Tim Pawlenty will be McCain's running mate

I heard from an anonymous source that Tim Pawlenty, Governor of Minnesota, will be McCain's running mate. We'll have to wait and see if it's true.

Question of the Day

Why do Christian conservatives believe that life begins at conception? In others words what is the basis of a pro-life stance? Feel free to post your answers in the comments.
In other news, Nancy Pelosi has her own interpretation

A century old practive of finding a virgin girl to be serve as a living goddess...

"Religious authorities in Nepal have begun the search for a girl who could be as young as three or four to serve as the new Kumari, or the virgin "living goddess", in a centuries-old tradition."

What was that first commandment again?

Ah, Nice

As Russian tanks move into Georgia, Bush meets with the girls in Beijing..

Minneapolis Ordinance Restricts How Long Cars Can Idle

The Minneapolis police department are going to be busy this winter. Not from investing more resources into fighting drugs or violent crime. No, they are going to be busy enforcing a new ordinance the city recently passed that limits the time a car can legally idle to three minutes. The reasoning behind the ordinance...global warming, of course. Another reason, according to Minneapolis mayor R.T. Rybak, to help people with the increasing cost of gasoline. According to Rybak, "If you're sitting in an idling car, you're getting zero miles per gallon." What a genius. This new ordinance should lead one to think about issues of freedom. Shouldn't we be free to waste a product that is legal to purchase. Since we bought the gasoline, shouldn't it be our own personal choice if we want our car to be warm when we drive off to work on a frosty winter morning. So even though the ordinance itself is not going to be a huge burden, and most likely unenforceable, it's the principle that the city is trying to micromanage individual's free market choices that should bother most people. This ordinance reminds me of a statement by Jonah Goldberg's, while discussing his new book Liberal Fascism on C-SPAN's Book TV. 'If a government forces a hug upon you, it is still a totalitarian in nature if you don't want to be hugged.' In other words, thanks for trying to save us some gas, and thanks for looking out for our air quality, but how about asking nicely, instead of making it a crime to idle our cars. Unfortunately, they chose the latter, and now I personally will warm up my car this winter, hell this summer (and my air conditioner doesn't even work) to spite the city government.
I doubt that most residents in Minneapolis are against the ordinance. If the city used global warming to justify euthanasia against the mentally handicapped, I'm sure they could get Minneapolis residents to go along with it, and support it.

Minnesota Last in African American High School Graduation Rate

Minnesota's high school graduation rate scores among the highest in the country. Unfortunately, however, Minnesota recently scored dead last in high school graduation rate for African Americans. The overwhelmingly majority of Minnesota's African Americans reside in the metropolitan areas of Minneapolis and St. Paul, which have been dominated by the Democratic party since the dinosaurs roamed the earth. This forces one to ask the obvious question. When will African Americans realize that voting for the Democratic party has got them nothing?

Bush finally gets it

I've been waiting Bush's whole presidency to see this..It's too bad.

Fitna movie

Well, the 15 minute Dutch movie called Fitna was actually not that good. For the controversy it caused I wish it was. The movie shows video clips of islamic extremists saying 'death to America' 'death to the jews' as you see images of people mangled by terrorist attacks. Again not that well put together, but heres the video anyway....



I guess LiveLeak.com had to remove the video due to threats to their staff.
Sick...

John Coleman, Founder of Weather Channel, Plans to Sue Al Gore

John Coleman, the founder of the Weather Channel, has recently announced that he plans to sue global warming advocate Al Gore for fraud. He said that his law suit would center around financial fraud because he believes that selling carbon credits would create profits from global warming, in which Coleman believes to be a scam. The sad part of all of this is that Coleman seems to want to sue Gore and companies that plan to sell carbon credits simply to have a debate. Today, skeptics of Gore's hysteria forming version of global climate change are compared to individuals that once thought the world was flat, and their views are therefore swept underneath the rug. In reality, intelligent individuals will always be more suspicious of advocates, like Gore, that do everything possible to avoid debate. According to Gore a debate is not necessary because there is a scientific consensus on the issue of global warming, as though science is something that can be voted upon.

Must Read: "Feminism and the English Language" by David Gelernter

Though, I encourage everyone to read "Feminism and the English Language," which can be found in volume 013, issue 24 of the Weekly Standard, in its entirety, I must place this excerpt on my blog.

"The driver turns on his headlights" is not about a male or female person; it is about a driving person. But "the driver turns on her headlights" is a sentence about a female driver. Just as any competent reader listens to what he is reading, he pictures it too (if it can be pictured); hearing and imagining the written word are ingrained habits. A reader who had thought the topic was drivers is now faced by a specifically female driver, and naturally wonders why. What is the writer getting at? To distract your reader for political purposes, to trip him up merely to demonstrate your praiseworthy right-thinkingness, is a low trick.

White's comment: "If you think she is a handy substitute for he, try it and see what happens."

Sometimes a writer can avoid plastering his prose with feminist bumper-stickers and still not provoke the running dogs of the Establishment by diving into the plural whenever danger threatens. ("Drivers turn on their headlights.") White's comment:

Alternatively, put all controversial nouns in the plural and avoid the choice of sex altogether, and you may find your prose sounding general and diffuse as a result.

But the real problem goes deeper. Why should I worry about feminist ideology while I write? Why should I worry about anyone's ideology? Writing is a tricky business that requires one's whole concentration, as any professional will tell you; as no doubt you know anyway. Who can afford to allow a virtual feminist to elbow her way like a noisy drunk into that inner mental circle where all your faculties (such as they are) are laboring to produce decent prose? Bargaining over the next word, shaping each phrase, netting and vetting the countless images that drift through the mind like butterflies in a summer garden, mounting some and releasing others--and keeping the trajectory and target always in mind?

Throw the bum out.

Mark Steyn at CPAC

Mark Steyn recently spoke at CPAC, and it's a must watch.


"Citizens should have a government, not the other way around."

-Ronald Reagan

Dubai

Some of these countries make me sick... We should discourage people from traveling to these countries that have insane laws with
insane punishments.

Why I like Shep

Mccain still needs Huckabee to beat Romney

Looks like it's going to be an uphill battle for Romney today. Hot Air is reporting on the Huckabee win in West Virginia:
I can’t find WV polls to gauge, but Martha MacCallum claims Romney’s 41-33 win during the first round of balloting was a surprise. Huckabee won the caucus when McCain’s supporters were apparently told to throw their support to him and keep the state out of Mitt’s hands.

Rush's endorsment of Mitt Romeny

Audio Here, The case for Romney and against Mccain in a nutshell.

What are Bill and Hillary smoking now???

Unraveling the Ron Paul Myth

Do the troops really support Ron Paul more than any other candidate??
The Lone Star Times has the answer

Jealousy is a powerful thing...

Lets really get into why we don't like Mitt Romney--

We need a Candidate that can contrast the differences between Republicans and Democrates

...and Mccain is not that person. Paul Mirengoff with powerline posted a blog yesterday titled "A Romney ad That Goes too Far", Paul claims the ad is misleading.
But the add, in my opinion, does a great job illustrating one of the main problems with a Mccain nomination: that Mccain will not be able illustrate the contrasts between Democrats and Republicans as well as Romney will.
It's been said before that if Mccain is our nominee it will be a 'civil' and 'clean' campaign. Which is exactly what we don't want. I thought we'd wanted a candidate that will clearly draw distinctions between the two parties, not similarities.
A lack of contrast between the two nominees undoubtedly guarantee a democratic president come November.
One distinction comes to mind---where I think Mccain and the democrats have "gone to far" is the global warming myth--but first heres the Romney Ad
And....
Here's Romney in the last debate drawing an important "contrast" between himself and Mccain on global warming--using the facts. And as Romney says earlier in the debate: "facts are stubborn things"

"Facts are stubborn things"

From the CNN presidential debate at Reagen Libary: Romeny's just been asked why he's stated in his ads that voting for John Mccain would put the country on a "liberal democratic course" and "doesn't he have a mainstream conservative record?"
Listen closely to the first 5 minutes. Romney seems to have all his facts straight when it comes to Mccain's voting record, he admits it's mostly conservative and then points out key legislation that does not align with conservative thought. Mccain stands by his record claiming he's the guy that "works across party lines, to get the job done"
But then Romney takes a cheap shot a Mccain: ("if you get endorsed by the New York times your probably not a conservative") Mccain is now clearly mad
What ensues is a list of Mccain accusations, all five of which were misleading if not flat out lies.
Romney calmly writes each one of them down and after Mccain's time is up one by one explains how they are lies. Mccain goes so far as to claim Mitt Romney's former lieutenant governor endorsed when him when actually endorsed Romney...
Romney eloquently concludes: "facts are stubborn things"