Theft

Seeing this at inappropriate response: Many Snappy Returns. A rousing albeit belated Happy Blirgday to Dr. Frank. The one true frabjous original real blogs o’ war. Accept no substitutes. reminded me that I’m chapped at this John Little character who stole the name of Dr. Frank’s blog and registered it as a domain, which he … Continue reading “Theft”

Seeing this at inappropriate response:

Many Snappy Returns. A rousing albeit belated Happy Blirgday to Dr. Frank. The one true frabjous original real blogs o’ war. Accept no substitutes.

reminded me that I’m chapped at this John Little character who stole the name of Dr. Frank’s blog and registered it as a domain, which he now uses for his own blog (not linked here on principle.) The blog itself isn’t offensive, but stealing the name “Blogs of War” is. Little, having benefitted from stealing Dr. Frank’s name, should now give it to him and go get his own. This kind of behavior is not acceptable, and it gives War Bloggers a bad name.

BTW, happy birthday, Dr.

Bill Frist for Senate Leader

Since Trent Lott is intent on digging himself into an ever-deepening hole, the time has come to replace him. I’m for Bill Frist, the Tennessee doctor who managed the Senate elections this year. He was much more successful than his predecessor, Mitch McConnell, and he’s much less oily than McConnell or Lott.

Since Trent Lott is intent on digging himself into an ever-deepening hole, the time has come to replace him. I’m for Bill Frist, the Tennessee doctor who managed the Senate elections this year. He was much more successful than his predecessor, Mitch McConnell, and he’s much less oily than McConnell or Lott.

Weird conference

Supernova 2002 (mentioned by Denton) looks weird. It’s one of those big picture convergence conferences where the big picture ends up being too big to talk about, so it degenerates into a discussion of very little things (like the Tivo boss insisting that his customers are all happy as clams, both of them). Seems to … Continue reading “Weird conference”

Supernova 2002 (mentioned by Denton) looks weird. It’s one of those big picture convergence conferences where the big picture ends up being too big to talk about, so it degenerates into a discussion of very little things (like the Tivo boss insisting that his customers are all happy as clams, both of them).

Seems to me that digital rights is one of the main barriers to convergence, and it won’t be lifted without some heavy compromise. Yet the advocacy groups that are supposed to be representing the computer industry, like EFF and CDT, are anti-compromise.

Grim prospects, no film at 11:00.

Click here for the Supernova group blog.

Gotcha politics at its finest

If you ever find yourself wondering what “Gotcha Politics” is, what it looks like, and why it’s repugnant, go to the Instapundit website for this day, Dec. 8, 2002, and look at the pile of twisted remarks about Trent Lott. Professor Reynolds, the Tennessee law professor who’s normally obsessed only with Europeans and the Second … Continue reading “Gotcha politics at its finest”

If you ever find yourself wondering what “Gotcha Politics” is, what it looks like, and why it’s repugnant, go to the Instapundit website for this day, Dec. 8, 2002, and look at the pile of twisted remarks about Trent Lott. Professor Reynolds, the Tennessee law professor who’s normally obsessed only with Europeans and the Second Amendment, has launched a one-man crusade to run Lott out of the Senate over a remark the Senator made at Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday party.

The remark itself isn’t important – it was a birthday party, and like everybody else, Lott was laying it on thick, grinning while he praised the old fool. And like many Southerners of a certain age, Thurmond was once a segregationist and a Democrat, and like most of them, he is now neither. In fact, Thurmond has a remarkable record of hiring and promoting African Americans on his staff (Armstrong Williams, for example). And the segregationist franchise has stayed with the Democrats, who now support separate housing and classes for African Americans on college campuses, and all manner of quotas, reparations, and other programs designed to ensure ongoing conflict between the races.

Whatever he may once have been, Strom Thurmond is not a racist — he’d just as soon sleep with a black woman as a white — and neither is Trent Lott. Lott is a bit of a boob, and the Republicans would be better off with a more intelligent, cleverer, and more libertarian leader in the Senate, but he wasn’t endorsing segregation, he was just patting Strom on the back in what should be an acceptably hyperbolic way. Anyone who says he’s a racist is idiotic.

The advantage of blogs over traditional media is that the absence of editors means that news can get out quicker; the disadvantage is that judgment-fogging obsessions, like this one over Lott, Andrew Sullivan’s over Krugman, and Josh Marshall’s over Enron sometimes make them unreadable, unreliable, and offensive.

Here’s to a speedy recovery and a prompt return to Eurobashing Second Amendment activism for Professor Reynolds.

UPDATE: If you’re fed up with all the pissy, politically correct whining about Lott, read Mark Steyn’s column on ole Strom and have yourself a laugh.

UPDATE: Will Vehrs is right on target vis a vis “piling on” and “Gotcha”.

Unilateral pissing contest

Anono-blogger D-squared Digest — A fat young man without a good word for anyone tore into Mr. den Beste and Eric Raymond recently: But anyway, people like Stephen den Beste, author of the turgidly unreadable and unsettlingly technocratic attempts to recreate neoclassical economics without the benefit of reading a word of the literature which populate … Continue reading “Unilateral pissing contest”

Anono-blogger D-squared Digest — A fat young man without a good word for anyone tore into Mr. den Beste and Eric Raymond recently:

But anyway, people like Stephen den Beste, author of the turgidly unreadable and unsettlingly technocratic attempts to recreate neoclassical economics without the benefit of reading a word of the literature which populate USS Clueless (he has a fine line of shite in talking about mobile phone standards too), regard the absence of moderate Muslims lining up to claim that numerically the majority of their religion is made up of horrendous halfwits and ogres, as a sign that Islam is an intrinsically warlike, barbaric and horrible religion. I’m using his piece on this subject as the example because I happen to have just read it, and as an associate of the dreadful Eric Raymond, he’s a target of opportunity.

The attack failed to get a rise out of den Beste, except in the comments section where he fairly well rips the anono-blogger to shreds. D-Squared, whoever it is, is a disciple of Max Sawicky, which tells you all you need to know.

Battling editorials

The Supreme Court’s consideration of racial preferences in college admissions has prompted battling editorials on the America’s most influential editorial pages. The New York Times makes the traditional left-wing argument: If the Supreme Court strikes down the program, it could undo affirmative action in higher education, sharply reducing the number of African-Americans in colleges and … Continue reading “Battling editorials”

The Supreme Court’s consideration of racial preferences in college admissions has prompted battling editorials on the America’s most influential editorial pages. The New York Times makes the traditional left-wing argument:

If the Supreme Court strikes down the program, it could undo affirmative action in higher education, sharply reducing the number of African-Americans in colleges and graduate schools.

And the Wall St. Journal counters with the relevant data:

The university is perfectly up front about its policy of discrimination and defends it as necessary for its “compelling interest” in having a diverse student body. But the experience of two other state university systems — Texas and California — shows that argument doesn’t hold water. Both institutions did away with affirmative action in 1996 — Texas under court order and California at the direction of the Board of Regents — amid prophesies of a “new segregation.”

This turned out to be a “complete fiction,” says Terry Pell, executive director of the Center for Individual Rights, the public-interest law firm that brought the Michigan lawsuits. Today every public university in both states has a non-Asian minority student body of 10% or more. In California earlier this year, minority enrollment at UC’s eight undergraduate campuses topped 19%, up from 18% in 1997, the last year racial preferences were in effect.

In California, the passage of Prop 209, outlawing racial and gender preferences, increased minority enrollment in UC, mostly at the minor campuses.

Of the two editorials, the WSJ’s is clearly the more honest. Affirmative Action continues to provide a crutch to those who don’t want to attack the real problems that disadvantage minorities, poor public schools and too many single-parent families. Understandably, every left-wing special interest group in the country has written a “friend of the court” brief supporting preferences.

Court watchers say O’Connor has switched sides and will vote to strike preferences down.

Laugh for the day

Al Gore had a complete core meltdown today, lashing out at the media, left right, and center in the New York Observer. Mr. Gore acknowledged his image problem among powerful Democrats, and that the onus will be upon him to recapture the loyalties of those who supported him in 2000. “Maybe I bear the blame … Continue reading “Laugh for the day”

Al Gore had a complete core meltdown today, lashing out at the media, left right, and center in the New York Observer.

Mr. Gore acknowledged his image problem among powerful Democrats, and that the onus will be upon him to recapture the loyalties of those who supported him in 2000. “Maybe I bear the blame for some of it,” he said. “I haven’t been very good about calling all of the insiders over the last two years, and maybe some of them have a beef with me because of that. I know they have been courted assiduously by some of the others who are considering a run for the White House, and it may be that some of them have already signed up with other people. If I do decide to run again, I think there’s a lot of support, but I’d also have to work really hard to get a bunch of them committed back to me.”

Mr. Gore also reckoned that he would have to prove himself all over again to key political and media players. “I’m well aware that the political insiders and political-journalism community have a considerable amount of influence, and even though I’m stronger at the grassroots level, I think that if I did run again, I would have to convince those two groups that I’ve learned enough in the last couple of years to run a better campaign than I did last time. I don’t think that there’s a thing that I could say and no words I could choose that could accomplish that — the way to convince them would be in actually doing it.”

For now, Mr. Gore can only attempt to explain what motivates the ceaseless lampooning he continues to face from America?s columnists and commentators. “That?s postmodernism,” he offered. “It?s the combination of narcissism and nihilism that really defines postmodernism, and that?s another interview for another time, if you’re interested in it.”

This is like watching a train wreck. The lesson, I suppose, is that trained, professional politicians shouldn’t open their mouths in public without handlers telling them what to say. Gore is probably free of handlers right now, so we’re seeing the real, unvarnished Gore for the first time, and it’s damn scary.

Bush nepotism

By way of following up on the Krugman smear about Republican nepotism, we offer the following from The Political Graveyard on the political geneology of the Bush family. As you see, all of this nepotism started in 1778, so nefarious are these people. Enjoy. William P. Walker (1778-1858) Father-in-law of Julius Rockwell and David Davis. … Continue reading “Bush nepotism”

By way of following up on the Krugman smear about Republican nepotism, we offer the following from The Political Graveyard on the political geneology of the Bush family. As you see, all of this nepotism started in 1778, so nefarious are these people. Enjoy.

  • William P. Walker (1778-1858) Father-in-law of Julius Rockwell and David Davis. Born in Lenox, Berkshire County, Mass., October 8, 1778. Member of
    Massachusetts state house of representatives; member of Massachusetts
    state senate;     member of Massachusetts
    Governor’s Council    ; probate judge, 1824-48. Died in Lenox,
    Berkshire
    County, Mass.,    November
    11, 1858.      Burial location unknown.
  • Julius Rockwell (1805-1888) Son-in-law of
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker9.html#0IS19082W” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker9.html#0IS19082W” >William
    P. Walker; father of
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rockwell.html#R9M0JB61Y” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rockwell.html#R9M0JB61Y” >Francis
    Williams Rockwell. Born in Colebrook,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/LI.html#BORN” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/LI.html#BORN” >Litchfield
    County, Conn.,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-apr-26.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-apr-26.html” >April
    26,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-1805.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-1805.html” >1805.
    Member of
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html” >Massachusetts
    state house of representatives, 1834;
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html” >U.S.
    Representative from Massachusetts 7th District, 1843-51;
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/ussen.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/ussen.html” >U.S.
    Senator from Massachusetts, 1854-55; state court judge, 1859.
    Died
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/died-may-19.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/died-may-19.html” >May
    19,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/died-1888.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/died-1888.html” >1888.
    Interment at
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BE.html#RAR1B7MQC” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BE.html#RAR1B7MQC” >Lenox
    Cemetery, Lenox, Mass. See also:
    xhref=”http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000368″ mce_href=”http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000368″ >congressional
    biography.
  • David Davis (1815-1886) of Bloomington,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ML.html#LIVED” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ML.html#LIVED” >McLean
    County, Ill. Son-in-law of
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker9.html#0IS19082W” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker9.html#0IS19082W” >William
    P. Walker; cousin of
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis4.html#R9M0IUG4J” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis4.html#R9M0IUG4J” >Henry
    Winter Davis; great-grandfather of
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis2.html#S571ACMTJ” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis2.html#S571ACMTJ” >David
    Davis IV; first cousin thrice removed of
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#R9M0IRCAS” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#R9M0IRCAS” >George
    Herbert Walker Bush. Born near Cecilton,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/CE.html#BORN” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/CE.html#BORN” >Cecil
    County, Md.,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-mar-09.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-mar-09.html” >March
    9,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-1815.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-1815.html” >1815.
    Member of
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/sthse.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/sthse.html” >Illinois
    state house of representatives, 1845;
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/cncn2.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/cncn2.html” >delegate
    to Illinois state constitutional convention, 1847; state court
    judge, 1848;
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/judic1.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/judic1.html” >Justice of
    U.S. Supreme Court, 1862-77; received one electoral vote for
    President,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp-1872.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp-1872.html” >1872;
    U.S.
    Senator from Illinois    , 1877-83.
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html” >Presbyterian.
    Died
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/died-jun-26.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/died-jun-26.html” >June
    26,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/died-1886.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/died-1886.html” >1886.
    Interment at
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ML.html#RA50MJX7M” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ML.html#RA50MJX7M” >Evergreen
    Cemetery, Bloomington, Ill. See also:
    xhref=”http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000097″ mce_href=”http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000097″ >congressional
    biography.
  • Henry Winter Davis (1817-1865) Cousin of
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis2.html#R9M0IUFFS” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis2.html#R9M0IUFFS” >David
    Davis. Born in Annapolis,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/AA.html#BORN” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/AA.html#BORN” >Anne Arundel
    County, Md.,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-aug-16.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-aug-16.html” >August
    16,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-1817.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-1817.html” >1817.
    U.S.
    Representative from Maryland    , 1855-61, 1863-65 (4th District
    1855-61, 3rd District 1863-65).
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html” >Episcopalian.
    Died in
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba4.html#DIED” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba4.html#DIED” >Baltimore,
    Md.,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/died-dec-30.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/died-dec-30.html” >December
    30,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/died-1865.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/died-1865.html” >1865.
    Original interment at
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba5.html#R9X0MNA0T” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba5.html#R9X0MNA0T” >St.
    Paul’s Protestant Episcopal Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.; reinterment
    at
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba5.html#R9T0XKBSH” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba5.html#R9T0XKBSH” >Greenmount
    Cemetery, Baltimore, Md. See also:
    xhref=”http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000104″ mce_href=”http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000104″ >congressional
    biography.
  • Francis Williams Rockwell (1844-1929) Son of
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rockwell.html#R9M0JB6CL” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rockwell.html#R9M0JB6CL” >Julius
    Rockwell. Born in Pittsfield,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BE.html#BORN” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BE.html#BORN” >Berkshire
    County, Mass.,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-may-26.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-may-26.html” >May
    26,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-1844.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-1844.html” >1844.
    Republican. State court judge, 1873; member of
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html” >Massachusetts
    state house of representatives, 1879; member of
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/stsen.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/stsen.html” >Massachusetts
    state senate, 1881;
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html” >U.S.
    Representative from Massachusetts 12th District, 1884-91. Died
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/died-jun-26.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/died-jun-26.html” >June
    26,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/died-1929.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/died-1929.html” >1929.
    Interment at
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BE.html#R9T0XKCDQ” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BE.html#R9T0XKCDQ” >Pittsfield
    Cemetery, Pittsfield, Mass. See also:
    xhref=”http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000365″ mce_href=”http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000365″ >congressional
    biography.
  • Prescott Sheldon Bush (1895-1972) — also known as
    Prescott S. Bush — of Greenwich,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA3.html#LIVED” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA3.html#LIVED” >Fairfield
    County, Conn. Father of
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#R9M0IRCAS” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#R9M0IRCAS” >George
    Herbert Walker Bush; grandfather of
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#ROK074H8X” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#ROK074H8X” >George
    Walker Bush and
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#S5N0KM53O” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#S5N0KM53O” >John
    Ellis Bush. Born in Columbus,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/FR.html#BORN” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/FR.html#BORN” >Franklin
    County, Ohio,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-may-15.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-may-15.html” >May
    15,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-1895.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-1895.html” >1895.
    Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to
    Republican National Convention from Connecticut,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1948/CT.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1948/CT.html” >1948,xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1964/CT.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1964/CT.html” >1964
    (alternate);
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/ussen.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/ussen.html” >U.S.
    Senator from Connecticut, 1952-63; defeated, 1950.
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html” >Episcopalian.
    Member,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html” >American
    Legion;
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/40-8.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/40-8.html” >Forty and
    Eight. Died in New York City (
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ZZ.html#DIED” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ZZ.html#DIED” >unknown
    county), N.Y.,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/died-oct-08.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/died-oct-08.html” >October
    8,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/died-1972.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/died-1972.html” >1972.
    Interment at
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA5.html#RAM0TMIA8″ mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA5.html#RAM0TMIA8″ >Putnam
    Cemetery, Greenwich, Conn. See also:
    xhref=”http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001167″ mce_href=”http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001167″ >congressional
    biography.
  • David Davis IV (1906-1978) of Bloomington,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ML.html#LIVED” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ML.html#LIVED” >McLean
    County, Ill. Great-grandson of
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis2.html#R9M0IUFFS” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis2.html#R9M0IUFFS” >David
    Davis. Born in Bloomington,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ML.html#BORN” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ML.html#BORN” >McLean
    County, Ill.,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-jul-29.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-jul-29.html” >July
    29,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-1906.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-1906.html” >1906.
    Lawyer; member of
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/stsen.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/stsen.html” >Illinois
    state senate, 1953-67;
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/cncn6.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/cncn6.html” >delegate
    to Illinois state constitutional convention 37th District,
    1969-70.
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html” >Presbyterian.
    Member,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html” >American Bar
    Association;
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-jud-soc.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-jud-soc.html” >American
    Judicature Society. Died in Bloomington,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ML.html#DIED” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ML.html#DIED” >McLean
    County, Ill.,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/died-apr-14.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/died-apr-14.html” >April
    14,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/died-1978.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/died-1978.html” >1978.
    Interment at
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ML.html#RA50MJX7M” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ML.html#RA50MJX7M” >Evergreen
    Cemetery, Bloomington, Ill.
  • George Herbert Walker Bush (b. 1924) — also known as
    George Bush; “Poppy” — of Houston,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR.html#LIVED” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR.html#LIVED” >Harris
    County, Tex. First cousin, thrice removed of
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis2.html#R9M0IUFFS” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis2.html#R9M0IUFFS” >David
    Davis; son of
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#R9M0IRCEC” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#R9M0IRCEC” >Prescott
    Sheldon Bush; father of
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#ROK074H8X” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#ROK074H8X” >George
    Walker Bush and
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#S5N0KM53O” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#S5N0KM53O” >John
    Ellis Bush. Born in Milton,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO.html#BORN” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO.html#BORN” >Norfolk
    County, Mass.,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-jun-12.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-jun-12.html” >June
    12,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-1924.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-1924.html” >1924.
    Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; delegate to
    Republican National Convention from Texas,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1964/TX.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1964/TX.html” >1964;
    candidate for
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ussen.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ussen.html” >U.S.
    Senator from Texas, 1964, 1970;
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html” >U.S.
    Representative from Texas 7th District, 1967-71;
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/diplo7.html#UNITEDNATIONS” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/diplo7.html#UNITEDNATIONS” >U.S.
    Representative to the United Nations, 1971-73;
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/index.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/index.html” >Chairman of
    Republican National Committee, 1973-74; candidate for Republican
    nomination for President,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1980/index.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1980/index.html” >1980;
    Vice
    President of the United States    , 1981-89;
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html” >President
    of the United States, 1989-93; defeated, 1992.
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html” >Episcopalian.
    Member,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/cfr.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/cfr.html” >Council on
    Foreign Relations;
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html” >American
    Legion;
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-kappa-epsilon.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-kappa-epsilon.html” >Delta
    Kappa Epsilon. Still living as of 2001. See also:
    xhref=”http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001166″ mce_href=”http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001166″ >congressional
    biography. Books by George H. W. Bush:
    xhref=”http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/068483958X/thepoliticalg-20″ mce_href=”http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/068483958X/thepoliticalg-20″ >All
    The Best, George Bush: My Life and Other Writings (1999),
    xhref=”http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385141815/thepoliticalg-20″ mce_href=”http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385141815/thepoliticalg-20″ >Looking
    Forward (1987, out of print),
    xhref=”http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679432485/thepoliticalg-20″ mce_href=”http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679432485/thepoliticalg-20″ >A
    World Transformed (1998); Books about George H. W. Bush: John
    Robert Greene,
    xhref=”http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0700609938/thepoliticalg-20″ mce_href=”http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0700609938/thepoliticalg-20″ >The
    Presidency of George Bush.
  • George Walker Bush (b. 1946) — also known as George W.
    Bush    ; “Dubya” — Grandson of
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#R9M0IRCEC” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#R9M0IRCEC” >Prescott
    Sheldon Bush; son of
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#R9M0IRCAS” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#R9M0IRCAS” >George
    Herbert Walker Bush; brother of
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#S5N0KM53O” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#S5N0KM53O” >John
    Ellis Bush. Born
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-jul-06.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-jul-06.html” >July
    6,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-1946.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-1946.html” >1946.
    Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Texas,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1988/TX.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1988/TX.html” >1988;
    Governor
    of Texas    , 1995-2000;
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html” >President
    of the United States, 2001-.
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html” >Methodist.
    Member,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-kappa-epsilon.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-kappa-epsilon.html” >Delta
    Kappa Epsilon. Still living as of 2001. Books by George W. Bush:xhref=”http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060957921/thepoliticalg-20″ mce_href=”http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060957921/thepoliticalg-20″ >A
    Charge to Keep (1999).
  • John Ellis Bush (b. 1953) — also known as Jeb Bush
    — Grandson of
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#R9M0IRCEC” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#R9M0IRCEC” >Prescott
    Sheldon Bush; son of
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#R9M0IRCAS” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#R9M0IRCAS” >George
    Herbert Walker Bush; brother of
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#ROK074H8X” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#ROK074H8X” >George
    Walker Bush. Born in Midland,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/MD.html#BORN” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/MD.html#BORN” >Midland
    County, Tex.,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-feb-11.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-feb-11.html” >February
    11,
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-1953.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/born-1953.html” >1953.
    Republican.
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/gov.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/gov.html” >Governor of
    Florida, 1999-; defeated, 1994.
    xhref=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html” mce_href=”http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html” >Catholic.
    Still living as of 2001.

Dirty Republican plot exposed

Enron’s boy at the New York Times, Paul Krugman, is upset at conservatives again (so, what else is new?) The issue: some of the children of prominent conservatives have jobs in government or media. For shame. Just ask the Bush brothers. Talk to Elizabeth Cheney, who holds a specially created State Department job, or her … Continue reading “Dirty Republican plot exposed”

Enron’s boy at the New York Times, Paul Krugman, is upset at conservatives again (so, what else is new?) The issue: some of the children of prominent conservatives have jobs in government or media. For shame.

Just ask the Bush brothers. Talk to Elizabeth Cheney, who holds a specially created State Department job, or her husband, chief counsel of the Office of Management and Budget. Interview Eugene Scalia, the top lawyer at the Labor Department, and Janet Rehnquist, inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services. And don’t forget to check in with William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, and the conservative commentator John Podhoretz.

Krugman has a real good point, but he’s only uncovered the tip of the iceberg. What about Barry Bonds? His father Bobby was a major leaguer, and incoming Giants manager Felipe Alou once played in the bigs with two brothers, Matty and Jesus. J. T. Snow’s daddy Jack played pro football with the Rams, and that reprobate David Bell is a third generation big leaguer, scion of Buddy and Gus. Some dude in the last Winter Olympics is a third generation Olympian, and the US Curling team is lousy with nepotism.

Even Hollywood, where everyone is virtuous, holy, and shrill is riddled with nepotism: look at Kate Hudson, Liv Tyler, Melanie Griffin, the Bridges boys, Laura Dern, Gwyneth Paltrow, Michael Douglas and all of those Baldwins, not to mention the sons of President Bartlett.

In auto racing, all it takes to be a winner is a name like Petty, Earnhardt, or Andretti, and you’re in. Business leader Bill Gates comes from the most prominent business lawyer on the West Coast, and Esther Dyson’s dad was a great physics guy.

And don’t even get me started on horse racing.

Yes, Krugman is onto something, and it’s big – talent may very well not be a social construct, and the revelation of that fact could be the downfall of the whole postmodern enterprise. We better nip this in the bud, or no telling what might happen. We might even elect leaders who exercise America’s global power responsibly instead of chasing interns, or even worse, refuse to bomb aspirin factories in third world countries.

This alert via Mr. Sullivan, who also links a great piece about Eminem and Al Gore.