To expand on Matt's point about this otherwise disturbingly excellent Peter Beinart column, it's not merely that Stuart Taylor isn't "normally sensible"; it's that he exemplifies egregious double standards with respect to racial classifications. His long-standing, full-throated defense of racial profiling has always coexisted alongside...
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Shorter Verbatim Matthew Continetti: "An October Gallup poll put Ms. Palin's favorable number at 40%, her lowest rating to date. In a November Gallup survey, 63% of all voters said.
The Weekly Kristol does indeed set the gold standard, among other things usefully demonstrating the distinction between a conservative publication and a straightforward extension of the Republican Party. My personal.
On some level, taking Ceci Connolly to task for acting as a stenographer for insurance company interests willfully attempting to deceive the public is like criticizing a camel for having humps -- there was never any reason to think Connolly would be anything but in...
I'm sure a lot of our students are hoping that we'll adopt Fred Hiatt's rigorous standards for assessing the veracity of claims* published in his op-ed pages:Me: I always like.
Neo-neocon bring her mad yoosta-bee skillz to the Polanski issue:The reaction of no small number of pundits on the Left to the Polanski case is to recommend that we let.
Michael Barone. (Am I right to remember that Barone once had a reputation as being something other than a fourth-rate op-ed propagandist?)See also, although of course even if Gladney was a genuine victim of assault it would hardly prove anything about "liberals."
At this point, Reynolds, Malkin et al. have dug up parody's corpse to kill it again so many times I can't believe there's anything left in the grave at this.
Shorter Peter Baker: Several major media outlets created a yet another bullshit story about meaningless trivia concerning the Clinton family. The parties to blame for this couldn't be more clear:.
Shorter Michael Goldfarb: "Party alignments haven't changed at all in recent decades, so the fact that FDR and LBJ got substantial support from liberal Republicans makes a bipartisan bill equally plausible in 2009." You really have to wonder if the readers of the Weekly Standard...
Shorter Verbatim Peter Berkowitz: "[P]lenty of competent observers were flabbergasted shortly after he took office when, notwithstanding an economic crisis that he himself declared the worst since the Great Depression,.
Shorter Jon Klein: "Only extremists could object to the routine airing of crackpot birther conspiracy theories on one of our major network programs."