BeldarBlogThe online journal of a crusty, longwinded trial lawyer, bemused observer of politics, and internet dilettanteReview: Kaylene Johnson's "Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska's Political Establishment Upside Down"- June 30, 2008 Enthusiasm for reform-minded, fiscally prudent, and socially conservative Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has moved beyond the "buzz" stage to the point where it's now rolling thunder. On June 8th, after finishing several hours of internet research, I posted a long essay (with many photographs) entitled Would Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin be a grand slam as McCain's Veep I'm not claiming...http://www.beldar.org/beldarblog/2008/06/review-kaylene.html Hold oil speculators accountable while driving down the prices of crude oil and gasoline- June 26, 2008 This isn't rocket science. Instead, it's quite literally Economics 101. Dems, including both Congressional leaders and their party's presidential candidate, Barack Obama, are all about "investigating" the role of "speculators" in the oil futures markets who, they claim, are responsible for driving up the cost of oil and, thus, the cost of gasoline at the pump. Hearings are being scheduled...http://www.beldar.org/beldarblog/2008/06/hold-oil-specul.html Why didn't Obama publish anything in the law journal he edited- June 23, 2008 "Obama kept Law Review balanced," according to the title of an article by Jeffrey Ressner and Ben Smith on the Politico website. By that, they mean that during his one-year term as president of the Harvard Law Review, Barack Obama gave final approval to the publication of articles by law professors, and shorter "notes" by student authors, that reflected a...http://www.beldar.org/beldarblog/2008/06/why-didnt-obama.html Beldar on WaPo on Obama's "scrupulous management of his own biography"- June 23, 2008 In my last post, I wondered when the WaPo will get around to writing about Barack Obama with any genuine objectivity. An article in today's issue actually starts off promisingly: In the opening weeks of the general-election campaign, Sen. Barack Obama has moved aggressively to shape his campaign and offered a clear road map for the kind of candidate he...http://www.beldar.org/beldarblog/2008/06/beldar-on-wap-1.html Beldar on WaPo on Houston- June 23, 2008 Okay, I'm a Houston booster. Houston has been berry, berry good to me, and I admit to having a chip on my shoulder about how unfairly it's usually portrayed by the national media. (To Hollywood, it simply hasn't existed since Terms of Endearment, Urban Cowboy, or Apollo 13.) So when I read this WaPo article about how Houston is faring...http://www.beldar.org/beldarblog/2008/06/beldar-on-wapo.html McClellan, Conyers, WaPo, and AP vie for prize for "Most Disingenuous" in Plamegate testimony and "news articles" that never menti- June 20, 2008 You're watching absolutely false conventional wisdom being repeated over and over again, folks, until only us few with more than 50 functioning neurons and the willpower to resist propaganda actually remember the truth. Without a transcript, I can't be certain that no one mentioned Richard Armitage's name at any point during the hearing. But if neither Conyers, nor McClellan, nor...http://www.beldar.org/beldarblog/2008/06/mcclellan-conye.html Legal, but offensively cocky: Obama rips off official presidential seal for his podium, and adds the motto "Vero Possumus"- June 20, 2008 Yeah, sure, I'd defend to the death Obama's technical legal right under the First Amendment to mangle national icons, burn flags, yada yada yada. It's a free country, and that freedom includes the right to engage in political expression that is crass, tasteless, and irredeemably cocky. And one of the perquisites of being an incumbent president who's running for re-election...http://www.beldar.org/beldarblog/2008/06/legal-but-offen.html Palin leads Pajamas Media veep poll- June 19, 2008 As of this moment, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin whom I've previously written about at length as a potential grand slam home run as a vice presidential nominee for John McCain leads Mitt Romney by a narrow margin, 19% to 18%, in a straw poll being conducted by Pajamas Media. (Ht: InstaPundit.) Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Louisiana Gov....http://www.beldar.org/beldarblog/2008/06/palin-leads-paj.html Scratch a liberal, uncover a communist- June 18, 2008 U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), speaking to the press today (my transcription from TIVO'd coverage on the Fox News channel during Neil Cavuto's show, about 10 minutes ago): So if there's any seriousness about what some of our Republican colleagues are saying here in the House and elsewhere about improving the number of refineries, then maybe they'd be willing to...http://www.beldar.org/beldarblog/2008/06/scratch-a-liber.html Did Michelle Obama, channeling Rev. Wright's racist paranoia, condemn south Chicago girls and young women to unnecessary and preventable STDs and cerv- June 18, 2008 To stem the political hemorrhaging it was causing, Sen. & Mrs. Barack Obama have withdrawn from membership at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. But to what extent did what they heard while they were members affect their activities outside the church over the last several years Recall these paranoid, racist statements of Rev. Wright, their former pastor,...http://www.beldar.org/beldarblog/2008/06/did-michelle-ob.html |