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When a burglar breaks into a house, is it the fault of the thief, or the fault of the homeowner for having insufficient security?
Or maybe, just maybe, is it both?
The Crime
The good folks at RedState rightly condemn two recent episodes in which Democratic operatives have broken into supposedly secure areas of political web sites to [...]

Jeff:

When I was a kid we had a word for people who were more concerned with being safe than with doing what’s right.
We called them cowards.

Could I possibly have anything to add?

Brendan Loy on Lieberman’s loss: “The Democratic Party is the ’small tent’ party of the 21st century.”
More insights at the link.

Baseball Crank on banning flag desecration:
Personally, I’m all in favor of keeping flag burning legal. Why stop the enemy from identifying himself? Every time some nitwit college student burns a flag on camera, that’s one less idiot who can ever run for public office.
I’ll co-sponsor that proposition, with a slight amendment: every time someone exercises [...]

Who’s the latest victim in the Democrats’ war on the “Republican Culture of Corruption” in D.C.? Louisiana Democrat William Jefferson, who was caught on videotape taking a $100,000 bribe from undercover agents. Most of the money was later found in the freezer of his Washington home.
Astute readers will recall that this is the [...]

I guess if Marion Barry could keep doing it, who are we to write off Ray Nagin? In a move that stunned me, New Orleans voters sent School Bus Ray back to the mayor’s office while Mitch Landrieu, who almost everyone thought would win, goes home just a few points shy.
Harry Shearer said it [...]

Riding in a vehicle operated by anyone in the Kennedy clan continues to be a serious hazard to public safety and public morals. U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, son of the notoriously lethal driver Ted Kennedy, crashed into a barricade at the Capitol Building sometime around 3.a.m Thursday.

The two officials said officers at [...]

Today is May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, since the cold war best known to U.S. citizens as the day communist nations celebrate their social and military accomplishments on behalf of their citizens.
Today is also the day that immigration activists here in the United States have chosen to put on large-scale demonstrations of [...]

My grandparents, like most of their generation, believed in giving their kids a spanking when discipline was required. Some spankings called for the willow switch, which hard-spanking parents never kept handy in the house. They always sent the kid out to pick one.
Dread surging, the about-to-be-spanked child walked slowly out to the [...]

The arguments on ForgiveTaxCheats.com sound suspiciously like some arguments making the rounds on other issues of note lately…

Ever heard the expression “don’t throw good money after bad”? Well that’s exactly what the IRS enforcement is. It’s a losing proposition and the prospect of an IRS audit deters tax cheats about as much as the death [...]

This one’s all in the metadata. A few days ago, Oliver Willis posted an immigration-related item on his blog entitled They Just Hate Hispanics, Admit It. Oliver put the entry under the categories “Immigration” and “Racism.”
Who are these mysterious racists Oliver calls “they”? Oliver doesn’t specifically say, but he links to a [...]

Can of Worms Announces the “When will Katherine Harris Quit Pool”:
Because nearly everyone on her team has quit and now even the Tampa Tribune thinks she is crazy and she is probably in the office by herself by now, I would like to start a pool picking the date within the next 2 months that [...]

Will the last person to leave the Katherine Harris for Senate campaign please turn out the lights?

We all know that Cynthia McKinney is a raving loon. The fact that she’s a Member of Congress (again!) troubles me only a bit, because even the clinically insane, paranoid, and racist are entitled to have representation in Congress, and why not one of their own? Besides, if you took the nutjobs and [...]

Daily Kos member Acaben knows Ben Domenech:

For over a year I played in a regular poker game that Ben also frequented. These days the game has dwindled to once every month or so, but we still meet over cards and chips and beer and have a good time. In fact, I saw him this past [...]

On September 22, 2005, Mike Krempasky testified before Congress on one of the pillars of our way of life: freedom of this nation’s citizens to speak freely to and about their government.

Free to speak their minds, Americans have proven to be surprisingly unchanged from when de Tocqueville spoke of our boundless “liberty of opinion,” [...]

Make a list of well-known politicians who are also advocates of breast feeding.

Who’s the last person you’d expect to see on the list? Newt Gingrich. But he is. This week, speaking on health issues at a conference for Florida legislators, Newt blamed obesity among the poor on welfare programs that fail to [...]

She will never surrender! Katherine Harris is scheduled to make a “major announcement” this week, and it’s not what everyone expected it was. According to the Washington Prowler:

…Harris very bluntly told them to forget about [dropping out]. When told they had strong interest from a well-known, respected former Florida elected official in [...]

President Bush today signed an updated and renewed version of the Patriot Act (can’t spell “Patriot” without “riot,” can we?) which brings us the perfect hook to this column by Mark Steyn, (link via Say Anything), discussing abuses of the Patriot Act - not by government, but by private citizens.

I had to sign a tedious [...]

When you have to hold a press conference to deny the rumors that you’re about to abandon your run for U.S. Senate, maybe that’s a sign you should do exactly that.