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Bouncing the Bodyguard

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 20, 2005 ⋅ 2 comments

Michael Moore pretty much put himself on the map with his controversial “documentary” Bowling for Columbine, in which he criticizes a gun-happy Amerikkka for instilling a culture of fear in North America and spreading it throughout the globe. It now seems he has become a victim of his own success. Instapundit notes Moore’s bodyguard was [...]

Anti-Alexander

By jelewis8 ⋅ November 29, 2004 ⋅ 2 comments

Chrenkoff spots some British spinning of the poor showing of Oliver “Fidelio” Stone’s biopic bomb Alexander; the Brits are calling it a case of America’s homophobes doing more gay-bashing at the box office, though, alas, without a shred of evidence to support such a conclusion. As Chrenkoff notes, if the same logical canard was used [...]

Voter Suppressing Fire

By jelewis8 ⋅ November 3, 2004 ⋅ One comment

“Oh, and as for the 9 out of 10 twentysomethings who couldn’t be bothered to turn out – hope you like wearing camouflage.” — blog devoted to covering voter suppression in Ohio There’s also something about how DieBold voting machines may have been used to give the election to Bush, but with a statement like [...]

It’s About Suppression

By jelewis8 ⋅ November 2, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Jeff at Beautiful Atrocities points out that despite the accusations of disenfranchisement and voter fraud in Florida from Democrats, they have staunchly opposed requiring voter ID’s to vote, supposedly to avoid pissing off minority voters (like blacks and caterpillars). He mentions that the Justice Department found no evidence of voter fraud (but that’s just a [...]

Eye For Eye

By jelewis8 ⋅ October 28, 2004 ⋅ 4 comments

Piper points to an article that encourages you to vote for Bush even if you hate him, just to piss off all the people who also hate him (which, if you’re cool, you will also hate). To wit: The hordes of the bien-pensant Left in the universities and the media, the sort of liberals who [...]

Effective Rhetoric

By jelewis8 ⋅ October 28, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Instapundit points to a Drudge post in which an Al Quaeda terrorist claims another attack on American soil is coming that will make 9/11 look like a sneeze. The terrorist claims on tape the next attack will dwarf 9/11. “The streets will run with blood,” and “America will mourn in silence” because they will be [...]

Christian Liberals

By jelewis8 ⋅ October 26, 2004 ⋅ 9 comments

Can a Christian be Liberal? Question for the tough-minded among you. I have, I would say, slightly more conservative Christian friends than liberal Christian ones…but only slightly more so. One of my more Liberal friends, Lauren, runs Ramblings of a CM, which she’s currently taking a break from (grrrr!). She has written about this subject [...]

Playing the Mary Card

By jelewis8 ⋅ October 25, 2004 ⋅ 3 comments

Zev Chafets opines on why it was a mistake for Kerry to bring up Mary Cheney, calling it “gay-baiting” and a tactical “miscalculation”. Kerry, for all his long-faced support for gay rights, exhibits the same mentality as Bush when it comes to the gay community. Quite simply, gays are cards to be played to attract [...]

Dead End

By jelewis8 ⋅ October 19, 2004 ⋅ One comment

I should have posted this yesterday after I saw it linked off of Lileks, but decided not to, for unknown reasons. Now that I consider it anew, I think it’s worth posting, because, hey, stuff like this comes only once or twice in an election season. The reason this image is more potent to me [...]

A Banana Republic

By jelewis8 ⋅ October 15, 2004 ⋅ One comment

VodkaPundit accuses the Democrats of turning the United States into a banana republic. This stems from a Drudge report that makes the Democrats for inciting its constituency into claims of voter fraud, frabricating data that could bring the Republic to its knees. Best way to beat the Constitution? Take away the people’s trust in the [...]

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