The General sums up the modern GOP in one choice sentence:One of the things I like most about the Glorious Conservative Christian Cultural Revolution is that it allows us to force the poor to live the kinds of lives we claim to live ourselves. The...
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Via Crooked Timber, John Gibson outdoes himself:But the point is, the temple of the law is so sacrosanct that an occasional chief executive cannot flaunt it once in a while,.
Those damn, dirty East Coast sportswriting hacks. . .Oh, wait. Nevermind.Hope the losses weren't too devastating.
Who is America's worst blogger? Some parameters:1. Partisanship cannot, in itself, be evidence of bad blogging. 2. The blogger must be "major" as in commonly read and referrred to.The two names that leap to mind for me are Glenn Reynolds and Mickey Kaus. Reynolds, in...
Amanda Marcotte and Roy Edroso find whatever connection Peggy "Mr. Reagan would not have dismissed the story of the dolphins as Christian kitsch" Noonan had with rationality permanently severed.
With Rob and Lindsay having spoken, I suppose I should put forth my best of the 90s list. Like Rob. I don't think there's any question that the 90s were far.
Eugene Volokh, while often one of the best conservative bloggers, has always teetered precariously over the shark tank of wingnuttery, and now he's dived right in. (Admittedly, Jim Henley accurately saw this a long time ago.) Needless to say, fellow fake libertarian Glenn Reynolds is now in...
Shorter Christopher Hitchens: The fact that there was extensive looting of conventional weapons after the American invasion of Iraq proves that people who claim that there were no WMDs in Iraq.
Via a comment by praktike, I don't think this Jonah Goldberg column needs much in the way of further comment, although as part of the cat-blogging sector of the blogopshere we must.
Kos both reminds me why I love JetBlue and that I must rationali...er, justify the fact that I do not even consider flying another airline if I have the option, when JetBlue isn't unionized and most airlines are. I would feel guilty, I think, if...
Damn, blogger ate the first draft of this post. Doesn't matter, I've got little to add. Just do what the title says. Important and profoundly correct. I hope people that.
Via Yglesias, I see more circumstantial evidence for the blogospherical psychoanalysis of Marshall Wittman performed by Paperwight and myself. Nothing like a tiresome, pious scolding of the left for self-righteously putting their political preferences.