The General sums up the modern GOP in one choice sentence:One of the things I like most about the Glorious Conservative Christian Cultural Revolution is that it allows us to force the poor to live the kinds of lives we claim to live ourselves. The...
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Amanda Marcotte and Roy Edroso find whatever connection Peggy "Mr. Reagan would not have dismissed the story of the dolphins as Christian kitsch" Noonan had with rationality permanently severed.
With Rob and Lindsay having spoken, I suppose I should put forth my best of the 90s list. Like Rob. I don't think there's any question that the 90s were far.
Eugene Volokh, while often one of the best conservative bloggers, has always teetered precariously over the shark tank of wingnuttery, and now he's dived right in. (Admittedly, Jim Henley accurately saw this a long time ago.) Needless to say, fellow fake libertarian Glenn Reynolds is now in...
Shorter Christopher Hitchens: The fact that there was extensive looting of conventional weapons after the American invasion of Iraq proves that people who claim that there were no WMDs in Iraq.
Via a comment by praktike, I don't think this Jonah Goldberg column needs much in the way of further comment, although as part of the cat-blogging sector of the blogopshere we must.
Kos both reminds me why I love JetBlue and that I must rationali...er, justify the fact that I do not even consider flying another airline if I have the option, when JetBlue isn't unionized and most airlines are. I would feel guilty, I think, if...
Just for fun, I thought I would add my own top-10-list-of-the-zeroes-so-far. There's a fairly high degree of overlap with Dave's list (when in doubt, if a film seems to be getting.
Fafnir generously offers us the founding myth now being proffered by a majority of the Republican Party, including at least one Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Now, if you're.
Shorter E.J. Dionne: Because the Republicans have successfully misled the electorate about their extremely unpopular abortion platform, the Democrats should respond by substantively changing the abortion policies of their caucus.
Nobody will confuse me with John Simon or Bill Safire. I am not any kind of absolutist, for example, when it comes to arbitrary grammatical rules. I think pendants who.
Via MaxSpeak, Vivek Chibber provides a long-necessary demolition of Niall Ferguson. Sawicky highlights the first part of Chibber's argument, pointing out the ridiculousness of Ferguson's claims about the "good government" allegedly provided.