The Smug Baldy Speaks

Pat Condell goes on a nice rant about where the limits of Cultural Sensitivity should be in Europe. The take home message? Europeans should stand up and protest the creeping “Islamization” of their culture, and do so to show Americans that they really do have some collective backbone.

US Army Col (Ret) Daniel Smith asks some very provocative questions in a recent article on Foreign Policy In Focus:
The headline-grabber read: “U.S. Plans New Arms Sales to Gulf Allies.”
Nothing startling there. For decades the United States has routinely sold or transferred weapons and ammunition, sent military teams abroad or brought foreign military personnel to […]

In an interesting article on Bloomberg.com about how Congress is seeking a special prosecutor to investigate whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez repeatedly lied under oath, Tony Fratto, a former lobbyist turned Deputy White House Press Secretary, is quoted as follows:
Bush spokesman Tony Fratto said Leahy is “more interested in headlines” than in reaching accommodation […]

There are plenty of horror flicks out there, but way deep down we know they’re fictional and so we’re not really scared by them. Startled, maybe. Disgusted, sure. But not really scared.
No, in order for a movie to really reach inside you and send an icy chill all along your spine, there […]

Earlier, we had a bit of fun with Democratic Congressman Robert Wexler from Florida concerning an appearance on The Colbert Report that was, um, edited a bit by Fox News. Last week, Wexler introduced his measure censuring President Bush for :
“his unconscionable abuse of his authority with regard to the deceitful chain of events […]

My wife gets kudos for this one: The Foundation for Critical Thinking has posted a list of critiques in the news, titled Police States or Critical Societies? Critical Thinking and the Forces Arrayed Against It. The list starts with a brief introduction that asserts:
There are two opposing social tendencies relevant to critical thinking, […]

On Thursday, the Republican presidential candidates demonstrated their support for civil rights at the NAACP GOP Presidential Candidate Forum. Unlike their democratic counterparts, 90% of the GOP presidential candidates elected to skip the NAACP Forum.
GOP frontrunner, Rudy Giuliani apparently forgot about the event, and attended a $1000/plate fund raiser instead:
After his speech, […]

Got this by way of the Gun Toting Liberal.
Congressman Wexler to File Resolution Censuring President Bush for Commuting Libby’s Prison Sentence
(Washington, D.C.) Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) has drafted and will file a Congressional resolution censuring President George W. Bush for his egregious and politically motivated commutation of Scooter Libby’s […]

For better than 30 years, the Republican party has consistently misused and abused science and scientific knowledge for the purpose of advancing the social agenda of party conservatives, and promoting the economic agenda of its large corporate supporters. That’s not to say that Democrats have not also abused science as well, but the Republicans […]

This comes by way of mooncat at LeftInAlamama.com. On July 3rd, Keith Olbermann broadcasted one of the best “Special Comment” installments ever, in which he called on President Bush and Vice President Cheney to have as much decency as Richard Nixon had when he chose to resign than to continue to bow to […]