

WHAT?!?!?!?

"Ole Miss mascot sidelined for football"

The University of Mississippi's Colonel Rebel mascot will be missing during the upcoming fall football season while the school searches for a new image.
Ole Miss athletic director Pete Boone says the "Southern plantation-look" man with a big head, floppy hat and clothes and cane will no longer be on the field during games.

The Colonel Rebel logo, however, is still an official trademark of the university.

Boone said the decision is not part of any plan to completely overhaul or change the school's longtime nicknames "Ole Miss" or "Rebels."
"It's an idea we've been thinking about and discussing for eight years. It's not something that's new," Boone told the Oxford Eagle.

"The thing that has always struck me about our mascot is that it was not an athletic mascot. It was, as we've all said, an old man with a cane. It just
didn't look athletic, it didn't represent anything athletic and it seemed to be a different image than what we were trying to do from an athletic department standpoint."

::Sigh:: "...our mascot is...not an athletic mascot." If Univ. of Maryland can that a @#%^ turtle, excuse me, terrapin, then we can have a "an old man with a cane," datgummit!

And here' one thing that I've noticed: this mascot business didn't start until after the end this last spring semester. I guess Boone thinks it will be easier to put off this chicanery while most of the students are gone for the summer.

Come this fall, I just hope for his sake that he has plenty Cobra Security guards around him while he's in the Grove before a home game.

Here's a hilarious parody of LewRockwell.com Blog.

It looks like Kyle has survived the LSAT.

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Alterman

Eric Alterman's book What Liberal Media? is lovingly skewered by Jonah Goldberg in the lastest The American Enterprise. In one paragraph toward the end, Goldberg touches on an excellent point:

Alterman also clings to the bizarre notion that corporations are inherently right-wing. They aren't on any social issue I can think of. And on economics it's hard to think of too many corporations willing to lose money defending the conservative principle of free trade if they can make money from supporting tariffs or subsidies.

For example, is Alterman aware of the "Gay Days" event held by Disney World? And does he remember the boycott of Disney called by a rather obscure religious sect due to Disney's sponsorship of that annual event? Yep, a large corporation endorsing homosexuality just reeks of conservatism to me.

If you think President Bush lied about WMDs in Iraq, then so did these people.

Matt Labash pens an interesting column on Hillary Clinton's new book, first starting with her previous literary adventures:

Then in 1998--Impeachment Year--Hillary took a break from hiding her head in the sand on the Lewinsky affair, and fired a shot across her critics' bow with "Dear Socks, Dear Buddy--Kids' Letters to the First Pets." To the unsophisticated reader, it might have appeared like more avoidance therapy. In actuality, it was a clever long-term political strategy. Locate people who will be of voting age in 2008 and who think that Labrador retrievers can read their letters. They'll believe anything. It was some of Hillary's ghostwriters' best work: "Socks and Buddy follow in the paw prints of many distinguished pets at the White House." Doggone great read, Hill.

Now this is pretty cool.

Quiz Time, Baby


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Quick Takes

Byron York in NRO today notes how well Bush Circuit Court nominee William Pryor has stood up to the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Two icons have died: noted journalist David Brinkley and legendary actor Gregory Peck

According to a report released Tuesday, hydrogen fuel-cells, if used on a large scale, could damage the ozone layer due to leakage. Not good news for environmentalists.

A clever San Jose 9-year-old girl outwits kidnapper. Heh

What will the "new and improved" Colonel Reb look like? Maybe something like this.

Kids, don't try this at home.

Yea! I got my Dilbert Newsletter via e-mail today! Scott Adams writes a very good article at the beginning entitled "Dumb Rich Guys." I was planning to give a few quotes from it, but it's all too good. So here it is in it's entirely (It beats me writing a long essay. Who do you think I am? Steven Den Beste?):

I recently read an article by an economist who said that poverty
causes people to become terrorists. He used big words and was very
convincing.

Then I watched TV coverage of a high school hazing ritual in an
upscale suburban neighborhood. Dozens of well-to-do Induhviduals
paid for the privilege of sitting in a field and having mud, paint,
garbage, eggs, pig guts, and excrement shoved up their nostrils
while being beaten with blunt objects.

I'm not an economist, but my theory is that you can convince a
certain percentage of Induhviduals to do any dangerous thing,
whether they happen to be poor or not. So let's stop picking on
poor people. If peer pressure can convince 20% of rich kids to
start smoking cigarettes -- and it does -- it isn't much of a leap
to convince them to grow scraggly beards and drive exploding cars.
It's mostly a difference in timing.

Osama inherited half a billion dollars. So I rule out poverty as a
cause of terror. I blame rich Induhviduals, and peer pressure.

Peer pressure is the most powerful force on the planet, and we need
to use it to our advantage. For example, I recommend that the
Western media and politicians stop using the menacing-yet-cool
phrase "Al-Qaeda" and start referring to the group as the
"frickin' Induhviduals."

Like the proverbial dog chasing a car, the Induhviduals haven't
considered what would happen if they caught one. For example,
let's say they (the Induhviduals, not the dogs) accomplish their
stated goal of destroying the economies of the Western world. Is
that really a good plan for people who live in a desert and import
most of their food?

Just for the record, if I'm down to my last potato, I'm not sharing
it with a guy who wants to kill me so he can get a better supply
of virgins in paradise. That lesson is a little thing I call
Economics 101, infidel style.

For the Induhviduals, it must look as if Americans are really dumb
to have the most awesome arsenal in the history of the world and
still be unable to stop terror attacks. They don't realize that the
way Americans look at it is that, so far, we're "really mad," but
not yet "REALLY, REALLY mad." Oh, there's a difference. Americans
understand that somewhere between "inconvenient air travel" and
"complete breakdown of Western civilization," the "REALLY, REALLY
mad" part kicks in. I won't give away what happens then, but
remember you first heard the phrase "New Iowa" in the Dilbert
Newsletter.

And let's stop calling the terrorist supporters "fundamentalists,"
because that sounds like it could be a good thing. I recommend a
more descriptive label, such as "slow learners," to keep things in
perspective. Then let's airdrop science and economics textbooks on
their terrorist training camps with condescending notes, such as,
"Maybe this will help. Call us if you have questions."

This would be a small step, in the sense that reading books about
economics is only slightly better than suicide. But you have to
start somewhere.

That's my plan. If you have a better one, be sure to include it in
your next newsletter.