From the Iowahawk archives

"Why I am a Democrat".

I am a Democrat because I believe in helping those in need. All of us, you and I, have an obligation to those less fortunate. You go first, okay? I'm a little short this week.

H/T: Doug Ross

Time to wander around in a fog, wondering what the motive was

Mark Steyn ponders the recent murder of the French rabbi and three children in Toulouse by, as we now know, a Muslim extremist.

What’s left of Jewish life in Europe is being extinguished remorselessly, one vandalized cemetery, one subway attack at a time. How many Jewish children will be at that school in Toulouse a decade hence? A society that becomes more Muslim eventually becomes less everything else. What is happening on the Continent is tragic, in part because it was entirely unnecessary.

Welcome to the Cankles and Tent Pants International Airport

“Little Rock renames airport to honor Bill and Hillary Clinton”.

I hear they’re going to put up a statue, too: a bronze group featuring Bill Clinton taking cover behind Monica Lewinsky, while Hillary prepares to pitch an ashtray. Class.

The “weirdness” of Rick Santorum

Mark Steyn explains Rick.

Let's take it as read that Rick Santorum is weird. After all, he believes in the sanctity of life, the primacy of the family, the traditional socio-religious understanding of a transcendent purpose to human existence. Once upon a time, back in the mists of, ooh, the mid–20th century, all these things were, if not entirely universal, sufficiently mainstream as to be barely worthy of discussion. Now they're not. Isn't the fact that conventional morality is now "weird" itself deeply weird? The instant weirdification of ideas taken for granted for millennia is surely mega-weird — unless you think that our generation is possessed of wisdom unique to human history. In which case, why are we broke?

Biden has been using WD-40 on his larynx again

The VP talks about lubrication.

I wonder, though, if the Caller is right in referring to this as a dirty joke. “Lubrication” can also mean drinking, particularly alcoholic beverages, so, since the speech was an introduction for the Irish prime minister, maybe it was just an abysmally inappropriate ethnic joke.

Blogging may be light today

I want to work on getting out some job applications.

National treasure

I wish he were running for president, but Rep. Paul Ryan is a tremendous asset to the cause of fiscal sanity wherever he serves.


Best congressman in the last 500 years!