Spencer Ackerman: Umar Farouk “When There’s Nothing Left To Burn, You Must Set Your Crotch On Fire” Abdulmutallab is currently detained in a federal prison in Michigan. For now! In a few days he’ll use his Muslim heat vision to escape and run amok in Ann Arbor, shortly after America is brought to its knees …
Archives for December 2009
How Obama Has Let You Down Today
Things I’ve learned in the last 48 hours from progressive blogs and Obama supporters: Janet Napolitano should resign. The Kaiser Foundation is needlessly shilling for Obama. Despite what public watchdog groups state, Obama is just like Bush regarding lobbyists. Peter Orzag getting married is proof the Obama team is nothing but beltway insiders. Obama is …
Help This Man Get a Dog
An email from a reader: Hey John, First off, I read your blog and like it a lot, though I don’t comment. Second, my grandmother’s looking to get a dog, partly because she’s been kind of lonely since my grandpa died, and I was wondering if you have any suggestions. We’re looking for a small …
Sorry, Ladies
This will upset some of the female commentariat here: Rahm Emanuel once said of Peter R. Orszag, the bespectacled economist who is President Obama budget director, “He’s made nerdy sexy.” So perhaps the White House chief of staff won’t be surprised to learn that Mr. Orszag got engaged over lunch today to the ABC News …
More Obama fail
This is disappointing, obviously: Obama has wielded the power of the White House to craft an executive order that limited lobbyist hires in his administration, push federal agencies to share more of their data with the public and begin releasing visitor records for the executive complex on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. [….] “The greatest surprise is …
Where Does the Money Go?
It is really hard to not be cynical about our counter-terrorism efforts, especially as new details emerge about the Christmas day attempt emerge. I’ve always been of the mindset that it is going to be impossible to stop every attack- people are ingenious, and if they really want to attack us they will figure out …
Love thy Niebuhr
It’s not just me, Matt Taibbi doesn’t like Niebuhrian realism either. I tend to agree with this: It’s because nebbishly little dorks like Brooks and Paul Wolfowitz and David Frum got their books dumped in high school that we end up dropping daisy cutters on Afghan sheep herds and shipping working class American kids halfway …