Which party has the real smear machine asks Real Clear Politics. In one corner you have Move On’s smear campaign and in the other you have … more Democratic smears. Speaking of which, I’m still waiting for Hillary’s explanation of how the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy managed to get Bill Clinton’s pants off and his –okay, you get the idea. The story about Move On raises one of those clashes of virtues:
“The issue is complex. Some Republican attorneys who fought McCain/Feingold on free-speech grounds, such as James Bopp and Jan Baran, have criticized the RNC’s challenge. Meanwhile, Lawrence Noble, executive director of the liberal-leaning Center for Responsive Politics, generally is supportive of the RNC position”
If political parties and certain other individuals/groups have their free speach infringed (IMHO that’s what McCain Feingold does), is it better to limit everyone else’s for the sake of fairness or is it better to expand the infringement anyfurther to minimize the erosion of 1st amendment rights?
Jon Henke at QandO found a funny one — an unapologetic feminist who on the one hand believes in “the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes” yet on the other thinks that the prisoner abuse in Iraq was caused by a lack of feminization in the military. As I point out in the comments, she (along with many of her sister feminists) apparently believes that women are morally superior to men. And speaking of superiority, is it fair that Dale Franks has joined QandO? I don’t think so.
Speaking of blogs that get far more traffic than me (not that anyone should measure their worth by how much traffic they get — OK, who am I trying to kid with that one?), Glenn Reynolds has a rarity for him – original content beyond “heh”. It’s a succinct riff on why we are in Iraq, and a good one too.
The swiftboat vets made good on their promise and clobbered John Kerry. Now the question is how much coverage this will get. Tom Maguire delivers the goods and gets the link because I really like his title.
Tanya has me going one way talking about “Realm of Redheads” but finishes another way with a heartfelt post.
Corporate Taxes. Multinational Taxes. Still with me? Good. Head over to Regions of Mind to learn more. Personally, I think taxing companies on their profits odd because it destorts their economic incentives, and taxes on comanies are really just consumption taxes anyway – they pass them along to consumers. My solution – get rid of them or switch to just a small flat rate on revenue.
OK, back to heartfelt. Joe Carter has one about President Bush and about an honest emotional reaction. I have to agree with Joe – don’t always agree with his policies, but respect him as a man.
Latin is a language Dead as dead can be First it killed the Romans Now its killing me
But now Latin is cool — I’m always ahead of my time. Sometimes so ahead that, oh, nevermind. Via Cronaca
And don’t miss the second Carnival of the Liberated – a round up of Iraq blogs.
