From conservative Powerline blogger Paul Miregoff’s post "Forever Young": Vietnam and Watergate are seminal events for almost all liberals my age. Vietnam taught them to distrust the use of force by our military, and to despise leaders who aggressively use military force in the name of the national interest. Watergate confirmed that a leader who projects military force overseas for … Read More
The Ten Worst Americans
There’s a blog meme going around wherein bloggers post their views on the Ten Worst Americans ever. It started as a challenge to American bloggers from a Brit blog. I’m going to take a pass for now, but someone needs to tell this guy that Chief Opechancanough, who killed 400 colonists at Jamestown in the 1620’s, was not, you know, … Read More
Hindrocket On The NSA Surveillance
Powerline was named Time Magazine’s Blog Of The Year for 2004. Time Magazine is not having a "Blog Of The Year" this year. I’m sure there’s a reason why. Powerline’s John Hindrocket — who is a lawyer — wrote a moronic post on the NSA surveillance scandal, and threw in this piece of silliness today: Many people seem not to … Read More
Place Yer Bets!
Mike Wallace ("60 Minutes") gave an interview with the Boston Globe, which appeared online today, including this: Q. President George W. Bush has declined to be interviewed by you. What would you ask him if you had the chance? A. What in the world prepared you to be the commander in chief of the largest superpower in the world? In … Read More
O’Reilly Takes On The Daily Show
Yes, yes, I know. The "War on Christmas" is in danger of being overdone here. But just when I think it has reached the pinnacle of silliness, along comes the next wave of sheer lunacy. And you know that Bill O’Reilly is riding that wave. As Brad Blog and Media Matters have pointed out, Corporal O’Reilly has launched his latest … Read More
Easy Question
UPDATE AND BREAKING NEWS: The American Civil Liberties Union will file a lawsuit today against former CIA director George Tenet and three American contractors challenging the CIA’s abduction of a foreign national for detention and interrogation in a secret overseas prison, RAW STORY has learned. The suit alleges that Tenet and other CIA officials violated U.S. and human rights laws … Read More
Kayes Expresses Herself
Our favorite wingnut columnist, Kaye Grogan, has a new column up. It’s called "Freedom of speech and expression . . . most abused rights" The title alone suggests that Kaye is having trouble with verbs this week, as she prefers to use ellipses. Still, we forge on: Freedom of speech is perhaps one of the most abused freedoms we have. … Read More
Knee Jerk Punditry – A Comedy In Three Acts
ACT ONE (The Setup): Prominent Democrat Joseph Biden writes an op-ed in the Washington Post suggesting a broad outline for withdrawal of troops from Iraq: "Over the next six months, we must forge a sustainable political compromise between Iraqi factions, strengthen the Iraqi government and bolster reconstruction efforts, and accelerate the training of Iraqi forces." ACT TWO (The Knee-Jerk Reaction): … Read More
That Word Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means
Redstate asks a stupid question — well, two of them. When the history of the decision to go to war in Iraq is written, there’s one fact that I have to believe will get more attention than it does today: the fact that Saddam Hussein hired terrorists to murder George H.W. Bush…. Put yourself in Bush’s shoes: if you were … Read More
K-mas
Our dear Kaye Grogan is upset again in "Bah, Humbug . . . Retailers!": The anti-Christmas groups are gearing up again to oppose the display of nativity scenes in public and the singing of Christmas Carols. Oh, I guess that’s me she’s refering to. Um . . . vrrroom, vrooom. And not to be outdone — there are several retailers … Read More
Michelle Becoming Unhinged
Looks like our local radio station asked a question that stuck in Michelle’s craw. Methinks the lady doth protest too much. But then again, methinks that protesting too much is the lady’s raison d’etre. And she’s still whining about the fact that, over six months ago, an anonymous commentator (who could be a 12 year old for all we know) … Read More
An Open Letter To Michelle Malkin
Dear Michelle: I understand that you are going around doing a book tour to promote your book about how "unhinged" liberals are. Good for you, girl. You keep plugging away. Don’t be discouraged by the fact that your book (currently ranked #136 at Amazon) has consistently been outsold by Al Franken’s book (currently ranked #26 at Amazon), even though they … Read More
Dumb Question
Captain’s Quarters asks: When will Democrats get through their head that our military comes under civilian control? This isn’t Starship Troopers, where only veterans make decisions on war and peace, and most Americans wouldn’t want to live in that kind of society. All due respect to Murtha’s Viet Nam service, but being an enlisted man in Viet Nam doesn’t make … Read More
Consensus And Majority
Only days ago, the folks at Redstate said that what the majority believed regarding WMDs supports the argument that Bush never mislead the country: The Democrats hope that by rewriting the history of how we decided to liberate Iraq they will convince the left wing extremist that they only voted to use force against Iraq because they were not told … Read More
JoeBill McO’reillyArthy
Lots of laughter being directed at Fox’s Bill O’Reilly lately. It all started when super-patriot O’Reilly announced that he would have no problem with a terrorist attack on a major American city, namely San Francisco. Here’s what he said to that city: "[I]f Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we’re not going to do anything about it. … Read More