Shorter Verbatim Camille Paglia: "I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised at the ecstatic media lockstep praising Hillary's so-called concession speech last weekend. This is the same herd of sheep who bleated to Bush's beat and brought us the Iraq fiasco. I first heard the...
Month: June 2008
I remain convinced. See also Drum.Let me also add: Sebelius '08! On the question of Joe Biden, I could see a case -- if he hadn't been in favor of.
John F. Kennedy, telegram to George Wallace, 10 June 1963:I am gratified by the dedication to law and order expressed in your telegram informing me of your use of National.
I was in the middle of arguing with Lemuel Pitkin about John Holbo's post about this blog post by Stanley Fish, when for some reason the crooked timber supercomputer decided I needed to be placed in moderation. So, I'll take it over here.First things first,...
In recent years it’s become fashionable to hate the pharmaceutical industry, or Big Pharma (presumably if it were Little Pharma we’d like it since it might be cute and fluffy,.
Below, Bean points us to the NRO's campaign spot blog, calling for the release of Obama's birth certificate for some truly strange reasons (more good snark on the logic behind.
As an addendum to Scott's post below, allow me to quote directly from the "Stand Up For America Survey" (and donation pitch) that inexplicably arrived with the office mail this morning.4. Senators Obama and Clinton support abortion and oppose overturning Roe v. Wade. Senator McCain...
Patterico objects to an LA Times editorial asserting that McCain will appoint justices who share his views that Roe v. Wade is wrong and should be overturned. Patterico argues that.
The NRO is echoing conservative calls for Obama to release his birth certificate to debunk...something or other that is unclear (vague claims that Obama was not actually born in the.
It got somewhat lost yesterday, what with the world going loopy over a new iPhone, but the General Election kicked off properly, now that Senator Clinton has done the decent thing after finally acknowledged what most of us knew after the Pennsylvania primary. Barack Obama,...
Fire-thrower Linda Hirshman has a piece in the Washington Post today in which she bemoans feminism's (newfound?) focus on intersectionality. She writes:So what keeps the movement from realizing its demographic.
Gerald Ford, discussing the New Jersey, Ohio and California primary results with reporters, 9 June 1976:I think the polls as a whole indicate that I am electable. We have an.