I know you'll think I'm making it up, but I swear that walking argument against nepotism (and film critic who makes Michael Medved look like Pauline Kael) John Podhoretz wrote the following at the Kiddy Korner:Harry Reid vote total in 2004 = 490,232Bush vote total in...
Tbogg and Attaturk do some good work taking John Tierney’s latest apart, but I don’t think they go quite far enough. Let’s forget, for a moment, that John Tierney is.
I'm not the sort that reads Powerline with any regularity, but this caught my attention:It's great to see someone standing up for colonialism, especially British colonialism. I agree wholeheartedly with.
Matt continues to give Jonah Goldberg a well-deserved thrashing; Jonah should try, in the future, not to piss off those who are both smarter and better read than he. The Juan Cole experience should have been informative, but I guess he just hasn't learned his lesson....
Shorter Stanley Kurtz: "The fact that anti-feminist screeds that are given massive amounts of coverage in major media organs sell bubkes proves that feminism is only found among 'elites'."
I had particular reason to be grateful this Mother's Day, as for my birthday my parents bought me a ninth-row center seat to the Broadway revival of that heartwarming pean.
The General offers a submission.
I rarely have much to say about discussions of "populism," partly because it's never entirely clear what the content of such a politics would look like, and the historical antecedents.
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The Mock Turtle finds Professer InstaHack trying to spin the recent British elections as a political triumph for Blair's support of the Iraq war, using his time-honored technique of printing emails with glaring factual howlers. He uses classic projection in assuming that the "British" tendency would...
Social Security ain't the only evil FDR brought to the world:Second-guessing Franklin D. Roosevelt,President Bush said Saturday the United States played a role in Europe's painful division after World War.
Microsoft decides to back gay-rights billCapping a two-week brouhaha over Microsoft's fluid position on a state gay-rights bill, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer yesterday reversed course and said the company will.