This. That is more than mere potential life--it is a human being.

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Kenneth Silber has an interesting piece over at TCS in which he proposes a new word to describe libertarian leaning conservatives--fusionists:

Fusionism is the idea, named and developed decades ago by Frank Meyer of National Review, that conservatism and libertarianism share a common agenda. Thus, the fusionist believes that conservatives and libertarians ought to be allies -- and indeed that their respective philosophies are largely or essentially combinable into a coherent body of thought.

Might I second the motion for neolibertarian? The term flows better than fusionist, which makes me think of the music of Kenny-G or Chuck Mangione more than any thing else. more...

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Mr. Henke over at QandO rips Paul Krugman a new one. An incredible Thou Sayest piece that used Paul Krugman's own words to condemn his extreme punditry. Go read it.

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Michael Jackson in face-off with prosecutor at court

Sorry. Back to our regularly scheduled programming.....

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You know, when Jimmy Carter speaks I am always reassured. Seattle Post Intelligencer:

Directing his remarks at opposition figures, Carter called on all Venezuelans to accept the results.

"Now it's the responsibility of all Venezuelans to accept the results and work together for the future," said Carter.

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Just in case you didn't catch the link from my earlier post, there was a report out in the Telegraph (UK) that caught my attention (hat tip: whoever it was that sent me the link---oops, forgot, sorry!!):

President Bush has launched a drive to halt illegal immigration across America's porous southern border, amid growing fears that terrorists may be using Mexico as a base camp before heading to Arizona, Texas and California.

A string of alarming incidents has convinced Bush administration officials that lax immigration rules, designed to cope with the huge numbers of illegal entrants from Mexico, have become a significant loophole in the war on terror.

Over the past month, border agents from Arizona and Texas have anonymously reported recent encounters with dozens of Arab men, who have made their way across the 2,000-mile Mexican border.

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Just a reminder that Gordon is pretty funny. Now go to bed!!

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I wish it were a joke. It sounds like a joke. It's not. Remember, this is the same U.N. that John Kerry wished to wait for approval from before invading Iraq. All italics are mine. VOA:

The U.N. Security Council has strongly condemned the massacre of ethnic Tutsis at a U.N. refugee camp in Burundi. The Council issued a statement during a rare Sunday evening session.

France called the emergency session to express outrage at the massacre, which took place Friday night at a refugee camp not far from Burundi's border with Congo.

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Please, please, please be on your way out Mr. Chavez. I know a family from Venezuela. In their opinion the Chavistas are nothing more than Chauvanistas. Bullies who use paramilitary tactics to force their will on the rest of the country. If Chavez survives the recall effort, it will be largely because of his army of Brownshirts in the slums. More in extended entry. (hat tip: Instapundit) more...

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C-Span ran a 1971 episode of The Dick Cavett Show earlier this evening. The show featured a young John O'Neill, looking like a clean-cut young man fresh out of the military, debating a young John Kerry, looking just a little too rich to pull off the long hair. C-Span ran the show several months ago and I caught most of it. Tonight, I only caught about five minutes. What struck me most about the show, this evening, was not so much John Kerry's smug patrician tone as he spoke to the obviously much less-educated John O'Neill, but rather Kerry's pronunciation. I'm not sure exactly how to describe what he sounded like. But think Hanoi Jane meets Thurston Howell III. Yeah, something like that.

If the Bush campaign could use that footage in an advertisement......well, think landslide. Kerry does not come off as anything but an arrogant prick. That would be before the "W" campaign ran any of the slander and anti-war BS. Include that, and Kerry might just carry MA and NY. Maybe.

PS-Look at pic in extended entry....now imagine the voice I described....that is John Kerry.

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Most of you know I am guest blogging over at the Politburo Diktat while the Commissar is off to the gulag. Checking the Commissar's daily e-mail, I came across the following meme. Proceed at your own caution. Posession of this meme is said to carry an instant death sentence.

From: Atrios, MiniTru Undersecretary for Propaganda
To: Commissar, Washington Post, NY Times, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, Reuters, AP Affiliates Listserv
CC: Kos, Drum, Marshall, Jesse Taylor, Oliver Willis,
BCC: AS (aka, The Mole), DA (aka, The Costa Rican), JG (aka, The Moderate)
RE: New Kerry Campaign Photo.

Comrades,

Fraternal Socialist Greetings! It has come to MiniTru's attention that counter-revolutionary elements have been distributing unapproved memes on the life and times of a high placed sleeper agent (codename: Manchurian Candidate). While MiniTru's crack legal team is doing all it can to stop this reactionary propaganda and other lies about Manchurian Candidate's efforts to further worldwide peace, we believe more can be done on this front.

Therefore, with the assistance of tavarisch emigre, Mini Tru has produced the following meme. It should be distributed immediately:

PS-The following is an example of Trotskyite propaganda. All copies are to be destroyed immediately.

(via reactionaries at Iowa Pres Watch)

Please include appropriate support in weekly editorials discrediting reactionary Swift Boat Veterans. These veterans are Party approved, are more representative of veterans in general, and may be used for guest editorials.

Your fraternal socialist brother,
Atrios, MiniTru Undersecretary for Propaganda

Clenched fist salute: emigre. He designed the meme. In spite of his tireless efforts at producing Party approved photo, he is right-wing reactionary. Do not inspekt his site! more...

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Typhoon Rananim: 115 killed; 16 missing; 1,800 injuries; 40,000 buildings down
Hurricane Charlie: 'significant' loss of life=one mobile home park destroyed: $15 billion in property damage.

The difference? Wealth via capitalism.

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John Kerry wanted to wait for THIS UN's approval? Maybe he meant some other UN. In related news: Rwandan's Say They Will Protect Sudanese Villagers. Right. Stories in extended entry. more...

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Via Slant Point I found this Guardian Article attempting to list hostages held or killed in Iraq, something I have been trying to do for awhile. Unfortunately for them, the list of hostages killed is incomplete. For a complete list, see my post on the subject. If I am missing any names, please e-mail me or drop a comment.

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"The new Iraq looks just like the old one....We replaced one brutal dictatorial regime with another brutal dictatorial regime."--kos.

Proof below.

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I think Noam Chomsky would say something like, "Find out who benefits, and you'll find the motivation."

So, who is behind QandO's Jon Henke? I bet it's GE's War Making Division.

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1 I can no longer sit back and allow liberal infiltration, liberal indoctrination, liberal subversion and the international liberal conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. ....I have my orders.

Posted by: Jon Henke at August 13, 2004 06:09 PM (BB4w6)

2 I agree. That's why I only drink rainwater or distilled water, and pure grain alcohol.

Posted by: Dale Franks at August 13, 2004 09:37 PM (aMUW/)

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5 miles, 50 miles....what does it matter?

Kerry now claims he was not in Cambodia, but near it on Christmas. Near being 50 miles away. Pretty close if you're in Texas, but not in Vienam. Sa Dec, where Kerry was stationed, is LITERALLY halfway across the country!! (Source)

Captain Ed has the complete story.

QuandO also spanking the Kerry campaign.

UPDATE: The Instapundit ripped off my idea...but has a better map.

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Did you know that the Orthodox church celebrates Christmas two weeks after we do? That's what John Kerry meant by Christmas in Cambodia.....Orthodox Christmas

Drudge flash: Kerry has turned to author Brinkley for a "modification" after it was exposed that Kerry was not in Cambodia during Christmas of 1968, as he once claimed from the Senate floor.

The Brinkley piece for the NEW YORKER will now say that Kerry was not in Cambodia during Christmas, but rather in January, publishing sources tell DRUDGE.

This gets stranger and stranger.

Capatain Ed has the lowdown on it.

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From Xinhuanet:

Three people have been killed and several others wounded in an overnight shelling in Georgia's separatist region of South Ossetia.

Irina Gagloyeva, head of the South Ossetian Information and Press Committee, says Tskhinvali, the capital of Ossetia, and surrounding Ossetian villages were heavily shelled by Georgians the previous night.

Earlier on Thursday, the leadership of self-run South Ossetia issued an ultimatum to Georgia, demanding that it stop the shelling at Tskhinvali within 30 minutes, or they would eliminate the armed forces that had filtered into the conflict zone between South Ossetia and Georgia.

Tension has been high between Tbilisi and South Ossetia since late May over the status of the breakaway region.

I went to college in Russia for a year and can tell you that there is a deep feeling of solidarity between citizens of Russia and Russians living abroad. Russian nationalism is not based entirely on ethnicity. Rather, to be truly Russian you must be Orthodox as well. One can be ethnically Russian, and still be considered an outsider. This is why Jews never really fit in. In fact, Russians feel a much deeper solidarity with Serbs, who are also Slavic and Orthodox, than they do with Jews, Gypsies, and Asians living in Russia proper. This explains why Russia would not allow approval of a UN resolution authorizing force in Yugoslavia. To Russians, an attack on Yugoslavia is nearly an attack on the motherland itself.

So, the fact that a tense ceasefire has been broken in Ossetia's civil war with Georgia, means that a broader regional war could break out. Georgia also has had long standing border disputes with it's other neighbors. This is bad.

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I just had to get that out. (apologies to Silent Bob)

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