A reader forwarded me the link to this Village Voice article defending New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. I encourage you to check it out. It’s hilarious in how it elides all the substantive arguments against Krugman’s knee-jerk, fact-free attempt to blame the Tucson shooting on the political right. The author, Roy Edroso, quotes the […]
Eric Fuller is a Democrat and was one of the victims of last weekend’s Tucson shooting. He quickly became a hero to the left when he gave an interview to liberal talk show “Democracy Now!” blaming Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and Sharron Angle for the shooting. The next day, Fuller was at a town hall […]
Rhode Island governor and former U.S. senator Lincoln Chafee has announced that he won’t be going on talk radio and he’s prohibited all other state employees from appearing on talk radio during working hours too. That’s just fine. This appears to be a reaction to his GOP predecessor who appeared on talk radio frequently as […]
We’ve truly come together as a nation in the wake of last weekend’s tragic shooting that left 6 dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others wounded with some bipartisan stupidity on the part of lawmakers. Let’s remember that Jared Loughner, the accused shooter, is a nut. He is not an angry, enraged partisan. He is […]
The sun didn’t set yesterday before the professional left had pinned blame for the murders of six people and the wounding of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Sarah Palin, the tea party, Glenn Beck, et. al. William Jacobson over at Legal Insurrection has screenshots of the accusations (and especially the hypocrisy) of the usual suspects on […]
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President George H.W. Bush was famously portrayed by the media as out of touch when he expressed wonder at a supermarket scanner. The truth of that case is that the technology he was wowed by was an advanced scanner that could read a barcode even after it had been mangled. Today we get an assessment […]
The GOP has had control of the House for less than 48 hours and already the Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) are already arguing that Republicans have reverted to their free-spending ways and that the Democratic Party is the party of fiscal restraint. At her final press conference as speaker on Monday, […]
Shortly after taking office, President Barack Obama fired Inspector General Gerald Walpin after Walpin had found evidence that Obama ally and former pro basketball player Kevin Johnson had misappropriated more than $800,000 in federal funds for Americorps. Today the D.C. court of appeals ruled that Walpin’s firing was legal, a ruling that effectively guts the […]
James Cole as the No. 2 in the Department of Justice seems to be the one gaining the most attention of the six recess appointees President Obama installed earlier this week. Daniel Foster over at NRO has some of Cole’s CV: Appointed as the Independent Consultant for American International Group, Inc., to exam its transactions […]