Hey gang. It’s been awhile since I last posted. I was …….ahem…. preoccupied with the Canadian election.

You now officially have a conservative neighbor North of the 49th!

And I officially have a conservative government after thirteen years of liberal rule.

Whhhhhhhoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(I promised myself I was going to be dignified about it. Oh well.)

Expect to hear more from me in the coming weeks.

Cheers!

That’d be Steyn’s money quote. Read it all. Oh yes, read it all.

Imagine a football game where team X is up 28-3 against team Y in the fourth quarter. While team Y makes an occasional good tackle or decent block now and again, team X is pretty much dominating all aspects of the game.

Now imagine if this is an away game so you can only watch it on TV, and the station that’s airing the game does not show it in its entirety. You are never told what the score is, and only those occasional good tackles or decent blocks of team Y are aired. Team X’s scoring drives or other good plays are never shown.

I guess you would think team X was losing.

Update: It may be hard to avoid coverage of team Y’s starting quarterback getting taken out of the game (ok I have to interrupt the metaphor to let you know that I’m talking about reports that Al-Zarqawi may have been killed in the assault referred to above.)

The Dems have made a huge mistake focusing on their hindsight aided clairvoyance regarding Iraqi pre-war intelligence. They seem to have forgotten that we now live in an information age where stuff we say is recorded and stored in a handy dandy replayable format.

occasionally chirping intellectually dishonest positions from the sidelines is one thing, but using them as the centerpiece in the run up to the 2006 elections is quite another.

Am I the only one out there who thinks Bush and company were giving the Dems enough rope to hang themselves on in waiting to “respond forcefully” to the Dems’ dishonest position on Iraq?

From kimsch: No Jeff, you are not the only one. My metaphor was that President Bush was allowing the Dems to dig their holes deeper and deeper…

In Canada November 11th is Remembrance Day. The following is a poem written by Lt-Colonel John McRae (1915):

In Flanders Fields

Take up our quarrel with the foe;
To you, from failing hands, we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

The media’s coverage of the French riots. Also have a look at this dissection of a CBC article by Angry.

Agenda journalism? What agenda journalism.

Have you ever had the feeling of complete peace and contentment. You see, I have all that I want. I’ll repeat that: I have all that I want. There is always more, always. If you have X, you can always have X + 1. However, you know you are happy when there can be no more to make you happy than what you already have. That is where I am, and I thank god for that.

Just thinkin bout my wonderful family and new baby I guess.

There’s lots of stuff over at Michelle Malkin about the DeLay indictment. I’m under the weather so I won’t be digging deep on this for a few days, but here’s my first thought: If I’m running the DA’s office and I’ve got a solid case against one of the most powerful Republicans in the country, I’d want the prosecutor handling the file to be about as politically clean as humanly possible. I’d also make sure every aspect of my case was solid, and I mean solid, starting with a clearly written, unequivocal and highly persuasive indictment. It seems that the opposite is the case here, on both counts.

Time will tell whether DeLay’s charges of abuse of office against the DA turn out to be true, but at this point the prima facie case against the DA appears stronger than the DA’s case against DeLay.
Also, check out Lorie at PoliPundit, she’s on a roll……again.

Welcome PoliPundit and Memeorandum Readers!

I know, I know, it’s Al Jazeera, but you have to check out their analysis of Israel’s inexplicable decision to attack Gaza:

Some optimistic analysts described the withdrawal of 8000 Jewish settlers from the Strip as both a dramatic and important moment in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that can bring more hope that some kind of solution might be reached between the two warring sides. But few days ago, Israel made it clear that it might reoccupy Gaza simply because some rockets fired from there landed in the Israeli town of Sderot.

Why would the townsfolk of Sderot spend the night huddling terrified in bomb shelters while rockets delicately fell from the sky like the first snowflakes of early winter?

E. J. Dionne is stratergizing about how the Dems can win. I think he inadvertantly went a little too far in revealing the media’s role in all of this, saying:

“The flow of negative news about the administration will do much of the Democrats’ work for them.”

Apparantly the MSM should keep up the bad press long enough to give the Dems time to solve the “party’s larger intellectual and tactical contradictions.” I wonder if E.J. knows that the media is the proverbial spoon that feeds these contradictions to the Dems?

Welcome PoliPundit, Two Minute Offense, Anchoress and Issac Schrodinger Readers! Please look around. Also on tap today: Kim helps take down the ACLU, a town named “Crosses” is sued for displaying crosses, and rockets gently fall in Israel.