As if to affirm its utter worthlessness, the Post follows up the canning of Dan Froomkin by publishing a stream of effluent from Paul Wolfowitz, who seems to believe that Obama's ability to shape events in Iran is roughly on par with the Reagan administration's...
wingnut butchery of history
The best reaction I've seen to Michele Bachman's undilutedly stupid musings on the "Hoot-Smalley" tariff:I hope she makes history lessons a regular part of her work in the House. I.
Because having a second child has produced an unanticipated multiplier effect on the amount of time required to complete a variety of non-blogging-related tasks, I missed this spot of weirdness.
I realize it would be unreasonable to expect a Protein Wisdom contributor to appreciate the subtlety of what I'm about to say here, but comparing the taxation of publicly-funded corporate bonuses to the evolution of Nazism makes you sound like an historically illiterate jagoff. That...
Steve Benen wonders if Roger Ailes is picking the wrong analogy by comparing Fox News -- and Glenn Beck's program more specifically -- to the Alamo. Aside from all the.
Golf claps all around to Amar Bhide:The depressions and panics of the 19th century ended without any fiscal stimulus to speak of...Right. And I suppose we could note that the.
You know, if you want to argue that the internet has made American politics "considerably ruder, cruder, and more paranoid than it used to be," you'd do well to find a better totem of our lost virtues than the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates. Leave aside the...
Why oh why does anyone take Amity Shlaes seriously? I mean, gadzooks. She's a terrible economist and an even worse historian. These conditions that are not necessarily related to her.
If you happen to be a confederate apologist like Robert Stacy McCain, about the only lesson you're willing to take away from the Civil War is that collective punishment is.
Don Surber, reassuring his readers that everything is OK, no matter how many shoes are tossed at the president.Dude, chill. Iraq was a Soviet client. It just signed a security deal with us. If the American press truly looked at the world objectively it would...
I appreciate gmack's injunction not to make his head explode by referring to more inane Palin trivia. But I can't let this slide:Are you offended by the phrase “Under God”.
McCain supporters are obviously going to try and run a good distance with the argument that he was somehow "prescient" on the question of Russian power. I'm not quite sure.