Theater of the Absurd

From the Post:
· Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” is set to finally saturate all media: Officials with Milan’s La Scala announced they have commissioned composer Giorgio Battistelli to turn the global-warming book/lecture/movie into an opera for their 2011 season. We were hoping for interpretive dance, but whatever.
How? Why?

Senator? John McCain

When asked to differentiate himself from George Bush the first thing that John McCain always cites is global warming and the environment. It’s his standby. So, he should have a pretty good score on the Republicans for Environmental Protection scorecard, right? Not quite:
Yesterday, Republicans for Environmental Protection issued their annual scorecard for 2007.
Party standard [...]

The First

I’ve got to say that Dahlia Lithwick makes a good point about women and the Presidency:
We all know these double standards exist for females in public life—voters demand toughness but not bitchiness, confidence but not shrillness, authenticity but also glamour. If the Clinton candidacy has taught us anything, however, it’s that a woman can straddle [...]

How To Lose the War on Terror

The New York Times reports that the State Department has canceled the Fulbright Scholarships that were awarded Palestinians living in Gaza, because the Israelis won’t let them out.
How on earth is this possible? In the articles the Israelis blame the US, saying we never asked them to let the Gazans out, while the US blames [...]

Lakers

The Lakers just finished up what has to be one of the most impressive runs to the NBA Finals I’ve ever seen. This year’s Western Conference was just about the best ever. LA started the season in an incredible amount of turmoil and lost their starting center in February. Their star, Kobe Bryant, has been [...]

Really? Doug Collins

So it looks like the Chicago Bulls picked Doug Collins to be their next head coach. This is a puzzling move. Not only did the Bulls fire Collins back in the 80s, but he’s been a coach who has been terrible at developing young talent, which is all the Bulls have. Plus, they’re going to [...]

Gee, You Think Tom Davis Might Be a Little Bitter?

Tom Davis, in an interview with the Richmond Times-Dispatch:
“A convention restricts you to talk to 5,000 party activists where they ask you, ‘OK, now if you’re raped by an in-law and the mother’s life was in danger, you would allow an abortion? Oh, well, you’re not good enough for me.’ That’s what it comes down [...]

Bob Marshall Just Doesn’t Get It

VA Blogger over at Too Conservative has a really good post up that just devastates Bob Marshall’s position on trade. But he leaves out one other important point. Marshall’s blathering about how Value Added Taxes hurt American exporters is simply incoherent.
A VAT tax is essentially a tax on the value added to a product at [...]

Bowerbank Getting Better

So, I spoke way too soon on Jon Bowerbank’s issues page and campaign website in general. His issues page is already significantly longer and his section on energy is really quite good. His bio page is significantly improved as well, mentioning his work on the Russell County Board of Supervisors and adding the interesting fact [...]

The Spurs Dynasty is Over

Now, you might think this post should have gone up last night, after the defending champs lost to the Lakers (ironically, because the guy taking the last shot refused to flop). But this is the news that will really put a nail in the Spurs coffin.

The NBA announced to its teams this week at its [...]