• A somewhat interesting thread sprang out of my last Journal Entry as well. I'll probably devote some more journal space to this one in the next day or two.
• In this thread, we get a

It's been two years. Last I remember you were quite a Bush defender. Any political stuff you'd care to talk about that didn't turn out quite like you expected?

``Another year older and no wiser'' category

These guys seem to be carrying on pretty much where we all left off:

Thought for the day:

``In the perfect world, the schools would be held to the same standard of excellence that our military is, and the teachers unions would have to hold a bake sale when they want to buy a Senator.''

Discuss.

I'm gaining a lot of respect for Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game and other novels. Some time ago, I had pointed people here, in several posts, to this piece he wrote on Iraq and North Korea, and ellem and others have pointed out his recent piece, picked u

This gem comes via NewsHax:

Bush Endorses Dean for Democratic Nomination

Two more threads, both fun ones:

In this thread, we get a look at correct and incorrect use of the term `Orwellian' before diving into a look at the cold war and how it was won.

In 1999, Fr. Thomas Hopko (OCA) wrote:

It has long been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression (although I do not choose to put it into a newspaper, nor like a Priam in armor to offer myself as its champion), that the germ of dissolution of our Federal Government is in the constitution of the Federal Judiciary; an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow), working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little to-day and a little to-morrow, and advancing its noiseless

Every thread should have a punchline as good as the one I've been linking to in the past two JE's does.

Kind of a fun thread developing in this JE of GMontag's. Another sign of how desperate many on the left are to grasp at any wild claim -- no matter how long since discredited -- to back their wild conspiracy theories.

I know, I know. It's usually bad form to respond to people's sigs. But I couldn't resist. :-)

Update: This thread is kind of fun, too, at least as an exposure of what anti-religious bigotry usually looks like these days.

Well, some amount of buzz has surrounded Brian Anderson's recent piece on South Park Republicans and the state of the culture wars in City Journal (also reprinted in the Wall Street Journal).

Anderson writes:

This accepted story of mine (that makes two for eight) generated some interesting discussion, most of it on topic. Of course, any discussion of the CIA brings out the black-helicopter types as well.

A few threads in particular from this story show two of the left's key characteristics:

So check out this guy.