This should have been up last week, except that I came down with the plague, more or less. Mike Williams is a former Railroad Commissioner for Texas*, an old friend of the site, and running for Senate: we spoke briefly at CPAC about the cycle in general.
Mike’s site is here.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
*Which has nothing to do with railroads: it’s an elected position overseeing energy production.
I AM NOT GOING TO BUY A ZUNE. I AM NOT GOING TO RECOMMEND THAT PEOPLE BUY A ZUNE. I AM NOT GOING TO APPROVE ANY COMMENT THAT RAMBLES FOR HALF A PAGE ABOUT HOW YOU SHOULD BUY A ZUNE. I HATE ZUNES NOW, AND I HAVE NEVER SEEN ONE. SO BUY AN Apple iPod touch 32 GB (4th Generation) NEWEST MODEL
NO?
THEN STOP SPAMMING MY COMMENTS SECTION. IT. WILL. NOT. WORK.
Moe Lane
PS: Why, yes, I do feel better now. Thank you for asking.
Looking at the Left, on the (frankly whitebread, not to mention astroturf) Denver, CO union reaction to African-American race class* traitor Leland Robinson:
Seeing a lone black man being shouted at by union goons, [the police] decided it was better that he joined the tea party protest at the bottom of the stairs, where he would be safe.
I really do wish that the activist Left could learn to be a little more tolerant and inclusive when it comes to beliefs that don’t fit their particular, rather provincial, worldview.
Via… somebody, sorry.
Moe Lane
*Yeah, not much better that way either, huh?
Honestly, Coneheads should have sucked: it was a SNL-inspired movie that had Sinbad and Tom Arnold in it. And yet, it was an endearingly goofy film that managed to poke gentle fun at various American attitudes towards immigration without actually mocking them overmuch. Heck, even the titular villain of the piece got to stand his ground. I liked it.
And so, goodbye to Red.
Tim Pawlenty is running for President. You know it, I know it, heck, Scott Walker (who I do stand with) knows it…
…and Tim Pawlenty’s media team knows it, too. Well, one hopes that they would.
Moe Lane
…writing this post on the ‘showdown’ between Arizona and Utah over who gets to have the first official state gun. Puns were not so much present in said post as they were cheerfully crammed into every nook and cranny, followed by Andrew jumping up and down on top of the post to close it until he heard the click of the lock engaging.
Well, that’s why I like Andrew. He’s got the right instincts for this entire blogging thing.
The bill requires that facilities that perform more than five first trimester abortions per month be subject to the same regulations as hospitals, which will hopefully help keep down the kind of abuses that were documented here by Live Action (and, much more horrifyingly, the atrocities committed in Pennsylvania by Kermit Gosnell). This rather commonsense consistency in regulating abortions would be normally out of reach of the pro-life movement, as the Virginia Senate is 22/18 Democratic/Republican: however, two Democrats switched their votes after a parliamentary procedure forced them to take a stand on the bill. This made the vote 20/20, thus allowing Lt. Governor Bill Bolling to break the tie.
Because elections matter.
People may also remember that this has been building up since August of 2010, when Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli ruled that abortion facilities could be regulated as if they were hospitals – which ruling helped set up this bill.
Because elections matter.
The bill now goes to Governor Bob McDonnell, who will sign it.
Because elections matter.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
…you can safely ignore the first seven minutes or so: it’s just the standard union solidarity BS. It’s at about 7:37 that the union-supported homophobia, crude sexual invitations, and patented tough-guy sneak-attack slaps start:
Gotta love the tolerant Northeast (Providence, RI, I believe).
Via Hot Air & Michelle Malkin.
Best part: that’s an AFSCME rally. Mr. Gay-hater is probably a government employee.
Moe Lane
PS:
Hey hey
ho ho
You’re on film now, don’t you know
Hey hey
ho ho
Union goons are kinda slow
Hey hey
ho ho
Ain’t the same rules any… mo
(pause)
OK, clearly I shouldn’t quit my day job.
This Inside Higher Ed article (H/T: Instapundit) on Columbia’s (and the rest of the Ivy League’s) contempt for the military does its readers a grave disservice: it adamantly refuses to even acknowledge that colleges that ban ROTC from campus are ineligible for federal funding. This is an annoying, yet ultimately unsurprising omission, given that the only way that anybody can even have a ‘debate’ on this subject is by ignoring the clear will of the American electorate, which is currently involuntarily subsidizing the ‘right’ of academics to remain anti-military bigots. But there is no debate. There is no negotiation. There is merely the law, and whether it is being complied with.
Seriously, let us quote the Solomon Amendment, yet one more time:
(a) Denial of Funds for Preventing ROTC Access to Campus. – No funds described in subsection (d)(1) may be provided by contract or by grant to an institution of higher education (including any subelement of such institution) if the Secretary of Defense determines that that institution (or any subelement of that institution) has a policy or practice (regardless of when implemented) that either prohibits, or in effect prevents –
(1) the Secretary of a military department from maintaining, establishing, or operating a unit of the Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps (in accordance with section 654 of this title and other applicable Federal laws) at that institution (or any subelement of that institution); or
(2) a student at that institution (or any subelement of that institution) from enrolling in a unit of the Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps at another institution of higher education.
