This article originally appeared on July 4, 2005. Back in May, I was in Bethesda at a meeting. Because of my interest in World War II history and because I hadn’t been to Washington since its completion, I was very interested in seeing the World War II Memorial; so one afternoon I hopped on the Metro and headed down to the Mall to check it out. It provided the material for some photoblogging on Memorial Day. On my way back, I thought it might be fun to wander by the White House before heading back to the Metro. So I …
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Sunday random blogging: A little wisdom, courtesy of the Doctor
Lord Runolfr recently reminded me of a bit of wisdom, courtesy of the Doctor (fourth Doctor, played by Tom Baker) from the episode entitled The Face of Evil. Here’s the quote: You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don’t alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering. Apply this quote as you see fit. It certainly rings true.
A lovely fisking of Ann Coulter
Via Evolving Thoughts, this article about Ann Coulter’s misrepresentation of the Dover case is just too good for me not to link to also. Best excerpt: One part of her latest book that’s getting little notice is the part that deals with Dover and what is purported to be the “debate” over evolution. She begins her screed by saying that liberals have contempt for science. What? She offers as proof that liberals support stem-cell research. Yes, I know, I don’t get it either. Lots of conservatives also support stem-cell research. Nancy Reagan, for one. Arnold Schwarzenegger, for another. Gov. Arnold …
The last rant about Michael Savage for a while…I promise
Yesterday, I wrote a bit about Michael Savage’s attack on George Soros, in which he stated that “people like you give Jews a bad name, Soros. It’s people like you who brought about the Holocaust, Soros. I stand by those words.” Admittedly, at the time I wrote my little rant, I didn’t know that Michael Savage is, in fact, Jewish himself. My bad. I should have checked and was a bit embarrassed to have to have it pointed out to me by a reader. In actuality, after it was pointed out to me I did remember that I had heard …
Is it possible to be to the right of Ann Coulter?
I don’t know if it’s possible to be to the right of Ann Coulter, but Spacemonkey over at IMAO gives it a try. I’m not sure that he succeeds. After all, he says, “We let God’s will or survival of the fittest, if you swing that way, be the appeals process.” I don’t think that Coulter would never concede even in the least that anything even remotely connected with evolution could be true–at least not in public.
Michael Savage: Anti-Semite?
I’ve come across Michael Savage’s radio show a few times now and then. Basically I dismissed him as being even more obnoxious as Ann Coulter and not nearly as intelligent. I hadn’t known he was an anti-Semite as well, but check out this quote from his radio show the other day referring to George Soros: Hey George, let me tell you something, I don’t have as much money as you. I have 50,000 times the influence that you do, you punk, lying, coward, Satanist, backstabbing freak. You’re the people — people like you give Jews a bad name, Soros. It’s …
NJ legislators call on bookstores to “ban” the sale of Ann Coulter’s Godless
I can’t stand Ann Coulter, but this response to her vileness is just plain stupid and plays right into her hands as “evidence” supporting the attacks Democrats that she makes in her book: QUIGLEY/STENDER CALL ON NJ MERCHANTS TO BAN SALE OF ‘VICIOUS’ COULTER BOOK Hate-filled Attacks on NJ 9-11 Widows Has No Place on NJ Bookshelves (TRENTON) – Assemblywomen Joan M. Quigley and Linda Stender today castigated political commentator Ann Coulter for vicious remarks made against four New Jersey September 11th widows in her new book “Godless: The Church of Liberalism.”… In response to these incendiary, hate-filled attacks on …
The Godless, atheistic, America-hating ACLU strikes again
Ed over at Dispatches from the Culture Wars has been on a tear lately defending the ACLU against spurious attacks from right wingers and religious. Now I see that that dreaded atheistic, America-hating organization has invaded a little too close to home, coming into my area of the country.Clearly any real God-fearing American can’t let this be tolerated. Look at how the ACLU has managed to provoke a fawning editorial is doing yesterday:
William Dembski on Ann Coulter’s Godless
A few days ago, given that light of the “intelligent design” creationism movement, William Dembski, had bragged about how much he had helped Ann Coulter write the chapters in her latest screed (Godless: The Church of Liberalism) attacking evolution, I had wondered what he might think now of being associated with her, given some of what we now know to be also in her book, such as her vicious attacks on liberals in general and certain 9/11 widows in particular (“I have never seen people enjoying their husband’s death so much” and “now that their shelf life is dwindling, they’d …
I wonder what William Dembski thinks about Ann Coulter now…
A couple of days ago, on the Day of the Beast (6/6/06), Ann Coulter took the opportunity to unleash yet another spray of spittle-drenched attacks on liberals (Godless: The Church of Liberalism) into bookstores across the nation. As is her schtick, she’s made quite the stir over the airwaves by making very inflammatory and offensive statements. This time, it was about the 9/11 widows during an interview with Matt Lauer Tuesday morning (video here) about what she wrote in her book: These self-obsessed women seem genuinely unaware that 9-11 was an attack on our nation and acted like as if …