Blogworthies XL

Because The Blog from the Core simply can't cover everything.

Noteworthy entries @ Turnabout, Recta Ratio, Irish Elk, Hoystory.com, IMAO, I love Jet Noise, Catholic Analysis, HerbEly, Inkwell, Flos Carmeli, Belmont Club, GetReligion, Daschle v. Thune, Belmont Club (again), Discriminations, The Chronicle of the Conspiracy, Power Line, Davids Medienkritik, Another Man's Meat, Chicago Boyz, and From a Sad American.

Yet more on the position of social conservatism @ Turnabout (italics in original):

An issue that isn't raised because public figures don't understand it won't get far in a media-drenched age. So an obvious problem for social conservatives is that the articulate classes don't understand — at all — the issues they raise. Some possible reasons that come to mind: ....

OK, I Was Thinking To Myself Yesterday That One More Story Like This, and We Have Ourselves A National Trend @ Recta Ratio:

The last blog entry about the actor who supports Kerry who is having fainting fits and getting into fistfights over the election makes 6 stories in the last week that have an underlaying similarity....

We beg rock-ribbed Manhattan correspondent Steve M's forbearance... @ Irish Elk:

... for an Armistice Day tribute to Capt. Harry Truman, who served with courage in France, and later, as president.

At a time when it's possible to drive from Virginia Beach to the Pacific without passing through a blue state, the Democrats would do well to reacquaint themselves with Harry Truman, the Common Man personified, who didn't belittle the farmers and shopkeepers of small-town America, but was belittled because he was one of them, and whose America rebuilt postwar Western Europe and stood for the free world against totalitarian aggression....

A great tragedy @ Hoystory.com:

It's a travesty that an evil, unrepentant terrorist like Yasser Arafat got to die in his sleep.

CNN's graphic is also particularly disgusting....

Dude, Where's My Votes? @ IMAO:

Man, I was so happy with our win, but then I found out that places like Democratic Underground are arguing that Bush stole the election once again. What? But what about all those votes? Well, Wikipedia even has a page up about how the election was stolen with charts and everything. Is something up? Well, I contacted my local wing of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy who patched me into the national arm of the VRWC. Then I got to talk to two people I shall refer to as Hacker1 and Hacker2. Here is the conversation: ....

A Campaign In Disarray @ I love Jet Noise:

Prestopundit touches on two subjects I've been noodling about, but hadn't gotten around to. The first is a Newsweek piece that typifies the media's parting shot at the Swift Vets. The article leads off with this surprising admission: ....

Two Roots of the Culture War @ HerbEly:

The election is over. The chattering classes and the pajama brigade (bloggers writing from home) are now pounding out their explanations for the result. (I’m pleased to find that there are a few sensible liberal voices out there. Most liberal columnists are so busy stereotyping conservatives and evangelicals that they are unlikely to hear the sensible voices. More about that in a later posting.) ....

Hispanic Conservatives @ Catholic Analysis:

As a Hispanic Republican, I cannot help but comment with pride on a recent N.Y. Times article documenting the successful Bush campaign appeal to Hispanic voters ("Hispanic Voters Declared Their Independence," by Kirk Johnson, 11/9/04). The article is full of insight and numbers, but one fact stands out: the Bush campaign, unlike the Democrats, did not appeal to Hispanics as a special interest group on issues like immigration or welfare benefits....

They Didn’t Get George Bush — and They Don’t Get Tom Wolfe @ Inkwell:

The intellectuals don’t get why their candidate John "Hari" Kerry tanked so badly a week ago at the ballot boxes. And now come the same bunch of smarter-than-thou folks who don’t get why Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons, his 676-page new novel about college life, is now No. 2 on the Amazon best-seller list.

The reviewers, many of whom hail from the groves of academe that Wolfe satirizes, are nearly uniformly holding up their noses at the book — because its theme is the undergraduate "hooking up" culture of rampant, drink-addled casual sex, and they don’t understand why anyone would want to make fun of that....

Lessons Learned at St. Blogs — A Thank You @ Flos Carmeli:

Why am I a blogger? For one thing it keeps me writing. But for another it keeps me involved with the intellectual community of St. Blogs. I don't like every "intellectual" blog, some are too astringent, some too uncivil, but there are a good many that do me great good....

Fallujah Again @ Belmont Club:

Although the US military has refused to give a timeline for the capture of Fallujah developments suggest they are moving at very rapid operational pace....

Gasp: Rod Dreher claims that he is "normal" @ GetReligion:

.... In the wake of the post-11/2 earthquake in the mainstream media, Dreher pounded out a personal column trying to explain to other journalists that, out in flyover country, the election was seen as a whisper of sanity, not the revenge of what he called "Shi'ite Baptists and the Taliban Catholics." A liberal friend even wrote Dreher to compare the Bush victory with the 1933 burning of the Reichstag in Berlin....

The Daschle Effect: "They're not stupid" @ Daschle v. Thune:

.... Republicans picked up four Senate seats in last week's election. The most important of those was in South Dakota, where Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle, who fought making the cuts permanent, lost to former Representative John Thune....

Stranger in a Strange Land @ Belmont Club:

The Dutch blog Zacht Ei is an interesting window into how people in the Netherlands are reacting to the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by Islamic fundamentalists. The UK Times described Gogh's death in the following way: ....

Advice To The Democrats @ Discriminations:

I know, I know. The Democrats haven't asked for my advice, but I'm going to give it to them anyway. The advice is so good, if I do say so myself, that I actually hesitate to share it with them, but so much of the advice they're getting now — "Talk values! Talk God! Learn to 'communicate' in the language of the heathen rednecks!" — is so silly that I can't help myself....

You're "Loving It," Too! @ The Chronicle of the Conspiracy:

I've gotten literally hundreds of emails in response to my Friday National Review Online column, "I'm Loving It." I'm plowing through them all, giving each at least a form response, and many of them substantive responses. As I go along, I'll print excerpts from the best ones here. Here's the first installment....

David Lebedoff on why Kerry lost @ Power Line:

In "Publishers see bounty in voters' divisions," today's New York Times foreshadows the coming spate of books that will try to explain the results of the election. Earlier this year, my friend David Lebedoff published The Uncivil War. The book bears on the themes played out in the election; I asked David to provide a brief comment and pick a few excerpts that suggest the relevance of the book to the result. David writes: ....

Medienkitik Readers Explain Why They Voted Bush @ Davids Medienkritik:

First off, we would like to thank everyone who took the time to write us about how they voted. That is not necessarily a given and we appreciate it. Secondly, we were surprised at many of the answers we received. Contrary to popular stereotypes circulating in the German media, those who said they voted Bush were not all members of the President's conservative "base" or folks from the American Midwest who have never owned a passport or been outside the US....

In Order To Be Sincere, You Must First Really Be Sincere @ Another Man's Meat:

I don’t know if you were like me yesterday or not, but I had little or nothing in the tank. Nancy was pretty much the same way. At about five o’clock last night we decided it was election hangover. In looking back at it all we realized that we had invested a lot of emotional and spiritual energy into this national election....

Let the Cocooning Begin @ Chicago Boyz:

I think my hopes that a defeat at the polls would prompt a self-reexamination on the part of the Left have already been dashed. The rapidly emerging consensus on the part of leftist media figures, pundits and political figures is that they lost due to "moral issues," which many are interpreting to mean gay marriage and maybe abortion. The subtext here seems to be that they lost because too many Red Staters are bigots, not because people have lost faith in leftist solutions on economic and regulatory issues.

I swear, one can almost see the spinnerets, erupting from leftist asses pulsing with the liquid silk of rationalizations, just waiting for the barest of factoids on which to spin a comforting cocoon of leftist self-delusion....

How You Could Have Had My Vote @ From a Sad American:

It's been two days since John Kerry conceded, and all I am seeing, hearing and reading from the Democratic party is that you guys think you lost on "moral values." You seem to think this means nothing more than opposition to gay marriage. You seem to think that Bush voters waited in line for hours to stick it to the queers, to tell those faggots how much we hate them!

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Many Bush voters, like myself, were not happy to be voting for the President's re-election. Many Bush voters agonized over our decision and cast our vote in fear, trepidation, and trembling. Many of us would have given our left arms for a Democrat we could have supported....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sat. 11/13/04 07:11:05 AM
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