Science Fiction Once Again Precedes Reality
Via Instapundit, I invite you to read The Dorwin Award – a spot-on application of an excerpt from Issac Asimov’s classic novel Foundation to politics today.
Freaking brilliant.
Tag: politics
Ramirez was First
Ramirez was First!
I really need to read Michael Ramirez’s political cartoons daily. He got the Obama Berlin speech joke out first, like last Tuesday:
NEWSFLASH! Obama’s Berlin Speech Leaked!
NEWSFLASH! Obama’s Berlin Speech Leaked!
A pseudonymous media insider going by the name of Red Pepper has secured a page from the speech presumptive Democrat Presidential nominee Barack Unqualified Obama wants to make before the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany. So far only one sentence of the text has been released to the New Media, a line that hearkens back to John F. Kennedy’s emotional and inspiring speech given there in 1963. Some 45 years later, Senator Obama’s voice will echo with power as he delivers these words:
“Ich bin ein beginner!”
McCain “F^*K IT!” Bumpersticker Update
McCain “F^*K IT!” Bumpersticker Update
Jed and I are still selling the bumperstickers, but I thought I’d bring y’all up to date on where we stand so far.
There have been a total of 49 orders for 271 stickers. The most recent five orders went out in Saturday’s mail, including one twelve to Vodkapundit (who promises a plug on his blog.) Heh – I’ve got the names and addresses of several prominent bloggers now! Jed got his dental work covered, and on top of that we’ve donated $375 to the Soldier’s Angels General Fund.
Thanks to all of you who ordered, and a big fat raspberry to those who haven’t!! 😉
Obamania
Obamania!
Fox news reports:
Obama Trip Could Push Rock-Star Persona to New Heights
Barack Obama’s advisers insist his coming trip abroad is not a campaign swing. Even so, the high-profile journey has all the trappings of a rock-star tour.
The Illinois senator’s trip to Europe and the Middle East has generated so much interest that all three TV network news anchors are planning to accompany the candidate.
Drudge links to this piece:
CBS scores first Obama interview abroad
Lara Logan, chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News, has landed the coveted first interview with Barack Obama while he’s abroad, according to sources familiar with the arrangements.
Did she faint? I hear a lot of women faint around Barack John Paul George Ringo Obama.
Investor’s Business Daily’s senior editor and political cartoonist Michael Ramirez hits just the right note:
UPDATE: Scott Ott weighs in:
McCain Backs Timeline to Get Obama Out of Iraq
(2008-07-20) — Republican presidential nominee John McCain today for the first time said he can now support a timeline to reduce the American presence in Iraq, specifically advocating the withdrawal from Iraq of Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama, and several battalions of U.S. news anchors and reporters.
ROFLMAO!!
Quote of the Day
Obama is a three-year senator without a single important legislative achievement to his name, a former Illinois state senator who voted “present” nearly 130 times. As president of the Harvard Law Review, as law professor and as legislator, has he ever produced a single notable piece of scholarship? Written a single memorable article? His most memorable work is a biography of his favorite subject: himself. – Charles Krauthammer, Who Does He Think He Is?
Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day
As long as our government controls the volume of our currency and awards itself the power to make or “guarantee” loans, this sort of evil will always hang over our heads. But no government has ever surrendered totalitarian authority over money and credit without the “incentive” of a violent revolution.
Torches and pitchforks, friends. Think torches and pitchforks. – Fran Porretto, One Degree Higher
RTWT.
I mean it.
A Concise History Lesson
A Concise History Lesson
Fran Porretto has penned an excellent (what else?) thumbnail essay on the path the Democrat party took from its “classical liberal” roots to its “progressive” posture today in The Devolution Of Liberalism.
Strongly recommended.
Why Michael Ramirez Wins Pulitzer Prizes
Why Michael Ramirez Wins Pulitzer Prizes
Or wildlife. Or beachfront property.
This is Ramirez’s cartoon for today from Investor’s Business Daily. Click on the link. Thursday’s cartoon is even better. Hell, I’ll post that one too:
As Jon Stewart said on last night’s Daily Show
Barack Obama should in no way be upset about the cartoon that depicts him as a Muslim extremist, because you know who gets upset about cartoons? Muslim extremists.
No wonder the LA Times fired him. He made everyone else there stare into a mirror.
(h/t Power Line)
What the Hell…
What in Hell…
…were the editors of The New Yorker thinking?
(Click for huge size)
What do they possibly hope to accomplish with this?