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Again, the Religious Left misses the point, and will get a complete pass.

Posted by Deuce Geary on December 30th, 2008

I really don’t like the religious left, for the same reason I don’t like the Left generally. Missing the obvious, twisting history and religion, dishonest (or honest but stupid) criticism are their hallmarks. But at least I have a faith in common with them . . . which makes their alliance with secular lefties all [...]

Another form of Leftist blackmail, and W’s foremost failure of leadership

Posted by Deuce Geary on November 30th, 2008

Ron Radosh at Pajamas Media has a piece asking if Bush-bashing will ever end, and commenter Gina succinctly described one aspect of the bashing and its consequences:
Most of what happened to Bush had to do with the constant villifying [sic], bashing and ridiculing done to this president by the press and twisted views of pundits [...]

More Blackmail on National Security

Posted by Deuce Geary on November 27th, 2008

So, was Obama the campaigner a liar, or simply naive? I’m having a hard time thinking of a third possibility for Obama’s backtracking on closing Quantanamo (and his supporters’ sudden appreciation for the nuances of security versus liberty), which Michelle Malkin covers in her column this week.
Funny, when President Bush and his homeland security [...]

Andrew Sullivan Kindly Points Out The Problem with the Media

Posted by Deuce Geary on October 2nd, 2008

Andrew Sullivan, the “conservative” whom I think would support every other aspect of the Taliban’s governance as long as it allowed gay marriage (but then who wears the veil?), inadvertently points out one of the huge problems with the Mainstream Media by posing this question in a Washington Post compilation of questions for the vice-presidential [...]

This time, allow me to be the 100,000 . . .

Posted by Deuce Geary on September 2nd, 2008

. . . blogger to comment on the pregnancy of Sarah Palin’s 17-year-old daughter, Bristol. I was going to write a post about how the left is wrong that this will sink Palin, and that they are wrong because their view of Christians is so warped. But Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom has [...]

The Rest of the World

Posted by Deuce Geary on July 25th, 2008

Byron York writes at National Review Online:
I have a friend in London, very Euro in outlook, who is terrifically frustrated and worried about the election.
His chief concern: the role of Americans. “It’s a pity that Americans are the ones who elect the president,” he says. “It would be much better if the people of the [...]

Recognizing Evil

Posted by Deuce Geary on June 14th, 2008

Image via WikipediaI’ve been wanting to write a post like this for a long time, and I was finally prompted to do so by Michael Ledeen’s piece in last Saturday’s Opinion Journal, “Iran and the Problem of Evil.” In it, he offers some generally accepted reasons (excuses) why the World was unable to stop [...]

Who Cares about the "Gap Between Rich and Poor"?

Posted by Deuce Geary on June 9th, 2008

Image by Vaguely Artistic via FlickrPoor people aren’t funny. I don’t mean they can’t tell a joke. I mean that it’s not funny that there are poor people. Even in a country with the richest poor people on earth.
But satire is often funniest when it takes on serious things. (For crying [...]

D-Day, Google, and the Media

Posted by Deuce Geary on June 7th, 2008

Today is the 64th anniversary of the Allied invasion of occupied Europe, the most famous “D-Day” of them all. The heroism of these men remains inspiring. The evil they fought was horrifying. It is a day worth remembering.
Unless, of course, you’re Google, which lived up to its usual assholiness by ignoring D-Day in [...]

Unfair and Dishonest Criticism of Christian Activism

Posted by Deuce Geary on May 21st, 2008

Public Domain Image via WikipediaIt is a charge that is frequently leveled. Christians are so hung up on abortion and gays that they neglect many other worthy causes. Some critics go so far as to say that the Church neglects Jesus’ teachings.
Most recently, I saw this type of criticism at the blog Crime & Federalism [...]

Jeremiah Wright’s Military Service Doesn’t Mean Squat

Posted by Deuce Geary on May 1st, 2008

Image via WikipediaI was going to do a post about Jeremiah Wright’s ego, which was on display in his press club interview yesterday. But there are only so many hours in a day. So I’m going to comment very briefly on his claim that his military service proves he’s a patriot.
Wrong. Prior [...]

Criticizing Obama is Racist

Posted by Deuce Geary on April 27th, 2008

Boy, with all the hyperventilating on the Lefty websites, I was expecting much worse than this.
That link is to the North Carolina “attack ad” against Barrack Obama, which incorporates the clip of his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, calling for God to damn America. The New York Times opens its editorial about the ad thus: “Manipulative. [...]

More on Wedgies

Posted by Deuce Geary on April 18th, 2008

Here’s what Obama had to say in explaining his “bitter” comments the other day (according to the NYT [emphasis mine]):
And yes, what is also true is that wedge issues, hot-button issues, end up taking prominence in our — in our politics. And part of the problem is that when those issues are exploited, we never [...]

Giving the People a "Wedgie"

Posted by Deuce Geary on April 18th, 2008

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OK, so Obama raised “wedge issues” again, and someone’s going to have to explain to me what a wedge issue is. Based on what I hear from Obama and The Left, a “wedge issue” is a conservative position.
If a conservative speaks out against gun control, he [...]

Confidence or Arrogance?

Posted by Deuce Geary on March 20th, 2008

While catching up on some Dennis Prager podcasts, I heard Dennis, in the context of the controversy over Barack Obama’s pastor, ask whether Obama knows himself and is comfortable with himself. I agree with Dennis that it is especially important that a man who aspires to the most powerful office in the world [...]

This White House Can’t Communicate to Save its Life — and that’s Partly the Fault of the Left

Posted by Deuce Geary on March 16th, 2008

More dishonest media coverage of critical information regarding the Iraq War, to be topped only by the incompetence of the Bush administration in getting out the truth. Stephen Hayes at The Weekly Standard provides details of the dishonest reporting on the Pentagon study of Saddam Hussein’s links to terrorists, based on more than [...]

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