http://www.redstate.com/leverkuhn Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:52:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hey guys, post-election blues got you down? Check out this new video from The Onion. It brightened my day: Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are For a double dose of Obama mockery, check out another video about Obama's "presidential internship." All satire, of course: Obama Undertakes Presidential ... http://www.redstate.com/leverkuhn/2008/11/09/legions-of-obama-fans-struggle-to-find-meanin/ Note: I wrote this column on the assumption that Barack Obama will go on to win the U.S. Presidency tonight. That is still my active assumption. If I turn out to be wrong, you can pretty much scrap everything I’ve written, and I will happily stand at attention while everyone ... http://www.redstate.com/leverkuhn/2008/11/04/embrace-the-wilderness/ Jesse Jackson recently gave an interview with the New York Post. While everyone seems to be focusing on the parts of the interview that deal with Israel, I think the reverend's comments on race and society are far more illuminating: "We helped him start his career," says Jackson. "And ... http://www.redstate.com/leverkuhn/2008/10/15/jesse-jackson-speaks/ The following youtube video is a recorded conversation between Congressman Tim Mahoney and Patricia Allen, a former female staffer, whom we learned yesterday has been, ahem, serving the good congressman in more ways than one. Even for a viewing public inured to the shocking truth of infidelity and betrayal as ... http://www.redstate.com/leverkuhn/2008/10/14/tim-mahoneys-ugly-moment/ Over the last week or two, the credit crises which first hit the United States has made its way across the pond. And suddenly, European politicians who were only recently chortling over American discomfort are finding themselves trapped in much the same sort of conundrum: declining prices, plummeting stock markets, ... http://www.redstate.com/leverkuhn/2008/10/09/whats-that-sound/ I know I'm not the first to write about this, but it seems that the proliferation of Obama cult-worship on the internet has reached unprecedented proportions in recent weeks, and nowhere is this more evident than on youtube and related video websites. For that reason, I'm writing this diary to ... http://www.redstate.com/leverkuhn/2008/10/03/what-is-the-creepiest-obama-cult-propaganda-y/ Allow me to make a modest suggestion to the leadership of both parties in Congress: rather than trying to one-up each other in the blame game over the recent failure of the Bush-Paulson-Pelosi bailout bill, why don't you try something new. Form all your congressmen and senators in a circle, ... http://www.redstate.com/leverkuhn/2008/09/30/a-pox-on-both-their-houses/ If you are like me, you have spent the last week listening to President Bush, Harry Reid, John McCain, Nancy Pelosi, Henry Paulson, and all the rest telling us that the financial crisis looming on the horizon will cause a recession so bad, so terrible, that we simply have to ... http://www.redstate.com/leverkuhn/2008/09/25/how-bad-could-it-really-get/ "It came to pass ..." Or to use the words of the Martins haunting southern gospel song, "It didn't come to stay; it came to pass." Most of the baseball universe has a love-hate relationship with the New York Yankees. The Yankees have won a lot of championships over the ... http://www.redstate.com/leverkuhn/2008/09/22/all-good-things-come-to-an-end-except-for-ou/ The Times Online would like you to believe that Sarah Palin endorses witch-hunting. At least, that seems to be the implication of this story written by Hanna Strange. The Times reports that Kenyan preacher-evangelist Thomas Muthee visited Palin's former church, Wasilla Assembly of God, in October 2005 to speak there. ... http://www.redstate.com/leverkuhn/2008/09/16/wtf-newspaper-tries-to-link-palin-to-witchhu/ The New York Post is reporting that during his trip to Iraq last July, Senator Obama tried to convince Iraqi leaders to delay signing an agreement with the U.S. government to begin drawing down the number of U.S. troops in Iraq. Apparently, the junior senator from Illinois specifically requested that ... http://www.redstate.com/leverkuhn/2008/09/15/remember-how-obama-wants-to-pull-out-the-troo/ In the strange world of political punditry you run into a lot of arguments that are specious, twisted, and sometimes downright dishonest. That's true of both sides, and probably equally so. And then there are the columns and blogs that just sound plain bizarre. Such is the line of thought ... http://www.redstate.com/leverkuhn/2008/09/11/barack-the-cable-guy-seriously/ I won't bother quoting from Michal Kinsley's new column because I don't want to dignify it. Kinsley won a reputation in the 1980's and 90's as one of the most influential and thoughtful voices of the American left. That's why it's a shame to see him perform a hack job ... http://www.redstate.com/leverkuhn/2008/09/10/michael-kinsleys-idiotic-new-column/ There were certain things we knew about Bobby Jindal before Hurricane Gustav. We knew he was incredibly young to lead a state, especially one as diverse and politically cantankerous as Louisiana. We knew he was very bright, that he was well-spoken, and that he had a pretty wife. Shortly after ... http://www.redstate.com/leverkuhn/2008/09/09/bobby-jindal-is-making-an-impression/ Let it be known, Hurricane Gustav is a big, nasty, ugly storm, and it means to do some business with the South Louisiana. With this storm bearing down on the South Louisiana coast, the word is out from the state and the City of New Orleans: Get Out Now! This ... http://www.redstate.com/leverkuhn/2008/08/31/a-open-letter-to-jindal-and-nagin-about-futur/ Christmas came early this year for John McCain. It came gift-wrapped in the form of Senator Joe Biden the biggest, most pompous windbag in the United States Senate, a man so full of cr*p his speeches bear an awful resemblance to twenty minutes of flatulence preceded by "Good evening ladies ... http://www.redstate.com/leverkuhn/2008/08/23/biden-for-veep-best-news-ive-heard-all-summ/ The Italian edition of Vanity Fair has recently tracked down George Hussein Onyango Obama, half brotherof the presumptive Democratic nominee, living in a two by three meter shack in a small town near Nairobi. The man's income amounts to about one dollar per day, and the neighborhood he lives in ... http://www.redstate.com/leverkuhn/2008/08/21/seriously-shouldnt-obama-do-something-about/ One of my favorite stories about the late Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings (Yes, I know it's kind of sad that I have a favorite Fritz Hollings story. I know it probably speaks to my lack of a personal life.) involves the South Carolina grandee's off-the-cuff remark concerning certain salacious tabloid ... http://www.redstate.com/leverkuhn/2008/08/02/well-i-guess-why-not/ Tonight I went and saw the new Batman film, The Dark Knight, and I thought I should review it while it's still fresh in my head. I have good news and bad news to relay about this film. First, it is possible that this movie falls just short of the ... http://www.redstate.com/leverkuhn/2008/07/19/dark-night-reviewed/ I'm not sure this topic merits a whole diary, but for some reason I feel compelled to write about it. Elizabeth Edwards has written a very nice obit on Tony Snow, which is totally unobjectionable except for one eye-catching detail. Consider the first two sentences: "Tony Snow has died. A young ... http://www.redstate.com/leverkuhn/2008/07/16/elizabeth-edwards-awkward-obit-on-tony-snow/