Former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh (also known as a deadbeat dad) took to the Twitters today to call for Islamists to murder journalists. Yes, really. Let’s hope that when the Islamists next strike they first behead the appeasing cowards at CNN, MSNBC, etal who refused to show the cartoons. — Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 14, 2015 The right wing just … Read More
Free Speech Or Picking Sides In An Ideological Battle?
The march in Paris on Sunday, attended (sort of) by world leaders, was about free speech. Ostensibly. But it seems that it is not only the terrorists who can’t take a joke: Anti-semitic French comedian Dieudonné was arrested after he seemingly compared himself to the terrorist who murdered four people at a kosher supermarket in Paris last week. Dieudonné M’Bala … Read More
Subway Fires
NYC subway fire early this morning and DC subway fire yesterday. It’s just a coincidence, right?
The GOP Nominees: Paul Out, Romney In (Probably)
Third time is a charm, Romney hopes as The Washington Post is reporting that Romney is reassembling his campaign apparatus and has told a senior Republican he “almost certainly will” run. The news came on the same day that Paul Ryan, Romney’s running mate in 2012, said in an interview that he wouldn’t run for president. Romney is entering an already crowded field. Normally, … Read More
None Of The World Leaders At The Paris Demonstration Were At The Paris Demonstration
As American media goes into all-out concern troll mode because President Obama didn’t join other world leaders at the demonstration in Paris, it should be pointed out that those world leaders weren’t actually at the demonstration either. They were in a separate isolated area, under heavy security. This was a staged photo op, made to look like they joined the … Read More
US Military Gets Hacked By ISIS
That’s actually the headline here, but it is a little misleading. The twitter account of the CENTCOM got hacked. It’s not like ISIS broke into CENTCOM’s computers. And that’s a big difference. Hacking a Twitter account is not some grand feat. Same with Youtube accounts (which also got hacked by ISIS).
I Can’t Help It — I Have To Review “Boyhood”
It’s not unusual that I disagree with some movie critics. It is unusual that I disagree with, apparently, ALL of them. And I have to speak out, because Boyhood won the Golden Globe last night for Best Dramatic Film, and many consider it an Oscar contender. For those not aware, Boyhood is the latest from writer-director Richard Linklater. It was filmed over the … Read More
“Where’s The Moderate Muslim Outrage?”
Fox’s Monica Crowley: “I Haven’t Heard Any Condemnation” Of The Paris Attack From Muslim Groups.While discussing reactions to the Charlie Hebdo attack on the January 7 edition of Fox News’ The Real Story, contributor Monica Crowley argued that Muslims “should be condemning” the attack and that she hadn’t “heard any condemnation.” [Fox News, The Real Story, 1/7/15] Fox Guest: “You Don’t … Read More
Why I Am Not Charles Hebdo
Referring to the Charles Hebdo massacre, Jonathan Chait writes this: The right to blaspheme religion is one of the most elemental exercises of political liberalism. One cannot defend the right without defending the practice. Oh, but one can. One can defend free speech without having to publish, let alone embrace, the offensive ideas being targeted. And I will in a … Read More
Strongest Year for Job Growth Since 1999
Not bad for a Muslim president who hates America: Continuing a trend of solid job gains, the U.S. economy added 252,000 jobs in December, and the unemployment rate fell to 5.6%. The job gains were stronger than analysts had expected, and the unemployment rate is now 0.2% lower than in the previous month. Overall, 2014 marked the strongest year of … Read More
Paris Standoffs
Two intense standoffs with gunmen are underway in and around Paris now — one involving the two brothers wanted in the Charlie Hebdo massacre and the other a hostage situation at a kosher grocery store The two situations are apparently related to each other as well as Wednesday’s killing of 12 people at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The 12 victims … Read More
2015 Dead Pool
Link to 2014 Dead Pool Link to 2013 Dead Pool Link to 2012 Dead Pool Link to 2011 Dead Pool There are two “dead pool” lists. One is just a random list of people who I think will pass in the upcoming year. The other is a competitive list where you pick ten (and only ten) people-to-die, and you score your points … Read More
Excuse Me, But Weren’t We Talking About Something Else?
It wasn’t that long ago when the nation’s focus was on cop-on-black killing. Heck, even some conservative pundits were troubled by what was going on. But then focus changed. Tom Tomorrow documents it: Yup.
Speaking Of Falling Oil Prices….
The plummeting price of oil is still the biggest energy story in the world right now. It’s bringing back cheap gasoline to the United States while wreaking havoc on oil-producing countries like Russia and Venezuela. Why does the price of oil keep falling? The short version of the story goes like this: For much of the past decade, oil prices were … Read More
Michelle Celebrates Gasoline Under $2 Which She Promised
Retiring Congressdipshit Michele Bachmann has been doing a peculiar version of the Minnesota Long Goodbye, except instead of the usual arrangement, where a host follows a departing guest out to the car asking if they’re really sure they don’t want to take a little hot dish home with them, Ms. Bachmann has it a little backwards. Having given a farewell … Read More