A great video brought to you by Scrappleface.

Yikes!

Update: According to David Lat, the guy who received the beatdown was Mike Stark, a UVA law student, blogger, and “gunner.” I know that SA has several UVA-law-student readers, what say you folks about this Stark fellow?  

If you live in Georgia, you owe it to yourself and your fellow citizens to watch the recent debate between Justice Carol Hunstein and Mike Wiggins, which was sponsored by the Atlanta Press Club.

When you’re done watching the debate, please let me know in the comments section which candidate you believe comes across as having the better judicial temperament.

Can be viewed here and here.

I have to say that I agree with Fox on this point:

Fox goes on to make a crucial point that only some in the pro-life community have been trying to make for years. “Where was the outcry when in vitro fertilization was started twenty years ago? Because this has been going on for twenty years. Hundreds and thousands of these cells have been destroyed every year”
 
The problem of in vitro for the pro-life movement has been an enormous stumbling block for the fight against embryo research and cloning, even from the Catholic front. Despite a definitive document from Rome dating to 1986, the Catholic Church has failed on the ground level to significantly oppose IVF. Most Catholics are not even aware that their Church opposes it.

This is so very sad.

Happy Reformation Day!

Joe Carter lays into Jack Chick.

“You’re an uneducated dumbass.”*

Thanks for showing us what you really mean when you say that you ”support our troops,” senator.

You’re all class.

*For those of you who don’t have sound on your computer, Senator Kerry did not actually use these words. The “quote” is my translation of what he said. 

Update: Malkin is all over Kerrygate.

John Kerry: The gift that keeps on giving.

Todd is a native southerner and a news anchor for Fox News Radio in [gasp!] New York. You can check out his blog, Todd’s Journal here. Stop by and pay him a visit, folks. It looks like a promising read. 

Oh, and you gotta love the introduction he penned for his blog:

I’ve left my beloved South to find my fortune north of the Mason-Dixon line. It’s a barren land — void of the blessings that make the South the promised land. The people are nice enough, but there’s no Waffle House, no Cracker Barrel, and for some reason, I can’t seem to get a glass of sweet iced tea to save my life. So enjoy the ruminations on my journey as a Tennessee Volunteer in New York City.

I’ve been sick as a dog, and am playing catch up at work. I hope to post more this week, and I suspect that my cobloggers will be posting more as well as election day draweth nigh.

My neighbor flies his USC Trojans flag from his front porch after every victory of their football team.

I guarantee you that I won’t have to look at the darn thing this week now that the Trojans lost to the Beavers of Oregon State.

Thank you, Oregon State.  First the College World Series, now this.

Yep, a flamethrower made out of mostly LEGOs. In the video it looks like the guy is demonstrating it in the middle of his apartment. Can’t say that’s smart thinkin’.

This one directed at Dem candidate for Texas governor, Chris Bell (aka Mr. Way-too-liberal-for-Texas-guy), by incumbent Rick Perry (aka Governor Goodhair).

Judges are the main reason I will be upset if the Dems take the Senate. Bill Kristol has a fantastic article.

A nice video tribute re: the efforts of Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant to break down racial barriers in Alabama.

I’ve always known there was something wrong with Michael Savage’s schtick. It’s intolerable. He talks like an absolute madman. He is just about as intemperate as you can get and still be on the radio.

Now I know what was wrong. The whole thing is a put-on:

Supporting a candidate out of your own wallet may be the most accurate gauge of what a donor believes in his heart. So it should come as a shock to fans to learn where their hero distributes his own political gifts. Which are not ungenerous. Just ask Jerry Brown, the decidedly liberal candidate (pro-abortion, pro-gun control, etc.) for California attorney general.

As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, Savage is a top contributor to Brown’s campaign against conservative state senator Chuck Poochigian. His gift of $5,600, the maximum allowable under state law, was merited, Savage told the Chronicle after being outed. Why? Because “You have to make choices in an imperfect world.”

RIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGHHHTTTTT.

Given the earlier discussion over the anti-Ford ad, I began pondering, what makes something racist?  I think there are two clear cases where something could be considered racist:

1)  The statement degrades one race;

2)  A racial-neutral statement is made with the intent to degrade a race.

My question is this:  What if a racial-neutral statement is made with no intent to degrade a race and yet some will interpret it that way?  I think that is the situation with the Ford ad.  There was nothing racial about any of the statements and I do not think there was an intent to degrade someone based on their race.  (For the sake of analysis, just assume that, even if you disagree).  Could the ad still be legitimately considered “racist” if some people react negatively toward Ford because of his race?  How many people would need to react negatively based on race for the ad to qualify as “racist?”  90%, 75%, 51%, 1%, or just 1 person?  Discuss.

takes a nasty turn for the worse.

You can read Mike Wiggins’s response here, and read the AJC’s take here.

Update: The left-leaning Daily Report has the latest on the race, along with a link to the Wiggins response ad.

FireFox 2.0, the latest version of the best browser around (better than Internet Explorer, at any rate) is now available for download. What’s neat is that there’s an built-in spell-checker for web text input fields.

Scott Ott rules!

Who appears in the new Will Ferrell movie, “Stranger than Fiction,” as “Dave.”

I could not be prouder of you, bro. 

about the RNC ad against Harold Ford? 

Everyone should celebrate this day by watching this inspiring clip from Kenneth Branaugh’s Henry V.  The feast day itself has nothing to do with the Battle of Agincourt, fought on October 25, 1415, but any excuse to watch this clip is a good excuse.  You can read about St. Crispin and his brother St. Crispinian here.

At first blush, I think the Michael J. Fox ads on stem cell research scare people on the right. Here we have an actor who is very well liked and sympathetic in his plight making a call for political help.

Don’t worry.  I’m pretty sure this is going to end up helping the GOP quite a bit.

Two related reasons:

1. The Democrats have so far succeeded by existing almost entirely as a protest to the Iraq war which has been costly and semi- (dare I say it?) quagmire-ish. Putting the stem cell issue out on the table is a stupid diversion from a good strategy. Instead of “We’re not Bush,” they are now saying, “And we want to start pushing the envelope on bio-ethical issues just like we have been on questions of sex.”

It’s a big reminder of the life issue and whether you believe it or not, that one is becoming a big loser for the left. Pro-life will eventually be what anti-racism became.

2. By focusing attention on stem-cells, the Democrats re-emphasize to evangelicals and Catholics that they’d better not stay at home because of things like Supreme Court appointments. Instead of wondering whether they might send a message to Bush about inadequate attention paid to faith-based initiatives or uneasiness about spending, they are once again focused like a laser on the need to keep pushing against Roe and its progeny.

The Democrats have possibly already blown it in Missouri with this tactic and they may manage to up-end other apparent red-state gains in the process.

and I’ll raise you, oh, I don’t know, let’s see what I’ve got here on my side of the aisle. Ah yes, how about the guy who played Jesus?

How do you like them apples, Ms. McCaskill?

isn’t it rather uncomfortable playing baseball while wearing a belt?

Courtesy of my pal, Tripp Self.*

*My father-in-law, Joe McDaniel, does the voice-over for the first one. 

Just in time for this election cycle.

So very harmless.

(LvC&EI!)