The Flight Deck

Believe it or not, this is an amendment I could really support … which is highly unusual for me when it comes to Canada’s Conservative Party.
But one of the resolutions passed (and reportedly approved by 99% of the nearly 2,000 party members) at the party’s first national policy convention since 2003 [held in Winnipeg, hence the [...]

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Love y’all out there. This place needs some energizing!
How about the latest from Red State Travis and Jonathan from their “Red State Update” series?

I do wish these guys get a chance for a series on “real” TV.
Now get out there and vote for Sarah!
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Just in case Lex happens to miss it, I thought it was only right to let you know.
The Canadian Human Rights Commission dismissed a hate speech complaint against Maclean’s magazine on Friday in a decision the complainants blamed on “inappropriate political pressure.”
Just to be clear, that would be the complaint claiming that an article written by [...]

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As an *interesting* follow-up to this post, a human rights complaint and police investigation for possible “hate crimes” [gag, cough, choke, sputter] have been launched against the Chronicle Herald (a Nova Scotia provincial newspaper) for the following editorial cartoon which was ran on April 18. 
You can read the rest of the story (including my thoughts, if you’re [...]

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This has apparently been making the rounds on the Internet the last week and a half…
In March 2003 while touring overseas, the hugely-popular (at that time) country music group Dixie Chicks made some disparaging comments about President Bush and the impending war in Iraq. A large number of their fans dropped them like a [...]

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It doesn’t work.
About two months ago, I wrote this:
I’ve read passing references to these vile plans for awhile, and like some half-remembered bad dream I’ve tried to ignore them, maybe hoping IVAW wasn’t really planning what headlines implied. But today John linked them and I finally read their website. Until that point, I’d thought “Winter [...]

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Listening to Obama and Clinton discuss their national security credentials, Romney said, is akin to “listening to two chihuahuas argue about which is the biggest dog. When it comes to national security, John McCain is the big dog, and they are the chihuahuas,” he said. [source]
From Mitt Romney’s first post-campaign interview. He also said that [...]

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Everybody has heard of the potential for content posted on the web to come back and haunt them. Eliot Spitzer, “The Integrity Candidate” in the 2006 New York gubernatorial race, has a few campaign commercials floating about.
The road to integrity takes the following path to: “Trustworthy Turnpike”, “Honesty Road”, “Integrity Lane”, and finally to “Responsibility Road”.

Just wunnerin what [...]

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Update: Part II of the Ambassador’s interview is up, including some corrections.
As I mentioned to Fliterman in comments at Neptunus Lex, I recently had the opportunity to conduct a one-on-one interview with Ambassador Charles Ries, the senior American in Iraq responsible for economic matters. It was a fascinating interview, and the overview/introduction is now [...]

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Occasional poster JarHeadDad wrote a wonderful comment over at Cassandra’s that I thought would be appreciated here. Apparently, the subject of Barak Obama stirred memories of JHD’s childhood in Louisiana…
When I was a kid my Papa used to buy some things from a guy that traveled the Parishes selling goods from an old wagon. He [...]

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