Sen. Ted Kennedy died earlier this week after serving for 47 years in his family’s apparently hereditary Senate seat. Normally, I subscribe to the admonition to not speak ill of the dead, which is why this blog made no note of Kennedy’s passing earlier. However, sometimes people write things so jaw-droppingly outrageous that I am […]
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Via Ace. No, I can not make this up. It's one thing to be stupid. It's another to videotape it and upload it to the Internet.
Today's Wall Street Journal likens the leaders of the G-8 to King Canute who famously commanded the tides to stop. Do I need to add "unsuccessfully?" Canute's spirit was back in business this week at the G-8 summit in Italy, where the assembled leaders declared that the world's temperature shall not rise: "We recognize the […]
California is starting to issue IOUs and what is the state legislature hard at work on? It's impossible to make things like this up.
I'm not sure which is worse, that Matt Yglesias is so ignorant of how we treat terrorists at Gitmo, or that he is so ignorant of the nature of the North Korean regime. Needless to say, it’s easy to recognize this sort of barbarism as the torture that it is when you read about it […]
It's been quite some time since I've watched Bill O'Reilly's show on a regular basis. While I agree with him more often than not, I've been repeatedly frustrated by his failure to do adequate research and his interview of then-candidate Barack Obama was embarrassing. O'Reilly would ask a difficult question of Obama, and then when […]
Sorry for the pun, but I can't get my arms around how in-the-tank you have to be to write this drivel: "May I change the subject," said a prominent Washington theologian at a recent dinner. The conversation had been high-minded -- religion, philosophy, the nature of evil. "I'd like to talk about Michelle Obama's arms," […]