Matt Bai. Bai is a sucker for Villager conventional wisdom, so his preoccupations vary. But one consistent theme in his work is a belief in the principled anti-government stance of the American population completely unsupported by any evidence.
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Your new Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin, ladies and gentlemen: Regarding the "Ground Zero Mosque," Rubin told us 3,000 Americans were killed at the Burlington Coat Factory at West Broadway.
Shorter Brian Cashman: "Dear Derek: if you don't like being only significantly overpaid rather than grossly overpaid, feel free to go out and see if Michael Kay has been made.
Obviously, Carlson was upset that his ranking on the Hack 30 was too low. Point conceded! He may want his Very Serious Publication to stick to "scoops" about how liberal journalists say liberal things when they're on liberal listservs. UPDATE: Paul beat me to it.
So sign 'em up for Team America: World Police. There's a lot to savor here: The time machine that takes you back to 1953; the just-so evolutionary biology; the characteristically.
The Bristol Palin thing shows, above all else, that Nixonian resentment remains very much at the forefront of modern conservatism. 1)Stuffing the ballot boxes for a crappy reality show, 2)in.
Bill James (subscription required): It is the people who bad-mouth statistics who inevitably start spewing them. The people who tell you why you can't trust statistics are the people who trust them most, who rely on them most blindly. What WE do is try to...
All get two minutes for looking so good.
William Saletan on the idiocy of Airport-Scanner Opt-Out Day.
The first six are all superb choices.
I actually don't think it's surprising that conservatives have suddenly decided that privacy and dignity should be given some weight in the War on Terror (TM). The problem is that.
Holy Joe Lieberman.