Paul Krugman's favorite blogger, the anonymous Atrios, has the following "thoughts" on the capture of the Butcher of Baghdad: These are just some unorganized idle thoughts before I've had a cup of coffee. Capturing Saddam is a good thing - he was a bad guy. I'm really glad he was captured and not killed. But, […]
And we will have peace...at least until next year. Headline: Democrats meet for final debate of year The things are useless anyway, there's never anything new. Kerry: When I served in Vietnam... Gephardt: My dad drove a milk truck. Dean: As I was wearing my tinfoil hat last night, I received an interesting theory... Sharpton: […]
Former vice-president and professional tree-impressionist Al Gore has sided with National Review magazine and will endorse the angry left's favorite candidate, Howard Dean. Put the tree in the wood chipper, Al Gore's political career is over. Democratic Leadership Council. Moderate Democrat. Pragmatic. Finding the center. Co-opting your opponent's issues. Gone, all gone. Syndicated radio talk […]
Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," the leading Democrat presidential hopeful, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, suggested that Roe v. Wade should be overturned and the question of abortion be returned to the states. (Host CHRIS) WALLACE: Governor, I don't think anybody would deny that those are very important issues, but why take the others -- […]
The New York Times has a pretty positive candidate profile of every Democrat's favorite hatemonger, the Rev. Al Sharpton. The Times piece is fairly standard stuff, but it leaves out some facts that informed voters should know about. Not mentioned in the article are: Sharpton's demonstration, protest and incitement against the "white interlopers" at Freddie's […]
The intelligentsia on the left have often had their fun with gaffes by Republicans from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle to George W. Bush. It appears as though Democrat presidential hopeful Howard Dean may give the right a similar opportunity for hilarity. Many have already pointed out Dean's repeated referrals to the Soviet Union as […]
The New York Times news article on the faux Middle East peace plan includes this from former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter: Mr. Carter, defeated in his quest for re-election by Ronald Reagan in 1980, speculated that "had I been elected to a second term, with the prestige and authority and influence […]
Eugene Volokh has a succinct roundup of some pretty hilarious anti-Bush stupidity. As readers doubtless recall, writer Wayne Madsen wrote a column on the left-wing counterpunch site that began by roundly ridiculing President Bush for showing up for Thanksgiving dinner with the troops at 6 a.m. Eastern time. "I would have thought most of the […]
It didn't take long for those on the left end of the political spectrum to come completely unhinged after President Bush's surprise visit to the troops in Baghdad yesterday. Some of it is the predictable whining that this was a political stunt. [While it may benefit Bush politically, the real reason Bush did this was […]
It appears as though Gray Davis, as is his standard practice, sold out the interests of California for a few million dollars in (insufficient) political support from the state's Indian tribes. Whatever Davis' ulterior motive for waiving the environmental mandate on the tribes, he has deprived the new governor of what little leverage he had […]