Power Line, Too, Catches Up With The Blog from the Core

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Confer.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Wed. 09/08/04 05:58:43 PM
Categorized as Blogosphere Stuff.

The Wall Street Journal Catches Up With The Blog from the Core

From Brendan Miniter, Sep. 7:

For nearly four years now, we've been told this is a 50-50 nation, that red and blue America are so evenly divided that even a small misstep could swing this presidential election either way. The media may have their own reasons for sticking to the story line — drama is good for ratings, after all — but there's mounting evidence that the electorate is not nearly as evenly divided as it was in 2000; that come Nov. 2, newscasters are going to be putting a lot more red than blue on their electoral maps. I will make a prediction here: Mr. Kerry will be lucky to top the 45.7% of the popular vote Michael Dukakis got in 1988....

From your Humble, Faithful Blogster, Aug. 5:

In the presidential election, Nov. 2, 2004, Bush-Cheney will carry at least five states that right now are considered to be a lock for the Democratic ticket; and, at least two-thirds of the "battleground" states will be carried by the Republican ticket.

I think the whole idea of an evenly divided electorate, with the presidential election hanging in the balance of a relatively small number of undecided voters, is hogwash....

The media may have their own reasons for sticking to the story line — drama is good for ratings, after all.... The real explanation, of course, is Core's Law of Old Media.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Wed. 09/08/04 05:46:39 PM
Categorized as Political.

No Wonder They Call Him Senator Flip-Flop

Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CCCLXIX

Kerry vs. Kerry.

JOHN KERRY said yesterday that Iraq was "the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time." Translation: We would be better off if Saddam Hussein were still in power.

Not an unheard of point of view. Indeed, as President Bush pointed out today, it was Howard Dean's position during the primary season. On December 15, 2003, in a speech at the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles, Dean said that "the capture of Saddam Hussein has not made America safer." Dean also said, "The difficulties and tragedies we have faced in Iraq show the administration launched the war in the wrong way, at the wrong time, with inadequate planning, insufficient help, and at the extraordinary cost, so far, of $166 billion."

But who challenged Dean immediately? John Kerry. On December 16, at Drake University in Iowa, Kerry asserted that "those who doubted whether Iraq or the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein, and those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture, don't have the judgment to be president or the credibility to be elected president."

Kerry was right then.

William Kristol is editor of The Weekly Standard.

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A fine example of Core's Law of New Media at work.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Wed. 09/08/04 05:28:40 PM
Categorized as Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode.

John Banister Tabb

On the Feast of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

On this day, September 8, 1872, the great poet John Banister Tabb was received into the full communion of the Catholic Church, after having been an Episcopalian.

The Catholic Encyclopedia has a brief biographical essay; also, he is mentioned in passing in this article on the Sulpicians.

A book-length biography, by his niece Jennie Masters Tabb, is here (though marred by typographical errors).

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21) at Bartleby has an appreciation of Fr. Tabb's poetry:

.... It surely will be conceded that Tabb’s poetic manner is as individual as Lanier’s. Yet his first poems in 1883, some nineteen lyrics and a few sonnets, reveal little of this originality or indeed of poetical promise. The shortest poems were in ten lines, whereas his later style tends to quatrains. Working in such small compass, he has polished his technique to a point near perfection. The diction is of extreme simplicity. The measures flow on without a ripple. The figures are suggested in the most concise phrasing. In short, his poems are a series of the most delicate cameos....

I have a small selection of his poetry from Later Poems (1910). An American Anthology, 1787–1900, at Bartleby has eleven poems by Tabb. And the American Verse Project has the entire text of Lyrics (1909): index to individual poems and entire text in one file.

Today is the Feast of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Here are three of Tabb's Marian poems.

The Immaculate Conception

A dew drop of the darkness born,
   Wherein no shadow lies;
The blossom of a barren thorn,
   Whereof no petal dies;
A rainbow beauty passion-free,
Wherewith was veiled Divinity.

(1894)

Mary

Maid-Mother of humanity divine,
   Alone thou art in thy supremacy,
   Since God Himself did reverence to thee
And built of flesh a temple one with thine,
Wherein, through all eternity, to shrine
   His inexpressive glory. Blessed be
   The miracle of thy maternity,
Of grace the sole immaculate design!

(1893)

The Tree

Thou art the blessed Tree
Whose fruit proclaimeth thee,
   O Mother mine!
For never laden bough
Such burden bore as thou,
   Of Love Divine.

(1893)

The Poetry of Father Tabb (1928), ed. Francis A. Litz, Ph.D., pp. 204f, 210, 213.

See also these.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Wed. 09/08/04 07:50:00 AM
Categorized as Literary & Religious.