Month: January 2005

The Seattle Times is a liberal paper, a virtual house organ of the Democratic Party in Seattle. But even it can’t ignore the fact that the number of illegal votes cast by felons in Washington exceeded the Democratic Party candidate’s 129-vote margin of victory:

The Times, reviewing felony convictions as far back as 1997, identified 129 felons in King and Pierce counties who were recorded as having voted in the Nov. 2 election. Another 23 likely voted. Several methods were used to confirm the findings.

And felon voting was just the tip of the electoral iceberg in this election.

H/T Soundpolitics.

Seattle Times columnist Collin Levey gets the disconnect between the feminist silence on Condi and the feminist outrage against Summers:

It’s now painfully clear that feminist groups aren’t mainly concerned about the actual success earned by real women. (Among other things, that would involve noting that women can succeed without feminists’ help.) Instead, the focus remains on the dogma of oppression and the insistence that any woman given real clout by a Republican administration is really just “showcasing.”

The feminists complain that women aren’t equally represented down the ranks in the administration, the same complaint that Summers addressed at Harvard. In fact, females now get about as many jobs in Republican administrations as under Democrats — and GOP women candidates have had a more winning record in some recent years than female Dems.

You only have to look a little bit over the horizon to see the changes coming in the current generation. Women now outnumber men in colleges, medical schools and even law schools.

Women’s progress under Republican administrations doesn’t count, in other words.

UPDATE: Creationist nutbag Hugh Hewitt joins the feminist attack on Summers, while defending fellow creationist nutbag Dobson’s paranoia about secretly gay SpongeBob SquarePants. Is this world so bereft of meaning that we have to lambaste cartoon characters? Falwell’s assault on the Teletubbies was bad enough, but this is ridiculous.

The Misanthropyst is confused about the rituals of our people. Jenna’s giving the Hook ’em Horns sign that is the clan symbol of us Texas Longhorns. Of course it’s a mystery to yankees, it’s supposed to be.

I expected Jeff Jarvis to jump for joy at the news that FCC Chairman Michael Powell is stepping down but far from it:

I fear that the future will be only worse.

You just can’t please some people.

From the President’s inaugural address today:

Today, America speaks anew to the peoples of the world:

All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: the United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.

Democratic reformers facing repression, prison, or exile can know: America sees you for who you are: the future leaders of your free country.

The rulers of outlaw regimes can know that we still believe as Abraham Lincoln did: “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.”

The leaders of governments with long habits of control need to know: To serve your people you must learn to trust them. Start on this journey of progress and justice, and America will walk at your side.

And all the allies of the United States can know: we honor your friendship, we rely on your counsel, and we depend on your help. Division among free nations is a primary goal of freedom’s enemies. The concerted effort of free nations to promote democracy is a prelude to our enemies’ defeat.

Yes.

See video here.