Mrs. Clinton needed to tell the public not to ever come looking for any more e-mail from her, including the allegedly private ones she chose not to share. So she claimed they no longer exist.

“At the end, I chose not to keep my private, personal e-mails — e-mails about planning Chelsea’s wedding or my mother’s funeral arrangements, condolence notes to friends.”

Clinton’s vast marketing division has been toying with rolling her out as the “Grandmother in Chief.” Well, here’s a tip: Grandmothers save that kind of stuff.

(source: The World Fails to Follow Hillarys Careful Script)

Generally, I highly recommend the use of Wikipedia for preliminary research and common-sense doublechecking.  Once in a while, though, I find something that reminds me that if Homer nods, so surely must the Wikipedants^{[citation needed]}:

Duns Scotus was the originator of the instrument.
[…]
However, with the advent of the Renaissance and the New Learning, and then the Protestant Reformation, many of Duns’s theories and methods (e.g. hair-splitting) were challenged or rejected by Humanist and Protestant scholars, who used the term “Dunsman” or “Dunce” in a pejorative sense to denote those who foolishly clung on to outmoded doctrine. (The form “Dunce” reflects the medieval pronunciation of “Duns”.) Gradually “dunsman” or “dunce” was used more widely for anyone stupid or dull-witted.
[…]
the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edition) records that the term “dunce cap” itself did not enter the English language until after the term “dunce” had become a synonym for “fool” or “dimwit”. In fact, “dunce cap” is not recorded before the 1840 novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens.

(source: Dunce cap – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Note the flat contradiction, here.  D’oh!

I admit that I am increasingly incapable of thinking of anyone as “worthy of contemporary political lionization” at all.  Nonetheless, I agree that the apodosis follows to whatever extent one is capable of affirming the protasis:

If we are to regard the founding generation as being worthy of contemporary political lionization — and we most assuredly should — then we must consider those who marched at Selma to be so, too.

(source: On the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma – The Washington Post) Continue reading →

From George Weigel (in two venues):

A last, and singularly sinister, element in Putin’s refinement of Leninist political methodology has involved his efforts to buy, through various fronts, as much as he can of the Western pro-life and pro-family movements. This is another genuine novum. Stupid businessmen and financiers are as old as Lenin’s famous observation, almost a century ago, that the capitalists would sell him the rope with which he would hang them. Historically ill-informed and ideologically blinded politicians are a lot older than that. But the idea that Western social activists committed to the defense of the traditional family, and to the right to life from conception until natural death, should claim to find an ally in a blood-soaked Chekist like Vladimir Putin — well, that is something different, and something ominous. That it has to do with Putin’s cronies’ spreading Russian gold among cash-strapped Western non-governmental organizations is not to be doubted. Those who fall into this trap were once known as “useful idiots.” Their utility may be marginal, in the larger scheme of things; the idiocy ought not to be in question.

(source: Lenin Meets Corleone)

In sum: The notion that Putin’s Russia can be a genuine partner in international pro-life and pro-family work is a snare and a delusion, given the murderous character of Putin’s regime. There can be no serious ecumenical dialogue with clerical agents of Russian state power.

(source: Ukraine: Disinformation and Confusion | George Weigel | First Things)

The mere fact that the following related piece could find an epigraph from Texe Marrs should tell you something has gone wonky in the universe Continue reading →

(source: Hotter than Average)

There are so many parts of life that could use a warning sign like this one.