A gaggle of oil industry lackeys calling themselves the Competitive Enterprise Institute in May 2006 produced ads that ended with the line “We’d encourage our own parents to eat uranium if the uranium industry tossed a few moolahs our way CO2: they call it pollution, we call it Life!” (And yes the CEI did have […]
Category: conservative illogic
Long-time readers of LGM will remember our first major troll, who during debates about abortion would start babbling about bald eagles. I thought this was a true innovation, but similar arguments are
Repeating a frequent argument, a commenter to this thread says: The structure of a universal care system should somehow promote and reward healthy living. How does one deter the freeloaders who take p
Shorter Fred Thompson: I can say without the slightest trace of hyperbole that Leslie Southwick reminds me of a pious old Puritan woman who was hanged on suspicion of being a witch. As for what Thompson actually writes, I think the bit about witches had a might bit more sense to it. Behold: The battle […]
Shorter Jeff Jacoby: My absurd hypothetical demonstrates that contemporary science is unremittingly hostile to 17th century alchemy. Next week: Jacoby wonders why Pliny the Elder couldn’t get hi
Logically consistent Leslie Wayne: John Edwards’s support for the 19th Amendment stands in sharp contrast to his having a penis. (Apologies if she’s already used that one.) Evidently, the
Shorter D’Souza: “The universe is just like the DMV. Ergo, God exists. Praise Jesus!” Having recently spent time at the local DMV receiving my license and registration renewals, I can personally attest that few things offer absolute proof of a directionless — if not openly malevolent — universe than the Department of Motor Vehicles. That […]
An now, a very special Valentine’s Day message from the Bush administration.
It’s Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. As his party gathered itself for the annual leap into the memory hole, Bill Kristol decided to celebrate by issuing, as Loomis pointed out in the comments
Sara Anderson brings our attention to another innovation in the irrational abortion regulation obstacle course, this one from the Idaho legislature: A North Idaho lawmaker wants to make it a crime to attempt to coerce a woman or girl into having an abortion, according to S-R reporter Parker Howell, who covered the House Health & […]
A very important point made by GFR: No one wants to admit this. But Josh is right. If our future were truly at stake — if we really, really had to win in Iraq — we would never stand for th
As part of his campaign to get Amanda Marcotte fired because if he devotes a blog to a single issue it means that candidates should make being right about all aspects of said issue a non-negotiable li