The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Guess Who’s Having a Party?

Ann Marie Buerkle, that’s who. You will recall that, when Pete Da Tech Guy and I visited NY-25 in mid-October, a new poll showed the Republican challenger trailing Democratic incumbent Rep. Dan Maffei by 13 points. I ended my Oct. 18 American Spectator column with a quote from Buerkle’s speech to her supporters in the village of Clyde, N.Y., telling them what […]

Shorter Obama: ‘In This False Dilemma, America Must Make a Manichean Choice Between My Indisputably Wise Policies and My Tendentious Straw-Man Caricature of Republican Policies’

Of course, that description fits just about anything Obama says, not just today’s speech justifying a two-year freeze on federal civilian employee pay. It goes to show how, even when arguing in favor of a good policy, the president’s rhetoric is predictably crammed with invalid logic, counterfactual assertions, and — always — the effort to […]

The Idiotic Eloquence of Tom Friedman

Matt Welch engages in a world-historic dismantling of Thomas Friedman’s latest column, with its “trademark sloganeering” and “what-Americans-want ventriloquism.” In the former category, Welch catches Friedman shilling for his too-clever formulation, “nation-building in America” (alternatively, “nation-building at home”) which has been deployed in 14 Friedman columns over the past two-and-a-half years. In the latter category, the way Friedman abuses the first-person […]

Mohamud’s Bad Luck Was Not Just Luck

Jeremy Lott on the Portland bomber: Mohamud thus makes three in a string of recent examples of Islamists who have plotted unsuccessfully to blow up Americans on U.S. soil. Last month in another sting, the FBI arrested Farooque Ahmed in Virginia for casing the D.C. Metro system to plot a bomb attack. In May, Faisal […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 11.29.10

TOP NEWS ROK President Lee Warns Norks Against Further Attacks PRC calls for emergency talks to defuse rapidly deteriorating situation Hackers Crash Wikileaks Servers One wonders who the hackers might have been working for. Friends Stunned By Portland Terrorism Arrest Also, why Portland? Ireland Agrees To EU, IMF Terms For Bailout Cash reserves, pension funds […]

Obligatory WikiLeaks Apocalypse Post

The biggest headline of the massive 250,000-document dump by Julian Assange’s organization is probably this: Prince Abdullah: Neo-Con Warhawk? Dude. When it turns out Saudi royalty is on the same page with Bill Kristol vis-a-vis the need to bomb Iran, you know Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s regime is in trouble. More seriously: This WikiLeaks dump is extraordinarily damaging to U.S. […]

Not Just ‘Yes,’ But ‘Hell, Yes!’

Addressing the subject of “The Weekly Sarah Palin Segment,” my friend Professor William Jacobson tops me: I have 93 posts (94 with this one) in my Palin tag, most of which are devoted to responding to Palin Derangement Syndrome. . . . They make up tales about Palin’s childhood health care, whether she had a […]

Blame Feminism?

“[T]he goal of third-wave (gender) feminism is the destruction of marriage because of the ‘unequal’ male/female roles inherent in marriage. Third-wave feminists pushed early sex education, recreational pre-marital sex and taxpayer-funded abortion as a way to de-couple sex from marriage. . . . [P]re-marital sex reduces the stability of marriages, and the effect is increased […]

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