McCain Plagiarized Georgia Facts!
Today's Outrage of the Day comes to us from Taegan Goddard, who notes, in a CQ Political Insider piece entitled "Did McCain Plagiarize His Speech on the Georgia Crisis?" that there are "some similarities between Sen. John McCain's speech today on the crisis in Georgia and the Wikipedia article on the country Georgia." Wikipedia and McCain You can click Goddard's name to ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 12, 2008 07:51
Appalachian Election?
Steve Tuttle takes to the pages of Newsweek to proclaim the ascendency of Appalachia as the decider of the next president. "Hick." "Hillbilly." "Redneck." "Inbred." "Cracker." "Ridge Runner." I heard and self-effacingly used them all when I left the mountains of Appalachia to attend college in the great metropolis of Williamsburg, Va., in the '80s. I was mercilessly ribbed as a ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 30, 2008 09:20
McCain on Gas Prices: ‘I Don’t See How it Matters’ (Corrected)
In a recent interview with the Orange County Register's Martin Wisckol, John McCain said that, not only doesn't he know how much gas costs, it doesn't matter. (Tangentially related: "Nothin' Matters and What If It Did" was an excellent album title. The album itself was so-so.) When was the last time you pumped your own gas and how ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 29, 2008 08:28
Gay Medic Discharged after ‘60 Minutes’ Appearance
A group "dedicated to ending discrimination against and harassment of military personnel affected by 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'" reports that Darren Manzella has been discharged under said policy. Decorated Army Sergeant Darren Manzella has been discharged under the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law banning lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans from military service, effective June 10. The Iraq war veteran was one ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 27, 2008 15:33
“Storm Troopers In Clown Shoes”
That's how Instapundit refers to James Hansen, apparently the most intemperate of the global warming alarmists (yes, he's worse than Gore because he's Gore's science advisor). Here's Hansen's latest proposal: James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 24, 2008 00:48
Biracial = Black?
One of the oddities of this election cycle is that, with all the focus on Barack Obama's race, he's almost invariably referred to as "black" or "African-American" despite having a white mother. The same phenomenon is true pretty much across the board, from Tiger Woods to Halle Barry. Biracial or multiracial people, regardless of hue or other ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 23, 2008 15:09
ID Creationism In Louisiana
The creationists deserve a few props here. Since the Dover loss they've switched strategies away from claiming that ID is science and are instead focusing on "academic freedom". That the concept of academic freedom doesn't generally apply at the elementary and secondary levels seems to be of no consequence. The Louisiana legislature has passed, by a veto-proof ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 19, 2008 00:58
School Vouchers And Other Forms Of Choice
School vouchers is an idea I've supported ever since I first read Capitalism and Freedom in 1989. It's an idea so simple, and sound, that it's a wonder it hasn't been embraced. Yet here we are, forty-six years after CaF was published and choice hasn't caught on (except when dismembering a fetus) and is even reviled by most ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 18, 2008 20:59
McCain Making Kerry Mistake on Vietnam?
Pat Lang, a retired Green Beret colonel, is somewhat bemused at how much is being made of John McCain's military experience. John McCain is an admirable man. There are many such who wore the uniform of the United States in adverse circumstance. Jim Webb, Chuck Hagel, Daniel Inouye, Bob Dole... Shall I go on? How many ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 13, 2008 13:40
Universal Health Caring
Michael Millenson asserts in today's WaPo that the primary obstacle to universal health coverage in the United States is that "Those of us with insurance simply don't care very much about those without it." Dave Schuler is a wee bit skeptical: [I]magine how wonderful a perpetual motion machine would be. It could easily be converted into a generator and ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 8, 2008 08:33
