SOBer Thoughts (092607)

To fully understand why Ahmadinejad’s visit to New York was so wrong, and so dangerous, you must read Patrick Poole’s Friday post, and his underlying FrontPage column from a year ago.

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“Logically,” Ahmadinejad’s visit to Columbia should make academia safe for a wide variety of speakers and scholars expressing opinions across the entire political spectrum. That’s not going to happen until the hypocrisy chronicled by Liberally Conservative goes away.

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Boring Made Dull rips into Mattel (my link is different; the point is the same) about the ultimate meaning of their inexplicable apology — to “the Chinese people”(!) — for the lead-containing recalled toys:

The seemingly obvious conclusion – that they’ll feed lead paint to your kids to appease the Chinese and maintain their profits – seems almost inescapable.

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First it was Justin at Right on the Right getting photoed with Michelle Malkin.

Now it’s Brain Shavings posing with Laura Ingraham.

Cut it out already.

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Pain Dealer read a post at Lead Us Forward, who blogged about about the American Spectator’s Prowler reporting that James Dobson dissed Fred Thompson in hopes that it would help clear the GOP field for Newt Gingrich to enter the fray. Got that? The answer to Pain Dealer’s question is, “Yes, Dobson has lost his political mind. He lost it over two years ago.”

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Put down the coffee, and remove all sharp objects from the vicinity.

Then read on, and link over.

OK, here we go — Conservative Culture notes a party’s upcoming political convention in Los Angeles.

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Last Thursday, Large Bill noted why Ted Stevens, who yours truly said should resign quite a while ago, needs to go — NOW. Monday, John Fund extended the immediate resignation invitation to Don Young, the state’s sole congressman. The GOP needs to clean the stables, so that people on the other side like Murtha, Williams Jefferson, and Mollohan, et al have no equivalent company.

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FYI from FYI News: “Kaleigh Lynn Pituch was born to Andy and Charissa early Monday evening, weighing 8 pounds 4 oz, and was 21 inches long.” Congrats to all.