A Music Video and Some Light Reading...

I posted yesterday’s “song of the day” way too early. Much later that same day, I came upon this ultra-cool rock ‘n’ roll video. It’s my new favorite song. (h/t: Instapundit)

Last month I posted about a South Park episode entitled “Smug Alert.” Well, it’s come to my attention that Wikipedia has a series of pages devoted to South Park…and you can see the whole Smug Alert plot, in great detail, including a bit of dialog, here. (via Opinion Journal…South Park Republicans, indeed!)

Victor Davis Hanson weighs in on the Cynthia McKinney brouhaha.

After witnesses related that McKinney was asked to stop three times - and replied with some sort of shove - she went public at a press conference. There she resorted to the now all too familiar fallback positions unavailable to Naughton. Surrounded by celebrities like Harry Belafonte and Danny Glover, McKinney said, "This whole incident was instigated by the inappropriate touching and stopping of me, a female, black congresswoman."

Note how she covered all the bases to preempt a possible indictment, putting the onus on the aggrieved. Plus, in our star-struck culture, we equate celebrity with gravitas. And so we are supposed to believe that an otherwise clueless Calypso singer or action-hero actor lend credence to McKinney's wild charges.

McKinney not only played the race and celebrity cards, but the feminist one as well - as if the dutiful policemen had kept his job this long by allowing unrecognized white male elected officials to enter checkpoints without showing identification.

And if race and gender were not enough, McKinney evoked the standard sexual harassment code words "inappropriate touching" - as if a randy guard were trying to grope the defenseless congresswoman. (Ed: As if! Gah! Ms. McKinney might be in front of Helen Thomas, however slightly, on the “women I’d like to grope” list…)

McKinney realizes that claims of victimization are the keys to conning our system - and that the more accusations of racism, sexism and harassment the better for turning the cowardly aggressor into the heroically aggrieved.

And is he spot-on, or what? (via Real Clear Politics)

Charles Krauthammer on the immigration problem:

The irony of this whole debate, which is bitterly splitting the country along partisan, geographic and ethnic lines, is that there is a silver bullet that would not just solve the problem but also create a national consensus behind it.

My proposition is the following: a vast number of Americans who oppose legalization and fear new waves of immigration would change their minds if we could radically reduce new -- i.e., future -- illegal immigration.

Forget employer sanctions. Build a barrier. It is simply ridiculous to say it cannot be done. If one fence won't do it, then build a second 100 yards behind it. And then build a road for patrols in between. Put cameras. Put sensors. Put out lots of patrols.

Can't be done? Israel's border fence has been extraordinarily successful in keeping out potential infiltrators who are far more determined than mere immigrants. Nor have very many North Koreans crossed into South Korea in the last 50 years.

Of course it will be ugly. So are the concrete barriers to keep truck bombs from driving into the White House. But sometimes necessity trumps aesthetics. And don't tell me that this is our Berlin Wall. When you build a wall to keep people in, that's a prison. When you build a wall to keep people out, that's an expression of sovereignty. The fence around your house is a perfectly legitimate expression of your desire to control who comes into your house to eat, sleep and use the facilities. It imprisons no one.

Makes damned good sense to me. That’s Part One…there’s more. (via Real Clear Politics)

And last, but not least…I’m gonna link to a column by Ann Coulter. This is the first, and might be the last, time I do this. Why? Because I consider Coulter to be an embarrassment to conservatives. I don’t like her style, and she’s often waaay over the top. That said…the woman, like her or not, is quick on her feet, smart, and like Maureen Dowd, her political antithesis, Ms. Coulter can definitely craft a well-turned phrase or three. And when she has a point to make, she drives the point home relentlessly. Consider:

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Ed Meese, Oliver North, Clarence Pendleton, Newt Gingrich, Karl Rove, Tom DeLay -- all these men saw their names used as curse words.

Only one of them was ever indicted. To wit, the comical indictment of DeLay recently brought by political hack Ronnie Earle. To finally get some grand jury to hand up an indictment, Earle had to empanel six grand juries in Austin, Texas, which is like the Upper West Side with more attractive people. In addition, DeLay knows Republican and gambling lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his associates, who have recently pleaded guilty to various other incomprehensible charges.

Liberals spit out all these names with more venom than they've ever been able to muster for names like "Saddam Hussein" and "Abu Musab al-Zarqawi."

She’s right, ya know. There’s more, and it ain’t bad. (via Real Clear Politics)