RINOs are about to become an endangered species. They are now in season. Seven spineless betraying numbnuts have just sabotaged the clear majority that America sent to the US Senate, and the electorate will not forget. Seven RINOs have just expended the last of their political capital, and we will make them pay.
More later…

The playoffs for my tennis league were held this weekend. Team Palmer didn’t fare so well. We came in fifth, with an 0-4 record (1-4, 1-4, 2-3, 1-4). I played two matches today (both at 3-doubles), and lost both: 6-1, 6-0 in the morning match, and 4-6, 6-7, 1-0 (10-5) in the afternoon match. Time [...]

Read the text of the speech given today by Senator John Kyl (R-AZ), as posted at ConfirmThem.com:
The reality is that the Senate is now engaged in an historic effort to protect constitutional prerogatives and the proper checks and balances between the branches of government. Republicans seek to right a wrong that has undermined 214 years [...]

Unlike the completely alleged, never-substantiated, and since-retracted Newsweek story, much religiously motivated desecration takes place in the world. Not surprisingly, the vast majority is perpetrated by extremist Muslims. (Referenced in the articles linked: desecration of Joseph’s tomb and the murder of a young rabbi who tried to save a Torah, a Jewish cemetary on the [...]

Senator John Cornryn (R-TX) exposes the blatant hypocrisy of Null Party Senators by using their own words against them, in his Name That Speaker web site. I was going to dig for some of these quotes, but he’s already done it.
Bring on the Filibuster! The Null Party is about to go down in flames.
(Hat Tip: [...]

In a statement released today, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott took the Minority Democrat Party to task for shutting down the Senate in an action tantamount to a bratty kid taking his ball – or, more accurately stealing the ball from its owner – and going home in order to prevent the completion [...]

A Pentinent Blogger has posted Christian Carnival LXX: Long Day’s Journey Out Of Night:

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Romans 13:12

The 165-page South Park Conservatives, as pointed out in RedState.org’s review, serves as a primer of the nascent weakening of the Liberals’ oligarchical stranglehold over the dissemination of, totalitarin control over conversation and debate about, and single-mindedly biased news-reporting of political, cultural, and social issues. The book discusses the Conservative revolution Talk Radio, Cable News [...]

I was mentioned by Penguin Envy. To what do I owe this honor?

Supports Legitimate Constitutional Function of Federal Government; Prohibits Discriminatory Bans on Inter-State Wine Sales

GOPBloggers.com reports on the decision yesterday by the Supreme Court of the United States, striking down laws forbidding direct shipments of wine from out-of-state.
In a long overdue ruling that split Justices Antonin Scalia (who sided with Breyer, Ginsburg and Stevens) and Clarence [...]

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist issued a statement Friday indicating that he will move the Senate into a debate on up-or-down votes for Judicial nominees:
May 13th, 2005 – Upon completion of action on the pending highway bill, the Senate will begin debate on fair up or down votes on judicial nominations. As is the [...]

The Indy Star is reporting that the Colts will return to Rose-Hulman:
Tony Dungy got his wish: The Indianapolis Colts will spend future summers in Terre Haute, Ind.
The team and officials at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology announced Thursday that the Colts will return to campus for a seventh summer of training camp. Players report July 27.
Apparently, [...]

Editor and Publisher reports that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch will remain “Liberal” under new owner Lee Enterprises:
When Lee Enterprises Inc. agreed to purchase Pulitzer Inc. for $1.46 billion, it also agreed that the flagship St. Louis Post-Dispatch will keep its longstanding liberal editorial slant for at least the next five years, according to the purchase [...]

Rebecca MacKinnon asks an interesting question in her post on global blogging, with respect to the lack of global content among the mostly American blogosphere:
Why don’t American bloggers link very much to bloggers around the world? People in the room suggested there are 2 main reasons: One reason is that they don’t know where to [...]

South Park Conservatives: The Revot Against Liberal Media Bias: Brian Anderson

Letters to a Young Conservative: Dinesh D’Souza

Christian Carnival LXIX has arrived, hosted this week by Semicolon:
Welcome to the Christian Carnival and to Semicolon. I pray that you will be edified, educated, and encouraged as I was in reading and thinking through ALL sixty of the entries for this week. Yes, I read them all. Have fun as we blog through Ephesians [...]

Just Testing…

Lots of news throughout the ’sphere detailing Operation Matador:
Belmont Club’s coverage:
-Battle on the Syrian Border
-Hearts and Minds
The Fourth Rail’s coverage:
-Bringing It On
-The Matador’s Sword
-Foreign Elements
-Grist For The Mill
Roundup from Winds of Change
The Adventures of Chester:
-Live Blogging Marine Operations on Syrian Border
-Snap Reactions
-Matador Updates
-Narrative Summary and Map
-Noon Wednesday Updates
One Hand Clapping:
-Big Operation Underway in Iraq

DOD News [...]

Another post from Evangelical Outpost, this time concerning a Planned Parenthood spokeswoman both lying through her teeth, and uttering sheer idiocy:
In the latest edition of Planned Parenthood’s webzine choice! magazine, a reader asks Dr. Vanessa Cullins to resolve a dispute about whether life begins at conception or when “a baby takes its first breath.” Dr. [...]

Evangelical Outpost has a good primer on plausibility structures, especially with respect to Intelligent Design versus naturalism:
Everything that we believe is filtered through our plausibility structure – a belief-forming apparatus that acts as a gatekeeper, letting in evidence that is matched against what we already consider to be possible… Plausibility structures can prevent us from [...]

Really interesting little tid-bit from the world of academia:
If you don’t like getting your paper rejected before it even reaches peer review, ask David Egilman how to get around the process: In what may be an unprecedented move, when the Brown University researcher’s paper was recently rejected from an occupational medicine journal, he simply bought [...]

Good advice for bloggers from RightWingNews. My personal favorite:
17) Even if you only have 7 people reading, work like you have 7000 readers. Because if you don’t work hard when you have almost no readers, you’re never going to get to 7000

brightMystery links to a discussion of Disney’s upcoming Narnia movie at – of all places – Slashdot. The good professor rightly points out the bizarre nature of such a topic at Slashdot, and then describes first one commentor expressing discomfort that CS Lewis’ classic Chronicles of Narnia series “was really Christian propaganda”, and second, the [...]

Arianna Huffington acrimoniously asks “What would Jesus do… with Tom Delay?” and then fatuously answers her own question:
Would Jesus strong-arm lobbyists to pay for his golfing trip to St. Andrew’s in Scotland? Would Jesus let a lobbyist pay for him to stay at the Bethlehem — I mean, London — Four Seasons?
Would Jesus, were he [...]

Several St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnists downed a full dose of Liberal Kool-Aid today…
First is Jo Mannies’ giddy commentary on several examples of apparent conservative dissention:
“We’re frustrated that we have to fight this issue with Republicans in charge,” said Messer, who’s also a lobbyist for the Missouri Baptist Convention. “We hadn’t expected it.”
That seems to be [...]