Apparently, when it’s the public release of the papers of a Nixon appointee to the Supreme Court. To wit: For example, while Judge Garland has not often dealt with social issues, at a 2005 book event, he reportedly described the release of the papers of the late Justice Harry Blackmun — the author of the […]
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In trying to break down the “Obama Should Denounce!” crowd into some subsets, I came up with the following five groups: Obama is being quiet because he thinks that US intervention would ca
“A Tea Party Manifesto” reads better if you imagine it being delivered in the voice of Dwight Schrute. 1. A moratorium on bailouts, whether for Wall Street bankers, General Motors, or the
On September 6, I opened up my e-mail and found the following: Dear Robert Farley, I hope this email finds you well. I am organizing a few discussions on Party of Defeat.The book has been praised by seventeen members of Congress & Senate. Have you read the book yet? I would like to send you […]
Ahem. Gov. Sarah Palin, campaigning, she said, in “real America,” which apparently includes part of North Carolina, Rep. Michelle Bachmann, calling for a media investigation to determine w
Michele Bachmann With her boundless enthusiasm for demonizing those she views as godless, Bachmann cheerfully broke new ground in the Ayers/Jeremiah Wright culture wars by forging a series of associat
Wow. Just . . . wow. As Thers points out, it takes an extraordinary concentration of assholery to fantasize about Manhattan needing a terrorist “wake-up call.” But seriously, if you want to read something interesting about Red Dawn, I’d recommend Rob’s review and not the thread at Apuzzo’s site, where the commenters are wetting their […]
A few things I learned while listening to Bill O’Reilly during my drive to campus this afternoon: At least half of all American Jews will vote for Barack Obama no matter what — even if Jer
The wingnutty among us are about to go into a frenzy over the fact that a group of volunteers opening an Obama office in Texas (in preparation for actual Obama staffers, who will arrive later this wee
Captain Ed: Has Ann Coulter Finally Jumped the Shark? Um. Heh. Uh… I guess I just don’t understand the question.
So it appears Atlas ran out of quaaludes and orange juice today: Bush has lost his mind and his moral compass. This statement is an outrage. A lie and a blood libel. Israel has never committed any act
Well, to the forced pregnancy brigade, there is no difference: my uterus is nothing but a glorified storage container, holding something until it reaches its destination (birth). Now there’s pro