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January 14, 2007 in Uncategorized

Hey, and thanks for visiting.  I will no longer be double-posting so I hope you’ll visit WisdomIsVindicated at it’s original address:  http://wisdomisvindicated.blogspot.com . 

Mittamorphosis, the prequel

January 10, 2007 in 2008, Religious Conservatism

I happened upon this interesting youtube footage (here) from the Romney/Kennedy senate debate in 1994. (Hat tip VolunteerDispatch (here).
I can’t see that the video contains any new info Romney’s mittamorphosis from social Liberalism to his current stances; however, it is a higher level of unsettling to see actual footage of his Liberalness [...]

ACK and Abramson know a Social Conservative when they see one

January 10, 2007 in 2008, Religious Conservatism, Sanctity of Life

What is a Social Conservative and who’s to say? These questions are being raised in light of the unexceptional (except to Adam Kleinheider–at VolunteerVoters.com) and Roger Abramson–at flanktwoposition.com)) assertion that the “Pro-life with exceptions” position on abortion (or the Pro-Life with Asterisk position) is not the “social Conservative” position on abortion.
I’m still kind of [...]

PFAW=”People For . . . what?”

January 9, 2007 in Democrats and Liberals

I just received my 8th email of the day from one of my favorite org’s . . . ok, not really, it just seemed like the 8th email and it really isn’t one of my favorite organizations. The organization? PFAW (which stands for “People For The American Way”) or, as they’re wont to [...]

I guess it’s “Great. To be. A Florida Gator”

January 9, 2007 in Sports and Pop Culture

Well, for an evening, I was a Florida Gator. And it was great. Congratulations to the University of Florida and their convincing thumping of THE Ohio State University. Any questions about who’s number 1 in the country?
Though, as a UT alumnus, it was difficult to pull for the Gators, I felt like [...]

House Dems call TV timeout

January 8, 2007 in Democrats and Liberals, Media, Sports and Pop Culture

Just read that House Democrats are backing off their press release about 5-day work weeks, industrious Congresses, urgent people’s business, etc. (here) No biggie; but you’d probably be wise not to talk so much trash.
Waiting until after the Fiesta Bowl is more of a PR issue than anything else–the House Democrats don’t dare take their [...]

Libs and rule of law

January 6, 2007 in Democrats and Liberals, Law and the Courts

I channel-surfed upon two excellent programs on C-span and C-span2 this evening–kind of sounds like a conspiracy that C-span would be showing programs Ned would consider “excellent” during the infomercials time slot, doesn’t it? Oh well.
One program was a panel with Justices Stephen Breyer and Antonin Scalia. Very instructive about the contrasting perceptions [...]

Childbearing and selfishness

January 6, 2007 in Parenting and Family

I was channel surfing this evening and came across a salient C-Span program in light of a TinyCatPants I read (here) yesterday. “Aunt B” riposted (sic) a Terry Frank post and an Adam Kleinheider post, on the implications, if any, of birth-rate disparities between the East and the West.
The program in question [...]

Surprisingly super ad pitches

January 6, 2007 in Media, Sports and Pop Culture

I have to admit that I pay attention to commercials. Now, that’s not the reason I tune in to the Super Bowl, but I am fascinated with advertising. But I wasn’t expecting much when I visited NFL.com’s Super Ad contest site (here) (hat tip worldviews blog). Seriously, it is hard to pick [...]

Is Iraq a distraction from GWOT?

January 5, 2007 in Democrats and Liberals, GWOT

In various sparring sessions over the war in Iraq, I notice that many Liberals flatly assert that Iraq is a distraction from the GWOT (that is, if they’re generously acknowledging that the war against Islamists requires more than strict airport screening.)  I’ve asserted that Iraq was simply the next stage in the GWOT, so the various arguments marshalled for taking [...]