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Benches, birds, and bees: Daddy, where do judges come from?

Posted on January 31, 2008
From a post today by the estimable Ramesh Ponnuru on The Corner, commenting on what kind of judges John McCain says he will appoint: First, from an interview in the spring of 2007, on the type of judges he would look for: "I think it?s vital to strictly interpret the Constitution of the United States and have a record of...

Regarding the Thompson '08 campaign (sic transit gloria mundi)

Posted on January 31, 2008
I've been pondering what I ought to write about Fred Thompson's withdrawl from the 2008 presidential race after the South Carolina GOP primary. Usually I'm not much of a pure "linker" as a blogger, because I figure most of you who find your way here already have your own regular reads, and you really don't look to me for recommendations...

Beldar reacts to tonight's Reagan Library GOP debate

Posted on January 30, 2008
Untainted by other punditry or blogs, my immediate reactions to tonight's GOP debate: Tonight's debate was far more illuminating than most previous ones, precisely because there were only four candidates three candidates and one clown on stage. (Now if they could only lose the clown ...

McCain, judicial nominations, sleeves, and warts

Posted on January 29, 2008
I don't much care about Wall Street Journal political reporter John Fund's report yesterday that's roiling the blogosphere and cable news talking head shows. Fund reported that Sen. John McCain "has told conservatives he would be happy to appoint the likes of Chief Justice John Roberts to the Supreme Court...

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And Obama ricochets off the turnbuckle into a reverse pile-driver move on Hillary, who slams off the canvas but rebounds into a scissors leg-lock around Obama's neck ...

Posted on January 22, 2008
This video is the political equivalent of a televised professional wrestling match ? in which both wrestlers genuinely lose their tempers, and each lands some genuine blows that hurt the other. Best single exchange, at about six minutes into the video, as they're arguing about whether Hillary & Co...

The "trophy wife" in action

Posted on January 15, 2008
Watch the video clip of Jeri Thompson that Allahpundit has linked at Hot Air, in which she comments on Fox News about the current GOP presidential race. Then draw your own conclusions as to whether she's just a "trophy wife" (with all of that term's ugly connotations)...

The fat lady has barely begun her warm-ups

Posted on January 09, 2008
Most of the mainstream media, and large chunks of the blogosphere, are behaving like children ? more specifically, like children who have not yet completed third-grade arithmetic. Network anchors, national columnists, and prominent bloggers (left and right) have pronounced both the Fred Thompson and Rudy Giuliani campaigns either dead outright or else on life-support (with Do Not Resuscitate toe-tags)...

"I will beat these people, just like I've been beating them for my whole life"

Posted on January 06, 2008
John Edwards in tonight's Democratic debate in New Hampshire (my transcription from TiVo, emphasis also mine), in an impassioned riff that's the very core of his stump speech: I think what matters ? we've had a lot of conversation about the first day in the White House...

Beldar's quick takes on the Iowa caucuses results

Posted on January 04, 2008
First take: Mike Huckabee, referring not very obliquely to Mitt Romney, in the single most brutal, deft, and insincere negative campaigning one-liner of the 2008 GOP presidential primaries: On "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" Wednesday night, Huckabee said that voters are looking for a presidential candidate who "reminds them more of the guy they work with rather than the...

Video proof that Fred Thompson can and will respond instantly and in kind to sneak attacks on American soil

Posted on December 28, 2007
Fred defends aide Bob Davis from Christine Byun of ABC and John Bentley of CBS in snowy Iowa. The GOP nomination continues to be wide open. A campaign contribution right now to any of the major GOP candidates except Gov. Romney (who can self-finance and has indeed done so) is likely to have more impact than anything you've given to...

Christmas 2007 musings on politics and history

Posted on December 23, 2007
Journalist Matt Bai is a clever fellow and a good writer. His coverage of the Left has not infrequently been "critical" both in the sense of offering a critique and of offering an unflattering portrayal, and that's true too of his lengthy essay in today's NYT Sunday Magazine entitled The Clinton Referrendum...

I'm With Fred

Posted on December 19, 2007
I. Why now? There has never been, nor will there be, any question that I will vote against the Democratic Party's 2008 nominee for president. And because I don't care to waste my vote on a protest, it will be cast for the GOP's nominee, whoever that turns out to be...

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