Don’t Tell My Wife
“Honey, I’ve got to go cover another Tea Party rally,” I tell her, and she thinks it’s all about politics — lower taxes, limited government, stuff like that — but now Frances Fox Pivens has decided she’s a Tea Party expert and lets the cat out of the bag: Ed Driscoll reminds us that everything […]
An Important Anniversary
On this day a year ago, I arrived in Boston to cover the Scott Brown campaign. I’d taken a train from D.C. — leaving at 3 a.m. — and arrived at 11 a.m. in downtown Boston where I was picked up by Pete Da Tech Guy, whom I’d never met before. The tales of what ensued over […]
‘Tea Party Envy’ and the Academic Elite
“We’ve long seen how tea party envy has been a common theme for the Obama era . . . and in [Harvard University history professor Jill] Lepore’s interview we see the lament that academic elites have failed to tap the tea party’s populist vibrancy. And so, when people and movements find themselves failing to be […]
‘The Most Bald-Faced Lie I Have Ever Read in the New York Times’
“And that’s saying something,” says Ann Coulter: [T]hat paper implied Loughner is a pro-life zealot. This is the precise opposite of the truth. . . . ABC News reported: “One Pima Community College student, who had a poetry class with Loughner later in his college career, said he would often act ‘wildly inappropriate.’ “‘One day […]
The Cover-Up in Pima County
The Arizona Republic reports: Sheriff’s Department and community-college officials in Pima County are refusing to release a wide range of public documents about the man charged in Saturday’s shooting rampage that left six dead and more than a dozen wounded. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department and Pima Community College have declined to release documents that […]
Jared Loughner: Beta Male
No doubt about it, if this guy hadn’t become a mass-murderer, he would have been a blog troll: A trove of 131 online-forum postings written between April and June 2010 . . . provides insight into Mr. Loughner’s mind-set in the year leading up to Saturday’s shootings in Tucson . . . The online postings […]
‘Progressive Secularization of Society’ Leaves Humanity ‘Thirsty for God’
The quote is from a guy who wears funny hats. While I prefer a fedora myself, it’s hard to argue with Pat Archbold: You know who I blame for the Tucson shooting? I blame Jared. He chose sin. He chose evil. He chose to buy the gun and to shoot people. . . . I blame […]
Mission Accomplished, Markos Moulitsas
You can’t un-Tweet it, you see. Before the suspect had been identified, before his motive was known, you blamed Sarah Palin for an atrocious crime of which she was utterly innocent. The facts of your cruel defamation are chronicled precisely by Professor Willliam Jacobson: As far as I can tell, Matthew Yglesias of Think Progress was […]
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