What the what? Until this year, the partnership between Kibbe and Armey worked well. Armey’s renown as a former House member drew media attention and crowds of conservative activists — most of them old enough to remember Armey’s role in the Republican revolution in Congress...
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The failed Republican presidential candidate was nice enough to drop by our comments section to give us the real story about his non-desire to win the presidency: My friends, those.
My brother bought me Jason Wilson's Boozehound for Christmas. In the introduction is a 1959 quote from A.J. Liebling that should be good for a few comments here: The standard.
Another horrible massacre, another high-powered rifle supported by the NRA used for the killing. Chief Pickering also said that it was likely that the gunman used a semi-automatic rifle, one of three weapons recovered from the shooting scene, to kill the firefighters. He identifed the...
What better way to celebrate the season than some well-turned snark about a legendary-in-its-own-mind football team? At this point, the sad-sack New York Jets aren't a circus, as the New.
Shorter verbatim son of Mittens: "[Willard Romney] wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my life." Yes, clearly this always unambitious man was in it for the.
Clearly, the problem is that not every American firefighter is armed, preferably with another armed guard for when they're actually firefighting. We can pay through all of this with minor reductions in the foreign aid outlays that constitute 95% of federal expenditures.
This Tom Scocca piece is pretty much brilliant from soup to cappuccino -- I'm not even sure where to start excerpting. Here's a couple of teasers: Guns kill people. More.
It's been almost seven weeks since the 2012 general election, but I have yet to grow weary of tales from the Romney campaign: Rich Beeson, the Romney political director.
This amusing piece by Charles Davis on how he went to capitalist summer camp and became a communist reminded me of this old Yglesias approval of a pretty cheap shot at Pete Seeger's communism seventy years ago. Yglesias' major complaint with his summer camp was...
I finally saw Lincoln last night. I doubt what I have is to say is anything others haven't verbalized. But a couple quick points. As a film, it's classic Spielberg..
This is the set of facts that the Iowa Supreme Court did not see as constituting sex discrimination: During the last six months or so of Nelson’s employment, Dr. Knight.