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November 26, 2004
Recommended reading
Wretchard at Belmont Club brings forth even more evidence on why we must get rid of the United Nations.
Charles Krauthammer has a great column on upcoming Iraqi elections:
In 1864, 11 of the 36 United States did not participate in the presidential election. Was Abraham Lincoln's election therefore illegitimate? In 1868, three states did not participate in the election. Was Ulysses Grant's election illegitimate?
There has been much talk that if the Iraqi election is held and some Sunni Arab provinces (perhaps three of the 18) do not participate, the election will be illegitimate. Nonsense. The election should be held. It should be open to everyone. If Iraq's Sunni Arabs - barely 20% of the population - decide they cannot abide giving up their 80 years of minority rule, tough luck. They forfeit their chance to participate in the new Iraq.
If you have your liberal-bias-alert glasses on, the LA Times has a rather good column on Attorney General nominee Alberto R. Gonzales
"You have not seen him in the role where he would be making decisions in a completely independent way. As attorney general you are independently enforcing the law. As White House counsel, you are advocating the interests of a client. It is a big difference," said Roland Garcia, a Houston lawyer, friend and politically active Democrat who considers himself one of Gonzales' biggest supporters. "You cannot really pigeonhole Al as conservative or moderate or any of those labels."
Jerusalem Post reports:
A survey of the Arab world organized by the Al-Arabia network website after the death of Yasser Arafat, showed 73.72% want a Hamas representative to replace Arafat, ITIM reported. In contrast only 0.7% expect that one of the PLO leaders will take over.
And please take a moment to read the latest from Dennis Prager with three important lessons from "Amoral media, lowlife fans, spoiled athletes and beer":
First, let's finally stop repeating the false notion that big business has conservative values. Big business has no values. Big businesses are concerned with making money for their stockholders. Nothing else matters to publicly owned companies.
UPDATE: via Digger's Realm it seems the [overdue] spanking of the Democrats this election season is still causing hard feelings. Seems the usually execrable Oliver Willis has been soliciting slogans for "Brand Democrat." All in all, they are a hoot, almost self-parody. And such a hoot that Say Anything launched a parody site. 5-4-3-2-1 ::bam:: and whining from Oliver and others commences (and almost as hilarious as the original 'brand' campaign).
Posted by Darleen at November 26, 2004 09:36 AM