The governance, or lack thereof, of the great republic.
Over at the National Review, they’ve given idiot-at-large Jay Nordlinger a column called “Impromptus”, in which he jots down his half-formed mental emissions. As with most such random-thoughts columns, you get what you pay for. Let’s watch! It was interesting to read Kate Trinko’s piece on Michele Bachmann and learn …
So, here is something you might want to consider the next time someone tells you about how times are tight, and there’s a need for “shared sacrifice”, and we need to get rid of “entitlements” like Medicare, unemployment extensions, and Social Security hikes. It’s something you might want to remember …
In the interests of fairness, and to placate those who felt yesterday’s column was a bit unfair, today we’re going to discuss America’s favorite hobby: dropping bombs on Middle Eastern countries. While it’s sometimes proven slightly controversial — although not so controversial that pretty much every post-war president hasn’t done …
Poor President Obama did his best to avoid bombing a Middle Eastern country, but when he fell off the wagon, he fell off it hard. Sending in the Navy cruisers and the fighter jets represents the laziest, most thoughtless form of response to any kind of diplomatic crisis; it’s what …
It is a sign of the confidence — indeed, the audaciousness — of the current conservative movement that they are making real headway in an attempt to strangle the union movement, already gravely wounded, once and for all. It was Reagan who dealt the unions their first critical blow beginning …
Humans are the only animals that can make metaphors or moral judgments. Unfortunately, we make far too few of the former and far too many of the latter. The appealing thing about placing social problems in a moral context is that it allows you to start ignoring the problem; if …
You can often tell more about a political movement by the things they choose to remain silent about than the things about which they speak out. In the last election, it was telling that the latter-day Birchers known as the Tea Party movement were instrumental in defeating Proposition 19, a …
David Brion Davis’ Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World is one of those rare books that manages to draw information from dozens, if not hundreds, of varying sources about an enormously complex subject and streamline them into a work that is incredibly readable and …
Having been to the Conservative Political Action Conference before, I can testify firsthand that even at the best of times, it’s a non-stop Ronald Reagan strokefest. But this year, being what would have been Reagan’s 100th birthday had Alzheimer’s disease not finished the job that stupidity started, it’s a downright …
So Andy Gray, the voice of Sky Sports for two decades and one of the most familiar announcers in soccer, has been sacked. He takes with him his hench-creature Richard Keys, along with any pretense that soccer announcers are any less cretinous than the voices of American sporting events. Gray …
Ben Shapiro, once America’s dumbest young right-wing pundit, is now America’s dumbest movie critic: no one will hire him as a lawyer, so lately he’s been bumming around Andrew Breitbart’s Big Hollywood site pretending to be a movie critic. His latest column is a seen-it-a-million-times rant about how there are …
It’s time once again to see what Meetup.com mistakenly thinks might be sufficient to draw me out of my house this week. Join me for another exciting installment of Tasteful San Antonio: The Greetening, or, You Don’t Know Me, Meetup.com. – Explore Triple-Description Neuro-linguistic Programming at the San Antonio Center …
Okay, here’s the thing. Fiscal conservatives, usually those on the right-libertarian end of the spectrum, often claim that government should be run like a business. Now, I don’t agree with this; I think business should be run like a business and government should be run like a government, because they …
Jonah Goldberg is a complete joke; that’s no secret. He argues for a living, and yet he has the argumentative skills of a whoopie cushion; he is a professional writer whose writing skills never progressed passed being singled out in 7th grade as being a better speller than most of …
That ever-clever Trevor, Mr. Fengi, brought to my attention an article from Kiplinger’s containing ‘advice’ from people who became millionaires in their teens. Obviously, these people are successful, because not only are they rich, but they got rich at a time when the rest of us were busy smoking weed …
