Time’s blog of the year is back at it: Byron York, chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner and Fox News contributor, has some questions about Harry Reid: Per @jhinderaker, has any journalist looked into the specifics of Harry Reid's exercise equipment accident? — Byron York (@ByronYork) March 29, 2015 Behind this somewhat enigmatic tweet …
Creatures of Myth and Legend
If you’ve been laughing at wingnut stupidity on blogs for awhile, you may recall the SadlyNaughts’ righteous mockery of an idiot who misread the sign below as “Sasquatch Israel:” Said moron wrote an indignant post based on his misreading of the sign, in which he accused the sign holder of purveying anti-Semitic, eliminationist rhetoric by …
A Self-Neutralizing Threat
Will tribble-topped presidential aspirant Rand Paul be able to use libertarian themes like police demilitarization at home and a non-interference policy abroad to attract minority voters and liberals who are sick of an AIPAC-driven approach to foreign affairs? Nope. To pull off that sort of political ju-jitsu, Paul would have to be able to count …
Public-Private Poutrage
Modern conservatism in the US is predicated on a bizarre, ongoing inversion of reality. Item: an addled B-movie actor explodes the national debt and is lionized as a champion of small government. A cowardly, none-too-bright male cheerleader from a patrician clan is packaged and sold as a brush-clearin,’ neo-Churchillian, genius cowpoke. The party that bankrupted …
Vindicated!
Slate does the world a public service by publishing a “long read” about the Welfare Queen St Ronaldus Magnus made famous. As the serious conservative intellectual journal Powerline notes, if I may summarize, “nyaah nyaah nyaah libtards”. Therefore, no welfare for anyone. QED. (Thanks to reader J for sending this in.)
Stuff Like This Might Kill Me
From hysterics: I first saw Michele in action as a candidate for the Minnesota state senate in mid-2000, speaking to a group of Twin Cities Republican women. She had just knocked off an incumbent Republican squish for the nomination and was working like a dog to win the race. Watching her compelling presentation to the …
Like a matador with his pork sword
I’m an admitted Anglophobe, as you know, and I especially hate the bloated-yet-reasonably-photogenic, faux swashbuckling types like Hitchens and Ferguson. I’d rather watch W in a flight-suit declare “Mission Accomplished” than listen to some limey in a just-disheveled-enough suit wank about Islamofascism and Chimerica (while quoting Auden and Churchill). At least, W wasn’t heralded as …