Carol Platt Liebau is concerned about morals, particularly those of young girls. The sky is falling. Seriously, it is. Before we get to her column, let’s first look at something written a few years ago in the San Fran Chronicle: Teen suicide is more than a personal tragedy; it’s a powerful reminder of adults’ own fear of the future. Ninety … Read More
Shorter Townhall Columnists
Shorter David Strom: "OMIGOD!!1!! Government of Minnesota is going to the Arctic!!!1!!" Shorter Burt Prelutsky: "The Nobel Peace Prize would be much more relevant if they gave it to people who waged war." Shorter David Limbaugh: "Hillary is not indecisive; she’s inconsistent. Oh, and a man, too. Zing!!" Shorter Lorie Byrd: "I haven’t quite been able to connect the whole … Read More
Yet This Is The Harangue
I’m warming up to the writings of Pastor Swank. First of all, he’s prolific. Second of all, he butchers the English language like no other Renew America columnist (except for, of course, Kaye Grogan). Take, for example, the opening graf in yesterday’s column: It is stupid for supposedly intelligent persons so flippantly to blame parents of children who murder or … Read More
Correction To An Earlier Post
The California wildfires are not — repeat, not — the fault of al Qaeda. We are now informed by the rightwingnut machine that the deadly fires are the fault of homos and gay marriage supporters: They shook their fists at God and said, "We don’t care what God says, we will issue our legal brief to support gay marriage in … Read More
Dumbass Quote Of The Week
In case you haven’t heard, J.K. Rowling made a bit of news last week at a book signing: In front of a full house of hardcore Potter fans at Carnegie Hall in New York, Rowling, sitting on the stage on a red velvet and carved wood throne, read from her seventh and final book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," … Read More
Yes, Even More On The Frosts
The attacks are still going strong from Michelle Malkin. Here’s what she wrote today: Mark Steyn, presumably taking his marching orders from Mitch McConnell (snort-snort), hits the nail on the head once again: Mr Frost works “intermittently”. The unemployment rate in the Baltimore metropolitan area is four-percent. Perhaps he chooses to work “intermittently,” just as he chooses to send his … Read More
Yet Even More On The Right Wing Attacks On The Frosts
The Baltimore Sun covers it. It has a nice picture of the Frosts in front of their home, which conservative bloggers (attacking them as rich fat cats) say is worth $400,000. From the article: Bonnie Frost was driving children Zeke, Graeme and Gemma in Baltimore County in December 2004 when the family SUV hit a patch of black ice and … Read More
More On The Frost Attacks
From Sadly No: I will stop blogging about this eventually, but Right Wingnutistan’s latest foray into unabashed insanity has even me stunned. Big Daddy Ezra K writes: Something has really gone wrong on the Right. Become sick and twisted and tumorous and ugly. To visit Michelle Malkin’s cave is to see politics at its most savage, its most ferocious, its … Read More
Right Wing Bloggers Attack 12 Year Old Kid
It all began when the Democrats tapped a 12 year old kid, Graeme Frost, to speak on the Democrat weekly address. Bush had just vetoed SCHIP, the bi-partisan bill designed to deliver funding for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. Graeme was a beneficiary of SCHIP, having suffered severe injuries (along with his sister) in a car accident several years … Read More
Shorter Rich Lowry
On Iraq: Fuck if I understand what’s going on! Of course, Lowry blew his Iraq commentary cred in the May 9, 2005 issue of National Review: More about Lowry from an old Greenwald post.
Bro To The Defense
David Limbaugh comes to defend his brother, Rush. Unfortunately, I can’t get past the first sentence: My brother Rush has nothing for which to apologize concerning the left’s maliciously manufactured "phony soldier" scandal. That sentence is one whose meaning of which I have yet to grasp.
Ann Coulter Dreams Of The Day When Women Can’t Vote
Coulter in the New York Observer: If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democrat president. It’s kind of a pipe dream, it’s a personal fantasy of mine, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at … Read More
The Impossible-To-Spin Zone
Tony Blankley gives "spin" the college try: The GOP is now less trusted than the Democrats on every issue except terrorism — and even on that issue, they are a point or two down. So… ummmm …that means …let’s see …the GOP is less trusted than the Democrats on every issue, period. Right? Eleanor Clift must be laughing her ass … Read More
Nathan Tabor Not On Board With SCHIP
Let’s dive in, shall we? Starting with Nathan Tabor’s title… Massive expansion of SCHIP: A move toward socialism Ooooh. "Socialism". That scare word the right hasn’t let go of since McCarthy. Bugga-bugga-bugga! I venture to guess that most self-proclaimed rank-and-file conservatives don’t even know what "socialism" even is. But they know it’s baaaad, because they keep hearing about it in … Read More
Rush Vs. The “Phony Soldiers” – Day 3(?)
Rush Limbaugh responded to an actual war hero who confronted him for his smears of soldiers who disagree with Bush’s war was to by saying that the Purple Heart vet was a dupe being used by liberal "terrorists" to attack Rush in a suicide bombing. "This is such a blatant use of a valiant combat veteran, lying to him about … Read More